Mr. Mincemeat
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Wolf Pack Shaman
The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.'
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Post by Mr. Mincemeat on Aug 11, 2008 5:32:34 GMT 1
I like this one, Jutta. ;D
Hilde: (To the complaining male inmates.) 'Wir haben nur wonky Betten! Wonky Betten gut. Wonky Betten helfen Ihnen den Atem leichter und steigt auch in den Morgen.'
Hilde: 'Wonky Betten sehr sexy Betten. Gut für den Verkehr - Herr Dom schläft in einem Bett wonky und ihn sehr männlichen Menschen. Weiß alles über die Babys.'
Reckon Hilde's age needs to come down to around 40 - Dai Profit's shaken sticks and stones predict a pregnancy - and it ain't Marilyn - yet.
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Post by Old Dragon (Al) on Aug 11, 2008 14:39:07 GMT 1
Hoping I finally have the PC/programme problem sorted - sorry to anyone who didn't receive the emails. Should get back on track now. What I have read so far of the night shift's input - here and emailed etc. - has had me and others in stitches all morning. As requested, I consulted with the local undertaker and ran the storyline past him. Apart from saying it could never happen (thank God) except in a crazy film due to the need for birth and death certificates (the latter signed by two doctors and a third independent one in reality), he thought the story absolutely hilarious. That was once he understood that it was a comedy! He even thought it could become a serial TV show, which somehow I doubt. At first he was thinking 'serious stuff', which in itself was quite funny, poor chap. However, Alfie Axham's corrupt character and the scenes suggested soon had him rocking with laughter - hope no passer's-by got the wrong end of the stick because we were talking and both laughing our heads off in the front office of the funeral director's shop! At least it was very quiet outside at the time and no-one wanted to come in to arrange a funeral while I was there. I'd say go along as you are in the directions suggested. Love the TV related/news scene outlines, and the suggestion to involve the TV personality suggested. We can but try there, and I believe I have identified a means to get his agent's contact information once we have a suitable draft script available to show that personality. Have revealed to Andrew his identity, but suggest that remains off the forum for the time being, and known only to the writers' group members concerned who are already in the know. (Obvious reasons, and we don't want to jump the gun.) Roni was reaching for the Tena Ladies when I read her some of the scenes earlier, incidentally. My son, too, found it hilarious. So far fetched in its humour - and yet containing some very deep messages. Those will go over the heads of many, but there should be enough on the surface to entertain all who don't grasp those. Some very good feedback and suggestions for characters - and even actors to pay those - have been put forward by people whom I've asked for feedback from, and with some names cropping up several times. It would be terrific if even the odd one or two of those could really be interested in this. I'm keeping those named actors off the forum for now, though. It is far too soon to do otherwise, and not a good idea to get too carried away.
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Post by Old Dragon (Al) on Aug 11, 2008 16:35:17 GMT 1
PLEASE give me a break, guys! I DO NOT want to trigger my back int spasms from laughing so much! Some of you are racing ahead sending me submissions for scenes, and the editorial team hasn't even scheduled its first meeting yet! Please let ME contact YOU before sending more, but you can ask the TWG secretary to collect the submissions on my behalf, if you wish? The 'Mourners' Scene received earlier: Well, I didn't know whether to laugh or cry! I doubt any audience would have, either. Much would depend whether they grasped the fact of what, exactly, was being buried in the council cemetery! Cinemas showing that scene - were it ever to be produced and go on general release - would likely have to provide plastic covers for their seats! The new character suggested, brilliant idea!... And the highland cow/police scenes - don't do anything more to those - less is more, as most of you know. I'll add that character to the list! Perhaps think of a few more scenes that could include him? Love the 'Comeback' storyline twist, too. Andrew suggested a scene on MSN to do with that effect mentioned in German by Meirion for Jutta, and it could well be that 'Jimmy 'Arch Angel' MacGravis', in his kilt, would be the perfect resident to carry that off! (Especially when imagined with the suggested actor in the role of MacGravis!) I believe that Mike, since commencing IBT, has experienced this very side effect. ;D Might I suggest one of the old ladies knit him a larger sporran out of the hair from that highland cow? ;D
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Post by Old Dragon (Al) on Aug 12, 2008 15:53:46 GMT 1
The cast list has now been revised somewhat in the first post, and further to plot developments. I have had contact from a company that provides contact details for actors, agents, producers and directors... for a small fee, of course. Interesting...? I have responded and run my reply past Andrew before sending that. Also had a meeting yesterday with a funeral director in the role of a consultant, which went well. Please can those concerned cast an eye over the revisions and updates in the first post, thanks.
