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Post by bjd on Feb 1, 2018 11:57:36 GMT
I have never heard of that either. The Utopia cinema here (a few of these in France showing indie movies and always in original version) have some screenings around noon for parents with babies.
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Post by questa on Feb 1, 2018 22:54:37 GMT
In Adelaide every multi-screen cinema has special screenings weekly for parents to see a movie with the ankle biters. Kids usually sleep/ sit / play in their pushers or toddle around. There is a lot of patience shown to parents with a crying baby with other parents helping out. One mother told me she would have "gone mad" if it had not been for these sessions.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 5, 2018 17:43:47 GMT
When I was young my parents used to faithfully go "out on the town". Cocktails, dinner, dancing.
They would sometimes bring home souvenirs of sorts. Matchbooks, but, best of all really cool glass stirrers from the cocktail bar. Each one was unique and had the name of the restaurant on it. They were kept in a drawer in the kitchen and we would play "grown up" with them.
I wonder whatever happened to them.
All the ones you see now if at all are made from plastic.
Probably the most unusual/unique wedding gift we received was a set of very cool glass stirrers. They were cobalt blue with a tiny bird at the top. They're around here somewhere.
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Post by bixaorellana on Feb 5, 2018 18:58:02 GMT
Oh gosh, yes -- I remember that too! The party hats from New Year were the really ace "souvenirs".
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Post by mossie on Feb 5, 2018 19:20:10 GMT
I think I still have some matchbooks tucked away somewhere. Also a small beer glass liberated from the Tiptop bar on the race circuit at Monte Carlo
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Post by Kimby on Feb 6, 2018 0:40:51 GMT
I “liberated” a red glass candle lantern from the lounge of a Holiday Inn. My Dad “liberated” it from my unoccupied bedroom and turned it into the light for his small-scale working lighthouse (1st post in the Lighthouse photo thread.). All’s well that ends well.
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Post by whatagain on Feb 6, 2018 11:07:00 GMT
I am sometimes wondering if I have not some sort of kleptomania... Can openers or corkscrews in the drawer are reproducing themselves, there are more and more there. Usually when I come back from a night in a hotel.
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Post by patricklondon on Feb 6, 2018 14:21:26 GMT
I have a small collection of swizzle sticks from the Pera Palas hotel in Istanbul. Amazing how many gin-and-tonics one needed to recover from a day answering questions on an exhibition stand. I've also still got some things my father "liberated" from the German officers' mess at his last POW camp - of all things, a pair of salad servers and a little mustard pot, all with the camp insignia. We used them quite a lot when I was a child. My blog | My photos | My video clips | My Librivox recordings"too literate to be spam"
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Post by bixaorellana on Feb 6, 2018 16:28:54 GMT
I was thinking that Kimby "won" in terms of most interesting history of a snitched item. But not after seeing Patrick's contribution! I'm imagining his nice family at table, calmly using those slightly creepy museum-worthy items. Also ~ Amazing how many gin-and-tonics one needed to recover from a day answering questions on an exhibition stand. WELL? You're just going to leave it at that?!
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Post by patricklondon on Feb 6, 2018 16:45:53 GMT
Those were the days I did student recruitment for a university. By the time we'd finished and had dinner, there wasn't much energy or opportunity to do much more than sit around in the bar with one's colleagues. My blog | My photos | My video clips | My Librivox recordings"too literate to be spam"
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Feb 6, 2018 17:07:38 GMT
We have a Beer Glass pinched from a Hertfordshire country pub...we'd been there with friends on a balmy summer evening. It was one of those warm nights when everyone spilled out into the garden and car park to chat and lark around...One of our friends put a pint beer glass on the roof of our mini cooper car and left it there....when we went to get into our car after the pub shut we just chucked the glass onto the back seat. That was 40 years ago...still got the glass... an Abbbot Ale one. Oh the guilt.
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Post by bixaorellana on Feb 6, 2018 17:09:28 GMT
Those were the days I did student recruitment for a university. Ahhh! Somehow I was envisioning one of those early 20th century traveling shows, with you on stage billed something like "Professor Knowledge" and answering whatever questions the audience threw at you.
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Post by questa on Feb 7, 2018 3:49:19 GMT
1992, Burma.heavy restrictions, army and "citizens" watching us. We were supposed to stay at Strand hotel but were palmed off to a fleapit.No lift, insect net or open windows...and it stank
Then found that we had to change money at govt rates...huge rip off. Last night stayed in nice govt hotel...noticed thick glass ashtrays in foyer and decided they owed me one.
