Learn... '''PAIN''' - Words and Phrases - English Addict - 286 - 🔴LIVE CHAT \ Sunday 24th March 2024

Spring is in the air.

Can you feel it?

Can you smell the flowers coming out?

Everything is turning rather nice.

You can see now in the garden everything is looking rather spring like as

we are now officially in springtime.

Welcome once again. This is English addict.

Coming to you live from the birthplace of the English language.

You know where it is by now?

It is England.

Hello.

We are back together again.

It is so nice to be with you once more on YouTube.

Hi, everybody.

This is Mr. Duncan in England.

How are you today? Are you okay?

I hope so. Are you happy?

I hope so.

Are you feeling well?

Do you feel any pain today?

Now, this is a very personal live stream,

because at the moment I am suffering from pain.

More of that later on.

So I hope you realise I am going to a lot of trouble today.

I am suffering personally

by doing today's livestream.

That's all I can say.

By the way, it has nothing to do with my tooth.

Believe it or not, my tooth is now okay.

It has stopped hurting.

However, I do have pain somewhere else in my body.

I wonder if you can guess where it is.

It might be in my brain.

Sometimes when I use my brain, it does become very painful up here.

Especially when those brain cells

have to suddenly spring into life.

Talking of which, it is spring time, I feel very happy.

Even though I am suffering pain at the moment.

Poor Mr.

Duncan.

I need some tender loving care

because let's face it, I'm not getting any around here.

That's all I can say.

More about that later on.

So my name is Duncan.

I talk about English.

You might say I am an English addict.

And I am.

I love the English language so much.

And I hope you do as well for more than one reason,

not just because it gives you a chance to watch my super duper

live stream, but also it gives you the chance to improve your life.

That is what I always say about English.

English can open many doors for you.

It can give you many opportune unities.

For example, joining this live stream,

chatting to other people on the live chat right now

can help you to improve your your writing,

your listening by listening to my conversation

and of course, by making new friends as well.

One of the things I always feel proud of is the fact that over

the years I have brought many people together, many people

who did not know each other in the past, but now they do.

They are now friends.

And that is because of my video lessons,

my live streams, but also because of you

being interested in the English language.

So I suppose you could say that I can prove very easily

how useful English is, because it is a very useful thing.

By the way, please give me a like if you like this already.

I've only been on for about 4 minutes,

but if you like this already, please give me a lovely light.

It would be ever so nice.

Spring is here and I feel quite excited about that.

Already, Mr.

Steve has gone into the garden.

He's been in the garden all morning and he's been doing lots of things.

And I'm just wondering what Steve has been doing.

I'm sure he will tell us.

By the way. Here is your warning.

Mr. Steve will be here in around

about 20 minutes from now.

So for those who are a big fan of Mr.

Steve, there he is.

Look, having a little dance, he

he will be with us a little bit later on.

I wonder if he will be showing some sympathy to me

because I am in pain.

You might not believe it.

And I have to say I feel as if I'm doing a very good job

of hiding my pain, which just happens to be the subject we are covering today.

We are talking about pain, words, phrases

connected to pain.

We can have pain, real pain, something we feel.

And of course we can have pain

that can be described as figurative figurative.

So something that is not real, but it is being used

as a way of expressing something.

So there are many ways of using the word pain.

Mr. Steve will be here

at around about 2:30.

How is your week being?

Have you had a good week?

I'm wondering if you've had a good week.

By the way, yesterday was the anniversary you might not remember this.

I remember it very well.

Yesterday was the anniversary

of the start

of lockdown here in the UK.

So it was four years ago.

Can you believe four years

since we went into lockdown here in the UK?

So this is something that affected everyone here, of course, around the world, many people were becoming

more and more aware of coronavirus and each particular country

was taking certain types of action.

So yesterday, the 23rd of March was the day

that the leader of this country

told us all to stay at home.

Do not go out, do not go to work,

stay at home for years ago yesterday.

Can you believe it?

I can't believe it was four years ago,

but it was way back in 2020.

So do you have any memories?

Do you have any effects from that time now?

I know here in the UK many people are still refusing to go back to work.

Isn't that strange?

So there are people here still,

four years

later, they are still avoiding going out or going to work

or having too much social contact.

And it would appear that there are more people now staying at home

or not working at all here in the UK

than ever before.

Certainly since before the Corona virus came along

and lockdown was introduced four years ago.

Yesterday it started.

Jeremy, what can you say?

hello to the live chat. Thank you for joining me.

Nice to see you here.

Who is first, I wonder?

hello. V-8s.

Now there is a surprise.

I wasn't expecting that.

Congratulations, Vitus.

Look what I have here.

Can you see? Yes.

I have some hot cross buns.

Hot cross buns?

There are two.

Mr. Steve and myself will be eating those later on.

Of course, next Sunday.

There is so much going on at the moment.

Have you noticed many, many things going on?

Next Sunday is Easter Sunday,

which means, well, first of all, it will be Sunday

and that will be here on Easter Sunday.

Also, Mr.

Steve and we will be eating lots of hot cross buns

and hopefully maybe one

or maybe two Easter eggs as well.

So what about you?

Are you celebrating Easter next weekend?

Are you going to have something nice?

Maybe a chocolate egg

or perhaps one of these lovely hot cross buns?

I have to

say, I am looking forward to next Sunday.

It is Sunday, by the way.

We have a new visitor behind me.

Can you see?

I'm not sure if you can see him, but there he is.

Today we have joining us in the back of the studio.

We have Buddha.

Can you please say a big hello to Buddha?

He's here joining us in the studio, apparently.

It is good.

Look, if you rub your hand

on Buddha's tummy,

apparently if you do that, you will have good luck and good fortune.

So I might try that later.

I need all the luck I can get if I was honest with you.

So I am looking for sympathy today.

Can I have your sympathy?

Can I have your warm love?

Because I am in

pain?

I'm sure someone today will say, Mr.

Duncan, it is your age.

It is because you are getting older.

So I have done something to my body and I.

I've injured part of my body.

So at the moment it looks as if I'm standing here

all happy and merry,

but I'm actually suffering a little bit more about that later on.

Can I also say hello to quit today also?

Francesca. Hello, Francesca.

Nice to see you here as well.

We have Beatrice.

Hello to Beatrice.

It's nice to see you here today.

Charlotte. Hello, Charlotte.

Martin, Hello to you.

Nice to see you here as well on the live chat.

Of course he is.

Here we are talking is Simon days.

He's here today.

Hello, Louis.

Nice to see you back here as well.

We also Palmira.

Palmira is here today.

It's so nice to see you all here.

Joining me on this Sunday, even though I am not feeling very well,

I was going to cancel today's livestream because I wasn't sure if I could do it.

More about that later on.

My roots also we have we have Pedro Belmont

is here today.

Christina. Hello, Christina.

Nice to see you here as well.

Rosa, Nice to see you here.

Tit Did I just say that?

Sit, sit.

Luin to now I hope I pronounce your name right.

If I haven't, I might try again later.

Hello to you. Where are you watching at the moment?

And a big hola to you as well.

There is a new YouTube channel coming very soon.

And guess what?

It will be my new YouTube channel.

There is a new channel being launched next month

in April, a new channel,

a new way of learning English, a new way of teaching English

video lessons just for you.

I will be presenting them and there will be some extra features that you can use as well.

All of that coming up.

Also, I will be talking about merchandise

if you want

one of these lovely shirts, guess what?

You will have a chance to do it very soon.

Not today, but soon

You will have your own English addict T-shirt.

Hello, also to Barca.

Hello, Barca. Nice to see you here.

And also a couple of more mentions

and then we will carry on honaker on all of it.

Hello to you.

Thank you very much for joining me.

So spring has officially arrived.

A lot of people today are outside in their gardens because the weather

I will be honest with you, the weather is quite nice today.

It's not too bad.

So there is the weather at the moment outside looking out of the window at the back of the house.

You can see now the daffodils are coming out, even though they have been

somewhat damaged by the wind because we've had a lot of wind.

And also, if you look carefully

at the tree, you can see there is lots of lovely white blossom

coming out now on the damson tree.

So the tree in the garden now is coming out into blossom.

And there is no doubt

that spring is definitely in the air.

And I have to say I feel rather pleased about it.

Very pleased.

In fact, English Addict is here.

You will soon have a new YouTube channel, which will be me

on the new YouTube channel,

teaching English, talking about English, all of that coming.

I've been so busy doing it despite the fact

that I am in pain.

I am looking for sympathy today, so I hope

there will be some sympathy coming my way

because I am in pain.

Hello.

Also to Josep Josep

Soler who says Hello, Welcome Spring.

Hello Mr.

Duncan and of course Palm Sunday is today

for those who are following

that particular festival and of course next Sunday it is Easter,

Easter Sunday, lots of chocolate,

lots of hot cross buns,

lots of food.

Basically, to be honest with you.

Two more hellos.

Hello, Adelina.

Hello, Adelina.

Thank you for joining me today on the live stream.

