Nose/food accidents can cause distress.Yesterday, I offered my colleague a wine gum.
Due to a bizarre hiccuping coincidence, she ended up with a small piece of chewed-up orange wine gum lodged in her nasal passage.
This upset her, cos it was uncomfortable, and cos she could smell/taste orange wine gum.
'Just have a good snort and swallow it,' I told her. 'Nobody'll think any less of you in the greater scheme of things. Just go in the bogs and do it if you're embarrassed.'
But she wouldn't. She preferred to KEEP WHINING ABOUT IT FOR A SODDING HOUR AND A HALF until it dropped back down into her oesophagus of its own accord and she automatically swallowed it without thinking twice, or even once.
I do think some middle-class women have an unhealthily over-developed 'disgust' response.
(Due to a bizarre hiccuping coincidence, she ended up with a small piece of chewed-up orange wine gum lodged in her nasal passage.
This upset her, cos it was uncomfortable, and cos she could smell/taste orange wine gum.
'Just have a good snort and swallow it,' I told her. 'Nobody'll think any less of you in the greater scheme of things. Just go in the bogs and do it if you're embarrassed.'
But she wouldn't. She preferred to KEEP WHINING ABOUT IT FOR A SODDING HOUR AND A HALF until it dropped back down into her oesophagus of its own accord and she automatically swallowed it without thinking twice, or even once.
I do think some middle-class women have an unhealthily over-developed 'disgust' response.
Sea Tramp the thinking woman's 8 Ace,
Fri 5 Jun 2009, 0:37,
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Old Nordic saying:Whiny middle class women
Should shut the fuck up
(Should shut the fuck up
Cassius Kray floats like a butterfly, stings like a trout,
Fri 5 Jun 2009, 0:42,
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