Like gyms, perhaps many dentists with denplan type things make money from the people who don’t go. But the dentists I know who do denplan are reasonable people who aren’t rich. For any third party payer system, like the US health insurance sector, 20-30% of the costs are going to be admin, profit and financial. Paying direct if you can carry the risk, and have an electric toothbrush, may be a good idea.

Things can be annoying without being offensive.
Offended carries a particular connotation of moral indignation.
Words adjacent to each other in a thesaurus are not synonyms.

OP. You did the right thing. Well done. It is an issue. Years of religious hegemony has given some people a sense of spiritual and moral entitlement. One inoffensive email to make those in charge question their assumptions and practice was entirely justified. Any more than that would be pointless and petty.

faustus thanks. Rather good.

To that I’d add people confusing disapproval with censorship, and attacking the messenger rather than the message.

But Its a good lightning rod thread. Flushed out some sexist and selfish attitudes.

Hannah, that’s one of the best and clearest explanations of palliative care in this situation that I have seen.

Scott, this is a bloody awful time for you. You will be hurt and feel that you cannot help someone you love. Frustration can become anger. The anger is not always directed in the right direction. Sit down and have a good cry mate. But accept she is going and say your goodbyes.

Hydration does not seem to clearly prolong life or usually get rid of discomfort. Her comfort and dignity are all that matters here.

We’ve mainly moved away from the LCP, and if you’re interested there is a report from NICE which has just come out and tends to suggest more in the way of hydration measures, but it’s only really if it helps comfort. Patients should be assessed on a case by case basis, and a lead relative should have clear discussions with someone in charge.

Sorry for your impending loss.

weeksy

The love honey and other stuff is about women taking control and owning their sexuality. Women like sex too.

The calendars and page 3 type stuff is about men deciding and determining what it, and women’s roles should be.

Got that?

molgrips and Big Dummy have it.

and it is either pathetic trolling by weeksy – or he is a just a teensy bit uncertain of his own sexuality and has to wave a “I’m macho and like calendars with boobs” to convince himself he is still straight… 😉

Just about to be 55. Did the road thing as a teenager. Have a Giant Defy in the shed, but the road scares me. Being in the woods, or on a hilltop ridge like the Quantocks, gives me a peace I find nowhere else. I only started this MTB shit to stay fit for skiing, but I feel bad if I go a week off the bike. I’ve had a few too many CT scans, and am dialling it down now. I think I can pootle now in the woods with my partner till I can’t get any more 26″ tyres.

Some people just don’t get it.

It is possible to recognise that something is a piece of sad, dated, sexist silliness, and that it might offend women, and perpetuate unfortunate attitudes and steroptypes, without being offended yourself…

Lots of contentious and bad-taste things don’t offend me, but I am not so selfish and self-absorbed as to think that makes them reasonable or sensible or polite.

Whether or not Adele has a penchant for writing articles on sexual attitudes in cycling or not is totally irrelevant. Play the ball, not the player. See gamergate…

Her point remains a good one. We can either live in the 21st century and show respect to women, or we can objectify them and behave like a bunch of giggling 70’s schoolboys. This isn’t about being PC, it is about growing the hell up and valuing 50% of the human race. If some women behave like “Ladz” that is their own individual choice and not a reason to be inconsiderate to all women.

Glasses direct. Often with vouchers from money saving expert. They are happy to discuss and advise and clear on what they can’t do. Good trial frames service. It has allowed me to have several pairs of decent glasses in several places.

Let her use her system. Makes her happy. Don’t take that away from her.

If you want to retain the computing power, you could do worse than decent large smart TV with Apps built in, Hifi/Sound Bar (beware – some TVs like LGs don’t have separate cabled audio outs, and the optical audio out doesn’t relay sound from HDMI sources… ) and a Mini Mac.

Damn.. I was just going to suggest that.

Until you’ve seen a cat blow a walrus…

Got it in VHS…. Classic 🙂

Daveydown. Rather good

Ah ha!

That is interesting!

Got Maxim Giraud Sabatiers, and had a set of Globals.

I prefer my IKEA knives.