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Post by petdesigns on Aug 14, 2008 15:56:24 GMT 1
Sorry, still no time... No German would say "Cretins" - should be exchanged for "Idioten" or "Bloedmaenner" (the latter being my favourite German word for something like Cretin :-)). And of course the age has to come down to 40 as I'm 'only' 41!!!! And what do you mean "In our case, we are not rolling out young, passionate and attractive heroes and heroines" ?? If you want me in it - of course you have an immensely attractive heroine!!!! Didn't you realise that German (and Scandinavian) women are ALWAYS immensely attractive? 'Wir haben nur wonky Betten! Wonky Betten gut. Wonky Betten helfen Ihnen leichter zu atmen und steigen auch in den Morgen.' (why the word "Morgen"? What would she say in English?) Hilde: 'Wonky Betten sehr sexy Betten. Gut für den Verkehr - Herr Dom schläft in einem Bett wonky und er sehr männlicher Mensch. Weiß alles über Babys.' Should "Wonky Betten sind sexy Betten" become her 'catch phrase'? I like that one!!! (I can't remember how I 'created' sentences when hardly knowing any words in English - I only remember long drawn pauses whilst desperately trying to think of something that might be correct and either failing or saying something that makes everybody burst out laughing because it's (unintentionally) very rude...)
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Post by Old Dragon (Al) on Aug 14, 2008 22:54:55 GMT 1
My dear Jutta, Your wolf team mate's attempts at German are, I suspect, an attempt to communicate things to you with humour and hidden meanings, and that the rest of us here are supposed to be totally fogged by! Remember, he is married to the lovely Hanne, whose language experiences are likely very similar to your own journey and life parallels, when marrying a Brit and moving to live in a strange land. ;D He is also one of the more experienced writers' group members, and weaving together storylines that blur the fact and fantasy aspects is his forte. Remember, he is something of a magician in reality. His part/character in the role-writing experience is Dai Profit, so his skills in the real life weaving together of the story will be emulated in the fictional activities at The Risings and in Bed Blockers. Of course Hildegard must be a very attractive, sexy woman, and as one of the leading parts, and love interests in the story, that has to be so. However, we need her character to show to an audience how someone can go from a really dreadful situation in life, and a type of rock bottom situation when they might think they haven't the wherewithall to recover, to a new life that is a world apart from their previous reality. We have to show this happening in front of an audience and in a believable way, all in about 120 pages of film script. We can't wave a magic wand over her, because no one would believe that for a moment. BUT we can show that she has amazing strength of character that even she would never have believed of herself. At the same time, because there are some very spiritual scenes tucked away in our storyline that have yet to be shared, plus characters few yet know anything about, we also need to leave our audience with a question in their minds at the end. This, in a way, to equate to: 'Is there really a God?' 'Does some 'Power' greater than ourselves (the human race) really plan or rule our lives, as Dai Profit and several other characters in the story believe.?' Even, 'could this ever really happen in real life?' There is a lot of TRPD psychology and even things that could be compared to this forum and its structure, being brought into the story. How else can one bring order to the chaos that will undoubtedly rear its head at The Risings with all these 'undesirables' being thrown together! We, here on this forum already know that, given the right structure, harmony and teamwork and an atmosphere of cooperation and not affiliation WORKS! We are living it and taking its benefits out into the real world on a daily basis from this forum! That everytime a rescue or some member as an individual here benefits from what we do and in whatever way. (Members feel good that they can help a cause they believe in and that lifts them spiritually, they benefit from the fiendships they amake of the therapeutic value of sewing prizes for rescued animals, etc., etc. We have a message to carry, just as much as any spiritual or religious character in the story, and there's a lovely one lined up for a team of Polish migrant workers that relates to an old chapel building full of cow manure on The Risings estate. You would be amazed at just how many people are tucked away doing little bits of this story, either as writers or advisors! How many internet forums have members involved in it! It is mind blowing! (s is the number of private messages and so on that I've getting and that are full of enthusiasm for this project. Too many, in fact, for me to be able to deal with them all on a personal basis! I was up all last night with my old back spasming problem from laughing too much, so worked on many of those! I need to post this now before the PC crashes again or lose it, but will continue below...
