I've received a letter from 'NHS England and NHS Improvement' reminding me that I need (at my age) to book an appointment to get a flu jab. A second letter in the envelope informs me that the cost of sending printed posts like this runs into 100's of millions of pounds. They have included a QR code which will direct me to a site where my preferred contact details can be updated.
The thing is I have already had a flu jab. I have a GP who administered the jab and has all my details, including phone number and email address. Surely NHS England could co-ordinate - at least initially - through the GP network and save the much needed funds to which they allude?
To add insult to injury the QR code took me to a site that was down anyway. I will try again later of course.
I'd complain if I could or if I thought it would make a difference, but where on earth would you even start?
In all seriousness just cos your GP has all your salient details doesn't mean they've passed them on to any other health agency. Inform your GP surgery and you may find they can do something to join up the dots. We had similar with being identified as vulnerable requiring shielding earlier this year. Checked the NHS letter with GP and they joined it up. Result, we got taken off the central 'needs to shield' list. It was as simplistic as something that had been prescribed years ago.
Receiving emails from Sky laying out my 'treats and rewards'.
As a Diamond Sky VIP member I am it seems, being given the chance to enter into a raffle. I don't think I can contain myself for a whole seven days awaiting the next treat.
Check back next week for even more rewards just for you.
I’m in the same category as you, and get the same pathetic emails each week, just wondering if anyone has won anything, I know I haven’t but I suppose you need to enter.
Paying that much money to that corporation surely marks you out for special treatment tho, innit?
That effing Coca Cola Christmas lorry's on the telly again. Dunno why, but it absolutely infuriates me. "Holidays are coming, holidays are coming..........."
I know there's some sort of historical Christmas/Coca Cola connection, but I'm sure it's pretty tenuous. It's just American nonsense. For starters, when I sing "Holidays are coming", it's because I'm a week or so away from jetting off to somewhere hot and sunny with an abundance of exotic-looking beauties and cheap, ice cold beers, and certainly not because I'm 5 weeks away from being force fed turkey and sprouts against a backdrop of Gavin & Stacey repeats.
Not sure if it's an urban myth but I recall that Father Christmas is red and white solely down to coca cola marketing and he was green and white before then.
Less of an issue this year due to Covid, but with the festive season approaching, there's still an opportunity to witness this irritating scenario before the year is out. I'm not sure how common this is. I first witnessed it with my dad's family (my gran and my uncle, my dad is also guilty of it), and then with my ex-girlfriend as well:
When you have guests round, or when you go to visit people, and it's time for the visitor to go home. You're all sat in the lounge or at the dining table, and someone (usually the visitor) will say something to precipitate their departure - "ooh, look at the time, I'd best be getting home" is a classic example. Normally, if I am the guest, then I'll have my coat on and be out of the door within 3 minutes of the initial announcement that it's time for me to go. However, when my dad's family or my ex-girlfriend were involved, announcing that it's time to go is merely the catalyst to a boring and awkward hour long conversation stood up in the hallway next to the front door. It's ridiculous. I once spent 45 minutes stuck in a narrow hallway making small talk with my mate's dad, because his wife and my missus had mutually agreed that it was home time, stood up, my mrs put her coat on and then started an entirely new conversation about furniture. Unbelievable.
You need to be more honest but with swear words.
Something like:
”Listen, we’ve had a lovely time although the last three hours have been fucking unbearable. And boring.
I do not now need to stand around discussing utter shit for another forty five pissing minutes when we’ve got a git of a drive home and I’m busting for a dump. The food you served up was abominable and I’ll most likely be shitting through the eye of a needle for a week. And if you ever make us sit through repeats of Miranda and Mrs Brown’s Boys again, I will swing for you.