Next morning took smaller ashtray from my room and with maps and floppy hat in backpack went to the foyer, Yikes! soldiers on watch everywhere as VIPs trundled in. Sat near big ashtray, spread maps out, started searching in bag pulling out stuff and acting like a dizzy old lady, covered small ashtray with hat and put it on table silently, fiddled with maps.
A soldier about a metre from me occasionally looked my way, but I ignored him. Folded up maps and moved the hat to cover the big ashtray. Waved to no-one across the foyer, soldier looks to see who and I pop the big ashtray into my pack and take off across the foyer, up to my room where it got wrapped and packed in my luggage.
It is a nice art deco design with the hotel's name scrolled on it. I still think they owe me however.
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Post by patricklondon on Feb 7, 2018 14:14:10 GMT
Those were the days I did student recruitment for a university. Ahhh! Somehow I was envisioning one of those early 20th century traveling shows, with you on stage billed something like "Professor Knowledge" and answering whatever questions the audience threw at you. Well we did get asked about all sorts of subjects we didn't do at all, where it helped to know where else to suggest, and potential research students with all sorts of obscure specialisms, where we needed to know which of our academic colleagues might be interested. But mostly it was the same sorts of thing over and over again, and we had to look bright and welcoming to every eager young thing for the umpty-hundredth time that day (and not forget it was a big event for them to come and talk direct to people from this institution on the other side of the world that many of them had set their heart on}. At least no-one expected us to do it in skimpy swimwear. My blog | My photos | My video clips | My Librivox recordings"too literate to be spam"
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Post by kerouac2 on Feb 24, 2018 23:07:31 GMT
In a movie today, I saw a doctor using one of those flashlight shaped things with a sideways funnel shaped point for looking into ears. I remember that from my childhood, but I haven't seen one of thsoe things in at least 50 years. Are they used only on children or has some other device replaced them?
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Post by whatagain on Feb 24, 2018 23:27:55 GMT
Yup. Docs used it on me. I remember it so it was not 50 years ago. But ok, I'll give opportunity to say how backwards Belgium is.
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Post by questa on Feb 25, 2018 6:56:20 GMT
Auriscope - definition of auriscope by The Free Dictionary
Noun. 1. auriscope - medical instrument consisting of a magnifying lens and light; used for examining the external ear (the auditory meatus and especially the tympanic membrane) auroscope, otoscope. medical instrument - instrument used in the practice of medicine.
Still in use, specially with kids. Adults don't get ear problems that need looking at ear drums nearly as often as kids, as bigger ear canals allow for better drainage. Kids under about 8 years have ear canals and drums like swamps.
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Post by rikita on Feb 25, 2018 8:17:40 GMT
when i google it, it looks like what they use on agnes - monday we have another appointment where they will look into her ears (and hopefully find that the grommet has fallen out, because else she has surgery on thursday)
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Post by patricklondon on Feb 25, 2018 8:22:24 GMT
We have a TV series following GP consultations (I cannot quite imagine why people agree to let themselves be put on TV discussing all their internal workings, strange rashes and suicidal thoughts, but there we are), and quite often there's some issue that involves using such a thing - occasionally on adults. My blog | My photos | My video clips | My Librivox recordings"too literate to be spam"
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Post by questa on Feb 25, 2018 11:28:38 GMT
There is a rather inefficient series of plumbing that is all connected. When our ancestors walked on 4 legs with the face lower than the cranium all the sinuses drained out nicely with gravity assistance and the the middle ear tubes did not accumulate fluid, let alone have it infected. Nostrils were moist enough to keep the airway lubricated and aid the sense of smell. Then we became vertical. Now the sinuses couldn't drain properly as their openings pointed the wrong way. The fluid built up and tried to exit via the middle ear canals...dead end at the ear drum. The infected mess grew causing awful pain until the eardrum ruptured expelling the fluid. Each time the eardrum went through the rupture / mend cycle the drum got more scarred and unable to vibrate. Eventually, it was so leathery that no sound could be transmitted...deafness. Little kids have all these tubes and canals packed into a small area, Even the outer canal is not able to fit in its right place which is why the Doc will gently pull the outer ear up and back a bit to straighten the canal and see the eardrum. Kids get colds or allergies...post-nasal drip...middle ear infection...antibiotics, is the usual pattern. If a kid has frequent ear infections, their whole health suffers. They usually have fine plastic tubes (Grommets) inserted to open up the eardrum and let it all dry out. The tubes drop out when they have done the job. Mothers often say their child is much happier now they can hear properly, eat and sleep better and speech increases. With adults the Doc might look for infections, build up of wax, foreign bodies or other signs of ear pain or pressure.
