The grumpy thread

[Uncle Jimmy]

Clipper fag lighters; they used to last for ages, seem to be shit nowadays. Plenty of fuel and a spark but no go...reminds me of certain cars and parts of ones anatomy.

[tobyd]

The metal spinny 'flint' gets gummed up with the sparky copper stuff. A wire-toothbrush scrub usually perks them up a bit. For a while.

[Louise2cv]

My daughter is a (pre- reg year) pharmacist having graduated with a first class Masters and she suggests that reading the leaflet and asking to Speak with the Pharmacist if you are worried, is better as in safer, than ignoring it.

Unfortunately if you are prone to anxiety reading it might also not help that particular problem.

 

Yes this.

 

I shat myself when I read the leaflet in my pills for anxiety: "You must not suddenly stop taking this drug blah blah heart attack" OMG what if I forget one I will die! ...so I took three to be extra sure and turned over the page "Do not take more than the prescribed amount blah blah heart attack"  FFFFFFFfffffffff…..

 

 

Obviously I didn't take more than I should but the leaflet did freak me out.

 

Also annoying are all the ones that you take for something that is then listed in the possible side effects (eg. magic made up anti vomit pill; small print possible side effects may cause vomiting WTF?!).

[New POD]

Yes this.

 

I shat myself when I read the leaflet in my pills for anxiety: "You must not suddenly stop taking this drug blah blah heart attack" OMG what if I forget one I will die! ...so I took three to be extra sure and turned over the page "Do not take more than the prescribed amount blah blah heart attack"  FFFFFFFfffffffff…..

 

 

Obviously I didn't take more than I should but the leaflet did freak me out.

 

Also annoying are all the ones that you take for something that is then listed in the possible side effects (eg. magic made up anti vomit pill; small print possible side effects may cause vomiting WTF?!).

 

 

My wife has to remove them from her parents prescriptions and then summarise what is important.  Also has to remove drugs from their house which they are storing just in case. 

[GrumpiusMaximus]

Just discovering the joys of having more than one box of tablets.  I've only ever been on one thing at a time and now my GP has prescribed me two things simultaneously.  How the fuck does anybody keep up with four or five sets of medications?!  I'm fucking useless with just two...

 

To add to it all I'm probably clinically depressed again but have an audition for a choir on Tuesday (thanks, Lady Grumpius - she sweet-talked them into it and she's auditioning too and will wander right in seeing as she's essentially a professional anyway) and hoping that will stave some of the shit.  Haven't sung since I failed an audition for the Hallé Choir back in 2011 because I couldn't sight read well enough.  

 

That last bit isn't a grump, it's more of a grump-preventative.  I found that starting new things tends to help.  I took up ballet in January because I thought it would be a laugh.  Still doing it.  At 29.  And 17 1/2 Stone.  And 6'2".  And beardy.  It's still a laugh.

 

Grump for today?  2 hours mowing my partner's mum's lawn.  They have 1/3 of an acre and it's not level.  And my mower is a bit marginal for it...

[320touring]

^^good pun re "stave"

 

And good luck at the audition

[Tamworthbay]

Just discovering the joys of having more than one box of tablets.  I've only ever been on one thing at a time and now my GP has prescribed me two things simultaneously.  How the fuck does anybody keep up with four or five sets of medications?!  I'm fucking useless with just two...

 

To add to it all I'm probably clinically depressed again but have an audition for a choir on Tuesday (thanks, Lady Grumpius - she sweet-talked them into it and she's auditioning too and will wander right in seeing as she's essentially a professional anyway) and hoping that will stave some of the shit.  Haven't sung since I failed an audition for the Hallé Choir back in 2011 because I couldn't sight read well enough.  

 

That last bit isn't a grump, it's more of a grump-preventative.  I found that starting new things tends to help.  I took up ballet in January because I thought it would be a laugh.  Still doing it.  At 29.  And 17 1/2 Stone.  And 6'2".  And beardy.  It's still a laugh.

 

Grump for today?  2 hours mowing my partner's mum's lawn.  They have 1/3 of an acre and it's not level.  And my mower is a bit marginal for it...

