• Don't Bite

    From Adrian Caspersz@email@here.invalid to uk.rec.sheds on Sun Sep 7 22:29:32 2025
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    Fell asleep this afternoon after taking a swig of diet coke, and felt
    rolling about on my tongue something about the size of half a garden
    pea. Instead of making an assumption that it was remains of the meal I
    had been eating, I decided to spit the foreign object out.

    With legs still kicking ...
    --
    Adrian C

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  • From Simon@SimonJ@eu.invalid to uk.rec.sheds on Mon Sep 8 05:36:44 2025
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    On 2025-09-07, Adrian Caspersz wrote:
    Fell asleep this afternoon after taking a swig of diet coke, and felt rolling about on my tongue something about the size of half a garden
    pea. Instead of making an assumption that it was remains of the meal I
    had been eating, I decided to spit the foreign object out.

    With legs still kicking ...


    and you still went to sleep?!
    --
    Simon

    RLU: 222126

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  • From Nicholas D. Richards@nicholas@salmiron.com to uk.rec.sheds on Mon Sep 8 15:01:57 2025
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    In article <slrn10bsqrc.1gjr.SimonJ@silex.localdomain>, Simon <SimonJ@eu.invalid> on Mon, 8 Sep 2025 at 05:36:44 awoke Nicholas from
    his slumbers and wrote
    On 2025-09-07, Adrian Caspersz wrote:
    Fell asleep this afternoon after taking a swig of diet coke, and felt
    rolling about on my tongue something about the size of half a garden
    pea. Instead of making an assumption that it was remains of the meal I
    had been eating, I decided to spit the foreign object out.

    With legs still kicking ...


    and you still went to sleep?!

    I do not know about STILL kicking but my wife spends a couple of hours a
    night kicking her legs while asleep.

    I am not sure whether Adrian's legs were still kicking.
    --
    0sterc@tcher -

    "O* sont les neiges d'antan?"
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  • From Kerr-Mudd, John@admin@127.0.0.1 to uk.rec.sheds on Tue Sep 9 09:46:36 2025
    From Newsgroup: uk.rec.sheds

    On Sun, 7 Sep 2025 22:29:32 +0100
    Adrian Caspersz <email@here.invalid> wrote:

    Fell asleep this afternoon after taking a swig of diet coke, and felt rolling about on my tongue something about the size of half a garden
    pea. Instead of making an assumption that it was remains of the meal I
    had been eating, I decided to spit the foreign object out.

    With legs still kicking ...


    I once had a pint of beer with a decent head, but the legs were a step too
    far. (centipede caught dozing in an empty pint pot, the landlord grabbed
    it and filled it without looking)
    --
    Bah, and indeed Humbug.
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  • From Soup@cheez2011@gmail.com to uk.rec.sheds on Thu Sep 11 18:30:07 2025
    From Newsgroup: uk.rec.sheds

    On 07/09/2025 22:29, Adrian Caspersz wrote:
    Fell asleep this afternoon after taking a swig of diet coke, and felt rolling about on my tongue something about the size of half a garden
    pea. Instead of making an assumption that it was remains of the meal I
    had been eating, I decided to spit the foreign object out.

    With legs still kicking ...

    You should have just swallowed it .

    Not much would survive your stomach acid.

    If you were (fully/half) asleep you would not really notice so there
    would be no "bleccccccch" factor. and physically you would be fine.

    There is/was a theory that a person swallows about 12 spiders in their
    life time (can't remember if that is in a debunk phase or not), still swallowing shi^h^h^h stuff is more common than delicate minds hope.
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  • From Sam Plusnet@not@home.com to uk.rec.sheds on Thu Sep 11 20:01:07 2025
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    On 11/09/2025 18:30, Soup wrote:
    On 07/09/2025 22:29, Adrian Caspersz wrote:
    Fell asleep this afternoon after taking a swig of diet coke, and felt
    rolling about on my tongue something about the size of half a garden
    pea. Instead of making an assumption that it was remains of the meal I
    had been eating, I decided to spit the foreign object out.

    With legs still kicking ...

    You should have just swallowed it .

    Not much would survive your stomach acid.

    If you were (fully/half) asleep you would not really notice so there
    would be no "bleccccccch" factor. and physically you would be fine.

    There is/was a theory that a person swallows about 12 spiders in their
    life time (can't remember if that is in a debunk phase or not), still swallowing shi^h^h^h stuff is more common than delicate minds hope.

