The grumpy thread

[michael1703]

Plus old people are living longer. What I meant was the NHS just about coped at 55 million population and as we're living longer and still firing babies out of our semi autos we can't cope,not just the hospitals but everything else, I hate the constant rape of our land for houses/roads/hs2.

 

Famefactoridol and towie and eastenders and football are to placate the majority

[EssDeeWon]

I think the real trouble with the NHS is an apathy and a complacency of a population who will rush to sign petitions about Jeremy Clarkson, vote on the X factor and pee themselves about the the latest EastEnders murder mystery sooner than they will question the action of the elite few who could actually improve the system. The elite few who it benefits to see it fail.

 

Same as a lot of public services

 

Good point, and to be fair most of the middle class folk in Britain who traditionally vote every 5 years never actually use the NHS.

 

Where as the great unwashed will sweat over whos winning X factor but never consider voting on polling day, then let rip when they have to wait in A&E for longer than 30 minutes with little Shannon's bruised toe.

[RayMK]

It used to be possible to turn off autosuggest on yahoo search.  Bloody irritating having a third of the page cluttered up as they try to guess what I want to search for.  They also try to tune the news items to reflect my tastes and if I look on amazon for a steering wheel STOPLOCK  I get adverts for the damned things for weeks.  LOOK YAHOO (and the others),  I'M A GRUMPY OLD GIT AND I DON'T LIKE BEING HELPED UNLESS I ASK.  In the meantime, I'll misspell search items until the autosuggest gives up, then quickly correct it and hit search before it can respond. These little victories make life worth living.

[Bobthebeard]

Yahoo. Proper shite

That is all..... As you were.

[MrDuke]

It used to be possible to turn off autosuggest on yahoo search.  Bloody irritating having a third of the page cluttered up as they try to guess what I want to search for.  They also try to tune the news items to reflect my tastes and if I look on amazon for a steering wheel STOPLOCK  I get adverts for the damned things for weeks.  LOOK YAHOO (and the others),  I'M A GRUMPY OLD GIT AND I DON'T LIKE BEING HELPED UNLESS I ASK.  In the meantime, I'll misspell search items until the autosuggest gives up, then quickly correct it and hit search before it can respond. These little victories make life worth living.

Mind if I re-appropriate that last statement?

[Coprolalia]

Good point, and to be fair most of the middle class folk in Britain who traditionally vote every 5 years never actually use the NHS.

 

Where as the great unwashed will sweat over whos winning X factor but never consider voting on polling day, then let rip when they have to wait in A&E for longer than 30 minutes with little Shannon's bruised toe.

 

This.

When I'm not doing my 9-5 I cover A&E shifts as a general A&E doc. Generally we rarely see the middle classes aged 30-60. They're sensible and take care of themselves. When they do come in it's usually pretty bad, and there are no complaints, just a "is it particularly busy here tonight?". The answer to that is no, we're just chronically underfunded and one off injections of cash make foxtrot all difference.

I've lost count of the number of times I've had to diplomatically appease Mr and Missus OrangeSkinDesignerTracksuit for waiting 3 hours for young 20-stone Preaciouse's heartburn to be seen. Have some sodding common sense people. Also:

If I give you a tablet here it doesn't mean I can give you them to go home with, we have a limited supply of a limited number of medications purchased by the NHS for 5 times what you pay in Tesco (explain to me how that works?). No you're not having our last bottle of gaviscon/ paracetamol.

I don't care if you called an ambulance to bring you in for your cold, you can't have one to go home in. We're not a taxi service. No we won't pay for your taxi. If you got yourself here you find your own way home.

I know you're vomiting and have a blinding headache. It's a hangover. Foxtrot Oscar.

Etc etc.

 

/Rant

[Bobthebeard]

Mind if I re-appropriate that last statement?

I see what you did there......

😄

[purplebargeken]

I am bored. No idea why as there are things that I could do, indeed things that need doing but........ I just am. 

[Bobthebeard]

I am bored. No idea why as there are things that I could do, indeed things that need doing but........ I just am.

 

'Tis life...

I get bored even though I have loads to do in the house/garden/garage.....

A motivational thing I reckon.

[Bobthebeard]

This.

When I'm not doing my 9-5 I cover A&E shifts as a general A&E doc. Generally we rarely see the middle classes aged 30-60. They're sensible and take care of themselves. When they do come in it's usually pretty bad, and there are no complaints, just a "is it particularly busy here tonight?". The answer to that is no, we're just chronically underfunded and one off injections of cash make foxtrot all difference.

