Number 54 in a never ending series. =)
Take a corn on the cob skewer...
(http://www.pubshop.co.uk/catalog/images/90005_6CornOnTheCobSkewers1.jpg?osCsid=4p11u2b0corvend37l8avpct55)
and a pack of fresh microwaveable vegetables.
Stab the pack quickly, vigorously, and carelessly......keeping your thumb well within range of the skewer.
Et voila.....Blood on the work surface of the kitchen....and a sore thumb ! (P*llock.) X_X
Cheers - A Twerp.
Finish the Mexicans first!
Why isn't your thumb now completely made of scar tissue?
Good grief, and you make your living doing things with with fine manual dexterity?!
I hope your digits are insured like Kylie's bum!
Quote from: fsn on 12 February 2016, 09:19:12 AM
Why isn't your thumb now completely made of scar tissue?
I regenerate quickly ! ;)
Cheers - Phil
I always thought the trick was to learn from previous mistakes and close encounters with sharp objects?
QuoteI always thought the trick was to learn from previous mistakes and close encounters with sharp objects?
That holds true as a GENERAL principle, but Techno seems to start from scratch (or deep puncture wound) with each new variant of sharp and/or pointy.
Techno, spelt W.A.L.L.Y....
Hope your okay mate. :-*
I'm glad the Health and Safety at Work Act doesn't apply to you as you would be barred from using any sharp insturments given the number of accidents you have :D. Time for a career change to keep you safe? ;)
:o :o :o :o :o :o :o
Don't suggest that! There's so much yet undone - chariot armies, Byzantines, LOA Grenadiers eating cabbage, Korean War infantry, LOA Dragoons being impressed by card tricks, modern infantry, Han Chinese, Sung Chinese, Tang Chinese, LOA Gunners with a slight uncomfortable feeling, Napoleonic Spanish, LOA Generals with a premonition that that nun possibly wasn't as pure as he thought, super heroes, gangsters, LOA casualties requiring only a plaster and an injunction to "be a brave lad", Boxer rebellion Chinese, LOA Engineers reading Machiavelli, LOA blacksmiths forging a chastity belt, LOA infantry bickering about whose turn it is to collect firewood, absolute modern infantry, Napoleonic Prussians and of course, LOA Laser Gunners wishing they'd never stepped into that blue box.
And that's just on my list.
Quote from: Techno on 12 February 2016, 09:38:28 AM
I regenerate quickly ! ;)
Cheers - Phil
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Quote from: Techno on 12 February 2016, 07:30:22 AM
Number 54 in a never ending series. =)
Take a corn on the cob skewer...
(http://www.pubshop.co.uk/catalog/images/90005_6CornOnTheCobSkewers1.jpg?osCsid=4p11u2b0corvend37l8avpct55)
and a pack of fresh microwaveable vegetables.
Stab the pack quickly, vigorously, and carelessly......keeping your thumb well within range of the skewer.
Et voila.....Blood on the work surface of the kitchen....and a sore thumb ! (P*llock.) X_X
Cheers - A Twerp.
From this we can deduce the following
1 Don't eat vegetables
2 Don't use microwaves
3 Keep all children (ie those with a mental age of less than 16 and 90% of the forum) away from sharp objects
And don't re-enact scenes from Aliens if you're Techno.
All I can say is "What a pity, never mind"
IanS....
PS - least I only stab myself with sharp knives.
:P
Quote from: mad lemmey on 12 February 2016, 09:54:47 AM
Techno, spelt W.A.L.L.Y.... Hope your okay mate. :-*
Fine, Will....It stopped bleeding last night.
One thing that makes me cross..... Is when I manage to cut myself during the day.....The damn cut just oozes for ages, and the corks get all slippery when I'm trying to hold them, while I'm working on a figure ! ;D ;D ;D ;D
Quote from: ianrs54 on 12 February 2016, 11:35:14 AM
PS - least I only stab myself with sharp knives.
Amateur ! ;)
Cheers - Phil
Bugger - I need to get wound closure signed off as a Paramedic skill..... so selfish doing it all that way away!!
For oozihng cuts from a scalpel aply superglue. Stings like B*ggery but seals the wound.
