The totally off-topic thread

[amaroo]

How do we qualify for one of those?

Post a thread on a serious matter but in a lighthearted manner.....within 6 posts immediately take the brace position......hold this position until you decide to stick your head above the trench:shock:.......post a further expalandation on how you really are a nice guy but a bit of a smart cough.....hope this helps.....wait

If the tide of opinion changes.......left your head & enjoy the show

The era of the Amaroo begins:mrgreen:

 

[Flashback]

Thought that would get your attention! Noticed it after I had posted, and have been busy laughing. Yes, a few drops of what tastes like sugar water.

Last time I was in Africa there was a bit of bubonic plague around as well as Ebola. Changed our plans to be away from the Ebola. Plague was treatable with antibiotics, so less of a problem.

You should have seen my face when I read it! Luckily my +1 had already mentioned to me it was administered orally

 

[RB]

Typhoid (not sure if I've had this one or not, and my vaccinations book can't be found back at home!)

Had a typhoid needle yesterday in preparation for Sri Lanka in Feb 2012-didn't even get a sore arm! There is Malarone for malaria available that apparrently has fewer side effects but more expensive

 

[JohnK]

Computer is back although dead hard drive is not good. Cannot get any data off it.

 

[straitman]

Computer is back although dead hard drive is not good. Cannot get any data off it.

Time Machine on my MacBook Pro is wonderful :!:

Automatically backs up every hour whilst it's plugged in.

I hope you did not loose too much important 'stuff' JohnK.

 

[Princess Fiona]

Post a thread on a serious matter but in a lighthearted manner.....within 6 posts immediately take the brace position......hold this position until you decide to stick your head above the trench:shock:.......post a further expalandation on how you really are a nice guy but a bit of a smart cough.....hope this helps.....wait

If the tide of opinion changes.......left your head & enjoy the show

The era of the Amaroo begins:mrgreen:

Amaroo, I truly applaud your tenacity
Ashamed to say I have lurked on your thread and also on the Petrus nepotism thread without posting a single comment for fear of being annihilated
Thank goodness we are a more welcoming bunch ( at least I hope we are)
Enjoy the rest of your travels

 

[awilcockson]

tetanus is never less painful...:shock:

I injured myself at work a month ago and had to have tetanus shot (first one in around 25 years :0)

I was very worried, but I didn't actually feel a thing!

 

[Storyteller]

I injured myself at work a month ago and had to have tetanus shot (first one in around 25 years :0)

I was very worried, but I didn't actually feel a thing!

You must have a tough hide! My last one felt like they were using a wide bore needle & slowly injecting treacle. Came up in a fire engine red lump that lasted longer than the holiday. Couldn't wear a weight belt for months.

 

[JohnK]

I hope you did not loose too much important 'stuff' JohnK.

I lost most data I had over the past 5-6 years. There were many important things in there least of which was photos from my round the world trip with dad in 2009.

Oh well my stupidity. There may well be a way to recover the data but I am not sure if the cost is feasible. Need to do some research on who provides those services.

 

[medhead]

I have a cunning plan to make tetanus painless - drunken misadventure. Emergency room drs give you tetanus as soon as look at you.


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[tuapekastar]

I lost most data I had over the past 5-6 years. There were many important things in there least of which was photos from my round the world trip with dad in 2009.

Oh well my stupidity. There may well be a way to recover the data but I am not sure if the cost is feasible. Need to do some research on who provides those services.

Oops, accidentally hit 'like' instead of 'reply with quote'.

That's a bummer about the photos and other data JohnK, but as you say, there are people around who specialise in data recovery and as long as the cost is not too extravagant, I suspect (hope) you have a very good chance of getting it back.

 

[Princess Fiona]

I have a cunning plan to make tetanus painless - drunken misadventure. Emergency room drs give you tetanus as soon as look at you.


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I am one of those :evil:

 

[anat0l]

Thanks for that, that really helps .. not!

Well, that partially explains why I had no desire to become a medical doctor:!:

With my sister a dentist and having had a number of dental procedures - all, if necessary, done at worst under LA - I got quickly used to hearing stuff like this. Also heard stuff like, "There's a small chance - like 1 in 1000 - that we might hit the wrong nerve and you might not feel your lower jaw for the rest of your life..."

 

[Flashback]

Well, that partially explains why I had no desire to become a medical doctor:!:

With my sister a dentist and having had a number of dental procedures - all, if necessary, done at worst under LA - I got quickly used to hearing stuff like this. Also heard stuff like, "There's a small chance - like 1 in 1000 - that we might hit the wrong nerve and you might not feel your lower jaw for the rest of your life..."