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Post by Old Dragon (Al) on Aug 14, 2008 23:10:28 GMT 1
Last night I did a very long post and on another forum that have members involved. I was about to hit the send button when the PC did just that - crashed yet again to black screen and I lost the lot! This unreliabilty has been going on for ages now, and basically, our main TRPD machine is worn out. They don't live forever, and ours do more work than the average busy office's machines do. They are often in use 24/7, and frequently when I'm not on it because I am asleep, someone else will be doing a night shift and for another TRPD group - perhaps the Survivors Group, as if someone local to me is on duty, helping a distant member of that group on a one to one level - perhaps at 4 am etc. (Mike could hardly do that from his camper van outside, for example, and if he's beeing working in this area. So you see, that is why I often say things like our group only being one of many interconnected ones - all autonomous but also all working for their own agendas in harmony (most of the time) buy using the same basic structure and guidelines. A primary purpose and basic aims etc., just like we have here. ;D Simple! But back to the PC... Neither I nor anyone else can do what we have to do using an unrelaiable machine. It has to be replaced, I am afraid, even if it means using my bit of plastic and recovering the funds from different TRPD groups who will contribute in proportion to the use they make of this or the new one. You don't need me to tell you that the greatest use/purpose the PC is put to is for this group. Ours will therefore need to be the bigger contribution - but we have had lots of offers of things we can auction here for the 'PC Replacement Project Auction' so it won't be so bad. It is pointless us going for the cheapy option or penny pinching, when what we need is a busy office's workhorse machine - but that doesn't mean paying through the nose for one either. Today, despite not having slept, my body chemistry was in its early 'battle fatige' mode and the back pain not so bad, so I went down to town to see the chap at the computer store and to try and get a deal from him to make us what we need. Andrew had recommended one on the internet, so I had some specs to go on and a price in mind that I wanted equalled if not bettered. If we have a locally made one, it's easier to deal with if there's a problem, and less chance of damage in transit. Also, the net one wasn't preloaded with a running system, and you know me and techi stuff!!! We just don't seem compatible systems when things go wrong. Anyway, the boss, Arif, wasn't there and I spoke with his son, made arrangements to return Friday and see Arif, grabbed my ordered drink cans (elderflower and mineral water from Holland and Barret and that is helping my mouth etc through this chemo), a snack and returned to the car. It was about 5pm then, so cars backed p to get out of the car park and no way they were going to let some old bat back a bloody great od Merc out into that jam in a hurry! Nothing for it but to sit tight, enjoy my tuna roll, can of pop and be patient! I remember eating the roll, but one of the reasons I love that old Merc so much is the comfort and support the seat affords my back... why, I even go outside sometimes and just sit in it for that very reason... and yes, quite often I nod off in that position, too! Yes, I woke up when the boy racers started screaming down into the main bit of the car park and at 9.30pm!!! I'd not even fed the horses as I'd told the ex I'd do on the way home! Thankfully there was a full or near full moon and I had a torch in the car. Could be a great scene for Daffi in the story IF we need one! We have loads of material to go through, although much that isn't going to work or else can't fit into the storyline as it stands. However, that experience did take me back into elements of the real bits of the back history that would exist to be drawn on for inspiration, and as relates to the characters of Rip & Daffi. I was almost always the driver when we were together. That whether in a car or the band's old van, and very often when tiredness took over, I'd be pulling into a lay-by and falling asleep. Always, it seems, to be woken by torches and bangs on the window or door by officers of the law keen to move the vehicle on! Keen to discover just who and what might be inside, too! Tales of the road... Guess I now have a new one to add to the collection, eh?
