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[The Stationmaster]

Afternoon all,  

 

How come I have to clear the s*dding editor when I don't want what has to be cleared but it doesn't need to be cleared when what is there would be useful to use again?  One of the strange 'laws' iof forum software presumably or is it something else we can lame on using a Mac?

 

Great to hear that Chrisf's PSA news but I would advise - as have other - that if the medicos wish to investigate something it might be worthwhile letting them.  However I can understand how reactions to the process differ widely - when Mrs Stationmaster had hers  a while back she had no problems but sitting talking to her in the recovery area there was another woman there who was stating what a bad time she had suffered from exactly the same process but a chap who was there had also had no troubles.  Obviously thinsg can vary greatly from patient to patient and a past bad experience is never a good way to encourage a revisit to a procedure.

 

Well today it wasn't going to rain according that legendary seaweed but it drizzled sufficiently to drive me back into the car when I was taking my exercise walk round Tesco's s car park during the time herself spent inside the shop. er shopping.   As ever the car park seems a magnet for total idiots who don't understand road signs or markings indicating that one should proceed in a particular direction.  Not even any really good cars there today - perhaps it was not a nice day to bring out the Ferrari?

 

As for the twit who lost us the groan button I think he has made his reputation so often along a particular line that it grated somewhat when he misused the groan button to further his ambitions.  It's not so much what you say as how you say it but I have heard that one avid GWR disciple was very recently sent an advert by AY for some things from a company called Tena - it being suggested they would be useful in absorbing the amount of froth he was generating.  

 

The water softener company man attended this morning and duly changed all teh working parts within the carcass of the machine in the hope that will solve the problems that seemingly originate from it.  Time and cold water tap pressure will tell if that has been successful.

 

Enjoy the rest of your day folks and stay safe.

[The Stationmaster]

33 minutes ago, polybear said:

 

Do you have a link to the discussion in question - I'd quite like to see what this numpty is about (and I don't mean Andy Y!!)

Page 8 of this thread is where it all went op but the build-up had begun a bit before that

 

https://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/159667-rails-of-sheffield-improved-precedent-class/page/8/

 

[Barry O]

The person in question has had conspiracy theories on the lack of North Eastern Railway based locos for yonks.. and he gets no better..  of course he could build a kit or two.. but no...

 

In other news..

 

Crustearning complete and payment received!

 

 

@Gwiwer when we travelled by train from Melbourne to Murray Bridge the "Fruit Fly" inspectors came onto the train at Murray Bridge, the waste bags from the train were deposited in a closed van with "Inceneration Group" on the side of it... we were asked, as we got off "have you any fruit in your belongings"...and there was a threat of a fine for misdemeanours.. but how do you stop Fruit Flies crossing the border by their own flying capability? Apparently it is done by not allowing people to plant fruit bushes/trees with a certain distance form the border.. cunning by the South Australians 

 

Baz

[BoD]

1 hour ago, tigerburnie said:

 

I have an annual Endoscopy.......... but jeez they are brutal, watching the screen as the camera goes down into your stomach .......

 

Can you not just change channel?

[AndrewC]

I can join in on the roto-rooter fun with said colonoscopy. The lovely nurse sadly would have been chucked out of the pub as her darts ability was to be blunt sh*t. My arm looked like a pin cushion before the consultant himself had to administer the sedative. They snipped something polyp like but managed to lose it. Fun and games all around. <edit> forgot to mention my quip when watching the monitor that it was the worst episode of Eastenders I'd ever seen, went down like the proverbial lead balloon. 

 

Covid has delayed my supposed next visit to the plumber. 

 

 

Edited November 17, 2020 by AndrewC

[chrisf]

4 hours ago, Two_sugars said:

Chisf . . . . .I had a colonoscopy abandoned because it was painful, and I was called back the following week for a C.T. scan.

 

Thank you, Twosugars!  This is worth pursuing, for is it not the case that there is more than one way to skin a cat?  I am waiting for the bowel screening team to call me back.

 

Chris

[Tony_S]

14 minutes ago, BoD said:

 

Can you not just change channel?

The consultant who was doing my stent and I had a chat about monitors. The images he sees are live x ray images not video camera as in colonoscopy so I suppose not so interesting for the patient to see. He said there had a been a large monitor over his dentists chair while he was having root canal work. Everyone in the room was surprised but then he said it was showing a rugby match. 

[Tony_S]

15 minutes ago, chrisf said:

 

Thank you, Twosugars!  This is worth pursuing, for is it not the case that there is more than one way to skin a cat?  I am waiting for the bowel screening team to call me back.

 

Chris

You would still need a clean bowel for a successful CT scan 

[Ian Abel]

Moaning...

 

I sadly will miss the groan button, used judiciously it is truly harmless IMHO! I'd be happy to be added to the count of those lobbying for its return.

 

Buqqer all going on here, work back-and-forth, and of course, COVID cases skyrocketing   <GROAN> <GROAN> (sorry, couldn't resist!!

Nothing for it but to eat, read, and watch the latest season of "The Crown", which has just been released here.

 

-7 and sunny to start here, +1 the expected high.

 

Later...

[AndyB]

So Mike it's not a Mac problem. Same on my non Apple phone. May be something to do with caching? 

 

Thanks for the link - that's my evenings reading sorted. Lol

 

If endo vs colonoscopy is anything like all the ways I've had my temperature taken then I'll stick to a camera up the rear end;  Flavio is quite right - the alternative requires overcoming the gag reflex. Something that in my case became ever more pronounced to the point where even dental work now is near impossible.   