Don't tell +1 you said that to me, she's having enough trouble as it is trying to pin me down to get my annual checkup done at the Dentist

 

[anat0l]

You should have seen my face when I read it! Luckily my +1 had already mentioned to me it was administered orally

What did you think? We had to inject the needle through your tongue?

I thought domestic pets had it bad when having their temperature taken!

 

[anat0l]

OK got around to multi-quote...

Computer is back although dead hard drive is not good. Cannot get any data off it.

Time Machine on my MacBook Pro is wonderful :!:

Automatically backs up every hour whilst it's plugged in.

I hope you did not loose too much important 'stuff' JohnK.

You have an external hard drive to support Time Machine? If not, you mustn't have a lot of stuff (i.e. the size of it, not necessarily how important it is), albeit I hope Time Machine backs it up to another physical disk. No good having your backup on the same physical drive as the one that fails in the first place.

The common failing of most Windows users - not backing up. It's easy to set up, but few do it. On that note, I'm not much better (though I am trying...)

I lost most data I had over the past 5-6 years. There were many important things in there least of which was photos from my round the world trip with dad in 2009.

Oh well my stupidity. There may well be a way to recover the data but I am not sure if the cost is feasible. Need to do some research on who provides those services.

There are services that can help mete out data from failed hard drives, though it's not necessarily perfect. Indeed, there are some people who do this seriously for a living and can extract parcels of information from seemingly dead-as-doorstep drives, though it's usually not for the data you're looking for unless you did something very, very bad.

The costs are nominally "expensive", but the people who will usually fork out for these services know the recovery is well worth the cost. (This is off-hand advice, not necessarily tailored to your situation). Such services usually charge by the GB or so.

Now that you've had a failure, I should probably check my last generation of backup! I've got a massive collection of photos - some on my main HDD, some on my external HDD; some in only one location, some as multiple copies! Why do I create a mess for myself......

 

[anat0l]

Don't tell +1 you said that to me, she's having enough trouble as it is trying to pin me down to get my annual checkup done at the Dentist

Luckily none of your siblings are dentists. My sister is on to me about my going for my annual checkups. "Luckily", my sister is a dentist, my cousin is a dentist, and my cousin's husband is a dentist (and has his own surgery)... so I get my annual checkup and scale and clean usually at mate's rates, or *cough* "free of charge".

Scale and clean used to hurt; now gotten used to it ("find your happy place..." )

 

[Flashback]

Luckily none of your siblings are dentists. My sister is on to me about my going for my annual checkups. "Luckily", my sister is a dentist, my cousin is a dentist, and my cousin's husband is a dentist (and has his own surgery)... so I get my annual checkup and scale and clean usually at mate's rates, or *cough* "free of charge".

Scale and clean used to hurt; now gotten used to it ("find your happy place..." )

Nice one!

I have a remote off-site (encrypted) backup that runs automatically ..... I don't even have to think about it, works well. Has saved my cough 3 times now (1x laptop HDD fried when flying PER-BNE, 1x theft, 1x mechanical failure of HDD). To boot you even get an automated e-mail report each day to advise of how the backup ran (and what it did) or whether it was missed. Very handy. Reminds me though, I do need to setup a local dump to HDD to occur once a week/month, should really get around to doing that.........

 

[amaroo]

Amaroo, I truly applaud your tenacity
Ashamed to say I have lurked on your thread and also on the Petrus nepotism thread without posting a single comment for fear of being annihilated
Thank goodness we are a more welcoming bunch ( at least I hope we are)
Enjoy the rest of your travels

It's a bit "sink or swim" but still fun.

After the first day I received a PM from a senior BA executive that works at LHR, offering an apology and requesting more information to be sent to his personal BA email address.

I sent the email & received an email back from him on Boxing day........expressing thanks & that all matters will be followed up. He even promised to get back in touch with me. Pretty impressive & like serfty said BA are certainly monitoring FT.

The trip has been wonderful - Spain is OUTSTANDING.

 

[medhead]

I am one of those :evil:

A drunken misadventure? Or emergency Dr?

I'll assume it's the later and ask: What's the first thing you ask a drunken patient after they tell you where it hurts? When did you have your last tetanus?

Anyway, the point is tetanus doesn't hurt if you have enough drinks to require you to self present to an emergency department.

Of course, the reason you have to present at an emergency department probably does hurt, so there is a trade off involved.


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