Sure! Sounds good.
Where exactly are we going?
I'll answer that on the I'd Rather Poke My Eye Out Than... thread.
You do read that don't you?
After a few days in BKK moving down to south west coast Andaman Sea, to Khao Lak. Chilling out there and doing a little jungle trekking for about three weeks, then we move up north towards Mae Sot.
It interests you?
I do sometimes...
How is/was your weekend?
Sorry, no.
Is it worth the read?
So so you know. Some fun on the threads but not as much as sometimes.
Do you like threading?
I like most of the people I talk to.
Are you nosey by nature?
I have actually done a bit of nosing about in my time and now that I look back on it all possibly too much.
Do you think it is natural to be nosey to some extent?
of course unless your a non-clumsy mute.
How much wood could a wood chuck chuck if a wood chuck could chuck wood?
Enough to be able to chuck t'wood in't thoile when called upon to do so.
Why do you ask such easy to answer questions?
Can't you see his brain is missing?????? (He might think he's ahead of the game, but he's not, is it?)
I believe he was just attempting to form a conversation. You should try to be a bit more kind should you not?
Kindness can be deadly. Ask a Marine Corps instructor.
And bland as well. Like turnip soup without spices.
Do you know any MCIs?
I do as a matter of fact, he is retired now, he was awarded two purple hearts in two separate campaigns in Vietnam, it's just over six years since I last spoke to him, I might just try and get in touch with him during the week.
Have you ever dived off those fancy cliffs at Acapulco?
No.
Is it as brave and daring and as skill-challenging as it looks on the films I have seen of it when lounging on my couch?
BTW "Fancy" is inappropriate for cliffs. Big is better. Isn't it?
I wasn't expecting it to be as dangerous as it was, the timing and point of entry would have to be extremely accurate, the lads who dive from the highest point especially make an excellent job of it, right fancy like.
Have you ever been hit so hard as to receive a broken nose, and felt the blood swill down the back of your throat and both eyes puff up so fast you think you may be going blind as you collapse in a rearwards motion onto canvas?
No, but one time I was opening this overhead garage door and the coiled spring snapped so that it fell right on top of my head and folded over my body. So I'm standing with this very heavy wooden garage door encasing me and all I can see are my feet on the concrete floor where blood is pooling around them. The kids were still asleep in the house and I felt really woozy, probably not from actual blood loss, but because the smell of blood always makes me feel faint. I hate that really, irony, metallic smell.
So I just stood there kind of whimpering and then I used all my strength to lift half of it off of me and I kind of crawled out from under it and went in the house. My poor son was so shocked. He walks out into the kitchen where I'm just standing there at the freezer making an ice bag to put on my head with blood streaking my clothes and my face. I drove myself to the hospital and everything was alright. I didn't even get stitches. They put this stuff called Nu-skin over the cut. Apparently it bonds and creates new skin.
Have you ever heard of Nu-skin before?
Nu-skin, yes, apparently it's sheer bullshit to satisfy the punters and stop them demanding stitches and all the other Micky mouse attributes. Obvious really isn't it, you see a little blood and go tearing to the local A & E causing queues and mayhem for the genuine casualties, your expecting X-rays, stitches, bandages, pain killers, anti-tetanus jabs and one of those 'Aren't I brave little girl ' badges to stick on your blouse.
So they have this fancy aerosol with ice water content, wipe you off spray it on and tell you it's new product. You give a big smile and go home able to tell everybody, how brilliant they are at the A & E and you have simply been pacified.
Have you heard about farmers getting trapped under tractors and being alone and slowly dying through loss of blood they put their hand in their pocket pull out a 'Swiss Army knife' cut their leg off and crawl for help?
Do you think it could be premonitions that make them take the 'Swiss Army knife' every where they go?
No, the aerosol with the ice water content is a numbing agent. I used that on myself when I finally got the courage to remove my toe nails.
Nu-skin is this kind of purplish viscous liquid in a little plastic container. You peel the top off and apply it to the cut and it binds the sides of it together - like glue. They had to shave my scalp where they applied it, and it was on the back of my head, so I couldn't have done it by myself. Anyway, it was in the US - so I went to the hospital where I had friends working and they were more than happy to help me, Mathos. The cut was from the long bolt that held the door onto the metal track and it grazed my scalp in the back from the crown all the way down my neck, almost to my shoulder blades. It was a nasty cut. It wasn't deep but it was long and any wound to your scalp bleeds copiously, so I have no guilt about going to the emergency room for it at all.
Yeah, I've heard those stories about people who have had to resort to cutting off limbs, etc. to free themselves. Stoicism - that's what that is. I don't know if I could do it. I think I might rather just fall peacefully asleep...
I love talking about medical stuff. If I wasn't so squeamish, I'd definitely have been interested in medicine as a profession.
Have you ever thought about what you might have done for your livelihood if you'd chosen something different than what you're doing?
All the time.
Have you ever been sailing?
