Unfortunate or Inappropriate Connotations

[Ferretfancy]

Please don't bring the Thatcher arguments here as well.

I didn't intend to Mr Pee, but the juxtaposition of the music was so bizarre, grabbed off the shelf and bunged in to the item without thought, as so often happens.

[scottycelt]

In the otherwise excellent World at War the ending of Bruckner 5 is used as background to Hitler's triumphant procession round Berlin in 1940 after the fall of France.

It is indeed, Petrushka ... but, perhaps somewhat more appropriately, it features that criminally-ravaged and now widely-mocked version by Franz Schalk.

[gamba]

Asking a female consultant in hospital if she had experienced carnal tunnel syndrome ( after all, how should I know', I was new to the phrase & had recently been warned it would happen to me, apparently the correct word is ' carpal ' )

[EdgeleyRob]

Zadok the Priest/football.
It's hard to imagine the European cup without that tune nowadays.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UEFA_Champions_League_Anthem

[amateur51]

Asking a female consultant in hospital if she had experienced carnal tunnel syndrome ( after all, how should I know', I was new to the phrase & had recently been warned it would happen to me, apparently the correct word is ' carpal ' )

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

apparently the correct word is ' carpal '

Yours sounded much more fun!

[Serial_Apologist]

Asking a female consultant in hospital if she had experienced carnal tunnel syndrome ( after all, how should I know', I was new to the phrase & had recently been warned it would happen to me, apparently the correct word is ' carpal ' )

Carpal diem to that...

[soileduk]

As long as you didn't get the finger.

Asking a female consultant in hospital if she had experienced carnal tunnel syndrome ( after all, how should I know', I was new to the phrase & had recently been warned it would happen to me, apparently the correct word is ' carpal ' )

[Ferretfancy]

As long as you didn't get the finger.

I hardly dare say this, but carpal tunnel syndrome is quite common, Mrs Thatcher suffered from it at one time during her premiership and was briefly treated in hospital for it before returning to No.10. You can't get much more common than that. ( Sorry! Mr Pee ! )

[amateur51]

As long as you didn't get the finger.

The finger?

That's more likely to be Dupuytren's contracture, innit

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dupuytren%27s_contracture

[ahinton]

I hardly dare say this, but carpal tunnel syndrome is quite common, Mrs Thatcher suffered from it at one time during her premiership and was briefly treated in hospital for it before returning to No.10. You can't get much more common than that. ( Sorry! Mr Pee ! )

Is it just me or are there the beginnings of a suggestion here that all roads lead back to Mrs Thatcher eventually (even if only for the time being)? We'd probably have to be careful about discussion Bartók, Nono or even Turner at the moment if we want to avoid that risk - and the idea that the Italian job was merely mythical because there was no such thing as the self-preservation society simply doesn't bear thinking about.

Anyway, returning swiftly to the topic - or at least the most recent discussion within it - I've never suffered from CTS myself but know people who have and it can be quite horribly painful.

[vinteuil]

The finger?

That's more likely to be Dupuytren's contracture, innit

... or possibly obstetrician's hand -

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trousseau_sign_of_latent_tetany

Why am I suddenly reminded of one of my favourite entries in "Black's Medical Dictionary" :

"For wrist-drop see crutch-cramp."

[amateur51]

... or possibly obstetrician's hand -

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trousseau_sign_of_latent_tetany

Why am I suddenly reminded of one of my favourite entries in "Black's Medical Dictionary" :

"For wrist-drop see crutch-cramp."

That looks more like an illustration from Trevor Bailey's Book of Wrist-spin to me vints, most appropriate at the start of the new season.

Crutch-cramp sounds very nasty

[Dave2002]

Is it just me or are there the beginnings of a suggestion here that all roads lead back to Mrs Thatcher eventually (even if only for the time being)? We'd probably have to be careful about discussion Bartók, Nono or even Turner at the moment if we want to avoid that risk - and the idea that the Italian job was merely mythical because there was no such thing as the self-preservation society simply doesn't bear thinking about.

Anyway, returning swiftly to the topic - or at least the most recent discussion within it - I've never suffered from CTS myself but know people who have and it can be quite horribly painful.

Is all discussion of you know who banned now? I'm with ferret anyway!

[Ferretfancy]

Is all discussion of you know who banned now? I'm with ferret anyway!

Thanks Dave. Just to pour a little oil on troubled waters, I was fascinating to hear that Mrs T asked for Wordsworth's Immortality Ode to be read at the funeral.
So, she asked for one of the most profound poems in the English language. Perhaps that reveals a different side.