Thread: The frail human body, how easily it's hurt......

You might want to tell that surgeon to take it easy - at half an inch loss per visit you will also be needing a new wardrobe if these back problems keep occurring..

Seriously - best wishes.

Originally Posted by SBD4

Bugger! Back troubles are the worst - not good when it is so bad you can't attend to your own backside.

I hope it all continues to improve Dave.

Thanks Sean. I should point out that I can....ahem... attend to my backside OK, it's just that the Eastern Hemisphere currently lacks any feeling whatsoever.

You know what it's like when you've been to the dentist, and you've had injections to numb your mouth to the point you can't even spit properly any more, well imagine sitting on that sensation.

Originally Posted by sheerluck

Thanks Sean. I should point out that I can....ahem... attend to my backside OK, it's just that the Eastern Hemisphere currently lacks any feeling whatsoever.

You know what it's like when you've been to the dentist, and you've had injections to numb your mouth to the point you can't even spit properly any more, well imagine sitting on that sensation.

^^^ I'm about to have that sensation on the 17th

Hope you feel better soon

Originally Posted by drifter

You might want to tell that surgeon to take it easy - at half an inch loss per visit you will also be needing a new wardrobe if these back problems keep occurring..

Seriously - best wishes.

Nah. I'm aiming high...or low whichever way you look at it. A few more visits to the surgeon, a bit of blue paint, and I'm ready for a part in the next Smurfs movie.

Originally Posted by sheerluck

Nah. I'm aiming high...or low whichever way you look at it. A few more visits to the surgeon, a bit of blue paint, and I'm ready for a part in the next Smurfs movie.

Prior to the paint job you stand up, look in the mirror and state: "I'm not bloody happy!"



And a voice in the background says: "Well, which one of the 7 are you!"

The smurf gig was taken by a young chap from NSW.... name of Tony...

Originally Posted by drifter

Prior to the paint job you stand up, look in the mirror and state: "I'm not bloody happy!"



And a voice in the background says: "Well, which one of the 7 are you!"

The smurf gig was taken by a young chap from NSW.... name of Tony...

I would have gone for the new Snow White and the Seven Dwarves movie, but if SWMBO even got a hint that I was up for living in a house with six other guys and girl who appears to sleep a lot, she would be performing surgery of her own.

And strictly speaking, I prefer Terry Pratchett's Wee Free Men to the Smurfs (except Tony of course, he's a top Smurf)

Originally Posted by sheerluck

I would have gone for the new Snow White and the Seven Dwarves movie, but if SWMBO even got a hint that I was up for living in a house with six other guys and girl who appears to sleep a lot, she would be performing surgery of her own.

Snow White and the Eight Dwarves NnnnOooo!



A new heading - never!

I am glad that you backed off on joining the Dwarves, it could only rise to a mini-homicide, to top the title 'Seven Dwarves' up to Eight would never stack up.

So lofty ideals of topping one of the high preforming is the tallest of lowdown acts.

Incidentally which name would you choose to cut down the heading downto size?

The names of the dwarfs are:
Sneezy
Sleepy
Dopey
Doc
Happy
Bashful
Grumpy

In the original story, they did not have names. On October 31st 1912 the story opened as a Broadway play. It was in this play that they first received names. Those names were:
Blick
Flick
Glick
Snick
Plick
Whick
Quee

Disney changed the names for their first animated film in 1937. There is a formual to help remember the seven dwarfs... 2 S's, 2 D's, & 3 emotions Sleepy Sneezy Doc Dopey Happy Bashful Grumpy.
Dopey: the youngest, sweetest, and silliest of the seven, and the only one to be completely bald and beardless; wears a too large lime green tunic and purple cap.
Grumpy: the grouchiest and most curmudgeonly of the group, though even he is supremely devoted to the beautiful Snow White; wears a red tunic, long white hair and beard.
Doc: the only one of the dwarfs to wear glasses (so presumably the most intellectual); wears an orange-brown tunic, long white hair and beard.
Happy: the most rotund of the dwarfs; wears a brownish two-tone tunic, yellow cap, long white hair and beard.
Bashful: evokes his bashful nature through a classic pose of shyness (hands clasped behind back, shoulders slightly raised, eyes upturned); sometimes difficult to distinguish between Sneezy and Sleepy; depicted in purple tunic and magenta cap (on video), as well as long white hair and beard.
Sneezy: frequently shown with one finger underneath his nose, as if trying to stifle a sneeze; sometimes difficult to distinguish between Sleepy and Bashful; wears a yellow-brown tunic, long white hair and beard.
Sleepy: perhaps the most difficult to differentiate between Sleepy and Bashful, though he wears a perpetually sleepy looking, heavily lidded expression on his face; wears a brownish tunic, green cap, long white hair and beard.

did you see this recently?

Canberra woman awarded over $1 million for injury caused by broken chair

Updated Sat 31 Aug 2013, 11:28am AEST



Map: Canberra 2600
A Canberra woman has been awarded more than $1 million for injuries suffered after her work chair collapsed.

Terry Anne Downie, now 51, was working for the Community Information and Referral Service ACT in October 2002 when her chair broke, leaving her lying on the floor in pain for up to 15 minutes.

The base of the chair was a single injection moulding of plastic with five spokes, and an expert in the case told the court the moulding had failed in a catastrophic manner when two of the spokes broke away.

Ms Downie says she felt a sharp pain in her back when she hit the floor.

Since the accident she has suffered symptoms from severe pain to a feeling like ants were crawling under her skin and now has permanent sciatica and lower back pain.

The chair had been imported from China in kit form and supplied to a retailer, which put it together and sold it to Ms Downie's employer.

The importer, the retailer and the importer's insurer were all involved in the court case.

ACT Supreme Court Master David Harper awarded Ms Downie $112,000 for past treatment expenses, and more than $930,000 damages.

Her former employer was also awarded more than $400,000 to cover workers compensation costs.