Nice – I loved my mark 3

But that was the straight hairdressers version.

You see with yours that it only takes blokes. Have a good trip… 😉

You need support.

She doesn’t.

She’s made choices and continues to do so. These choices have led to her losing two legs and hurting the others in her life. This is really hardcore selfish behaviour. Few take it that far. All the love and support in the world is not going to change things unless she decides to change, and it sounds like that ship sailed…

Look after yourself, prepare yourself for her dying prematurely, and don’t blame yourself. Her choices.

A GP can do nothing for her here. Social services can do almost nothing.

Al-anon is a good call by ernie.

thai or vietnamese

Serious answer. Flew Virgin to Cuba and back a few weeks ago. Good entertainment system in a clean 747-400, moderate food, but laziest and least professional service I’ve had for years. United , AA, BA all better. Only Air Canada nearly as bad. I don’t fly that often, but that’s over about 20 round trips across tha Atlantic.

chewkw

I am not a pilot but I do know that:

1) altitude clearance decisions come from ATC not the pilots. Skill doesn’t dictate altitude.
2) normal cruising speeds are not achieved after 5 minutes climb only.
3) LoCo pilots fly more sectors usually than BA long haul crews. They may be better at this climbing lark… Except the actual controlling bit climbing will be done by the flight management system…
4) Even planes out of lhr or lgw often fly at a middling altitude for sometime before climbing higher.
5) that a steady ascent may be difficult to detect.
6) that some planes such as RJ100s produce an interesting noise and effect as their flaps retract to a clean configuration as they climb. Can make people think you have levelled out.
7) that your posts are some of the weirdest on STW…

For her to tell the people she wanted you to meet that you didn’t want to meet them, you must have told her something similar.

Regardless of what you think the facts or reasons are, in relationship terms you’re in the wrong. You need to man up, accept it and say sorry, and only when she accepts your apology, explain why.

But I understand where you are coming from… I used to feel/act this way often, but in a new relationship in the last year or so, can’t get away with this any more. You have to make an effort and work the room sometimes. It gets easier, and it pays off.

Some people try really hard to find reasons to hate people don’t they? Selective interpretation of news and reports. Selective blindness to the problems of their “own” kind. And also blindness to how obvious their own prejudices are.

It’s also such a shame when people (white/black/brown/green) need to define themselves by differences from others. They must feel really insecure about who they actually are.

Love him…

I’m handcuffed to a fence in Mississippi….

It was much more fun when there was an anti-pope too.

Anyway the simple answer given above. And given the low birth rate in Italy (1.4 per woman versus 1.94 in the UK) it isn’t like anyone really takes any notice of the Pope/religious leaders when they do exist.

The OS does not include AV as someone said above..

Sophos with Time Machine as backup. No issues yet…

from googling Backpfeifengesicht I found this. Not exactly relevant but interesting…

Bigdog fixed a similar problem for my younger son.

If you cannot taste the difference – then don’t waste your money…

For me it has replaced a morning cafetiere of lavazza red label. And a bitch of a job to clean it later. I do find a stove top Bialetti makes coffee I really like, but haven’t found one which actually works (rather than claim to work) with an induction hob.

hmanchesterthose actually cost more than the nespresso capsules (30p vs 29p).

My current favourite nespresso one however is the napoli “limited edition” – 6p more for a pretty capsule and a coffee with an intensity of 11/10

Edukator err…

are you saying Contador is clean? Or that many of us would believe him to be? Small matter of a 2 year ban? His climbing rate argues against you, not for you.

Weird.

Hora defended Lance for so long, in the face of pretty damning evidence from 2004 onwards.

When unable to ignore the truth any more, then suddenly everyone must be doping… because his hero couldn’t be that different 😥

There are plenty of sports in which most don’t dope and some have. This too is possible in Cycling. Hill climbs and changing speeds support the idea that cycling is becoming cleaner… Was

As for Froome… it is going to be interesting, but the idea that because someone improves in their mid 20s they are doping ignores the reason why the TdF has a young rider competition for people below the age of 26. Yes, some people have won the GC and the White Jersey, but only 3 since 1987. For endurance events, including Marathons, often people improve in their late 20s.

Indeed

But Balance Transfer cards can be good

Lloyds have one at the moment which will do 21 months “interest free” for a 3% fee – but with half of that cashbacked.

This means 1% a year interest providing you don’t touch the card for making purchases until you are ready to pay the whole lot off.

That is a tiny bit of a bargain.

Doesn’t necessarily do well if there is any damp underneath it.

Do we want to be burning coal?
Do the youth of today want to be miners?

Who killed coal? Thatch or Arthur – the bloke who – earlier this year wanted the 2000 remaining miners to pay for his London pad, and went to court to attempt this. Or was it both of them?

Thatch made me join the Labour party. But I saw sense 😉

I didn’t like her. Not at all.

But in 2010, depending on which info you believe, the UK was somewhere between 4th and 7th in the World in Manufacturing.

The rust-belt and mining sector went. But aerospace, electronics and defense have done well. And for a while after her, we were even a net exporter of cars.

So – unless you want your kids down a pit or in a sweatshop producing trainers…

Good point about the North Sea

Depends on whether you have feet that instantly fit one shell/footbed combo and what level of skiing you want to do.