Mr. Steve will be here. Don't worry.

He will be on his way.

I will give you another warning now,

just to show you

that I am truthful with my promise that Mr.

Steve will be with us very soon.

Patrick. Hello, Patrick.

Can I say a big bon? Joel to Patrick.

Thank you for joining me today. And Mr.

Steve and myself send you all of our best wishes.

Hello.

Also l am gear as well.

Well, a lot of people joining today.

Thank you very much.

It's so nice to see so many people here on the live stream.

Claudia. Hello, Claudia.

Are you cooking something today?

I wonder if you have been in the kitchen cooking something nice.

Mr. Steve yesterday made

his special lentil

curry yesterday, and it was absolutely delicious.

It gave me a lovely, warm feeling.

I don't know what it is Sometimes if you are feeling unwell

or maybe if you feel a little bit of discomfort.

I always find that food

is a nice way of making your yourself feel better.

It makes you feel better if you eat something nice, maybe a little treat,

maybe a nice hearty meal,

maybe something that makes you feel better afterwards.

So I always

say that if you are feeling a little bit unwell

or a little bit under the weather, I think sometimes having a nice meal,

something that warms you up inside

it can make you feel so much better.

I can't believe it is four years

yesterday, four years ago that everyone here in

the UK had to stay at home.

Mr. Steve and myself, I'm going to be honest with you,

you might not agree with this, but Mr.

Steve and myself, we were we were actually quite excited in a strange sort of way

because we knew that it meant we could spend every day together.

So Mr.

Steve had to start working from home during lockdown,

which meant we were together every day

until, of course it stopped.

And then Mr.

Steve had to go back to work.

Hello?

L t l t die.

Hello. My English is very bad.

Well, don't worry.

Relax.

We are all here

to help each other.

So I'm sure there will be people here

on the live chat who will help you.

So don't worry.

Relax.

Enjoy

the entertainment.

Hello, Christina.

When you are feeling unwell, I think it is important

to have a person to take care of you.

I think so.

It is nice.

Even if it is just a kind word.

It is.

Sometimes you just need a little bit of reassurance.

Well, maybe just a kind word in your ear.

It can make a lot of difference.

So I do agree with you.

Wow. Kitty, this says we have

a remedy here in the here in the place where I live in the world.

A lot of festivities taking place.

Easter.

There is also Ramadan for those who are following Islam.

And of course, a lot of people are just excited because spring is coming.

It always changes the way people feel.

Yesterday, we went to the local garden centre

and we noticed that everyone

was was quite happy and friendly.

Everyone was saying hello to each other

in a very happy way.

So I have a feeling that when spring comes

I think people change their attitude as well.

So I think people are more friendly to each other.

Nora asks how you are.

Nora Hello, Nora.

Are you speaking British or American?

I think you are English.

I think you are British. Yes, I am British.

I am Mr. Duncan in England.

That is the clue.

So yes, I am British.

I am British.

I am speaking English because there is only one English.

Don't forget that American English

and British English are English.

There is only one English language.

However, there are many different types of accent.

Never confuse those things.

Pesci

hello, is it?

Pesci Hello?

Pesci Is it your birthday today? Hello?

Pesci And happy birthday to you.

Where are you at the moment?

I'm I'm rather interested.

I see.

So familiar says Hello, Mr.

Duncan.

Here is Ivan with my daughter Pesci.

And it is Pesci's birthday today.

Eight.

Wow, I'm so jealous.

I would give anything to be eight again.

So can I say happy birthday to Pesci?

Have a nice birthday.

Have a good birthday for Mr.

Duncan in England.

How is your English Pesci?

Is it good?

Maybe it's better than mine.

You never know.

Mr. Steve is on his way in a few moments, so I hope you are looking forward to that.

I will put the warning on the screen right now.

So there it is.

There is your warning telling you that Mr.

Steve will be with us in a few minutes from now.

Hello.

Taro.

Hello to Taro destroyer.

Who says that hand

gestures are useless?

Im really okay.

Thank you for that. I need that advice.

When I woke up this morning, I was hoping that someone

would give me some useful advice like that.

So thank you very much.

Hello, Nora.

Nora Hassan.

And once again, a big happy birthday to.

And I want to get your name right, if I can.

Can I get your name right?

I will try to get it right anyway. Pesky.

Happy birthday to Pesky.

Thank you very much for joining me.

Mr. Steve will be here in a few moments.

We are taking a break.

Of course we will be having a look at those lovely cows

and maybe Mr.

Steve cutting the grass in the garden.

All of that coming in a moment.

And then after that, we have one and a half hours of Mr.

Steve and myself.

And today we are talking all about

pain, words and phrases

connected to that very subject.

Don't go away.

Mr. Steve is doing the lawn.

He's cutting the lawn because he likes cutting the lawn, you see.

By the way, if you like Mr. Steve, guess what?

You are in for a little bit of a treat any moment now,

because he is on his way now and

it is true that Mr.

Steve is slightly mad.

Just ever so slightly mad

to think of Mr. Steve. Guess what?

Guess who is coming up now on your screens?

As if by magic?

Yes, it is him.

Are you ready?

I hope he's ready for me.

I hope he is. I've managed to plug Mr.

Steve in the right hole today because I got it wrong last week.

Here he comes.

It is Mr.

Steve.

Hello.

Wonderful viewers from across the globe.

I say that every week, Mr. Duncan.

And welcome to you, too.

And hello to you, Mr.

Duncan.

Hello to everyone. It's great to be here.

It's a lovely day outside.

It feels like spring is on the way, which it is.

I've been in the garden, I've been putting plants in.

I've been doing all sorts of things to keep myself fit and healthy.

Mr. Duncan.

And now I'm here sitting down in the chair, having a rest, talking to you

and all your wonderful viewers across the universe.

It is true. You did it. You seem very happy today.

Well, I'm just I'm high on life, Mr.

Duncan.

High on life?

Well, I'm glad someone is, because I am not.

I am not high on life.

Shall we tell the story?

The sad story of me.

Mr. Duncan.

Sorry. What?

Yes. Thank you very much for that.

I was talking about that a few moments ago.

About sympathy for someone who is not feeling very well.

I have injured part of my body.

You might not believe it.

I'm standing here at the moment and I am in pain as I stand here.

I know what you're going to say, Mr. Duncan.

Watching your live stream is always very painful.

Well, guess what?

I am really suffering today for it because

I have managed to injure my back.

I don't know how, but but it's something that's been

it's been annoying me for the past few weeks.

And and yesterday we were going out for a walk, one with Steve,

and I was bending over to tie my shoelace

and suddenly something in my back snapped or twisted.

And the pain was absolutely unbelievable.

I can safely say that I've never in my whole life,

I've never felt pain like it,

and I'm sure it has something to do with my age.

But it was just that that moment, just that very brief moment

of just reaching down to tie my shoelace and everything just

in my back.

It was horrible.

It was so painful and the pain is still there.

So I've taken some some medicine, some

something to ease the pain a little bit.

But I have to say it is still painful. Now.

So as I stand here looking all happy

inside, inside I am.

I'm in pain.

Mr. Duncan? Yes?

You were crying, literally.

You were shouting out in pain.

It was it was a I've never seen you quite

as as pained as that.

As in that much pain.

I was distraught.

Steve, The word is distressed.

Yes. We had to abandon our walk and it.

Yes, you took some strong painkillers which didn't agree with you.

And I was going to say, Steve, I was I was able to take something.

We took took something.

Then we went out later to the garden centre

where everyone was surprisingly friendly.

Were they all friendly yesterday?

Everyone we met, I think you had taken so much codeine

that you were just talking to anyone randomly.

It was to do something.

No, you're wrong, Steve. It is. I disagree.

If people were talking to us as well, they were all friendly

because spring is in the air and I think it makes people more friendly.

But you are right.

I was slightly, slightly high on codeine,

and later on when we got back home, I was ill

because I took some codeine to relieve the pain.

But of course, for some reason I have a feeling my body does not like it

because I felt really unwell and sick like.

Like the last time.

Do you remember the time I took some painkillers before

I did a live stream and then I had to run into the garden to vomit.

And then I came back in and carried on with my live stream.

I do remember that. Mr. Duncan.

And that was the same thing that was the codeine.

So you didn't have to

be switched to ibuprofen, which apparently is recommended.

I think you've pulled a muscle. That's what's happened. Mr. Duncan.

You pulled a muscle in your back that's been weakened over the last few weeks.

And yesterday, bending over to tie your shoelaces was the final straw.

As we say, the final straw.

That is a good expression.

It means the last thing, doesn't it,

that results in something bad happening.

Yes, we often mean the breaking point.

Yeah.

So the breaking point of something, the point at which something breaks,

or maybe the thing that is causing the problem really does become a big problem.

We say that thing was the last straw

because that one moment of time pushed everything over the edge.

It was the breaking point,

yes. Slattery

No, codeine is like morphine, you are correct. Yes.

And it's not really recommended for back.

Let's not really it at all, because you can get a little

a little high and addicted if you are not careful anyway.

