Small Talk: Ughngnggh! Ugghhnnn!

[nachomama]

If you cancel on the doctor they charge you money. You should charge him.

My sister had an appointment with a rheumatologist, she had weird bloaty elbows. Over a year she waited then she voluntarily pushed it back to Feb because her medicare would kick in. uhhh...she dayd. There's an opening somewhere in Texas for some hard to get into rheumatologist. My sister insisted this was the best she was gonna wait it out. Here elbows drained themselves which is disgusting in its own right. but yes, doctors suck.

[Mr. Sparkle]

27 minutes ago, icemiser69 said:

I am glad they don't make nutmeg flavored soda, that would be awful.

So of course I had to google that. 

https://fivestarsoda.com/tag/nutmeg/

[Mr. Sparkle]

With my tongue! 

[Mr. Sparkle]

22 minutes ago, icemiser69 said:

I don't recommend it, but that is how I test 9 volt batteries to see if they are still good.

I don't know any other way. 

[Nashville]

1 hour ago, icemiser69 said:

I don't recommend it, but that is how I test 9 volt batteries to see if they are still good.

Same here.

[nachomama]

My dad had a friend who told me stick my tongue on a nine volt battery. They laughed and laughed. 

[Nashville]

3 hours ago, nachomama said:

My dad had a friend who told me stick my tongue on a nine volt battery. They laughed and laughed. 

Simply a matter of tolerance.  😁

[walnutqueen]

4 hours ago, nachomama said:

My dad had a friend who told me stick my tongue on a nine volt battery. They laughed and laughed. 

So, that's what happened to your hair.  ;~)   

(Sorry, NM, I just couldn't resist).

37 minutes ago, icemiser69 said:

Has anyone else had blood drawn from the back of your hand?  Yikes that's painful.

Usually they stick me in both arms first and come up dry.  Not this time, they went right for the back of my hand.

If my iron level is really that low, I don't know why they keep taking my blood.

I got an IV in the back of my hand years ago, and holy hell, did it hurt!  I had to request another nurse after the first one failed SIX times; my hands were black & blue, and ached for days.

[AngelaHunter]

So is sticking your tongue on a 9-volt battery worse than accidentally chewing a piece of tinfoil in your food, when you have a filling in your tooth? I did that once and I had to be pried off the ceiling as a result.

[OoohMaggie]

1 hour ago, AngelaHunter said:

So is sticking your tongue on a 9-volt battery worse than accidentally chewing a piece of tinfoil in your food, when you have a filling in your tooth? I did that once and I had to be pried off the ceiling as a result

The original KitKat wrappers were the worst, there was always a bit you missed and holy hell did you know it 🦷

[walnutqueen]

1 hour ago, AngelaHunter said:

So is sticking your tongue on a 9-volt battery worse than accidentally chewing a piece of tinfoil in your food, when you have a filling in your tooth? I did that once and I had to be pried off the ceiling as a result.

OMG, you just made me cringe and clench!!!

[Nashville]

5 hours ago, icemiser69 said:

Nashville is not going to be a happy camper.  His Titans lost.   I was hoping they would win.

I was at the game, and you and me both.  😢

[Nashville]

16 hours ago, icemiser69 said:

Has anyone else had blood drawn from the back of your hand?  Yikes that's painful.

My wife is a retired paramedic.  Back when she was going through the different phases of training, her study group used to meet at our house frequently.  You don’t want to know what it was like when they were going through the IV phase - I apparently have very good veins (one phrase frequently heard was “I could hit that from across the room”) and when study group was in session, going to the kitchen to get a drink was like strolling through a coven of vampires. Guess who frequently got impressed into service as a practice dummy?  😛

[walnutqueen]

1 hour ago, Nashville said:

My wife is a retired paramedic.  Back when she was going through the different phases of training, her study group used to meet at our house frequently.  You don’t want to know what it was like when they were going through the IV phase - I apparently have very good veins (one phrase frequently heard was “I could hit that from across the room”) and when study group was in session, going to the kitchen to get a drink was like strolling through a coven of vampires. Guess who frequently got impressed into service as a practice dummy?  😛

You oughtta thank your lucky stars the wifey wasn't an intern at Seattle Grace/Mercy Death, or you'd be missing some non-vital organs!   ;~)

[AngelaHunter]

12 hours ago, Nashville said:

I apparently have very good veins (one phrase frequently heard was “I could hit that from across the room”) and when study group was in session, going to the kitchen to get a drink was like strolling through a coven of vampires. Guess who frequently got impressed into service as a practice dummy?

