Squirrels and girls!

[st_aurafina]

Relevant to my last post: thedivinegoat recorded "Squirrels and Girls" in her accent, which is pretty similar to mine, actually. If you were puzzled or curious about how these words don't rhyme, click here!

Because they don't rhyme.



Today I was researching patient information on vaso-vagal syncope. I followed a link to an abstract on swallow syncope, a related condition, and found this:

Two cases of swallow syncope are reported, one associated with drinking a cold carbonated beverage, and the other precipitated by eating a large bolus of food (which we have termed "Vaso-Bagel" syncope).

(From here.)

I can't even. Vaso-Bagel syncope. Vampire Beel was right: puns ARE the highest form of humour.



I tried on the bathing suit. Unlike the model, I look like a brick wrapped in purple. But it fits, and it covers the salient parts I want covered. The pool manager came into the shop (that's how I do all my networking these days!) and I nabbed her to investigate the accessibility of the pool. It has steps, not a ramp, but that should be fine for my knee. Better than a ladder, anyway. She said the current temperature in the water is 28 C, which may limit my range of movement, but if so, she runs the hydrotherapy centre that is about thirty minutes up the road, and it is heated. So. Those hurdles are done. Now onto the next step, which is getting out there with the bathing suit on.

I'm so not shaving my legs for this, I'm just saying.

Comments

[lonelywalker]

I am looking forward to "Girls and Squirrels" being the rockin' club hit of 2012.

I suspect I say it more like "gurls and squrrels".

I think models are a rare breed of people who actually look good in swimsuits. Them and Olympic athletes, and I've seen Olympic athletes who look profoundly embarrassed too.

[vass]

My theories on hairy legs and swimming pools:

1. Nobody is actually going to look closely enough at your legs to notice if they're shaved or not.
2. Men don't shave their legs, so women shouldn't be required to either.

Leave it to the women who enjoy shaving their legs.

[syntaxofthings]

I'm from the U.S. and in my accent "squirrels" and "girls" don't rhyme either. In "squirrels" I pronounce the e, so. I can see how someone would do that, but it's definitely not standard.

Shaving legs is annoying and a waste of time. Don't do it! :D

[lurkingcat]

But it fits, and it covers the salient parts I want covered.

That's always been my two requirements for a bathing suit too. And I so hear you on not shaving your legs. So much effort and for what?

[teigh_corvus]

Girls and Squirrels - not a perfect rhyme, but tis close enough for jazz.;P

I'm quietly rustling pom poms and saying 'go cat go!' over this whole swimming adventure, jsyk. ♥

[lo_rez]

I adore "Girls and Squirrels." Adore it.

[amalnahurriyeh]

Purple bathing suit! How fierce. I don't shave my legs either for swimming--but my pubic hair has a nasty habit of growing outside what a woman's bathing suit would cover, and I tend to draw the line there...so I swim in men's trunks and a bikini top. Style, I has it.

[amadi]

Girls and Squirrels, US version.

I feel like a rapper dropping a diss track. :D

Purple bathing suited sisterhood, ahoy. *high fives*

[tree]

"swallow syncope" makes me think of birds. i do have a wacky vagus nerve that causes my oesophagus (i think?) to spasm when i drink cold carbonated beverages and when i eat spicy foods, but luckily it doesn't make me pass out. (it also makes me cough when you stick something in my ear. i learned that these symptoms were all related and An Actual Thing last year in an issue of New Scientist. it was very exciting.)

i think maybe you're my hero. can i be you when i grow up?