Yes, we're here. You're here.

You're a bit better today, but your back is still painful.

Yeah.

Can I just say hello to a few people that said hello to me?

Quite, quite.

Tiber Ashraf, thank you for saying hello to me.

Nora said that she was waiting for me to come on, which is very nice.

And Pasquale,

Pasquale or Pasquale

says, Happy Palm Sunday to us all.

Yes, to us as Christians.

Then it's Palm Sunday. We've got no palms.

But are we supposed to eat anything special today, Mr.

Duncan?

I don't think so.

But Palm Sunday is normally when people will proceed.

They will proceed normally.

There is some sort of procession,

normally with a cross, and

another people will will carry palm leaves. Yes.

And then, of course, the following year you will burn down

those palms, those palm leaves,

and then you put a mark on your forehead.

And that's why we have Ash Wednesday, which comes earlier.

So that is the relevance of that.

And and yesterday is Palm Sunday, next Sunday.

Steve, you know what it is next Sunday.

Easter means.

You know what that means, Steve It means the C word. Mr.

Duncan. Sorry, the C word. It's a bit.

That's a bit harsh. Yes. Chocolate.

I see.

Thank goodness for that chocolate.

And I have purchased an Easter egg for as Mr.

Duncan.

and it's hidden somewhere in the house.

no surprise. Easter egg.

Although from what I've been reading today,

too much carbohydrate is not good for you.

But we both know that.

Boring.

But we will.

We will indulge for Easter, as we always do, because you what?

That is what Easter's for eating lots of chocolate, But, I mean,

it's not actually for that, but that is what it's become.

That's what most people do.

Yes, Well, of course, a lot of people it's I don't know why.

I'm sure this is also a little bit of the the religious aspect.

A lot of people eat salmon at Easter.

And I have to say, I don't think I ever had

salmon during Easter as a child.

We used to have a Sunday dinner, a big roast dinner, but we never had salmon.

So I find that quite interesting.

But a lot of people do eat salmon over Easter.

Yes, they do.

Yes. A salmon is at least in the UK, seen as something quite expensive.

Chicken's probably

the cheapest meat, I think It definitely is.

So a roast chicken is or turkey

is fairly traditional for Easter.

But we may well have a chicken if I can be bothered

to do a roast dinner because roast dinners take a long time to cook.

And the other thing we're doing is and we're doing this so. Yes.

Yes we are. That's right.

So we won't be having a roast dinner I don't think

because it's a lot of time commitment to do a roast dinner.

And if we're doing a live stream, we won't have time.

It just it's the same at Christmas. You cook a turkey.

just yeah, they're in the kitchen all morning.

And, you know. You know what, Steve? Sometimes.

Sometimes it is all it is so much trouble to make a meal

because you spend the whole morning doing it and then you eat it.

And just a few minutes. Yeah.

Palmira says now.

Now, if you remember, Steve Palmira had an accident.

She fell down the stairs and broke her ankle.

But Palmira says that.

Did you know that?

When I fell down the stairs, I broke my ankle.

But my my back pain disappeared.

And that is something that can happen.

Pain can sometimes cancel

all other pain because it is a weird thing, isn't it?

So pain is something that I still think people

don't quite understand how pain works.

What's wrong, Steve?

Well, I think what probably happened is that POW Mia fell down the stairs

and it reset something in her back that was causing the pain.

Really, That's probably what happened.

But she probably had the equivalent of some kind of back manipulation.

That and it probably relieves something that was a bit out of joint.

I don't know.

Maybe. Maybe.

Steve, That's what I need.

I need to throw myself down the stairs. I'll do it.

Maybe my back will be better.

I think Steve wants to push me down the stairs.

Yes, Maybe we will try that afterwards.

Well, pow, Mia, shall we tell you that very quick story of a friend of stairs?

A very dangerous thing.

That's a yes.

I don't think we need to,

but I was just going to say a friend of ours fell down the stairs and broke his neck. Yes.

And had to have all sorts of operations.

So. Yeah.

Be careful on the stairs. Stairs.

Well, 70 people every year die on the stairs in their house.

They fall down the stairs. So stairs.

I think they must be one of the most dangerous places in the house

after the bathroom, you will be amazed

how many people injure themselves and die in the bathroom from slipping over,

slipping over on the floor, or of course, in the bath itself.

You can slip over.

You can. You can.

I think it was Whitney Houston, wasn't it?

Didn't Whitney Houston die in the bathtub?

So it just shows that, yes, she was probably, you know, other things were going on.

Other things were going on.

You're just saying I'm just saying it everywhere in the house, there is some sort of peril,

something that might might cause you to fall

or trip or have some sort of injury.

So, yeah, the stairs, of course, a lot of people, when they get to a certain age in this country, Steve,

a lot of people will move into a house that has no stairs.

It will all be on one level, something that something that is

is quite common now for people to have accidents on stairs that they are

texting on their phones.

See, we had a talk about this at work

because a number of people at work in head office.

So I don't work in the head office.

But, you know, stairs at head office, a number of people were at broken ankles

and had injuries going down stairs

or particularly going downstairs because they were simultaneously

texting on their phones and thus not concentrating on what they were doing.

And apparently there's a large number of people

who are distracted with their phones now falling down stairs and tripping up on pavements.

And I mean, I had a friend that crossed the road and was texting and got run over by a car.

This is what I was about to say that I was about to say.

I'm sure there must be more accidents, especially in the street,

from people just not paying attention to the world around them.

They're just looking at their phones whilst walking.

And you do see it all the time.

You see people, they their head is buried in their phone and they're not even looking

where they're going.

We would imagine there must be lots of accidents caused by people

being distracted by their mobile phone and of course, driving.

Steve, Driving.

Well, yes, I mean, that's a legal. Yes, but people do it.

People do it. Yes, they do.

I mean, you see lorry drivers doing it to ten

lorry drivers driving down the motorway on their phone.

A lot of people still do drivers of all vehicles.

They still they still get distracted and they want to send a message,

know I was going to say something then about about I forgot, I forgot I was going to say now Mr.

Duncan, you, you've distracted me.

But never mind

what a pain.

Yes, that is an expression.

I'm no doubt that you will be referring to later

on as we discuss pain in great detail.

Yes, it is an interesting subject.

Also, a lot of people can get pain in their lives with or without any reason.

So there are people who suffer from pain in certain parts of their body

and there is no reason or explanation for it.

And this is one of those things I mentioned earlier.

Some people don't still still don't understand how pain actually works,

because with some people they get pain and there's nothing wrong with them.

You can just get pain in certain parts of the body.

And I have to say, I don't recommend pain ever.

I know there are some people who like it,

but that's another story altogether.

But I don't I don't like it.

I would say that I have a very low

threshold of pain.

So when we talk about threshold, we mean a level.

So under that level

it is okay.

But over the level, it is not okay.

So the person might have a very high pain

threshold, which means they can take a lot of pain without worrying

or feeling too unhappy.

But I would say that I have a very low pain threshold.

So any pain, anything it always makes me feel really down

or unhappy or just unwell.

To be honest, I think you're the same actually.

Steve on you.

I think. I don't know.

I don't.

I really wouldn't like to say. I don't know.

I mean, I can tolerate pain.

I pulled my neck last week, which happens occasionally,

and it was painful for, for most of the week but wasn't as painful as your back Mr.

Don't, because that was that was very bad. Yes.

You're going to have to rest

that for a few weeks, although apparently I was I was reading about that bad backs.

The worst thing you can do is sort of stay in bed.

You've got to you've got to exercise it to encourage it to heal. Yes.

And but obviously,

take the painkillers as well, which I'm sure are helping.

Are you in any pain now, Mr. Duncan?

Yes, as I'm standing here now, because I'm standing up

and I stand up quite a lot, I think that might be one of the reasons

why I do get back pain, because I do stand quite a lot

when I'm editing or working in here.

I normally stand up and of course now I'm standing whilst presenting this.

But the problem is if I sit down, the pain is even worse.

So whatever I do, it's painful.

But yes, I am.

I am actually in pain at the moment. I have

a pain right here

on the left side of my back and it's

Thank you, Mr.

Stephen.

Thank you for your sympathy.

It's a very good question from Rosa here.

Thank you, Rosa.

The words pain and ache.

How do we use these?

Well, I might be talking about that a little bit later.

yes, because they are.

They are different. We are? Yes.

Pain is something that might be constant

and ache can be something that happens, but it might not always be there.

It might and go.

So it's not it's not a it's more of a sensation.

Whereas pain is something that is definite,

but ache can cover a large area.

You might have an ache.

I've got an aching shoulder.

Yeah, it's annoying, but it's not painful.

You just get that sort of strange feeling.

I would like discomfort.

It's a discomfort.

Whereas a pain is, you know, you actually get it.

You actually get something which is

much, much worse.

And having pain is more definite.

Yes. Ache is normally something that comes

and goes over a certain general area, but it's not actual pain.

So you can just get aches, especially as you get older.

