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On 2/8/2018 at 11:01, Shropshire Lad said:

I often wonder what fellow VT members are like in real life and whether their post content is an accurate representation of their personality.

I’d say I’m a bit more passive on here than I am with people I know in the real world. I’m much more reactionary towards my mates if there’s a disagreement in a WhatsApp group for instance. 

I'd say I'm fairly similar to how I am on here but i'm pretty shy with new people I meet. 

4 minutes ago, Shropshire Lad said:

Yeah what I really don’t “get” about Sheridan Smith isn’t her chest, which I’m sure is splendid. It’s her ascension to an almost national treasure status.

I don’t think she’s bad, I just don’t see what’s particularly brilliant about her. Maybe she has a local girl done good quality that people like.

Yeah, but tits 

I think she's a decent actress and seems to be a good egg, and not arrogant or precious at all, although she has had her moments in the last year or so, I think chiefly down to losing her Dad*

* I know what you're thinking, but I don't subscribe to her fan club! I read the Metro newspaper on the train in the morning and she had a spell of being in it a lot. 

On 2/8/2018 at 14:46, Shropshire Lad said:

Sheridan Smith.

Looked ok a few years ago. Nice norks regardless. 

7 minutes ago, mjmooney said:

Come on, guys... 

Nutbush City Limits... I can turn a corner...

Oh, suit yourselves. 

You are wasted here mate.

I find knob jokes and cat gifs work well in getting 'likes' 

I passed my test fist time.

You bunch of shit drivers! 

While my political views may fall right of centre, I would gladly pay more tax/NI if it meant 'fixing' the NHS but I simply think it can't be done

Increasing and ageing population, not enough hospitals, not enough incentives for young people to enter the field and other things like people misusing the system and health tourism.

I think you could thrown trillions at it and it still wouldn't be right. 

8 hours ago, HanoiVillan said:

In practical terms (since patients will obviously lie to avoid being fined) what this actually means is running all kinds of extra tests to find out the way in which they are lying. Which is an enormous waste of time, money and patience. And at the end of it, you have a large group of people who now have a burning resentment towards the NHS, which doesn't exactly help its 'politically untouchable' status.

This is just more detective work. What if my car broke down? What if my mother fell down the stairs that morning and I had to take her to hospital? What if my boss sends me on a business trip to Buffalo at short notice? What if I'm under enormous mental and financial pressure after my wife died, and I just forgot? Etc etc.

When I was undergoing tests for my stomach problems a couple of years ago at my local NHS hospital (Good Hope) they advised I needed a colonoscopy. It would be about 10 weeks. No problem I thought, get it booked. Few days later I thought "**** it, i'll go private" and had it done at Little Aston the following week.

When my NHS letter came advising me of my date of my colonoscopy I rang up the office straight away, informed them i'd gone private and cancelled it. The lady thanked me for my prompt response and said by letting them know early they could get someone else booked in earlier. Fine, job done. A couple of months later I got a shitty letter from the same office advising them I hadn't turned up for my appointment and telling me I was wasting their time and it could have been used for someone else. I was fuming and was very close to ringing them up and tearing into them, but I didn't. 

Under the 'fine' proposal I'd be billed for that and I would have a hard job proving I cancelled it unless I requested their phone records. 

9 hours ago, Demitri_C said:

Absolutely and that is just a GP appointment. imagine a hospital that runs probably 20-30 outpatient clinics each day seeing anything from 30-40 patients and 5-10 dont turn up lets say 5 for each 30 clinic thats 150 a day. That isnt even including those who are booked for admissions or pre assessments. These are worse because patients are sent a letter and called 28hrs before their procedure to ensure they are coming yet people STILL dont turn up. This is wrong and they should be fined . I think this should be done more than what @Ingram85 proposed with onging issues as that will be more difficult to implement. 

What happens if they don't pay? Is the NHS going to take people to court for a £30 fine?

What if they are on benefits? Are they not charged? Only workers who miss appointments to be charged? That would just create even more resentment. 

People who deliberately don't turn up for appointments are cocks but what can you do? Its impossible to manage. 

Easy weekend for me. Lazy Friday night, maybe a film. Lie in tomorrow then helping my Dad with a few jobs. Sunday is 'the game'. I'll be on edge throughout it!

On 2/8/2018 at 14:13, tonyh29 said:

I've still never seen Blair Witch  (other then Cherie of course )

one of these days I'll stumble across it and give it a watch

 

I really liked the original Blair Witch. Not sure whether it would stand the test of time now...

11 minutes ago, Stevo985 said:

That would have had a very different ending!

I was waiting for the picture of him bumming a drunk underage starlet! 

On 2/8/2018 at 16:23, Stevo985 said:

I thought that said Spacey in the top left at first!

15 minutes ago, wazzap24 said:

I know it's a terrible thing to say, but her disgusted face is the very definition of irony!