Less of an issue this year due to Covid, but with the festive season approaching, there's still an opportunity to witness this irritating scenario before the year is out. I'm not sure how common this is. I first witnessed it with my dad's family (my gran and my uncle, my dad is also guilty of it), and then with my ex-girlfriend as well:
When you have guests round, or when you go to visit people, and it's time for the visitor to go home. You're all sat in the lounge or at the dining table, and someone (usually the visitor) will say something to precipitate their departure - "ooh, look at the time, I'd best be getting home" is a classic example. Normally, if I am the guest, then I'll have my coat on and be out of the door within 3 minutes of the initial announcement that it's time for me to go. However, when my dad's family or my ex-girlfriend were involved, announcing that it's time to go is merely the catalyst to a boring and awkward hour long conversation stood up in the hallway next to the front door. It's ridiculous. I once spent 45 minutes stuck in a narrow hallway making small talk with my mate's dad, because his wife and my missus had mutually agreed that it was home time, stood up, my mrs put her coat on and then started an entirely new conversation about furniture. Unbelievable.
I'm the same as you mate, I don't bother getting out of my chair now until my missus has finally finished chatting and is walking out the front door.
I give them 5 minutes then I go and start the car and if they are still not out in 5 minutes rev the engine.
Less of an issue this year due to Covid, but with the festive season approaching, there's still an opportunity to witness this irritating scenario before the year is out. I'm not sure how common this is. I first witnessed it with my dad's family (my gran and my uncle, my dad is also guilty of it), and then with my ex-girlfriend as well:
When you have guests round, or when you go to visit people, and it's time for the visitor to go home. You're all sat in the lounge or at the dining table, and someone (usually the visitor) will say something to precipitate their departure - "ooh, look at the time, I'd best be getting home" is a classic example. Normally, if I am the guest, then I'll have my coat on and be out of the door within 3 minutes of the initial announcement that it's time for me to go. However, when my dad's family or my ex-girlfriend were involved, announcing that it's time to go is merely the catalyst to a boring and awkward hour long conversation stood up in the hallway next to the front door. It's ridiculous. I once spent 45 minutes stuck in a narrow hallway making small talk with my mate's dad, because his wife and my missus had mutually agreed that it was home time, stood up, my mrs put her coat on and then started an entirely new conversation about furniture. Unbelievable.
Are they from Kent?
Well not originally, but virtually every example of the scenario in question has taken place in Kent, which is where my parents have lived since 1987. Do you think it's a specifically Kentish issue then?
My ex was from Barnsley, so obviously it's to be expected that she would have some irritating social habits, although I must admit I was quite surprised that she knew enough words to sustain a conversation for 45 minutes.
Well it does seem to be a thing - I call it the Kentish goodbye. I have several friends from Kent who can spend half an hour leaving the pub, my late father-in-law could still be chatting on facetime twenty minutes after you told him the house was on fire. My wife (who was was never quite as bad, thankfully) hadn't noticed until I pointed it out. Now she is with me all the way. It is not all people from Kent, obviously, but it happens.
Pretty much everything at the moment. Can’t remember the last time I felt so irritable and angsty. Think I might need to go to one of those places that allow you to smash up all sorts of shit with a sledgehammer to get the tension out before I proper blow a fuse.
Pretty much everything at the moment. Can’t remember the last time I felt so irritable and angsty. Think I might need to go to one of those places that allow you to smash up all sorts of shit with a sledgehammer to get the tension out before I proper blow a fuse.
Don't worry, we will win Saturday and you will feel a lot better
Pretty much everything at the moment. Can’t remember the last time I felt so irritable and angsty. Think I might need to go to one of those places that allow you to smash up all sorts of shit with a sledgehammer to get the tension out before I proper blow a fuse.
Don't worry, we will win Saturday and you will feel a lot better
Pretty much everything at the moment. Can’t remember the last time I felt so irritable and angsty. Think I might need to go to one of those places that allow you to smash up all sorts of shit with a sledgehammer to get the tension out before I proper blow a fuse.
Don't worry, we will win Saturday and you will feel a lot better
And if we lose...........?
If you find somewhere to smash up, tell me and I will join you
Pretty much everything at the moment. Can’t remember the last time I felt so irritable and angsty. Think I might need to go to one of those places that allow you to smash up all sorts of shit with a sledgehammer to get the tension out before I proper blow a fuse.
Don't worry, we will win Saturday and you will feel a lot better
Pretty much everything at the moment. Can’t remember the last time I felt so irritable and angsty. Think I might need to go to one of those places that allow you to smash up all sorts of shit with a sledgehammer to get the tension out before I proper blow a fuse.