😂😄

Hey, you take compliments where you find them. One time when I went for some blood tests I was told, "You have beautiful veins. So nice and firm." 

"Oh," I said. "Thank you...?" I used to get better compliments, honest! I was flattered anyway. I guess.

[OoohMaggie]

14 hours ago, Nashville said:

Guess who frequently got impressed into service as a practice dummy?

Thank heavens they weren’t Proctology students 😱💩

Edited December 16, 2019 by OoohMaggie

[OoohMaggie]

20 minutes ago, OoohMaggie said:

Thank heavens they weren’t Proctology students 😱💩

I’ve wondered at which point in a persons medical career do they think, yeah, that sounds like a cool specialism. 🙄

Edited December 16, 2019 by OoohMaggie

[AngelaHunter]

38 minutes ago, OoohMaggie said:

I’ve wondered at which point in a persons medical career do they think, yeah, that sounds like a cool specialism. 🙄

I've wondered the same thing myself, even about dentists or ear/nose/throat specialists. I can't imagine pondering my future and thinking, "What I'd really like to spend my days doing is looking and probing in peoples' _______"  Like, ew.

[nachomama]

Eye doctors get excited to see me. I'm the blindest person I know without actually being blind. But I store salt crystals in my eyeballs. They get all "ooooh/ahhhh" I'm like, JUST TELL ME IF I'M GONNA BE BLIND!

[AngelaHunter]

42 minutes ago, icemiser69 said:

They would have awesome job security. 

Being any kind of specialist would pretty much guarantee job security. I went to my ear doctor a couple weeks ago as it seems I have hereditary hearing loss (and also all kinds of annoying buzzing and whistling and humming in that ear which necessitates my using CC for TWD, what with all the mumbling and muddy audio) and he appears to be in his 80s, but no lack of business.

If I were going to be in the health profession I think my choice would be heart surgeon. It's the least icky one I can think of.

[AngelaHunter]

1 hour ago, icemiser69 said:

My dermatologist is so busy, he can't take on any more patients.  

My dermatologist recently went into private practice in a building called "Victoria Park" instead of in the shabby Medi Center where I first saw her. I could be wrong, but I have a feeling she concluded that botox and other cosmetic stuff are much more profitable than treating zits or rashes.  I tracked her down and called for an appt, only to be told that, in essence, all her former patients do NOT get to the front of the line,  can just go pound sand and I was out of luck.

[Nashville]

8 hours ago, icemiser69 said:

Are you going to the game this weekend?

The Saints are going to be a tough match up.

Yes I’ll be there, and yes they are.  🙂

8 hours ago, icemiser69 said:

The last home game for the Titans this season.  Still hoping they make the playoffs. 

Our playoff chances went way down with the loss to Houston; at this point the Titans have to win against the Saints, the Texans have to lose to Buffalo, AND we have to beat Houston in our regular season‘s final game to take the AFC South.  If all that doesn’t happen, there are only one or two scenarios where we still make playoffs - and those depend on massive losses on the parts of teams not noted for massive losses.  So our chances at this point are largely exercises in probabilities - but hope springs eternal.  #TitanUP!!! 💙

8 hours ago, icemiser69 said:

If you wear something flashy, maybe we can see you on television. 😎

Only if you consider two-tone blue flashy.  😄

[OoohMaggie]

13 hours ago, icemiser69 said:

You make it sound like it would be a bad thing if they were.

I guess the joke didn’t quite make it 😞

[OoohMaggie]

12 hours ago, AngelaHunter said:

If I were going to be in the health profession I think my choice would be heart surgeon. It's the least icky one I can think of.