I don't know the women in question but I can surmise:

1) she writes a blog on feminism

2) she did a degree in 'gender studies' or some other such rinky dink qualification

3) she refers to herself an pansexual or some other such ridiculous gender pro-noun

4) she reads Buzzfeed

5) she has cats

Men across the board are paid on average more. That's a historic thing that is going to be very difficult to change due to:

1) Women doing more part time / key time rules due to children.This won't change IMO despite a slight increase in stay at home Dads

2) Men are more career and money driven in general across the board in my opinion (obviously that's a generalisation and there are career driven women as well but I feel its a far smaller %)

3) Men work in more dangerous/physical roles which pay more

My office is probably evenly split between male and female but the more high pressurised roles tend to be majority male. The type of roles which stress people out and make people ill and loaded up on medication. Women are clearly the smarter ones in that regard!

6 hours ago, Davkaus said:

Today's news about Tesco's 'discriminatory' pay pisses me right off.

It boils down to warehouse workers, who do hard, physical work, being paid more than the shop staff. 

Shop staff get paid X, including the men who work there, warehouse staff get paid Y, including the women who work there. Most women work in the shop rather than doing dirty work with loads of heavy lifting in the warehouse, and now suddenly this is a gender pay gap issue.

It's an utter load of bollocks.

Yep. They are different jobs. The shop floor job is easier/warmer/safer, so they get less money. 

If more women wanted to do the harder job then they'd get paid more. 

1 hour ago, Rugeley Villa said:

I've gone a week without meat. That video that I seen last week really shook me up. Been on corn sausages, and burgers since. I've not had a decent sausage in ages, then I tried a corn one, and it was really nice. 

3 hours ago, Rob182 said:

Honestly, he follows me around. He’s tagged on to me because he doesn’t know many people. He’s a nice enough guy, but I’ve just been unfortunate that I get the same train to and from work as him. As I type this, he’s next to me on the train playing a film trailer on his phone with the volume up full.... no headphones.

I hate him already. Nearly as much as 'fitnessprick' from @Paddywhack's office. 

Talking of internet comments... 

7 hours ago, lapal_fan said:

I done my hamstring at football last night.  Felt a pop and something rolled up the back of my leg.  Went to A&E this morning because I can barely move my left leg.  Pretty excruciating to be honest. 

Anyway, the people in A&E - why though? 

1 bloke in a hi-vis looking moody at everyone - he went in with a sore throat. 

A couple with a 6 month old looking baby went in because she hadn't pooped or wee'd for a day.. that's pretty normal sometimes.  Just google it. 

And when I got through to see the physio, there was a guy waiting to be seen who I heard saying "I ent seeing no DR.." - well if that's the case you word removed nugget - why are you in hospital?  

So many time wasters.  We need Karl Pilkington on the wards to tell people with bullshit reasons to be in A&E to **** off - and that's coming from someone who went in with a hamstring injury  

The bonus was, I was in and out in an hour.. Very good. 

And yes, I did google it before I went in - NHS website said I should have gone!   

The best time to go to A & E is early morning  - about 8am. Usually empty. The daytrippers and scumbags aren't awake at that point. 

On 2/6/2018 at 17:22, wazzap24 said:

 

Christ, that women should be so lucky getting a piece of meat like that, especially with a haircut like that. 

4 hours ago, bannedfromHandV said:

Here are my best two:

Around 8 years ago I was ejected from a huge company conference in a Novotel in West London after consuming 3 bottles of red wine before it had even hit 9pm, this was after drinking whiskey on the train down, believe it or not I kept my job,

I spent a summer in Puerto Banus and worked on a bar for a few weeks, kind of like a working holiday I guess. Anyway, turns out the owner of this bar was English and a frickin blose fan! He was actually okay to be fair to him, it was mainly English staff he employed and you were allowed to drink whilst working provided you did not drink too much, this worked fine for the first few weeks but one evening I had too much, to this day I only have sporadic memories of what ensued but anyway, I awoke the next afternoon and didn't remember a thing, I had the hangover dread but didn't read too much into it as often wake up with hangover dread after a heavy sesh. So later that evening I walk down to the bar and help to set things up, everyone was on edge around me, we were about to open up and I was about to walk behind the bar when the owner stopped me, 'what do you think you're doing mate?', he asked, 'just getting ready to start mate', I replied.

To which he uttered the immortal line, 'we sacked you last night, you were a f**king pissed up nightmare, we had to physically restrain Peyman (6ft6 Spanish doorman) from ripping your head off'.

Without doubt my most embarrassing moment, which is some feat given the situations I've found myself in oft times.

5 hours ago, Chindie said:

Do comment sections attract the worst of humanity, or are more people words removed than I ever dared think?

Daily Mail or Youtube?

17 hours ago, maqroll said:

Have you decided on a team yet?

Dolphins with Browns as my second team 

6 hours ago, Paddywhack said:

Please settle a debate VT.

Me and Mrs P are making our way through a TV show at the moment and I recognised an actor in one episode but I couldn't work out where from. Naturally, I loaded IMDB on my phone to have a look. 

I then said "Ooh....oh that's interesting". Mrs P asked what was. I said "Well, it's kind of a spoiler, I've just seen something on IMDB".

She replied...AND I QUOTE..."Ah, I'm not bothered". So I proceeded to explain what I'd seen and told her the spoiler.

Then she got angry, she said, "What are you doing, why are you telling me!?" I said, "You said you wasn't bothered!" She said, "Exactly! I didn't want to know, I wasn't bothered about knowing!"

Who's right VT, it's me isn't it VT?

End it now, it'll never last.