h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I quite like talking about your chest I think I need to get out more

Infantile humour aside, I have to concur with your thoughts - in my working environment it's a constant barrage of "I want...., You should...., I'm going to smash up if I don't get my way....." Bring it on, children! For the first time in their lives they discover the world doesn't owe them a living, it doesn't revolve around their own selfish needs and I actually say "No!" and that means "No!"
Poor Wattaray (Joyika) Bro, as a has to tolerate the demands and threats from these oafs all the time in his GP surgery.

Yeah, its true- we get all sorts of threats at our surgery (people expect us to give them sick notes, like the Government owes them money!!!)- I hear there will be no pay rise again for NHS staff!! Oh well I'm getting quite used to it really

Children are noteably behaving worse these days I think- see them running around in A+E/ at our surgery + the parents can't/won't control them at all!!! I'm all for a little adeventure- but occasionally they unknowingly damage/ destroy things!!! I guess its the parents fault!!

Rant over......back to work, not long to go, he he.(the sun is shining, so I'm happy)

Too many people for some unknown reason (and it's just as likely to be upper and middle class nobs as anyone else) have no concept of empathising with someone else.

A friend of mine was objecting to paying £14 for eight beers delivered by a takeaway near her.

When I suggested that even if the cans were only £1 each that was only 50p profit on each can plus the delivery fee of £2 which they charge on all orders and that barely made it worth their while, she was not impressed. I'm sorry though, if you cant see logic and see other people's points of view once in a while, you're going to, inevitably, neglect to teach the skill to your children or foster it in others!

your take away delivers????????kewl

whats their number????

*mine* doesn't hers does. It also delivers tobacco, papers, pre-rolled cigarettes, spirits, wine...

Essentially, anything they can con you into paying for them to pop to your own local corner shop for

Thats very good that they deliver- our local Indian does not, but the Chinese does!!!

I have lots of empathy, I hope!! I've become very tolerant of things in this job, and not much bothers me as it once did!- I saw some drunk yob in A+E last week, practically comatose + my first thought was what am I miising on TV!!! several years, I would have thought- how'm I supposed to get iv access in this patient + how do I bring them round!!

Oddly enough, all the toursists we've had so far were quite well behaved. But I do wish they'd stop throwing their rubbish everywhere! I take a walk around the grounds every evening, and collect a full bag of rubbish (usually including the bag!) each time.

You collect the rubbish bag you use to collect rubbish? How do you do that, you put the bag in itself?

Does put me in mind of a comic strip in Viz (UK centric) about "Black Bag - the adventures of a boarder bin liner"

yes, how is that done!!- since our 2 weekly bin collections, our bins (recycling + non recycling) are overflowing!!! -only a matter of time before rats wise up + now how to get a free lunch!!

Ah you see the idea is that you crush down your rubbish more, and make less waste in the course of living. Less packaging, more recycling IN the home that sort of thing. theoretically you shouldn't *need* to throw away enough to fill your bins to a dangerous level in a fortnight.

Its very difficult you know + we do try + recycle as much as we can- our recycling bin, is always fuller than the non-recycling-sadly I heard they both end up in the same tip, in our Neck of the woods (Chorley, Lancs)-oh well.

Its not helped by our bin men, who leave the bins all over the place after they've emptied them- they have a difficult job though!!

Our junior doctor, is off to Belgium next week for a hair transplant (i know- but you couldn't make this stuff up!!!)

I'm amazed at how much can't be recycled here. Feels wrong to put all that in the rubbish...

We're not terribly hot on plastics and stuff but I generally work on the following assumption: If it's metals, glass, card and paper or food then it can go in a proper bin and not go in the general dumping bag. That seems to about cover it, if only I could train my housemate to do things like squash down his 4pint milk bottles we'd be in with a chance of getting somewhere!

our council has been very prescriptive, with instruction leaflets + watt goes where!!- God knows what the penalties for errors are?

"God knows what the penalties for errors are?"

Welcome to my dungeon

God I hope the punishment for putting the wrong piece of rubbish into the wrong bin, isn't jail!!!

done some recycling today actually + sorted out some rubbish- am watching the F1 qualifying, before going out!!

Hope you all have good weekends!!

I shall be out on Dartmoor, accompanied by 'Black Bag - the boarder bin liner'

No I won't I'm at work Do your bang up, Bro That is if you put your rubbish in the wrong bins again, miladdo.

I am in Blackpool, the prom could do with a black bag- !!! oh well, what can you do??

Put an orange in your mouth and have a picture of Margaret Thatcher on the table????