The grumpy thread

[RedSparrow]

Fucking tonsils.

 

Got mine out the other week and it wasn't much fun.

 

I was looking forward to spending two weeks watching Netflix when I got out, but I ended up with no broadband for ten days thanks to my local friendly cable company. Fuckers.

 

Having no tonsils is great though - once you get over the initial pain, bleeding, etc. I should have got rid of the bastards years ago.

 

The "doctor" who discharged me messed up my painkiller prescription and gave me a line for 100 Tramadol instead of 10 so it wasn't all bad...

 

Can I ask how old you are and how come you were able to have them removed? I have suffered from glandular fever for most of my life (every few months end up in bed for a week or so) but despite several requests my local NHS won't take mine out.

[Ross_K]

I was getting 4 or 5 throat infections a year... That's the kind of criteria you're looking at for getting them out.

 

Every time I got an infection I was forking out €50 for a GP visit and €20 for antibiotics. Not funny.

 

If you suffer from sleep apnea (which was my other problem) you'd have a good reason for getting them out too.

 

I got my GP to refer me to an ENT consultant. The consultant was more worried about the apnea than the recurring infections. I'd say it took about 8 months from talking to my GP to getting them out. That's warp speed in the Irish health system - dunno how many hoops you'd have to jump through with the NHS

 

Chatting with the surgeon on the table just before the op - he was saying he'd love to be doing more removals.

[RedSparrow]

That sounds very similar to my situation. I constantly have a throat infection, my tonsils are visibly swollen and sore all year round but doctors just palm me off with penicilin, which doesn't even do anything anymore. I get tired very easily and don't have much energy.

I think I might end up paying a Czech doctor to take them out.

[Ross_K]

You need to see a new GP. Taking antibiotics all the time is useless - you just get to the stage where they don't work any more.

 

Ask the GP to write a letter of referral to an ENT consultant. Tell him you're unhappy with multiple throat infections and multiple antibiotics every year.

 

I don't know of any reason why a GP would refuse a referral to a consultant, unless he thought you were really taking the mick. But I guess there are some odd GPs out there...

[RedSparrow]

This is the 4th GP I've approached with the problem. It's all over my records. I think it's just NHS policy that it's a low priority operation in adults.

[Ross_K]

Four different doctors? Looks like the Czech thing might be worth pursuing then if nobody wants to play ball.

 

Can you bypass your GP and the NHS, and see a consultant privately? I know that means you'd probably have to pay out some money but it could be worth it...

 

Over here, you can jump the public waiting list by paying to see the consultant as a private patient (€140 per appointment) and have the consultant move you back onto the public system once he's decide what treatment he's going to give.

 

 

 

Being fobbed off is one thing I don't miss about the "free" treatment on the NHS. GP's here need to be seen to give value for money, and people won't tolerate a fobbing off when they have to hand over €50 at the end of the visit...

[TimothyClaypole]

The Distance Selling Regulations...

 

Not aimed at anyone on here obviously but please try not to "ravage" the packing your new item came in, for when you send it back as not wanted and don't think sticking a bit of sellotape over the seal and saying it's not been used will fool me either. Same goes for software, "I've not opened it" they say, righto, I'm guessing that's not your fingerprint on the disc then?

 

 

Should your item go faulty under warranty then I would love it if you didn't send it back wrapped in some bubblewrap your cat has pissed on and I appreciate polystyrene packing attracts hair but i am not a fan of getting covered at 7am in whatever combo of cat and dogs have been hiding in the empty box.

 

(I had to go scrounging for some "hayfever" tablets this morning thanks to one lovely customer making my skin crawl must have been a long hair Terrier...)

 

 

 

And leaving a memory card in a camera while saying the screen has gone faulty when the pictures are of a right old booze up won't make me think you've dropped it while off your tits...

[Guest]

Not far off setting these fucking wheels of mine on fire. Had several people on the blue forum PM and say they wanted them but then were unable to pay. Got one bloke from overseas interested but I just KNOW the second I get him a shipping quote he'll baulk at the costs involved and I'll be on another hiding to nothing. He reckoned £10 was realistic to get them from mine to his. Fuckwit. He's already whinged about the shipping costs. He seems to think I'm making money on it. No twat for brains, you're abroad, I'm in the North West of the UK. It's not going to be cheap to send 4 wheels 1200 odd miles, is it?

 

Nothing is selling on eBay either. Had one pathetic bid on a lens and another 'why won't you send to Italy?' mongheaded comment. I wish messaging on eBay was banned.

 

Massive bonfire round my unit tomorrow.

 

Oh wait - SHIT- no, every other cunt has cars spilling out of the rafters! No room to do what I want! Silly me!