Don't worry, we will win Saturday and you will feel a lot better
And if we lose...........?
If you find somewhere to smash up, tell me and I will join you
Pretty much everything at the moment. Can’t remember the last time I felt so irritable and angsty. Think I might need to go to one of those places that allow you to smash up all sorts of shit with a sledgehammer to get the tension out before I proper blow a fuse.
Oh you mean the bogs at the away end down the New Den ;-)
School mums in general, but special mention to those that drive 6.0 litre, 4x4 super trucks and have no idea of spacial awareness or how to control them. Stopping in all sorts of parking positions just so your fat shit bag of a child doesn’t have to walk more than 5 yards to the gate.
Bojo T Clown cheerfully admitting in a TV interview that he lied all along about the total carve up that is a no deal brexit Not in as many words obviously he and the cohort that manouvered him into number 10 are contemptible scum of the lowest order
School mums in general, but special mention to those that drive 6.0 litre, 4x4 super trucks and have no idea of spacial awareness or how to control them. Stopping in all sorts of parking positions just so your fat shit bag of a child doesn’t have to walk more than 5 yards to the gate.
School mums in general, but special mention to those that drive 6.0 litre, 4x4 super trucks and have no idea of spacial awareness or how to control them. Stopping in all sorts of parking positions just so your fat shit bag of a child doesn’t have to walk more than 5 yards to the gate.
I live near a couple of private private schools, and faith schools (where the liberal middle classes feign several years of religiousosity) and the only binding thread is the inability to see over the flipping steering wheel. I maintain that if an Addison Lee - Addison Lee - driver lived near me they would have a rear view mirror (crazy as that sounds) dripping with every religious artefact currently known to man. It's like a demolition derby most mornings.
School mums in general, but special mention to those that drive 6.0 litre, 4x4 super trucks and have no idea of spacial awareness or how to control them. Stopping in all sorts of parking positions just so your fat shit bag of a child doesn’t have to walk more than 5 yards to the gate.
I live near a couple of private private schools, and faith schools (where the liberal middle classes feign several years of religiousosity) and the only binding thread is the inability to see over the flipping steering wheel. I maintain that if an Addison Lee - Addison Lee - driver lived near me they would have a rear view mirror (crazy as that sounds) dripping with every religious artefact currently known to man. It's like a demolition derby most mornings.
I s'pose we all do the best we can for our children.
I know someone who sent their kid to a highly regarded faith school. She told me that it was a case of 'On your knees or pay the fees'. The car she drives is large, but would most likely be smaller if school fees had to be met. Divine intervention or a contradiction in terms?
School mums in general, but special mention to those that drive 6.0 litre, 4x4 super trucks and have no idea of spacial awareness or how to control them. Stopping in all sorts of parking positions just so your fat shit bag of a child doesn’t have to walk more than 5 yards to the gate.
I live near a couple of private private schools, and faith schools (where the liberal middle classes feign several years of religiousosity) and the only binding thread is the inability to see over the flipping steering wheel. I maintain that if an Addison Lee - Addison Lee - driver lived near me they would have a rear view mirror (crazy as that sounds) dripping with every religious artefact currently known to man. It's like a demolition derby most mornings.
I s'pose we all do the best we can for our children.
I know someone who sent their kid to a highly regarded faith school. She told me that it was a case of 'On your knees or pay the fees'. The car she drives is large, but would most likely be smaller if school fees had to be met. Divine intervention or a contradiction in terms?
Do what you want with your kids, just don't mount the curb when mine are walking by
Actually I think it's a case of self fulfilling prophecy... Faith schools aren't any better just have a higher proportion of children of upwardly mobile parents.
School mums in general, but special mention to those that drive 6.0 litre, 4x4 super trucks and have no idea of spacial awareness or how to control them. Stopping in all sorts of parking positions just so your fat shit bag of a child doesn’t have to walk more than 5 yards to the gate.
I live near a couple of private private schools, and faith schools (where the liberal middle classes feign several years of religiousosity) and the only binding thread is the inability to see over the flipping steering wheel. I maintain that if an Addison Lee - Addison Lee - driver lived near me they would have a rear view mirror (crazy as that sounds) dripping with every religious artefact currently known to man. It's like a demolition derby most mornings.
