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(, Sun 1 Apr 2001, 1:00)
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I was convinced that Ms Foxtrot and I were going to be horribly murdered by psychopaths when she signed us up to do that charity hitchhike to Morocco a couple of years back, but was spectacularly mistaken. Amazing just how generous people are prepared to be to complete strangers.
(, Wed 16 Nov 2011, 13:51, 2 replies, latest was 14 years ago)
I thought I was doing OK in that I've only ever broken 4 bones in my life.
(, Wed 16 Nov 2011, 13:52, Reply)
I am immortal, I have inside me blood of kings*
*FILM AND 'QUEEN'
(, Wed 16 Nov 2011, 13:53, Reply)
It was the theme tune to the sub-par highlander series that I also loved.
(, Wed 16 Nov 2011, 13:55, Reply)
Does that count?
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(, Wed 16 Nov 2011, 13:58, Reply)
Ever since the unfortunate "connection" I made with that chap
(, Wed 16 Nov 2011, 14:04, Reply)
As a result, things were able to get in down the side of it, rotting the tooth below.
Discovering this as the drill bit jumped down through the filling into knackered tooth was not very pleasant.
(, Wed 16 Nov 2011, 13:57, Reply)
Otherwise, apart from a few minor scars I and undamaged. And I am a clumsy flid.
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(, Wed 16 Nov 2011, 14:00, Reply)
I don't think he was too pleased at having to spend hours in A&E on that day of all days.
The tib & fib was as a child, sliding down the stairs. Still not entirely sure how that happened. (I was only 18 months old, after all)
The metatarsal was done when I was running for the bus, and brought my foot down on the corner of a raised paving slab.
(, Wed 16 Nov 2011, 14:02, Reply)
I may, just may, start liking you again
(, Wed 16 Nov 2011, 14:10, Reply)
But it only seems to apply to foreigners. in the same circumstances the English are unhelpful cunts..
(, Wed 16 Nov 2011, 13:57, Reply)
5 different people stopped to help us get from Norwich to Portsmouth. One bloke took us 3 miles down the road just because where we were trying to hitch from was completely unsuitable.
Getting lifts in France was remarkably easy though, stereotypes be damned. One of them even fed us. Shame they have no concept of vegetarianism over there.
(, Wed 16 Nov 2011, 14:00, Reply)
I do generally find foreigners more willing to go out of their way to help you, even when you have only a rudimentary and childlike knowledge of their language, than I would expect them to be in this country.
(, Wed 16 Nov 2011, 14:05, Reply)
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