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Maybe it's like when people get tattoos and say 'ah it didn't hurt' which is just the biggest most pathetic schoolboy lie you can come up with, because tattooing is having a needle jabbed into your skin for hours, repeatedly. I mean, you're not going to die or anything but you don't enjoy it much either.
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Actually, Mikee, I really enjoy the feeling of getting tattooed! I think it feels good...it relaxes my muscles. The only time getting tattooed ever bothered me was the very last star on my lower spine. The back of my neck and the rest of my spine didn't hurt at all though.
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I hate Valentine's Day. Stupid commercialised crap
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quote:Originally posted by Amy: both my mom and mother in law said it didn't hurt. My mom didn't have an epidural with either myself or my brother.
They may not have had epidurals but they must have been absolutely off their faces on something to claim it was pain-free.
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quote:Originally posted by Amy: Actually, Mikee, I really enjoy the feeling of getting tattooed! I think it feels good...it relaxes my muscles. The only time getting tattooed ever bothered me was the very last star on my lower spine. The back of my neck and the rest of my spine didn't hurt at all though.
Funny that, I am seriously considering going into town in a bit and getting my first Tat in donkeys years done - I am thinking about getting 'Noli nothis permittere te terere' done on my inner arm in a nice gothic font
quote:Originally posted by Amy: Actually, Mikee, I really enjoy the feeling of getting tattooed! I think it feels good...it relaxes my muscles.
Well, your family are all just nails then. My mate, some barrel chested 6 foot 5-er nearly died when having his down on his bicep. He went white as a sheet as was muttering like a pirate with scurvy on driftwood.
quote:Originally posted by Darryn.R: 'Noli nothis permittere te terere'
and in English that means:
'NO, Never penetrate me with a potato'
I wanted to get a H2G2 tat to celebrate my 42nd birthday next week but can't find anything I like or anyone good to do it that's affordable..
Well I can help with half the problem - there is a damn good and affordable Tattooist near the Westermarkt - He did a couple of mates of mine from Nico's - one had a large indian done on his inner forearm (and the guy has big forearms) - astounding quality and it was only 250 Eurosponds. Another one had a BCFC tattoo done as well which again was very well done, though I never found out the price. Seriously thinking about going down there in a bit and getting some ink - wanna come along? There could be beer after
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I've had a lovely day, so far. Liz and I both took the day off work because we'd agreed to take some of the Masketeers' class to our allotment. Cheap day trip, eh? Still the kids all had a good time for an hour or so, until it started to rain. We marched them all back to school, and then Liz took me for lunch at the Herne. I had roasted marrow bones, then lemon sole, a couple of pints of Addlestones and finished off with a double espresso and a Maker's Mark. Liz had an excellent crab salad and pappardelle with broad beans. Then we walked back across the Rye. And now I'm here, with the whole weekend ahead of me.
quote:Originally posted by Black Mask: I've had a lovely day, so far. Liz and I both took the day off work because we'd agreed to take some of the Masketeers' class to our allotment. Cheap day trip, eh? Still the kids all had a good time for an hour or so, until it started to rain. We marched them all back to school, and then Liz took me for lunch at the Herne. I had roasted marrow bones, then lemon sole, a couple of pints of Addlestones and finished off with a double espresso and a Maker's Mark. Liz had an excellent crab salad and pappardelle with broad beans. Then we walked back across the Rye. And now I'm here, with the whole weekend ahead of me.
...although Darryn I was sent to the wrong tattooist, though I am still very happy with this - cost €120 which isn't bad for Amsterdam. Maybe Saturday we can go check out the other one - I've got the bug back
What is the relevance of the location in your design?
DNA being 'Douglas Noel Adams' and N47°16´ E11°23´being the location of the field in Innsbruck where he got the idea for the Hitch-hikers Guide to the Galaxy.
quote:Originally posted by Darryn.R: Nice... Did they do other fonts ?
Oh yeah - what the guy does is type is photoshop, gets it how it should look, prints it off, then puts it through this oojamaflip with carbon paper and thats what he uses as the template for the tat. All very clever stuff...
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It wasn't the screaming so much as the roaring when you have to push it out. My boyfriend says he will never forget that sound. And he was behind two sets of double doors because I chucked everyone out of the delivery room except me and the midwives!
Amy, it is like being trapped in a horrible world of pain. Upside, it only lasts a day or so which sounds long but isn't compared to, say, your whole life. As soon as it was over and the baby was on my chest I looked up at the midwife and said 'That was awful... awful' in tones of shock and horror. (And I had an epidural!) She said 'I know, but you soon forget'. And it's true, you can't remember pain.