I s'pose we all do the best we can for our children.
I know someone who sent their kid to a highly regarded faith school. She told me that it was a case of 'On your knees or pay the fees'. The car she drives is large, but would most likely be smaller if school fees had to be met. Divine intervention or a contradiction in terms?
School mums in general, but special mention to those that drive 6.0 litre, 4x4 super trucks and have no idea of spacial awareness or how to control them. Stopping in all sorts of parking positions just so your fat shit bag of a child doesn’t have to walk more than 5 yards to the gate.
I live near a couple of private private schools, and faith schools (where the liberal middle classes feign several years of religiousosity) and the only binding thread is the inability to see over the flipping steering wheel. I maintain that if an Addison Lee - Addison Lee - driver lived near me they would have a rear view mirror (crazy as that sounds) dripping with every religious artefact currently known to man. It's like a demolition derby most mornings.
I s'pose we all do the best we can for our children.
I know someone who sent their kid to a highly regarded faith school. She told me that it was a case of 'On your knees or pay the fees'. The car she drives is large, but would most likely be smaller if school fees had to be met. Divine intervention or a contradiction in terms?
School mums in general, but special mention to those that drive 6.0 litre, 4x4 super trucks and have no idea of spacial awareness or how to control them. Stopping in all sorts of parking positions just so your fat shit bag of a child doesn’t have to walk more than 5 yards to the gate.
I live near a couple of private private schools, and faith schools (where the liberal middle classes feign several years of religiousosity) and the only binding thread is the inability to see over the flipping steering wheel. I maintain that if an Addison Lee - Addison Lee - driver lived near me they would have a rear view mirror (crazy as that sounds) dripping with every religious artefact currently known to man. It's like a demolition derby most mornings.
I s'pose we all do the best we can for our children.
I know someone who sent their kid to a highly regarded faith school. She told me that it was a case of 'On your knees or pay the fees'. The car she drives is large, but would most likely be smaller if school fees had to be met. Divine intervention or a contradiction in terms?
School mums in general, but special mention to those that drive 6.0 litre, 4x4 super trucks and have no idea of spacial awareness or how to control them. Stopping in all sorts of parking positions just so your fat shit bag of a child doesn’t have to walk more than 5 yards to the gate.
I live near a couple of private private schools, and faith schools (where the liberal middle classes feign several years of religiousosity) and the only binding thread is the inability to see over the flipping steering wheel. I maintain that if an Addison Lee - Addison Lee - driver lived near me they would have a rear view mirror (crazy as that sounds) dripping with every religious artefact currently known to man. It's like a demolition derby most mornings.
I s'pose we all do the best we can for our children.
I know someone who sent their kid to a highly regarded faith school. She told me that it was a case of 'On your knees or pay the fees'. The car she drives is large, but would most likely be smaller if school fees had to be met. Divine intervention or a contradiction in terms?
Annoyed isn't the word: Driver kills other motorist through admitted neglect and gets a 2 year driving ban plus 2 year suspended sentence. Has spent no time in custody and will spend no time in custody. The culprit's admission to the court that she was distracted by her mobile phone, "saw brake lights ahead but thought the traffic was still moving" will have been the most favourable wording possible without actually telling a lie. She claimed "I couldn't have been doing more than 70" - accident investigators estimate her speed at impact between 35 and 45 mph so she clearly had no mind on what she was doing at all. Utter disgrace Judge has cast the value of the slain motorcyclist at zero. Of course there is no suggestion the killer intended to harm anybody but to get off scot free essentially absolves her of responsibility for her actions. Accidentally killing someone is still manslaughter. Getting behind the wheel of a motorcar puts the driver in charge of a ton of metal and unequivocally responsible for everything that happens from that point forward. Ploughing into the back of stationery traffic on a dual carriageway because you admit to not paying sufficient attention to notice the traffic has stopped is exactly the same as jumping a red light on a pedestrian crossing. This reckless moron is a danger to society and her punishment should reflect that. If she'd carelessly kicked a brick off some scaffolding and killed a passer by she'd be done for manslaughter and serve a minimum 5 years - the death was accidental but the cause was wanton negligence rooted in reckless self-absorbed irresponsibility - do that at the wheel of a car and judges lose all grip on reason and responsibility. This particular blight on the judiciary and stain on humanity has to be defrocked immediately - he simply has no actual regard for human life at all. Were the fatality someone he knew, let alone a member of his family would he think differently - or at all? He's robbing our taxes to let negligent killers off scot free.
