SOME LEAFLET THE
PHYSIOTHERAPIST GAVE ME
Went
to see the hospital physio woman last week, and
much to my eternal surprise, she didn't beat the
shit out of me. No, she just told me my posture
was bad and gave me a leaflet. Someone beat the
shit out of me on the way home and took my
wallet, but I'm almost certain it was an
unrelated incident.
So
anyway, this leaflet gave information on a number
of exercises which I am now supposed to do every
day to straighten out my boomerang-like spine.
And since there must be other nerds in the world
who spend altogether too much time slumped
slack-jawed in front of a monitor and end up
having to walk around like a croquet hoop on the
rare occasions they leave their crusty computer
seat, I thought I'd do the world a service and
scan in all the exercises. Yay me.
They
didn't have names, so I made some up.
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1. The
Lancaster Lungbuster
After the usual stretching
and warm-ups, here's the first
therapeutic exercise. Lie on your back,
draw your knees up, take a deep breath,
then, when the audience are on the edge
of their seats, let the breath out agai -
hang on, this isn't an exercise! This is
an instruction manual for the operation
of the human lung! Pay close attention to
the trousers our model is wearing in this
diagram.
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2. The
Very Boring Rocking Horse
THEY'VE GONE! Holy shit!
In just one move we're suddenly down to
our pants. Our model also seems to be
lying on what could either be a beach
towel or a railroad track. Best get this
exercise over with fast before the 9:15
from Paddington arrives! Here, you have
to rock your knees left and right like an
amputee trying to swat a fly. It's also
good for making people feel ill on ocean
liners. Pay close attention to the
breasts our model has in this diagram.
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3. The
Crotch Assault
THEY'VE GONE! And the
trousers are back! Maybe our exercising
hero just had them rolled up and stuffed
down his/her front. Anyway, the exercise.
If you're one of the four people who paid
any attention to the non-nudity scenes in
the movie 'Showgirls', you may recognise
this move. Basically it involves sitting
in the same knees-drawn-up pose as
before, but now you're ramming your
crotch into the air as far as you can. If
you think you look bloody stupid doing
this, don't worry, you're absolutely
right. Try and pretend the chick from
Saved By The Bell is standing over you,
her mimsy a tantalising foot away from
your throbbing member. BAM! Take it, you
sassy bitch!
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4. The
Suggestive Lobster Pinch
I'm not sure I trust the
model in this picture. Partly because of
that dangerous look in the eye, but
mostly because she seems to have three
legs. Her posture reminds me of those
scenes in James Bond films when our suave
hero arrives on the scene to find a
bikini-clad lovely lying suggestively on
a nearby lilo or beach towel or whatever.
"Hello, Mr. Bond! Do come closer! I
won't hurt y- NOW! KARATE KICK!
HAI-YA!"
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5. The
Mother Nature Surprise
I'm sure we're all
familiar with those hippies who somehow
manage to summon the nerve to pretend to
have sex with a tree. Only the truly
hardcore ones, however, go onto the next
stage: trying to have sex with the
ground. Pound away, you filthy creature!
Pound your little hippy friend into that
mud-tastic ground! When you're finished,
perhaps a family of shrews will use the
hole you have left as a nest! Fucking the
ground is, however, discouraged among
hippy circles, as judging from this
diagram it has a tendency to make people
spontaneously grow mullet hairdoes.
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6. The
Corpse
Well, exercising's hard
work, y'know.
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