MostlyHarmlessWhy can't I find a doctor who will prescribe "sea air" for my nerves so I can spend a summer in a picturesque costal town in England "for my health" only to be caught up in a local scandal and forced to solve a murder?
A stopped clock never boils@MostlyHarmless knowing my luck the murder i would need to solve would be my own and i would be forced to team up with some mulder-alike who keeps getting sidetracked by little green men which aren't real but it turns out actually there are little green men just not those ones and the bad guys are the good guys and everyone is losing interest and meanwhile im over here like wooooooo im haunting you until i solve my own murder but nobody notices because theyre all bored now
David Cantrell 🏏@MostlyHarmless I have Dr in my handle so consider yourself prescribed!
M.S. Bellows, Jr.@DrHyde @MostlyHarmless I too will prescribe this with my Juris Doctorate!
Infoseepage@MostlyHarmless Medicinal Whiskey. I could really use a prescription about now...and I don't drink really...Things just that bad.
Bill Ricker@Infoseepage @MostlyHarmless
Voila https://www.openculture.com/2023/12/winston-churchill-gets-a-doctors-note-to-drink-unlimited-alcohol-while-visiting-the-u-s-during-prohibition-1932.html
Winston Churchill Gets a Doctor’s Note to Drink Unlimited Alcohol While Visiting the U.S. During Prohibition (1932)
In December 1931, having just embarked on a 40-stop lecture tour of the United States, Winston Churchill was running late to dine with financier Bernard Baruch on New York City’s Upper East Side.
MissConstrueI too would like to find this specialist.
mpark@MissConstrue @MostlyHarmless @futurebird I feel like getting a doctor to prescribe it is easy. It's getting insurance to cover it that's the challenge.
Joe W@mpark @MissConstrue @MostlyHarmless @futurebird As long as it counts as a sick day and I don't have to work I can just rent a cheap room and hope that the landladies don't ask their nephew to dig another lock for the Panama Canal...
David Penfold 
@MostlyHarmless We can get three weeks in a spa here in France for such matters of self-reflection if your Doc is cool. And he will be.
Every year.
Seriously 😎
Crimes to solve not guaranteed though.
rk: it’s hyphen-minus actually“Small picturesque town in the Cotswolds has highest per capita murder rate in the world. Kindly old priest suspiciously involved in all of them.”
Steveg58@rk @MostlyHarmless
Well yeah, he had been collecting confessions for decades and knows exactly where the bodies are buried.
Well yeah, he had been collecting confessions for decades and knows exactly where the bodies are buried.
grouchox@MostlyHarmless what if it's the "fall-in-love-with-the-local-doctor" kind of place?
Queen of Anxiety@MostlyHarmless This sounds amazing. Doctors these days just don't have their patients' best interest at heart! ;)
@MostlyHarmless Yes! This! Or France. (as long as it's not Brighton.)
Scott VE3QBZ@MostlyHarmless You'd think it exotic, and maybe glamorous, but it sure sounds like a lot of work:
"This is the story of a con man who couldn't stop lying. A tale of murder, stolen identities, fine art, a diaper stuffed with gold bars, and a crime solved by a Rolex watch. From rural Canada to coastal England, he lied and deceived at every turn."
https://www.cbc.ca/newsinteractives/features/sea-of-lies
It was a good podcast series:
https://www.cbc.ca/listen/cbc-podcasts/2031-sea-of-lies
Sea of lies
Albert Walker was once Canada’s most wanted man. More than 30 years later, his name may have faded from the public eye, but he remains one of the country’s most prolific swindlers. His tale is one of audacious deception involving multiple stolen identities, millions of dollars in fraud and even a murder in the U.K. But it’s also a story defined by a streak of luck.
BallisticPunk@MostlyHarmless I mean... Is that so much to ask for!? Just a little murder mystery to calm the nerves.
Waldorf@MostlyHarmless Is your real name Jessica?
Den of Earth@MostlyHarmless
The best part is making your way to the island on the sea tractor. Unfortunately you are also required to eat Poirot's diet.
The best part is making your way to the island on the sea tractor. Unfortunately you are also required to eat Poirot's diet.
Dan Lyke@MostlyHarmless sometimes you've gotta make your own murders...
Dark Phoenix 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱🇵🇦🇵🇸🏳️🌈@MostlyHarmless sounds like a Agatha Christie/Hercule Poirot movie...
Ken McLeod@MostlyHarmless Sure! Just fill out this survey.
I would like to play the following role:
Prissy Belgian fop
Nosy old spinster (or priest)
Hard-boiled Jersey girl
Jewish country singer
Poll ended at .
gnateIt looks like most of you prefer the Miss Marple / Father Brown life. Carry on up the vicarage, and all that. I thought Poirot might have made a better showing, though he did come in a distant second place. Not many people seem to be fans of the Stephanie Plum / Mona Lisa Vito sort of sleuthing, but my heart is warmed that Kinky Friedman's detective novels are appreciated here.
