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Childhood Memory

PeteS said:
Indeed. My mother as a preteen tripped and bashed her eye against the corner of a table. Her eye popped out of it's socket. She put it back herself. No NHS back then so no A and E, no antibiotic eye wash, X Ray or CT scan, no eye specialist and follow ups from an ocular consultant. She just got on with it as you had to back then.
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That's a total other level of resilience!
 
Floyd1 said:
That's a total other level of resilience!
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I dunno. I was out running in the summer and fell and dislocated my little finger. I just pushed it back in. I was miles from anywhere, the impact deadened any pain, so surely far better to just do it there and then rather than spend hours waiting for someone to do what you just did yourself, whilst the pain get worse and worse?

If there are medical repercussions, then is when you go to the Doctor.
 
catseye said:
I dunno. I was out running in the summer and fell and dislocated my little finger. I just pushed it back in. I was miles from anywhere, the impact deadened any pain, so surely far better to just do it there and then rather than spend hours waiting for someone to do what you just did yourself, whilst the pain get worse and worse?

If there are medical repercussions, then is when you go to the Doctor.
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Dislocated finger? Pah. When I were a lad we'd have laughed at a mere dislocated finger.
When it was on someone else.
 
SimonBurchell said:
...their attachment to us is one of convenience... They're fickle, capable of cultivating multiple owners...And if they were bigger, or we were smaller, they would definitely eat us. And they play with their prey...
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But this is just ascribing human thinking & behaviour - cynicism, opportunism, and sadism - to non-human creatures; ones which may not think like us at all.
 
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Floyd1 said:
Does anyone have a favourite Tales of the Unexpected episode?

Lots to choose from, but I'd go with 'Proxy'.

And the one with Joan Collins wearing Jodhpurs second.
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You can remember that far back?
 
Floyd1 said:
Does anyone have a favourite Tales of the Unexpected episode?

Lots to choose from, but I'd go with 'Proxy'.

And the one with Joan Collins wearing Jodhpurs second.
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Used to watch this back in the day. It still stands up, even though so many of the plots are about couples viciously punishing each other for infidelity yawn.
 
Floyd1 said:
Does anyone have a favourite Tales of the Unexpected episode?

Lots to choose from, but I'd go with 'Proxy'.

And the one with Joan Collins wearing Jodhpurs second.
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I always liked the one where an obnoxious husband dies and his brain and eyes were preserved alive in equipment by his scientist friend. The wife took the equipment home and tormented him in a "what goes round comes round" type revenge. The wife was played by a famous US actress but I can't remember her name.
 
Floyd1 said:
Dislocated finger? Pah. When I were a lad we'd have laughed at a mere dislocated finger.
When it was on someone else.
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30 years ago I tripped and fell, making the mistake of putting my arm out which caused me to dislocate my shoulder. Boy was that painful. General anaesthetic and apparently much heaving by doctors put it back in but had to be immobilised for 4 weeks.
 
PeteS said:
30 years ago I tripped and fell, making the mistake of putting my arm out which caused me to dislocate my shoulder. Boy was that painful.
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You lot are a tough bunch.

When it's icy/slippery, I do make sure that I walk with my hands out of my pockets though, for that very reason.

My mate at school used to wear very tight trousers and one day walking along in the snow, he slipped and couldn't get his hands out quickly enough.
Face down in the snow with his hands still in his pockets. Hilarious.

Of course, we did what we could, ie gathered around him in a semicircle and kicked more snow over him- just for good measure.
 
Floyd1 said:
Yes, but only a few episodes.
Around 11/12 years old I would say.
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They're all on Sky now. If you see one in the list and think 'Ooh I remember that, I'll record it for later!' you'll come back to about 999 episodes.

One I like is where a man on an ocean-going cruise liner tries to win a bet by delaying the ship so his estimate of it time reaching port will be closer or summat. It goes less than satisfactorily.

Also, where a long-suffering wife traps her husband in their mansion's lift while she goes abroad to visit family.
 
escargot said:
They're all on Sky now. If you see one in the list and think 'Ooh I remember that, I'll record it for later!' you'll come back to about 999 episodes.

One I like is where a man on an ocean-going cruise liner tries to win a bet by delaying the ship so his estimate of it time reaching port will be closer or summat. It goes less than satisfactorily.

Also, where a long-suffering wife traps her husband in their mansion's lift while she goes abroad to visit family.
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Yes, I occasionally watch them nowadays on freeview.
The second one you mention was on this week.
 
PeteS said:
I always liked the one where an obnoxious husband dies and his brain and eyes were preserved alive in equipment by his scientist friend. The wife took the equipment home and tormented him in a "what goes round comes round" type revenge. The wife was played by a famous US actress but I can't remember her name.
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Elaine Stritch. The episode was "William and Mary."

maximus otter
 
PeteS said:
I always liked the one where an obnoxious husband dies and his brain and eyes were preserved alive in equipment by his scientist friend. The wife took the equipment home and tormented him in a "what goes round comes round" type revenge. The wife was played by a famous US actress but I can't remember her name.
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There's one where the late husband, who'd always exasperated his wife by keeping her waiting, is cremated and his ashes made into an hourglass.
 
escargot said:
Ah well I'll be able to catch up with it as I believe there are already 556 episodes recorded from last time I decided to keep one.
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I haven't progressed to recordable tv devices yet.

I've only just got used to not having to double de-clutch when driving.

And as for this new-fangled power steering malarky...........................
 
Floyd1 said:
You lot are a tough bunch.

When it's icy/slippery, I do make sure that I walk with my hands out of my pockets though, for that very reason.

My mate at school used to wear very tight trousers and one day walking along in the snow, he slipped and couldn't get his hands out quickly enough.
Face down in the snow with his hands still in his pockets. Hilarious.

Of course, we did what we could, ie gathered around him in a semicircle and kicked more snow over him- just for good measure.
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Kids are bloody awful- should never have been invented imo.
 
Another present day reality that hit me was that if you don’t bring your lunch to public school today, to buy it is $3.50 or about 2.76 pounds.

When I was in public school along time ago 1/2 dollar ( 0.50 cents ) or about 0.37 pound bought a meat, two vegetables, bread, milk, and ice cream.

For me, I always looked forward to the ice cream.

Families with money problems can easily apply for free lunch.
 
Choco!are cake and mint custard for me. This would be in the early 1970s in the UK. All those E numbers...mmmmm.
 
Floyd1 said:
You lot are a tough bunch.

When it's icy/slippery, I do make sure that I walk with my hands out of my pockets though, for that very reason.

My mate at school used to wear very tight trousers and one day walking along in the snow, he slipped and couldn't get his hands out quickly enough.
Face down in the snow with his hands still in his pockets. Hilarious.

Of course, we did what we could, ie gathered around him in a semicircle and kicked more snow over him- just for good measure.
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I remember slipping on ice when I had just started school. Cracked the side of my face on the steps to the house. Mother must have taken me to local doctors who volunteered to put a couple of stitches in (they could do very minor surgery back then). He hadn't any anaesthetic though and my mother always maintained that I was less than impressed during the procedure. A doctor would probably struck off doing that today! Still have the scar (along with others I have collected over the years including where my eyelids had to be sewn back on following an RTA decades ago ).
 

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