After being ‘young’ish in the 80’s I thought it best to get an HIV test when I’d grown up a bit. I had to go to the local STD clinic, fortunately it only involved a blood test, the waiting room was full and at some point most there would be dropping their pants in front of some poor doctor, now that’s one gig that couldn’t pay me enough 🤢

[nachomama]

You've never seen the Waltons? Ooooh that'll be fun. In the beginning Jack Tripper (aka John Ritter) played a preacher and there's one episode where he's out back "washing up" and he's in his skivvies and * clutches pearls* oh my he's plum near nekkid! I was like "that was the 70's! Didn't they notice preacher's packing?"

[walnutqueen]

3 hours ago, icemiser69 said:

TV stars who died this year.

I hadn't realized that some on the list had passed.

Dang it - now I feel old and closer to death than ever.

[AngelaHunter]

4 hours ago, icemiser69 said:

I have never watched The Waltons.

OH, you need to watch that. The earlier eps are the best. The later ones got way too saccharine for my taste. I liked it when John Sr. was strict and crabby.

2 hours ago, nachomama said:

In the beginning Jack Tripper (aka John Ritter) played a preacher and there's one episode where he's out back "washing up" and he's in his skivvies and * clutches pearls* oh my he's plum near nekkid! Didn't they notice preacher's packing?"

I remember John Ritter as the preacher, but not his packed skivvies. 😂

4 hours ago, icemiser69 said:

TV stars who died this year.

I hadn't realized that some on the list had passed.

But you notice a large number of them lived to be very old - 90+ -  even though they grew up in an age where no one told them that salt, white flour and fat were toxic and poisonous and that eating their recommended daily allowance of cruciate veggies would guarantee a long  life? And yeah - don't smoke. Look what it did to George Burns.

4 hours ago, icemiser69 said:

I was hoping they would remove The Andy Griffith Show and Gomer Pyle.   Both of those series have been run into a ditch.

MeTV is obsessed with all things "Andy Griffith." Many old shows hold up even today, but IMO that is not one of them, nor is "Gomer Pyle." Many shows were of their time and need to be left there.

Edited December 17, 2019 by AngelaHunter
Spelling takes a nose dive after wine.

[walnutqueen]

7 minutes ago, AngelaHunter said:

But you notice a large number of them lived to be very old - 90+ -  even though they grew up in an age where no one told them that salt, white flour and fat were toxic and poisonous and that eating their recommended daily allowance of cruciate veggies would guarantee a long  life? And yeah - don't smoke. Look what it did to George Burns.

My great grandparents lived into their 98-100s.  My grandma lived into her late 90s.  My mum lived into her mid 80s despite being a lifelong smoker and having COPD/emphysema for almost 40 years.  All were German who never met fatty meat and potatoes they didn't love, and had only a passing acquaintance with veggies.

At my age, with my lifestyle and dietary habits, I should be near death.  But when I went to the doc for the first time in well over a decade (for a stupid UTI), I got the full physical, and all my tests results were amazingly good, except for a slight Vitamin D deficiency.

Apparently my genes DO protect me from my own self destructive proclivities.

[Mr. Sparkle]

6 hours ago, icemiser69 said:

I have never watched The Waltons.

I've never seen the Waltons either, but I've seen just about every episode of Little House on the Prairie. That show was Messed. Up. 

[AngelaHunter]

1 hour ago, icemiser69 said:

He accidentally showed more than that in a Three's Company episode.   I won't post the link here, because I don't want to get in trouble,

I wouldn't worry about that. We're watching a show where we see gore and torture and rape and guts spewing out on the street, so seeing Jack Tripper's semi-revealed jewels is no biggie.😁

2 hours ago, walnutqueen said:

All were German who never met fatty meat and potatoes they didn't love, and had only a passing acquaintance with veggies.

