Cold Ale - The Blokes' Thread!

[dafydd manton]

Up the hill? I'm already over it...........*Aaaaaahhhhhhhh*

[soundofmusic]

Up the hill? I'm already over it...........*Aaaaaahhhhhhhh*

I had an 86 year old man make a veal and spagetti dinner for me Sunday (I was nursing his brother); he visited with his young-looking 77 year old wife; he told me the secret to his logevity was injecting botox below his mid-section

I'm thinking of trying it

[The Atheist]

Cor blimey! What a couple of days.

This week is the first of NZ's spring school holidays, so the terrible two go their different ways to friends' houses to play.

3.15 Monday, daughter arrives home in a car unexpectedly. The mum whose house she'd been at explained that she'd fallen off the scooter and hurt her arm.

Hurt ended up being a bit short of the reality!

She'd managed to break both bones in her right arm. Taking a tumble off the scooter, she had somehow managed to land on the top of the bone on your outer wrist, right at the end of the ulna.

Both bones snapped clean in half about an inch from the hand end of her arm bones!

Being only eleven, it was a "greenstick compression fracture, where, even though the bones had gone through a 90 degree break, they hadn't broken apart. I'll try to get the x-ray pics up to show it, because it looks pretty cool!

The doctors love school holidays.

We went to a suburban treatment centre where we found a damaged neck, leg (2 breaks), another right arm, ribs and several toes and fingers waiting to be fixed/reattached. Most of 'em off scooters. Small wheels, high speed and high centre of gravity always made them a bit suspect, I thought.

Monday night wasn't much fun with little sleep for either me or her - daddy, of course, had to sleep on the floor to be right there next to her. Daddy's bloody back did not enjoy that experience!

Last night, as I type, she's still asleep and has been for about 8 hours, so daddy's managed to not only get some kip, but in an actual bed!

We nearly made the double on Monday as well. The boy was doing some woodwork with me when he walked straight into the corner of a 2-metre sheet of wood, which is 1.2m wide. Exactly the same height as his right eye.

Expecting to see his eyeball hanging from the piece of wood as he let out a hurt noise, I saw that he, on the other hand, had been very, very lucky. Being the last sheet, it was leaning over and the corner only stood 1.19m height.

Nice scratch directly underneath right eye, not even a black eye to show for it. Forgotten two minutes later.

Could've been quite exciting.

[Gilliatt Gurgle]

Well, judging from your typed mood, it sounds like you are breathing a sigh of relief. Being young as she is, the bones should mend up quickly.
When you say "sheet", I take that to mean plywood aka splinter board! especially at edges and corners.
Thank God (did I say that?) he didn't get a splinter in the eye!

Now they will have some great battle scars to share with their mates and stories to stretch.
Unfortunatly, your girls' holiday week is shot.

Gilliatt

[OrphanPip]

Losing an eye terrifies me, a perforated eyeball is one of the grosses things I've ever seen, that and teeth getting pulled makes my skin crawl.

I once got bit in the face by a dog at the shelter, when I was working with abused animals, and I was cut on the eyebrow and right below my eye. Imagine having your eye torn out by a dog. I don't know what compelled me to stay on there for another 2 years.

[The Atheist]

Well, judging from your typed mood, it sounds like you are breathing a sigh of relief. Being young as she is, the bones should mend up quickly.

Yeah, she's up and about now, with no problems.

When you say "sheet", I take that to mean plywood aka splinter board! especially at edges and corners.

Bingo! Nice sharp machined edge.

Thank God (did I say that?) he didn't get a splinter in the eye!

Now they will have some great battle scars to share with their mates and stories to stretch.
Unfortunatly, your girls' holiday week is shot.

Gilliatt

Ours or hers?

Now, she's going to be here all day, which certainly ruins mine!

Losing an eye terrifies me, a perforated eyeball is one of the grosses things I've ever seen, that and teeth getting pulled makes my skin crawl.

I once got bit in the face by a dog at the shelter, when I was working with abused animals, and I was cut on the eyebrow and right below my eye. Imagine having your eye torn out by a dog. I don't know what compelled me to stay on there for another 2 years.

I've seen one of those and it ain't pretty!

[Paulclem]

Nightmare hols Atheist. One of the worst sounds I find around the house is the bump bump bumpity bump down the stairs.

That might be from when I overbalanced at the top with the 9 month old clutched in my arms, and I had to run down to keep my feet. I don't know how I managed. Terrible when the kids get hurt.

[The Atheist]

Nightmare hols Atheist. One of the worst sounds I find around the house is the bump bump bumpity bump down the stairs.

