We've had a fair few trips to Orlando and I still can't get used to chips being called fries and crisps being called chips haha. Love the term restrooms....after walking around Disney for 8 hours that exactly what they were...a wee and a few minutes rest haha
Yeah, I’ve read or heard somewhere prior that many Brits do not like the term ( hope Brits is an appropriate term - no offense intended). Panties or underwear is just deeply entrenched here & we don’t give it a thought. I personally like the way knickers rolls off my tongue & may adopt it using cultural appropriationPanties always makes me think of a creepy older man(no offence lol
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I personally liked “Choc Doc”
, but feel entitled as I am 57% English!I was flabbergasted when my fries (chips) came with mayonnaise, not ketchup, in England. We use crisp as an adjective mostly. And I love the word “loo” - the Beatles brought it to my attention. At home, we say bathroom but out and about it is restroom. My 81 year old mother says toilet. I also love wee - such an apt word and much less crass than pee, in my opinion. I am sure you welcomed the “restroom”!!! There are differences between states here - I’m sure I could be educated with many different terms were I to go out west, for instance. Virginia, being one of the major colonies and home to multiple Presidents, has place names such as Richmond, Norfolk, Pembroke, etc. I am sometimes surprised to see the same ones in the UK. Sorry, rambling a bit. Back to Dan!We've had a fair few trips to Orlando and I still can't get used to chips being called fries and crisps being called chips haha. Love the term restrooms....after walking around Disney for 8 hours that exactly what they were...a wee and a few minutes rest haha
Yeah, I’ve read or heard somewhere prior that many Brits do not like the term ( hope Brits is an appropriate term - no offense intended). Panties or underwear is just deeply entrenched here & we don’t give it a thought. I personally like the way knickers rolls off my tongue & may adopt it using cultural appropriation
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I was flabbergasted when my fries (chips) came with mayonnaise, not ketchup, in England. We use crisp as an adjective mostly. And I love the word “loo” - the Beatles brought it to my attention. At home, we say bathroom but out and about it is restroom. My 91 year old mother says toilet. I also love wee - such an apt word and much less crass than pee, in my opinion. I am sure you welcomed the “restroom”!!! There are differences between states here - I’m sure I could be educated with many different terms were I to go out west, for instance. Virginia, being one of the major colonies and home to multiple Presidents, has place names such as Richmond, Norfolk, Pembroke, etc. I am sometimes surprised to see the same ones in the UK. Sorry, rambling a bit. Back to Dan!
Biscuit and cookie are different things tooYeah, I’ve read or heard somewhere prior that many Brits do not like the term ( hope Brits is an appropriate term - no offense intended). Panties or underwear is just deeply entrenched here & we don’t give it a thought. I personally like the way knickers rolls off my tongue & may adopt it using cultural appropriation
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I was flabbergasted when my fries (chips) came with mayonnaise, not ketchup, in England. We use crisp as an adjective mostly. And I love the word “loo” - the Beatles brought it to my attention. At home, we say bathroom but out and about it is restroom. My 81 year old mother says toilet. I also love wee - such an apt word and much less crass than pee, in my opinion. I am sure you welcomed the “restroom”!!! There are differences between states here - I’m sure I could be educated with many different terms were I to go out west, for instance. Virginia, being one of the major colonies and home to multiple Presidents, has place names such as Richmond, Norfolk, Pembroke, etc. I am sometimes surprised to see the same ones in the UK. Sorry, rambling a bit. Back to Dan!
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thought that was a little odd.
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Nice babies is really odd thing to say imoApologies if anybody else has already discussed this but “nice babies” … does that mean some babies are not nice ?
Could be a reach but hmm
Also I don’t know if anyone else thinks this but sometimes colleagues saying things about the babies “looking like mit”, I just find that quite inappropriate and disrespectful? I know they mean like they look poorly, ill etc but it reads a little harsh.
At my job (mental health) staff often say similar things about patients and it just makes me feel a bit uncomfortable! I’m no pillar of professionalism myself but I dunno
What constitutes a nice baby and a not so nice baby. They can only basically feed and sleep. They cannot talk. I wonder if she means babies that feed and sleep and don't cry a lot therefore making their jobs easier.Apologies if anybody else has already discussed this but “nice babies” … does that mean some babies are not nice ?
