Last Person #5

[AngryHobbit]

And if you rub cayenne powder in your eyes, your vision will improve.

[Disclaimer: please don't actually do either of these things.]

You know, jokes aside, we used some seriously sadistic folk medicine devices back in Ukraine - due to lack of real medicine. Or rather... lack of its availability to regular people.

For example - mustard squares. They are little squares of paper covered with ground mustard on one side. You dip them in water and then slap them on your back and chest. Wrap yourself up in a towel and stay with them for 20 minutes. It's for loosening the phlegm. Hurts like hell and you smell like mustard for like three days.

Vacuum jars. They look like little lightbulbs made of very thick glass. You put the patient on his stomach, light up a match, stick it into each jar to burn out the air and create vacuum, then quickly stick them onto the patient's back. The vacuum in the jars creates suction and gets the chest crud moving, makes the coughs more productive. Also hurts like hell, and you walk around with little round spots on your back - bruises from the suction - for at least a week.

There are a few other things... Good times...

 

[Gerry Seymour]

SOMEBODY <glares pointedly at @gpseymour> bruised connective rib tissue on my right side while I wasn't looking.

Nah. You were looking. I'm just that fast.

 

[Xue Sheng]

Vacuum jars. They look like little lightbulbs made of very thick glass. You put the patient on his stomach, light up a match, stick it into each jar to burn out the air and create vacuum, then quickly stick them onto the patient's back. The vacuum in the jars creates suction and gets the chest crud moving, makes the coughs more productive. Also hurts like hell, and you walk around with little round spots on your back - bruises from the suction - for at least a week.
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They use this is Chinese Medicine too, for various reasons on various parts of your body. And I trust virtually nothing...but they actually work most of the time

 

[AngryHobbit]

They use this is Chinese Medicine too, for various reasons on various parts of your body. And I trust virtually nothing...but they actually work most of the time

Then there was this totally vomitous concoction - warm milk with crushed walnuts, honey, and aloe emulsion. I suppose it had a point - it was so gross you didn't care what else was bothering you.

 

[AngryHobbit]

Web site FINALLY updated. That was grueling.

 

[Gerry Seymour]

They use this is Chinese Medicine too, for various reasons on various parts of your body.

I knew this. They used it in the movie Iron Monkey.

 

[AngryHobbit]

I knew this. They used it in the movie Iron Monkey.

A true Chinese historic documentary, that. ;-)

 

[Buka]

They use this is Chinese Medicine too, for various reasons on various parts of your body. And I trust virtually nothing...but they actually work most of the time

Had it done to me on several occasions by Chinese medicine men in L.A.
Son of a gun, worked like a charm each time.

 

[Gerry Seymour]

Had it done to me on several occasions by Chinese medicine men in L.A.
Son of a gun, worked like a charm each time.

You know, as I read this, I kinda expected it to say, "Had it done to me on several occasions by the actor in Iron Monkey."

 

[drop bear]

we talking Monkey?

Looking forward to this one.

 

[Xue Sheng]

You know, as I read this, I kinda expected it to say, "Had it done to me on several occasions by the actor in Iron Monkey."

Yen Chi-tan.....

aka Donnie Yen

But I'm with you...it would not surprise me at all

 

[AngryHobbit]

Managed to squish in whole 20 minutes of translation today. Woo-pte-doo... My translation schedule is more than a little bit in the toilet.

 

[granfire]

Sounds about like my journaling schedule....

 

[jks9199]

SOMEBODY <glares pointedly at @gpseymour> bruised connective rib tissue on my right side while I wasn't looking.

Next time, be looking!

 

[AngryHobbit]

Next time, be looking!

I was just kidding. We were talking about throws. Which means, throwing was involved. I am not even sure what happened with that connective tissue. Must have tried to fall and cough at the same time - I still have a cold. Note to all - don't do that. Falling is not a time to multitask. ;-)

 

[AngryHobbit]

Sounds about like my journaling schedule....

The good news is - I've disciplined myself to a point where I can, indeed, make progress in 20 minutes. It wasn't always that way - you sort of have to adjust your brain for the task, because, when you translate, you think in two languages at the same time.

The bad news is - I have a translation list about the length of the Great Wall of China, all either authors virtually unknown outside of Ukraine and Russia or less-known works by well-known authors. My goal is to get out 5-6 new works every year, and right now it looks... daunting.

 

[Xue Sheng]

woke up this morning....SURPRISE!!!! it snowed.

Luckily it was only about an inch of light fluffy snow...... 3 to 5 inches on the way for tomorrow

 

[CB Jones]

Snow day....office closed. Awesome.....I love winter.

 

[granfire]

woke up this morning....SURPRISE!!!! it snowed.

Luckily it was only about an inch of light fluffy snow...... 3 to 5 inches on the way for tomorrow

I hope I won't wake up to that surprise tomorrow.
I am off today, and they are already panicking over s*** here.

But then again, when your only sand truck driver in town turns the rig over during the snowmageddon....I suppose there is reason to worry.

 

[AngryHobbit]

Snow day....office closed. Awesome.....I love winter.

Oh, this is so pretty!