I am on five tablets a day seven days a week but three am and 1 evening after food and another around 8pm but not after 10pm, two injections three days apart, then more tablets on non jab days plus another on alternating days but not the same day as an injection. There are times when I sit with a pile of boxes and think ‘what the fuck am I supposed to take?’ But eternally grateful to have the NHS keeping me in the game, forty years ago I would have been fucked.

[New POD]

Just discovering the joys of having more than one box of tablets.  I've only ever been on one thing at a time and now my GP has prescribed me two things simultaneously.  How the fuck does anybody keep up with four or five sets of medications?!  I'm fucking useless with just two...

 

.

 

you got a phone with an alarm feature ? Set up an alarm for each tablet, recurring. My alarm is about to go off to tell me to take clothes from tumble drier and then go to bed.  Otherwise I'd forget. 

[Richard]

How the fuck does anybody keep up with four or five sets of medications?!  I'm fucking useless with just two...

 

[GrumpiusMaximus]

I am on five tablets a day seven days a week but three am and 1 evening after food and another around 8pm but not after 10pm, two injections three days apart, then more tablets on non jab days plus another on alternating days but not the same day as an injection. There are times when I sit with a pile of boxes and think ‘what the fuck am I supposed to take?’ But eternally grateful to have the NHS keeping me in the game, forty years ago I would have been fucked.

 

 

Medical science is a wonder.  I'll grant you.  There are a couple of people that I know that forty years ago would have been stone dead but ten years on are managing ok.

 

Yeah.  I don't even know why I'm grumping.

[Guest Hooli]

 

That's what my parent's use too. If nothing else it keeps them entertained for one morning a week when they refill them.

[Guest Hooli]

An observation (not a provocative point).

 

Nobody has yet managed to explain, or even demonstrate to me - what society actually is.

 

 

As far as I can tell from observation it's collection of individuals not helping each other through life.

[dollywobbler]

It's the wrong thread, but I love how this thread has managed to steer away from a clearly angsty topic by, quite rightly, turning into a discussion about the leaflets that come in a small cardboard box. Sodding things.

[Noel Tidybeard]

Yet another prescription. I have long term meds for migraine & vertigo prevention, so that's 2 lots. I have medium-term meds for sciatica so on anti-inflammatories and something to settle my stomach for a few months.

 

Now I've managed to pick up a skin infection. Possibly from something at work.

 

£44 on meds in the last month.

 

maybe time to look at a prepaid prescription card- £104 for 12 months or £29.10 for 3mth

[Noel Tidybeard]

^ People are lazier than they were 40 years ago. Hence chubbers. Obvious, really.

 

On a different note, has anyone heard the current KFC radio ad?

I can’t stand that, ‘it’s costin naan naanty naan innit’ accent that’s increasingly becoming the norm on tv and radio. It sounds like cockney gone very, very wrong.*

Where’s it come from, and when did it become normalised?

Speak properly, damn you all!

 

* Cockney is good.

 

i blame keith cunting lemon

[Zelandeth]

Fluffing van got the first proper round of swearing thrown in its general direction since I took ownership today.

 

Was doing some work underneath, getting the fresh water tank back in place. While I was at it went to tidy up some existing pipework and wiring.

 

Disconnected one of the existing waste water hoses and proceeded to get about three or four litres of a couple of week old kitchen sink run off water straight to the face and in my left ear. Which six hours on has finally unplugged itself again.

 

Note to self: next time you're disconnecting them, make sure the van is pointing downhill... preferably downhill to the extent of the tail end standing on ramps so there's nothing hiding in the lines.

 

Note two to self: check that sodding line to ensure it's properly clear and that it's got as best a fall along the run as it can. Not that 25mm convoluted hose ever really flows that well.

[Cheggers]

Using one of those bloody things has always been on my "you know you're almost dead when..." list, and I'll fight using one for as long as I can.

 

Mother_Chegg (mid 80's) and her friends discuss them with a fervour they normally reserve for foreigners and the recently deceased.

[Pillock]

Yes this.

 

I shat myself when I read the leaflet in my pills for anxiety: "You must not suddenly stop taking this drug blah blah heart attack" OMG what if I forget one I will die! ...so I took three to be extra sure and turned over the page "Do not take more than the prescribed amount blah blah heart attack" FFFFFFFfffffffff…..

