Thread 16 - TalkLair: "Well, I'm not exactly quaking in my stylish-yet-affordable boots, but there's definitely something unnatural going on here."

[Kucinghitam]

(Previous thread 15).

Another year over, a new one just begun...

In the TalkLair, the hearth is glowing, the walls festooned with tinsel, books by non-approved authors line the shelves, rugs are down on the floors, the tree is twinkling with fairy lights (and possibly being clambered on by cats). The denizens of the lair are a welcoming bunch though, always eager for general chit-chat on all manner of topics.

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

Some people on that thread are totally Bursar (to use a Pratchett-ism).

@Kucinghitam

Please explan that and more importantly, can we please have a new thread, pretty please, with a cherry on top!

At Discworld's Unseen University, after a number of extreme events over several books, the unfortunate Bursar rather loses his grip on reality and has to be regularly dosed with dried frog pills to keep him calm. Sometimes he even loses his grip on gravity.

Oh, and new thread (plus new username for Chatting purposes).

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/_chat/5299461-thread-17-talklair-okay-first-of-all-whats-with-the-outfit-live-in-the-now-okay-you-look-like-debarge

@artant that must have been scary! I've also had a shoulder fracture which wasn't picked up on at the time, so now I have lots of problems with it and am on the waiting list for surgery. It's a very awkward area to break as it's one of the most mobile joints in the body. I hope you've got some nice painkillers and they set you up with a good physio when it's healed.

Ouch! Shoulder break is not good. Dominant or non-dominant arm?

Although a bit of break from Mum duties (especially if it leads to being able to take more breaks in future) is a good thing.

Non dominant arm, thankfully. I got good mobility back when I fractured it before but the X-rays this time suggest the bone was quite deformed from not knowing when to stop as it mended so who knows what the result will be this time. Last time there was physio from about a week afterwards but I’m not sure how that works now given that the fracture clinic is now virtual.

Although a virtual clinic minimises the risks associated with the actual one: the waiting area was horribly overcrowded with rows of seats facing each other which were that bit too close given that half the patients had broken legs sticking out in front of them and the other half had arms in slings so they couldn’t steady themselves. I’m sure the waiting area drummed up more business for the fracture clinic.

Waiting area in the fracture clinic too small to cope with patients with actual fractures is exactly what we have in the regional hellhole hospital - I thought it was unique to them - are you telling me it's the standard?

Oufff artant! I hope you recover well.

A similar thing happened to a friend of MrPSB, but she reacted differently . She got up in the night and lost her bearings, so went to turn on the light in the space at the top of the stairs. So fell down them. She broke all sorts of bones, but being Very Old School, crawled back upstairs so when the ambulance arrived she wouldn’t be in her nightie. It was only then that she phoned the ambulance.

I’m so sorry to hear that @artant! It must have been scary and painful, and the two hours on the floor sound grim. Glad you sound in reasonable shape now and your brother’s stepping up.

Just stumbled on this excerpt from a 1933 animation of 'Snow White'. What on earth was the animator on?

x.com/NonsenseIsland/status/1903261458286195112

Dunno, but I'll have some!

Me too!

Trying to find the whole thing...

I've got this link but haven't watched it yet.

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Snap!

Ha!

I watched it; it’s brilliantly bonkers.

It’s certainly very strange!

Some of these scenes are terrifying, it’s enough to put you off trying LSD 8

That's quite a fever dream!

I tried LSD in my teens and didn't enjoy it at all. The walls breathed, I laughed uncontrollably for hours and I took all my clothes off, then someone went into the garden and pulled up a big old cabbage which they set in the middle of the room and it terrified me. Never again!

It's great. The memory of hearing certain music; it lasts a lifetime.

I think I may be alone in never having tried any stimulant beyond alcohol - just never got around to it! DH1 was a research chemist and had Words To Say about the unwisdom of it, and DH2 is a very abstemious guy by nature - not that he doesn't drink at all but 'seldom' would be appropriate. DH1 smoked, DH2 doesn't (which I like, actually - DH1 was always a smoker, though not a heavy one, and I never picked up the habit so I do like not having that cigarette smell around.)

Ha! I tried LSD once in my late teens. The colours were gorgeous, but the sensation that my lower teeth were growing upwards and curling inwards and the scary traffic noise ... well, less so! Never again. The marijuana was better in those days, though - or at least, better in 1970 than it was in about 1995.