    Suppose there is no fly to catch?
    No good reason the swallow that spider in that case.
    --
    Sam Plusnet
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  • From Andy Burns@usenet@andyburns.uk to uk.rec.sheds on Fri Sep 12 09:21:29 2025
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    Soup wrote:

    Adrian Caspersz wrote:
    I decided to spit the foreign object out.
    With legs still kicking ...

    You should have just swallowed it .
    OK Greta.

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  • From Chris Elvidge@chris@internal.net to uk.rec.sheds on Fri Sep 12 13:16:38 2025
    From Newsgroup: uk.rec.sheds

    On 11/09/2025 at 18:30, Soup wrote:
    On 07/09/2025 22:29, Adrian Caspersz wrote:
    Fell asleep this afternoon after taking a swig of diet coke, and felt
    rolling about on my tongue something about the size of half a garden
    pea. Instead of making an assumption that it was remains of the meal I
    had been eating, I decided to spit the foreign object out.

    With legs still kicking ...

    You should have just swallowed it .


    As I said to the Goblin Teasmaid
    --
    Chris Elvidge, England
    I WILL RETURN THE SEEING-EYE DOG
    Bart Simpson on chalkboard in episode 9F18

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  • From Simon@SimonJ@eu.invalid to uk.rec.sheds on Fri Sep 12 19:12:17 2025
    From Newsgroup: uk.rec.sheds

    On 2025-09-12, Chris Elvidge wrote:
    On 11/09/2025 at 18:30, Soup wrote:
    On 07/09/2025 22:29, Adrian Caspersz wrote:
    Fell asleep this afternoon after taking a swig of diet coke, and felt
    rolling about on my tongue something about the size of half a garden
    pea. Instead of making an assumption that it was remains of the meal I
    had been eating, I decided to spit the foreign object out.

    With legs still kicking ...

    You should have just swallowed it .


    As I said to the Goblin Teasmaid



    Haha, OMG, not heard that for a long time, now I am thinking of The Generation Game and the conveyor belt of crap, apart from the cuddly toy of course.
    --
    Simon

    RLU: 222126

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  • From Nicholas D. Richards@nicholas@salmiron.com to uk.rec.sheds on Mon Sep 15 00:05:50 2025
    From Newsgroup: uk.rec.sheds

    In article <10a12v6$3fe5q$1@dont-email.me>, Chris Elvidge
    <chris@internal.net> on Fri, 12 Sep 2025 at 13:16:38 awoke Nicholas
    from his slumbers and wrote
    On 11/09/2025 at 18:30, Soup wrote:
    On 07/09/2025 22:29, Adrian Caspersz wrote:
    Fell asleep this afternoon after taking a swig of diet coke, and felt
    rolling about on my tongue something about the size of half a garden
    pea. Instead of making an assumption that it was remains of the meal I
    had been eating, I decided to spit the foreign object out.

    With legs still kicking ...

    You should have just swallowed it .


    As I said to the Goblin Teasmaid

    That takes me back. Throughout most of the 60's and possibly part of
    the 50's my parents had one on the table between their two beds. I
    would hear it start to bubble (my bedroom was in the attic above their bedroom). When the alarm went off I would hear my father pour his cup
    of tea, which would be cold before he got to drink it.

    The next noise was the sound of a match box being shaken and then a
    match being struck, and a sharp intake of breath. I racking cough
    followed as my father staggered to the bath room and sat on the corner
    of the bath coughing up his lungs for 10 minutes; the result of a sixty
    a day habit. He stopped smoking Players Navy Cut in 1969 when he had a
    fatal heart attack, at the age of 51.

    Funny what takes you back.
    --
    0sterc@tcher -

    "O* sont les neiges d'antan?"
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  • From Simon@SimonJ@eu.invalid to uk.rec.sheds on Mon Sep 15 08:11:12 2025
    From Newsgroup: uk.rec.sheds

    On 2025-09-14, Nicholas D. Richards wrote:
    In article <10a12v6$3fe5q$1@dont-email.me>, Chris Elvidge
    <chris@internal.net> on Fri, 12 Sep 2025 at 13:16:38 awoke Nicholas
    from his slumbers and wrote
    On 11/09/2025 at 18:30, Soup wrote:
    On 07/09/2025 22:29, Adrian Caspersz wrote:
    Fell asleep this afternoon after taking a swig of diet coke, and felt >>>> rolling about on my tongue something about the size of half a garden
    pea. Instead of making an assumption that it was remains of the meal I >>>> had been eating, I decided to spit the foreign object out.

