Thread 14 - TalkLair: “What The Hell Are We Supposed To Use, Man? Harsh Language?”

[Kucinghitam]

(Previous thread 13).

Summer should be well under way, but the chilly wind, grey clouds and pouring rain beg to differ. Looks like 2024 continues to be a washout - on the bright side, the Tories got washed out too! In the TalkLair, we remain hunkered down keeping cosy and warm. The hearth is glowing, the walls covered in dubious artwork, books by non-approved authors line the shelves, rugs are down on the floors (and assorted pets curled up on them).

We just won’t mention the gnawed bones of our prey over there in the corner of the cave…

Hey Vasquez - have you ever been mistaken for a man?

No. Have you?

That's one of my favourite lines.

It's definitely one of mine!

One of my favourite lines ever is 'Humour me specifics' from 'The Game'. I have been able to use it twice in real life, to my great satisfaction.

Promethius was just silly. Rubbish science, ridiculous behaviour. And no Ripley.

@Vegemiteandhoneyontoast yes! And I love the part in Alien 1 where she tries, and fails, to un-detonate the ship, then runs around screaming ‘YOU BITCH!!!’ at Mother.

@SinnerBoy another favourite!

Alien and Aliens were (IMO) the only ones worth bothering with. Bloody marvellous stuff. Alien 3 was borderline acceptable.

DH and I saw Alien 4 on one of our early dates - the utter unmitigated crapness of the film amazingly did not kill our nascent relationship, but we agreed to never ever watch any future Aliens films.

Then Prometheus came out, DH decided to give the franchise another chance and rented the DVD. The whole thing made zero sense, everybody was an idiot and we renewed our vow to stay away from Aliens forever.

Speaking of rubbish science, in Alien 3 the Fiorina 161 Chief Medical Officer refers to cholera as a virus.

C'est moi! Sorry for the new user name but I wanted to call Snoop and let her know I'd made it through the night. I love this quote hence it is my new mumsnet nickname bestowed by Elli who I think let you know what was going on. Today these buggers had me walking, aided by them because I'm not superwoman. I woke up yesterday amazed to be awake and alive. The op was good, smaller because new oesophagus, because new oesophagus I currently have no cancer. I'm not out of the woods yet but I've convinced myself that I have the will to live. Thanks for all prayers. If they come with love and or care they matter. There were more prayers on Tuesday night than I could have imagined.

There won't be loads of these but I wanted to let you know how I'm doing. It's a little tiring but you're worth it. Take care, speak soon. Gordon. X

Hurrah for new oesophagus and no cancer! And walking! That's marvellous news.

That's wonderful news! I'm so happy to read it.

Hurrah for you Mouse and thanks for the update. I hope you're home soon and dashing about.

Lovely to hear from you Mouse, take care.

Yay, wonderful to hear from you @MouseMinge! Excellent news all round, and here's to a swift recovery

A new oesophagus and no cancer, that's amazing! I hope you heal well and are home soon, @MouseMinge

I'm now trying to work out what the new username was before MN switched it back to the old one. Quotation + Gordon suggests greed is good - it will certainly be useful once the new system has settled itself down and the building up process gets under way.

I was confused about that too.

Me three but it's great to hear from you Mouse and to hear such good news.

Thank you all. My user name wasn't rude at all, it was: GordonsAlive. Because I love that. I I may have been on morphine when I spoke to you yesterday, hence some missing. Definitely and for a while - or for ever @ I truly hope. I'm sorry I'm in all bold I can't get normal back. Not important - I am cancer free and that is because the small thing is a part of my stomach they made my new oesophagus with! I'll be walking three times today. Oh my gosh it's normal again! No idea why that happened. I will continue to slip into my odd but so far not horrible dreamy states. I'm getting a notebook. Should be good. There's a book about Ricky Gervais to my left but the photo on the book looks more like harry hill's. There was a bloke to the right who was laughing like Ricky Gervais but he's buggered off. Enough! It would make you insane to continue reading this stuff and make me insane to write. I'm not constantly on the morphine or fentanyl - another victim of the Sacklar family, however they spell it! - so I will type when I'm more comos mentos - almost definitely wrong spelled wrong! Gordon. I do love Mouse I just hate minge and have no idea why it started in the first place! x

Be as bold as you like! 😃Great news, Mouse!

The bold may have been accidental, but the news merited it. I was really hoping they'd be able to do the removal/reconstruction op at the same time as the perforation repair but thought with it being an emergency they might well not have had the plans or materials available. (Which makes it sound like a building job, but you know what I mean.)

Ah, I was confused about the username thing too but thought I'd missed something! You sound so happy @MouseMinge

Here is Mochimochimochi having a tummy rub.

oh Mochi! She knew what she was doing when she picked her new staff.

I did explain to Oscar that Francis' person needed cat-prayers - he is such a wise and kind beast that I'm sure he added to the benevolent vibes.

Dear Rosy is still a bit young and excitable for deep thoughts - she nearly burst through an upstairs window yesterday when a very very silly bird almost made its way into the room - it thought better of it just in time and all she got was half a dozen feathers.

Wonderful news @MouseMinge

@Kucinghitam she looks so soft and squishy and fluffy! I love her

Kasper is obsessed with my pillow at the moment and engaging in serial pillow thievery. I can't even sit up in bed or get up to go to the loo without him stealing it.