What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[Tamworthbay]

I’m not going to go into much detail, but I had a medical issue many months ago.

I’ve seen specialists, who refer to specialists, who refer to specialists, who refer to specialists.

I went to see the final specialist again today who I believe is the gatekeeper of the prescription needed. He’s not putting me on them, instead he told me to google the condition... he showed me how google worked and sent me on my way, I’m going back in two months to see if anything worked. If not then about 2 months after that I get the pills.

I don’t want to be on any tablets, but he fucking sat down and showed me how to google!!!

I would be seeking a second opinion as soon as possible.

 

 

 

 

 

And not on how to use google..........

[AlabamaShrimp]

Been dieing of manflu all week but very happy today as I won a competition on a YouTube channel!!

 

Its only for a book but still, I won!

[NorfolkNWeigh]

Talking of the internet, I think I've just ordered fibre broadband. This could be amazing. If it actually happens.

The fact it took 8 engineers in 5 Transits 2 weeks to run fibre about 400 yards to my 18 year old house in a town that was designed and built with cable running to every house ( Milton Keynes) .

You should get yours about the same time as HS2 is finished.

As for the cock up when they changed the phone line to fibre...

[Kiltox]

Been dieing of manflu all week !

Also afflicted. Fucking hate it.

 

Found a countermeasure.

 

 

[loserone]

L1_Jnr continued the theme of the last six weeks - one manflu after another - by spewing all over the bed at 9pm on Friday.  Mrs_l1 had picked up the mantle by midnight, and it was inevitably my time to join in last night and today.

 

Yesterday I managed to eat half a natural yoghurt and this morning I pushed the boat out and had half a slice of toast for breakfast.

 

Time to check the NHS advice:

 

 

Had a bit of a think about what could be the most bland food ever.

 

Pic stolen from internets:

 

There's nothing more bland than an English curry!

 

Was a bit worried, but feeling surprisingly alright two hours later.

[Guest Hooli]

I would be seeking a second opinion as soon as possible.

 

 

 

 

 

And not on how to use google..........

 

BING!

 

We have a winner

[andy18s]

The fact it took 8 engineers in 5 Transits 2 weeks to run fibre about 400 yards to my 18 year old house in a town that was designed and built with cable running to every house ( Milton Keynes) .

You should get yours about the same time as HS2 is finished.

The Mrs ordered fibre to the house at 11am-ish on a Friday

The Next day at 9am there were 2 engineers knocking on the gate wanting to come in and Finish hooking up

They had already run cable 300m to the nearest pole from the main feed down the road

By midday all was done and dusted so they left us with a number to ring once the router turned up

Once sorted the service has been excellent

Easily 3-4 times quicker than BT could ever do,with very few drop outs apart from the odd power cut.....

[Kiltox]

Fucking third world countries, eh?

(how have we got it so wrong in the UK?!)

[Guest Hooli]

Fucking third world countries, eh?

 

(how have we got it so wrong in the UK?!)

BT.

 

 

I worked for them years ago & once got a job to install broadband for someone who'd had it working for six months...

[MrDuke]

Talking of the internet, I think I've just ordered fibre broadband. This could be amazing. If it actually happens.

 

That'll be fibre as far as the nearest box, then wire to your house. Still measurably better than no fibre at all, mind.

[NorfolkNWeigh]

Funny, I never mentioned my experience was BT. You're all jumping to that conclusion based on little more than prejudice against a great British company.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Yes of course it was fucking BT , who else would try charging me for two separate phone numbers after putting the fibre line( which I didn't want ) in. Then arguing for 6 months that I should pay for it because I had it even though I never used it and didn't know the number!!

[Tamworthbay]

L1_Jnr continued the theme of the last six weeks - one manflu after another - by spewing all over the bed at 9pm on Friday.  Mrs_l1 had picked up the mantle by midnight, and it was inevitably my time to join in last night and today.

 

Yesterday I managed to eat half a natural yoghurt and this morning I pushed the boat out and had half a slice of toast for breakfast.

 

Time to check the NHS advice:

 

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Had a bit of a think about what could be the most bland food ever.

 

Pic stolen from internets:

 

There's nothing more bland than an English curry!

 

Was a bit worried, but feeling surprisingly alright two hours later.

I am feeling crap as well, after a twelve hour day at work I couldn’t be arsed to cook so a Papa Johns ‘hot pepper passion’ was the order of the day, three varieties of chillis and a shit load of onion did the trick but sadly hasn’t sorted my sore throat.

[DodgeRover]

I’m not going to go into much detail, but I had a medical issue many months ago.

I’ve seen specialists, who refer to specialists, who refer to specialists, who refer to specialists.

 

I went to see the final specialist again today who I believe is the gatekeeper of the prescription needed. He’s not putting me on them, instead he told me to google the condition... he showed me how google worked and sent me on my way, I’m going back in two months to see if anything worked. If not then about 2 months after that I get the pills.

 

 

I don’t want to be on any tablets, but he fucking sat down and showed me how to google!!!

 

Google told you that you could be suffering from something incrediably rare and contageous that only occurs on American Hospital based dramas or possibly you have early onset Ebola. Go straight to A&E and advise them what the previous Doctor told you?

[clayts450]

Reading 30 odd pages of Cannock auction stories on here from historical (hysterical ?) times

[Coprolalia]

I’m not going to go into much detail, but I had a medical issue many months ago.

I’ve seen specialists, who refer to specialists, who refer to specialists, who refer to specialists.

 

I went to see the final specialist again today who I believe is the gatekeeper of the prescription needed. He’s not putting me on them, instead he told me to google the condition... he showed me how google worked and sent me on my way, I’m going back in two months to see if anything worked. If not then about 2 months after that I get the pills.

