Author Topic: The Grumble Thread - No energy for a full on rant. (Read 1625771 times)

fimm · « **Reply #10250 on:** 20 August, 2018, 12:43:35 pm »

1) Dear nice office cleaning ladies, if I can leave the toilet mirror clean and streak-free with use use of a damp paper towel and some elbow grease, what on earth are you doing to it to leave it so streaky in the first place?

2) Am sent a missive from the GP, asking me to make a phone appointment to discuss scan results.* I was going to make a proper appointment but have failed to get A Round Tuit; OK, telephone is fine. Ring up. Tomorrow between 8am and 1pm, they say. Well, fine, but for some of that time I will be travelling to work and won't be able to answer the phone. Oh, they don't have time to ring you back. So I assume if I don't answer the phone (because I am riding a bicycle and won't hear it) I'll have to ring up again?
If it doesn't work out I shall return to plan A and go for a face-to-face appointment.

*nothing serious as far as I know.

tiermat · « **Reply #10251 on:** 21 August, 2018, 08:27:33 am »

Nothing fucks up your Wednesday like realising it is actually Tuesday!

I got into work, today, all happy because I am on a short week (taking time off to do things with the family, Thursday Friday), then realised that I have another day to work....

T42 · « **Reply #10252 on:** 21 August, 2018, 01:08:12 pm »

That's funny, I thought it was Monday.

Me own grumble stems from our Sunday afternoon's blighted visitation. The wretched brat's mum gave me a Decathlon cycling jersey in funereal black. I never wear black jerseys.

Legs · « **Reply #10253 on:** 22 August, 2018, 08:45:36 am »

Why oh why oh why is it not possible to get palatable oral suspension antibiotics? My 18-month old has been prescribed flucloxacillin but it tastes like a rancid badger's armpit and he just spits it out. How is he supposed to get over his highly contagious impetigo if we can't get them into him?

Kim · « **Reply #10254 on:** 22 August, 2018, 11:12:32 am »

Because antibiotics taste ming, and the things that sort-of mask the taste taste worse?

See also: Paracetamol.

I remain unconvinced that this actually applies to toothpaste however, and suspect there's some sort of global conspiracy by the mint industry.

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #10255 on:** 22 August, 2018, 11:35:34 am »

Can you mix it with strongly-flavoured food he definitely likes?

barakta · « **Reply #10256 on:** 22 August, 2018, 04:36:06 pm »

Liquid fluclox is bloody disgusting and used to be bright fucking orange. Everything tastes awful for hours afterwards and I suspect it's very hard to disguise the taste.

Jakob W · « **Reply #10257 on:** 22 August, 2018, 05:01:41 pm »

We tried everything we could; no dice. We eventually ended up in hospital, where Matron, with faint condescension, said 'let me have a try...'

10 minutes later she emerged ashen-faced and said 'that's the first child in my 25 years of nursing I've not been able to get oral antibiotics into.' We ended up with a cannula.

barakta · « **Reply #10258 on:** 22 August, 2018, 05:51:36 pm »

:O

At least you were vindicated rather than having SmugMatron mode I guess.

Hope the IV versions work and you don't have to keep trying the evil oral suspension.

Beardy · « **Reply #10259 on:** 22 August, 2018, 09:05:06 pm »

Quote from: Jakob W on 22 August, 2018, 05:01:41 pm

We tried everything we could; no dice. We eventually ended up in hospital, where Matron, with faint condescension, said 'let me have a try...'

10 minutes later she emerged ashen-faced and said 'that's the first child in my 25 years of nursing I've not been able to get oral antibiotics into.' We ended up with a cannula.

Thats nurse’s for you. Nearly always right, but generally prepared to admit when they aren’t. Doctors on the other hand are never wrong, especially when the nurse is right, except, it would seem, on A&E where the nurses are generally able to house train them 😁

I hope your little human gets better sooner.

Kim · « **Reply #10260 on:** 22 August, 2018, 09:42:08 pm »

The microbiologists also tend to take nurses (and the likes of cleaners, caterers and whoever has to fish the dead pigeons out of the water tank) seriously, on the basis that they're the ones ultimately responsible for not spreading infection everywhere.

Of course, as a patient, it's generally best not to have anything that might cause you to need to be seen by a microbiologist.

ElyDave · « **Reply #10261 on:** 22 August, 2018, 09:53:02 pm »

I once ended up in an isolation ward, the week before Christmas with possible legionella (probably flu in reality, but similar symptoms to start). Legionela had been found in the cooling systems I was playing with at work, leaky on recomisioning. That involved several days of IV antibiotics and armfuls of blood.