I punched a hole in my leg about 3/4 inch across and 1/2 inch deep ( i could see all the way inside - fascinating) and the Nurse (quite nice totty) use superglue to seal it together
The other option is to use a piece of electricians tape . it hold s the wound together better than a plaster.
Send me a form to fill in, Nosher......I'll say it was you that did my 'repair' ;)
....And yes, Mark.....I do use superglue from time to time.
Cheers - Phil
As for bishop knife trick that i as old as the hills.
The corparal in my Fathers section during ww2 used to do the same as Bishop but with one of the points of a pair of compasses - not as party trick but as a punishment for minor misdemeanours. The difference was you knew he was going to stab you with it at some point ( no pun intended). If you dared to move your hand he would do it twice
Quote from: Just a few Orcs on 12 February 2016, 02:11:13 PM
As for bishop knife trick that i as old as the hills.
The corparal in my Fathers section during ww2 used to do the same as Bishop but with one of the points of a pair of compasses - not as party trick but as a punishment for minor misdemeanours. The difference was you knew he was going to stab you with it at some point ( no pun intended). If you dared to move your hand he would do it twice
What SS Division did your father serve in, Orcs?
;) :P
btw: First glance at the title and I saw, "How to draw blood from a git." :P
Quote from: Westmarcher on 13 February 2016, 11:59:52 AM
First glance at the title and I saw, "How to draw blood from a git."
Sadly, I can quite understand why.
Cheers - Phil
Wuz tinkin youd missed "Old " off...
IanS
Old !.....ME !
(Oh, yes.....I forgot, again.)
Cheers - Phil
You're not that old, but you remember when they first planned the pyramids, when they dug up your back garden for Stonehenge, when the last mammoth died, and when the Arc of the Covenant went missing!
The wise words of Techno.
"What about 'there shall be no scale but 10mm'?" - Palestine, 6th Century BC.
"Have you thought about going on tour with that act?" - Palestine, 30AD
"I don't like it here, Leif. Let's go home." - Vinland, 1000
"You know MacBeth, they only write plays about people who do something." - Scotland, 1040
"Thomas! Archbish! Some knights here to see you." - Canterbury, 1070
"Hey Marco, what kept you? Fancy some wonton?" - China, 1291
"No, no, King James. Cannons are perfectly safe." - Roxborough, 1460
"Well, I don't what what Mike offered, but I think you can't beat artex on the ceiling your Popeness." - Rome, 1508
"What's this lump under my arm?" - London, 1665
"Oooh! Pudding! Turn the heat up!" - London, 1666
"I've got blood on my knitting now." - Paris, 1789
"Coo-ee! Mr Coleridge! I'm on a walking holiday from Porlock, and thought I'd pop in." - Ash Farm, 1797
"No Horatio, go with the bling." - Off Cap Trafalgar, 1805
"Ohhh! Fireworks!" - Washington, 1814
"One more time, Palmerston. Schleswig-Holstein is the southern part of Denmark." - London, 1848
"I wonder what that big white thing is. Probably nothing important." - Mid-Atlantic, 1912
"That moustache is adorable!" - Nuremberg, 1933
"These airships are marvels. Let me just examine this hydrogen balloon with this magnifying glass." New Jersey, 1937
"Rosa! Rosa! Come and sit by me!" Montgomery, Alabama, 1955
"Sorry, was I in the shot?" - "The Moon", 1969
"Do you have planning permission for that wall? If not it'll have to come down." - Berlin, 1989
You OIK !!
You forgot one of my favourites, Nobby....
"You told me to make them that size !"......China - 210 BC
Cheers - Phil
;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
;D ;D ;D ;D
You missed out a few others as well, Nobby .....
"Well? Did you grab him? The taxi's waiting." Rome, 44BC
"Can I have a go of that bow and arrow?" Hastings, 1066.
"Whatever you do, don't let the horse run away." Bosworth, 1485.
"Lets creep up behind that sentry and surprise him." Chancellorsville, 1863
"This looks like a nice place to stay." Bates Motel, 1960.
"Watch what you're doing with that drill, Phil." Bloody Sunday, 2007.
"Watch what you're doing with that drill, Phil." Bloody Sunday, 2009.
"Watch what you're doing with that drill, Phil." Bloody Sunday, 2014.
Phil, our very own Flashman!
Oh, history if full of Techno's little saying.
