Comments on: Just a little what??

By: Jay

Jay — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 07:52:55 +0000

Sandy - Ah, yes, stitches! I haven't had stitches in a long while, last lot of skin closures I had were staples! Now, they did pinch! Angi - Soon we won't be able to say anything, full stop. And we still claim to have countries with free speech? DBM - Bushtits? That's pretty good - and don't you have one called the Booby, too? We have Blue-tits and Great-tits, over here. LOL! JT - Ouch! Did you scream in her ear? Or perhaps that would have been counter-productive? Sorry she did that to you. I have no idea why they would think that was OK. Maureen - No .. I answered the ones you sent me. I'll go and check my mail. Valerie - Stab is good. Stab works! 'I'm just going to stab you in the arm, okay?' ROFL!

By: Natural

Natural — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 03:05:14 +0000

the nurses here still say prick, but i say stab. some of them are just cold about it. Naturals last blog post..A Fish Out of Water, Literally

By: Maureen

Maureen — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 02:41:16 +0000

Ha! No rhyming necessary… did you get my two emails?

Just checking.

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By: JT

JT — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 01:38:51 +0000

Ugh! I just had my re-occurring thyroid blood-draw. And I DID NOT get a warning about a little stick! I got a "Here we go!" she stuck it in, missed, DIDN'T pull out, but started to dig. GRRRR! I hate lab techs that seem to think that's OK! JTs last blog post..Tongues out and wagging

By: Don't Bug Me!

Don't Bug Me! — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 22:41:19 +0000

Just got back from Newport Beach, visiting brother Moon. While we were there I saw some cute little birds hopping around in the bushes. I took a photo and when I got home I found out that they were bushtits – now there’s a name that has to be used with care (snigger).

Don’t Bug Me!s last blog post..I wasn’t going to complain, but………

By: Angi

Angi — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 22:24:10 +0000

Pretty soon we won’t be able to say “brownies” or “blondies”, either, because that’s discriminatory toward people with different hair colors…

Angis last blog post..How Do You Measure A Man? (Or, How Do You Measure A Site’s Hits?)

By: sandy

sandy — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 18:56:34 +0000

slight pinch yipes ! jumping off table I remeber when my
caesarean stitches came out – just a tiny prick .hahaha

By: Jay

Jay — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 18:20:44 +0000

Barbara – Thanks! Yes, a word can have so many meanings, and I’d personally like to keep them all! LOL!
Doris – Yep, that would work. MIL’s veins were like yours. Poor woman went black and blue each time she had blood drawn.
Jenn – ‘Pressure’? I suppose there’s pressure involved, but with pressure it does usually stop short of ‘puncture’, as you say!
Mr N – Hahaha! Yep, there’s always one, huh? The prettiest nurse in our practice, the petite blonde, is the one who you don’t want drawing blood. I’m not needlephobic in the slightest but the sight of her coming out to call my name is enough to make me want to reschedule.
Three weeks? Yikes. Three months for me.
JD – I might snigger too, depending on what company I’m in. But not in a professional setting. Not usually, anyway.
Swubird – Yep, I do too. Let’s start reclaiming our words and our freedom of speech!
Angi – No kidding! LOL!
Jenny – Yes, I did, and I was both incensed and shaking my head with frustration. Why on earth don’t these people look into the whys and wherefores before they open their foolish mouths? Everyone surely knows that Angel Food cake is called Angel Food cake because it’s light as air (and Angels are beings of the air) and low calorie, and Devil’s Food cake is called Devil’s Food because it’s sinfully, wickedly good – and high calorie??? It’s not about bloody colour, it’s about good and evil!! Or is that politically incorrect now, too?

By: Jenny

Jenny — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 16:31:28 +0000

Worlde Gonne Madde … indeed. Girl, you crack me up so much.

Now, I always hear “Just a stick.” And I guess it is, but it still hurts.

Euphemisms BORE ME SILLY and so does political correctness. Say what you mean and mean what you say. Of course we should all take care that we are not cruel and do not intentionally hurt another’s feelings. That is common decency.

Did you hear about this, in the news recently …

What do “black hole,” “angel food cake,” and “devil’s food cake” have in common?

They’re all racist terms, says a Dallas County, Texas, official.

A county commissioners’ meeting this week over traffic tickets turned into a tense discussion over race when one commissioner said the county’s collections office was like a certain astronomical phenomenon.

“It sounds like Central Collections has become a black hole,” Commissioner Kenneth Mayfield, who is white, said during the Monday meeting.

One black official demanded an apology, and Commissioner John Wiley Price, who also is black, said that type of language is unacceptable.

At the meeting, Mayfield said he intended his comments to be taken in the context of the scientific meaning, and became upset that he was being misunderstood.

In astronomy, the term black hole refers to a star that has collapsed upon itself, creating something so dense and small that it does not have any physical properties besides a gravitational force so great that even light cannot escape its pull.

Later, Price told MyFOXdfw.com that he believed it and other terms were racist.

“So if it’s ‘angel food cake,’ it’s white. If it’s ‘devil’s food cake,’ it’s black. If you’re the ‘black sheep of the family,’ then you gotta be bad, you know. ‘White sheep,’ you’re okay. You know?” Price said.

Price said people should watch their words when it comes to stereotypes.

“I think people should always be careful. You know, I’m okay if I’m ‘bartering’ with you. … But if I try to ‘Jew you down,’ Oooooh. Is that racist? I thought it meant the same thing? No, maybe it doesn’t.”

The world-renowned physicist Stephen Hawking might have a solution to the problem over perception of the astronomical term. He refers to the phenomenon as “a singularity.”

Jennys last blog post..Six Fours (And More) … Part One

By: Angi

Angi — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 15:56:27 +0000

I’m with you – how does jamming a 3 inch long needle into a vein constitute a “scratch”??? Methinks your nurse should refer to a dictionary…

Angis last blog post..How Do You Measure A Man? (Or, How Do You Measure A Site’s Hits?)