Things that annoy you (6 Viewers)

[chiefdave]

It’s horrible, get some medical advice about it. Can lead to something nasty if it goes on for a long time.

Reflux is on my seemingly ever extending list of stress related issues. Took literally years to get it diagnosed.

For some reason before they tested for this they did all sorts of respiratory and cancer tests to try and work out why I had a persistent cough.

Then after they'd exhausted everything else finally got sent to Walsgrave for an endoscopy and got the diagnosis.

Got given medication to sort it which has worked a treat, still have to avoid certain food which can make it flare up but other than that all good until yesterday when I got a call from the doctor about my latest blood test results which show a very low platelet count. Doctor opened with "I don't think you need to go to hospital immediately" which wasn't alarming in the slightest.

More tests incoming but they think the cause of the low count is the medication for reflux. Its never-ending, think one thing is sorted and up pops something else.

 

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[Nick]

Cov Council trying to say I shouldn't get the single person discount because somebody previously lived here... Want me to explain why I should still get it.

I have to provide a current address for somebody who lived here years before I bought it? ermmm how.

Might ask them for pics of the woman who is apparently living with me!

 

[OffenhamSkyBlue]

Cov Council trying to say I shouldn't get the single person discount because somebody previously lived here... Want me to explain why I should still get it.

I have to provide a current address for somebody who lived here years before I bought it? ermmm how.

Might ask them for pics of the woman who is apparently living with me!

Have you checked the cellar?

 

[MalcSB]

Have you checked the cellar?

And the loft.

 

[OffenhamSkyBlue]

I was on tablets Omeprizol (spelling) for a couple of years then read that there could be issues if you take them for a prolonged period so a year ago I stopped taking them. Never had heartburn since!

Omeprazole is normally prescribed if you are taking high-dose or long-term non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAID) like ibuprofen or aspirin, as they can cause significant issues in the stomach.

 

[fernandopartridge]

Acid reflux.

Never suffered from it before and then over the last few weeks started getting it quite regularly.

Very fucking annoying.

I've had it after a few consecutive days on the piss. It's horrible. Even worse when you're in Benidorm with your mates

 

[ovduk78]

Easyjet and their scheduling. I have flown down and back the same day for a couple of games & will do against Hull as they have a flight from Edinburgh at 7am and back at 8pm. Looking to do the same for home games against Bristol City & Watford in January and there are no flights from Edinburgh before 1pm. I will have to fly from Glasgow and back to Edinburgh and leave car in Stirling. I know I shouldn't be complaining about this but they are forever buggering about with their scheduling.

 

[Tommo1993]

Wronguns diagnosing themselves as autistic

 

[Sbarcher]

Wronguns diagnosing themselves as autistic

I believe if parents can get their children diagnosed with it or on the spectrum they get additional benefits. There’s an incentive to get diagnosed.

 

[shmmeee]

I believe if parents can get their children diagnosed with it or on the spectrum they get additional benefits. There’s an incentive to get diagnosed.

Not really. The edge cases you are talking about aren’t going to qualify for benefits.

The pressure is from the schools for funding if a kid has an ILP (or whatever they are these days) I think.

My daughter is currently waiting for an assessment on the insistence on the school and her Mum. She’s probably on the spectrum but I asked the school what difference would it make in her day to day life to have a diagnosis and was told “well she’ll know why she’s different”. Great stuff. Other my kid for no tangible benefit.

 

[Tommo1993]

Not really. The edge cases you are talking about aren’t going to qualify for benefits.

The pressure is from the schools for funding if a kid has an ILP (or whatever they are these days) I think.

My daughter is currently waiting for an assessment on the insistence on the school and her Mum. She’s probably on the spectrum but I asked the school what difference would it make in her day to day life to have a diagnosis and was told “well she’ll know why she’s different”. Great stuff. Other my kid for no tangible benefit.

This is it. When people are “different” or get upset about particular things. Must be autistic.

 

[shmmeee]

This is it. When people are “different” or get upset about particular things. Must be autistic.

And it doesn’t lead to greater acceptance at all. Just gives people a reason to write you off.

The problem with autism is because it’s such a spectrum there’s those that need serious help, those that need a little understanding and those that will be fine or even flourish if left alone. And so much doesn’t distinguish.

I’d say the same for a lot of emotional and mental health disorders again outside of the extremes. There’s a natural variation in humans and the idea we can label and cater to everyone outside the norm is silly. But wherever you draw the line someone gets cut off.

Feels like so many things that start out needed for a small group and before long they’ve expanded so far they’re unsustainable.

 

[OffenhamSkyBlue]

Not really. The edge cases you are talking about aren’t going to qualify for benefits.

The pressure is from the schools for funding if a kid has an ILP (or whatever they are these days) I think.

My daughter is currently waiting for an assessment on the insistence on the school and her Mum. She’s probably on the spectrum but I asked the school what difference would it make in her day to day life to have a diagnosis and was told “well she’ll know why she’s different”. Great stuff. Other my kid for no tangible benefit.

Our neighbours' son is university age and they have fought to get him a private diagnosis of autism precisely because it does open up additional avenues of support and reasonable adjustments under the Equality Act. Not sure whether any of those are financial, mind you. It takes a lot of effort to qualify and apply for personal independence payments, etc.

