MissChris

Theprincess is currently staying in her palace at krabi heard she is here for 6 days,perhaps she going to visit Phuket we have had helicopters everywhere for the last 4 days here

Probably wants to go to Nikita's for lunch

Go see a doctor, eh?

ditto

Oh & let all us hypochondriacs know the outcome

Go see a doctor, eh?

ditto

As an Aussie, with the reputation for the hardest of all to understand, I think subtitles are a good idea. They assist the deaf after all.

Australians seem to be able to understand a variety of English dialects, probably because we get so much TV from overseas.

Tragic. Who knows? Mother may not have had money for a funeral. It is so sad when babies end up like this. Often as a result of panic.

Bruises don't necessarily indicate anything sinister - they can be a normal artefact after death.

I am prepared to contribute to a better ending for this little one if anyone is taking up a collection.

I was wondering why this thread hadn't been closed

Me too. But then my niece has her mother convinced she's smoking herbal tobacco. Who knows these days?

http://m.coffscoastadvocate.com.au/news/bitten-snake-catcher-blacked-out-wheel-and-crashed/1715831/

Note that he got in his car, crashed it and the snake still didn't kill him.

If they are playing, I probably will not go, but I am sure some locals will get a buzz out of hearing the didgeridoo.

Not to be missed. Especially if they have Gurrumul. Very entertaining onstage. Not just a didgeridoo. They are brilliant musicians. As well, Australian Aborigines have a hilarious, self-deprecating sense of humour.

ours were interlopers migrating due to construction, including a 3m King in our kitchen! Cue UB40...

Sure it wasn't offering itself as lunch?

We brought 2 dogs and 2 cats from the west a number of years ago and have never had an issue although our animals have now encountered every snake from crate to king cobra... In fact our one dog has become a very efficient herp-eradicator, killing them and burying them under our neighbour's villa!! No training required!

Snakes usually have a range. They are very efficient at getting out of the way of the large local inhabitants. They know where the food and water supplies are. You rarely see them, except that they don't carry a calendar, so they can get caught out on weekends if they had had a habit of sunning themselves in an obvious spot. They can live for many years.

Along comes a dog. A large snake means one which has been around for a long time (some Australian snakes live for over 40 years in the wild). When the dog kills it, a place is vacant. It is then filled with a young snake looking for a place. It doesn't yet know the inhabitants or where to find food & water. It is anxious and therefore highly aroused. MUCH more likely to bite anything that moves. Kill that one and you perpetuate the problem. The biggest error is killling the incumbent.

I had no idea that we had a large brown snake near the house until I returned from 3 weeks in Phuket. The cat had been boarding for the first time. We no longer have dogs. So when a 2m one came tearing through my lounge room, it was clearly because it had made a mistake. Yep - the cat was 3 times normal size, it took my heart a while to stop wildly thumping. Have lived here 20 years. Haven't seen it before or since.

Different to my <deleted> neighbour who proudly killed 20 one summer.

What's a 'BCD'?

I guess you don't dive? http://en.wikipedia....ensator_(diving)

Thanks.

No - I get seasick snorkelling - much to the disgust of my dive master son

Getting seasick, being In the water yourself? That's very unusual!

Not to say, almost impossible.

There are no conflicting signals, as soon you are in the water yourself!

Off topic, yes, but I couldn't leave this unanswered...

Maybe the reason why it's so unusual is that people like me who have gotten seasick snorkelling tend not to try it more than once. We are hardwired to avoid nausea.

In November 2011 an Australian couple, Abdul Karim Al-Rajab and Zeidan Nouha,

AUSTRALIAN???????????????????????

Yep. When we say we are a multicultural society here, that means names from other countries too. Not just people who look different. From the aborigines. The original Australians who have been here for about 40,000 years.

What's a 'BCD'?

I guess you don't dive? http://en.wikipedia....ensator_(diving)

Thanks.

No - I get seasick snorkelling - much to the disgust of my dive master son

What's a 'BCD'?

Expensive!!! But fun.

I'm getting out of bed to cover myself in vinegar right now.

For a second there, I was expecting you to say you were going to cover the OP with vinegar. Mmmm

A bit off topic, but scamming the scammers reminded of this web-site:-

http://listverse.com...ing-operations/

If you've got some free time, fun to read.

lmao thanks!

Sounds like an opportunity for a great business venture, Bluedan & KarenBravo.

When people contemplate planting a new crop & wonder whether to grow avocados, the response is...How many avocados do you eat a day? How many cups of coffee do you drink? How many cups of tea? Advice...Grow coffee & tea then get some clever people to do the rest.

Congratulations

I'd love to donate my A + blood, but because I lived in the UK until 1984 the Red Cross has said I can't because there was cow disease there back then. I haven't mooed once in the last 28 years, but they still say I can't donate my blood.

Was that everyone in the UK then or only those who had had blood transfusions or were otherwise in at risk categories?

Surely there are tests these days...

do you not remember the sound of a BSA Gold Star, Norton Commando or a Triumph Bonneville

I do! And I rode them too. Some of them pillion. Remember dragging a chopper on a Triumph Bonneville from the lights at the bottom of Bondi hill in 1969. We just smiled as we cruised off.

However, number 1 son doesn't like me riding in Phuket. Once told his cousins 'Get your inheritance early: put Mum on a motorbike in Phuket'. So I'm rarely allowed to ride, loud muffler or not. Usually seen surrounded by a protective cloud of other bikes. I don't think they can quite believe a fat old falang woman riding on her own.

Dormicum (midazolam) is a potent drug, OP. Not used for problems sleeping. It makes you unconscious & forget everything that has happened. (Like rohypnol). Mainly used to get you off to sleep before surgery. Given IV, it's brilliant. I love it!

Used also in psychiatric emergencies.

stevehaig, you probably took temazepam, a short acting sleeping tablet. They are intended to get you off to sleep & not wake up feeling groggy. They have an effect for about 4 hours. Although you could have had midazolam. I'm only used to it as an injection. In the bottom or IV.

Any sleeping medication is SHORT TERM ONLY. All, apart from herbals, are potentially addictive. Harder (and longer) to get off than heroin. They also disturb your REM sleep and when you stop taking them, your brain tries to catch up, making you sleep lightly & dream more. People who are worried about sleep tend to think they are not sleeping much at all.

There has been a lot of work done on 'sleep hygiene'. I'm sure you can look it up. Main points are no caffeine drinks after midday (that can include tea as well as coke, coffee). Exercise is essential. No computer games for at least an hour before bedtime. Bed only for sleep & sex. (Some of us include books). No TV, no doing accounts, etc.

Welcome back Lee.

Hope you brought your soap-on-a-rope, not something you want to be dropping anymore.

So inappropriate.

It is not the right of anyone in gaol to mete out punishment. This is the right of the courts only. In any country. Gaol should simply be a deprivation of liberty. To allow systematic abuse simply lets loose a very damaged person onto the community at large once they are released.

Slow over here in Oz last night. Kept dropping out.

BTW LIK, how come your number of posts is stuck at 9,064?