Just like my mother-in-law, even though she was not German, but French-Canadian. I won't even say what she loved to eat but I had to keep my eyes downcast at the table or I'd gag.  She liked fat. And cake. Every time my inlaws came over for dinner, I'd ask her, "Do you like asparagus/broccoli/spinach/sweet potato," etc and the answer was always the same, "I don't know. I never had it."

She passed away at 87.

[walnutqueen]

56 minutes ago, AngelaHunter said:

Just like my mother-in-law, even though she was not German, but French-Canadian. I won't even say what she loved to eat but I had to keep my eyes downcast at the table or I'd gag.  She liked fat. And cake. Every time my inlaws came over for dinner, I'd ask her, "Do you like asparagus/broccoli/spinach/sweet potato," etc and the answer was always the same, "I don't know. I never had it."

She passed away at 87.

Seriously - I'm trying to remember veggies from my childhood diet.  I'm sure we had cabbage, borscht, and thinly sliced cucumber drenched in sour cream ... I didn't encounter broccoli until I was I was 21.  My mother-in-law made the grandest Sunday dinners - roast beef, Yorkshire pudding, and streamed broccoli.  I tried it and liked it.  Quelle surprise!

[Nashville]

18 hours ago, icemiser69 said:

So, I suppose wearing a barrel with red suspenders is out of the question?

Two-tone blue?

Sounds like you wear a team jersey to the game.   What player number?

31 - Kevin Byard.  He graduated from and was drafted out of my alma mater, MTSU (GO BLUE!!!).  

[nachomama]

In the original Jaws you got a lifeguard who is a bit dangly. We saw it on the big screen during retro week. That’s a big nut. 

I never got that jack tripper was passing himself off as gay in order to live with 2 chicks. Also didn’t understand most of bosom buddies. But I don’t think either of them are worth taking a deep dive now as an adult. 

[Nashville]

2 hours ago, icemiser69 said:

Titans miss more field goals than made.

Tell me something I don’t know.  At least 2 (maybe 3) of our losses this year have been directly due to points our kickers have left on the field because they can’t hit anything past 40 yards - and that’s the main reason we don’t have a lock on the AFC South this season; fucking high school kids can kick better.  Succop used to be pretty much automatic, but he never bounced back from his last injury.

Edited December 18, 2019 by Nashville
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[OoohMaggie]

18 hours ago, icemiser69 said:

t's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World movie quiz.

I knew 7, not a clue about the others, who knew M&M had a son? 🤔

[Mr. Sparkle]

12 minutes ago, OoohMaggie said:

I knew 7, not a clue about the others, who knew M&M had a son? 🤔

12/13. I didn't recognize Jerry Lewis, which is lame because he know who he is! 

I watched a lot of Mork & Mindy, so I remember their son. I think it was the last season, when they were trying anything to get people to watch. 

[nachomama]

Wasn't his name Merth/Mearth (Mork and earth) and he aged backwards, born as old Johnathon Winters and then would go backwards although they never got that far. I got 11 of 13 on the quiz (I knew Spencer Tracy but damned if I knew which of the movies he was in) but I don't think I've ever watched the whole movie. Although I used to love a comedy movie that I think was called "Murder can hurt you" with all the 70's tv detectives. Kojak was in it. I think.

I think I'd like to see an episode of Kojak, I remember nothing except him having a lollipop and saying "who loves you baby" but no idea if it had good plots etc.

[OoohMaggie]

2 hours ago, Superclam said:

I watched a lot of Mork & Mindy, so I remember their son. I think it was the last season, when they were trying anything to get people to watch. 

Ah! that explains it, I think it must have coincided  with me getting my first ‘proper’ girlfriend, my mind being understandably elsewhere at the time 😋

[Nashville]

4 hours ago, Nashville said:

Tell me something I don’t know.  At least 2 (maybe 3) of our losses this year have been directly due to points our kickers have left on the field because they can’t hit anything past 40 yards - and that’s the main reason we don’t have a lock on the AFC South this season; fucking high school kids can kick better.  Succop used to be pretty much automatic, but he never bounced back from his last injury.

