Things that piss you off that shouldn't

[Brumstopdogs]

59 minutes ago, sidcow said:

My heating came on this morning because the bathroom window was open and old air drifted straight on to the thermostat. 

I'm not sure how long it was on for but couldn't have been more than 2 hours.  The smart meter had us about £1 ahead of where I was expecting us to be, so we may be looking at £1 to £2 ish per hour to have the heating on PRE October increases

[sidcow]

On 24/05/2022 at 22:39, sidcow said:

The double standards in reporting about the Queen Elizabeth Crossrail line compared to HS2. 

It's a massively expensive railway line that has overrun by years. 

They even had the cheek to say it will benefit the Economy of London and the rest of the country. How? How the **** do the people of Hull benefit from Londoners having a quicker journey? 

They justified the massive cost by saying it was a railway to serve and solve transport issues for the next 150 years. 

Yet I don't think I've ever seen one single report about HS2 that doesn't mention the word controversial, and often potential white elephant. 

It's so obvious the double standards are because one serves London purely and the other serves the rest of the country that the London bias press don't care about or even understand.

Funny how these things are never reported in the main press. They're normally too busy reinforcing their "controversial" message. 

https://www.pbctoday.co.uk/news/planning-construction-news/hs2-chiltern-grassland-transformation-project-lays-first-million-cubic-metres-of-chalk/115596/

HS2 Chiltern grassland transformation project celebrates laying first million cubic metres of chalk

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The HS2 Chiltern grassland transformation project is using excavated materials from the Chiltern tunnels to create chalk grassland in the surrounding site

The HS2 Chiltern grassland transformation project on HS2’s largest construction site has celebrated laying out the first million cubic metres of reused chalk around the south portal of the Chiltern tunnel.

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The HS2 Chiltern grassland transformation project is using excavated materials from the Chiltern tunnels to create chalk grassland in the surrounding site

The HS2 Chiltern grassland transformation project on HS2’s largest construction site has celebrated laying out the first million cubic metres of reused chalk around the south portal of the Chiltern tunnel.

Ninety hectares of chalk grassland will be seeded into re-profiled soil layers. This will sit alongside new areas of woodland, wood pasture and wetlands, including almost 65,000 trees and shrubs of 32 species and nearly 3.5km of new hedgerows.

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Lime-rich, but low in nutrients, the thin soil holds little water and drains well. These conditions encourage a huge variety of smaller herbs and wildflowers and over 40 plant species can be found in one square metre of grassland, including some of the UK’s rarest orchids as well as highly diverse invertebrate populations. Only 700 hectares of chalk grassland exist across the whole of the Chilterns AONB.

Around 4.5km of new footpath, cycling and horse-riding routes will give the public areas to large parts of the site, which sits between the Colne Valley Regional Park and the Chilterns AONB.

 

Edited September 18, 2022 by sidcow

[rjw63]

Apologies in advance if you're an NHS worker, but I'm just about **** off with the "emergency" services. 

My mother in law, who's 90 and has terminal cancer, has fallen over - again- and has cut her arm. 

An ambulance was called five **** hours ago. She is still on the kitchen floor. My missus has been over there waiting since 8.30pm.

If they don't class this as some kind of emergency then we are all in shit street. 

[KentVillan]

2 hours ago, rjw63 said:

Apologies in advance if you're an NHS worker, but I'm just about **** off with the "emergency" services. 

My mother in law, who's 90 and has terminal cancer, has fallen over - again- and has cut her arm. 

An ambulance was called five **** hours ago. She is still on the kitchen floor. My missus has been over there waiting since 8.30pm.

If they don't class this as some kind of emergency then we are all in shit street. 

I recently was with a friend who had had a serious seizure and was breathing but barely responsive. 999 said could be up to a 4 hr wait for an ambulance. Thankfully they arrived after about 30 mins, but that still felt an eternal amount of time given the state he was in, and our only advice being “don’t move him, watch over him, keep talking to him, don’t put anything in his mouth”… he was too heavy for us to drag down into a car (down three flights of stairs) and anyway we weren’t sure if it was safe to move him.

He was ok thankfully, but the stuff he was being tested for was very serious, so the emergency services can’t possibly have known that their response time wouldn’t be critical to his survival.

It’s not the emergency services who are to blame, though. They simply have too many emergencies and not enough staff / ambulances / hospital capacity / etc. It’s the government.

It’s going to be a very bad winter.

I hope your mother in law has been seen now.

[Genie]

@KentVillan is absolutely correct, the blame is with the Tories, not the NHS.

I took my lad to football training a few months ago at a local school. It was 6pm and there was a lad still in the middle of the school field waiting for an ambulance after being seriously hurt at lunchtime.

Theres too many government created scandals for the media to focus on them all. 

[El Zen]

On 17/09/2022 at 19:29, Xela said:

Had my heating on this morning for the first time in months. Not that I think its cold, its just I'm starting to feel a bit rotten  

Stressful weeks at work always culminate with me feeling shit at the weekend. Its like my body gives up. 

Yeah, I had that today and had to call in sick. Been running on fumes for a couple of weeks and today I had nothing left in the tank, nose running and body aching all over. 

[villaglint]

6 hours ago, rjw63 said:

Apologies in advance if you're an NHS worker, but I'm just about **** off with the "emergency" services. 

My mother in law, who's 90 and has terminal cancer, has fallen over - again- and has cut her arm. 

An ambulance was called five **** hours ago. She is still on the kitchen floor. My missus has been over there waiting since 8.30pm.