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Post by petdesigns on Aug 15, 2008 10:31:07 GMT 1
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Post by Old Dragon (Al) on Aug 15, 2008 11:35:47 GMT 1
Jutta, just out of interest, did what your team mate write in German to you make sense and was it grammatically correct, please? I, sort of, got the gist of bits of it, and we will, at some point, need to have some discussions about how to best handle Hilde's dialogue, and what terms she would naturally use etc., but best done when we have a more reliable PC, both have some time, and I'm feeling a bit more up to the mark healthwise. Hilde with have lots of help to deal with the lorry load of cabbage - a Polish friend is working on that aspect and Polish characters and scenes. I've had no sleep again last night - apart from from 5 pm - 9.30pm in the car in that car park! pmsl It's just my same old back/battle fatigue/body chemistry problem - I simply laughed myself into it, as I have done before, but in this particular week of the chemo cycle, perhaps that is what I was meant to do? The back isn't as bad as on many previous occasions, but I've overdosed myself with the natural brain chemical we all produce, but, in my case, the tap to shut them down needs a new washer! I have techniques that I can use to try and bring things back under control, and will have to go AWOL for a little while to address those needs. That even if the PC behaves, and/or can be replaced. Perhaps I will even take a weekend off? This last week has been a bit of a nightmar, and I even said somewhere that Roni would be here to help with the post... Yeah, right... Roni's on holiday in London!!! Where IS my head? If anyone can find my sensible head for me and screw it back on, I would be grateful, as seem to he headless at the moment! Even my car, my lovely old Merc has to go into the garage next week, as there is a problem with the electric, but that only manifests itself when it rains! I think everything is so under the rule/law of Seamus or Donal or some other of the huge Murphy clan, and perhaps all his fiddling and boron playing is what's got the rule doing overtime right now? (Yes, the Irish are now all getting in on the act!) In fact, we also have a Jamaican and an Aussie and various other nationalities represented on the writing team, each doing just a little towards then whole, which is great... but just a little bit mind blowing and especially when I'm the one supposed to be coordinating this whole thing and liaising with lots of different people and groups! That while I've a PC dying as I type etc. etc. Nothing wrong with me, I'm not a workaholic doctor, I really do talk things quietly and pace myself..................... pmsl The funny thing is that most of the time I really do do that. Just not when I am manufacturing my own natural blend of the equivalent of speed, though! I have that mixing with, and also perhaps trying to counter, the effects of all the chemo, too! Perhaps the docs will learn something from me/this? More likely not, as they don't have the condition themselves, so cannot really know what it is like to be living in a wrecked body that has got it. How can they treat effectively what they don't understand an perhaps some don't even recognise as a physical condition? One doctor I've seen on odd occasions certainly believes it is a psychiatric condition! Perhaps it is? Is there such a thing that can be brought on by too much laughter and the inability to control that? Is it some variation on hysteria? Actually, I suspect we have all done something very similar and laughed until our ribs hurt at a comedian or some funny film - even a book, and then been doing something else later and recalled the funny thing that made us laugh so much and just kicked off doing it all over again! And perhaps again... and again... when sharing the funny thing with others. For goodness sake, isn't that just part of nomal, everyday life? A good part? Where I have the problem, is simply that the laughing kicks off the physiological problems, which in turn trigger the neurological ones, and the medications kick off the side effects, which necessitate taking more meds to counter those... which affect something else... If the doctor's can't grasp that simple explanation and have to complicate things further by sending me to see a shrink... FINE! I'll enjoy the challenege, but if he starts getting his prescription pad out, then I will not be responsible for my actions... Who really is it that is the barking mad nut around here? I am beginning to fear I'm becoming delusional and that is isn't me after all!
