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Broad beans and new potatoes - 10 / 10 club - all welcome

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FrannyandZooey · 08/05/2007 08:22

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FrannyandZooey · 08/05/2007 22:03

Pain?

describe pain pls

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ash6605 · 08/05/2007 22:05

for your friend??? lol.i'll come back in a tick,just watching the news thing on poor maddie

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FrannyandZooey · 08/05/2007 22:07

yes my friend doesn't like pain at all

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littlelapain · 08/05/2007 22:09

i've had it, frank. it wasn't painful going in. but it was a bit crampy on the tum, imo. six seshs all but cured my IBS.

TooTicky · 08/05/2007 22:10

Last year I made a yummy dip/spread with broad beans and garlic and things - it had a foreign name but I can't remember what it was. Can't remember how to make it either

Personally, I would hate to have my colon irrigated. Horribly unnatural.

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FrannyandZooey · 08/05/2007 22:10

Ooooh

my friend can't afford it anyway

what does your friend think, Tatties?

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littlelapain · 08/05/2007 22:13

oooh, it was lovely. and all sorts of mad things came out. Stones!

suzycreamcheese · 08/05/2007 22:24

beanz meanz broad!
.... will try them, some nice sounding ideas ladeez.....
& i'll swap your broad bean risotto recipe fora tomato and salmon one, go on...its good....

lol ha ha,... but cant remember at what now...colonic am intriqued but not sold on the idea....but the wind description was interesting...
..
what about someone...anyone please.. ideas vid dvd type help things for flab stomach overhang affair...what to do????...

suzycreamcheese · 08/05/2007 22:26

littlelapin..you makeit sound like getting coins and fluff and old biscuit from cushions of sofa..

DavidHasselhoff · 08/05/2007 22:28

sorry, suze, am Aitch. was posting as littlelapain... am now the hoff, obv.

aviatrix · 08/05/2007 22:28

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DavidHasselhoff · 08/05/2007 22:28

but yes, it was not unlike that.

ash6605 · 08/05/2007 22:30

agree with LL-the tube that they insert is no wider or longer than an index finger,so if you've had a pessary or enema compare it with that.you do feel the water going in and it's very uncomfortable.you can actually feel it going aroud your colon.it's more of a pressure than a pain,as the water is pumped in to you it builds up and you feel as if you are going to explode,then you get a massive relief as the water is released from inside you.twas very strange,try it though or you'll always wonder!!

suzycreamcheese · 08/05/2007 22:33

ha ha ha go knightrider!

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FrannyandZooey · 08/05/2007 22:59

I want stones to come out of my bottom

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TooTicky · 08/05/2007 23:00

But to be sure, you'd have to insert some first. And that would be hellish.

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FrannyandZooey · 08/05/2007 23:01

hmmm

Aitch did you put them there yourself? Or did the stone fairies bring them?

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KeithRichards · 08/05/2007 23:01

oh, out of your bottom, franny?

AitchTwoOh · 08/05/2007 23:04

nope, it was interesting. they use a bit of glass tubing attached to the rubber tube so the therapist person can get a look at the keech as it whizzes by. every so often you'd hear a rattle as wee stones would hit the glass. i saw them once. black, small and smooth, the size of gravel and all held together with tendrilly stuff... i've never worn my jet necklace since.

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FrannyandZooey · 08/05/2007 23:08

oh fkn hell it has taken me nearly 7 minutes to get the Keith Richards joke

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ash6605 · 08/05/2007 23:08

PMSL here's me thinking you meant gallstones?!!

she also told me to watch for parasites(worms)as they are evident in 1/4 people who have it done,i was shitting myself in case i had them

TooTicky · 08/05/2007 23:10

Actually, worms are beneficial. You get them if you need them and what they consume is more harmful to you than the worms themselves. So flaunt your worms with pride. And improve your diet.

AitchTwoOh · 08/05/2007 23:12

well thank god, franny. i thought it was hilarious... mick jagger was taken.

ash6605 · 08/05/2007 23:21

so are you still interested FRANNY??
or have i put you off?

TooTicky · 08/05/2007 23:24

Oh god, I've done it again. I've said something so downright weird that the only solution is to ignore me.