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Post 101

Pirate Alexander LeGray

a fart a day brings a smile to my face smiley - biggrin


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Post 102

Pirate Alexander LeGray

Cor, travel Air America smiley - smiley

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20101117/ts_afp/belgiumirelandprotestairlinecompanyryanair


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Post 103

paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant

Plus, you seem to be living in a place that's not the Garden of Eden. smiley - sadface


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Post 104

Pirate Alexander LeGray

Got lots of apples though. smiley - smiley Admittedly this stuff happened over twenty years.

But I couldn't work out how when I parked my car in a secure car park at my place of work, how come it gets tampered with, considering my workplace wasn't a fixed location, and how come CCTV was always switched off that day.

As a lorry driver you can avoid the riff raff and only interact with the nicer members of society; but you can't do that in most other types of work.

I can remember a pilot, he was a qualified airline pilot, and the management, forgot I was in earshot when they was bragging about how hard they had made his life.

Yes, there is certainly a lot of stupidity in this country,and I'm one of them. Should have left the missus and took the offer of a job in a university. smiley - erm

I always get depressed this time of year due to something always happens. smiley - pirate shall pull myself together.


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Post 105

Pirate Alexander LeGray

Looks like this isn't the only dodgy place: smiley - smiley

http://www.thebostonchannel.com/news/25827263/detail.html


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Post 106

Tumsup

If the teacher heard no report and there was no bullet found in the room then how is it assumed that it was gunfire? Could it be that there are other things that break glass on a windy day? Like the trees outside the window?

This story isn't symptomatic of a dodgy place but of an american public panicked by fear mongering.

When you hear hoofbeats, you should think first of horses, not zebras. Thanks to Faux News, Americans think unicorns with bombs strapped to them.smiley - erm


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Post 107

paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant

smiley - laugh

I never watch or listen to that network.


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Post 108

Pirate Alexander LeGray

The Osbournie is non stop; I have a cocktail of pills for my heart, but he's come up with an idea where I have to make premium rate phone calls to get them.

Which means I can't get them. This is the snake, he's so lazy he talks through his nose, to much effort to open his mouth.smiley - pirate


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Post 109

paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant

I'm so sorry to hear that they're doing that to you, my friend. smiley - sadface Do you have any relatives/friends/neighbors who could pick up the pills for you? Or, could the pharmacy mail the pills to you? This is a necessity we're talk about here. It's not a frill.


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Post 110

Pirate Alexander LeGray

You have to have a prescription Paul, and now they thought of a call centre to renew prescriptions. If they have a geographical number no problem but the NHS has 08 numbers which cost a fortune on any non BT phone, and I have not got a BT phone.

I did without the pills before; looks like I will have too again.

It doesn't make any sense to me though; they reckon they can save 600 million by sacking surgery receptionists, but then that leaves no-one behind the counter leaving Dr's vulnerable to drug addict nutters who would be able to just walk in, or, they recruit security guards and a call centre costing at least as much as a receptionist.

I think the motive is only to get money from premium rate call charges, but if you ain't got any money you can't make the call.smiley - pirate


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Post 111

paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant

Can you afford to make *one* premium call, and tell your doctor what is happening? If there is an alternative solution that you could afford, you would be better off than doing without medication that is leeping you alive. I enjoy your posts, and don't want to stop hearing from you because of an inconvenient thing like death or severe illness.


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Post 112

Pirate Alexander LeGray

I don't particularly relish the idea of death either; the way it works over here is you have to get a signature for drugs every couple of weeks. You don't see anybody, but give a signed form to a receptionist who gets a Dr to sign it.

You ain't allowed to see a Dr for a repeat, but I don't understand why you even have to get a signature for things the surgeon says you have to take forever.

The worst ain't happened yet, it is an idea put to government, but I have total control over my finances and never make open ended charged calls; not any more. I've phoned an 0845 number once which is supposed to be local but it cost £5 in 1 minute.

And then I didn't get to speak to anybody and when I complained I was told I must be telling lies because it is a local rate number:

but what these idiots IDIOTS don't seem to know is that is only with a BT line, and even public phones with BT ads on them are not always BT phones.

The Gaurdian newspaper did in fact expose this scam. smiley - smiley

I don't know what else I can do really, I before years ago and before this lot wasn't elected had to get an MP in order to pay the same for heating as everybody else, because these greedy evil people actually charge twice as much for the same, if your considered to be in fuel poverty.

Makes sense to themsmiley - rofl I used to get charged 1400 and now even after increases it is 800.


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Post 113

paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant

smiley - online2long

It sounds confusing and a lot of work.


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Post 114

Pirate Alexander LeGray

It is annoying; I didn't want the drugs in the first place. Only one of them is actually necessary and then I don't need to keep taking that past January 2011. All the rest are preventative and even then I'm only on half the dose suggested by the surgeon.

Since the new government things have changed; the surgeon wrote to the Dr demanding regular check ups since my blood pressure was a tad high, to date I have had none.

The surgeon wrote saying that the drugs dosage should be doubled, to date nothing has happened.

In the Winter, October time, I used to get a letter for a flu jab, since with a heart condition and diabetes I am in a high risk group; but this year I have had nothing.I know they have already done the pensioners who are not first in line.

I actually still have a heart condition and the surgeon said it is safer to wait until I start having problems to allow the surgery already done time to recover.

Bet the Osbounie stops that as well.smiley - smiley


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Post 115

Pirate Alexander LeGray

smiley - pirate hum humm hummm, fiddles fuddles.


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Post 116

paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant

Diabetes? Do you have to inject yourself with insulin?


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Post 117

Pirate Alexander LeGray

No just Metformin; but I'm supposed to get twice the dose I'm on. It was not long ago when I was diagnosed diabetic and then I didn't take any drugs for anything whatsoever.In fact I didn't see a Dr unless I was dying, never had time off work for flu ect.

So I managed to negotiate half the dosage, but since I have had a few probs of the serious kind and when I saw the Dr, even though he had a letter he said everything seems to be working fine as it is.

That is without checking anything other than his computer.

I don't mind the proper dose now, my Dr is a highly distinguished FRS surgeon himself, but he doesn't himself update the computer or read the letters. smiley - smiley


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Post 118

paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant

If you had my doctor, he would want you to get an hour of exercise every day. smiley - puff


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Post 119

Pirate Alexander LeGray

I used to do that, in fact I lost about three stone or 40 pounds in 9 months then I ended up in hospital; so I stopped doing it.

You can't be on a thousand calories a day and drink smiley - ale


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Post 120

paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant

Couldn't you have stopped drinking the smiley - ale, if that was tripping you up? Maltose does bad things to your blood sugar.

I think my doctor tells *everyone* to get a lot of exercise. I don't object to that, as I like exercise, but I would rather have chosen the amount that I liked and felt comfortable with. A half hour a day of aerobic exercise has been proven to be good for you. Doubling the amount does not confer twice as much benefit. That has also been proven. Many times. Some government official decided to twist her colleagues' arms when the panel she was on put out reocmmendations. She prevailed, and now a whole country of almost 300 million people is stuck with complying with her wishes.

Again, I don't mind the exercise. I'm retired now, so it's no longer stressful to find that extra half hour of time every day for exercise. I know men who have had heart attacks, and the next thing you know, there they are, out walking, because their doctors told them it would help them.


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