Be Excellent To Each Other

You're such a shyster.

Seven years bad luck.

14 actually as I broke a small shaving mirror the other day too.

No, they stack in severity, not time.

So you have just under seven years of really bad luck now.

Tut tut.

Take a long, hard look at yourself.

Oh good work.

It's started already with Gazchap, Lonewolves and Kern disapproving of my ways to get a new mirror.

Actually, it started with you needing to get a new mirror.

Good point Grim... Well made.

You do have form for this sort of thing, tbf.

Meh. I got my PSVR for free. I know technically I should tell Amazon they refunded me in error, but I'm not going to.

Yeah but fuck Amazon.

Yeah, I'm not going to complain because you're probably right... although, I can't remember any of my other shenanigans at the moment though which means that they're not that bad.

Please tell me at least that it's not some kind of small, independent, family-run furniture maker.

Fuck Grim... more like. And stupid GTA gave him free money.

Cras, my GTA5 has shattered.

Give me my money back you cunt.

Thanks.

I don't even know who you are.

I'm you're worst fucking nightmare.

By worst nightmare, do you mean "only borderline scary"?

Nah, it was a multinational.

You're a good person Lonewolves. Don't let anyone tell you different.

It depends on what he's scared of really.

Big ginger love bunnies?

So, we're back to mirrors then.

When first the Fox saw the Lion he was terribly frightened, and ran away and hid himself in the wood.


Next time however he came near the King of Beasts he stopped at a safe distance and watched him pass by.


The third time they came near one another the Fox went straight up to the Lion and passed the time of day with him, asking him how his family were, and when he should have the pleasure of seeing him again; then turning his tail, he parted from the Lion without much ceremony.

Nice to see the talking Lions have returned to England now.

I suspect The Pox has landed, M inordinately proud she has it.

Yeah ours had that the other week It wasn't too bad at all really. Apart from the three days of nursery care I paid for but we never used.

Take a photo of yourself holding a sign saying she's got it in front of something showing today's date. This is so if there is an outbreak at her university in 18 years' time and she calls you urgently to know if she had it, you can reassure her and send the photo as proof.

Yeah, the other one looked clean, so i took her in this morning. Not sure how long it'll last, I hit up a doctor friend about it last night but she hasn't fotten back to me. We had a cottage booked with MrsA's uni friends this weekend, but we now cannot go because reasons, but that was cash so no bill to pay for that.

Best case for me is that she is dumb enough to just get by, but pretty enough to marry wealthy, so I can dodge cost of uni.

Chicken pox is contagious for about a week before the spots appear so you've probably just caused a nursery epidemic.

Omlette, eggs.

Which is a good thing. You want your child to get chicken pox.

When the Grimlet had his all the other kids came over to play

(It's contagious about two days before the spots appear until about five days afterwards)

This is what I thought, but nobody listens to me in my house, anymore.

I think we'd probably be vaccinating against it by now if it weren't for all the MMR idiocy.

True dat. My ex got it when Izzy did and it wasn't pleasant (for him I mean.. it was hilarious for me)

I doubt it. It's not dangerous, is it?

Measles is the dangerous "spotty" one.

Isn't it more dangerous the older you get?

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That was what I thought.

Me too.

My former boss had shingles and it put him on his arse for 6 weeks

My daughter had chicken pox when she was about 3 or 4 and shingles when she was 18. I don't think they're actually the same exactly so the old wives tale about getting the pox young means you won't get it later in life might be true, but shingles isn't the pox.

It's not an old wives tale, it definitely is the exact same virus it's just that whilst most people will develop immunity an unfortunate few won't.

Same virus, different disease apparently. As I understand it from having just spent some time reading about it, 1 in 3 adults over a certain age who have had chicken pox will get shingles later in life as like most viruses it stays in your 'system' but is suppressed by your immune system. Age and other ailments can suppress your immune system and then the virus can resurface.
Although not 100% true, due to chicken pox being highly contagious and shingles not being very contagious, it's very unlikely you'll get shingles unless you've had chicken pox, or a chicken pox immunisation jab. Also, if you've never had chicken pox and you're exposed to someone with shingles, in the unlikely event that the virus (you would need direct contact with the sores, so getting it on your hands and then rubbing your eyes or similar), transfers, you'll very likely get chicken pox and not shingles.

My parents have both had shingles - and recovered okay. Mum just recently, she was most worried about how it looked. Dad had it around Christmas time, and the local carol singers called round. When they heard he was ill upstairs they offered to sing "Shingle Bells", which I thought was superb.

Doesn't all this make a mockery of people trying to ensure their kids get chicken pox? If you've never had it the most you can get is chicken pox; you can't go from never having had either of them straight to shingles. As you can only get shingles if you've previously had chicken pox, isn't the best course of action just to try not to get chicken pox in the first place?