"Another portion of lampreys, your majesty?" Court of Henry I, 1135
"Well I think tea drinking is going to interfere with your new business Mr Starbuck." Boston, 1773
"It's fine, Captain Cook, these chaps are very friendly." Hawaii, 1779
"Dodo leg anyone? There's plenty." Mauritius, 1662
"No, it's definitely a cruiser - HMS Lusitania." Western Approaches, 1915
"It's a lovely statue of Venus, but there's a spot here on the arm - let me get it for you." Milo, 130BC
"No, we're miles away from Poland." - Recce troops of the 7th Panzer, Poland, 1939
"There's a short cut to the beer tent this way, Miss Davidson." - Epson, 1913
"No, Nolan, definitely that valley", Crimea, 1854
Quote from: mad lemmey on 14 February 2016, 11:15:41 AM
Phil, our very own Flashman!
That's a lie...I was let off with a caution.
Quote from: Westmarcher on 14 February 2016, 10:14:35 AM
You missed out a few others as well, Nobby .....
"Well? Did you grab him? The taxi's waiting." Rome, 44BC
"Can I have a go of that bow and arrow?" Hastings, 1066.
"Whatever you do, don't let the horse run away." Bosworth, 1485.
"Lets creep up behind that sentry and surprise him." Chancellorsville, 1863
"This looks like a nice place to stay." Bates Motel, 1960.
"Watch what you're doing with that drill, Phil." Bloody Sunday, 2007.
"Watch what you're doing with that drill, Phil." Bloody Sunday, 2009.
"Watch what you're doing with that drill, Phil." Bloody Sunday, 2014.
Someone else I
knew I could rely on for abuse ! =)
But you've
all forgotten the
very first quote.
"Strike a light !!......That was bloody loud !"......
("Oooooh....that looks pretty !")
(Approximately 15 billion years ago......give or take.)
Cheers - Phil
;D ;D ;D ;D to all of them!
Quote from: Westmarcher on 13 February 2016, 11:59:52 AM
What SS Division did your father serve in, Orcs?
;) :P
Because of his beliefs he joined the Non Combatant Corps and volunteered for Bomb Disposal. They got treated really badly. He spent 10 months under canvas (through the winter with 3 blankets.) They were not allowed to get any medals of official recognition. This particular Lance Corporal was a eventually sectioned after he hit a live bomb with a crow bar with the words " this piece of Sh*t wont hurt you" They all dived in a slit trance and waited for half an hour in case he had started th clock ticking again.
One night a Heinkel crashed on an important railway juction with a fulll bomb load. He and the rest of his section were ordered into the carsh site and what was left of the plane to remove the 250lB bombs so they wouold not go off. The Bombs were so hot they had to wear asbestos gloves. 20mm rounds were cooking off al round round them - They never even got an official thank you.
When digging down to a bomb the cooks sent their sandwich lunch (normally Sardines) in Carbolic Soap boxes so when they got to eat them that stank and tasted of soap. To his dying day if you opened a tin of fish all he could smell was carbolic soap.
When I was a kid and we watched war movies, whenever the troops were singing he wouild say - "Thats not th words knew, it was far ruder than that." if Mum was out of earshot i could normally get him to sing the "real version".
Superb
Stirring stuff, Orcs (obviously my comment was a dig at the sadistic corporal). Also makes you mad at the way the likes of your Dad and other like thinking men who put themselves in harm's way, were treated by others (who do these cooks think they were? Steven Seagal?) who probably never even saw any of the enemy the whole war (used to work beside an old guy who served in transport and said he never saw a German the whole time he was in Europe). Really astonished that your Dad got no recognition for his bravery. You should tell his story to more people. Don't know if this will work but this association might be a good place to start(?)
http://www.royalengineersbombdisposal-eod.org.uk/medals.html (http://www.royalengineersbombdisposal-eod.org.uk/medals.html)
My Dad was lucky. He was in a 'reserved occupation,' making landing craft and so served in Dad's Army. He said there were lots of guys in his unit in their twenties - so much for a bunch of Grandads as portrayed on TV. He lost two of his brothers in 1943 and wanted to join up but was talked out of it by his relatives. First brother was a sergeant in mine disposal. There was a difficult device and he decided he couldn't order any of the guys to tackle it. He was killed in January. The second brother died in December. He was evacuated from Italy suffering from Black Water Fever.
