medical talk

And for those of you who enjoy a way with words, here is an article on medical slang from the BBC:

doctor talk

wow, i love it!

ha! you lot didn't even know it but there's a whole other dimension to your ubi games: unexplained beer injuries.

sounds like i might join the next round :p

the only thing that isn't explained seems to be "a whopper with cheese". what is that supposed to be?

#2 Found another site that explains it as an obese female with thrush (candidiasis, yeast infection). Deriving from the name of a hamburger like the one that some Europeans may know as a "royale with cheese".

Handbag positive is a confused patient (usually an elderly lady) lying on hospital
bed clutching a handbag.

A coffin dodger is someone who survived against expectations.

i got the other two (the handbag lady appears in the text) just didn't get the thrush one. i wouldn't know what a royale is, altho i did get the whopper. they have it in burger king here. i know that from tv spots which is all my fast food familiarity derives from. i'd never enter any such tlace

#4 -- The royale thing was a somewhat obscure reference to the Tarantino movie Pulp Fiction. That's where I get my fast food knowledge.

haha now that you say it i actually remember that bit in pulp fiction.

i am glad there is one american left who doesn't frequent ff joints btw. altho i'm sure you're not vice free. for sure you msut drink soft drinks. do you drink soft drinks? rhetoric question, anyway.

Edited by: mathilda for exccessive pui typos

#7 -- I'll answer your rhetorical question. I like cubas libres (rum and coca-cola, wedge of lime) in the summer. And sometimes I find a Coke can be good for a queasy stomach. I think I ate a suspicious crabcake last summer; at any rate the next day my stomach was feeling a bit doubtful as I drove home from the beach. I stopped to pick up a Coke to treat it and was amazed that the smallest size available was 20 ounces, about 650 ml. When I was a kid, the standard bottle of coca-cola was 6 ounces, and that was all I really wanted fr my stomach. Anyway, that was the last soft drink I've had, to the best of my recollection. I'll probably have more this summer, with rum. And with gin, if quinine water counts as a soft drink.

But it's cultural differences that make traveling worth doing, right? That's what the Travolta character seems to think. Royale with cheese.

Edited by: VinnyD

oh yeah not like i dont like to drink rum and coke whiskey and coke and if there is no tonic i might opt for a gin with lemonade, but god protect me from the day that I so much as wet my lips with these pure (happens a lot in juice-less, tea-less african countries à vrai dire -but there i also find white bread and mayonnaise sandwich dunked in nido milk delicious so i don't think that counts).
anyway the amount of soft drinks that were guzzled in the u.s. truely alienated me. that, and the u.s.ians shiny faces (the women at least have them. beauty product overload)

Edited by: mathilda

Were you also alienated by the couscous in Morocco and the cheese in France?

no, but i was alienated, and still am, by the fully clothed (read: marmelade and butter) toast dripping with coffee and the endless snogging rituals at every come-and-go in france, and maybe with some of the local customs concerning marriage in morrocco

Edited by: mathilda

on the other hand, it never was a problem integrating couscous, french cheese and american rock music into my life style.

now i've finally come out of the closet, a full on xenophobe