Interesting thought.........

Managed to put 20 Refresher sweets (the chews with sherbert in middle) in my mouth in one go & ate them without throwing up..... did dribble quite a bit though ;)
 
DJW said:
Managed to put 20 Refresher sweets (the chews with sherbert in middle) in my mouth in one go & ate them without throwing up..... did dribble quite a bit though ;)
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I can get a wagon wheel (the biscuit not a wheel off a wagon:lol: ) in my mouth whole without breaking it. I was able to do this as a kid too. I also used to fold Mars bars in half and eat them in one go too.
I can also get my tongue up my nostril.
Not necessarily all the above at the same time though:lol:
 
nilagin said:
I can get a wagon wheel (the biscuit not a wheel off a wagon:lol: ) in my mouth whole without breaking it. I was able to do this as a kid too. I also used to fold Mars bars in half and eat them in one go too.
I can also get my tongue up my nostril.
Not necessarily all the above at the same time though:lol:
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i can fit pretty much a whole bag of haribo starmix into my mouth at one go, its my party peice
 
nilagin said:
I can get a wagon wheel (the biscuit not a wheel off a wagon:lol: ) in my mouth whole without breaking it.
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Damn. And here's me thinking I'm unique.
 
GfK said:
Damn. And here's me thinking I'm unique.
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nope sorry :p


in my younger days i would go to macdonalds and eat, in one sitting, 2 big macs, 6 nuggets, quarterpounder with cheese, large fries, strawbshake and a cheeseburger.....*rubs belly* :gag:

Good Luck Noah!
 
Matty said:
nope sorry :p


in my younger days i would go to macdonalds and eat, in one sitting, 2 big macs, 6 nuggets, quarterpounder with cheese, large fries, strawbshake and a cheeseburger.....*rubs belly* :gag:

Good Luck Noah!
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When serving my apprenticeship I would eat a couple of cornish pasties, at least three ham rolls and drink a pint of milk in a 10 minute teabreak.
For some absurd reason (can't for the life of me remember why) I used to pour fizzy orange drink on my steak and kidney pies before eating them. Did taste nice though , honest.
 
fizzy orange on a pie! ...might have to try that one

thanks for the lucky thoughts guys ;)
 
nilagin said:
When serving my apprenticeship I would eat a couple of cornish pasties, at least three ham rolls and drink a pint of milk in a 10 minute teabreak.
For some absurd reason (can't for the life of me remember why) I used to pour fizzy orange drink on my steak and kidney pies before eating them. Did taste nice though , honest.
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...eeewwwwww.....:gag:
 
noah said:
it's hitting the stage where i'm just plaiin exhausted, i'm fed up with revision and it seems like a never ending subject (...well that would be about right with medicine, should've thought abotu that before i started really!) i'm off home this weekend to get some help from friends and a little home cooking to sort me out, hopefully it will do the trick.

fingers crossed.
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i know what you mean, i completely fudged up my final year of my degree, simply because i was simply absolutely shattered from working all hours (4years of constant work as you say) constant working long days to go to uni, do coursework, spent 5-7hrs a day designing and building a racing car as well as attempt to have a socail life as well, and in my final 2 years i was out practicaly every night taking pictures) i also wasnt sure whether i really wanted to do as i was sick to death of it all. i got behind with my work (doing my work that is, not handing it in, i never missed a deadline or anything - i only missed 3 lectures in 4 years) this came to a head when with 2 weeks to go til my project hand in date i had hardly done anything on it, as well as having 2 other peices of coursework. so i just put my head down (after explaining to one of the lecturers that i wanted to give up) nuckled down and did the work, i got a 2:2 which after fudging an exam at the end of the year was really the best i could hope for, when really i should have got a very high 2:1 (i was and still am aparently one of the best students that they've had through the course)

so dont give up, plug down and get on with it and reap the benefits after you've finished. (your uni is ****ing stupid IMHO for not letting you resit a single exam- seems utterly retarded in my mind, you clearly didnt fudge up the entire year, so why should you have to resit it - id hazard a guess that one of the lecturers is too bone idle to write a resit exam)

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whitewash said:
your uni is ****ing stupid IMHO for not letting you resit a single exam- seems utterly retarded in my mind, you clearly didnt fudge up the entire year, so why should you have to resit it - id hazard a guess that one of the lecturers is too bone idle to write a resit exam
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yup, just about the most frustrating rule ever made. cost me thousands of pounds. there's definately an element of truth in the lack of exam writing. they don't let us have any past papers as they use the questions again and again instead of writing new ones. seems rather silly really, surely that's why we pay them?

congrats on getting through yours. i've thought about chucking it in more than once but then there's nothing else i can see myself doing, and i do enjoy the clinical side of things so i hope it will be an ejoyable career. i considered photography but that seems even harder work so i'll leave it as a hobby for now i think!
 
you should be allowed passed papers or at the very least example (as used in exam) questions, otherwise you'll be going into the exam blind, which isnt on.

its only (cant remember how long a medicine degree is - i know my mates bro's vetsceince degree was 7 years and he had to resit an entire year after failing an exam by 2 maraks) a few years, which on the grand scheme of things isnt much when you've got nearly 40 (probably about 60 once they've stopped increasing the retirement age) of work ahead of you.
 