Could be a reach but hmm
Also I don’t know if anyone else thinks this but sometimes colleagues saying things about the babies “looking like mit”, I just find that quite inappropriate and disrespectful? I know they mean like they look poorly, ill etc but it reads a little harsh.
At my job (mental health) staff often say similar things about patients and it just makes me feel a bit uncomfortable! I’m no pillar of professionalism myself but I dunno
I don’t think it’s just a nurse thing to be fair, many a person asked if I had a “good baby” which I assumed to be pne that eats and sleeps well and generally causes me no disruption to my life*. It’s flawed and problematic but sadly a common way to view babies apparently!
I’m surprised they’re not calling them Dr A, Dr B etc. Not their initials, just alphabetically like the babies.
) healthy life since only confirms that for me. 
Sorry but this thread took a turn I wasn’t expecting!
Totally agree. I’m not in the business either so unsure if common terminology/ no harm meant. But is odd to me to define there to be good and bad babies and to say they look like tit.Apologies if anybody else has already discussed this but “nice babies” … does that mean some babies are not nice ?
Could be a reach but hmm
Also I don’t know if anyone else thinks this but sometimes colleagues saying things about the babies “looking like mit”, I just find that quite inappropriate and disrespectful? I know they mean like they look poorly, ill etc but it reads a little harsh.
At my job (mental health) staff often say similar things about patients and it just makes me feel a bit uncomfortable! I’m no pillar of professionalism myself but I dunno
Sorry about that - just got out of hospital and on medicines - rambling a bit!Sorry but this thread took a turn I wasn’t expecting!
I have been feeling very much the same. I don't work in Paediatrics, so I don't know definitively how staff refer to babies and children under their care, but I work in adult inpatients and we would not refer to them as looking 'tit' or - I think there was a reference in an article a few months ago - looking 'rubbish'. It would be perceived as an unkind way of describing their appearance, so I absolutely think it comes across a bit compassionless with regards to babies. I would not describe my own children as looking rubbish when they're poorly, so would be upset to know staff were doing this if they were unwell in hospital.Apologies if anybody else has already discussed this but “nice babies” … does that mean some babies are not nice ?
Could be a reach but hmm
Also I don’t know if anyone else thinks this but sometimes colleagues saying things about the babies “looking like mit”, I just find that quite inappropriate and disrespectful? I know they mean like they look poorly, ill etc but it reads a little harsh.
At my job (mental health) staff often say similar things about patients and it just makes me feel a bit uncomfortable! I’m no pillar of professionalism myself but I dunno
Just finished the podcast and couldn’t believe the bit about Letby writing in baby K’s computer notes despite not being designated nurse! Baby has an X-ray to show tube is in the right place, she writes about the tube being secure and then 3 mins later baby has significant desaturation and the tube is too far. Urgh she makes my skin crawl.So no Chester Standard live link today?
Good podcast roundup released today of previous baby. (I wish they’d stop the repetition though - nearly three mins saying the same every week. Scrap the intro ladies?! Just a bugbear!)
All these unusual events, not encountered in numerous (lost count) nurse and doctors’ many years of collective experience ….and on the other hand all linked to the existence of one nurse in the space of one year of her short career
Was back looking at Twitter and I recall this again from Friday - I wonder if the sudden influx of people on the ward had her panicking thinking they were police
Oh that’s true, she might not have realised they were medics from another hospital.So no Chester Standard live link today?
Good podcast roundup released today of previous baby. (I wish they’d stop the repetition though - nearly three mins saying the same every week. Scrap the intro ladies?! Just a bugbear!)
All these unusual events, not encountered in numerous (lost count) nurse and doctors’ many years of collective experience ….and on the other hand all linked to the existence of one nurse in the space of one year of her short career
Was back looking at Twitter and I recall this again from Friday - I wonder if the sudden influx of people on the ward had her panicking thinking they were police
