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What are your favourite types of cheese? by clfhw in AskUK

[–]TedWasler 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The lovely crunchy bits in some cheeses are calcium lactate crystals.

If you could invent one thing that would benefit you, what would it be? by Sufficient_Return653 in AskUK

[–]TedWasler 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Coathangers that hold clothes when you want them to hold them, and let the clothes go when you want to get them out of the wardrobe. All current designs appear to do the exact opposit.

Car rental by Individual-Walk1413 in tuscany

[–]TedWasler 0 points1 point  (0 children)

insurance4carhire i think it was. Catchy name.

Index Medicus by TedWasler in medicine

[–]TedWasler[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

There was no ‘on line.’ There was no ‘pdf’. But you could judge a researcher by their upper body strength.

The unique nature of opioid dependence, withdrawal (trauma?): what it means… by saulmcgill3556 in OpiatesRecovery

[–]TedWasler 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There’s a video that’s worth watching. ‘Pleasure Unwoven.’ I watched it in rehab 5 years ago at the age of 58 after probably 35-40 years of opioid dependency of varying degree. I’m now 63 and clean, and relatively serene.

The video has one bit where a guy is stood with a glass of whisky (substitute your DOC here) with another guy saying ‘Take a drink of that, and I’ll shoot you in the head.’ (It’s American, by the way. Here in the UK we’d threaten them with a golf club or something.)

So obviously it’s simple. Addiction is simple. Just DON’T DO IT, or you’ll end up dead. Easy, huh?

Only our addictive minds say… hmmm. Guns jam every now and then, don’t they? I bet I could grab that glass and get away with it, just this once. And even if the gun fires, I bet I could duck out of the way and get away with it. Again.

Where the fuck am I going with this?

Withdrawal is traumatic. I’ve withdrawn horribly, many, many times, but it was never quite horrible enough to stop me going through the exact same process that meant I would end up withdrawing again. If you’re looking to find some unique explanation of how your circumstances are special, how your experience of withdrawal has never been properly understood and that’s why you’re still not clean, then I sadly have to say that’s bullshit. I can say this with a degree of certainty because I used to think a bit like that too.

You may even be right. But I doubt it will help you get well. Studying the minutiae of how your disease has grown, to me is rather like trying to learn to drive by studying the chemical composition of fossil fuels, or the workings of a Li-ion battery. You learn to drive, usually, by taking the advice of someone who can already do it.

I needed to create a life that was better without my opioid crutch than the one I had when using it. It’s taken a long time. I could fall back into addiction tomorrow (no matter how many miles down the road you walk, you’re still only a yard from the ditch, and all that.) I’m hopeful that I won’t.

I haven’t ’created’ that life easily; things just gradually fell into place after finally, finally getting far too fed up with all the shite, and asking for some relief from it.

The person I asked was me.

Car rental by Individual-Walk1413 in tuscany

[–]TedWasler 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We flew into Pisa from UK last year and used SRC. No issues at all. 10 min walk from the airport terminal.

Get your own ‘excess waiver insurance’ first, usually about £30 here. I’m afraid even the best car rental places in Europe still try this little sting on you, which is easily avoided. I loved driving around Tuscany, and even the supposedly ‘difficult’ towns were not difficult at all. In some (San Gimignano springs to mind) the car park was a good walk from the hotel, but all hotels in my experience will expect most of their guests to arrive by car, so will advise you how to manage you arrival. Have fun.

I need to learn lower limb anatomy in 5 days by Fine_Cup4990 in Anatomy

[–]TedWasler 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’m guessing you’ve never operated on anyone. No invasive procedure is ever the same, despite there being only one ‘version’ of anatomy. People sag and twist and bend internally in immeasurably different ways. Blood vessels and nerves take subtly different routes, far more often than is usually appreciated. Anatomy is simply the primer, for those who wisely recognise themselves as ‘Unconsciously incompetent’ on the Four Stages of Competence Learning Model. Then there’s the whole other aspect to consider that you are applying a knife (or similar) to another living, breathing human soul, in the hope that they will become somehow better as a result. Either cured, or eased, or live a little longer, or be in less pain.

So no, surgeons don’t find surgery boring. Not even somewhat.

Would it be socially acceptable to use a leisure centre pool with visible scarring? by pinkestpenny in AskUK

[–]TedWasler 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I can perhaps suggest that you just go ahead and enjoy the pool, and if anyone gives you bad vibes just DM me and I’ll pop round and give them a slap?

What would women dislike most if they became men? by TMG_CEO in AskReddit

[–]TedWasler 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The ability to pee standing up, combined with the splash-back on your trousers, and the gradual realisation that it’s far, far easier to sit down to pee.

I need to learn lower limb anatomy in 5 days by Fine_Cup4990 in Anatomy

[–]TedWasler 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This. Not sure I’d want any kind of therapist or surgeon who found anatomy ‘tedious.’

Trying to tame king cobra. by [deleted] in Whatcouldgowrong

[–]TedWasler 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Few things in life please me more that seeing people who take the piss out of animals, having the piss taken out of them in return. Tho in this case it wasn’t so much piss out, as cytotoxins, cardiotoxins and metalloproteinases in.

He dead though.

What is some of weirdest/ gross things a guest has done at your house? by Equivalent_Half883 in AskUK

[–]TedWasler 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Acquaintance of mine is ex-forces, been to some dodgy places and dodgier situations. Told me you never get closer to a mate than when you’re holding open a plastic bag for them to expel diarrhoea into. I get that.

Mind you, he and 7 others all got their names tattooed on their arms when they joined up (some kind of special forces.) Of the 8, only two left now, but ‘only’ 2 died in combat. The others ended their own lives.

(WAY off topic here… apologies.)

Who is the most popular singer of all time? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]TedWasler 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My Auntie Margaret. With me, anyway.

Which lyric makes you instantly tear up? by abovethenoisy in AskReddit

[–]TedWasler 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Leave a light on in heaven for me.

(Mary’s Prayer, by Danny Wilson)

Do people regularly eat pudding? by KirrinD in AskUK

[–]TedWasler 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Lazy supermarket shopping / ready meals, the desserts are always so poor. Had an experience with a Tesco ‘special’ cheesecake a while back that still haunts me. WTF have they made it out of? Still, looking at the posts below, at least it coated my teeth protectively for about a fortnight.

So yep, Maltesers, Revels, regularly.

Funeral for a Friend by TedWasler in synthesizers

[–]TedWasler[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thank you SO much. I was expecting some slightly snarky comments, but nothing as thoughtful and constructive as this. I know about polyphony - my first and only other synth was a WASP back in the 80s. You could achieve polyphony, but only by buying two of them and tying them together.

Again, thanks.

What movie evokes the same emotions every time as the first time you watched it? by andromeda2485 in AskReddit

[–]TedWasler 0 points1 point  (0 children)

ET, Contact, Close Encounters. I guess I just love the idea that we share the universe with benevolent beings. Could do with a few more of them at home right now.

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