My father-in-law had a great war as an aircraft fitter in Canada in a pilot training squadron. No rationing but nevertheless used as 'ballast' for flights and on some occasions, recovering the bodies of the poor guys whose planes had crashed. His brother's story is probably the most amazing/harrowing, however.
For years, my wife had talked about her uncle (his brother) who died a P.O.W. of the Japs. He had been in the naval reserve and before the outbreak of war his unit 'won a prize' to experience service aboard some cruiser or battleship. War was declared when they were aboard so they never got home and the ship was posted to the Far East. We have letters to his brother saying how guilty he felt about being so far away from the action and having an easy time of it while Britain the folks back home were in peril and undergoing the Blitz. Then Japan entered the war and he was captured in Hong Kong. Later, he and his fellow prisoners were being transported by ship when it was torpedoed by an American submarine (of course, it wouldn't have known there were Allied P.O.W.s aboard). The name of the ship was the SS Lisbon Maru. One day, my family and I were in the Army Museum in London. My wife and kids had had enough (I was too slow - clocking just about every exhibit there was) so I had to admit defeat. So we headed for the exit along this long corridor with the odd portrait and glass cabinet. I stopped to tie my shoelace and as I got up, I spotted a charcoal drawing of a sinking ship in this old glass cabinet - it was the Lisbon Maru(!) and had been drawn by one of the survivors.
The story as I recall was that when the ship was hit and started to sink, the crew and most (all?) of the guards abandoned the ship leaving the P.O.W.s locked up in the holds. The P.O.W.s communicated between each hold by tapping on the hull in morse code and worked out a plan of escape. We understand there were 3 signallers. My wife's uncle was a signaller so must have been involved. They managed to get out and started to jump overboard and swim for the shore. Many of them were machine gunned by the remaining guards who had started to row back to the ship when they realised it had stopped sinking. Many died in this way, others were recaptured but others managed to swim ashore where many were hidden by the locals whilst the Japanese hunted them. We don't know how he died.
Many years later when working in Glasgow, a workmate (who originally came from Bradford) came out with this astonishing comment one day about the father he would have had if he hadn't died on a Jap ship that had been torpedoed by a US submarine! Yes. It was the same ship!
As a further postscript, here is a link I have just found (after typing all of the above! D'oh! Sod it! I'll leave it uncorrected!. Please excuse any inaccuracies in my recollection of events).
http://www.lisbonmaru.com (http://www.lisbonmaru.com)
Quote from: Just a few Orcs on 15 February 2016, 09:24:20 AM
They all dived in a slit trance
Bloody autocorrect again, Orcs! :D
My two granddads were 'lucky':
One was on the Arctic convoys as Sub-Leuient in HMS Duke of York, saw service at North Cape and was happy to talk about his time as a gunnery officer in the spotting tops (so cold tea froze, had a shell from Scharnhorst pass UNDER him)!
The other was a flight Sgt in a hurricane squadron until early 41 when he refused to fly solo again. Never explained why. He then went on to Tiger Moths as a trainer, then spent 43 onwards sitting in an airstrip in Iceland, refuelling bostons and liberators before telling them how to find the Faeroe Isles!
His sister was allegedly with the SOE, but refused to talk. Rumours include she was Philby and Macclanes' stationary Clark and Edward VIII 'guard' in Bemuda, with orders...
Step-father ones' dad was a GI, bit of a family scandal.
Step-father twos' dad was a captain on destroyers in Scarpa, had no good words for Mountbaton after he ignored the locals who told him where a minefield was and sunk half his own flotilla! That one was hushed up!!!
My next door neighbour for many years had been on minesweepers, he has refused to join the guards as he wanted to be in the navy (and stil had his white feather), lost the end of a finger in a breach, the day before his ship sailed, he was the only survivor. He was then on the clear up after the failed American practice landing in Dorset, said a local guide was on their boat and was found to be looting the bodies they recovered. He simply shook his head when he told that tale and said 'Poor bugger drowned before we got him back to port for trial!'
He was at D-Day mubesweeping too. Lovely guy, his with was from Singapore, got out on the last evacuation ship, straight into blitzed out London! She mixed a wicked G&T (T optional)
My great uncle died in similar fashion, though in his case the Japanese ship transporting him and many others to Japan to work as forced labour was attacked by US planes and lost with all hands.
