Trauma
Trauma is paying about twenty quid for a train journey that lasts half an hour. Trauma is sitting on that crowded train, mouth dry, hands shaking, adrenalin coursing through your veins, terror in the knowledge of what you're about to do. Trauma is re-running every conversation over and over again in your mind as each second of your travel spins out into an excruciating eternity. Trauma is re-reading the same page, the same paragraph, the same sentence, the same few words of your book over and over again. Trauma is standing with your hand on the door waiting for the platform outside. Trauma is walking unsteadily through the ticket barriers, eyes scanning the station. Trauma is the spun-out moment before you meet for the very first time the person who has become everything to you.
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Wed 4 Jun 2008, 23:43, 45 replies)

Speaking from recent experience?
.
(PenguinOfDeath is Scottish, and most likely angry, Wed 4 Jun 2008, 23:45, closed)

not recent
not particularly recent anyway.
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Wed 4 Jun 2008, 23:46, closed)

Part of me was thinking about half way through this
that it was going to end with "Trauma is that last thought that goes through your mind before you press the red button"
(Belgaer is, Wed 4 Jun 2008, 23:47, closed)

that's probably a better ending
I could ninja it.
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Wed 4 Jun 2008, 23:48, closed)

As long as you credit me...
I want royalties!
(Belgaer is, Wed 4 Jun 2008, 23:49, closed)

I remember something similar
When a friend said that 'we needed to talk'.

It wasn't the same kind of talk though.
(PenguinOfDeath is Scottish, and most likely angry, Wed 4 Jun 2008, 23:49, closed)

* click *
coz something like this has happened to me quite a few times.

PS. I gather from your boardsig that you got to the bottom of things.
( mistaspakkaman and the inedible shifting caterpillars, Thu 5 Jun 2008, 0:01, closed)

^
aye, I got my closure. I'm back in control, even if my methods were somewhat unorthodox. I got the apology I wanted and the ill feelings have been laid to rest. Yay.
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Thu 5 Jun 2008, 0:03, closed)

Yay!
Care to celebrate?
( Cawl, Thu 5 Jun 2008, 0:04, closed)

@CHCB
Yay you!

* Is also up for the celebration *
( mistaspakkaman and the inedible shifting caterpillars, Thu 5 Jun 2008, 0:05, closed)

Celebrate
With cake, and some sort of beverage!
(PenguinOfDeath is Scottish, and most likely angry, Thu 5 Jun 2008, 0:05, closed)

that'd be nice
red wine and rock-cakes for me please.
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Thu 5 Jun 2008, 0:07, closed)

Vodka
And pickled things for me.
( Cawl, Thu 5 Jun 2008, 0:08, closed)

red wine and rock-cakes for me too please
The b3ta server's back up, so we have something else to celebrate! WOOHOO!
( mistaspakkaman and the inedible shifting caterpillars, Thu 5 Jun 2008, 0:08, closed)

Pickled eggs or onions?
I think I'll go for some sponge and Irn-Bru.

Good combination.
(PenguinOfDeath is Scottish, and most likely angry, Thu 5 Jun 2008, 0:09, closed)

Chocolate gateu (sc?)
and a glass of cream for me.

Yes, you read that right.

I'm the dairy monster.
(Belgaer is, Thu 5 Jun 2008, 0:13, closed)

Woo
Woot for drinking cream.

I made a cream based drink at work today. It was awesome.
(PenguinOfDeath is Scottish, and most likely angry, Thu 5 Jun 2008, 0:19, closed)

No, not cream based
just cream. On it's own.

I've also been known to eat tins/cartons of custard. Once or twice I've eaten the first third and topped it up with cream, it floats through the custard. Mmmmmmm.

Another one that works is sprinkling sugar ontop of the custard, I have such a sweet tooth.
(Belgaer is, Thu 5 Jun 2008, 0:22, closed)

Right
Well even I'm not that bad. And I figured out I've drank over 200 litres of Irn-Bru in the last uni year. Well over.
(PenguinOfDeath is Scottish, and most likely angry, Thu 5 Jun 2008, 0:25, closed)

I wish cream wasn't so bad for you.
Otherwise I'd have drank 200 litres of that in the past month. I'd have taps dispense nothing but cream.

