The professions, and the strange things they fixate on and say…

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Fyrefox

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Whenever I go to see my dentist or hygienist, I know that I’m entering a strange parallel universe. They’ll say things to me like, “Your GUMS look terrific!” Now, in the real world, nobody sees, notices, or cares about my gums. I could never boast about the condition of my gums as a pick-up line. “Hey Baby, wanna see my gums? I’m told they’re TERRIFIC!” Instant buzz-kill, right? I’ve had lovers who never once noticed my gums. I don’t walk down the street, thinking about my gums and their exemplary condition…

And anyone ever notice how dental hygienists have extremely strong hands from the work that they do? I mean, my hygienist could probably bend steel bars with her hands! I try to stay on her good side. She could probably walk through the bad side of town, and be perfectly safe with her five fingers of death… 🙀

Have you ever noticed the peculiar things certain professions fixate on and say? 🤔
 

Hey baby, wanna see my gums? 😂
My, you have a nice set of gums!
No! That’s never happened to me but my smile has been complimented on plenty of times.

Of course hygienists are going to complement, what they think of as ‘their work.’ They want you feeling confident about your smile etc.
 
We musn't forget the candy industry. Your waiting inline to be checked out at the grocerie store. You finally get near the checkout when your bombarded with cheap magazines, and rows of different candies. I NEVER am reminded of "gums", but as I look at the rack, and what do I see, GUMS, there are 300 different types of gums, and every package has that word GUM, on it. I can't forget that encounter easily. :LOL:

Isn't that ironic, the dentist works on our gums for our health and fitness ( good smile ), the sugar pusher works WITH gums to ruin our health and our fitness. Same name, but one is "good" and the other is "bad". The bad people hide what they fixate on. Their interests are done in the dark. The old time photographers were mostly good, and they did a lot of there job in the dark. :)
 

Lewkat said:
You'd never believe what we O.R. people say once the patient is asleep. It's all in good fun, I must say. If it turned nasty, I'd alert the doctors to either cool it, or I'll break scrub, and they will have to wait for a new nurse to replace me.
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One of the last senses a person loses as they sink into unconsciousness is their hearing. I was trained as an Ambulance officer to all ways keep that fact in mind by the instructors at the training school . Never assume the patient can't hear you.
 
School teachers. Do teachers where you live get 2 months of vacation each summer ? Here in Canada, the months of July and August the kids are out of school for those 2 months. My question is..Do the teachers get paid for 12 months, or only 10 months ? The school year here in the Province of Ontario is set at 183 teaching days. So almost exactly half a year of teaching. Any teachers want to comment about how they are paid ?
 
Lewkat said:
You'd never believe what we O.R. people say once the patient is asleep. It's all in good fun, I must say. If it turned nasty, I'd alert the doctors to either cool it, or I'll break scrub, and they will have to wait for a new nurse to replace me.
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As a patient in the recovery room, I heard: "Whoops, there goes another squirrely one!"
 
Any time I went to a dentist, he always said things like, your teeth look good at the end of the session. It's a way to leave you with a positive impression of your visit.
 
A sign at a drive through car wash.....A clean car drives better.

That same car wash in my west Toronto neighbourhood charges "$19.95 per month " for as many basic exterior car washes as you want to have. The catch is you have to sign up for a whole year, to get the $19.95 per month deal. So you would pay them $239.40 one time, and get as many exterior car washes as you like for an entire year. Would you buy that deal ? The local funeral homes and limo services buy that deal for sure.
 
Teachers can have a code by which they privately refer to certain students. I know, because I worked in a school system for over three decades. The codes are not universal, and it’s doubtful that they transfer between nations. There are likely state and regional variations to the codes, as well.

The codes are often acronyms. The most memorable one was to refer to a student as a PITA. Now this did not refer to a type of bread, but rather stood for Pain In The A**. Usage might be, “That kid’s a real PITA!”

Another darker code referred to certain students as PK’s. That stood for “Potential Killer,” namely a student with multiple ingrained behavioral problems likely in the future to run seriously afoul of the law… 🙀
 
Fyrefox said:
Teachers can have a code by which they privately refer to certain students. I know, because I worked in a school system for over three decades. The codes are not universal, and it’s doubtful that they transfer between nations. There are likely state and regional variations to the codes, as well.

The codes are often acronyms. The most memorable one was to refer to a student as a PITA. Now this did not refer to a type of bread, but rather stood for Pain In The A**. Usage might be, “That kid’s a real PITA!”

Another darker code referred to certain students as PK’s. That stood for “Potential Killer,” namely a student with multiple ingrained behavioral problems likely in the future to run seriously afoul of the law… 🙀
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Not only teachers. That general sort of jargon is the way many government workers privately refer to us, the public.
 

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