In the 1970's my uncle got a job in Japan and he and my aunt and their two younger children lived out there for four years. I had a conversation with my grandmother while they were out there and she clearly felt they were fraternising with the enemy!
My Granddad was in WW1 and was "lucky" enough to survive although minus part of one buttock thanks to shrapnel. My Father suffered from ill health so ended up in the Home Guard in WW2
My paternal grandfather's hearing was damaged by a near miss by a large calibre shell. The shell-burst buried him up to his shoulders in mud. As he said himself, it wouldn't have been so bad if he hadn't been upside down at the time!
My maternal grandfather was too young to fight in WW I and was on the reserved occupation list so never fought. However, he did tell me once of how he cycled miles through the Essex countryside during WW I to see the remains of a Zeppelin that had been shot down over London. His younger brother was captured by the Japanese and worked on the Burma railway.
One of Ma Subs' uncles -despite hailing from Birmingham- was posted to the Essex Regt in India during the war. He always told me that he had spent his time behind the lines. It wasn't till after he died that we found out he was really one of Wingate's Chindits!
Yes tha Japanese were terrible. Particuarly not marking POW transport ships still don't admit to most of what they did.
Worked with a bloke who was a Japanese POW. He refused to buy anything Japanese. If he could not get a non Japanese item he did without it.
And back to the subject.
A No. 15 blade into the index finger of the left hand trying to pry a figure from its base.
Remember children...Make all cuts away from yourself. X_X
(Which was nothing compared to what nearly happened yesterday, when I tripped on the Dremmel's flex, while holding a scalpel..(twerp !)...Could have been an embarrassing chat with the boys in blue...
"So, Mr Lewis.....Explain again, how you stabbed your wife in the back with a sharp instrument, while she was sitting at the computer"......It was close. #:-S
Cheers - An Idiot.
How did you ever get to be old?
:-\
;)
The best thing about corn on the cob skewers is that when combined with a cork they make excellent painting handles for the larger scale figure
Although god knows how much blood Mr T will lose in assembling them . . . :-\
Quote from: fred. on 24 February 2016, 05:01:12 PM
How did you ever get to be old?
:-\ ;)
Luck.....Pure & simple.
Cheers - Phil
Ouch Phil!
Quote from: fred. on 24 February 2016, 05:01:12 PM
How did you ever get to be old?
:-\
;)
Quote from: Techno on 24 February 2016, 06:30:37 PM
Luck.....Pure & simple.
Cheers - Phil
And the forbearance of Mrs T ;)
Quote from: Techno on 24 February 2016, 04:15:25 PM
(Which was nothing compared to what nearly happened yesterday, when I tripped on the Dremmel's flex, while holding a scalpel..(twerp !)...Could have been an embarrassing chat with the boys in blue...
"So, Mr Lewis.....Explain again, how you stabbed your wife in the back with a sharp instrument, while she was sitting at the computer"......It was close. #:-S
Cheers - An Idiot.
I knew a chap in school who was somewhat 'accident' prone. One time, he was involved in a motor bike accident. He was 'bombing' along (probably about 30 mph) when he reached an unmarked crossroads. Being him, he did not slow down. A car appeared from the side just as he was about to cross the crossroads. He hit the wing of the car, flew over the bonnet and landed on the road on the other side of the car, leaving the bike behind ...... and his shoes. Apart from a few bruises, he was O.K.
His surname was Lewis.
Is this genetic?
;D ;D ;D ;D
Cheers - Phil
Bout time you retired Phil....
IanS
Quote from: Just a few Orcs on 15 February 2016, 09:24:20 AM
slit trance
Slit trance! :-\
Definition: that moment shortly after you've cut yourself where you know you should be applying pressure, but can't resist taking a peek to see just how bad it is. Second and further peeks may follow if the trance (and/or cut) is particularly deep :-B
Best one of those I ever did, was with a pointy No. 21 (?) Swann Morton blade, when I poked it through a slab of Fimo.
Cut on the end of the usual finger (index, left hand) looked quite small...but it had obviously gone in a fair way.
Squeezed it...to make sure there wasn't any crud in there....And it was like a water pistol.