I've lost count of the number of times I've had to diplomatically appease Mr and Missus OrangeSkinDesignerTracksuit for waiting 3 hours for young 20-stone Preaciouse's heartburn to be seen. Have some sodding common sense people. Also:

If I give you a tablet here it doesn't mean I can give you them to go home with, we have a limited supply of a limited number of medications purchased by the NHS for 5 times what you pay in Tesco (explain to me how that works?). No you're not having our last bottle of gaviscon/ paracetamol.

I don't care if you called an ambulance to bring you in for your cold, you can't have one to go home in. We're not a taxi service. No we won't pay for your taxi. If you got yourself here you find your own way home.

I know you're vomiting and have a blinding headache. It's a hangover. Foxtrot Oscar.

Etc etc.

 

/Rant

The general public really do astound me at times. Going to A&E for the daftest reasons then kicking off with the staff. Although if GP's actually had decent opening hours and were actually prepared to work for a living then A&E wouldn't be so busy methinks. After all, where else can you go with a broken toe/nosebleed/pan stuck on your head after 5pm?

[EssDeeWon]

I am bored. No idea why as there are things that I could do, indeed things that need doing but........ I just am. 

 

I am also bored, but I have spent all morning polishing the Rover on a rare day off, so im allowed to sit around drink tea and be generally bored for the rest of today.

 

#Shiney75

[Bobthebeard]

I was bored, but just been poking around in the garden... Frogs are spawning in my pond and have just seen some young goldfish! Woohoo. Spring has sprung. I thought the young goldfish had died over the winter..

Now not so bored.

[purplebargeken]

We don't have a pond, the Beetle is not a car to polish, I don't drink tea. I think I'm screwed.

[Bobthebeard]

We don't have a pond, the Beetle is not a car to polish, I don't drink tea. I think I'm screwed.

Try cooking or baking..... I recently tried making proper french bread. Now that was a challenge!

[purplebargeken]

I used to be a chef. I'm not allowed in the kitchen as I allegedly make too much mess. 

[Bobthebeard]

I used to be a chef. I'm not allowed in the kitchen as I allegedly make too much mess.

 

Don't all chefs make a mess? Proper chefs have helpers....

[purplebargeken]

That's why I am now a nurse.

[messerschmitt owner]

That's why I am now a nurse.

I hope you don't still make a mess!!

[purplebargeken]

Hehehe.

[Slappy]

How about going onto Wikipedia and clicking "Random Article" a few times until you find something interesting. Might end being a plant, it might be an obscure member of an Indian Royal Family, it might be about igneous rock formations in the Colorado Rockies, you just never know

[Ghosty]

Court case/trial delayed again and dewarn notice given 'due to lack of court time'. WTF? Already had to wait 2 months, when's the trial going to be? Just want to get it out of the way and get these cunts dealt with and sentenced. Bloody glad I've at least seen some compensation.

[Lankytim]

I know from bitter experience that the uk court system is absolutely shit. I mean, chimps tea party shit.

[alf892]

The every increasing advertising of 'days'.

 

So it is Mother's Day . Fair enough. But do we need the constant pushing of more and more shit to buy. The adverts kind of imply you are incomplete/inadequate if you don't spend enough

 

Same for Valentine's Day, Father's Day, Christmas Day , Pie day, and whatever day.

 

It is getting worse...........or I'm getting more grumpy.

 

It can't be the second one because I'm getting older and that makes me more right about shit like this.

[chaseracer]

Every day is AS Day... 

[chaseracer]

Speaking of which...

 

 

Arsebiscuits.

[anonymous user]

I shouldn't admit it in the Grumpy thread, but I quite like all these made up celebrations (Valentine's Day, Mother's Day, Great Auntie Day, etc.); mainly because for several days afterwards there are lots of cheap chocolates and champagne in the Co-op so I can stock up. I have no qualms at all about tucking in to a huge, heart shaped, box of chocs whilst washing them down with half-price champagne.

[Lacquer Peel]

Reliable cars, those.

[beko1987]

Watching comic relief. That's not the grump, but if the dude John bishop was talking to could have a shave and look good, why couldn't John bishop?

[messerschmitt owner]

cos, Liverpool!

[jakebullet]

The NHS should start advertising on tv. Just £3 a month could give you lower waiting times, busty nurses & more free morphine. Text SODOFFPOLARBEARS to 0118 999 881 999 119 7253.