And I'm waiting for someone to say this.

I'm surprised you didn't say this, Steve, that Mr.

Duncan It is. It is your age.

And I think it does happen as you get older. Yes.

Your joints do start to wear a little bit.

There are things you can do keeping active, as Steve just rightly said,

if even if you have a bad back, you should not stay still.

You should not lie down for too long.

You can rest, but you should also keep active.

So that is what I'm trying to do with my back to back at the moment.

I'm trying to stay act well. I wish I'd done that.

Beatrice is diagnosing you

The is that.

Yes, Beatrice is suggesting it's the sciatic nerve.

Which is? Which is the.

Thank you for that, Beatrice.

We we did. I did think of that.

My mother used to suffer with sciatica, which is the trapped nerve in the back.

But I don't think Mr.

Duncan has that because the symptoms

you don't seem to be the same.

I think Mr.

Duncan has a pulled muscle from what I read, just Googling, which is, you know, I think Mr.

Duncan needs to probably see a doctor, but you tend to get sort of numbness

down the legs if it's the nerves and sort of other symptoms.

So Mr. Duncan has that pain in the back.

I think he's pulled a muscle.

Yes, I think I think it is because it it occurred

at a very particular moment.

So it isn't something that's just been happening over time.

It is something that happens when when I'm doing a certain thing.

So I could feel yesterday when I when I bent over to tie

my shoelace as I reached forward and went down,

I just felt this.

It was like a crunch.

I felt this

and it was as if two muscles were going

in the opposite direction, but they didn't want to go that way.

And then, of course, what happens is the muscle will then contract.

It will go into something called a spasm.

So the the muscle will will go tight and that will cause pain

because the muscle is doing something that it's not supposed to.

And then you get the pain and that's what's happening.

So my my back is definitely something has gone wrong.

I might have to go to the doctors.

I might have to have someone do a little bit of massage or something.

Yeah, maybe you could do it. Steve Here.

So Inaki has suggested that

you need a physiotherapist, which is probably will come to that.

Yes, I think so.

But we also have Marsha here, Marsha, Marsha, Helane and Miranda Cardoso.

Podesta Well, to to give her her full name.

Well, then

the good job of that.

Well, that's for Marsha to say, works in pain.

Pharmacology. my goodness.

Mr. Duncan I teach about pain

and the pharmacological ways to alleviate it.

So, yes, well, that's very helpful, Marsha.

So as we as Mr.

Duncan has said, he started off against my advice because I looked it up about back pain

and apparently it's you should take for back pain,

ibuprofen.

So what does that mean?

So that is different because that just relieves the pain itself.

The inflammation, Yes, it's an anti-inflammatory,

whereas codeine is something that is affecting the pain receptors in your brain.

So so it's altering that, which is why

sometimes if you have something like codeine,

which of course contains opiates, Marcy is the expert.

We defer to Ms..

If you defer to somebody means you allow them.

Yes, they're the expert.

So if Marcy is teaching about

pharmacological

aspects of of pain, then she's the expert.

Of course, you've got to be careful.

I know Ms.

is going to say you got to be careful with ibuprofen.

And those kind of non-steroidal

anti-inflammatory is because they will cause stomach problems. Yes.

Well, I'm not having too many, you know.

Having too many.

No, but I had all I've done this morning.

I had to the. So what do you recommend, Ms..

Yeah.

For Duncan's if he's pulled a muscle in his back, what do you recommend?

A hot water bottle was recommended.

We've got one with which we went out and bought yesterday.

So, I mean, we're not experts at all,

but I feel as if I'm starting to be an expert

already, just from my personal experience.

So if it was a pulled muscle massive, what would you recommend? And

I suspect according to the

NHS website, okay, they said to take ibuprofen,

but I can't take that because it will give me instant stomach problems.

Yeah.

So it's like, it's like all medicine I suppose, isn't it?

Even even the most basic of medicine.

It can have some, some sort of effect,

but at least I think it has worked

to, to a certain amount.

I think it has relieved the, the, the actual pain

as such the, the swelling as it were.

But it's still painful standing here now.

So I am suffering today, by the way.

I'm suffering just for you sat Marino suggests

a medicine called All in.

so I've not heard of that.

I will look it up because it's probably got some component in it,

some medicine in it, which will have a different brand name in the UK.

So I will look that up.

Yeah.

And see what that is.

It might be something that you can buy from the chemist.

Yeah, of course you can.

You can just put something warm onto it.

So there are many things you can buy.

You can heat up maybe a small thing in the microwave oven

and then put it on the the aching part.

of course, as we did, we we've bought a little water bottle, which I'm going to use later.

I'm going to put it on my back to help me.

And of course, the best thing of all, Steve, we have the electric blanket

so I can actually go upstairs and lie on the bed for for 10 minutes

with the electric blanket underneath

warming my, my back up.

So that's really good.

I have to say that that is being the biggest help of all.

And of course,

I've had some

some tender loving care from Mr.

Steve. I don't go into that right yet.

A couple of people are are suggesting

that you need to strengthen your back for,

you know, long term protection

because if it's strengthened, then it will be less susceptible

to getting pulled muscles if the muscles are stronger So long term.

Mr. Duncan this is what I think you need to do.

You need to do exercises and strengthen your back muscles to make them more resilient.

Yes, stronger.

You want resilient to these these issues?

Well, so we've had time.

I'm just going to read out Tom Rocks has said swimming lessons.

Something obviously with strength in your back.

I can't swim.

He can't swim.

I don't think that'll work for Mr.

Duncan, But can I just kind of just point out a very delicate thing?

I am slightly once

again, I am a little overweight as well,

which, of course, these days

I think it is a common cause of breath problems in many people.

So if you are slightly if you're carrying slightly more weight than you normally do,

that can also cause certain types of stress and strain on your back.

So I know I've put a little bit of weight on not as much as last year, but

as soon as the weather gets better, I will be going out more,

taking more walks and again being more active.

So I have to say it might be slightly

my fault and I don't mind admitting it.

Yeah.

Hannah of work says

Do the child pose, which I think is probably yoga.

You're suggesting that.

Yes, yoga is very good for strengthening

muscles in the back, particularly.

And your core muscles.

I think I do a bit of yoga and

I found actually my back used to be very susceptible.

If I used to go and do some gardening, I would get a bad back.

But I have been working on strengthening exercises

for a long time now and I find now that I don't get that.

So yes, I think long term what Mr.

Duncan needs to do is

strengthen the back muscles,

keep them flexible with certain exercises,

and then the you will lower the chances of having these problems in the future, I think.

Yes, I think I think a lot of that advice is very good.

So thank you very much for getting involved with that.

We are talking about pain very specific.

So everything going through all of the words, all of the phrases

that can be used when we are talking about pain

and of course we can use it literally

as a real thing or we can use pain figuratively.

So that's what we will be looking at.

And if you moments.

we would like this from Claudia. Okay, Steve.

I know what you're going to say, by the way.

I was going to say that afterwards.

We have a lot of things go through. It's 3:00.

We're going to have a quick break. Steve okay.

So I can I can stretch my back

and hopefully I will still be here in 3 minutes from now.

Let's have a break with those lovely

fluttering flags of the world.

And then we will be straight back here

talking about words and phrases connected to pain.

Don't go away.

You know,

you know,

you're

We have some controversy here at the moment in England

because the England football squad,

the football strip,

the costume or the outfit that they wear

when they're on the pitch has been redesigned with a different version

of the English flag, which, of course, as I'm sure you know, is a Red Cross.

But apparently been changed.

And it's caused all sorts of controversy.

To be honest, it is English addict and I am here.

But also there is someone else here as well today joining me.

It's Mr.

Steve.

Yes, hello.

Better Easier has suggested something

which I think we couldn't possibly

ever engage with. Mr..

What has Claudia said Claudia has said or suggested

that it is sugar that is causing.

Well, there is a lot of Claudia said that sugar

is implicated in inflammation throughout the body.

And that is true.

There's a lot of people are writing about this now,

that the sugar

that causes inflammation in the body and thus can cause health issues.

And of course, as everybody knows, Mr.

Duncan is quite a fan of sugar.

I like chocolate, I like sweet things, I like eating anything

that is that is sweet, to be honest with you.

But I know this.

I am aware of this, but I don't think this is connected to it.

I think this is definitely a combination of being

slightly unfit and also just

getting a little bit old.

You say.

So Christina has said it's recommended to move around and never to stand

still in one position, which of course is what you're doing.

That's what I was doing.

Just so whilst the flags of the world were fluttering,

I was moving around the studio, doing some stretches

and some movement to try and keep it.

Tanika, Jill, I've heard of that.

Christina, we shall we shall look that up.

We have something similar here that we that you put on.

And it's it's very it's like a deep heat cream.

Nick, I think it's I think it's like a natural medicine on the

I think it's like a natural medicine

because you can get the ibuprofen

gels to rub on or creams, which I think are quite good.

That might actually be better. Actually, we might try that.

yeah, that's it.

yes. Perseverance, says Inaki.