I remember calling to Mrs T to show her my new trick....Squirting blood into the wash basin from a few inches away.
I was impressed.
Cheers - Phil
Quote from: Techno on 26 February 2016, 11:28:03 AM
Best one of those I ever did, was with a pointy No. 21 (?) Swann Morton blade, when I poked it through a slab of Fimo.
Cut on the end of the usual finger (index, left hand) looked quite small...but it had obviously gone in a fair way.
Squeezed it...to make sure there wasn't any crud in there....And it was like a water pistol.
I remember calling to Mrs T to show her my new trick....Squirting blood into the wash basin from a few inches away.
I was impressed.
Cheers - Phil
I see a new circus act in there somewhere: "Roll up, roll up. Come see the Amazing Techno and his Ejaculatory Digits..." :O)
It's like Techno is an anti-vampire. Not wanting to drink it in, but gush it out.
"Count seeks person with ejaculatory digits for friendship and evening meals."
Macbeth, Act 5, Scene 1
Lady Macbeth: "Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him."
:) :) :)
I'm (apparently) very mean with my blood. (I was told this ! ;D)
First time I ever gave blood, it took me three times as long to give a pint, as those around me.
(i.e. folk were starting after me, and finishing well before me, to the extent that I was effectively being 'lapped')
The nurse gave me some plastic thing to squeeze on, to see if that would increase the speed of the flow....It didn't.
In the end they gave up, and said that even though I hadn't given a whole pint.....That would have to do. (I was causing a backlog of donors.)
I only went back once more.....It was too embarrassing, :-[
Cheers - Phil
Quote from: Techno on 26 February 2016, 02:27:25 PM
I'm (apparently) very mean with my blood. (I was told this ! ;D)
First time I ever gave blood, it took me three times as long to give a pint, as those around me.
(i.e. folk were starting after me, and finishing well before me, to the extent that I was effectively being 'lapped')
The nurse gave me some plastic thing to squeeze on, to see if that would increase the speed of the flow....It didn't.
In the end they gave up, and said that even though I hadn't given a whole pint.....That would have to do. (I was causing a backlog of donors.)
I only went back once more.....It was too embarrassing, :-[
Cheers - Phil
You see that's the problem with squirting it around so liberally: when you get to a situation where it matters, you just can't get it out...
I'm also mean with my blood! Never tried to donate, but my veins jump out of the way whenever the needle goes in for blood tests, collapse almost instantly and then flow is redirected from my extremities! I've fainted at least twice and the tourniquet never gets left on if they need three vials! Must be a Welsh thing ;-)
Cheers!
Meirion
Quote from: Techno on 26 February 2016, 02:27:25 PM
I'm (apparently) very mean with my blood. (I was told this ! ;D)
First time I ever gave blood, it took me three times as long to give a pint, as those around me.
(i.e. folk were starting after me, and finishing well before me, to the extent that I was effectively being 'lapped')
The nurse gave me some plastic thing to squeeze on, to see if that would increase the speed of the flow....It didn't.
In the end they gave up, and said that even though I hadn't given a whole pint.....That would have to do. (I was causing a backlog of donors.)
I only went back once more.....It was too embarrassing, :-[
Cheers - Phil
They should have just given you a Dremel and craft knife!
Followed by superglue and green stuff for repairing the damage...
I had a sculpting mishap today; plugged in my curing lamp and the bulb blew. As did all the fuses in the room, four people's computers lost power and everyone had to take an early lunch :-S
I'm hiding out at home now, but have to go back in to see if its fixed.
Ooooer ! :o :o :o
Very occasionally, at Techno Towers, if a bulb 'blows' .......it 'flicks' the trip switch and 'stops' everything else on that circuit.....But that sort of thing has never blown a load of other fuses.
Cheers - Phil
Quote from: clibinarium on 26 February 2016, 03:04:40 PM
I had a sculpting mishap today; plugged in my curing lamp and the bulb blew. As did all the fuses in the room, four people's computers lost power and everyone had to take an early lunch :-S
I'm hiding out at home now, but have to go back in to see if its fixed.
Whoops!! X_X
Quote from: Techno on 26 February 2016, 02:27:25 PM
The nurse gave me some plastic thing to squeeze on, to see if that would increase the speed of the flow....It didn't.