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Post by Kimby on Feb 25, 2018 15:23:03 GMT
Questa, I do so value having someone with medical knowledge on Any Port, especially one so patient and willing to share and in terms understandable by the lay person. Thank you!
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Post by questa on Feb 28, 2018 0:26:55 GMT
The way the human body has evolved, and the disorders that are created by our changes in lifestyle over many generations, fascinate me. May I share one theory...? Parents of newborn babies are always told "The first 3 months are the worst." Yes..frequent crying spells, hunched up, obviously in discomfort, fussy feeding, throwing up and spectacular dirty diapers. Yet other mammals don't seem to have this problem. Compared with mammals of similar size the human pregnancy of 40 weeks is slightly shorter than many others.
When we were evolving we started with small flat skulls that could exit the pelvis with little trouble. Accordingly, the pregnancy may have been about 50 weeks. As we developed however, skulls got bigger, and pelvises changed in shape as we walked upright. Giving birth to a ?50 week infant became impossible and the only survivors were those born premature.
Here another problem occurred. If the infant was born too early its lungs were not developed enough to breathe. So evolution juggled the various factors and came up with 1) length of gestation at which head circumference can fit through pelvis. 2) length of gestation at which infant can breathe for itself. This affected the placenta which evolved to start the birth process somewhere between 37 to 40 weeks.
However...the gastro-intestinal system had not evolved as quickly as the life-or-death systems. Babies did not die from more primitive, under-developed digestive systems. In fact the urge to feed them more frequently to settle them, meant these babies usually gained weight well and they got all of the benefits from their mother' milk. Strangely enough, around the 10 to 14 weeks, unsettled babies seem to relax more and enjoy feeding and interacting with people
I am not an expert in science or evolution, but I have had 30 years of helping parents with restless newborns. This just seems logical to me.
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Post by kerouac2 on Feb 28, 2018 0:49:48 GMT
I have read quite recently that the Chinese (and other nearby cultures) are just starting to evolve to be able to digest dairy products, which were not at all part of their diet as adults until very recently. The young Chinese can digest things like pizza, yogurt or cheese that are impossible for their parents to eat except in minute quantities.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 28, 2018 3:42:27 GMT
I have always known that medical instrument referred to as an otoscope.
I have very tiny ear canals and when they get infected and swell the doctor has to use a pediatric otoscope to examine my ears with.
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Post by Kimby on Feb 28, 2018 4:36:36 GMT
And my mouth is so small they use kids film carriers to take dental xrays. The adult ones lacerate my gums.
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Post by bixaorellana on Feb 28, 2018 5:14:58 GMT
I started to add to this, but stopped myself just in time.
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Post by questa on Feb 28, 2018 7:33:07 GMT
The Chinese-Vietnamese population here have a temple I occasionally visit. Seeing family groups standing around chatting, it is easy to the effect of diet on growth. Grandma and Grandpa are mostly under 5 feet (150.2cm) tall. She is bent over and walks carefully, he has scars on arms and legs but is still wiry and neither carry any extra weight. At a guess they were farmers and the occasional chicken would have been the norm, certainly not much red meat in their diet.
The next woman looks of the age to be a young adult during the war. She is about 5 foot 4 inches (162.5cm)and looks more business like. Most of the people here fled Vietnam because they had helped the Americans so I can see her working in an office with access to a canteen where she had more meat to eat.
Towering over her is her son. He was born here and has eaten meat as much as any other Ozzie kid. He is 14-15 years old and 5 foot 9 inches (175.2cm). Carries a bit of extra weight, not unlike the burger eating, game-playing kids of his age
A girl toddler is playing with the group. I don't know where she fits in as she is about two and a half years old. She is as round as a ball with plump cheeks almost hiding her eyes. Totally gorgeous, I just hope the family don't over-feed her.
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Post by kerouac2 on Feb 28, 2018 10:55:59 GMT
When I arrived in France, I was taller than most people but now quite a few of the young adults are as tall or taller than I am.
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Post by mickthecactus on Feb 28, 2018 12:01:05 GMT
16 Year old grandson is 6'3".
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Post by kerouac2 on Feb 28, 2018 12:53:42 GMT
Yes, that's the way it goes now. I hope that architects are taking such things into consideration.
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