If they don't class this as some kind of emergency then we are all in shit street. 

This is like shouting at the person in the call centre because you’ve waited too long. Almost impossible not to do but venting in completely the wrong direction.

 

[a-k]

On 11/09/2022 at 23:45, sidcow said:

Had to build a shed today. 

Instructions were shit of course. 

Got it up to putting the roof on then realised I'd built the **** wrong and had to take it to pieces and start again. 

This time the roof fit but everything is out of line, can't get the door to close or the roof straight. 

So **** annoying.  I'm sure there has been some poor machining as some of the floor slats were overhanging the base by a few mm on one half of a side. 

But at the end of the day the walls all overhang the base so have to be distanced properly and all meet up in the right places. I can imagine I could get my lines out a tiny bit but just can't understand how the roof cannot line up properly. 

I might have another go next weekend and take the whole front off again. 

Started this morning and it was well dark before we packed it in. 

The **** is only 3ft x 3ft for our chair cushions. How can it be this shit? 

[rjw63]

1 hour ago, Genie said:

@KentVillan is absolutely correct, the blame is with the Tories, not the NHS.

I took my lad to football training a few months ago at a local school. It was 6pm and there was a lad still in the middle of the school field waiting for an ambulance after being seriously hurt at lunchtime.

Theres too many government created scandals for the media to focus on them all. 

Took six hours for ambulance to arrive. 

Took her to hospital, where she was checked over. Then another four hour wait to see a doctor. Still there now. 

I'd be happier if they kept her in for a bit, at least the wife would get a break, but you just know it will end up with a discharge. 

[sidcow]

My advice is to log your Mum and Dad as their actual names in your contacts, and instead put the telephone number of your local police station in their place. That'll learn em. 

[bickster]

1 minute ago, sidcow said:

instead put the telephone number of your local police station in their place.

So the number would be blank or 111

[sidcow]

Just now, bickster said:

So the number would be blank or 111

Police stations do still have phone numbers, just hard to find them. 

[bickster]

6 minutes ago, sidcow said:

Police stations do still have phone numbers, just hard to find them. 

Whats your local one?

[Rds1983]

14 minutes ago, bickster said:

Whats your local one?

 

22 minutes ago, sidcow said:

Police stations do still have phone numbers, just hard to find them. 

Careful he's probably just trying to gather personal information on you. 

[sidcow]

24 minutes ago, bickster said:

Whats your local one?

**** hell @bickster. It wasn't supposed to be taken literally. 

[Mandy Lifeboats]

I have man-flu.  I am amazed that I am still able to type when I am this close to the River Stix. 

A girl at work told me she had "a cure for colds."

Green tea, ginger, hibiscus, cinnamon, lemon, echinacea and lime. 

How stupid of medical science to still be searching for the cure when it's already here. 

[Davkaus]

One to add to Rob and KV's experiences,  I've spent most of the last 96 hours in hospital, sleeping next to my daughter, feeling scared to even go for a piss because the ward is so understaffed. At one point the ward manager, after I'd given her a bollocking (which in hindsight was a bit unfair on her and I've apologised and said I was angry at the situation all of us were in, not her), encouraged me to go home and get some sleep. I outright told her I wanted to go, but I couldn't because the ward was unsafely staffed and I didn't trust them to keep her alive overnight. The only response I got was awkward silence. It's like it throughout the entire hospital; the midwives I know are now told they're not allowed to leave the ward or have a nap on their breaks on night shifts because it leaves a single member of staff working and it's too dangerous.

At one point I went out for 5 minutes to nip to the toilet and grab a drink. I heard her start to cry, but there were nurses around, so I just made myself keep going because it'd been a long day with no respite and I was going mental. Came back a few minutes later, she's ripped out her cannula, is screaming so loud I can hear her through 3 sets of doors, blood everywhere, alarms going off, not a nurse in sight, and it took 25 minutes for someone to finally come and help.

Last night, 9 patients, all kids, all post-surgery. 2 nurses on duty, no HCAs. My daughter is on meds that mean that two nurses are needed to prepare it, so they both just have to leave the ward for about 15 minutes to prepare it together, leaving the patients (reminder, all children) completely unattended, most had their parents there, but not all. More than enough time for someone to die without a member of staff even being there to hear the alarms, these aren't particularly well patients, my daughter had been out of intensive care for a few hours. They should ideally have had on 3 nurses and a couple of HCAs.

We're at the point of expecting she'll be in there for months and knowing that we don't have the option of one of us being there 24/7 because she isn't safe without us there, so the only time we'll see each other this side of Christmas is in the hospital

I don't blame the individual staff, they're doing what they can, but the NHS is on its knees. There's hundreds of vacancies in the maternity and children's hospital alone they can't fill because people are waking up to the realities of taking on student debt for not particularly well paying jobs with awful hours and atrocious conditions. 

 

[It's Your Round]

That’s hard to read @Davkaus, I hope your daughter gets the care she needs and makes it through this. The NHS is indeed in a big mess, and it’s only going to get worse. 

[JoshVilla]

For some reason, Facebook has decided that I want to see posts by the North of England Mule Sheep association. I have no idea why, but my feed is frequently spammed with pictures of sheep.

[Xela]

4 minutes ago, JoshVilla said:

For some reason, Facebook has decided that I want to see posts by the North of England Mule Sheep association. I have no idea why, but my feed is frequently spammed with pictures of sheep.

Last thing ewe need.