Grumpy Old Man
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Don't you just love PR disaster?
Airline refuses to refund Huntingdon train attack hero for flights to football match | Cambridgeshire Live
Nottingham Forest fans and close friends of Mr Crean have called out the airline for their "shocking" treatment of the train attack hero
Ryanair has refused to refund the Huntingdon train attack hero for flights to a Nottingham Forest match in Austria. Ryanair has said it will not refund Stephen Crean's flights and suggested he should have taken out travel insurance instead.
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if I'm grumpy on behalf of someone else, does it even qualify for this thread. Anyway I don't care.
A friend's GF had a spot on her top lip that was intermittently bleeding, she called up the GP but they sent her through online triage and she had to send a phot of the spot, which she did. Diagnosis was a blocked pore with no follow up advice. It kept being a problem. Many months later was in hospital for a check up on something else - "what's that thing on your top lip"? says the examining doctor. A blocked pore she says. Cue immediate tests to discover the skin cancer that she actually had.
Mis-diagnosis via a fucking photo. That GP needs shooting.
God bless our NHS. (Copyright: Dr H Shipman)
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@Victor-Meldrew For O'Leary and Rynair there is no such thing as a PR disaster (so far at least), just PR. They delight in anything that brands them as penny pinching.
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@Catogrande said in Grumpy Old Man:
Mis-diagnosis via a fucking photo. That GP needs shooting.
Friend of mine had a persistent cough which went on and on despite speaking to her GP no less than 8 times. After 9 months she saw a private GP who ordered an immediate scan which detected Stage 3 lung cancer - which would have been quite curable if properly picked up earlier.
GP is still practicing of course, no apologies or investigations needed apparently.
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We all know that our hospitals are creaking at the seams and full of norovirus, plus of course the financial incompetence but the real issue at ground level is how bad overall the GP service has become and the complete lack of accountability.
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Fucking fuming.
How do I report an issue I've experienced Facebook? Someone is sharing false information and it's completely unacceptable.
I was advised that horse manure would make my strawberries tastier and more juicy. In fact, it does nothing to improve them at all.
I'm going back to double cream and I'd advise anyone else to do likewise.
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@Bones said in Grumpy Old Man:
Fucking fuming.
How do I report an issue I've experienced Facebook? Someone is sharing false information and it's completely unacceptable.
I was advised that horse manure would make my strawberries tastier and more juicy. In fact, it does nothing to improve them at all.
I'm going back to double cream and I'd advise anyone else to do likewise.
What a dull update
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When it is has been in the upper 20s for the best part of a dozen or more days and the lawns desperately need mowing. Sadly it is 31 degrees (feels like 34degrees) today so postponing the two and a half hour task is fast running out of being an option!
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My grumpy old man rant is this: when you are having guests over, why is it desirable to present your house such that it looks like nobody has ever set foot in it? Even the most minor relative coming over is now cause for the type of cleaning that I only thought took place at a crime scene once the detectives have finished.
I have two young children. Are we to believe the guest thinks we actually live in this state of absolute cleanliness? Surely not, so why live the lie, even for a few minutes.
I'm all for cleaning things off the floor and getting the couches looking nice, but making the beds? Vacuuming the study? We're having them for a cup of tea, not a rental inspection. And the stress that comes along with it makes the joy of entertaining basically redundant. You can never make up for the hours you've lost.
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@barbarian said in Grumpy Old Man:
Surely not, so why live the lie, even for a few minutes.
You shower groom and put on cologne before meeting people right? Same thing, but for sheilas right...
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@barbarian we have to clean for the fucking cleaner...
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If I had to receive a colonic irrigation before meeting guests, I don't think I want to meet the guests.
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@barbarian said in Grumpy Old Man:
My grumpy old man rant is this: when you are having guests over, why is it desirable to present your house such that it looks like nobody has ever set foot in it? Even the most minor relative coming over is now cause for the type of cleaning that I only thought took place at a crime scene once the detectives have finished.
I have two young children. Are we to believe the guest thinks we actually live in this state of absolute cleanliness? Surely not, so why live the lie, even for a few minutes.
I'm all for cleaning things off the floor and getting the couches looking nice, but making the beds? Vacuuming the study? We're having them for a cup of tea, not a rental inspection. And the stress that comes along with it makes the joy of entertaining basically redundant. You can never make up for the hours you've lost.
When the girl was selling her place and we had to get the place ready for open homes......fuck me dead. Every Sunday morning every speck of dust, fluff or whatever needed to be vanquished. Not to mention chasing the cat and getting every single bit of fur that had moulted.
It's just as bad when ANY visitors announce they're coming too.
No one wants to live in a student flat with skiddies on the toilet and flies gathering around the dishes piling up but surely theres a happy medium ?
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@MN5 said in Grumpy Old Man:
No one wants to live in a student flat with skiddies on the toilet and flies gathering around the dishes piling up but surely theres a happy medium ?
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@nostrildamus said in Grumpy Old Man:
@MN5 said in Grumpy Old Man:
No one wants to live in a student flat with skiddies on the toilet and flies gathering around the dishes piling up but surely theres a happy medium ?
When it comes to weird ferners you are in a class of your own.
Please don't ever change.
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@Bones said in Grumpy Old Man:
@barbarian we have to clean for the fucking cleaner...
This.
Checking the toilets before the cleaners arrive is one thing, vacuuming the carpets or sweeping the kitchen floor something else.
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@MN5 said in Grumpy Old Man:
When the girl was selling her place and we had to get the place ready for open homes......fuck me dead
We're looking to move and just do a quick tidy-up. An uber-tidy and clean house is a bit of a turn-off for us when we're viewing houses. Want to see a house not a show-home.
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Yeah what guest and/or potential buyer is genuinely put off by evidence of life/living? I've never walked into a house for a cup of tea or a meal and thought 'Christ the spare bedroom had a lot of stuff on the bed.' Or 'I can't believe there was a bit of loose dust on the kitchen floor.' Or worst of all 'I was shocked at the presence of toys on the floor of the kids toyroom'.