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Post by Old Dragon (Al) on Aug 15, 2008 11:44:06 GMT 1
Murphy at work again! Arif won't be at work in his computer place until Monday at the earliest, so I can't deal with PC matters anyway! Told you often that if you want to see if God has a sense of humour, all you need to is tell him, her or it your plans, and wait!
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Post by petdesigns on Aug 18, 2008 9:17:05 GMT 1
No, it didn't all make sense to me: Hilde: (To the complaining male inmates.) 'Wir haben nur wonky Betten! Wonky Betten SIND gut. Wonky Betten helfen, leichter zu atmen und ... "steigt auch in den Morgen" - I don't understand this one. I mean, I suppose it means something in the line of it makes the recently useless appendices rise - but am not sure what exactly is meant to be said. Hilde: 'Wonky Betten sehr sexy Betten. Gut für den Verkehr - Herr Dom schläft in einem wonky Bett und er ist jetzt ein sehr männlicher Mensch. Er weiß alles über Babies.' ( He knows all about babies? or rather all about how to "make babies"??) (I have changed the German to how I think it should be ) Oh - and here's the translation: "We only have wonky beds. Wonky beds are good! Wonky beds help ease breathing (help to breathe easier/easily) and 'rise to the morrow'?? wonky beds are sexy beds. Good for ... 'traffic'.. is the word-for-word translation, but the meaning (in German in this case) is 'having sex' - - Good for having sex - Mr Dom sleeps in a wonky bed and he is now a very male human. He knows all about babies.
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Post by andrewkfletcher on Aug 19, 2008 21:06:17 GMT 1
Hilde has been married to an Englishman so her english should be as good as ours with a strong dose of accent. Are we saying she rants in German so that anyone around her cant understand her? This was posted on a psoriasis study taking place in the USA. Again slow to start but this post may be an explanation for how this all got started in the Home. Perhaps reading about Ancient Efyptology Dom decided to test whey their beds sloped by 5 degrees to the horizontal? From another post relating to psoriasis recovery on an American Forum. Bed styles in ancient Egypt remained very much the same for over 2000 years. They are among the most intriguing of furniture items because of their structure. Many were slanted down at an incline from the headboard. A footboard ensured that the sleeper would not slip off in the middle of the night. Furniture makers also constructed side rails on many beds. Writes Sibal, "….almost all beds featured legs in the form of animal legs, ranging from heavy bull’s legs to gazelle-like forms with hooves, and the feline type with paw and claw, frequently identified as lion’s legs." The mattress was usually made of wooden slats, plaited string, or reeds, which then held woolen cushions or some other soft material. Sheets were made of linen. Then there is the question of the headrest. Perhaps not everyone used these as pillows, but some physiologists have pointed out the ergonomic benefits on the spine of sleeping with the head resting in this position. Could certainly use some feedback from anyone who is trying this method out. Especially anyone with varicose veins and oedema. Just wat to say thankyou to the group for helping with the film script. Finding it all very confusing but sure I will get my head around it as it progresses. Andrew ;D
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Post by Old Dragon (Al) on Aug 20, 2008 0:47:09 GMT 1
One of the most endearing things about Meirion's wife Hanne, is that every now and again she pops out a word or two in her native language, or perhaps there are very similar words in her first or second language and that can be confused - eg. nine and the German word for no. Alson expressions that are confused. One of Hanne's when she is happy is that she is 'around the moon', which some of us take as meaning a person's a 'space cadet' and on something, when Hanne proably means she is 'over the moon which joy'. I can recall a chat once with Jutta that came close to popping my back out. It was the thought of Jutta sitting 'on' instead of 'at' her computer that did it. We all often discuss these little quirks in languages. For some reason I use expressions that don't belong to te areas I was from or worked in, and I arrived here with them. One 'oxters', is probably something my father used when I was a child. Peerie is a Shetland word, meaning small - bt I've not lived there, and seem to have picked it up because Meirion often uses it - and he's not been to Shetland in this incarnation, and yet, he can describe places there that he's seen! He couldn't have read about those at the time he first started talking about them, as he wasn't then literate and the family didn't have a TV. Besides, he knew things no TV programme could/would. They were investigated and were found to be historical facts. Anyway, Hanne suggests tha Hilde might swear in her native tongue, Whe the scenes start coming together and Hilde's dialoge inserted, perhasp if I PM Jutta to see how best to handle that? With Hanne & mMei working on Hilde, as well as Jutta, getting those script bits sorted and with Andrew's input from Dom, couldd be a bit Tricky. Mei works nights - but days and Sundays with Hanne and tey don't have a PC at home. Guess the best place to post and deal with those scenes, igh even be here, in this or a fresh thread, what do you think? At least we will all know where to locate them, regardless of when. I can pick up completed scenes here when you are all happy they are ready - then edit out loads of long-winded, scientific waffle-waffle. ;D (As required.) Also look forward to when a certain someone twigs what showing, not telling means.
