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dean moriaty
09-05-2005, 03:46 PM
i shall now tell ye the tale of the terrible moth incident which befell me two summers ago!!!

i was on holiday in scotland with my parents on an island called Arran that's preety small (30 miles by 16 or something) and only has a really small hospital, all the urgent cases get airlifted to the mainland. anyways the holiday was going swimmingly until in the early hours of one morning i woke with the most damn awful pain ever in my ear. it was like someone was sawing at my ear drum for a few seconds and then they'd stop for a while the start again. i assumed some fromof infernal beast had entered my eardrum and sought to extract it by wildly shaking my head and banging it with my fist. this was excrutiating. not just cause it hurt a LOT but also cause people are programmed to go schiz if anything big gets in your ears or your eyes as some sort of defence mechanism.

anyways after a while my parents came out to see why i was whimpering and i got my dad to have a look in my ear to see what he could see. which was nothing. then i grabbed a torch but he still couldn't see anything. by this point my family were pretty worried cause i never bother about pain normally and i agreed to let them call the hospital. it was shut! thats how small the place is. anyway a nurse woke up and said to go so we drove the 5 miles or so there all the time i was getting occasional bouts of intense pain because this things wing were actually rubbing against my ear drum. when we got there they had a look and even they couldn't really see anything but they washed my ear out with warm water and eventually it was drowned and stopped moving (huge relief) and eventually came out. i got them to put it in a sample tube and i've kept it. anyway here's a picture with my finger in it so you can gauge the size.

http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a216/deanmoriaty/mothandface004.jpg

when we eventually got back to the cottage we were staying in at like 4am my mum and sister had to stuff cotton wool in their ears cause they were really scared it would happen to them.

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the JUICE
09-05-2005, 03:51 PM
fascinating

Fonzie
09-05-2005, 05:08 PM
I bet you $5 that it ate some of your brain.

They do that, you know.


My interesting anecdote - I was once going to go to Arran, but couldn't be bothered waiting for the car ferry, so we didn't go.

dean moriaty
09-05-2005, 05:12 PM
you should have gone. i love the place. amazingly beautiful

UNICRON
09-05-2005, 05:14 PM
TELL ME MORE OF THIS ARRAN

I MUST ENLIST ITS INSECT POPULATION!

FOR HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF YEARS, INSECTS HAVE BEEN MOSTLY COMPLACENT
IT IS TIME FOR THEM TO RISE UP AND DESTROY THE HUMAN OPPRESSORS AND PLEDGE FEALTY TO A WORTHY MASTER WHO WILL LEAD THEM TO GLORY AND INVERTEBRATE PARADISE

EDIT:
AT LEAST THAT IS WHAT I WILL PROMISE THEM
INVERTEBRATE PARADISE IS IN TRUTH OBLIVION
JUST LIKE VERTEBRATE PARADISE WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT IT

Fonzie
09-05-2005, 05:22 PM
Originally posted by dean moriaty
you should have gone. i love the place. amazingly beautiful

Possibly should have.

It was christmas 1999 - we spent it at a place called North Berwick, which is on the coast east of Edinborough. It's been my only "non-summer" christmas, and it sort of snowed. For like 3 minutes. Mostly it drizzled.

We travelled up from London by car, visited places like scarborough, lindisfarne, went over the pennines after it had been snowing, just sort of travelled around for 5 or 6 days.

It was pretty sweet. Apart from the all-day sunstrike.

ChristHimself!
09-06-2005, 05:47 AM
Originally posted by dean moriaty
i shall now tell ye the tale of the terrible moth incident which befell me two summers ago!!!

One of my mates goes to arran a lot.. This thread made my eyes water.. I am not afraid of any insects or anything, snakes, spiders etc.. doesn't bother me.. but I fucking HATE moths with their fluttery wings!! They just really bug me..ALL MOTHS MUST DIE.

dean moriaty
09-06-2005, 05:52 AM
Originally posted by ShotFullOfDiamonds


One of my mates goes to arran a lot.

i've been with my family almost every year since i was born. :erm

ChristHimself!
09-06-2005, 05:54 AM
my mates name is Brian.. he has a wee brother called Michael and a big brother called John (O' Hare)

DO YOU KNOW THEM!?!?!

did you get your eits ticket btw?

dean moriaty
09-06-2005, 05:55 AM
my mums a teacher and one of the people she worked with retired about the time i was born and went to live on Arran and has a little cottage she rents out. the one who owns the place we stay used to teach secretarial skills to girls! apparently her job no longer existed so she got early retirement :)

dean moriaty
09-06-2005, 05:56 AM
Originally posted by ShotFullOfDiamonds
my mates name is Brian.. he has a wee brother called Michael and a big brother called John (O' Hare)

DO YOU KNOW THEM!?!?!

did you get your eits ticket btw?

i do not know them.

i am getting my eits and sons and daughters tickets today :)

ChristHimself!
09-06-2005, 05:57 AM
im pming you so we dont get bitched at for being eurochattrashfags

dean moriaty
09-06-2005, 06:00 AM
wise plan maestro

Izzle
09-06-2005, 08:04 AM
moths. they're just flies without a mission, aren't they?

mistle
09-06-2005, 08:21 AM
Originally posted by UNICRON
EDIT:


:rofl:

severin
09-06-2005, 08:56 AM
hey, which eits show are you guys going to go to? i'm thinking about hitting the london show on nov 10th...

ChristHimself!
09-06-2005, 08:58 AM
Originally posted by severin
hey, which eits show are you guys going to go to? i'm thinking about hitting the london show on nov 10th...

Manchester one .. I think dm is going to the leeds one too.. London is a bit far away for me to go to during the week and I have pretty much no holidays left :(

pink_ribbon_scars
09-06-2005, 10:22 AM
i always thought moths were harmless. :[

treacherous!

Corgan RuIes
09-06-2005, 10:51 AM
maybe you people should all stop being so negative? moths are cute creatures.

TIMb
09-06-2005, 10:51 AM
Originally posted by Corgan RuIes
moths are cute creatures.

especially when they're trying to scoop out your brain through your eardrum with their bare... wings.

ChristHimself!
09-06-2005, 10:53 AM
Originally posted by Corgan RuIes
maybe you people should all stop being so negative? moths are cute creatures.

Is that you Jame?

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