 

 

I don’t want to be on any tablets, but he fucking sat down and showed me how to google!!!

 

As ridiculous as this appears, it sounds like the sort of hoops that have to jumped through to satisfy funding criteria to some managerial honcho. I imagine your specialist-ist of specialists has to document that he has advised you to try x and y for documented z amount of time according to some rubbish rule set to reduce costs before he can dole out the good stuff. Pain in the arse to work too.

[dollywobbler]

That'll be fibre as far as the nearest box, then wire to your house. Still measurably better than no fibre at all, mind.

No it won't. We don't have a box. FTTP FTW.

[Kiltox]

Fucking FTTP in deepest darkest wales and I am on 2mbit wifi in a hotel 10 miles from Central London

[Ghosty]

That'll be fibre as far as the nearest box, then wire to your house. Still measurably better than no fibre at all, mind.

 

This is what I'm on (provided by SSE). It's more than good enough.

[PhilA]

VDSL works well, we pushed it out to a bunch of rural places up in the swamp (Maurepas, French Settlement, LA).

 

This area local to me is nearly as rural as Wobblerville and somehow we've managed to offer full 1Gbps symmetrical services via fiber, IPTV, the works.

Even made sure that rotary phones work properly with it. (You're welcome).

 

You can still buy dialup off us if you really push for it...

 

On a totally unrelated note I put all the decorations up outside.

 

 

Phil

[MrDuke]

No it won't. We don't have a box. FTTP FTW.

 

[rage] How far from the nearest village do I have to be to get FTTP?!! [/rage]

[Aston Martin]

Looking online for treatments, is better than the steroid based alternative tbh.

 

I’m seeing my GP (who’s only there Monday and Fridays) and see what she says. I just find this 6-month (so far) charade funny. I get referred to one clinic, back to GP, referred to another, back to GP, back to second clinic, back to GP, referred to hospital specialist, back to GP, to a different hospitals specialist, to GP, back to that last hospitals specialist etc.

 

Luckily it isn’t a condition that will kill me, in theory.

[vulgalour]

My childhood in car form!

 

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/132418749680

 

 

Well... almost.  Dad's was an Ital so it was black bumpers and the interior and a lower trim so it sported the black vinyl seats inside but it was this yellow and it's so similar a thing it hit me with some bittersweet memories of family holidays and burning my legs on the seats when the car was parked in the sun too long.  This replaced a Datsun New Sunny estate, also in yellow, which was Dad's first car and replaced a Honda Goldwing (not the type with all the American style faring) bike with a mahoosive family sidecar that could hold two children, Mum and three dogs.  We could also get Grandad on the rear seat of the bike at the same time.  That rig was a BEAST and while the Datsun was less of an adventure, it was certainly more comfortable.

[Sir Snipes]

I don’t want to jinx it but we’ve had BT “fibre” for 3 years with only one or two days where it’s dropped out. Never had to deal with them direct other than the annual call to get the “special offer” line rental renewed.

[Pillock]

I've got to do the Broadband Shuffle soon when my Virgin contract expires.

I really don't want to stay with Virgin, they're like that girlfriend I used to have who was really nice when she wanted something and then used to beat me and leave me in a locked room whilst she spend all my money. They're dead nice and get you a good "deal" when you phone up to cancel, and then chuck the price up two or three times during the contract before knocking it down to only slightly more than it was when you phone back to cancel 12 months later.

 

I think I might go Fibre for the better upload speeds (they offer 20Mb over 3Mb I currrently get) but I'm yet to find anyone that isn't branded an incompetent bunch of morons to do it.

[chodweaver]

This was very nearly a grump, but it's now a Phew and a Grin...

I followed some links into both farcebook and LinkedIn on my phone last night. Today, I find AS in Tapatalk littered with the awful ambulance chaser and clickbait ads that I usually only have to put up with in other fora through Tapatalk.

Solution: do a Force stop on Farcebook. (I rarely use it anyway)

 

No more ads. (Crosses fingers)

 

Sent from my BV6000 using Tapatalk

[dollywobbler]

[rage] How far from the nearest village do I have to be to get FTTP?!! [/rage]

 

I'm in a village! But our exchange is 4 miles away, and there are no cabinets in the village, so FTTP is the only answer. It's why we're at least a year behind other villages, who have been enjoying Superfast for a while now.

[Ghosty]

This was very nearly a grump, but it's now a Phew and a Grin...

I followed some links into both farcebook and LinkedIn on my phone last night. Today, I find AS in Tapatalk littered with the awful ambulance chaser and clickbait ads that I usually only have to put up with in other fora through Tapatalk.

Solution: do a Force stop on Farcebook. (I rarely use it anyway)

 

No more ads. (Crosses fingers)

 

Sent from my BV6000 using Tapatalk

Can I interest you in uBlock Origin, sir? No ads at all that way. Blocks pop up tabs and redirects too.

[fordperv]

It's been warmish dry today so the saph has been given a service and a damn good clean inside and out im chuffed as I havnt been able to get it done over the past week due to the rain

[Supernaut]

Can I interest you in uBlock Origin, sir? No ads at all that way. Blocks pop up tabs and redirects too.

uBlock Origin on a phone? I have the Firefox addon installed on my PC, though. Perhaps it's also on Firefox on my phone, just hiding in the background.

 

My solution to not having Facebook on my phone is not installing the app at all.

[Ghosty]

Oh I didn’t clock the bit about Crapatalk.

I use Chrome to view mobile AS, there aren’t any ads and it’s one less app.