Perseverance is needed to strengthen your back through exercises.

Yes. It's not going to happen.

It's going to take months, literally months.

Yes, I think it will slowly build up.

But I do think, as I said, I think my general health

taking taking some exercise, a little bit of exercise is the weather gets better

because we haven't really been able to go out very far because the weather has been awful with rain.

And a lot of the land around here is now underwater.

So it is very hard to to go out for walks.

But spring has arrived, I believe now.

I think it's next Sunday.

Is it, Steve, that the clocks also change So we go forward one hour,

which is good because that means lots of people who are watching

on the other side of the world over towards Asia will be able to join us earlier.

So it's great.

So I think it's next weekend, not only Easter,

but I think also the clocks will change here in the UK.

They spring forward

at this time of year.

So one hour ahead next week.

Don't forget that the time might be a bit different for you where you are in the world.

We are looking at an interesting subject today, Mr.

Steve.

We are looking at words and phrases connected to something that.

I think we all have from time to time we all get

sometimes we have pain.

Today,

some people might say that it is painful watching this.

To which I reply Fiddlesticks pain is what we are talking about, Mr.

Steve.

Words and phrases connected to pain.

So lots of words, lots of phrases.

I realised now I designed all of this myself and I.

I realised that it may be that that looks a bit like blood.

I'm not sure if it is or not, but it wasn't supposed to be.

But now it.

Now I've looked at it on the live stream.

I start to think maybe that looks like blood, but it isn't.

For those who are wondering, it is not.

It is it is actually paint.

But unfortunately it looks a little bit like blood.

But it isn't. Okay before anyone complains.

So, Mr.

Steve, we are looking at words and phrases connected to paint.

Right? Aim.

You can get all sorts of pain in different parts of the body.

The word pain describes severe discomfort,

so we often see pain as something that is that is not gentle.

We never think of gentle pain.

We never anyone use the term gentle pain.

So pain is always something that is seen as negative.

So any any level of pain

might might be seen as discomfort

or to a degree may be severe.

So that's a great word, by the way, isn't it, Steve?

Something that is severe.

Yes. So often if

you go to a doctor or a clinician,

they will want you to if you say you've got pain,

I want you to rate that pain on a scale

maybe like 1 to 10, ten

being the worst pain you could possibly imagine, one being very mild.

And they will often ask you to say on that scale,

what is the level of pain?

I think at the moment my pain is 11.

So I think I think I think it's good.

I don't think right now it's 11.

It's not far off.

Well, yesterday you were in so much pain yesterday, you couldn't think you couldn't speak.

You were shouting out. That's it.

So I think you probably were on a nine or ten yesterday.

You've probably come down to I don't know, I'm not you,

but I would suggest it's down to six or seven maybe.

Yes, it's it's I would say it's in the middle. Yes.

It's it's pain, It's there.

But but I can cope with it.

I can manage the pain, which is something that we often have to do.

So the word pain describes severe discomfort.

So when we say something is severe,

it means it is something that is annoying.

Or maybe persistent.

It doesn't stop or may be something that is just more than it should be.

So we all we all get pain from time to time.

Maybe a little bit of pain here and there.

But severe pain or severe discomfort

is something that then becomes annoying,

something that you don't like, something that can make you feel really unwell.

Something severe is serious.

It's severe. Severe.

So you can have severe storms,

severe pain, severe starvation,

severe something that is really, really serious.

The feeling of

sharp or lingering discomfort.

So there is another good word, Steve.

Lingering,

lingering pain. Yes.

So what does it mean if something lingers?

It stays around for a long period of time.

It doesn't go away quickly. It's there.

It stays there. It link it.

If something lingers, if a person lingers around and

you can describe them as somebody that doesn't leave, they're supposed to have left, but they didn't.

Why is that person why is John still lingering around in the office?

I thought she was going off to see that customer lingering.

It means you're

extending your stay is staying something

staying for longer than it should or it is not going away.

It's not going away. So the feeling of shock,

we've all had that sharp pain.

Maybe if you have have an injection

maybe in your arm or if you're having dental work done,

you might have an injection, a needle, you might feel that

that is sharp, the pain is sudden,

but but brief so it doesn't last very long.

Shard by Beatrice.

Beatrice is off.

See you later, Beatrice.

I hope you remain pain free until next week.

Yes, Yes.

I've lost my train of thought.

Louis is having pain in his teeth.

Maybe he's had a sharp pain.

Toothache can be like a sharp pain, can't it?

It means it all comes on very quickly and is very noticeable.

And it can stay or stay around for a very long time.

So that that is something we are looking at in the moment.

Believe it or not, I got a sharp pain in my stomach, you might say, Ooh, ooh.

A sharp pain suddenly comes on from nowhere.

It may, but it may not linger.

No, it may.

Or sharp pain in your foot.

I mean, if you get cramp in your foot.

Yeah, that's a sharp pain.

Well, we'll look at that in a moment.

Okay, Steve, Pain can be felt in any part of the body,

so it would be fair to say, I think that anywhere I think

any part of your body can have some sort of pain,

some sort of sensation of discomfort.

So I don't think there is any anywhere.

I wonder what the most unusual places

that you can actually feel discomfort or pain.

I wonder what is the most unusual place, a part of the body that never has pain. So.

So there might be somewhere I can't think of anywhere because

I imagine at some point in our lives, Steve,

we've had pain everywhere, any part of the body.

But there are there are parts of the body that that can't feel pain and the brain is one of them.

Apparently, you know, you can somebody can do an operation on your brain.

And although the brain is the is the obviously the organ that receives the signals

and tells you about pain, it doesn't actually if you actually,

you know, just stick a knife in your brain, you wouldn't feel it.

Okay, because apparently it can't

hasn't got pain receptors and I think parts of your guts,

parts of your intestine, I don't think can feel pain.

I don't know.

But certainly a brain can't.

And I know. That's true.

Yeah, because I've seen I've seen there was a documentary

I watched once of a person having an operation on the brain

and and they were they were awake,

they were awake and someone was operating on their brain

and they were sort of and they, they, they, they the person

to, to count or recite something and they have to keep talking

because they have to make sure they're not damaging any parts of the brain

whilst they're, they're poking around in there.

Sometimes if you notice, sometimes you can enjoy yourself

and you don't realise you've injured yourself and

you can get quite nasty cuts.

And I've noticed suddenly you're bleeding and you think, Well, I didn't feel that

sometimes you can enjoy yourself and not realising and you don't feel any pain straight away.

It's quite odd that that's true.

I've, I've had paper cuts on my finger

and I've just noticed it was I think, well how did I do that?

Sometimes you don't even know how you did it.

You don't remember even even doing it, and you find that there was a little cut

on your finger or something.

I hate paper cuts, by the way, the horrible things.

I hate the feeling when the paper slices into your skin.

It's the Henke seed.

Hello, Seed. I don't know.

I haven't seen your name before, so thanks for putting that comment in.

Yes, you.

It's your hair and your nails. Of course.

You don't feel pain in those.

Although

if you were being tortured,

certainly at the base of the nail, you can feel pain. Yes.

It's a popular method of torture is to pull your nails out.

Very, very good.

And if you if you pull your hair out, that's painful.

But that but the actual hair itself and, the actual nail

itself, of course, there's no pain in that.

So the actual place where the hair grows from does. Yes.

Does feel pain.

Yeah, that's true and in fact, I think the hair and the nails are actually made of the same material.

So similar material.

Christine is on the top of a mountain

while at the moment it's freezing cold.

I think you're on your bike, aren't you, Christine?

So our Christine is going to follow the rest of the lesson later.

Well, have fun.

We know you love going on your bike out in the mountains.

Okay. And

We hope that you don't get frostbite

and and get frostbite pain.

Okay.

That's some good advice, Steve.

So, hello, Christina.

In the mountains.

Did you enjoy my act?

Have you been very nice?

Kind of. Nestor Hello, kind of.

Nestor I don't recognise your name, kind of.

Nestor There is a syndrome called Release Day.

O'Reilly Day that people can can't feel pain.

It is weird. I saw an article last week.

There was a young girl, very young girl,

and she cannot feel pain in any way. So.

So anything you could you could do anything to this

to this girl to injure her and she couldn't feel it.

So I that's quite distressing because you would never know if you've if you enjoy yourself.

So I think pain is a very useful thing, isn't it?

Because it tells you that part of your body has been injured in some way.

So that's the reason why pain is very good, because it stops you from, from injuring yourself.

So it is a kind of defence mechanism I suppose, because of course

it keeps you away from things that are dangerous.

That's the first lesson you learn as a child, isn't it, Steve?

Stay away from the fire.

The fire will burn you.

And sometimes you have to learn the hard way

by touching the fire and getting burned.

But we do have different, different people do have different pain thresholds.

Yes, there are definitely some people who can withstand pain more than others.

And of course, those people tend to say

that those who feel pain more are wimps

or they don't realise that probably themselves,

they've got a very low pain threshold naturally.

