Heh, on the contrary they may well have had a terrible life but this the only break they’ve had from it ;)

Mine too, at the airport.

The trouble with tribbles, the revenge!

Many years ago I read an article by an Iranian gentleman that basically highlighted that torture doesn’t get the answers required, it harms both the sufferer and the person inflicting pain on a deep level. This also brings to mind the prevalence of torture in the early series of “24”… a problem later addressed by the producers when they actively avoided depiction of torture. In the early Obama presidency there was a lot of (over due) contrition over the use of enhanced interrogation at Guantanamo bay. Arguements for the use of torture were often given in the context of a “ticking time bomb” or equivalent scenario that needed to be stopped in a given time limit, despite such incidents not having a real life precedent.

Also you get a sense of the terror inflicted by waterboarding.

I used to think I’d hold out well under torture until I had gastroscopy without anaesthetic. It was like being attacked by the alien facehugger. A rigid metal tube down the esophagus provoking the suffocation reflex (despite airflow to lungs) for 5mins which felt like 5 weeks. I was an absolute mess until they gave me nitrous gas for the colonoscopy, then it was relatively painless intoxication.

For Achilles, time wounds all heels.

When he toasts a glass at dinner he probably says “up bottoms”!

It’s all good. It’s a free country. Gotta break you to make you.

Colonoscopy was a walk in the park compared to the gastroscopy tube. That hard metal thingy made me feel like victim of the Alien.

Forearmed is forewarned.

I found this humerus.

Not necessarily, Germany could have become socialist.

I’d always assumed the lyrics to this were far obscene :/

Oh wow, that explains a lot!

It worked because I still remember it now ;)

We had this in the UK for PS 1

I love the episode where he’s selling electric vacuum cleaners door to door and he makes a soot and marmalade mess to hoover up as demonstration. Then the resident angrily informs him he only has gas no electricity!

I should have known

Because Kermit is already tired of her pork opines?