The grumpy thread

[DodgeRover]

Sounds like sciatica

Perfect description, the lack of feeling of exactly where your foot is when walking is horrible

[myglaren]

Only had three phones.  3310 was a work phone.

Followed by a free HTC S-500? - BT phone came free with a broadband contract.

Replaced by the current £25 Haiwei Y-somethingorother from Asda on a BT sim card - £5 a month.

I liked the HTC better - Blackberry-style keyboard but some of the buttons were temperamental after seven years.

Don't get on with touch screens very well.

[Guest Hooli]

That doesn't sound good

 

Trapped nerve in your lower back really, it just happens to be the sciatic nerve which runs right down to your foot. When it gets really good you have agonising pain right down from your arse to your toes & can't feel your leg to walk on it...

 

I had it for six months & was on Tramadol for it after pushing my Bonnie 9 miles home. The odd twisting motion of leaning over to push a bike that far trapped it in my hip joint. I had a few lovely days where it'd take 45mins to get out of bed & I'd only got as far as kneeling on the floor with my chest still on the bed...

 

Mine cleared up in the end when my hip clanked massively loudly, the relief was amazing.

[twosmoke300]

Something that look forward to I suppose

[MrDuke]

Found out on Thursday that a (very fit & healthy) friend of ours had been diagnosed with bowel cancer, which had literally appeared from nowhere in less than a week, and the docs were worried that it had got into the lymph nodes. I found out today that it's now spread upwards through his stomach and chest and is attacking his bones. Apparently it's an incredibly aggressive form which is visibly growing every 12 hours or so - he's being pumped full of morphine, and they've put an extra bed in his cubicle so his wife can stay with him round the clock.

 

He's 25, and has been married just over a year. No idea what to say to the family tbh.

[eddyramrod]

Bloody hell.  That's horrible.

[Guest Hooli]

That's shit.

[gordonbennet]

I've got a minor sciatica attack at the moment but very mild thankfully, had me first attack about 20 years ago, had the flue over one Christmas and this bloody sciatica suddenly appeared, course every time you sneezed the stabbing pain shoots from your arse cheek and right down your leg, i walked doubled over for about 6 months till it finally ran its course.

 

Pales into insignificance mind given the poor young feller with bastarding bowel cancer.

 

Cancer can just fuck right off

[Timewaster]

Sometimes things come along that makes us realise how insignificant all our petty little grumbles really are.

 

To be finished at 25 is unbelievable.

 

 

Fuck Cancer.

[LostnotFound]

Terrible news, that is horrendous.

 

As is on a different scale losing all your possessionsOn in a wildfire, how you start to rebuild your life from scratch worrying it might happen again I don't know.

 

 

On the more whimsical side above I too had a Bosche 509e as a first phone. I do miss phones that actually looked different rather than another rectangle.

 

I've been looking for a feature phone for a while, the lack of 3g is a real pain in terms of a product that you want to last for years for use camping / travelling etc.... If the updated 3310 3g isn't massively expensive I'd be tempted. I'd really like a CAT feature phone but at 80 quid for a feature phone that can jog on.

[Coprolalia]

Found out on Thursday that a (very fit & healthy) friend of ours had been diagnosed with bowel cancer, which had literally appeared from nowhere in less than a week, and the docs were worried that it had got into the lymph nodes. I found out today that it's now spread upwards through his stomach and chest and is attacking his bones. Apparently it's an incredibly aggressive form which is visibly growing every 12 hours or so - he's being pumped full of morphine, and they've put an extra bed in his cubicle so his wife can stay with him round the clock.

 

He's 25, and has been married just over a year. No idea what to say to the family tbh.

 

Without knowing more I can't say more, but often the most aggressive cancers respond the best to chemo. 

[Cavcraft]

That's terrible, MrDuke. FWIW, my sympathies to the family and friends.

 

My friend from work has just lost her father to it in no time at all, and we don't know how long my sister-in-law has got

[Timewaster]

Remember, None of us know how long we have got.

 

Enjoy life you grumpy buggers

[twosmoke300]

Live life everyday as if it's your last !

 

 

One day you will be right

[tooSavvy]

Tesco carpark 'etiquette' !!!! :/

 

I pulled into the bays from 'my side' but rolled to a halt on the 'other side'[drive straight out].

 

Rangey guy (rolling along 'other side') decides I pinched his space*

 

There are 4 clear spaces* either side / box of 8.

 

He could have driven clear past my box and parked behind me, pointing out...

 

Oh fuckkinn NO.. He parked right on my door and spends several minutes squirming out of his door (no scratching!) and giving me the gimlet eye... FFS!

 

 

Half empty carpark FFS

 

 

Sunday... Say No Ffinn More

 

 

TS

[Mally]

My back is suddenly sore / stiff and by right arse cheek/ leg is numb . Very weird feeling

 

Try those stick on heat patches, overnight a couple of nights, works for me sometimes.

[HH-R]

Bloody timewasting buyers.

 

I'm moving out soon so selling kitchen appliances (new house has built in ones).

 

Advert is written in clear English, stating that weekend pickup is only possible, I can't deliver, only selling because I'm moving out, so need it gone sharpish.