So I think some people do,

but other people tend to feel pain more and suffer more from it.

I'm a little different, so we're all going to have different nerve endings and different in the brain.

It's all going to affect the way we perceive pain.

Okay, Save on the screen now.

Damage to a nerve causes, pain to be felt.

So that's the reason why we feel pain.

Wherever there are nerves in the body,

receiving the feeling or sensations,

then then you can feel pain in those areas as well.

I suppose we always think of the skin that we see because that that has lots of nerves.

So that is probably the place where we

we often think of, of getting pain or having some sort of pain.

So a nerve is a receptor.

You know, you use this word just in your sleeve receptor.

So a nerve is a receptor of touch or sensation.

So it can be a nice feeling, a soft feeling,

or of course at the other end of the spectrum you can have pain.

So something that is soothing, something that feels nice and something that feels unpleasant.

So there is, as you said, there is a scale,

a sort of scale from 1 to 10.

So one is

little pain, very little pain.

No pain.

Ten is absolute pain.

It's really, really painful indeed.

So a receptor is something that is sensing

that thing or receiving I suppose, is a good way of describing it.

Would you say yes to us from?

My days in learning about biology,

I think there are different pain receptors.

Some respond to heat, cold injury, that sort of thing.

I think there are different different pain receptors in the skin.

And again, they they are there to to

not just help you feel these things, but also as a way of protecting the body

from damage and injury as well.

Foetuses as has come up with a very good I think it's an idiom, no pain, no gain.

You going to mention that later?

Well, we might as well mention it now.

That's a very that's a very good expression.

It's an expression.

It is very tense.

No pain, no gain.

That's often used to indicate, as you

as you have said later on, that

you don't you don't get

something without working hard to get it.

And It doesn't mean literally you get pain,

although in some instances you might if you

if you want to become very fit,

if you want to become fitter and healthier

and maybe run races or do bike rides, you've got to get fitter.

And the process of getting

can be literally painful.

But the pain is not necessarily indicating that it's

it's actual pain as we know it

from an injury.

As you push yourself to a point where where you feel that there is pain.

But in fact you can go you can go much further than that point.

Well, it's indicating it's the

the stress involved in making an effort.

It's not necessarily a pain.

No, literally a pain. That's it.

But if you wanted I don't know if you wanted to

to do something in the garden

or work hard to get a new promotion,

you might the effort involved in doing

that is is what we will say is the pain.

Yeah.

No pain if you don't put some effort in. Yes you're.

Not going to get a reward at the end of it.

So so it can be used literally as an athlete for example, or a dancer.

So I remember seeing a documentary about these these poor kids who join the

the these these Chinese, it's like it's like Chinese opera.

And I'm sure you've seen it.

But quite often they have to do all of these movements and they start off

very young and they have to do all sorts of really difficult movements.

And some of them look quite painful, to be honest.

Dancing.

If you are a ballet dancer, you have to you have to stretch your limbs

almost to the point where where they'll break and you have to get used to that feeling.

So so you can use it figuratively or you can use it literally.

So yeah, yeah.

I think that's a very good yeah, a very good expression.

Thanks for that.

It's a very common expression that people say no pain, no games.

Sometimes they say it sort of it

frivolously, I guess, to indicate that, you know, if you want to the people,

the parents or say to their children, I think I think we've covered that too.

If you want to if you want to pass an exam, like an English exam, yes.

Then you've got to work hard to to learn.

And that in itself a kind of suffering.

Okay.

Anyway, I think we've we've explained that Steve Pain

can be described in many ways, so we don't say pain.

Pain is is it is I suppose it's a general term

for for the feeling of discomfort or even hurt.

So hurt is is I suppose, a type of pain.

So you can hurt another person or you can be hurt

so that there is a way of using that word in more than one way.

So you might have slight pain.

We all get it.

We all get slight pain, maybe a slight pain in our shoulder,

or maybe in the morning when you wake up, maybe your

your joints, you might have a little bit of pain.

Nothing serious, just slight pain.

If you've been through a war, you might have slight pain afterwards.

Nothing serious.

So very slight.

Something that is not really serious.

It's something that is not too bad.

You might also have coming and going pain

and you can it you so so maybe

especially here if you hit your elbow have you ever done that

You bang your elbow on something and then you get a weird pain that comes and goes.

You might even get something called pins and needles.

Pins and needles.

It's very strange because you have a nerve here.

The back, the funny bone.

Yes, because it's on the funny bone, because it's your humerus.

And there's there's a nerve that if you hit it, we all know that.

Yeah.

You will get this really weird feeling.

It's painful, but they call it the funny bone.

I don't know why?

Because it's a funny pain. Well, it's.

It's because it's the humerus. The bone is the humerus.

But there's a nerve there.

There's a specific.

Yes, yes.

But the nerve is attached to the humerus.

And that's why they call it the funny bone, because it's humerus.

Right? I say, Mr..

are we still on?

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

No, I'm listening.

Listening. I'm looking at the live chat.

Mr. Lincoln, You might have tingling.

Now, I'm not sure if this this sounds like it's nice,

but I would say some of the worst things that can happen to a person

normally results from tingling.

So tingling almost sounds nice, doesn't it?

Steve It sounds like something that's fun,

but Quite often.

Tingling as a type of pain can be something

that could be serious or something that is that is quite, quite bad for you.

So you might have tingling after an injury.

So it means maybe there is some damage,

maybe some damage, the nerve or the limb.

So you might have tingling.

One of the worst

feelings I have, Steve, is when you fall asleep on your arm

in the night, you go to sleep on your arm and then you wake up

and your your hand is is dead.

It's completely dead.

And then slowly the feeling will come back.

But it's incredibly painful as the blood

starts to circulate around your your hand.

It's incredibly painful. Yes.

It starts off with that pins and needles feeling slight people.

It's like literally someone is putting pins

and needles into your arm, which itself is not.

But it's not painful as such. It's a discomfort.

Yes. But then, as you say, the blood comes back in it does become quite painful. Yes.

Stiffness, says Inaki, Perhaps it is a type of slight pain.

Yeah. If you've got a stiff joint.

my. It's stiff.

It's just like a dull pain, really.

It's very a discomfort.

Often associated with people who are older as well.

Here we go.

Steve, this is this is the one ache

now we all get aches.

We often say aches and pain,

but to be honest with you, ache is a type of pain.

It is a dull, lingering,

prolonged pain quite often in a general location.

So your shoulder might ache.

So the whole area is just throbbing.

It is it does exactly what it feels when something aches.

And of course, a headache is a very common pain that people get a headache.

It's it is pain.

And that vary in severity.

You can get you can get a mild headache or you can get a migraine.

But yes, headache is the commonest

probably form of pain that people get and backache, headache and backache.

I think of the commonest forms of pain that we experience. Yes.

Yes. And that is true, I think.

Well, that's what I'm getting at the moment.

I'm feeling as my back is is it's painful.

But I would say also as.

sorry about that.

Did you enjoy that, Steve? I just had a sneeze.

Bless you.

But I think it's because I've been in the garden.

Okay. Ache to ache.

So I have I have a pain in my back, but it is also lingering.

It is an ache.

So you might have a type of ache in your back.

It is it is something that is aching.

It is a long, prolonged, lingering pain

and sometimes it can last for quite a while.

Christina Silva,

who's not on a bike up a mountain, that's a different

talks about heartache.

that. That's a good one. You.

You got heartache. Somebody died.

The love of your life has left you.

or, And you.

It's almost like that is a pain in your heart.

Heartache.

You long for a person or somebody has died.

And you just that you describe that as a kind of pain.

It's an it's.

It's a pain related to a specific emotion

where a love or loss,

and it's a particular type of pain that we feel

as humans tick that type of ache.

Apparently, the the receptors in your skin

are the points where the sensation actually occurs.

And of course, they are connected to the nerves.

Thank you very much for that, Giovanni.

That's very kind of you to say that yes, you can have aches

so in Ache can be figurative.

The feeling you if you feel sad

and also an actual pain, a real pain.

Here's another one, Steve.

This is something I get especially at night.

Part of my body will suddenly contract.

It will become so painful.

Cramp.

now, is there a worse feeling than having cramp?

You get cramp in your leg sometimes.

Your lower leg, that big muscle, your calf muscle

will will suddenly go tight and it will contract.

And the pain is incredible.

And then you have to try and stretch

that muscle, which is even more painful.

It's horrible. I hate getting cramp.

Yes, you sometimes get cramp if you've over used a muscle.

And because we're using our calf muscles a lot when we're standing walking,

if you overdo those muscles, overwork them,

they can then go into a cramp when you're resting.

I don't know what causes that.

I don't know much about that.

But you have to try and stretch it straight away, don't you?

Because if you don't, it just gets worse and worse.

Well, I remember reading about cramp.

It's also a lack of a certain type of the

I want to say the electrolytes, but I don't think it is that.

But it's something that's it's keeping that muscle working and suddenly

it's suddenly depleted.