Im bumping this thread, because it's a damn good thread :thumbs:
 
I have middle name. Not one. Not even a double barreled middle name. It's long. Really long - long to the extent that I can't actually tell you all of it, cos' I just don't know it!

Here's what I do know :

Hoodi Lawrence Arshad Sadiq Jaffa Salamon Dauoud Ansari

That's about half of it!
Why such a long name? It's kind of tradition. Starting with the second middle name, you've got my grandfather. After that my great grandfather, etc. etc.
This goes on for as far as your family tree stretches back in known existence. For most in the middle east that's not actually very long - it is rather for me, though.

So there you have it.
 
thats not a traditional welsh name is it
 
I once beat Sebastian Coe in a race.
The London Marathon, it was his first Marathon and my 4th.
 
Great thread and thanks to Marcel for bumping it! Some real interesting and moving stories on here, particularly where kids/marriage/families are involved.

Nothing too interesting at this end although with a surname of Greenlees you can imagine the cr*p I had to put up with at school, and even as an adult people can't seem to get it right, Greenleaves, Greensleeves, Greenless, Greenways and so on, I've heard them all but the best was when someone called me and asked to speak to "Mr Creamteas". :shake:

Other stuff? I've worked in the security/close protection field all round the world for various clients and spent a lot of time in the Middle East, Far East and the States as well as closer to home in Europe but gave it up when we started a family as it was definitely more suited to a single lifestyle. :naughty: Much as I love my kids I still miss it at times, especially the people I worked with, the camaraderie, the laughs and adventures. Getting caught up in an African civil war and never thinking I'd see home again is one memory that always brings back mixed emotions.

I still work in security but within the corporate world and I hate it. All the bullsh*t, playground politics and muppets who are supposed to be 'leaders' who are spineless and self-serving get on my nerves, the majority of whom couldn't have a dump without first having a meeting. :bang:

I'm crap with money, if I've got it I'll spend it, but hey, there's no pockets in a shroud.

I was never going to get married or have kids, I was way too selfish. How things have changed! (for the better I must add)
 
OK, seeing as I didn't share any 'juicy' details about myself earlier in this thread I will now! :D

Back in 2002 I left my hubby(highschool sweetheart)and moved in with someone I met off the internet! :eek:

The story is,
Hubby and I had bought our first home, we were on our second child, just purchased a 40 ft trailer, and so on and so forth. We had it all so it would seem to the rest of the world, just not enough money to pay for it all,lol. So hubby had to work more to keep up, so I was left at home with the youngings, (18 months apart) more and it just got to be too much. I swear I went crazy with no help form him. Any of you with kids know what I mean,lol. So I literally gave up and walked out. Thought life would be different with someone else.

Turns out I was wrong,:lol: The grass isn't always greener on the other side,lol. Long story short, I am back with hubby, the kids, the trailor and on our 'second' home. Life couldn't be better. :)


Even to this day though my hubby and I don't ever "not' talk about it, it was a mistake yes, but we both learned alot and came out of it different people in the end. Were better for it and don't take anything for granted anymore!

Sometimes one doesn't realize what we have until it's gone. I'm just glad I didn't lose it all in the end.

Julie :)
 
matty said:
thats not a traditional welsh name is it
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Just because I'm Welsh doesn't mean my heritage is ¬_¬

Lots of interesting stories here!
 
Hoodi said:
Just because I'm Welsh doesn't mean my heritage is ¬_¬

Lots of interesting stories here!
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didnt mean any offence, used quick reply so didnt get any smilies in, add this one to the end of what i posted: :p
 
I lived in a convent for a year :) and no I'm not a nun or even female.

Neither myself or my daughter or my father has a spleen :) hey ghandi we can start a club.
 
jewel said:
Sometimes one doesn't realize what we have until it's gone. I'm just glad I didn't lose it all in the end.
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Wow. What a story. Glad to hear that you and ur hubby are back together. :thumbs: How often does that happen? I mean people getting back together, not you two breaking up. :lol:

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Even to this day though my hubby and I don't ever "not' talk about it
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Sorry, do you mean you don't talk about it or do you mean you talk about it openly?

