Rachie Posted November 18, 2004 Report Share Posted November 18, 2004 Am at uni sitting in the anatomy museum at marischal college doing zero work. The museum's next door to the dissecting room, and I keep getting waves of formaldehyde up my nose... it's making me both hungry and nauseous at the same time. How odd.Hour and a half to go... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob Karloff Posted November 18, 2004 Report Share Posted November 18, 2004 I used to love that stuff on the farm.We used to have to run the sheep through a trough of straw soaked in the stuff to cure footrot. Used to totally fume the byre out, I once burned my lungs a little bit. Really cleared the sinii though! Now I stick to Nitromethane fumes when we warm up the dragster in the pits. But I tend to wear a gas mask these days. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rachie Posted November 18, 2004 Author Report Share Posted November 18, 2004 I used to love that stuff on the farm.We used to have to run the sheep through a trough of straw soaked in the stuff to cure footrot. Used to totally fume the byre out' date=' I once burned my lungs a little bit. Really cleared the sinii though! Now I stick to Nitromethane fumes when we warm up the dragster in the pits. But I tend to wear a gas mask these days.[/quote']Clear the sinii it certainly did, my nose hasn't been clearer all day. At home now. Huzzah. No more uni for... er... 18 hours... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan Cynic Posted November 18, 2004 Report Share Posted November 18, 2004 If you nick some formaldehyde you could do a homage to Damien Hirst (Aberdeen style), by suspending half a mealie pudding in a tank of it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rachie Posted November 18, 2004 Author Report Share Posted November 18, 2004 Some of the specimens in the museum are very damien hirst. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan Cynic Posted November 18, 2004 Report Share Posted November 18, 2004 Some of the specimens in the museum are very damien hirst.I would like to volunteer myself to be placed in a tank of formaldehyde, a la Hirst, but you'll need to get me drunk first, or at least "half-cut". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rachie Posted November 18, 2004 Author Report Share Posted November 18, 2004 Cue drum fill. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hog Posted November 19, 2004 Report Share Posted November 19, 2004 At least play your gig on Sunday first Mr Cynic Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
psydoll Posted November 19, 2004 Report Share Posted November 19, 2004 I would like to volunteer myself to be placed in a tank of formaldehyde' date=' a la Hirst, but you'll need to get me drunk first, or at least "half-cut". [/quote']Since I've met most of The Cuts now (if not all of them) the phrase 'Half-Cut' means precisely fuck all to me Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest tv tanned Posted November 19, 2004 Report Share Posted November 19, 2004 My fiancee worked in the mortuary at Dundee Uni for a year, and regularly came back from work with the smell of formaldehyde on her clothes and hands.Quite a turn on really. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NARC Posted November 19, 2004 Report Share Posted November 19, 2004 My fiancee worked in the mortuary at Dundee Uni for a year' date=' and regularly came back from work with the smell of formaldehyde on her clothes and hands.Quite a turn on really.[/quote']Mortuary at a university?? excuse my ignorance but is that where they put all the nasty, greasy students? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest tv tanned Posted November 19, 2004 Report Share Posted November 19, 2004 It is where they store the dead bodies for the anatomy students to work on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NARC Posted November 19, 2004 Report Share Posted November 19, 2004 Just a bit morbid if its on campus, i can imagine plenty of mishcief that could be had there on a particularly riotous student night out Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest tv tanned Posted November 19, 2004 Report Share Posted November 19, 2004 A little difficult to get into the life sciences bulding late at night. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NARC Posted November 19, 2004 Report Share Posted November 19, 2004 Well ull know better than me, Ive never been to Dundee Uni Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paulscoconutass Posted November 19, 2004 Report Share Posted November 19, 2004 A modern man can not surviveDrowning in formaldehydeNever has the truth been spoken so well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rachie Posted November 20, 2004 Author Report Share Posted November 20, 2004 I can't feel my ears... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan Cynic Posted November 20, 2004 Report Share Posted November 20, 2004 ...my toes have been affected. When you handle these liquids do you have to wear a special suit, or is it just informaldehyde? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rachie Posted November 20, 2004 Author Report Share Posted November 20, 2004 The students don't handle the liquids, we don't even do the dissections, everythings already prepared for us to prod and look at. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan Cynic Posted November 20, 2004 Report Share Posted November 20, 2004 That place down Littlejohn St (Estaminet?) used to be the dissection rooms for Aberdeen Medical students many many years ago. They probably stopped doing it because of the cuts.(I blame Lucy!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
medichi Posted November 20, 2004 Report Share Posted November 20, 2004 Actually, the disection room in Marishal is just behind estaminet, and was still in action when I was messing about in there. Not sure if they still do disection anymore - I certainly did a fair bit, but that was *gulp* 7 years ago now. Jesus, I must nearly be dead...... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan Cynic Posted November 21, 2004 Report Share Posted November 21, 2004 I was told that over a century ago the Estaminet balcony was where students would observe anatomy lessons. (And that, once upon a time art students might also be there).Having said that my source was extremely ancient and quite possibly 'dottled'. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rachie Posted November 21, 2004 Author Report Share Posted November 21, 2004 Actually' date=' the disection room in Marishal is just behind estaminet, and was still in action when I was messing about in there. Not sure if they still do disection anymore - I certainly did a fair bit, but that was *gulp* 7 years ago now. Jesus, I must nearly be dead......[/quote']The DR (dissection room) in the anatomy dept at Marischal has been in the same place for the best part of 200 years.Med students don't get to dissect, not enough resources and it would get too crowded because of the sheer size of the year, despite being split into 4 groups. We do prosection instead, any material is prepared by the professors beforehand and we can examine it.Still better than Glasgow's computer based learning in my opinion. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Electric Tibet Posted November 21, 2004 Report Share Posted November 21, 2004 My sense of smell has never been the same since my time in that place.Sometimes I swear I can still smell the formaldehyde.From six years ago. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rachie Posted November 21, 2004 Author Report Share Posted November 21, 2004 It's weird, it makes you hungry the first time you experience it... and it hurts your sinuses... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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