And I often find that if I cut the blood circulation off to to my leg,

if I'm sitting in a certain way, then I will also get cramp as well afterwards.

So it's almost the result of it.

But I don't like cramp.

And sometimes that can hurt for a very long time afterwards.

So you have the attack of cramp, but then later that

that that muscle is still hurting for a very long time afterwards.

So I think it it does actually injure

I think it also damages the muscle as well.

So can have severe pain.

There are many ways of expressing something that is severe,

as I said earlier, serious, something harmful can be severe.

So a kind of pain that you really feel and almost you can't stand

you can't stand that particular pain.

So yesterday when I hurt my back, when my back did something

not very nice, I almost felt as if I was going to be sick.

So you can feel sickness.

It can it can have quite an effect on your body.

So pain severe.

Pain also. Here's a good one, Ste.

This is a great word. Agony.

So you might describe the feeling of severe pain,

agony.

And I think that it's a very high point of pain.

That's it. Somebody.

Somebody steps out on your foot

or you, you, you drop, you know, any kind of pain.

You can say I'm in agony.

And somebody might ask you, you know, what hurts your pain?

And you might say somebody stepped on your foot and you might describe that as agony.

It's really severe pain.

You might say you are in agony, I'm in agony, I'm in agony.

I've got I've got a pain in my back.

I'm in agony.

Yesterday, you could easily have said I'm in agony.

Yeah, I was definite.

But in fact, you were actually swearing.

It was said I definitely in agony yesterday.

Stomach pain can be very bad. Yes.

So the stomach, I think one of the most common pains in the body has to be the stomach.

I think we all get it from time to time.

Some sort of stomach pain, maybe indigestion,

or maybe if we're hungry, you can sometimes get pain in your stomach.

If you are hungry as well.

It can feel uncomfortable, especially if you like eating food and then suddenly you stop.

It can feel really uncomfortable.

So something very painful we can describe as as agony.

Steve, you might have

excruciating pain.

Now, there is a great word.

The word itself really does sound

as if you are suffering.

It is excruciating, something that is so painful.

Yesterday, when my back was hurting, I was

I was experiencing excruciating pain.

It was really severe, very bad.

It just yes, you can use those interchangeably, can you?

Agony. Excruciating.

Excruciating is a part is quite you know,

you've got a good grasp of the English language if you using the word excruciating.

So if you want to impress your friends

in the world of English, then

you can use the word excruciating.

Although we don't wish any pain on you, not you would have to use that word.

You would have to be in a lot of pain to use that word.

Yeah, there you go.

Steve, we've got to move on because I've got 20 minutes left already.

I can't believe it.

Unbearable.

You can describe a person as excruciating, can't you, Mr.

Duncan, as well.

We might look at that later. Right. Okay.

So unbearable pain, something you can't bear.

You can't stop.

And the pain.

So again, we are feeling pain that is severe,

something that is almost unbearable.

You can't take the pain, it is unbearable.

Of course,

we might say that a person in pain will need

you need relief from the pain.

You need to take something, to do something to give you relief.

Take it away. Yes, like.

Like I was yesterday.

If if only for a short period of time.

You need some period of time

where you are getting a rest from that pain

or an absence of pain, or at least a reduction in the severity.

Yes. And that's why they often call things painkillers,

pain relievers.

Because they're giving you a break

from that pain, giving you a period of time

when the pain is gone and it might not go completely.

At least it gives you a reduction a period of time when you can

now at least not have to experience that because it is stressful.

Pain is stressful. Gosh Yes.

And it's very upsetting to be,

Catarina says,

have bananas because they're very good for cramp.

And lack of potassium and magnesium

causes causes cramp according to people on there.

Thank you, by the way, for saying bless you to me when I was sneezing.

Why do we do it, though?

It's because of when we had the Black Death.

Somebody asked that the great plague people used to because

because of the religious

aspect of that particular phrase, bless you.

So if a person appeared to be ill,

so if you sneezed, they would say,

bless you as a way of saying, look, look, get better, don't be ill.

So it was kind of saying that were he'll take care of you.

Bless you.

So and apparently it came around when we had the plague, the great playwright,

I believe it was also called the Black Death as well.

So you might use all sorts of things.

You might use certain

things, as we mentioned earlier, heat

and also coal can be used to relieve pain.

So as we found out yesterday, Steve, certain types of pain

can be treated with cold, something cold

that you put on and other types of pain

you will something that is warm or heat, you will put heat on it.

So it's interesting to note that certain types of pain

can be relieved with cold things

you will often see on the football pitch.

If a football player injures themselves, they will come out with some something made ice

or a pack filled with ice and they will put it over it

to relieve the pain and stop the injury getting worse.

The swelling

and of course, heat.

Heat is a very good way of relieving pain, especially back pain.

I think, as I apparently as I found out yesterday, Steve.

Yes, it certainly worked for you.

Definitely medicine, my medicine,

many types of medicine, such as painkillers.

So as we mentioned earlier, the word painkiller

is a general term, isn't it, for anything,

anything that you might take or maybe apply.

So even something you put on your skin to to relieve

the pain could be could be described as a painkiller or pain reliever.

Pain reliever that a painkiller suggests that it is

really getting rid of the pain.

It's killing the pain.

So we talked earlier about the most common type

for severe pain is, of course, morphine.

And of course, that is a type of opiate.

So opium can, you believe it?

Opium used to be given normally as as a treatment

as was I think it was cocaine as well.

Cocaine used to be given freely to people

as medicine until they realised

that it was also very addictive and would eventually destroy your life.

But I do find that rather interesting.

So we do have opiates

that that are there to relieve pain.

So I think they actually act on your brain, don't they, Steve?

Yes, I do.

Yes. I mean, we we want Marcy here to tell us about that.

But yes, I don't know whether they work at the in the brain.

I think they probably work at the level of the brain rather than at the level of the receptors.

So it's sort of themselves and hence the very nice feeling you get

when you take painkillers because it doesn't just relieve the pain.

But they do.

It also can make you feel quite, quite relaxed as well.

But but you can't use them all the time.

That's the reason why you can't.

Well, you can't buy them in this country, can you, Steve?

Now, if you go to the chemists, you can only buy really paracetamol

and ibuprofen.

But what I'm saying is you can't get the strong painkillers unless the doctor.

Yeah, that's what I'm saying.

You can only over the counter you can't get,

you can only really get paracetamol or ibuprofen

or the gels to rub in, you know, so the bones are stronger.

The really strong stuff.

Only the doctor like Coco Jamaal or something, you have to go to the doctor for that

because they are very addictive.

Well of course in the United States they have a big problem with, with addiction to painkillers.

And this has been going on many, many years because they give them out

almost like sweets in the United States.

Everyone has painkillers and there is now

almost an illegal trade in painkillers.

I think it's a certain type. I think it's fentanyl.

Fentanyl is a type of opiate.

And apparently that's the big thing, though I believe.

I believe it's actually manufactured.

So it's an artificial thing that's created.

And it's it's apparently it's very, very addictive.

Pain can also be figures.

I wish I could say that.

I wish I could speak today figuratively.

Something, Steve, that is figurative so pain can be real.

It means you can feel the pain,

but also it can be figurative.

So we are expressing pain figuratively.

There are some interesting ways of doing that.

Something might be, Steve,

something might be pain in neck,

so you might have a real pain in the neck.

But also as an expression, we can say that

something is a pain in the neck.

Like, like a pain in the neck would be annoying.

Yes, A person can be as a pain it can be a pain in the neck.

You can describe something often.

Will you go away? You're a pain in the neck.

You can say to somebody, it's not a nice expression to, use for somebody,

but if someone is annoying you so they're talking all the time.

Maybe you're trying to concentrate on something.

They're just annoying you.

Will you go away? Europe, You're a pain in the neck.

You are suggesting that

they are annoying you like you would get an actual pain.

So modern modern use of in the neck

we often see something as very annoying or irritating,

so you can literally feel it.

But also you can experience that feeling

by being annoyed

by something which I always find quite, quite funny.

Things can happen in your day.

It doesn't have to be a person.

Say, you know, you, you drive somewhere and you see somebody

runs into a car.

That would be a pain. Yes.

And you've got all the hassle of sort of sorting all that out.

Somebody might say to you, what a pain in the neck.

It's something you might you might it doesn't have to be referring to a person.

It can be to an event that happens.

Yes. That going to make your life more complicated for a period of time.

And someone can say to you what a pain in the neck

just to make you feel they're empathising with you about something that's happened to you.

That's it.

You know, you might say, well, I lost my mobile phone.

I don't know where it is or I lost my keys.

And a friend might say, that's a pain in the neck.

When that happens, they just empathising with you about this thing

that is and has become annoying in your life or

or something can be a

pain in the arse or the ass.

Yeah something is a pain in the arse.

Something is a pain in the arse.

Again it's the same meaning same thing

is pain in the neck but the noise slightly more

offensive to some people.

It's, it, it's very expressive.

It's expressing very pain in the arse or pain in the bum.

Yeah. Yeah.

