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Reasons to be cheerful 2023

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  • BenCottoBenCotto Posts: 4,718
    After a long period of burrowing I have unearthed in the loft a 70 year old box of Christmas lights, the first birthday present my wife received when just six months old. There is no wiring but it is, hopefully, a perfect project for the Repair Shop’s 2023 Christmas Special. Fingers crossed.
    Rutland, England
  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    I sincerely hope they didn't inject your Sciatic nerve, @Obelixx, or you would have never walked again. they probably infiltrated around the nerve.
    various cocktails of drugs can be used in epidurals, which have different durations of action.
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • UffUff Posts: 3,199
    Just read a post in the Curmudge thread and one of @Fairygirl's replies was 'That wid gie ye the dry boak...' made me smile and to ask her will you teach me the language please?  :D 
    SW SCOTLAND but born in Derbyshire
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Probably so @punkdoc.  I do remember the anaesthetist showing a junior colleague how he was identifying th enerve using the scanner and then plunging in a large needle.  I looked away at that point and closed my ears.

    @Lizzie27 I used the equivalent of Immac with some trepidation having had allergic reactions to that and waxing way back in the 80s.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016
    Uff said:
    Just read a post in the Curmudge thread and one of @Fairygirl's replies was 'That wid gie ye the dry boak...' made me smile and to ask her will you teach me the language please?  :D 

    Roughly translates as "Would make you heave". :D
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    Sorry - I didn't see it  @Uff  :)

    @KT53 has given the translation though. 'Puke your load' would often be the translation here  ;)
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Posh people cast up their accounts.  
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • UffUff Posts: 3,199
    KT53 said:
    Uff said:
    Just read a post in the Curmudge thread and one of @Fairygirl's replies was 'That wid gie ye the dry boak...' made me smile and to ask her will you teach me the language please?  :D 

    Roughly translates as "Would make you heave". :D
    It's the way @Fairygirl tells it and the accent. I know most of the phrases up here now but it's the way Scots slip em in. Pure, dead brilliant. 
    SW SCOTLAND but born in Derbyshire
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    You forgot to add 'by the way' after those last 3 words... ;)
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • steephillsteephill Posts: 2,841
    A dry boak is a bit more than just throwing up. It is that stage where there is nothing left but your gut won't accept that yet and keeps going. The implication is that whatever is upsetting you is worse than mere vomit inducing.
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