Would it have helped if you had inflated it first?
Gosh! That stopped everyone in their tracks. Oh, well ....
You'd have all been proud of me yesterday.
I rode one of Mrs T's gee-gees up and down, in the barn, last night...So Mrs T could see if he still had a problem on a back leg.
AND I DIDN'T FALL OFF !!....(Even though I had a great deal of trouble getting one of my wellies out of a stirrup.)
Cheers - 'The Duke' ;)
Nice to know Celtic horse-mastery is still alive and ... erm ... not kicking?
Fascinated by the horses going up and down. What height can they obtain? :P
Quote from: fsn on 04 March 2016, 07:56:58 AM
Nice to know Celtic horse-mastery is still alive and ... erm ... not kicking?
Fascinated by the horses going up and down. What height can they obtain? :P
Sadly we shall never know, since it was in a barn, it could only go as high as the ceiling. =P~
Quote from: fsn on 04 March 2016, 07:56:58 AM
What height can they obtain? :P
20 hands ! :P
Quote from: petercooman on 04 March 2016, 08:02:35 AM
Sadly we shall never know, since it was in a barn, it could only go as high as the ceiling. =P~
'Bout 18 feet, then. :P
Cheers - Phil
Quote from: Techno on 04 March 2016, 08:26:34 AM
20 hands ! :P
'Bout 18 feet, then. :P
Cheers - Phil
So the question is, does the horse care if you are on its back? Or does it jump the full 18 feet? :-\
I'm so light, I don't think the horse even notices when I sit on his back.
Cheers - Phil
So does it jump only once, or do you bump your head repeatedly?
Quotehe was involved in a motor bike accident. He was 'bombing' along (probably about 30 mph) when he reached an unmarked crossroads. Being him, he did not slow down. A car appeared from the side just as he was about to cross the crossroads. He hit the wing of the car, flew over the bonnet and landed on the road on the other side of the car, leaving the bike behind ...... and his shoes. Apart from a few bruises, he was O.K.
Similar thing happened to a police motor cyclist I knew a few years ago, he was driving down the road when someone pulled out in front of him. Brian hit the side of the car, went over the top and landed in the road.
When the driver rushed up Brian opened his visor, looked up and said, "Call and ambulance.... and you're f*****g knicked!"
About ten years ago when I gave blood I finished in 5 minutes and was told that I was a quick bleeder, at the time I wasn't sure whether or not I'd been insulted but the next statement made me stop and think. It was suggested that I get my blood pressure checked...I've been on tablets ever since! Still can give blood though which is really weird because I can't even watch needles on the TV let alone sticking in me, I always have to look away.
Saw a video Fbook the other day with a motorcyclist going straight in the back of a moving car. He flipped over the handlebars, did a quick somersault and ended up sitting on the roof of the car which was still moving!
I've called the RSPCA - cruelty to riders....
IanS
I've found a new way to draw blood from a digit, today. =)
Carefully remove a (rat) snap trap from one of the chicken runs.
Investigate why it hasn't gone off properly.
Swear loudly when it does go off, and bites the base of your thumbnail.
Drill carefully through the nail with a 0.5mm bit, three times, now.
Mop up released blood.
Cheers - Phil.
Attach transfusion drip to arm ????
IanS
I've said it before and I'll say it again ...
Hope you're OK. :(
I saw this and thought of you ...
Watched that, there and ........ nooooooooooo! X_X X_X X_X X_X
p.s. liked the Reg Prescott though (what's not to like with Kenny's brand of humour).
Ow!
Get well soon bud!
;D ;D ;D
It stopped hurting once I'd drilled through the nail and released the red stuff ! =)
Cheers - Phil X_X
The embarrassing thing is that you know exactly what to do :-[ ;D ;D
It's not the first time I've used this method, Paul. :-[
(It did show how blunt the 0.7mm drill bit, I tried to use first, was though.......And being right handed, I do find it quite it quite difficult to use a pin vise left handed !)
Cheers - Phil
Sooo ... you have repeatedly drilled small holes in yourself. :-\
Are you trying to turn yourself into a musical instrument? When you sneeze, is it in C major?
Quote from: fsn on 10 April 2016, 08:02:09 AM
When you sneeze, is it in C major?
In Techo's case it's not so much C major as see me, see blood :)