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Post by MartinT on Apr 3, 2024 6:41:29 GMT
2.5 hours to get home last night. A large accident closed the left 2 lanes of the M3 while two vehicles broke down in the right-hand lane, leaving a single lane open. Most people did their best to comply and all got neatly into the sole working lane. A few ignored the red crosses in the gantries and pushed in at the last moment. It's always the same.
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Post by MartinT on Apr 3, 2024 7:04:27 GMT
Trying to make an appointment to see my GP. It's a loop of hell. I've tried the phone, the NHS app (no appointments are available), the Evergreen app (no appointments are available) and the Dr. IQ app (stuck in a loop and not opening). Now back on the phone and in a queue, #14 and waiting (yes, I called at exactly 08:00 when they open).
Why is everything medical since COVID several orders of magnitude worse than before?
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Post by MikeMusic on Apr 3, 2024 9:00:38 GMT
2.5 hours to get home last night. A large accident closed the left 2 lanes of the M3 while two vehicles broke down in the right-hand lane, leaving a single lane open. Most people did their best to comply and all got neatly into the sole working lane. A few ignored the red crosses in the gantries and pushed in at the last moment. It's always the same. As I drove over the M3 yesterday I thought of you A lady in the vets said she heard a lorry was on fire
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Post by MikeMusic on Apr 3, 2024 9:02:13 GMT
Trying to make an appointment to see my GP. It's a loop of hell. I've tried the phone, the NHS app (no appointments are available), the Evergreen app (no appointments are available) and the Dr. IQ app (stuck in a loop and not opening). Now back on the phone and in a queue, #14 and waiting (yes, I called at exactly 08:00 when they open). Why is everything medical since COVID several orders of magnitude worse than before? We have had changes to our system When I eventually got into it I had an appointment that day, which wasn't nessessary
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Post by rfan8312 on Apr 4, 2024 15:20:53 GMT
Ever since reading the last couple of comments in this thread I get a chuckle. A buddy of mine is out travelling and has moved to Thailand but is visiting France and Italy. And he's a DJ with a whole gloomy performative look (his music is good though. He looks like Trent Reznor).
So there's the Eiffel tower and the leaning tower of Pisa. And hey look. There's one of Jim Henson's Muppets blocking the bottom view of the photo with his ridiculous cartoon-like bespectacled self alongside his emo phase aura.
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Post by MikeMusic on Apr 17, 2024 9:19:23 GMT
Joined up thinking and working system - not
Glad to say the boss had her shingles jab 6 months ago. Changed since I had my one jab, she has to have second 6 months later Appointment made for this morning Unforch we can't get the car out as the drive is being redone... Cadged a lift to the surgery from one of the guys working on the drive
Nurse says "You're too early, we can't jab you today, cannot be under 6 months" Appointment scheduled for next Wednesday, exactly 6 months since first
That could have been so much easier
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Post by MartinT on Apr 17, 2024 17:47:46 GMT
I went to my GP appointment this morning to have my trigger finger looked at, and it turns out to be 7:45pm, not this morning as I had asked for.
I really need to go out now like a hole in the head.
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Post by Slinger on Apr 17, 2024 17:54:06 GMT
Trigger finger is a real pain in the bum, figuratively speaking. I had mine operated on years ago, and now I just get pins and needles where the incision was made every now and then. Jeanette used to cringe every time I'd grab the finger and wrench it straight.
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Post by Mr Whippy on Apr 17, 2024 19:06:35 GMT
Filthy rich audiophiles flaunting their wealth. Magic fuses everywhere. Even in their god damn toaster!
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Post by MartinT on Apr 17, 2024 20:56:37 GMT
Trigger finger is a real pain in the bum, figuratively speaking. I had mine operated on years ago, and now I just get pins and needles where the incision was made every now and then. I'm being referred to a steroid specialist within our practice, which should speed up the process. Very happy to try a steroid injection before opting for surgery. Meanwhile, use ibuprofen cream to ease the pain.
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Post by Slinger on Apr 17, 2024 21:43:54 GMT
Trigger finger is a real pain in the bum, figuratively speaking. I had mine operated on years ago, and now I just get pins and needles where the incision was made every now and then. I'm being referred to a steroid specialist within our practice, which should speed up the process. Very happy to try a steroid injection before opting for surgery. Meanwhile, use ibuprofen cream to ease the pain. Best of luck. My op was performed under a local anaesthetic, so it's a fairly quick and easy job should it come to it.
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Post by Slinger on Apr 20, 2024 14:31:32 GMT
So far today I have dropped a glass, which smashed, knocked a mug off of a worktop, and the mug smashed, obviously, and while being awfully careful (or so I thought) and hoping that the third thing (it always comes in t hrees) wouldn't be something expensive. I was putting my weekly shopping delivery away I dropped a 300ml tub of organic double cream onto one of the new runners I'd bought for the kitchen floor, and I've now got an opened 300ml tub of organic double cream and had to scrub the runner in the sink. I'd go back to bed but I'm worried I'd nod off, roll over, and fall out.
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Post by rfan8312 on Apr 20, 2024 14:50:50 GMT
How expensive is it in the UK to install a series of pulleys and carabiners to clip onto every few feet inside of a house? I'll look into it Paul.
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Post by MartinT on Apr 20, 2024 15:54:50 GMT
Python did a sketch about mountaineering around a living room.
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Post by rfan8312 on Apr 20, 2024 15:58:13 GMT
The Swedes have been doing this for years it's about time the rest of the world catches up.
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Post by MartinT on Apr 20, 2024 16:02:40 GMT
Looks like Paul's kitchen.
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Post by HD Music & Test on Apr 20, 2024 16:45:24 GMT
Wokeism/professional time wasting wooden spoons/Nepitisum and telephone enquiries that say they can obatin 10Hz and hear this frequency in their room The list is getting longer...................
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Post by MartinT on Apr 20, 2024 19:43:00 GMT
telephone enquiries that say they can obatin 10Hz and hear this frequency in their room Yeah, through bookshelf speakers, no doubt. I don't know about doubling, more like quadruple the frequencies being reproduced in the bass. You can't hear 10Hz and even a very large 64' organ pipe creates a barely perceptible 16Hz vibration if you have big speakers capable of it at all.
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Post by MartinT on Apr 21, 2024 13:19:29 GMT
Idiots (mostly from abroad) who still don't understand the name of our country.
Was filling in an Adobe (yes, I know) online form and had to select our country. Scroll down the list to find UK and it's not there. Here we go again...
Find it listed as GB - United Kingdom. Fuck's sake!
GB stands for Great Britain which is not a country. It is the name for the largest island in the British Isles and is a geographical name.
It only took the DVLA about a century to fix it and the Olympics still get it wrong.
Gah!
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Post by Slinger on Apr 21, 2024 14:45:17 GMT
We had somebody on Twatter (a racist flag-shagger, obviously) the other day who INSISTED that " England is an island" and when queried on the existence of Scotland and Wales declare that they are " parts of England." I think he was about one brain cell past spelling it Hingerland, innit. My absolute favourite though, are people who want to "Take are country back". I've even seen a photo of a tattoo proclaiming that. Just think, somebody actually paid for indelible proof that they are stupid beyond belief. I can only hope the tattooist was laughing like a loon inside.
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