 

[willswitchengage]

Reading the symptoms of a medical condition on Wikipedia and thinking "yep, definitely got that."

[Cavcraft]

The next saddo that tells me excitedly that someone has changed their FaceAche status to single, like it's bigger news than the end of WW2/Berlin wall coming down/Nelson Mandela being freed, is going to fucking get it with both barrels.

[RedSparrow]

I hate facebook. But I am addicted to it. It's like crack or something.

[Cavcraft]

I hate facebook. But I am addicted to it. It's like crap or something.

 

EFA etc.

[Cavcraft]

I still don't have a car. The man who is supposed to be bringing it hasn't even phoned me yet. It's probably upside-down on fire in a field or something by now. I REALLY WANT TO HAVE IT NOW PLEASE!

 

 

Is it there yet?

[messerschmitt owner]

Is your bondEd bond there yet.

[M'coli]

The next saddo that tells me excitedly that someone has changed their FaceAche status to single, like it's bigger news than the end of WW2/Berlin wall coming down/Nelson Mandela being freed, is going to fucking get it with both barrels.

Why both? Surely a single barrel will suffice ?!

[Ross_K]

The next saddo that tells me excitedly that someone has changed their FaceAche status to single, like it's bigger news than the end of WW2/Berlin wall coming down/Nelson Mandela being freed, is going to fucking get it with both barrels.

 

One of my missus' friends added me as a friend on facebook. Where once I had no updates from any of my contacts EVER, I now get 20 fucking updates a day telling me about life in the Coronation Street clothes factory she works in, how her boss hates her, how she can't keep a boyfriend, how her flatmate eats her food, photos of her on the piss, etc. This is a thirty-eight year old woman who thinks she's twenty-fucking-one years old.

 

LIKE I GIVE TWO FUCKS ABOUT YOUR PROBLEMS...

 

So now I need to un-friend her discretely.

 

I just use it for stalking old girlfriends incidentally.

[Cavcraft]

The next saddo that tells me excitedly that someone has changed their FaceAche status to single, like it's bigger news than the end of WW2/Berlin wall coming down/Nelson Mandela being freed, is going to fucking get it with both barrels.

 

One of my missus' friends added me as a friend on facebook. Where once I had no updates from any of my contacts EVER, I now get 20 fucking updates a day telling me about life in the Coronation Street clothes factory she works in, how her boss hates her, how she can't keep a boyfriend, how her flatmate eats her food, photos of her on the piss, etc. This is a thirty-eight year old woman who thinks she's twenty-fucking-one years old.

 

LIKE I GIVE TWO FUCKS ABOUT YOUR PROBLEMS...

 

So now I need to un-friend her discretely.

 

I just use it for stalking old girlfriends incidentally.

 

Hmm, maybe it's not all bad then?

[RedSparrow]

The next saddo that tells me excitedly that someone has changed their FaceAche status to single, like it's bigger news than the end of WW2/Berlin wall coming down/Nelson Mandela being freed, is going to fucking get it with both barrels.

 

One of my missus' friends added me as a friend on facebook. Where once I had no updates from any of my contacts EVER, I now get 20 fucking updates a day telling me about life in the Coronation Street clothes factory she works in, how her boss hates her, how she can't keep a boyfriend, how her flatmate eats her food, photos of her on the piss, etc. This is a thirty-eight year old woman who thinks she's twenty-fucking-one years old.

 

LIKE I GIVE TWO FUCKS ABOUT YOUR PROBLEMS...

 

So now I need to un-friend her discretely.

 

I just use it for stalking old girlfriends incidentally.

 

If she posts anything juicy screencap it and put it on failbook.com.

[Bren]

My mate was extolling the virtues of facebook, and how I should join as all our old school friends are on it.

 

I asked my mate if it was the same school mates that would'nt have given us the steam off their shit and looked down on us for not doing the sixth form and uni thing, instead we got jobs and paid tax.

 

Perhaps it was just me being a bit old and bitter, or maybe it's just my life is as dull as shit and I dont want all of cyberspace to know it.

[barrett]

I still don't have a car. The man who is supposed to be bringing it hasn't even phoned me yet. It's probably upside-down on fire in a field or something by now. I REALLY WANT TO HAVE IT NOW PLEASE!

 

 

Is it there yet?

 

No! The guy sent an email today though at least (not to me though - great work) so hopefully I'll be getting a call tomorrow (I'm assuming this will be the exact moment I merge into the cycle lane on the busiest road in Brighton on my ride to work, causing me to flail around like an excited otter as I try and grab the 'phone out me pocket whilst simultaneously trying to avoid going under the wheels of a bus)

[M'coli]

My mate was extolling the virtues of facebook, and how I should join as all our old school friends are on it.