I know that’s no help at all. But I do think there is a lot of cock talked about knives

Put my scooby legacy through a flood Xmas eve 2013, over the headlights and then a wave up the windscreen… At night. Bit scary. But it carried in through, ran rough for 30 mins and has done 25000 miles since. A VW van drowned there and needed anew engine, as did a friends BMW in a one foot deep puddle 🙂

spot on re casus, but if I hadn’t added wars, perhaps only you would have understood it.. The tautology was necessary

Nice bit of smug condescension btw… 😉

I see the same people having these arguments again and again here on STW. I detect little possibility on either side that their views are going to change. So what really is the point in this discussion?

So I’ll weigh in… 😉

Those on the Christian religious side seem not to understand how centuries of religious establishment entitlement, the use of religion as causus belli for wars; the religious violence in the Balkans, in Ireland, in Africa; the interference of popes in AIDS health issues and liberation theology, the profound 20th century links between Catholicism, Fascism and Organised Crime, not to mention their treatment of children and poor women; leave many of us laughing when they attempt to differentiate themselves from Islam.

Take a book of dubious origin, interpreted by men who want power and admit no uncertainties, and populations for whom uncertainty and complexity is too difficult, and you get a lot of what’s going on, and the psychopathology of religion.

And after hundreds of years of religious hegemony, don’t be surprised if us atheists get annoyed and rather strident about your smug “it wasn’t us”…

It’s good. And their cheap stuff is reliable. I love their verdicchio and their Spanish Monastrel,,

If you do want the Knipex thingy – can be cheaper via Amazon.de like quite a lot of stuff.

K57 – LBV is NOT the same as Vintage, is usually sold for relatively early drinking, and might actually be filtered. Not sure that will have necessarily improved.

I had am embarrassingly over mature bottle of wine a few weeks ago. If your port is meant to be a special part of a meal, I’d open it and try it while the offie is still open…

CHB me too 😳

going to be looking for dremels in the sales

Metamatic. There was an album…

2 on order so far as a result of this thread.. That might be three.

Aracer. That’s kind of the point I’m making. He’s been hosing anger at passers-by rather than accepting and dealing with his emotions… At least I hope. He might actually be a total bellend though. They do exist.
If he is hurting he needs to acknowledge it.

27%
70 combinations

But this time, that’s cheating with an online combinations calculator and probable BS
36 yrs since a level. Too old.

39% for all 8 ways of doing it.
4.9% for it drawing black the first time.

It’s not like you have been a complete judgemental bellend about others on various threads here in the past few days is it?….

If you are not a troll, or pissed, you either need serious help, or should really think about who you are aged 40.

Those of us who have been through the experiences you mention will struggle to understand how you could not feel something. So I hope you do. Be human.

If your posts of the last few days are anything to go by, something is getting to you. You may not realise it. Use those feelings for something that means something, not Audi drivers, Bradford Students or Junior Drs. You do feel something.

Good luck

No cloth. Candle. Decent decanter. Steady hand. Stop seeker rather than later. . 25 yrs ain’t that old. Don’t waste it by drinking it when you’re smashed.

Bruneep. No. Leave it in the decanter.

Day before. Use a candle to see when the sediment is coming out..

Nationwide flexplus account works for me. Saves me a shitload

You can Drill small holes down the lines where you want to cut the batten, then chisel.
It’s going to be hidden from view so being tidy isn’t important.

But we all love tools. So knock yourself out!

Dark side of the moon is ok…

But

What’s going on
The Bends
Soul Searching by AWB
And (blush). The lamb

Dub side of the moon and Dubber side of the moon are better than DSOTM too…

Huge name in physics. Don’t they teach about him these days?

JHJ – fair dos. But please lets see facts and substantiated claims rather than conjecture and conspiracy, which does rather lead one to despair…

Lot of truth in what you have said – but Tom Watson etc… you seem to have been rather quiet on that topic of late.

Thought you despaired already…

errr… what about despair for people, inclding forumites and MPs who make repeated unsubstatiated allegations? Just saying… 😉

GPs or Balls ?!

Going to your local STD clinic is an appropriate option here even though you have not been up to anything. They know balls quite well.

The appointment system you are dealing with sucks. I’d ask for a telephone consultation with a GP, and if they have any sense they will want to see you face-to-face, or nads-to-face. I would genuinely ask to speak to the Practice manager if this difficulty seeing them persists.