Advice from Old PeopleSometimes, just sometimes, old people say something worth listening to. Ok, so it's like picking the needle out of a whole haystack of mis-remembered war stories, but those gems should be celebrated.
Tell us something worthwhile an old-type person has told you.
Note, we're leaving the definition of old up to you, you smooth-skinned youngsters.
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chthonic, Thu 19 Jun 2008, 16:16)
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Life-Saving InformationMy mum used to work in an old folks' home, and during the summer holidays I would be dragged to work with her, as I clearly wasn't old or responsible enough to be left home alone.
This wasn't as depressing as you might think. It was a massive Victorian building with rooms and corridors all over the place and huge grounds to mess about in. Plus there were lots of wheelchairs, although I could rarely find anyone willing to race me.
But of course the people were the most interesing thing about it, varying between normal, cracked and totally bat-shit. I talked to lots of them, but the one that I've never forgotten is the guy who taught me how to hypnotise chickens.
He said, "You pick the bird up by its sides and tuck its head under its wing. Then you just sway it gently from side to side, just like that, and it's totally hypnotised."
Why you would want to hypnotise a chicken, what you would do with it once hypnotised and how to bring it out of its trance he never explained, but 20 years later I'm still in awe of this fascinatingly useless advice. I'd love to try it though.
P.S. Sorry for everything really - I'm a failed de-lurker...
(, Mon 23 Jun 2008, 12:12, 4 replies)
Would you believe it ...... but I've seen this done on one of the scout camps I used to frequent.
To this day I have no idea why he had that chicken. It just appeared.
(, Mon 23 Jun 2008, 12:43, closed)
Another way to do thisis to draw a line on the floor and lie the chicken down with its neck along the line - it will be immobilized. I think this is useful when you have to transport a small number of live chickens and you don't have a box or sack handy. My father also taught me how to hypnotise a pig - you just lie it on its side and tickle its tummy. Equally useful as hypnotizing chickens.
(, Mon 23 Jun 2008, 12:47, closed)
Hypnotising chickensThere's an extensive wiki page on it. Plus Iggy Pop mentioned it in 'Lust for Life'
(, Mon 23 Jun 2008, 12:48, closed)
You can hypnotise pigs?Let's try it!
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Devil_In_Tights the *real* DiT!, Mon 23 Jun 2008, 12:51,
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