*daydreams*
(Belgaer is, Thu 5 Jun 2008, 0:27, closed)

.
Wine, beer, vodka, custard, cream, Irn-Bru, hot chocolate, spunkchup or whatever. Drink whatever you want and paaaaaaarty!
( mistaspakkaman and the inedible shifting caterpillars, Thu 5 Jun 2008, 0:29, closed)

@ancrenne
It may not be made from girders*, but it truely is absolutely awesome.

It's so hard to limit myself, but my bank account generally does it for me.



*It is really.
(PenguinOfDeath is Scottish, and most likely angry, Thu 5 Jun 2008, 0:31, closed)

I think Irn Bru tastes like piss...
yet oddly I quite like V drink... Which tastes a bit like a sweeter champagne, which tastes like cat piss.
(Belgaer is, Thu 5 Jun 2008, 0:33, closed)

Iron Bru
Space Raiders and Teachers Reserve were all that got me through my two weeks of Scottish-based hell.
( Cawl, Thu 5 Jun 2008, 0:38, closed)

Scottish-based hell?
I feel mildly insulted by that.


Only mildly, mind you.
(PenguinOfDeath is Scottish, and most likely angry, Thu 5 Jun 2008, 0:40, closed)

Ever heard of Millport?
The island off Lairgs.
( Cawl, Thu 5 Jun 2008, 0:41, closed)

I have heard of it
But by name only.
(PenguinOfDeath is Scottish, and most likely angry, Thu 5 Jun 2008, 0:43, closed)

Is thems the ones made of rice paper
that have sherbert in them that explodes in your mouth and makes you sneeze?

Or is that last bit just me?
(Belgaer is, Thu 5 Jun 2008, 0:46, closed)

No
That was flying saucers.
(PenguinOfDeath is Scottish, and most likely angry, Thu 5 Jun 2008, 0:46, closed)

"I have heard of it"
I was there for two weeks.

Studying algae and barnacles.
( Cawl, Thu 5 Jun 2008, 0:48, closed)

I am sorry
So, so sorry.

I apologise on behalf of my entire country.
(PenguinOfDeath is Scottish, and most likely angry, Thu 5 Jun 2008, 0:50, closed)

It's ok
I drank the pubs on the island out of jaegermiester in one night, and vodka in a week.

*clutches liver*
( Cawl, Thu 5 Jun 2008, 0:51, closed)

Healthy
Sounds so very healthy.

I do however ensure you that most of the country is at least reasonably nice, if not slightly ned-filled.
(PenguinOfDeath is Scottish, and most likely angry, Thu 5 Jun 2008, 0:53, closed)

That place was like
Royston Vasey crossed with the Wicker Man.

And they have a country and westen festival.
That happened to be on while we were there.
( Cawl, Thu 5 Jun 2008, 0:54, closed)

You're selling it so well...

(Belgaer is, Thu 5 Jun 2008, 0:56, closed)

That must've been
An amazing sight to behold, I am sure.

Not good amazing, but amazing all the same.
(PenguinOfDeath is Scottish, and most likely angry, Thu 5 Jun 2008, 0:57, closed)

It was really strange.
I woke up one morning wearing a cowboy hat, wrapped in the curtains from the hostel, on a bench in the lab.
( Cawl, Thu 5 Jun 2008, 0:59, closed)

With your uhm... Fetishes, isn't that a common occurance?
Atleast, the cowboy hat anyway.
(Belgaer is, Thu 5 Jun 2008, 1:00, closed)

Nah...
That was a one-off.
( Cawl, Thu 5 Jun 2008, 1:01, closed)

Just another day
In the never-boring life of Kaol I suspect.
(PenguinOfDeath is Scottish, and most likely angry, Thu 5 Jun 2008, 1:02, closed)

The waking up in the curtains and a cowboy hat
or the time you had sex with a cowboy?
(Belgaer is, Thu 5 Jun 2008, 1:02, closed)

Ok fine...
You've rumbled me.
My life is one crazy adventure.
( Cawl, Thu 5 Jun 2008, 1:12, closed)