It’s been a while since I did a funny post thread, and thought now was the time to get one going again 😉
What was the last (FUNNY) silly/idiotic thing you did? It doesn’t have to be asthma related, but obvs bonus points if it was 😝. It can even be something you witnessed!
For mine; yesterday I ate a very powdery doughnut (custard yum!), and like a pig decided to eat the left over sugar, queue me deciding to breathe it in instead and start coughing instead 😅😂.
Another thing: I walked full speed into a doorframe. I blame the steroids of this (and the door! 😉). It tots wasn’t because I wasn’t looking where I was going 🙈😂
So go on. Make us laugh! - the sillier the better!!
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Mine isn’t asthma related, but brain fog from my fibromyalgia related! I went to pick up my son’s pyjamas while I was collecting up washing and at that very moment I couldn’t think of the name so had to improvise “do your sleep trousers need washing”? 🥴🤷🏼♀️🤦🏼♀️🤣🤣 The look I got from his was priceless! I fear they will now forever be called sleep trousers!
I think it took me 3 attempts the other day to remember what I was going into a room for. Kept going between 2 rooms, remember what I needed (think it was a pencil) into study, forget what I needed, back to living room ‘ah. I needed a pencil’ 😅😂😂. The last time I had to keep saying pencil out loud until I picked it up. There is a whole 10 steps between the 2 points 😂😂
However I think I may need to call them sleep trousers now 😝😂
I have a similar one caused by general brain failure, no illness at all. I am bilingual since young and whichever language I am currently in as it were is dominant, and the other tends to fall by the wayside until I shift back. Once while on holiday with a friend in the other country (and speaking that language fluently) I was translating a headline for my English speaking friend. The headline referred to contraceptives. I could not remember the word for it for anything, so I called it anti- baby making medicine. I got a snigger back.
German speakers can maybe correct me, but isn't that the actual word for the pill in German? Am sure I've seen that it's 'antibabypille' (and this is what that impeccable resource, Google Translate, says lol).
I have no idea about German, but it is not the word here, as we know, nor in Swedish. ......... I have also been known to translate the wrong way round, that is an English sentence into Swedish, to an English speaker.
I speak no languages very well (the shame) but somehow if I need to speak French I will forget any of the French I know (and I got a good mark at GCSE) in favour of the 5 words of Spanish or Italian I know.
I also know an odd selection of specialist German psychiatry and pathology terms (from work) and parts of the Gospel (from singing Bach Passions in German). There is never going to be an occasion when I can see 'incubate at 40 degrees for one hour, then rinse in wash buffer' or 'we have no king but Caesar' being useful.
Oooh, I don’t know! The moment could come! Perhaps a mix of the two, like could it be that Caesar suffered from x condition, judging from his behaviour?
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I don't think I would be up to discussing historical psychiatry in German! (Or English, for the psych side). For ages I could say 'sprechen sie Deutsch?' then realised it was pointless asking people if they speak German when I don't, and managed to work out 'sprechen sie Englisch?' from that.
Yesterday I went to the supermarket (I know, dangerous living!) to get some things Asda delivery missed off.
I picked up an aubergine which was the main item for a recipe. Got home and realised I'd forgotten to actually check it out 😂😂🤦Had to get inventive with peppers.
This isn't recent but I have also been known to sniff hand soaps before I buy to see if they set me off (so I don't buy one I can't use is my rationale). Darwin Award time 😂
In my defence I am a lot more sensitive than I used to be as these kinds of triggers seem to develop in intensity for me, so I need less and less to have more and more of a reaction. But still, idiocy! Especially since it only works for the first one to trigger.
I'm sure I don't need to warn anyone not to play Russian roulette with triggers even if the reaction doesn't seem that bad.
One day after lockdown (if there is such a day) I can make you my half-assed pepper version. My friend's mum is allergic to aubergine so she has to do this sub a lot and said it would be fine.
I think the recipe kit people are messing with me though, or I am just a wimp with spices. This was allegedly non-spicy but they lied!!
How do you substitute with peppers? I love both, and happily use both/ either as the core of dishes, but they hardly taste the same! They work well together though! I dread the day certain political changes will make it hard to get hold of them. I don’t seem to be able to make them grow in the garden, and certainly not in sufficient quantities.
My principle was 'I need a vegetable I like, I have peppers'. The recipe suggested courgettes as a sub (which was what Asda tried to give me) but I don't really like them. I use SimplyCook and will often divert from what they suggest if I don't like some of the ingredients, can't be bothered ('that sounds like too much effort I will just put everything in one pan'), or don't have something in. This is also why I like SimplyCook, since they don't have a reminder in the app and keep sending me fish recipes if I forget. I loathe fish but since I only get spices/seasonings not fresh ingredients, I can usually adapt to make them with something else.
Recipes are suggestions or inspiration, not rules. That is how it works for me. But where would I be without an onion? Then peppers etc. Courgettes? No, not keen either, but working on it. They kind of lack flavour to me. Spices on the other hand.......bring it on!Since my asthma event on Christmas Day I am trying to work out how to caramelise an onion without frying or baking or flames...it is not going to work, is it.
