Hmm…
My dentist did not knock me out when he took out my four wisdom teeth. 
NL is a peaceful country, hardly anybody is knocked out sitting in that chair. I remember my dentist saying about regular anesthesia: waste of money, you’ll be back in your car by the time it kicks in.
I remember a cow-orker getting his taken out, being given propofol, and the way he described it, he was asked to count backwards from 10, got to 8 or so, and the next thing he knew, he asked them when tf they were going to start, and they told him everything was all done.
Out like somebody flicked a switch, and back just as suddenly, and nothing in-between.
Only peripherally related, but when I was getting PRK done, I was prescribed 3… I think Valium… beforehand. Never took it before, thought I was supposed to take 2, even though I wasn’t nervous or anything at all, so yeah, a bit before, I popped 2 of 'em.
Nurse asked me if I filled the scrip, said yeah, asked me if I needed to take 1. I said I just took 2 a bit before. She got all Surprised Pinkachu Face and asked me how I was even standing upright. I told her I must’ve gotten duds, because I didn’t feel even the slightest bit different, and was considering popping the 3rd.
She was like “Noooo!”, and the mystery remained.
Allergy pills, same. 1 does nothing, need 2 to have it even marginally work. More of a spacey feeling than not sneezing. Now, having cats around, amazingly I rarely if ever get affected even on high-pollen days.
Vicodin, the same. Busted up my knee, felt like House. 1 did nothing. 2 did nothing. 3rd finally dulled the pain and gave me an eerie feeling, but worse than the pain was getting all frozen up inside. I’d rather be in pain than deal with that. So out of a scrip for 20, I only used 4 or so.
How people can get hooked on that, I have no idea. They must live on prune juice and Metamucil or something. Not me, man.
I can have a bottle of ibuprofen last a decade. Would need 4 at minimum to make a dent, so I usually don’t even bother unless I really need some.
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You’ve got them reverse osmosis ionization purifier kidneys…
regarding “How people can get hooked on that, I have no idea…”
i agree. i was given hydrocodone after my Achilles Tendon surgery.
other than making me feel warmer than normal…nothing.
Advil worked a whole lot better for pain.
i could understand getting hooked on Advil, though.
SISTER MARY ANN’S GASOLINE
Sister Mary Ann, who worked for a home health agency, was out making
her rounds visiting homebound patients when she ran out of gas. As luck
would have it, a Texaco Gasoline station was just a block away.*
She walked to the station to borrow a gas can and buy some gas. The
attendant told her that the only gas can he owned had been loaned out,
but she could wait until it was returned. Since Sister Mary Ann was on
the way to see a patient, she decided not to wait and walked back to
her car.
She looked for something in her car that she could fill with gas and
spotted the bedpan she was taking to the patient. Always resourceful,
Sister Mary Ann carried the bedpan to the station, filled it with
gasoline, and carried the full bedpan back to her car.
As she was pouring the gas into her tank, two Baptists watched from
across the street. One of them turned to the other and said,
“If it starts, I’m turning Catholic!”
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That communion wine really is something powerful ain’t it…
Modern
Scholars are still debating whether the current period is post-postmodern or neo-contemporary.
Pre-Downdrain
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Evidence that anything pertaining to historicity is not a science.
Someone said something about grammar in another thread, so I couldn’t resist posting this, even though I’m sure it’s already up there somewhere…
Punctuation saves lives!
“Let’s eat Grandma!” vs “Let’s eat, Grandma!”
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What do you call it when a physician corrects your punctuation?
A medically induced comma.
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In some languages the use of upper- and lower case can make a lot of difference.
I’ll use a well known German example. Where the subject gets the upper case.
“Der gefangene Floh” vs. “Der Gefangene floh”.
The captured flea. vs. The prisoner escaped.
German joke:
Mein Hund jagte immer Leuten auf dem Fahrrad hinterher, bis ich ihm das Fahrrad wegnahm!
Translation:
My dog used to chase after people on a bike, until I took away his bike.
German jokes always make me go 999 : - )
Ez on the floor
I object to all this sex on the television. I mean, I keep falling off.
(Monty Python’s Flying Circus)
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Reading a Big Number
[desperately] Maybe this is from some country where they use commas as decimal points, and also as digit separators after the decimal, and also use random other characters for decoration???
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I’m so upset—
my barber said he can’t cut my hair any longer.
He can only cut it shorter.
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