Nit picking

[Chiara’s slave]

Does the Forum need it's own Nit Nurse?

Thankfully those days are behind me, I have so little hair. Could have done with a sailing nit nurse once though. Our kids caught the worst nits in the entire history of the universe in Lyme Regis. A large collective of kids were bothering the harbour crabs together, as they do. This resulted in the most virulent transfer, as they were pretty much all rubbing heads. We spent the next week nit combing them, all on a cruiser so small you had to take turns to fart in case the windows couldn’t take the pressure.

 

[Spirit (of Glenans)]

My biggest bugbear, (currently), is the now annoyingly widespread habit in the UK, of using the word 'sat' or 'stood' after the word 'was', i.e "was sat, was stood", when the correct usage is "was sitting, was standing".
Examples of the correct use of sat and stood are "I sat, he stood".

 

[Spirit (of Glenans)]

Thankfully those days are behind me, I have so little hair. Could have done with a sailing nit nurse once though. Our kids caught the worst nits in the entire history of the universe in Lyme Regis. A large collective of kids were bothering the harbour crabs together, as they do. This resulted in the most virulent transfer, as they were pretty much all rubbing heads. We spent the next week nit combing them, all on a cruiser so small you had to take turns to fart in case the windows couldn’t take the pressure.

Here is some more nit-picking; the children didn't " catch nits", they caught headlice, (pediculus humanus capitis). "Nits" is the colloquial term for their empty egg-cases.
Interesting fact: Headlice love clean hair, as they are unable to make their egg-cases adhere to dirty, oily hair.

 

[Praxinoscope]

I thought this might be a thread reminiscing about the ‘nit nurse‘ at school, do they still have the nit nurse in todays schools?

 

[Lightwave395]

Have been casting envious and longing looks in the direction of the Iberian Peninsula and its Isles ,after some considerable absence.
Three words preventing a trip.
Gatwick.
Luton.
Stanstead.
Three of the inner circles of hell. !


Posting this looking out of the window...............

Get thee to Brittany Ferries...

 

[jamie N]

My biggest bugbear, (currently), is the now annoyingly widespread habit in the UK, of using the word 'sat' or 'stood' after the word 'was', i.e "was sat, was stood", when the correct usage is "was sitting, was standing".
Examples of the correct use of sat and stood are "I sat, he stood".

This thread is about "nits" not bugs or bears. I suggest that instead of wildly drifting this thread you begin another.
With respect of course......

 

[Spirit (of Glenans)]

I was reacting to the first 20 posts, which, apart from nos 9, 12 and 18, were comments broadly about grammar, spelling and correct usage.
I should add that that I also made a (thread-drifting ) "nit-picking" comment on real rather than metaphorical nitpicking.

 

[Humblebee]

I thought this might be a thread reminiscing about the ‘nit nurse‘ at school, do they still have the nit nurse in todays schools?

Ni(gh)t Nurse is great if you can't sleep.

 

[johnalison]

My biggest bugbear, (currently), is the now annoyingly widespread habit in the UK, of using the word 'sat' or 'stood' after the word 'was', i.e "was sat, was stood", when the correct usage is "was sitting, was standing".
Examples of the correct use of sat and stood are "I sat, he stood".

When I and others made the same point a while ago, someone corrected us by stating that the correct term should have been 'was seated'. I think 'seated' is more elegant, but something I would expect to find in written rather than spoken English.

 

[Praxinoscope]

Ni(gh)t Nurse is great if you can't sleep.

Last ’Night Nurse’ I had was a redhead and I don’t seem to remember her helping me sleep much.

 

[Alex_Blackwood]

Yes, but people are complex. She is right wing on grammar and school uniforms and not so much on other issues. E.g. she has just been spouting off about the Scots getting a new Prince of Edinburgh (negatively, of course).

I have just been reading a book from the 1930s where the historian asserted that John Knox was "a man to serve as Fuhrer" and Calvin having "affinities with Bolshevism, Fascism and Nazism, especially the last". So it's certainly not a new comment.

Duke of Edinburgh, actually!

 

[Bouba]

My shoulders are broad and clear

Interesting ......mine are quite spotty

 

[Spirit (of Glenans)]

When I and others made the same point a while ago, someone corrected us by stating that the correct term should have been 'was seated'. I think 'seated' is more elegant, but something I would expect to find in written rather than spoken English.

Yes but, would you say; "the diesel was seated in the tank..."?
Also I feel that there should be no differences between written and spoken English. People should speak gramatically so as to communicate effectively.

 

[jamie N]

Yes but, would you say; "the diesel was seated in the tank..."?
Also I feel that there should be no differences between written and spoken English. People should speak gramatically so as to communicate effectively.

Surely "The diesel was in a sedentary position whilst attending the tank" would be politically correct?

 

[Bouba]

As an expert in the field...the correct term is...’the diesel and the tank separated’

 

[Chiara’s slave]

Last ’Night Nurse’ I had was a redhead and I don’t seem to remember her helping me sleep much.

Rubbish. I’ve always found that the sleep of the just is never as sound as the sleep of the just after.

 

[Spirit (of Glenans)]

As an expert in the field...the correct term is...’the diesel and the tank separated’

Que?