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Post by Old Dragon (Al) on Aug 20, 2008 0:54:22 GMT 1
Meirion, are you trying to indicate there's drug trafficing going on when transporting the 'Vonky Beds'? I know you are heavily involver with those plotting the layers and labrynths into the story line, but when we both come up for air, perhasp enlighten me, as I seem to be missing several chat windows, and am not up to date. Roni will be in Wednesday, that God, so I won't be online much unless to check addresses/payments, as we hope to try and get all the delayed mail out. God know what is going to happen with this sleeplessness, though. (Still not been able to sleep! I hate this aspect of my condition, despite having had it dokeys years, I is so difficult to manage even now! )
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Post by Old Dragon (Al) on Aug 20, 2008 1:43:08 GMT 1
Jutta, perhaps Hilde's nickname for Fanny Tarbutt could be "Frau Bloedmaenner" and Fanny's understanding of German so limited, that she think it is some sot of rank or title, and it goes to her head? Perhaps that is behind Fanny's clothing becoming increasingly uniform-like during her visits to The Risings. Perhaps even, the Army and Navy surplus chappie could give Hilde a gift for Frau Bloedmaenner? Her intended fate is the local psychiatric hospial, afterall - we need to show her demise, as her insanity takes over?
Can we substitute 'sink' for 'think', Jutta? Could that both reflect the accent and the sink or not sink twist with the languages, do you think ?
Could Hilde say 'yes' and 'no' and curse in German, perhaps? and if she thinks in German, she perhaps does not alter the words that are similar in her native tongue, such as idioten to the English idiot? Could we therefor give her particular expressions or words that are unique to her and that bring a little humour to her character's personality - perhaps when she remarks to Dom that the boy and the girl are 'bonketen' or something wherever they happen to be bonking like bunnies at a particular time? We wouldn't even need those scenes to show it - therefore could cut out a lot of the 50 sex ones - and perhaps just have someone else mimmicking Hilde sometimes? Sort of showing their affection for her by their impersonations?
Hilde is a character whom we really have to get right - similarly Dom.
by comparision, Rip is the easy one.
Andrew suggested we needed a defrocked Vicar in the mix - but what might he have been defrocked for? What would his purpose be? If the Polish workersevict the cattle and restore the chapel on the estate, I think probably a priest would be called for. However, a defrocked vicar could really incense some of the residents, and if a child sex offender, he could be very difficult to integrate, even into this crazy group. In the prisions, child related sex offenders wer and stil are very vulnerable to attack from other inmates.
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Post by andrewkfletcher on Aug 20, 2008 10:42:26 GMT 1
Think the Vicar could be used to introduce a miracle angle on the results and give religion an interesting angle too. Of course its not miracles at all and this can also be shown. Trying to show how many different reactions to IBT have developed when people see the results. Non more so than when two opthalmologists wrote to me within a month of each other, one from Teignouth, the Other from Paignton asking how two blocks of wood under a bed might restore someones sight who is registered as having supposedly irriversible optic nerve damage caused by long term progressive multiple sclerosis?