It's the same as pain in the neck, but slightly ruder.

Definitely.

So if something is really annoying, we might describe,

we might describe our neighbour or your neighbour.

You might say your neighbour is very annoying.

They are a pain in the arse or pain in the bum.

Pain in the backside. Yes.

So the pain in the backside is a slightly less offensive way of saying pain in the arse.

Although if you don't want to offend people, use the word pain in the neck.

Although I have to say, Steve, hearing you

say that word is very funny

right.

Say it one more time.

Pain in the arse.

By the way, thank you for using the the term analgesic,

which is a painkiller or a pain reliever.

The technical term or, the more correct term

would be to say analgesic. Yes.

So anything that relieves pain in tablet or liquid

or injectable form is then analgesic.

Thank you for that.

So I think that refers to something that numbs is it's a bit

must be a bit like anodyne something that's anodyne is quite dull.

What's that? Mr.

Duncan Anodyne something that's it's very dull or something.

It's no interest, something that's boring or dull or an interest something

that's something with very little life and well, analgesic is the phrase the word that V tache use.

Yes, that's, that's what I mean.

Well, I'm just saying that I think that somehow is derived from that.

So we have that

we have that that painkiller called anodyne.

And I think that that is a generic well, it's a brand name

for a type of tablet that you take to relieve pain as well.

Yeah. By the way, here we go.

Steve, we've got to move on now because we only have 9 minutes.

Anarchy. Yes, haemorrhoids.

Pain in the arse, literally. Yes.

Okay.

Definitely something that we tend to get as we get older.

I wouldn't know that you see, I wouldn't know that

I wouldn't know anything about that whatsoever.

Something painful is unbearable or a difficult thing.

As you said just a few moments ago, Steve, something can be painful.

So it doesn't mean it's really painful.

It means it's a thing that gives you discomfort.

Something unbearable or something that is difficult is painful.

Maybe. I don't know.

Maybe your your friend invites you to go and listen

to their daughter singing,

and her singing is terrible.

You might say it was pain awful

listening to her sing that song

so something can be painful without actually having pain in your body.

But the thing can be can be unbearable.

Something that's terrible.

You have to you have to endure that thing.

You have to put up with it.

You have to take it, accept it. it's.

it was painful listening to her sing that song.

I'll tell you what's what's almost as bad as listening to somebody who doesn't seem very well

is listening to somebody who's learning to play the violin.

The violin is one of those instruments that,

you know, it's very difficult to play

because you don't know exactly where the notes are on this.

I don't play the violin, but at least with the piano, you know,

where C is or D or whatever the note is,

but on a violin, it's sort of guesswork.

So but if you go to listen to somebody who yes,

a child or maybe somebody who is learning to play the violin,

that's painful because the violin itself is high pitched instrument anyway.

So I'm just showing you that. Steve Yeah, I know.

So it can be

it can upset your ears to the point of being painful.

Yeah.

Okay. Mr.

Lincoln, is it painful to listen to?

I think so.

Very painful.

It was painful listening to her sing.

terrible.

Changing the tyre on a car.

So this is just for you, Steve.

This is for you.

Changing the tyre on a

car is such a pain.

But why?

Why is it a pain, Steve?

Well, because it takes effort. It's.

It's. You've got to work out how to do it.

You've got to jack the car up.

You've got to take the nuts off. Ooh.

And it's all, it's all just annoying.

Yeah, that's. You're just using that as an example of something.

That's a pain I got. Yes, I got a flat tire.

You Could you get your light to work?

And your boss says, or somebody says, why were you like she said, I got a flat tyre and I had to,

I had to change the wheel.

And somebody might say, Well, that's a pain.

That's a pain, isn't it?

You don't even have to say pain in the neck.

You can just that's a pain.

Doesn't mean it's literally painful.

It's just figurative.

It's an it might be painful because you might slip.

I mean, people don't really change anymore.

Well, yes, it's just an example.

Yeah, it's stuff when I went on about actual, actual sort of changing

because no one does Now, most will go to the garage or they will phone someone and they will come there.

What I meant was that most modern cars don't even come with the spare wheel anymore. No.

So you if you if you get a puncture, you can't change the tyre anyway.

Okay, that's good.

Changing the tyre or maybe anything.

Anything you have to do.

Maybe you have to repair something.

Maybe something has gone wrong in your kitchen.

Maybe the the tap is dripping.

The water will not.

Will not stop dripping.

And you have to change something on the tap.

Repairing thing is still something that happened.

It can be such a pain. It really can.

Yeah. Some of that happens.

It's just annoying, it's unexpected, and you've got to deal with it.

It's a right pain.

Okay, moving on.

But it can be referring to a person or process of something you've got to do.

That's it. Emotional hurt.

So again, we are talking figurative, not actual.

Even though some people would say that the feeling of being hurt,

emotion is painful.

It is.

It is as painful as actually feeling

pain to a part of your body

so emotional hurt can be described

as pain, something that hurts you.

Maybe a person is rude to you, maybe they say something hurtful

or horrible to you and you feel pain.

Maybe, as you said earlier, they may be your lover leaves you.

They say, I don't love you anymore. I'm carrying.

I've found someone new and you feel pain.

It is actual pain.

Emotional hurt.

Heartache is emotional pain.

I think so.

Finally.

we're going in a minute.

By the way, We can we can have lots of words.

We'll look at the words briefly before we go.

Pain, discomfort

agony that is really serious.

Pain, cramp, a sudden pain

where your muscle will go, very tense stiffness,

general pain that you feel normally in the morning.

I often wake quite stiff.

I can't move.

I have to get out of bed very slowly.

And at the moment I have to get out of bed very slowly

because of my pull back stiffness.

And also there's an interesting word drip.

You might say that part of your body is giving you gyp.

It means it is giving you trouble.

You are feeling pain in a certain part of your body.

So I might say that my back at the moment is giving me gyp.

It means it is causing discomfort, pain,

or it is just something that is genuinely annoying.

Yes. my.

So we might say to you,

you have has you you've had a knee problem.

Somebody might say, how's your knee knees getting better?

You might say, Yes, it is, but it gives me a bit of gyp from time to time.

It's interesting, gives you a bit of discomfort, a bit of pain, but a stiffness gyp.

It's not gyp.

You wouldn't describe Gyp as something really painful.

No, but it's just like an annoyance.

But it could be mild pain.

So maybe when it's cold,

you might get pain in your knees. Yes.

When it's a cold day that somebody might ask, Are you okay?

Yes, I'm okay.

But my knees are giving me gyp today.

I think it's the cold weather my back is giving me a bit of gyp by

tooth is giving me a bit of gyp.

Yeah, it's like mine was a few days ago that mine was a few days ago and yeah, it's time to go.

That's it, right?

We're out of time, Mr. Steed.

We've only got 38 seconds to say everything we want to say.

I will be back on Wednesday.

Wednesday 2 p.m. UK time.

If my back is okay, I will be here.

If not, I will be lying on the bed recovering.

And Steve, you are back next week.

I'll be back.

I'm not doing anything next weekend so it's Easter Sunday, next Sunday, Sunday.

So we'll be probably

hypoglycaemic with all the sugar.

Yeah.

Although we might save it till after the last.

Or we could eat it during the live stream.

Look, I think we will. Will eat some chocolate.

Yes. We've got hot cross buns as fond hot cross buns.

We've got, we've got those today. We've got two left over. Yes.

We went and bought them in town.

So yes.

We'll have those.

The nice cup of tea over there Mr. Duncan.

They are so in the moment we reckon it's making my mouth water.

In a few moments we will be eating these hot cross buns.

They will be going into our tummy.

Thank you very much for watching.

If you like this, give us a like. Thank you, Mr. Steve.

We will see you next Sunday.

Bye for now that was Mr. Steve.

And you can wave goodbye if you want.

those chickens. Parting

is such

sweet sorrow that shall say good night until it's be morrow

or Wednesday is when I'm back.

Thanks for watching. See you again soon.

And I hope enjoyed today's lesson.

I hope it was not too painful.

I hope I was not a pain in the neck

and I will now go and relieve the pain in my back,

which I hope over the next couple of days will get better.

Thank you for joining me.

I hope you've enjoyed all of this.

If you haven't, I'm ever so sorry.

But don't worry.

It's over now and then.

I will see you on on Wednesday.

Wednesday, it's me.

Next Sunday, it's Mr.

Steve and myself as well.

Next Sunday is Easter.

I can't wait.

And of course, until the next time we meet here.

Yeah.

You know what's coming next? Yes, you do.

Take care of yourself.

Keep that smile upon your face as you walk amongst the human race.

And I will see you on Wednesday.

Thank you very much for watching.

I hope this has been helpful.

You can watch this again later with captions.

Thank you very much for being here today.

This is Mr.

Duncan in the birthplace of English, saying

take care, enjoy the rest of your Sunday

and the first half of your week and I will see you soon.

You know what's coming next?

Yes, you do.

To to for now.

See you on Wednesday 2 p.m.

UK time now.