Is what I am if I let the beer do the talking.
But I do my best to behave.
We have some friends, he is very practical builder-type, she is a bit of a hippy.
The conversation turned towards the weird and wondeful and the told the story of a few years ago, at a barbeque at their house. (In France).
Their son who was 9 at the time fell towards the barbeque and burned the palms of his hands on some coals.
Much wailing and tears and his hands blistered up.
One of the guests, a frenchman, suggested they took him to a neighbour who was a healer. The went to her house and the old woman looked at the kids hands, mumbled an incantation and rubbed an ointment on.
The next day there were practically no blisters and his hands healed very quickly.
What did we think of that?
Well we were non-commital, "well I never" and said somes stuff about the efficacy of traditional herbal remedies.
What I would have liked to have said was:
It's possible the burns weren't as bad as you though because:
1. You'd had a few drinks at the barbeque, it's possible your recall of the events and the severity of the burns isn't accurate.
2. If the burns really were serious you'd have taken the kid to the hospital, not buggered about with the local witch.
3. If the burns were really serious the other gusts would have encouraged you to take the kid to hospital.
4. The barbeque coals, although very very hot, do not transfer their heat as efficiently as, say, metal does. This is why firewalking works over short distances.
There are 2 possibilities:
1. your neighbour is a witch and magic is real or
2. the burns wernet that bad.
But that's not the way to keep friends.
But I do my best to behave.
We have some friends, he is very practical builder-type, she is a bit of a hippy.
The conversation turned towards the weird and wondeful and the told the story of a few years ago, at a barbeque at their house. (In France).
Their son who was 9 at the time fell towards the barbeque and burned the palms of his hands on some coals.
Much wailing and tears and his hands blistered up.
One of the guests, a frenchman, suggested they took him to a neighbour who was a healer. The went to her house and the old woman looked at the kids hands, mumbled an incantation and rubbed an ointment on.
The next day there were practically no blisters and his hands healed very quickly.
What did we think of that?
Well we were non-commital, "well I never" and said somes stuff about the efficacy of traditional herbal remedies.
What I would have liked to have said was:
It's possible the burns weren't as bad as you though because:
1. You'd had a few drinks at the barbeque, it's possible your recall of the events and the severity of the burns isn't accurate.
2. If the burns really were serious you'd have taken the kid to the hospital, not buggered about with the local witch.
3. If the burns were really serious the other gusts would have encouraged you to take the kid to hospital.
4. The barbeque coals, although very very hot, do not transfer their heat as efficiently as, say, metal does. This is why firewalking works over short distances.
There are 2 possibilities:
1. your neighbour is a witch and magic is real or
2. the burns wernet that bad.
But that's not the way to keep friends.
'How can you say, "We are wise, for we have the law of the LORD," when actually the lying pen of the scribes has handled it falsely? Jer 8:8
A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five. Groucho Marx
A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five. Groucho Marx