Dud (Mx)@MostlyHarmless because your life wasn't written by Agatha Christie, probably.
PeaceNick🇨🇦Come to #Hamilton! Maybe not the Cotswolds but still quite lovely.
Danil SuitsBecause those doctors are "out of network".
Ham on WryIndeed 🧐
@MostlyHarmless
Medical science has moved on and nowadays pharmaceutical companies can offer bigger incentives than local seaside tourist councils with crime problems.
Medical science has moved on and nowadays pharmaceutical companies can offer bigger incentives than local seaside tourist councils with crime problems.
Agnieszka R. Turczyńska@MostlyHarmless You can always have some memory loss and spend a week or two incognito in Harrogate.
your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦@MostlyHarmless aaaaaah… so you too re-watch old episodes of Poirot just for the scenery. am in great company then 🧐
Ashie@MostlyHarmless @alice you might find it's a more gritty tv murder drama than you were expecting https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/inequalities/2024/04/03/the-plight-of-english-seaside-towns/
Why politicians should care about the plight of English seaside towns - LSE Inequalities
Blackpool, Clacton, Minehead, Skegness: England’s seaside resorts are severely deprived. Why do politicians care so little? And how can the decline be reversed?
WhichOne'sPink 🇫🇮@MostlyHarmless The doctor at Midsomer will sort you out.
@NickSchwanck @MostlyHarmless
They still have a doctor? I thought they were killed off in season 57 and never replaced!
They still have a doctor? I thought they were killed off in season 57 and never replaced!
@Steveg58 @MostlyHarmless Maybe people need to go to the next village then. I'm not sure.
JoeJoeTom (aka Eerie Tom)@MostlyHarmless You do not 'ave to go to ze picturesque coastal town, mon ami, for every-wair zair is evil under ze sun.
VoguingDonut@MostlyHarmless This post reminds me of 𝘔𝘶𝘳𝘥𝘦𝘳, 𝘚𝘩𝘦 𝘞𝘳𝘰𝘵𝘦 … I should go watch and pretend I’m there!
Jima 
@MostlyHarmless @voltagex Because the doctor is the murderer, and they know better than to chance it.
The Animal and the Machine
Michael Dexter@MostlyHarmless I sea what you did there.
René SeindalWhy would you want somebody to die?
Can't you just solve a case of tax evasion or illegal occupation of public soil?
Unwarranted fiscal deduction, she wrote.
Hugo Mills@seindal @MostlyHarmless I've always wanted a detective story where the detective's working on a nice juicy commercial fraud case.
"So you see, when the goods are shipped to Belgium, the shipping agent charges VAT on the shipping service, but not on the goods themselves. They're in bond, so there's no duty to be paid, but when they're transferred from there to Ireland..."
The Brexit Series of fiscal crime novels.
Anders Gulden Olstad@MostlyHarmless Or chased down and killed by ghostly beings, evil inanimate objects or other MR James’-ish entities.
StarkRG@MostlyHarmless I think that only happens in the mid 19th century. Some sea air and a bit of quality personal time with a cylinder full of bees will do you good.
Also, these days we get to prescribe our own vacation and masturbation time, we pretty much only need to go to a doctor if we need drugs that aren't otherwise accessible.
Matt Hardy 3.11 for Workgroups@MostlyHarmless I live by the sea but I’ve got an alibi. And I’m certainly not an illegitimate love child returning to the town of my birth to wreak bloody vengeance for the death of my abandoned mother. I mean it’s a nice theory but you haven’t got a shred of evidence.
Angus Marshall 
@MostlyHarmless Because you aren't Belgian?
uǝuunɹƃʇǝO@MostlyHarmless start by finding a german doctor https://www.reddit.com/r/germany/comments/4izkai/free_spa_treatment_if_your_stressedhow_does_it/
Martijn Faassen@MostlyHarmless
Very good chance the murderer is that doctor all along, too!
Very good chance the murderer is that doctor all along, too!
Iαη 🍺@faassen @MostlyHarmless
Yes. The twist was it was the doctor all along. The giveaway was, you should have recognised the person playing the doctor from some other murder. He did seem rather familiar, as he often gets these roles.
Yes. The twist was it was the doctor all along. The giveaway was, you should have recognised the person playing the doctor from some other murder. He did seem rather familiar, as he often gets these roles.
slowtiger@MostlyHarmless
If your name were Harriet, you'd be called Harriet in Vane.
If your name were Harriet, you'd be called Harriet in Vane.
AlexanderVI@MostlyHarmless probably because you haven't five hundred a year and a delightfully eccentric uncle.
Aethon@MostlyHarmless
I prefer to prescribe mountain air, theres fewer people around and there is more often a good pub to offer company and hearty meals for the traveller before an evening of firelight and community gossip.
However. If that sounds like your thing then I recommend at least 3 weeks in the hope valley, which will help the nerves and constitution considerably.