The love between you two must be really strong for the two of you to forgive each other. :clap: I always think that trust is like glass. Once it breaks, it can never mend to the way it was. I like it that I am proven wrong (in this case). Kinda gives me hope.
 
kamion said:
Sorry, do you mean you don't talk about it or do you mean you talk about it openly?{QUOTE]



After reading my post I should clarify something first cause it didn't look right when I read it a second time, :D

When I left hubby, I did exactly that. I took the kiddies with me of course. Nothing means more to me then my kids and I would never, EVER walk out on them. Those of you with kids understand that. My life is with them no matter where I am or who I am with. I am a mom first and foremost.

To answer your question Kamion, I meant we talk about it openly. All of us, the kids too. The children had developed a relationship with this "other" person because we all lived together as a family briefly. So when the kids bring it up, even to this day we have no choice but to talk about it. It's not like a 'dirty' little secret or anything. I am the one who had the affair yes, but infidelity is the end result of a relationship gone wrong, not the cause. We both realised that and slowly put things back together.

Jewel :)
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it's another frankenthread, back from the dead!

I'm trying to think of more interesting things about me now.............

nope. Will have to come back to that one lol.

That's a genuinely heart-warming story jules. Glad you're happy now!

Andy, how come the lack of spleens? I had Thrombocytopaenia when I was younger and my spleen was destroying all my platelets so I bled for about 3 days from even the smallest of scratches!
 
We all have Hereditary Spherocytosis, which means a portion of our red bloods cells are football shaped instead of doughnut shaped and the spleen tries to destroy them, so we all suffered from aneamia.

Now we have no spleens we suffer no other side effects at all :), we are tad more suseptable to infections and both my father & daughter are on penecillin for life, though I'm not, are you ?
 
Supposed to be, to prevent fulminating pneumothoraxial infections apparently. However, I don't believe taking penicillin long-term is very wise, causes all sorts of other problems in your body as it's a wide-spectrum antibiotic. I do have my 5 yearly pneumovax protection against pneumonia though!

I don't think there are any real side-effects apart from the slightly reduced effectiveness of the immune system. Better that than bleeding to death in my case!
 
Truely amazing thread! I've been dipping in and out of this one reading it for the past day or so. As a newcomer to this forum it really does show that there's a great community spirit here, I almost feel saddened in a way I wasn't a member when most of this thread was going on!

If people don't mind I just wanted to say to the ones who mentioned not having spoken to, or made up with, relatives - please do so! Even if you just let them know that you're there for them if need be, and even if you don't speak much afterwards - if something were to happen in yours or their lives you know at least you've done what you can to put things right. And to the chap who wanted to change his name - you only get one life, if you feel it's the thing that will let you put everything to rest then do it!

Life can be an amazing thing if we open ourselves up to new opportunities, but one must be free of the past to do so!
 
Wow, what a thread!

I have just read all 8 pages and I have so many things that I want to reply to.

Since it is late and I have to get up early tomorrow I won't go into them now but there are so many experiences that people have shared here that I can identify with and will maybe go into more detail when I have more time.

One semi interesting fact:

Some of you may remember opportunity knocks, and some guy that won it 6 weeks on the trot with his "muscle dancing".

His name is Tony Holland and he is the person that is reponsible for me taking steps which led to me turning my life around. Tony used to work in a childrens home in Clitheroe, Lancs and I was one of the children that lived there.

He got me into bodybuilding in quite a big way (he trained me for around a year), but he was also a committed Christian and was the first person that I ever felt actually cared about me. In the two years I knew him, he slowly but surely showed me that the way I was living my life was destructive to all around me as well as myself. I didn't listen or act on his advice straight away of course (no 17 year old thug would) but looking back on it, he was definitely the catalyst that eventually led to me turning away from the lifestyle that I was leading (gangs, fights, drugs and alchohol all figured highly) and becoming more like the person I am now.
 
Braeden said:
One semi interesting fact:

Some of you may remember opportunity knocks, and some guy that won it 6 weeks on the trot with his "muscle dancing".

His name is Tony Holland and he is the person that is reponsible for me taking steps which led to me turning my life around. Tony used to work in a childrens home in Clitheroe, Lancs and I was one of the children that lived there..
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I remember Tony Holland on that program and funnily enough was only talking about him the other day, He won that program in the days before steroids were out and making body builders are today.

Quite a chap he was/is now.:)

Hughie Green and Monica...:geek:
 
I watched a 4-hour long brain surgery on TV when I was 12.
 
Wow, 2006 that thread was dung up from!

I think my interesting fact that dispite my current health/weight/fitness etc I used to be a rather good footballer, I had trails with Everton, Played for my local town (U16's), Played with the "school of excellence" in he north west, and told the Reserve team of my local town that I didn't want to play for them when I had the oppertunity.

How things have changed!
 
I once found an unexploded WW2 bomb in a neighbours garden.

And then carried it home for my dad to look at ...

The bomb squad came and blew it up later the same day. I think my dads face is still a little bit paler because of it :)
 
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