The totally off-topic thread

[rogerkambah]

Just got home from having lunch with a friend and doing the supermarket shopping. Turned on the AC and it said it was 37C inside the house !!!

If its a hot day I just leave my a/c on at 23C when I go out. No point in stepping out of a cool car into a hot house.

 

[Buzzard]

I am really annoyed at the moment. I have just been given another opportunity that I cannot accept. The first was in 2012 when I was offered a fully furnished 2 bedroom 2 bathroom apartment in Valencia for 6 months at AUD$125per week. +1 and I did stay there for 3 weeks so it is not that we were offered something we knew nothing about. Now I have been given the opportunity to assist a research scientist for about 7 months, basically driving him to a few locations in Oz such as Karatha, Cairns and Alice Springs from ADL. Also have to take about 180kg of equipment. Would be paid $35,000.00 for my troubles. In one location it would mean living in a tent for 3 months but what an experience it would be.

 

[rogerkambah]

I am about to overheat. The sweat is dripping off me. I must have lost a kilo in the past hour.

It feels like train aircon not coping either.

But I thought people like to live in Bris/Qld cos it is hot and often wet? Same as Syd, just hotter.

 

[TheRealTMA]

I am really annoyed at the moment. I have just been given another opportunity that I cannot accept. The first was in 2012 when I was offered a fully furnished 2 bedroom 2 bathroom apartment in Valencia for 6 months at AUD$125per week. +1 and I did stay there for 3 weeks so it is not that we were offered something we knew nothing about. Now I have been given the opportunity to assist a research scientist for about 7 months, basically driving him to a few locations in Oz such as Karatha, Cairns and Alice Springs from ADL. Also have to take about 180kg of equipment. Would be paid $35,000.00 for my troubles. In one location it would mean living in a tent for 3 months but what an experience it would be.

So what's your problem? We can have DM's send wine packages.

 

[TheRealTMA]

But I thought people like to live in Bris/Qld cos it is hot and often wet? Same as Syd, just hotter.

Not at all.

 

[rogerkambah]

I am really annoyed at the moment. I have just been given another opportunity that I cannot accept. The first was in 2012 when I was offered a fully furnished 2 bedroom 2 bathroom apartment in Valencia for 6 months at AUD$125per week. +1 and I did stay there for 3 weeks so it is not that we were offered something we knew nothing about. Now I have been given the opportunity to assist a research scientist for about 7 months, basically driving him to a few locations in Oz such as Karatha, Cairns and Alice Springs from ADL. Also have to take about 180kg of equipment. Would be paid $35,000.00 for my troubles. In one location it would mean living in a tent for 3 months but what an experience it would be.

Unfortunately, for whatever reasons, life is full of missed opportunities

 

[BadgerBoi]

Well there is an eclipse here (in the UK) this morning and sadly in London the cloud coverage is 100% so the effect is minimised. Only expected to be about 80% coverage of the sun so not total darkness here but it did get a bit dimmer.

However, the television shots of areas where there is total coverage is fascinating.

Same here in Paris, very disappointing - I barely even noticed a dip in the light. Wouldn't have known anything was going on if I wasn't waiting for it.

 

[Buzzard]

So what's your problem? We can have DM's send wine packages.

The only problem is that I can't take 7 months off

 

[JohnK]

I always turn up early for the appointment as (in NSW) it seems first in best dressed regardless of the card appointment time. It just seems to be morning session vs afternoon session.

Why is the concept of appointments so difficult in medicine?

It used to happen at my GP's. I'd turn up at 9:25am for a 9:30am appointment but he wouldn't see me until 10:30am because people with a 10:30am appointment would turn up earlier than me and be seen before me. So what's the point of an appointment? I complained a few times and that made it worse. But when I got in early and wait he would still see people before me even though they turned up after me. Apparently they had an appointment before mine. :shock:

Got my own back a few times coming in announced with chest pains and he'd drop everything to see me.

Next time I get a 10:45am appointment at this clinic I will turn up at 11:45am as they are due to work through to 12:30pm-1:00pm anyway. Tough luck if they don't see me. At least that way I don't wait that long.

 

[whatmeworry]

New Alzheimer’s treatment fully restores memory function-of the mice that received the treatment, 75 percent got their memories back.


New Alzheimer

 

[kpc]

New Alzheimer’s treatment fully restores memory function-of the mice that received the treatment, 75 percent got their memories back.


New Alzheimer

Sounds rather far fetched. Also mice does not = humans

 

[Deleted member]

No. But certain functions are similar AFAIK.

 

[legroom]

It used to happen at my GP's. I'd turn up at 9:25am for a 9:30am appointment but he wouldn't see me until 10:30am because people with a 10:30am appointment would turn up earlier than me and be seen before me....

That would be wrong IMO unless the 10:30 has 'urgent' medical issue.

You're entitled to feel aggrieved there were that the case.

Why is the concept of appointments so difficult in medicine?.....

Many reasons including urgent phone consultations with hospitals, other colleagues... urgent results from the lab..... complicated case (or, more 'difficult' patient) for the allotted time... etc

As a rule, unless it is an emergency everyone should be seen in the order of appointment - not the order of turning up.

.......

That's what the TV and the National Geographic magazines are for .... plus the free WiFi in many places.

Don't feel so bad. Even medicos are kept waiting too unless they call up before hand AND they are known to the practice.

The best no-wait approach is to stop your mates (or relatives) in the corridor or drive to his / her home after hours [+1 occasionally gets called up during dinner by cousins etc ....]

Not possible to the general public, I agree.

 

[JohnK]

That would be wrong IMO unless the 10:30 has 'urgent' medical issue.

You're entitled to feel aggrieved there were that the case.

As a rule, unless it is an emergency everyone should be seen in the order of appointment - not the order of turning up.

That's not the case in my experience and no amount of reasoning changes anything. In fact it makes it worse.

 

[legroom]

That's not the case in my experience and no amount of reasoning changes anything. In fact it makes it worse.

If not 'urgent', then possibly the 10:30 is a friend / relative [wrong to do so anyway].

No sane medico would operate an appointment system that way, trust me !

 

[mrs.dr.ron]

 

[jukebox333]

I admit I find Nigella as beguiling as then next red blooded male, but that comparison with Ms McKeith is rather simplistic.

One woman has led a life of upper class privilege, consciously minimizes her exposure to the sun, and probably spent more in one year on beauty treatments than the other has earned in a lifetime.

I don't know the circumstances of Ms McKeith's background.

The other salient point is that there probably are are less flattering photos of the domestic Goddess they may have ignored.

Having said that, I know who I'd rather date.

(hmmm new thread: What is it about Nigella Lawson that so many blokes find attractive?")

 

[anat0l]

Some people claim that Nigella Lawson is to cooking as Anna Kournikova is to tennis...

 

[samh004]

Kournikova was a class act

 

[TomVexille]

(hmmm new thread: What is it about Nigella Lawson that so many blokes find attractive?")

It's because she's so saucy...