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I am finding it rather hard to concentrate at this precise moment. I have just had the last bite of my egg and bacon sandwich ruined by the fact that I forgot to be careful how I chew. Granary bread is lethal when you have a broken tooth, and the force the little bastard grains can be pushed into a cavity through the simple act of chewing is impressive.

Suffice it to say that the entire side of my face is currently a sea of tooth pain - to the extent that my left eye is watering uncontrollably.

And up until then I was in a good mood (I'm not really in a bad mood now, but the edge has gone from the day until the paracetamol and codeine kicks in).

Outside Victoria Station this morning, there were (probably still are) a couple of dozen blokes giving goodie bags away to women. I didn't notice who or what the promotion was for, but there were big boxes everywhere, and a lot of distributors. They do this from time to time. Sometimes it's a promotion for women, sometimes for men, other times everybody gets one.

This morning, one poor bloke was the object of the ire of a short middle-aged man with a squeaky voice. I suspect he collects stamps, neatly folds his laundry 'just so' and lives with his elderly mum. "You're breaking the law" he whined. "You cannot discriminate of the grounds of sex, race or religion!"

I thought the poor sod he was talking to managed to ignore him quite well; for me it would have been a machete moment, and seeing that we aren't allowed to dice over-excitable, mithering short-arses in this country, I should have practiced a prolonged and indelicate use of the English language directly into his red and portly little face.

Of course, if I'd eaten my bacon sandwich at that point, I'd have just lamped the little bugger. I could do with the endorphin rush. It's not as if he would have been any less mystified by the contents of these goodie bags than any other male on the planet. Still, it's encouraging to know that London can hold its own in the annoying little numpty stakes.

Ahhh... the pain is subsiding; my goodwill is returning...

But I'd still have lamped the little prat.

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Date: 2006-03-16 11:11 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] caffeine-fairy.livejournal.com
Oil of cloves will take the pain away, or simply holding a clove in your cheek next to the tooth...

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Date: 2006-03-16 11:15 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] caddyman.livejournal.com
Not that I'm fick or owt, but where would I get a clove? I guess I can go to Boots for Oil of Cloves?

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Date: 2006-03-16 11:16 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] caffeine-fairy.livejournal.com
Boots might do it, you'd be better off going to a health food shop or even Sainsbury's...

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Date: 2006-03-16 11:25 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ellefurtle.livejournal.com
Ooooooo goodie bags! I LOVE those - although the best bit is opening the rustly packaging before you discover that you have been given a selection of use-free objects.

Stong drugs AND cloves (why do cloves work?) is my advice...that and a trip to the DENTIST - hehe

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Date: 2006-03-16 02:30 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] bluesman.livejournal.com
"Use-free"? Does that mean useless in the same way that some people (especially the media) think "pain-free" means painless? I do hope it was a little dab of irony.

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Date: 2006-03-16 02:52 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ellefurtle.livejournal.com
yes indeed :)

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Date: 2006-03-16 02:57 pm (UTC)

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Date: 2006-03-16 03:12 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] romney.livejournal.com
a short middle-aged man with a squeaky voice

I would like it known that I was nowhere near Victoria this morning.

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Date: 2006-03-16 03:50 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] queenortart.livejournal.com
The boy was wittering on this morning on the train about someone fined £50 for shoplifting bonjella after pulling two of their own teeth out with a pair of pliers because they couldn't get a dentists appointment.

DO NOT let things go this far. GO TO THE DENTIST YOUNG MAN!

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Date: 2006-03-16 05:17 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] romney.livejournal.com
...I have pliers to lend...

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Date: 2006-03-16 06:12 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] queenortart.livejournal.com
And we've got a mallet, but it's not necessarily the best way to go about things...

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Date: 2006-03-16 07:23 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] caddyman.livejournal.com
Thank you, Suey.

You are a MUCH nicer person than Romney.

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Date: 2006-03-16 08:03 pm (UTC)

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Date: 2006-03-17 12:47 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] drjohnsilence.livejournal.com
Are you sure the aforesaid prat wasn't a Labour MP?

Or the Mayor of London?

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Date: 2006-03-17 01:09 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] caddyman.livejournal.com
Nah. He was too macho for them.

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Date: 2006-03-17 01:55 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] fencingsculptor.livejournal.com
re. Clove Oil I refer the Honourable Gentleman to my last comment.

PS there is can not be any legitimate defence justifying the existence of Stoke on Trent.

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