That might be from when I overbalanced at the top with the 9 month old clutched in my arms, and I had to run down to keep my feet. I don't know how I managed. Terrible when the kids get hurt.

Stairs & kids are a bad mix at the best of times!

Christ, one thing that's been an absolute epidemic over here - and Australia - is people running kids over in driveways.

How the hell would that feel? Driving over your toddler?

Mostly due to idiots that think a gigantic 4WD is "safer", it seems.

[soundofmusic]

Cor blimey! What a couple of days.

This week is the first of NZ's spring school holidays, so the terrible two go their different ways to friends' houses to play.

3.15 Monday, daughter arrives home in a car unexpectedly. The mum whose house she'd been at explained that she'd fallen off the scooter and hurt her arm.

Hurt ended up being a bit short of the reality!

She'd managed to break both bones in her right arm. Taking a tumble off the scooter, she had somehow managed to land on the top of the bone on your outer wrist, right at the end of the ulna.

Both bones snapped clean in half about an inch from the hand end of her arm bones!

Monday night wasn't much fun with little sleep for either me or her - daddy, of course, had to sleep on the floor to be right there next to her. Daddy's bloody back did not enjoy that experience!

Last night, as I type, she's still asleep and has been for about 8 hours, so daddy's managed to not only get some kip, but in an actual bed!

How awful, poor Baje, didn't she just get over a knee injury? How is your back? I used to spend the nights at hospitals with Mr Sounds, but I was much younger; I don't think I could manage it now...don't they even have a nice soft chair for you?

Nightmare hols Atheist. One of the worst sounds I find around the house is the bump bump bumpity bump down the stairs.

That might be from when I overbalanced at the top with the 9 month old clutched in my arms, and I had to run down to keep my feet. I don't know how I managed. Terrible when the kids get hurt.

You aren't kidding. When Jess was a toddler, she started walking down the steps of our apartment building; I was afraid she was going to fall so I picked her up (I was in 3 inch heels on wet cement steps), tumbled down 16 steps and she was knocked out. I was in shock; I couldn't move or think. When I took her to the hospital they laughed it off, "Kids bounce" they said.

[The Atheist]

How awful, poor Baje, didn't she just get over a knee injury? How is your back? I used to spend the nights at hospitals with Mr Sounds, but I was much younger; I don't think I could manage it now...don't they even have a nice soft chair for you?

No hospital, just at home, and no, we don't have chairs and the couch won't fit in her room.

Everyone's AOK now, though.

Here is the famous double-broken arm!

You can clearly see the kink close to the wrist where the bone doubled over. I can tell from looking at it that that hurt!

[Paulclem]

You aren't kidding. When Jess was a toddler, she started walking down the steps of our apartment building; I was afraid she was going to fall so I picked her up (I was in 3 inch heels on wet cement steps), tumbled down 16 steps and she was knocked out. I was in shock; I couldn't move or think. When I took her to the hospital they laughed it off, "Kids bounce" they said.

Horrible. It makes me squirm.

[soundofmusic]

No hospital, just at home, and no, we don't have chairs and the couch won't fit in her room.

Everyone's AOK now, though.

Here is the famous double-broken arm!

You can clearly see the kink close to the wrist where the bone doubled over. I can tell from looking at it that that hurt!

I'm hurting just looking at it. Well, you're sure a good dad sleeping next to her bed...
My chairs are 30 years old; 2 gave out from under me and I've got them in my room, hoping to put them back together...the dowels gave way.

Horrible. It makes me squirm.

No kidding; I could never go through parenthood again; I'd have a heart attack on the stairs at this age.

[soundofmusic]

Did I scare you guys with my new avatar?

[Gilliatt Gurgle]

Did I scare you guys with my new avatar?

Not scared but speechless in the presence of such beauty.
A face that launched a thousand Gulf shrimp boats.

Serously, whoever that is, she is lovely.


Gilliatt

[Silas Thorne]

Christ, one thing that's been an absolute epidemic over here - and Australia - is people running kids over in driveways.

How the hell would that feel? Driving over your toddler?

Mostly due to idiots that think a gigantic 4WD is "safer", it seems.

I'm not sure if you are aware of this, but there was terrible news recently from China. A man ran over a boy with his car four times, and then tried to run off.
If you want to know more about this incident, here it is on a blog on China:
http://wtdevflnt.wordpress.com/2010/...raphic-photos/

I would advise against looking at the video. It is very disturbing. No one really did anything about the incident when it happened, and the images are sickening. But it did happen.