    With legs still kicking ...

    You should have just swallowed it .


    As I said to the Goblin Teasmaid

    That takes me back. Throughout most of the 60's and possibly part of
    the 50's my parents had one on the table between their two beds. I
    would hear it start to bubble (my bedroom was in the attic above their bedroom). When the alarm went off I would hear my father pour his cup
    of tea, which would be cold before he got to drink it.

    The next noise was the sound of a match box being shaken and then a
    match being struck, and a sharp intake of breath. I racking cough
    followed as my father staggered to the bath room and sat on the corner
    of the bath coughing up his lungs for 10 minutes; the result of a sixty
    a day habit. He stopped smoking Players Navy Cut in 1969 when he had a
    fatal heart attack, at the age of 51.

    Funny what takes you back.

    I imagine that general scenario is common to many of us, although for much of my
    life I was the teasmade :-(
    --
    Simon

    RLU: 222126

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  • From Nicholas D. Richards@nicholas@salmiron.com to uk.rec.sheds on Mon Sep 15 13:44:29 2025
    From Newsgroup: uk.rec.sheds

    In article <10a8hn0$ddda$1@solani.org>, Simon <SimonJ@eu.invalid> on
    Mon, 15 Sep 2025 at 08:11:12 awoke Nicholas from his slumbers and wrote
    On 2025-09-14, Nicholas D. Richards wrote:
    In article <10a12v6$3fe5q$1@dont-email.me>, Chris Elvidge >><chris@internal.net> on Fri, 12 Sep 2025 at 13:16:38 awoke Nicholas
    from his slumbers and wrote
    On 11/09/2025 at 18:30, Soup wrote:

    You should have just swallowed it .


    As I said to the Goblin Teasmaid

    That takes me back. Throughout most of the 60's and possibly part of
    the 50's my parents had one on the table between their two beds. I
    would hear it start to bubble (my bedroom was in the attic above their
    bedroom). When the alarm went off I would hear my father pour his cup
    of tea, which would be cold before he got to drink it.

    The next noise was the sound of a match box being shaken and then a
    match being struck, and a sharp intake of breath. I racking cough
    followed as my father staggered to the bath room and sat on the corner
    of the bath coughing up his lungs for 10 minutes; the result of a sixty
    a day habit. He stopped smoking Players Navy Cut in 1969 when he had a
    fatal heart attack, at the age of 51.

    Funny what takes you back.

    I imagine that general scenario is common to many of us, although for much of my
    life I was the teasmade :-(

    On the bright side, you got first dibs on the tea.
    --
    0sterc@tcher -

    "O* sont les neiges d'antan?"
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  • From Simon@SimonJ@eu.invalid to uk.rec.sheds on Mon Sep 15 15:33:18 2025
    From Newsgroup: uk.rec.sheds

    On 2025-09-15, Nicholas D. Richards wrote:
    In article <10a8hn0$ddda$1@solani.org>, Simon <SimonJ@eu.invalid> on
    Mon, 15 Sep 2025 at 08:11:12 awoke Nicholas from his slumbers and wrote
    On 2025-09-14, Nicholas D. Richards wrote:
    In article <10a12v6$3fe5q$1@dont-email.me>, Chris Elvidge >>><chris@internal.net> on Fri, 12 Sep 2025 at 13:16:38 awoke Nicholas
    from his slumbers and wrote
    On 11/09/2025 at 18:30, Soup wrote:

    You should have just swallowed it .


    As I said to the Goblin Teasmaid

    That takes me back. Throughout most of the 60's and possibly part of
    the 50's my parents had one on the table between their two beds. I
    would hear it start to bubble (my bedroom was in the attic above their
    bedroom). When the alarm went off I would hear my father pour his cup
    of tea, which would be cold before he got to drink it.

    The next noise was the sound of a match box being shaken and then a
    match being struck, and a sharp intake of breath. I racking cough
    followed as my father staggered to the bath room and sat on the corner
    of the bath coughing up his lungs for 10 minutes; the result of a sixty
    a day habit. He stopped smoking Players Navy Cut in 1969 when he had a
    fatal heart attack, at the age of 51.

    Funny what takes you back.

    I imagine that general scenario is common to many of us, although for much of my
    life I was the teasmade :-(

    On the bright side, you got first dibs on the tea.

    I hated the stuff, until I was about 40. Now I don't mind it in the winter but I
    don't like anything other than hot tea.
    --
    Simon

    RLU: 222126

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