House drinking game

[vilakins]

I've only seen 10 eps of House so far, less than half of season 1, but there's a pattern. Don't get me wrong, I love it for its main character and his snark, and this week they did change things a bit by having a different outcome (and Greg guessed the disease halfway through) but you could guarantee yourself five drinks in this drinking game.

The House Drinking Game

Have a drink each time:

• the patient seizes
  
• the patient almost dies because they try the wrong treatment
  
• the patient almost dies again because they try a different wrong treatment
  
• House insults the patient
  
• House insults his staff
  
• House guesses what's really wrong because of an encounter with a clinic walk-in
  
• House has a close moment with the member of staff he insulted most

I was sorry House got out of his clinic duty this week; I love his reactions to the random walk-ins.

Comments

[trixieleitz]

I guessed what it was, too :), because I remembered this story.

I loved the bit, a few eps ago, where House "put on" an English accent. Apparently a lot of House viewers haven't met Hugh Laurie before, and don't realise he's not American.

It wasn't on last week, and won't be on next week. Bloody rugby :(

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

I didn't realise it was incurable once you get it. I knew a guy who had six weeks of stomach injections after being bitten by a dog in Thailand though. Eep.

Someone on LJ thought House just looked like Hugh Laurie! :-) I hate rugby too. That's one downside at work; they were all talking about it on Friday, even the immigrants who make up about 50% of the staff.

[trixieleitz]

Someone on LJ thought House just looked like Hugh Laurie!

I think House would have a wonderfully sarky response to that :)

[redstarrobot.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I didn't realize it was incurable, either. I just thought they gave you lots of nasty stomach injections.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

They do--and it works if you haven't actually developed it. Scary stuff.

[pinkdormouse.livejournal.com]

the patient seizes

I assume you mean 'seizures' (or 'has a seizure' as we people who speak proper English would say).

But agreed on House and the walk-in patients.

Gina

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

'Seize' is the verb used on the program so I used it. From www.dictionary.com (http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=seize), the intransitive definition:

v. intr.
1. To lay sudden or forcible hold of.
2.
1. To cohere or fuse with another part as a result of high pressure or temperature and restrict or prevent further motion or flow.
2. To come to a halt: The talks seized up and were rescheduled.
3. To exhibit symptoms of seizure activity, usually with convulsions.

I have an idea Americans might object to the term 'proper English'.

[pinkdormouse.livejournal.com]

3. To exhibit symptoms of seizure activity, usually with convulsions.

That's not a definition I could find in the Concise OED (and I checked twice). Still convinced that they're saying seizure(ing) on the show, but I'll check when it's on tonight.

And:

I have an idea Americans might object to the term 'proper English'.

I thought NZ'ers understood sarcasm, even if USians supposedly don't ;-)

Gina

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

That's not a definition I could find in the Concise OED

No; I think it's American. I'd never heard it before I saw House, but then I don't usually watch hospital shows.

I thought NZ'ers understood sarcasm

And we do; I was using some myself. Neither of us had the training wheels emoticons on. :-P

[mistraltoes.livejournal.com]

No, 'seize' here is used to mean the heart is stopping. As in 'seize up', freeze up, stop working.

[mistraltoes.livejournal.com]

On second thoughts, I suppose it could be used as a medical slang for seizure, but the word used is definitely 'seize'.

[kalypso-v.livejournal.com]

But the original meaning of "proper", as in the Latin "proprius", is "belonging to oneself, own", eg Shakespeare has

"O Julius Caesar, thou art mighty yet!
They spirit walks abroad, and turns our swords
In our own proper entrails."

It's migrated from that via senses like "appropriate" and "suitable" to "correct" and "genteel". But I'd argue that the English speak "proper" English because it's their own English; it originally belonged to them, even if everyone else has staked a claim in it.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

As in property, yes. If we used words like sophisticated, boor, and villain in their original sense, it would get very confusing.