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[–] AceSLive@lemmy.world 12 points 8 hours ago

Mine said "Are you feeling anything yet?"

I said "I don't think so... The lights are a bit fuzzy bu-........." and I was suddenly waking up in the recovery room.

Super quick.

[–] eighty@aussie.zone 7 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

They asked me what my favourite cocktails were. I was midway talking about gin and tonic varietals (shiraz gin is sublime) and blacked out. I have no idea what I revealed afterwards and it still haunts me to this day

[–] yermaw@sh.itjust.works 24 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

I got down to 3, then woke up in the recovery room. I was quite belligerent to the nurse because why did they not do the operation? They got me in here, naked in a gown, got everyone together, gave me some anaesthetic then just moved me to another room? What was the fucking point? Would I have to come back again to get it done because I dont have any holiday days from work. Fucks sake fucking pointless man.

Then I looked down and saw all the blood and bandages and "oh right yeah. Sorry. Thanks."

[–] spongebue@lemmy.world 15 points 12 hours ago

If that were me, I would take comfort in the fact that they probably laughed at me for it.

[–] bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 hours ago

Iasip podcast take

[–] bizarroland@lemmy.world 23 points 13 hours ago

When I got surgery, they had me count backwards from ten, and I counted down ten, nine, eight, seven, six, and somewhere in the time between seven and six, they did the surgery, and the room changed.

That shit is wild.

[–] Alvaro@lemmy.blahaj.zone 22 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (1 children)

They counted for me, it went like this:

  • Nurse: 10
  • Nurse: 9
  • Nurse: 8
  • me feeling extremely off and thinking that something is wrong
  • Me: Some~thing....~
  • ...
  • me waking up in the recovery room.
[–] WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 4 points 14 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Alvaro@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 24 minutes ago

Name checks out

[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 19 points 15 hours ago

When I was preparing for surgery for the first time, my mom told me "they'll tell you to count down from ten and usually, by the time you get to nine, you'll be asleep."

Once I had a surgery in the genital area. I guess they didn't put me fully out; I don't remember whether that was by design, but I remember that my penis was very definitely exposed and I had the thought "I should definitely be embarrassed about this."

I did eventually fall asleep. When I woke up, I recognized the nurse attending me. I said something like "I remember you! When I first saw you, I thought 'what a pretty nurse.'"

I was young at the time, somewhere in my teenage years, and it certainly wouldn't have been appropriate for her to respond or for me to say in any other situation ... but I hope I made her feel good about herself.

[–] spongebue@lemmy.world 88 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Eh, more of a typo than anything.

That said, I had an Indian anesthesiologist ask "what do you think the last thing you remember will be before I knock you out?" "Probably you asking that quest-"

[–] Dicska@lemmy.world 31 points 18 hours ago
[–] RebekahWSD@lemmy.world 27 points 17 hours ago (18 children)

I've been knocked out twice and dislike how the time is just gone. Not like sleep where when I wake up I know time went somewhere, the time just. Didn't exist.

First time memory was funny at least, second time was pretty normal. "It'll hurt because the needle had to be in your hand."

"Ow fuck that hurt"

Then I'm talking about Animal Crossing to a nurse that understood nothing.

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[–] TheAlbatross@lemmy.blahaj.zone 51 points 19 hours ago (5 children)

I remember being put under for dental surgery and the doc says, as he slips the headphones on my ears, "we like to play music for our patients as the anesthesia kicks in, what do you think of the Dave Matthew's Band?". I had just enough time to say "Ah I don't really care for the Da-" before I was out like a light and woke up in a recovery room to that damn pan flute CD from the 90's.

[–] Asidonhopo@lemmy.world 3 points 12 hours ago

So glad my surgery a while ago was music free, this should be standard.

[–] slothrop@lemmy.ca 16 points 18 hours ago (5 children)
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[–] HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 31 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (1 children)

I got in a motorcycle accident in another country and had to use translate as no one spoke English to get surgery and as they put me under i just hear ‘bye bye’

[–] jol@discuss.tchncs.de 18 points 18 hours ago

If I heard that I would be terrified if I wasn't , you know, immediately asleep.

[–] sausager@lemmy.world 18 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (2 children)

The doctors lied to me.

In the "holding area" they said they were going to prep me for going to sleep with some other drug, then put me to sleep in the operating room. I was excited to see an operating room for the first time in real life but as they rolled my bed down the hallway I saw a bubble in my IV tube and I wanted to ask if that was normal. I struggled to speak but found it impossible, got worried I wouldn't be able to point out the bubble, and then woke up in the waiting area... Mad I never got to see the operating room and glad the bubble didn't kill me.

Edit: then again with the way the US is going, I could be dead and in hell

[–] zener_diode@feddit.org 6 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

I had a bubble in an IV tube once, and asked about it (I wasn't being put to sleep)!

Apparently it happens all the time. The thing at the end, just before the needle (sorry, I have no idea what it's called) filters them out.

[–] Zink@programming.dev 2 points 8 hours ago

I think for a regular IV it actually takes a lot of air in the line, but with a central line it's a lot more dangerous.

I'm not an expert and I didn't check my info but I did ~~stay at a hoiday inn express~~ get an IV every month for the past decade, and in years past have discussed these things with seasoned nurses as I watched air bubbles of various sizes enter my vein.

That's some genuine folk wisdom for ya, lol.

[–] peopleproblems@lemmy.world 8 points 15 hours ago

I will tell you, I don't have any comforting words about your edit statement.

If we aren't in Hell, Hell doesn't exist.

[–] slothrop@lemmy.ca 19 points 18 hours ago

anesthetically pleasing, no?

[–] surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 5 points 14 hours ago

They asked me "how are you feeling? Sleepy?"

"Yeah, I'm ok but ... Whoops there I go"

And I was out.

[–] Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 18 hours ago (4 children)

I was kinda disappointed that I apparently wasn't weird coming out of anesthesia when i got my wisdom teeth out. I just went under, they did their work, they finished up, they let me wake up, they sent me on my way.

[–] Aviandelight@mander.xyz 8 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Oh you're lucky. My first surgery was wisdom teeth and I learned that I start throwing punches going under and coming back. I fully warn everyone now and try to fall asleep before they put me under if I can.

[–] Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (1 children)

I am unnervingly compliant as a patient. It freaks out dentists a bit lol

[–] humorlessrepost@lemmy.world 6 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

I used to have a cat who would roll over on his back and purr while vets he’d never met stuck thermometers up his ass.

I think you two would’ve gotten along.

[–] Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

I could genuinely take a nap during a dental cleaning if i tried.

[–] humorlessrepost@lemmy.world 2 points 9 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 8 hours ago

The grindy things are like white noise but more tinittus-y 😜

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 6 points 16 hours ago

I'm jealous. I said "you people always mumble" and my wife had to apologetically explain to the black nurse that I meant hearing people. I couldn't focus my eyes enough to see the skin color of the nurse. And that's the better of my two stories. When I got my wisdom teeth out it was supposed to be outpatient, but I woke up mid procedure, and after being put back down I came to and spent the next few hours emptying my stomach every time it managed to get some acid back into it.

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