You can find the names of the culprit and the moron in the wig in today's tabloid press.
Automated phone call purporting to be from Amazon "suspicious order value £1050, press 1 to speak to Amazon orders, press 2 to speak to cancellations..." Scamming scum sucking sub humans Don't fall for it boys n girls - if it sounds even vaguely dodgy hang up, check it out elsewhere and then block the number.
I get 4 or 5 scam calls a day from callers with South Asian accents. Even more annoying as I’m waiting on calls re jobs. Like those that send emails pretending to be princes etc, I don’t care how desperate they are, these people are criminal scum.
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Inform your GP surgery and you may find they can do something to join up the dots.
We had similar with being identified as vulnerable requiring shielding earlier this year.
Checked the NHS letter with GP and they joined it up. Result, we got taken off the central 'needs to shield' list.
It was as simplistic as something that had been prescribed years ago.
”Listen, we’ve had a lovely time although the last three hours have been fucking unbearable. And boring.
I do not now need to stand around discussing utter shit for another forty five pissing minutes when we’ve got a git of a drive home and I’m busting for a dump. The food you served up was abominable and I’ll most likely be shitting through the eye of a needle for a week. And if you ever make us sit through repeats of Miranda and Mrs Brown’s Boys again, I will swing for you.
Happy fucking Christmas”.
*drops mic 🎤 *
And if we lose...........?
You take the sledgehammer, I’ll have the axe.
Oh you mean the bogs at the away end down the New Den ;-)
Not in as many words obviously
he and the cohort that manouvered him into number 10 are contemptible scum of the lowest order
I know someone who sent their kid to a highly regarded faith school. She told me that it was a case of 'On your knees or pay the fees'. The car she drives is large, but would most likely be smaller if school fees had to be met. Divine intervention or a contradiction in terms?
Actually I think it's a case of self fulfilling prophecy... Faith schools aren't any better just have a higher proportion of children of upwardly mobile parents.
Driver kills other motorist through admitted neglect and gets a 2 year driving ban plus 2 year suspended sentence. Has spent no time in custody and will spend no time in custody. The culprit's admission to the court that she was distracted by her mobile phone, "saw brake lights ahead but thought the traffic was still moving" will have been the most favourable wording possible without actually telling a lie. She claimed "I couldn't have been doing more than 70" - accident investigators estimate her speed at impact between 35 and 45 mph so she clearly had no mind on what she was doing at all.
Utter disgrace Judge has cast the value of the slain motorcyclist at zero.
Of course there is no suggestion the killer intended to harm anybody but to get off scot free essentially absolves her of responsibility for her actions.
Accidentally killing someone is still manslaughter.
Getting behind the wheel of a motorcar puts the driver in charge of a ton of metal and unequivocally responsible for everything that happens from that point forward. Ploughing into the back of stationery traffic on a dual carriageway because you admit to not paying sufficient attention to notice the traffic has stopped is exactly the same as jumping a red light on a pedestrian crossing. This reckless moron is a danger to society and her punishment should reflect that.
If she'd carelessly kicked a brick off some scaffolding and killed a passer by she'd be done for manslaughter and serve a minimum 5 years - the death was accidental but the cause was wanton negligence rooted in reckless self-absorbed irresponsibility - do that at the wheel of a car and judges lose all grip on reason and responsibility.
This particular blight on the judiciary and stain on humanity has to be defrocked immediately - he simply has no actual regard for human life at all. Were the fatality someone he knew, let alone a member of his family would he think differently - or at all? He's robbing our taxes to let negligent killers off scot free.
You can find the names of the culprit and the moron in the wig in today's tabloid press.
Scamming scum sucking sub humans
Don't fall for it boys n girls - if it sounds even vaguely dodgy hang up, check it out elsewhere and then block the number.