Hey @icemiser69 - about what I was saying earlier...?  😄

Titans sign new kicker, place Succop on IR

[Mr. Sparkle]

2 hours ago, nachomama said:

Wasn't his name Merth/Mearth (Mork and earth) and he aged backwards, born as old Johnathon Winters and then would go backwards although they never got that far.

Yes! It got a little better with Jonathon Winters, but by then there was no interest. 

[Mr. Sparkle]

35 minutes ago, icemiser69 said:

Well they didn't actually try and do anything.  Pam Dawber nudity would have helped.  Jonathan Winters nudity not so much. 

They changed supporting cast and scenarios every season. Then they tried to go back to season 1's cast, which didn't work. I know way too much about Mork & Mindy. 

36 minutes ago, icemiser69 said:

A little bit of Robin Williams goes a long way.  He can be funny and exhausting at the same time.  The dude was always "on" hyper.  He didn't have a comedic off switch, unless he was in a serious movie role.

I agree, and I liked him much more in his serious roles. 

[OoohMaggie]

48 minutes ago, icemiser69 said:

George Lazenby played Bond.  Totally awesome chase scenes on skis in that movie. 

Rigg was gorgeous, but having an Australian playing Bond was a step too far 😱

[AngelaHunter]

59 minutes ago, icemiser69 said:

A little bit of Robin Williams goes a long way.  He can be funny and exhausting at the same time.

He actually made me nervous. I couldn't watch him on any talk shows. Never saw an episode of Mork and Mindy either.

Never saw 'Mad, Mad...World" but got 13/13 on the quiz. What's my prize?

8 minutes ago, OoohMaggie said:

having an Australian playing Bond was a step too far

You think that's outlandish? You haven't been paying attention lately. 🙄

[Mr. Sparkle]

2 hours ago, AngelaHunter said:

He actually made me nervous. I couldn't watch him on any talk shows. Never saw an episode of Mork and Mindy either.

You didn't miss much. I liked him in Mrs. Doubtfire, Dead Poets Society and Good Will Hunting off the top of my head. I never really thought his stand-up was funny. 

 

[AngelaHunter]

45 minutes ago, icemiser69 said:

I know you like Maggie (Lauren), but her accent is closer to Klingon than a true southern accent.  In all of the years that she has been on TWD, her southern accent has never improved.  Lauren is horrible in the role as Maggie.  She is pretty and half way decent in other roles.

Her accent is not only horrific, but made no sense because she sounded nothing like her father and sister or anyone else in her vicinity. She should have taken a clue from Scott Wilson who actually was from Atlanta, instead of doing her Elly Mae Clampett schtick. I disliked Maggie and had never seen Lauren Cohan in any other roles. When I finally did, in a kind of neat little horror movie called "The Boy", I found her acting good and she was quite engaging.

 

1 hour ago, Superclam said:

. I liked him in Mrs. Doubtfire

I liked that movie too!

[OoohMaggie]

13 hours ago, icemiser69 said:

I don't have a problem with it.  Just like I don't have problem with some actors and actresses on TWD playing roles of Americans even though they weren't born in America.  All I care about is how good they are at their craft, I don't care where they are from

I agree generally, but Bond is such an iconic British figure that I believe he should be played by one,  I thought Pierce Brosnan was a great Bond but.............

If I were an American actor I’d be pretty annoyed at all those Brits being brought over, they can’t find a better home grown actor than Lincoln? 

Edited December 19, 2019 by OoohMaggie

[OoohMaggie]

14 hours ago, Superclam said:

I agree, and I liked him much more in his serious roles. 

‘One hour photo’ was a good thriller, he nailed the acting in that.

[Mr. Sparkle]

It wasn't bad. RW was the best part of it. It was funny for me because at the time I was working in a one hour photo place. I didn't take anybody hostage though. 

[OoohMaggie]

10 hours ago, AngelaHunter said:

When I finally did, in a kind of neat little horror movie called "The Boy", I found her acting good and she was quite engaging.

Her accent isn’t much better, but Mile 22 was a good film, if you like that sort of thing.

 

[OoohMaggie]

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Edited December 19, 2019 by OoohMaggie
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