😂😂. I have nothing else to say but so many questions 🤣. Weren’t they uncomfortable? When did you notice? Did you sort it or leave it as a B- score for dressing that day? So many questions 😂
You have made my day - I don’t think anyone will top this 😝. Thanks for answering they questions my brain couldn’t resist answering! Time to get your needle and thread out maybe 😉
LysistrataAdministratorCommunity Ambassador in reply to Melom
Omg that is the best doomscrolling antidote!! 😂😂😂😂 Is there a complex Greek name for wearing underwear back to front I wonder?🤔🤔🩲🩲
LysistrataAdministratorCommunity Ambassador in reply to Melom
On a vaguely related note, a family friend said she uses clean knickers to keep her hair off her face when washing it/applying make up. I have been known to do this when I can't find my headband. It looks ridiculous but it works 😂
Now that’s something I haven’t done before. At least the knickers were on the right body part (anatomically! 🙈🤭😳🤣)
Useful tip though if you forget your headband.
LysistrataAdministratorCommunity Ambassador in reply to Melom
When I was about 3 or 4 I tried to leave the house in a pyjama top with a colander on my head.
I liked the pyjama top pattern and didn't see why it should be wasted on bed. The colander I have no idea about but obviously I was just trying to start a trend 😂😂
(yes I was wearing clothes on the bottom half of me)
Brilliant ! Speaking of knickers...can anyone remember those cropped jeans with big turn-ups on the bottom (very fashionable)...well I went out all day with a pair of knickers tucked in said Turn-up 🤣
This has mad me giggle. I had a crochet tank top. Imagine how I looked answering the door to my young boyfriend who then looked and pronounced proudly " your tops on backwards" How...Your name badge is on your back. Thanks mum. As the front and the back were the same in pattern (front free rows less) she saw this to be a good plan!! Guess that relationship didnt florish
Having quite a stressy busy day yesterday and did the kids a (very) late tea then managed to drop all of it on the floor as I was serving up! I just stood and stared at it, didn’t know whether to laugh or cry 😆So I went to MCDS drive thru and they were more than happy!
I’ve just had a bath then went to get my pjs on...hopping all around my room like a loon trying to get my leg in my pj top!
I did something really funny...years ago actually but have never lived it down....went out for a coffee (those were the days) and was walking from the till to the seating area and banged into someone, so I was like ‘oh sorry!’ Then the till lady and my friend burst out laughing because it was a mirror so I’d banged into myself and apologised to myself in front of a cafe full of people! 🤭
Since the conversation is on a certain topic my mortifying hilarious moment was after I had successfully shed 5 and a half stone and was proudly wearing a lovely new shift dress to an important work meeting in a hospital. Confidently walking at pace down a long corridor with key senior people as we were heading to the meeting room, I felt something tickling my ankles. Suspecting a cat or some animal I looked down and my knickers were flapping round my ankles! 😳
I stepped out of them and rapidly shoved them in my bag, but of course everyone saw but thankfully we all saw the funny side of it!! Senior clinician there calmly said “well that’s a first, it’s usually the patients that drop their knickers!” Classic. 🥴😂
Note to self - keep up all aspects of updating the wardrobe not just the outer layers 🤦🏼♀️
I phrased it more smoothly than the reality as they did catch a bit on my heels as I was trying to be calm and casual as if it was all perfectly natural ....... inside cringing like mad and wondering how on earth I would regain any semblance of dignity! Laughing was really the only option - though I’m not convinced there wasn’t an element of hysteria in there at that very moment 😉😳 I certainly left an impression!
LysistrataAdministratorCommunity Ambassador in reply to Melom
Oh god the number of times I’ve had someone try to climb into bed with me 😂 (if only it was a hot, eligible bachelor).
When I had an elective admission for a steroid wean there was a patient who kept getting my side room confused with the toilet... thankfully no messes or anything but she used to open the door at about 3am and just stand there staring at me for about 30 seconds without moving, before wandering off down the corridor 😅
My Grandma was in a geriatrics' home and there was one man who would go to the toilet in the night, forget to put himself away properly and then go into the wrong room. He tried to climb into someone else's bed, and got bonked over the head with her walking stick. Bless them all.
Years ago (and I mean years...) when I was a 16 year old i borrowed my friend's very high sparkly sandals when we went to a pub in a nearby town. We thought we were very grown up and the bees knees until when trying to run for the bus, I really did slip over on a banana skin! Right opposite a queue of people waiting to get into a nightclub! Luckily two of the blokes from the queue carried me to the bus!My son could tell you of many instances i have embarrassed him but the one he remembers best was in the school playground when he was about 8 and i fell over backwards and laud in the middle of the playground with my skirt up over my head flashing everyone my knickers.......or the time I fell over crossing the road and did the same...and the traffic had to stop....
Mine isn't asthma related but man did it confuse me for the day.. I went to work with one sock on.. not an issue you would think but i have sensory processing disorder and autism so was very confused.... but what makes this worse is i work a split shift everyday (the joys of out of school care) so i came home fully intending to sort the sock issue and didn't.... went back to work that afternoon still wearing one sock.... then when I got changed at night into my sleep trousers i realised i actually had 2 socks on but on one foot..... ooops 🤣🤣🤣
That’s really funny Frazzle! I am laughing at your expense! 😂😂😂 I can just imagine all the 7 yr olds too telling their parents that they learnt these letters’ d I c k’ 😂😂😂
Most nights I wake up after about half an hour asleep, thinking I've forgotten to take my inhaler. Then I realise that I'm breathing so I must have remembered it. Then I remember taking it, and go back to sleep. Is that a side effect of Fostair?
The other night I half-woke up in a proper panic. I remember saying out loud to my husband "oh oh oh I've forgotten something in the lounge". I got all the way to the door and into my dressing gown before I realised that I had no idea what I had forgotten. I went for a wee anyway, just in case it was that...
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