Clair Posted March 13, 2007 Share Posted March 13, 2007 From the BBC website:[quote]Her face was so badly swollen doctors could not operate on her immediately and had to use a wheelchair for three months.[/quote] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ali-cat Posted March 13, 2007 Share Posted March 13, 2007 Maybe the doctors were so shocked, by the look of her swollen face, they lost the use of their legs & couldn't walkor ....... her face was so swollen it needed to be given it's own wheelchair, to get around. [blink] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Smith Posted March 13, 2007 Share Posted March 13, 2007 I think it means that a Year 10 on work experience was given the story to write.Standards aren't what we used to think they might once have been. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrCanary Posted March 20, 2007 Share Posted March 20, 2007 But surely they once were, weren't they? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cassis Posted March 20, 2007 Share Posted March 20, 2007 Nope. They were never as good as they were before. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Catalpa Posted March 20, 2007 Share Posted March 20, 2007 Try convincing my mother of that. [:D] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Smith Posted March 20, 2007 Share Posted March 20, 2007 You don't get mothers like you used to. That Boudicca, now she was a mother... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beryl Posted March 20, 2007 Share Posted March 20, 2007 oh yes, ride a chariot one handed and still put her lippy on straight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clair Posted March 20, 2007 Author Share Posted March 20, 2007 She must have been usingBodyfo-horm, Bodyform for youuuuuuuuu.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Smith Posted March 20, 2007 Share Posted March 20, 2007 She had little trapdoors in her breastplate for feeding the kids, apparently. A bit like Henry VIII's codpiece. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beryl Posted March 20, 2007 Share Posted March 20, 2007 he didn't feed the kids with ... oh never mind Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clair Posted March 20, 2007 Author Share Posted March 20, 2007 Just how many hands did that woman have?chariot-driving, lippy-putting, child feeding??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Smith Posted March 20, 2007 Share Posted March 20, 2007 Obviously multi-tasking. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasD Posted March 21, 2007 Share Posted March 21, 2007 an amusing thread to read at one go for the first time[8-)]from woman with swollen face ... to ... mothers ... to ... Boudica in 12 posts, with the following subthemes: BBC and work experience (should be inverted), doctors and HenryVIII, codpieces and breastplates, wheelchairs and chariots, lippy and bodyform, multi-tasking and child feeding Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Posted March 21, 2007 Share Posted March 21, 2007 [quote user="ThomasD"]an amusing thread to read at one go for the first time[8-)]from woman with swollen face ... to ... mothers ... to ... Boudica in 12 posts, with the following subthemes: BBC and work experience (should be inverted), doctors and HenryVIII, codpieces and breastplates, wheelchairs and chariots, lippy and bodyform, multi-tasking and child feeding[/quote]12 posts is relatively meandery given some of the participants. Will you let me have 'meandery' Dick? I rather like it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weedon Posted March 21, 2007 Share Posted March 21, 2007 That woman was a menace in my opinion. What an example to those poor kids. Driving one handed and feeding the kids whilst putting on her lipstick. As for those things on her wheels...they could have your eye out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cassis Posted March 21, 2007 Share Posted March 21, 2007 [quote user="Mark"]12 posts is relatively meandery given some of the participants. Will you let me have 'meandery' Dick? I rather like it.[/quote]Ooh, not sure Dick would allow that. Does 'meandery' mean 'meandering'? In which case I reckon it was no more meandery than usual given the participants! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clair Posted March 21, 2007 Author Share Posted March 21, 2007 I find it quite unbelievable that a discussion I started to highlight the poor standard of journalism within the BBC has been highjacked and turned into some non-sensical discussion about history, the role of women (as an aside, children and cooking should be enough to keep them occupied) and ethymology.I have a good mind to hit the report button on this now tainted thread [6]Tongue firmly held in cheek [:P] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Smith Posted March 21, 2007 Share Posted March 21, 2007 Yup, meandery. Good word - it means that when a thread wanders off into the boondocks someone complains about the collapse of western civilisation, end of the world as we know it, growth of the nanny state or something.Excellent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasD Posted March 21, 2007 Share Posted March 21, 2007 [quote user="Clair"]I find it quite unbelievable that a discussion I started to highlight the poor standard of journalism within the BBC has been highjacked and turned into some non-sensical discussion about history, the role of women (as an aside, children and cooking should be enough to keep them occupied) and ethymology.[/quote]I assume you mean etymology[;-)] Or is ethymology the ethics of meandery?Perhaps the reason your OP got highjacked is because everyone agrees with you and wanted to move on to more serious issues?[quote user="Clair"]Tongue firmly held in cheek [:P][/quote]ditto[;-)][;-)] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Smith Posted March 21, 2007 Share Posted March 21, 2007 Do you mean you've got your tongue in Clair's cheek? That's more information than we need, thank you! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clair Posted March 21, 2007 Author Share Posted March 21, 2007 [quote user="Dick Smith"]Do you mean you've got your tongue in Clair's cheek? That's more information than we need, thank you![/quote]Haven't noticed anything... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasD Posted March 21, 2007 Share Posted March 21, 2007 Clair, if you haven't aready, this is where you hit the report button!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cassis Posted March 21, 2007 Share Posted March 21, 2007 This is appalling. Where's a Moderator when you need one? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beryl Posted March 21, 2007 Share Posted March 21, 2007 Turning the other cheek I think [Www] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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