One lady now legally drives a car without needing to wear glasses and has completed an OU degree. (This same lady could not even see the outside of her screen)
If this was a one off case Our defrocked vicar might be in with a chance to have the home blessed and turned into a pilgrimage point. But it is not as more than one person are experiencing the same improvements and IBT as we know from the photographs on the Naked Scientist Website RE Varicosed Veins is predictable and repeatable. Could he have been deforcked for bringing science into the religion basket and for questioning the whole religious concept in his church? No need for him to have done anything too serious, but let us not forget that religion is a strong part of many peoples from many countries and many positions from the poorest to the richest and the powerless to the most powerful. And if we are in a nursing home where people see out their remaining years religion will become part of those people. "there are no atheists on a boat cast adrift at sea"
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Post by Old Dragon (Al) on Aug 20, 2008 12:43:56 GMT 1
Thinking about it, Andrew, does the vicar need to be a defrocked one? That just complicates things. He or even SHE could simply be an elderly vicar who needs a retirement home place. We could give him/her a medical condition that can be shown to benefit from IBT - perhaps even the lady mentioned whose eyesight improves to the extent that she can drive and tackle an OU course? Perhaps even conduct Sunday services for the residents and join in with Billy-Ray's gospel inspired choir sessions? I rather like the idea of a female vicar and we are short of female , relatively 'sane' and sober minded characters. I think it's the 'defrocked' aspect I have the problem with - apart from this damned PC playing up again today! Is that okay with you? To make the vicar female, poor eyesight, etc? We can still make her a bit of a character, and a positive influence, if a little eccentric, perhaps? How about if we give her MY varicose veins and oedema problems, too? That would cover a 'miracle' angle!!! I like the idea. ;D Did a post on TNS this morning about the effect of IBT on my legs after one night being back on it, after the lack of sleep and phlebitis etc. Clicked on the spell-check just before posting it, and the PC crashed to black screen yet again and I lost the lot! I was well piddled off! That post was directed towards anyone doubting the science behind IBT, and well detailed, having taken me a little while to write. Will do it again when I get the chance, but before I slept last night, sitting up against the back pad, but on the inclined bed, my calves measured - left 43 cms and right 44.5 cms. This morning the left was 40cms and the right 40.5cms - and the phlebitis inflammation significantly improved. Legs much more comfortable again and looking good as before the break, apart from the actual vv that is being affected by the phlebitis. That is still hard and painful, but responding to the ointment medication that disperses any blood clots - plus I've got the anti-biotics the reduce the ris of it becoming infected or any ulceration resulting etc.
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Post by Old Dragon (Al) on Aug 20, 2008 12:58:31 GMT 1
Andrew, pleasse could you show me copies of the letters from those opticians? Also, if we go with the female/retired vicar with sight and vv problems, who does an ou course, perhape the latter could be the same one Viv is doing, and she could just give us a bit of suitable info about that to mae the character realistic?