 

Someone chips me down £20 straight away on a cooker, but I'd rather have it away. They would have been getting a steal because it's immaculate, I have a convection oven microwave so the oven has been used maybe three times. Grill, never. They say Sunday, Sunday comes and I ask what time they're coming.

 

Get some bullshit excuse at mid day, can I keep it for them?

 

No.

 

OK, well can you drop it off flippin miles away on Tuesday night?

 

No.

 

Really fucking annoying as they clearly had no intention of coming.

 

I'm gonna put it at the side of the curb and take a photo, then send it over saying the scrap man had it for nothing because you're a timewasting twat.

[wuvvum]

Job applications.  For some reason I always seem to suffer a mental block when filling them in.  "Explain (in 500 words or less) why you think you are suitable for this role".  Am I the only person who just sits there staring blankly at the form and wondering howdafuq you're supposed to answer a question like that?

[Guest Hooli]

Job applications.  For some reason I always seem to suffer a mental block when filling them in.  "Explain (in 500 words or less) why you think you are suitable for this role".  Am I the only person who just sits there staring blankly at the form and wondering howdafuq you're supposed to answer a question like that?

 

Nope. I hate that box too. The answer is already there in my work history, qualifications & the fact I'm applying for it.

[AMC Rebel]

Job applications.  For some reason I always seem to suffer a mental block when filling them in.  "Explain (in 500 words or less) why you think you are suitable for this role".  Am I the only person who just sits there staring blankly at the form and wondering howdafuq you're supposed to answer a question like that?

No you aren't alone - and the reason it's an issue for me usually is cos I can't put the actual reason, which is usually something along the lines of "I am fucked off with this place so I thought I'd give somewhere else a go" whereas you are expected to put in a load of bull about how you will make the company millions single-handedly. 

[Des]

Job applications.  For some reason I always seem to suffer a mental block when filling them in.  "Explain (in 500 words or less) why you think you are suitable for this role".  Am I the only person who just sits there staring blankly at the form and wondering howdafuq you're supposed to answer a question like that?

You could try "Your wife said I'd be a natural whilst I was giving her what she's been missing this morning".

[scaryoldcortina]

Job applications.  For some reason I always seem to suffer a mental block when filling them in.  "Explain (in 500 words or less) why you think you are suitable for this role".  Am I the only person who just sits there staring blankly at the form and wondering howdafuq you're supposed to answer a question like that?

"You called me."

[purplebargeken]

Sciatica is a cunt. Thankfully mine has actually eased off this afternoon after several days of misery and looking at how to self-amputate your own foot.

 

Cancer in any form is an even bigger cunt.

 

Best wishes to your mate Mr Duke. 

[tooSavvy]

Job applications.  For some reason I always seem to suffer a mental block when filling them in.  "Explain (in 500 words or less) why you think you are suitable for this role".  Am I the only person who just sits there staring blankly at the form and wondering howdafuq you're supposed to answer a question like that?

Hmmm.... "as soon as I saw..."

 

"my previous job experience makes me a perfect..."

 

Christ... TheSavv can pump $hite like a Friesian on sprouts

 

TS

[robinmasters]

Live life everyday as if it's your last !

 

 

One day you will be right

That sounds like a recipe for spending every next day in a cell.

[wuvvum]

Problem is that the role I'm attempting to apply for is completely different to anything I've done before, so I have no directly relevant work experience.  I therefore need to try and find creative ways to make my experience relevant, which I'm crap at. 

 

Also, went out a little while ago to fit a new brake light bulb to the Fiat, and the cat has caught herself a medium-sized rat.  She's brought it into the porch, nommed half of it and then promptly thrown up all over the doormat.  Fucking cheers, puss.

[tooSavvy]

Live life everyday as if it's your last before Universal Credit!

 

One day you will get your money :/

EFA

[DodgeRover]

Problem is that the role I'm attempting to apply for is completely different to anything I've done before, so I have no directly relevant work experience. I therefore need to try and find creative ways to make my experience relevant, which I'm crap at.

 

Also, went out a little while ago to fit a new brake light bulb to the Fiat, and the cat has caught herself a medium-sized rat. She's brought it into the porch, nommed half of it and then promptly thrown up all over the doormat. Fucking cheers, puss.

Good cat that, a lot won't take on a rat, you want to encourage it! Obviously you may need a new doormat.

[DVee8]

Next-door's setting off fire works.

The old dear who lives over the back to us,her little dog is going mad.

[FakeConcern]

Going to Norwich yesterday to visit daughter, C4 gets to end of road & dies. XM won't start so we take Mrs Concern's Mk1 Clio. We get there ok, but, when leaving the timing belt snaps. We got recovered nearly 200 miles in the middle of the night. Even that wasn't straightforward as we had to change transporters half way and both the M11 and the M25 were closed.

 

 

LOL that sounds like a fun day.

 

Im off to Ladbrokes to put a tenner on you getting a 64-plate A3 TDi on finance this week

Just so you know that you lost that £10, as of last Friday Mrs Concern is running around in this..

Thanks to Mr Yellowperil.