 

 

Obviously I didn't take more than I should but the leaflet did freak me out.

 

Also annoying are all the ones that you take for something that is then listed in the possible side effects (eg. magic made up anti vomit pill; small print possible side effects may cause vomiting WTF?!).

My sister did some work for a pharmaceutical company inputting data from trials. They basically have to list everything that the subjects reported, so if out of 1000 people trialling medication for bumwarts one has a heart attack, then it goes down as a possible side effect. Even if that person was 35 stone and running a marathon at the time.

[chadders]

I ignore the leaflet warnings now  - as pillock says they're more to cover their arses against being sued than any realistic chance of some/all of them happening,

I just read the pharmacist instructions as to how many to take.

 

My youngest is in medical research/ drug development and the hoops they have to go through to get a new drug approved are incredible.

 

I've been taking 4 different types of tablets a day for a long time but have never had any side effects (yet) but maybe I'm just lucky.

[Cavcraft]

I think we're in for a bad spell of wether.

[purplebargeken]

my dad would have knocked me from Sutton in ashfield to Sutton on sea. 

 

Transport methods from childhood, no petrol or train fair. Perfect!

[Des]

I think we're in for a bad spell of wether.

 

I was at the coast when we had those bad storms, couldn't believe I saw a fishing boat going out, they were all singing baggy trousers, I said it's madness heading out there.

[MikeR]

these are shit !  , they dont reconnect when back in range so you always have to fiddle with them , cant just leave it in the car out of sight

 

 

apps are crap as well , they all work the same way suggesting the code is lifted off one source , some take 15 MB to do the job of one

that fits into a couple of MB suggesting a lot of crap is added on ...

 

works as a camera remote ok ,,,,but only via an app

 

makes a ok  battery holder ...

 

0/10

[Kiltox]

these are shit !  , they dont reconnect when back in range so you always have to fiddle with them , cant just leave it in the car out of sight

 

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apps are crap as well , they all work the same way suggesting the code is lifted off one source , some take 15 MB to do the job of one

that fits into a couple of MB suggesting a lot of crap is added on ...

 

works as a camera remote ok ,,,,but only via an app

 

makes a ok  battery holder ...

 

0/10

They are awful and you’re right about the apps - some are likely to be really toxic

[GrumpiusMaximus]

I ignore the leaflet warnings now  - as pillock says they're more to cover their arses against being sued than any realistic chance of some/all of them happening,

I just read the pharmacist instructions as to how many to take.

 

My youngest is in medical research/ drug development and the hoops they have to go through to get a new drug approved are incredible.

 

I've been taking 4 different types of tablets a day for a long time but have never had any side effects (yet) but maybe I'm just lucky.

 

 

Chap I know is on slow-release morphine tablets and has been for many years.  Written in the label is 'ONLY TAKE WHOLE' in a big warning.  Apparently separating the tablet or crushing it can cause an overdose and, as we know, opiate overdoses are fun*.

 

One example where reading the label is a good idea.

[Des]

I used to be mentally unable to swallow tablets whole, had to chew them until I took a couple of ibuprofen for a toothache, I'd rather a gobful of weld spatter.

[Pillock]

my dad would have knocked me from Sutton in ashfield to Sutton on sea.

 

Transport methods from childhood, no petrol or train fair. Perfect!

I can't see what this is in reference too, but I'm just smiling at the coincidence. I'm from Kirkby so near as damnit Sutton in Ashfield, and this weekend we're off to Sutton on Sea for a laugh

[bub2006]

In reference to my son bending double a door key yesterday then scratching my car with a metal trailer pole. Even though I seen him do both things he denied it.

In other news the trike is off the road FFS. Not happy.

[Talbot]

I used to be mentally unable to swallow tablets whole, had to chew them until I took a couple of ibuprofen for a toothache, I'd rather a gobful of weld spatter.

Ibuprofen are sugar coated for a reason. They are utterly rank!

 

Also... Why are there no Asprin in the Jungle? The Paracetamol.

[nebuchenezer]

Yawn,

 

Eat, Work, Sleep, Repeat.

 

In response to the last few pages of this thread I am off to another site with my underpants firmly outside my trousers to call fat cunts fat cunts and get myself banned...

 

Because I can