My MSN seems to have corrupted, and I can't sign in at the moment to ask you via that! (Peace, perhaps, for all until it gets sorted? ;D )
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Post by petdesigns on Aug 22, 2008 10:04:29 GMT 1
Sorry, having loads to do and can hardly make it to the Computer (on the computer, giggle) at the moment. (And can only do it this morning because I need to think of something else as Dicker is having an operation... ) Anyway - yes, as Hilde's been married to an Englishman her English should be ok - and yes, I do have the same 'problems' language-wise as Hanna... So the odd wrong use of "on" and "at" would certainly ring very true to any German watching. How do you mean introduce sink for think? I mean - it would probably sound that way with most Germans anyway (the pronunciation of "th" being our biggest obstacle in learning English, next to w and v....). And of course Hilde would swear in German - at least I do! If she's a fairly well mannered lady, she'd mainly say things like "Doofe Kuh" (stupid cow), "Himmel Arsch und Zwirn" (translation impossible/useless as it doesn't really mean anything, but can be said really harsh, full of disgust. Mainly used when something goes wrong / something is e.g. dropped and I actually say that when the doglets ignore me totally as it gets some reaction ), my favourite "Pappnase" for idiots/annoying people, 'Scheisse' (shit).... But I don't think I'm the only German who'll also swear in English as some of your swearwords roll so nicely off the tongue when one is annoyed - and because even when one knows what they actually mean and one wouldn't use words like that in one's own language, it just doesn't seem to be so bad when it's 'the other language'. Bloedmann means "stupid man", so I think Hilde would call Fanny "Bloedfrau Fanny" or "Bloedfrau Tarbutt" with a slight inclination of the head as if saying something like "lady Fanny". (That's a great idea! I really like that! ) re 'bonking' - Hilde would probably say in German (with resignatedly rolling eyes) "wie die Kaninchen" or "schon wieder wie die Kaninchen" (like the rabbits or again like the rabbits)
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Post by Old Dragon (Al) on Aug 22, 2008 22:56:01 GMT 1
That's all sounding very positive, Jutta. I'm having horrendous problems with this PC at the moment, and still trying to catch up face to face with Arif to arrange for him to build us a decent system that is relaible. Have a very busy weekend planned - as long as Murphy leaves us to get on with it without his help, that is! I have to get racking for the new storage place and see (or try to) Arif, plus have Dyl felling some trees in the garden tomorrow. (The neighbour is complaining about those.) Then Sunday we hope to make a start clearing the rooms upstairs and transferring things to the new workshop/storage place. We are hoping there will be enough room there to be able also to store some things from the old office upstairs here, and that work can be started there editing the scene submissions for this project. God knows if any of those old PCs in there can be used, though. Most are likely full of dust inside as well as out! Often in the past, we have spread out scenes printed on paper and on a desk there, then got them into order and numbered. Many will need re-writng. I can see that already, but some are just spot on as they are. We have two more characters entering The Risings as staff, and sent by Fanny T! I can see both coming in for some stick of the residents, though! The lads especially will 'slaughter' them! ;D Caractacus Entwistle: He is a male nurse with a fetish for shaving patients daily be they male or female, he does not care. His favourite expression is " must be tidy for matron's rounds" he likes to keep his hand in and works 4/5 days a week, fusses over everything. Does not like the new fangled idea of wards likes the nightingale type [row on each side of the long room] he is around 45 yrs old and keeps his razor dangling from his belt as well as his cleaning gel. Shouts because he assumes everyone is deaf. He lives with his mother but soon the family home is being sold and she is entering the risings as a 'guest' one of the staff perks. Matron - Audrey Echo: She is 40-ish plump and according to crack not a natural red head! She likes to wear starched uniform i.e. apron, cap and cuffs, she is proud of her silver belt buckle. Will not tolerate sitting on beds, doctors with cold hands and she has a time frame for patients to each their meals if they take too long it is whisked away. She is obsessed with bodily functions and patients must 'go' at a set time. Each night each patient is given a laxative at 20 min intervals so that in theory they can each use the bathroom every 20 minutes. She allows 1 sheet of toilet paper per person per day. Alas, I see poor 'Carrots' Entwhistle on the receiving end of his own razor, and a 'topping and tailing' taking place, what with the ex-military and ex-cons in the camp! Smurf, alone would likely land him in a coffin if his whiskers or a hair of his head came under threat! (And still be capable of it in his 70s for real!) As for the Matron, I'll give her a week to either mend her ways, or be run off the premises! Can you see Moose managing with just one sheet of loo roll for all his birthing sessions! Can you see Jimmy being told not to sit on his bed or even crash out there still with his kilt on? Can you imagine Esme's reaction to the matron entering the Ex-Man's room uninvited? And as for her vacating her master's bed unless she chose to...? I think not!
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