When I’m doing family type pootling I could be in almost any ski boot, and often get to the end of the day without ever really clipping them up.

But, if I’m in powder or doing bumps/steeps, I need them clipped up, and am aware of the imperfections in my fit, and the way the liners have packed down. Mine current ones have done about 120 days now so time for a change soon. I live on the south coast, but I’ll be going to Colin in Bicester, or Lockwoods in Leamington Spa, on a weekday, next time. Last ones done by a very good fitter in Jackson Hole.

Gonefishin

And pneumococcus, meningitis C, Haemophillus etc etc etc etc

http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2013/apr/06/what-happened-man-mmr-panic?INTCMP=SRCH

Kja 78

After your beautifully nuanced postings on the long God thread, I’m disappointed. Epidemiology a well evidenced, well understood area of study. The reason there is an epidemic in South Wales is precisely because of the lack of enough herd immunity, which means susceptible individuals are more likely to be in contact with each other. Think of the infection as frogs able to jump between Lilly pads if you want… The more lily pads there are in a pond, the closer they are, the easier for the frog to move from place to place. The fact that the vaccine only kills 90% of the lily pads is irrelevant. Your understanding of the role of the 4 year MMR jab is incorrect.

The Guardian website today has a nice story about what Wakefield and colleagues are up to now.

Chipsngravy

As a GP (and thanks for your kind words… 😉 )

I can tell you that from a financial point of view we would love to be able to walk away from Child immunisations tomorrow. We only even get the money (paid retrospectively) to pay our staff to give them if we hit targets which are getting tighter, and are impossible in many areas of the country. Two new imms are going to be aded to the regime soon, the reimbursement isn’t going up at all.

The kids jabs are centrally supplied, we never meet people from the companies involved, we don’t purchase them or get any incentivisation from the manufacturers.

But don’t let facts get in the way… 😆

I tried 2 other non Nespresso ones. Coffee was so so. One was very hard to get perforated, the others were individually foil wrapped…

But… Nespresso are using Yodel to deliver their pods and it took 3 goes for the muppets to get it right today…

Grrrr

Result.
Nice one!

Most “screening” done by private providers is bullshit, and totally non-evidence based.

Very little meets recognised criteria for screening or effectiveness. Most of it is stuff they can do with machines/near-patient-testing kits and can charge you for. Often done by people with relatively poor qualifications who dump any questions you have back to your GP.

You already know if you are too fat/unfit/smoke or drink too much.

A resting or even an exercise ECG does not rule out significant heart disease.

You need to know your current BMI and BP, and your Total and HDL Cholesterols at sometime in the last 5 years… and then run them through Q Intervention to get your CVD and Diabetes risks, and do further tests as needed.

And if you are aged 40-74 your GP will do that for you…

No other screening test for a bloke below 60 with no major family hx of genetic heart disease or cancer is really worth it. Which is why the NHS doesn’t do them.

God made sheep to be shorn. So there are a lot of “screening” providers out there. The worst are the screening ultrasound merchants. Please don’t be a sheep.

And your sport’s physio doesn’t know what he’s talking about…

It was good. Very good. Sad but good

perhaps repost in the right bit of forum as more interested people might see it there, and give it a title saying what the advice is about?

Good luck btw.

Bill Evans and Monk ftw

Played in small bands and big bands between 18-24

I was a member at Ronnies for many years in the 80’s

Not free jazz or Trad though, I’d rather listen to thrash metal.

? Partners rather than Orange itself. So it might be cold-calling rather than scamming

Used to get such calls with O2, only once with 3, so far

No one you need to know about. Leave the tickets for us 😉

Thanks. I got the follow up email but not that one

Mad but fun…

jamie. Genius… Thanks!

Seeing him in Portsmouth in 4 weeks…
Heard him on R4 this morning. Great bloke.

Back to the OP

No she isn’t and no she wasn’t.

As the others have said. GP not A&E unless you get short of breath/faint/chest/pain

Reduce Caffeine.

One odd question – anyone die suddenly of an unknown condition in your family before the age of 40, or any family history of “Cardiomyopathy”? If not, don’t worry too much. If so, tell the GP.

Standard work up for me for this as a GP these days would be 12 lead ECG and bloods including thyroid function (for over-activity), if ok try caffeine reduction, if anything abnormal or things get worse get echocardiogram and 7 day ECG event monitor (which we can fit at the surgery). 19/20 times we don’t need to do this. Most of the people who need referral to an EP Cardiologist have longer sustained arrhythmias. And I’ve had these (probable) PVCs myself.

One message I would like more people to know, is if you have a sustained completely irregular heart beat (the drummer of the band is completely smashed, not playing jazz or a tango…) for more than an hour, and you know it was normal before it started, there is a window of 24-28 hours before we need to get into warfarin etc… so seek help stat. Same applies to if you have a regular but fast heart rate at rest of 145-155 bpm – in which case you probably have Atrial Flutter with a 2:1 block and need to be seen quickly. to get you out of it without warfarin etc…

Nice to see Kitson getting a shout. Shame I’m always a few minutes late to book when I get his emails.

Excellent… So many. Of those I’ve seen this year Bridget Christie, Micky Flanagan and Brendan Burns were outstanding.

Bad… Peter Kay, lazy stuff. Michael McIntyre of course. Getting a bit bored by Susan Calman.

Muke with Norman too