Nice People 12: Nice in Nice

michaels

lostinrates wrote: »

Plum update.

DH has managed to cut a path through to them all. The Victoria and the unknown blue one we'd reached before were straight forward. Never before uncovered maroony laden thing took longer, and just a narrow path, but its not yet ripe, or maybe its something that doesn't quite ripen like a damson or a bullace? Not very good with these stone fruits.

Anyway I'll ask on my green fingered thread.

Too many plums and you might just need that butt plug...

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

Just cut one open - you'll be able to tell from how the knife goes through .... and as it's then cut you might as well try a bit

Just been reading about the differences.

. Well, cutting open certainly seems easiest way!

lostinrates

DH and I call a particular type of cheese 'the butt plug'.

lostinrates

michaels wrote: »

Too many plums and you might just need that butt plug...

My dogs ( the girls mainly) love plums and apples. They are spending their free time under the trees waiting for fruit to drop having picked all the low hanging fruit. They also ADORE blackberries.

Spirit_2

lostinrates wrote: »

Kiwi has a new 'game'. Its called 'hide and seek' he hides. We seek.

Its more fun for him than us.

Last night I had to leave him to go and get fir from the station, just taking the girls. ( thank fully RP found him, then kiwi hid again, twice).

When we got back ( knowing he was ok we stayed out a while) kiwi did excellent dancing and grinning. .

The phrase that come to mind is " little s*d". You might find it useful for expressing your feelings.

mystic_trev

Nikkster wrote: »

From the stories I've heard (used to work with gastroenterologists), you'd be surprised what ends up 'up there'. Or that people end up falling onto.

Yes. I remember being given a Copy of the British medical Journal back in the 80's. Here's the article!

From the British Medical Journal 5 July, 1980. p 26:

Penile injuries from vacuum cleaners

We report four cases of penile injury sustained when using a vacuum cleaner, probably in search of sexual excitement.

Case reports

Case 1-- A 60-year-old man said that he was changing the plug of his Hoover Dustette vacuum cleaner in the nude while his wife was out shopping. It "turned itself on" and caught his penis, causing tears around the external meatus and deeply lacerating the side of the glans. The external meatus was reconstructed and the multiple lacerations of the glans repaired with catgut.

The final result was some scarring of the glans, but the foreskin moved easily over it.

Case 2--A 65-year-old railway signalman was in his signal box when he bent down to pick up his tools and "caught his penis in a Hoover Dustette, which happened to be switched on." He suffered extensive lacerations to the glans, which were repaired with catgut with a good result.

Case 3--A 49-year-old man was vacuuming his friend's staircase in a loose-fitting dressing gown, when, intending to switch the machine off, he leaned across to reach the plug: "at that moment his dressing gown became undone and his penis was sucked into the vacuum cleaner." Because he had a phimosis he suffered multiple lacerations to the foreskin as well as lacerations to the distal part of the shaft of the penis, including the external meatus. His wounds were repaired with catgut and the phimosis reduced with a dorsal slit.

Case 4--This patient was aged 68, and no history was available except that the injury was caused by a vacuum cleaner. The injury extended through the corpora cavernosa and the corpus spongiosum and caused complete division of the urethra proximal to the corona. A two-stage urethroplasty was performed, and the final result was satisfactory.

Comment

Except for the patient with phimosis, the injuries sustained by these patients were mostly lacerations to the glans penis, presumably because the foreskin was retracted at the time. In case 4 the injury was more extensive and required a two-stage urethroplasty. We were surprised that none of the other patients suffered similarly severe injuries. A meatal stricture has been reported after this type of injury.

At least two of these injuries were caused by a Hoover Dustette, which has fan blades about 15 cm [6 in] from the inlet. The present patients may well have thought that the penis would be clear of the fan but were driven to new lengths by the novelty of the experience and came to grief.

N. D. Citron
P. J. Wade

Spirit_2

PasturesNew wrote: »

No, they're mail order. I'm only small so don't make much of a dent in regular cushions, so probably wouldn't ever get to a point where I realised I was sitting on a bit of wood.

The trouble with ebay is it's hit and miss - and hours/weeks of looking .... and I don't know what "quality" feels like as I've never sat on a quality sofa

I am a simple person, with simple needs

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PN you do sleep on the Sofa, so unless you plan to buy a bed too, DG has a point.

PasturesNew

GDB2222 wrote: »

Do you want a sofa that guests can sleep on? That would need to be a 3 seater, really. Would that be too big for the room? Around 2m long.

No. But I nod off on mine and/or sleep on it. My current one is 1.95m long, that's fine. A lot of modern ones are HUGE though, really deep and long and bigguns.

PasturesNew

mystic_trev wrote: »

Yes. I remember being given a Copy of the British medical Journal back in the 80's. Here's the article!

Looks like men of 50+ need to acquaint themselves with cleaning gadgets long before they get an urge to have sex with them.... so they can judge the outcome. What happens at 50ish that men wake up and suddenly think "I know ..... today I'll sh4g the vacuum"?

Spirit_2

silvercar wrote: »

I didn't know there was such a thing until I read 50 shades of grey!

I have not read that and was in blissful ignorance ..until today.

Not sure why one is needed...but it is OK, I am fine not knowing. Usually DG/LiR help me out with an explanation of such things...but I am fine, honest.