But I know that there was pain, massive unending pain that reduces you to the cognitive level of a racoon with its leg caught in a trap. But mainly because having a baby is awesome it seems like, not a fair swap exactly, but fair enough that you* have to go through something that terrible to get something that incredible.
*Of course, the man doesn't go through anything and he still gets the wonderful baby. But that's life, isn't it. Women draw the biological short straw.
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what london said, which is why i've got four now.
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sorry JohnJ I totally forgot. Will get on that this week.
Has Herbs had her baby yet? I stalked* her on Mumsnet to find out but she didn't have the mega-stalkable-option (e.g. view recent posts) switched on, so my search was fruitless.
I have not yet had baby. He's due a week today, and frankly I'm bricking it. Waves of terror pass through me on a regular basis.
I'm totally shagged, but can't sleep (hence posting at 7am on a Sunday), due to a combination of said terror and discomfort of having mobile medicine ball sewn into abdomen.
I haven't posted on mumsnet of late, as don't have much to contribute, other than 'HELP ME'.
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Wow, Herbs has been posting on Mumsnet, and I'll wager she hasn't been trolling them with "I'm thinking of giving birth at 20,000 feet, strapped to a midwife, during a tandem parachute jump. Anyone got any experience of this?" posts.
Times change.
Good luck with the birth Herbie . Careful they cut the right chord; a reserve chute probably won't be strong enough to land midwife, chile and Mummy.
quote:Originally posted by herbs: Yo! *jumps out of bush*
I have not yet had baby. He's due a week today, and frankly I'm bricking it. Waves of terror pass through me on a regular basis.
Ok. Must remember this. Not even due yet. Jimmy was two weeks overdue by the end and I was so sick of people on the internet demanding to know where he was. As if I would have the baby and then somehow fail to mention it on the internet, just to piss people off. I promise I will not ask again, as it was so annoying I wanted to crawl through the screen and crush people to death with my bump.
I wish I could reassure you that there is nothing to be frightened of. Like someone said to me, it is the most awful pain you will ever have in your life, but then it doesn't last forever, and then you will have a BABY, which is the best toy you will ever have. And you forget what you went through in about three days, seriously.
And maybe you will be one of those women who it doesn't even hurt and who has a Birth Orgasm ha ha ha yeah right! At first my contractions didn't hurt. I was wired up to this machine and the machine was saying I was having a contraction and I felt nothing, and I was like, OH MY GOD, I KNEW IT!!! I KNEW I WAS ONE OF THOSE WOMEN!!! I LEAD A CHARMED LIFE!!!!
And then... *mimes being hit by enormous fist made of pain*.
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I am indeed trying to remember that however dreadful the pain, it is finite, and there'll be Fonzbert at the end of it all. Though that is just as scary. Will I like him? What if he doesn't like me?
I think I'm in the grip of hormonal madness...
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Worry not, no matter what you do your child will love and hate you in equal amounts, it's the way they work.
One minute telling you they hate you because there's no marmite next hugging and kissing you and telling you how great you are because you've opened a door for them or wiped their bottom.
And there will be times, many, many times you'll want quiet, peace and some alone time away from the mewling brat but when you do get that time you'll have no idea what to do with it and the silence will destroy you.
Almost, welcome to the club Herbie - You'll never sleeps again.
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I hate Valentine's Day. Stupid commercialised crap
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quote:Originally posted by herbs: Though that is just as scary. Will I like him? What if he doesn't like me?
I had that worry, and to be honest for the first three days I didn't really feel much - I was so knackered and just focused on coping with feeds, quieting etc, and occasionally having a shower and getting in clean pyjamas. But then about day four it hit me. I think you can't not like your baby. And it is just as exciting finally meeting the person who's been kicking hell out of you for months as everyone says it is.
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Gnn. He's still within, with no sign of coming out. He seems to be taking after me, rather than his father, on the punctuality front.
I shall be eating pineapple and curry today, and drinking raspberry leaf tea. Though frankly can't be arsed with doing sex, another supposed way of 'ripening the cervix' (ew...)
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Ah well, two days late is nothing is it. Thinking of you anyway. (Hmm, does that sound too much like, "my thoughts and prayers are with the family"? *barf*)
quote:Originally posted by herbs: frankly can't be arsed with doing sex, another supposed way of 'ripening the cervix' (ew...)
That is fairly unappetising terminology isn't it. It's like thinking of fruit as "a ripened ovary". Which it is, technically. Kind of puts you off apples a bit that. Not much though.
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