I got very familiar with "the world at war" on a tiny telly

Torslanda · « **Reply #10262 on:** 22 August, 2018, 10:16:31 pm »

Granted the circs could have been more favourable but there are much worse TV series . . .

T42 · « **Reply #10263 on:** 23 August, 2018, 08:12:13 am »

That one is pretty well definitive WRT WW2 - makes you wonder why Ken Burns would bother.

CAMRAMan · « **Reply #10264 on:** 24 August, 2018, 03:23:25 pm »

Quote from: Torslanda on 22 August, 2018, 10:16:31 pm

Granted the circs could have been more favourable but there are much worse TV series . . .

As long as it isn't the heavily edited, sanitised Yesterday/History Channel version.

Torslanda · « **Reply #10265 on:** 24 August, 2018, 03:53:05 pm »

Nah, mate. Umpteen disc 40th anniversary boxset wiv all de extraz innit.

CAMRAMan · « **Reply #10266 on:** 24 August, 2018, 08:17:44 pm »

When I watched Auf Wiedersehen Pet on Dave or whatever, it was so heavily edited in parts as to make it incomprehensible. Whole chunks were deleted and scenes followed referring back to the deleted action. I did what you did & bought the DVDs.

T42 · « **Reply #10267 on:** 25 August, 2018, 03:05:20 pm »

Laboriously worked out a cutting list based on 2-metre timber then found that local DIY turd-polishers only offers 1m80.

rogerzilla · « **Reply #10268 on:** 25 August, 2018, 07:27:40 pm »

I need a new conservatory. It's 29 years old, the plastic roof has sagged to buggery and a real cloudburst now causes drips (once a full blown flood, which amazingly didn't damage the laminate floor).

What's the going rate for a 4 x 3m lean to conservatory on an existing base and dwarf wall?

Torslanda · « **Reply #10269 on:** 26 August, 2018, 02:49:27 pm »

B&Q (other rapacious profiteering twats are available) used to offer conservatories in flatpack form. Some assembly required.

Mrs Pingu · « **Reply #10270 on:** 26 August, 2018, 04:31:58 pm »

Quote from: rogerzilla on 25 August, 2018, 07:27:40 pm

I need a new conservatory. It's 29 years old, the plastic roof has sagged to buggery and a real cloudburst now causes drips (once a full blown flood, which amazingly didn't damage the laminate floor).

What's the going rate for a 4 x 3m lean to conservatory on an existing base and dwarf wall?

Do you need a new conservatory or just the roof?

T42 · « **Reply #10271 on:** 26 August, 2018, 04:42:38 pm »

Ride organizers who send you down a hill from A to B then up a hill from B to C when there's a dead flat road from A to C should be flogged.

Giraffe · « **Reply #10272 on:** 27 August, 2018, 09:18:22 am »

Quote from: T42 on 26 August, 2018, 04:42:38 pm

Ride organizers who send you down a hill from A to B then up a hill from B to C when there's a dead flat road from A to C should be flogged.

Goose Eye Grimpeur clate 80's: v. steeply down, V-change of direction, v. steeply up. Somehow guessed that there'd be a Secret Control as there was A Flat, Shorter Route available. Changed to 28" gear. Organiser said that I was the only one to be in a low gear*.

* a lot were 'racers' - had to walk up that hill and, much later, even Pendle Hill!

rogerzilla · « **Reply #10273 on:** 27 August, 2018, 12:22:50 pm »

Quote from: Mrs Pingu on 26 August, 2018, 04:31:58 pm

Quote from: rogerzilla on 25 August, 2018, 07:27:40 pm
I need a new conservatory. It's 29 years old, the plastic roof has sagged to buggery and a real cloudburst now causes drips (once a full blown flood, which amazingly didn't damage the laminate floor).

What's the going rate for a 4 x 3m lean to conservatory on an existing base and dwarf wall?
Do you need a new conservatory or just the roof?

It would be nice to get just a roof but the companies that specialise in such things exist only to part pensioners from their life savings - I was quoted £7,000. It is probably about the same cost to replace the lot, using a local firm. The existing conservatory is well over 25 years old and has other issues..

Ham · « **Reply #10274 on:** 27 August, 2018, 12:25:31 pm »

Some time ago I lashed out on some mig welding equipment, with a view to doing some - surprisingly enough - mig welding. Unfortunately, a lot of life has got in the way; today was the first day I was going to have the time to get it going and play. I've been rather looking forward to it, consoling myself that it was all sitting there in the shedde waiting for me.

So. Set it up, connect up. Wire, cables, gas bottle. Oh. I have to turn the gas on now, don't I? It wouldn't have hurt either the supplier of the welder or the gas, both of whom knew I was a novice, to suggest that a gas bottle key for less than a fiver would be required.

Bum bum bum.