 

[shmmeee]

Our neighbours' son is university age and they have fought to get him a private diagnosis of autism precisely because it does open up additional avenues of support and reasonable adjustments under the Equality Act. Not sure whether any of those are financial, mind you. It takes a lot of effort to qualify and apply for personal independence payments, etc.

Youd have to prove you can’t do stuff for PIP beyond just being a bit awkward at parties I’d imagine. It may well get extra time and stuff. I saw somewhere private school kids get way more extra time despite lower SEN rates because their parents ask for it.

 

[fernandopartridge]

Quite a big part of my job is reviewing documents. Why do you people write a number in word form and then put it in numerical form in brackets afterwards e.g. five (5)? It is not the Grandstand vidiprinter you blurts.

 

[Sbarcher]

Quite a big part of my job is reviewing documents. Why do you people write a number in word form and then put it in numerical form in brackets afterwards e.g. five (5)? It is not the Grandstand vidiprinter you blurts.

That’s a new one (1) on me.

 

[ccfc922]

All the hoorah Henry's on this overcrowded train with their shite light hearted jokes.

 

[ccfc922]

Wronguns diagnosing themselves as autistic

Or the old "he's got Adhd mate".

 

[wingy]

All the hoorah Henry's on this overcrowded train with their shite light hearted jokes.

Rugby's calling I assume!

 

[ccfc922]

Rugby's calling I assume!

Seen a couple with the shirts on. Tbf at least they're going for an event.

Most are "ohh we must go to London for our festivities shopping". Then proceed to complain it's busy

 

[Tommo1993]

Or the old "he's got Adhd mate".

100%. can’t believe I forgot that one.

 

[ccfc922]

All the "stay safe" lot are out in force today, jesus christ I feel sick.

 

[chiefdave]

All the "stay safe" lot are out in force today, jesus christ I feel sick.

my bin has blown over, is there a helpline I can call?

 

[ccfc922]

my bin has blown over, is there a helpline I can call?

999 I believe

 

[rondog1973]

Intermittent windscreen wipers that go like the clappers in the lightest of drizzle but reduce to one wipe per minute when said drizzle increases to steady rain.

 

[Nick]

Or the old "he's got Adhd mate".

Think it's a common mistake about ADHD to be fair.

 

[chiefdave]

Coffin dodgers who decide that the few hours the post office is open on a Saturday morning for the entire working population to collect and / or send their stuff is the ideal time to go and buy books of stamps or post multiple parcels.

Queuing out the door and the majority of the queue are pensioners!

 

[Nick]

Coffin dodgers who decide that the few hours the post office is open on a Saturday morning for the entire working population to collect and / or send their stuff is the ideal time to go and buy books of stamps or post multiple parcels.

Queuing out the door and the majority of the queue are pensioners!

Doing their accounts with 600 different cards too?

 

[MalcSB]

Doing their accounts with 600 different cards too?

There were so many things I wanted to do when I became a pensioner, going to the Post Office to renew my car tax at peak time being one of them. Do it online now. Another ambition crashed and burned

 

[MalcSB]

Coffin dodgers who decide that the few hours the post office is open on a Saturday morning for the entire working population to collect and / or send their stuff is the ideal time to go and buy books of stamps or post multiple parcels.

Queuing out the door and the majority of the queue are pensioners!

Don’t most people who WFH pop out mid week?

You can get stuff you are sending picked up from home, it’s brilliant.

Companies even deliver to your front door.

You youngsters need to get with the modern way of doing things.

 

[MalcSB]

Public Transport. Mrs went in to town on the bus, wanted to catch the 16:30 home, it didnt turn up. No explanation. She had to wait till the 17:30 and arrive home freezing.

I will stick to my personal gas guzzling CO2 production machine methinks. Even though the bus stop is literally at the bottom of my drive and despite me having acceptable voter ID - a bus pass.

 

[ccfc922]

Trains, potentially a bus back from London at 1am and arriving in Bournemouth at 9am

 

[chiefdave]

Companies even deliver to your front door.

They tried that, I was at work so they took it to the post office. They didn't want to give it to me as apparently it wasn't in the same name as my ID as one was Dave, one was David.

An argument ensued and I now have my package.

On another note Royal Mail, who like to boast they have the lowest carbon footprint for delivery have today turned up at my house three separate times to deliver three packages dispatched from the same place on the same day, and no I have no clue whey they didn't sent them in one package but why three different deliveries?

 

[MalcSB]

They tried that, I was at work so they took it to the post office. They didn't want to give it to me as apparently it wasn't in the same name as my ID as one was Dave, one was David.

An argument ensued and I now have my package.

On another note Royal Mail, who like to boast they have the lowest carbon footprint for delivery have today turned up at my house three separate times to deliver three packages dispatched from the same place on the same day, and no I have no clue whey they didn't sent them in one package but why three different deliveries?

How ridiculous.

 

[ccfc922]

The advertising animations for fruities.

Making out it's more of a computer game you can influence rather than gambling. The Napoleon one is the worst, "prepare to conquer..."