 

[jonny777]

On 26/10/2020 at 05:48, TheQ said:

Oh I meant to say CPL  coal, a national chain of coal merchants,  is now in panic mode to sell off conventional coal,  before its ban in February. You have to buy it in 1 ton pallets of 25kg bags,  but at £248 a ton it's an enormous saving over normal prices.. 

 

 

I took advantage of their £248 offer (£6 for a 25kg bag is a bargain) and it was delivered at lunchtime. Sadly, the side path was not wide enough for the pallet so the driver left it as close to the path as he could.  The wife and I have spent the last 2 hours wheelbarrowing 40 bags around the back and stacking it up. 

 

I think what you get is pot luck, as we had bags of some kind of anthracite substitute all labelled in French. I will mix it with some house coal and well dried chopped tree branches and see how I get on. 

 

It saves paying £12-£14 a bag from the petrol station. 

[Gwiwer]

2 hours ago, Barry O said:

@Gwiwer when we travelled by train from Melbourne to Murray Bridge the "Fruit Fly" inspectors came onto the train at Murray Bridge,

I have made that journey by train numerous times and not once was any sort of check made.  
 

I too have wondered how fruit flies stay out of the zone. Perhaps they just know and are obedient little critters. 

[jamie92208]

I wasted half an hour reading through the thread that has setca precedent, I don't know the eejit in question but do feel that moderating him would have been a better way to deal with him rather than a colle tive punishment for all and sundry.

 

Jamie

[PhilJ W]

7 minutes ago, jamie92208 said:

I wasted half an hour reading through the thread that has setca precedent, I don't know the eejit in question but do feel that moderating him would have been a better way to deal with him rather than a colle tive punishment for all and sundry.

 

Jamie

Especially as he has 'form' for this. He popped up on the Hatton's generic coaches thread bemoaning the fact that they were nothing like NER coaches. He didn't have the groan button to play with then so I and a few others resorted to extracting the urine. It took a few days for him to realise and then he has only appeared there a couple of times since.

[PhilJ W]

This from Facebook.

https://www.facebook.com/316johnjin/videos/183874123360687/

[roundhouse]

One for NHN. Little Donk (er) ale that we picked up from the brewery near Chester between lockdowns

[TheQ]

The latest round of covid levels in scotland leave my family up there in an odd situation.

Their post codes give a west lothian zone level 4, but their district is falkirk which is level 3.

Both sisters are classed as living in level 3 areas, but one has two daughters classed as living  in level 4.

Both sisters have to travel from level 3 through a level 4 area to work in a level 3 area...

[polybear]

 

1 hour ago, jamie92208 said:

I wasted half an hour reading through the thread that has setca precedent, I don't know the eejit in question but do feel that moderating him would have been a better way to deal with him rather than a colle tive punishment for all and sundry.

 

Jamie

 

I had a speed read (life's too short...) and couldn't really see what all the fuss is about.  I did note that he's not been moderated though.

[Sir TophamHatt]

Coming to the end of another good day.

 

Managed to get to Home Bargains to get some small toys for 99p. They're supposedly £7 each but around £5/£6 on amazon.

 

Just hope I have the full set now after taking the train into town. While it's not essential travel, it's also a safe way to travel. Walked 18,000 steps through, so treated myself to a mediumly tasting triple cheeseburger. 

I'm terrible! 

[simontaylor484]

38 minutes ago, polybear said:

 

 

I had a speed read (life's too short...) and couldn't really see what all the fuss is about.  I did note that he's not been moderated though.

That's the problem on the face of it the presser of the groan button has stuffed up something that brought a bit of fun to various people on several threads across the forum. 

 

[brianusa]

8 hours ago, newbryford said:

So how come it's never happened to those who wish to promote the ways of the paneer, green paint and copper cap?????

 

They wouldn't dare

     Brian

[Coombe Barton]

... and in Sainsbury's ...

 

https://johncolby.wordpress.com/2020/11/17/finalising/

[monkeysarefun]

4 hours ago, Gwiwer said:

I have made that journey by train numerous times and not once was any sort of check made.  
 

I too have wondered how fruit flies stay out of the zone. Perhaps they just know and are obedient little critters. 

 SA has a 24 hour fruit fly hotline,  I do wonder what the response would look like if you called it to report a fruit fly. Sudden appearance of helicopters with SAS dropping from ropes?

Speaking of helicopters, Tasmania has just reopened its borders to the rest of Aus, so some bushwalkers from South Australia were part of a group on  a guided walk through the Southwest wilderness yesterday.  Unbeknownst to them, being many miles  from any mobile signal, the SA coronavirus outbreak occurred, and the states closed their borders to South Australians. Suddenly from nowhere a Tasmanian Parks and Wildlife helicopter arrived, plucked up the South Australians and took them off to spend two weeks in hotel quarantine in Hobart. No one can accuse the authorities of not taking the virus seriously here!

[Erichill16]

Evening All,

Glad to hear Chris had some good news.

Took nephews to school they went for a walk with SWMBO, Mil and Syd and took a picnic and got back to Mils early afternoon. It wasn’t really worth going home before we had to pick nephews back up again so a spot of eyelid inspection at Mils. Brought kids home, had tea and that’s about it.

Been windy here but not cold.

I think tomorrow will be similar to today but cooler.

Early start so goodnight,

Robert

 

[Tony_S]

4 hours ago, Gwiwer said:

Perhaps they just know and are obedient little critters. 

Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana is the only explanation.