 

I asked my mate if it was the same school mates that would'nt have given us the steam off their shit and looked down on us for not doing the sixth form and uni thing, instead we got jobs and paid tax.

 

Perhaps it was just me being a bit old and bitter, or maybe it's just my life is as dull as shit and I dont want all of cyberspace to know it.

There are many top people on here that are on facebook and they express their other interests on there too, like old aeroplanes and the like. Just because the shower of shit that went to school with you are on Faceache, does not mean that they can be, or need to be, friends with you on Faceache.

[Pete-M]

Facebook is ok Bren. It has plenty of filters and ways around things so you don't have to share everything with everyone, and you can politely ignore the fuck out of anyone you like.

 

If you're feeling a bit mischievous you can cause unholy amounts of mayhem. The way you're saying that there are a few ex-school folk who're playing matey when they were dicks in school? Some of them will add you because they're gossips and nosey buggers and others possibly because they think one day you might do them a favour? You can make posts that only they can read, shove 'em all in their own group and add the odd random mysterious comment that only their little group will see. If you play it right, you can get massively comical results. Blank 'em out from anything you actually want to share with your friends and family...

 

Or just fuck 'em off.

[meshking]

The next saddo that tells me excitedly that someone has changed their FaceAche status to single, like it's bigger news than the end of WW2/Berlin wall coming down/Nelson Mandela being freed, is going to fucking get it with both barrels.

 

One of my missus' friends added me as a friend on facebook. Where once I had no updates from any of my contacts EVER, I now get 20 fucking updates a day telling me about life in the Coronation Street clothes factory she works in, how her boss hates her, how she can't keep a boyfriend, how her flatmate eats her food, photos of her on the piss, etc. This is a thirty-eight year old woman who thinks she's twenty-fucking-one years old.

 

LIKE I GIVE TWO FUCKS ABOUT YOUR PROBLEMS...

 

So now I need to un-friend her discretely.

 

I just use it for stalking old girlfriends incidentally.

 

You could just log in on a proper browser (not phone or iPad) , and just hide her posts. Then you can carry on stalking but not see her drivel. Job done.

[Cavcraft]

I still don't have a car. The man who is supposed to be bringing it hasn't even phoned me yet. It's probably upside-down on fire in a field or something by now. I REALLY WANT TO HAVE IT NOW PLEASE!

 

 

Is it there yet?

 

No! The guy sent an email today though at least (not to me though - great work) so hopefully I'll be getting a call tomorrow (I'm assuming this will be the exact moment I merge into the cycle lane on the busiest road in Brighton on my ride to work, causing me to flail around like an excited otter as I try and grab the 'phone out me pocket whilst simultaneously trying to avoid going under the wheels of a bus)

 

This delivery fella sounds pretty dismal. May I formally suggest going on the Pat from work tomorrow, perhpas telling them you've had an allergic reaction to something which you think might be the paper in the office? Then you can sit in your front room glancing longingly out of the window waiting for said car to arrive with a blank new message opened on here so you can tell us about it when it gets there. Obv. bog breaks need to be kept to a minimum, though you can take up smoking in the front garden even if it lobs it down.

[Ross_K]

You could just log in on a proper browser (not phone or iPad) , and just hide her posts. Then you can carry on stalking but not see her drivel. Job done.

 

Job jobbed. Cheers.

 

No more drivel.

[vulgalour]

For the first time in my life I've gone and shouted out the window, council estate fashion, to get that sodding dog to shut up. I still don't know which house it belongs to, but if I find out I'm going to put it in a fucking wheelie bin and gaffer tape the lid shut.

[Albert Ross]

For the first time in my life I've gone and shouted out the window, council estate fashion, to get that sodding dog to shut up. I still don't know which house it belongs to, but if I find out I'm going to put it in a fucking wheelie bin and gaffer tape the lid shut.

 

Better than that. When you find it, steal it, and tie it up in YOUR garden, see how THEY like it!

[ayd]

The Distance Selling Regulations...

 

Not aimed at anyone on here obviously but please try not to "ravage" the packing your new item came in, for when you send it back as not wanted and don't think sticking a bit of sellotape over the seal and saying it's not been used will fool me either. Same goes for software, "I've not opened it" they say, righto, I'm guessing that's not your fingerprint on the disc then?

 

 

thought once the seal was broken on software it was ineligible for return? that's what we quote and no problems yet.

 

But alas yes the DSR's suck a** also it doesn't help when you ring trading standards to confirm if something is covered by dsr for whatever reason and they say 'hmmm now that's a bit of a grey area'

 

Really gets my goat...it's not try before you buy FFS.

[Pete-M]

604 sold. Not to a banger racer, you'll be glad to hear.

[Cavcraft]

Surely the wrong thread for that news, pete?