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  • ME14addick
    ME14addick Posts: 9,821
    Stig said:
    Best wishes to you and your husband, Emmy. Fully understand why you'd want the decs up now. Here's hoping that his treatments do their job and you never have to go early again. ;)
    Thank you,  we hope so too.
  • ValleyGary
    ValleyGary Posts: 38,178
    How does someone get ‘pissed off’ with Christmas, unless you endlessly listen to the radio or watch tv adverts?
  • gringo
    gringo Posts: 690
    IHow does someone get ‘pissed off’ with Christmas, unless you endlessly listen to the radio or watch tv adverts

    I hate happy people, (probably the reason im a CAFC fan), thankfully you dont see a lotkof happy people at christmas.
  • Arsenetatters
    Arsenetatters Posts: 6,051
    ValleyGary said:
    How does someone get ‘pissed off’ with Christmas, unless you endlessly listen to the radio or watch tv adverts?
    Because for me it’s a miserable time of year. It reminds me that my Mum and Dad aren’t alive, it’s full of consumerism gone mad while there are people needing food banks. Unless you have young kids or are religious I don’t get what’s so great. Football on Boxing Day is the start of getting it out the way.
  • LargeAddick
    LargeAddick Posts: 32,930
    edited November 28
    Someone doing the pre match preview before checking there are no new signings to consider 😂😂
  • LargeAddick
    LargeAddick Posts: 32,930
    Arsenetatters said:
    ValleyGary said:
    How does someone get ‘pissed off’ with Christmas, unless you endlessly listen to the radio or watch tv adverts?
    Because for me it’s a miserable time of year. It reminds me that my Mum and Dad aren’t alive, it’s full of consumerism gone mad while there are people needing food banks. Unless you have young kids or are religious I don’t get what’s so great. Football on Boxing Day is the start of getting it out the way.
    I’m a bit bah humbug about Xmas. Great if you have kids or are a God botherer (no offence intended) but for me, no thanks. Glad when it’s over.
  • JohnBoyUK
    JohnBoyUK Posts: 9,115
    ValleyGary said:
    How does someone get ‘pissed off’ with Christmas, unless you endlessly listen to the radio or watch tv adverts?

    I dont know about you VG but the Christmas Day's I wasn't able to spend with my daughter were horrible.  I used to get proper down in the run up to it.

    I used to hate NYE too, much much more than Christmas.  One NYE (31/12/13) I was totally on my own, so I ended up going for a 16 mile run at 10:30pm, knowing I'd totally miss midnight.  Thankfully that was the last NYE before I met my wife and we proper celebrate it now!
     
  • O-Randy-Hunt
    O-Randy-Hunt Posts: 10,849
    Christmas is the bollocks. It's the one thing that keeps me going when the dark nights draw in. Booze, plenty of food/chocolate and stoopid games with all the family & friends and more booze and food. Beats the depressing months of Jan/Feb.
  • ValleyGary
    ValleyGary Posts: 38,178
    I get the emotional loss, having lost my old man a few years ago. However, it just highlights the amazing christmases we had with him and when we get together we raise a toast and have a fucking great time as a family.

    Just my outlook but I completely respect other people are different and send much love.
  • ValleyGary
    ValleyGary Posts: 38,178
    On another note, I’ve done a lot of travelling lately with work and a couple of city breaks. The average human when in an airport, or train station turns into a fucking div. Accompanied with a suitcase it’s even worse. People are absolutely  brain dead 

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  • cantersaddick
    cantersaddick Posts: 17,400
    ValleyGary said:
    On another note, I’ve done a lot of travelling lately with work and a couple of city breaks. The average human when in an airport, or train station turns into a fucking div. Accompanied with a suitcase it’s even worse. People are absolutely  brain dead 
    I always say "why do I always go to the airport on the day when everyone else there is experiencing their first day on earth". People just standing blocking the entrance to escalators or being unable to read signs or just walking into people. Must be they just get in holiday mode a bit early. 
  • AFKABartram
    AFKABartram Posts: 58,122
    ValleyGary said:
    On another note, I’ve done a lot of travelling lately with work and a couple of city breaks. The average human when in an airport, or train station turns into a fucking div. Accompanied with a suitcase it’s even worse. People are absolutely  brain dead 
    glad to hear the work side of things have worked out well for you @ValleyGary
    after the difficulties during the Covid period mate 
  • ValleyGary
    ValleyGary Posts: 38,178
    edited November 29
    AFKABartram said:
    ValleyGary said:
    On another note, I’ve done a lot of travelling lately with work and a couple of city breaks. The average human when in an airport, or train station turns into a fucking div. Accompanied with a suitcase it’s even worse. People are absolutely  brain dead 
    glad to hear the work side of things have worked out well for you @ValleyGary
    after the difficulties during the Covid period mate 
    Cheers mate, top man.
  • Gribbo
    Gribbo Posts: 8,652
    Algarveaddick said:
    Macronate said:
    Can you all take a leaf out of Tesco's book please and stop referring to it as Christmas and, instead, buy one of their 'evergreen trees'.
    Gives me the chance to post this again... (Nothing personal Macca)




    Well done for picking up on trivial faux outrage, Pezza, while the country is genuinely going to the dogs 👌💪👏
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,291
    cantersaddick said:
    ValleyGary said:
    On another note, I’ve done a lot of travelling lately with work and a couple of city breaks. The average human when in an airport, or train station turns into a fucking div. Accompanied with a suitcase it’s even worse. People are absolutely  brain dead 
    I always say "why do I always go to the airport on the day when everyone else there is experiencing their first day on earth". People just standing blocking the entrance to escalators or being unable to read signs or just walking into people. Must be they just get in holiday mode a bit early. 
    I'll defend people here and say that airports aren't the easiest things to negotiate. There's a whole load of processes to go through, and unless you're lucky enough to be a frequent flier, those processes change between one journey and the next. People have bags to carry and often have children to look after. Everyone has to find out where they are going from the same cluster of screens. Airlines and their sub-contracted check in 'partners' desperately try to minimise all human forms of assistance. Essential services like toilets and drinking water are often tucked out of the way, the limited space being given over to an enforced Ikea-style route marches where the senses are bombarded with bright lights and a cocktail of disgusting smelling chemicals. Airports are designed to cope with optimum passenger flows, but as soon as one flight is delayed, those flows become sub-optimal. The limited space means that as soon as someone pauses for thought, they become a barrier to someone else's progress, and then that person unwittingly, and quite likely unknowingly, becomes a barrier in someone else's desperate slalom towards the exit gate.

    It's not the people who are the problem, but the unfamiliarity and difficulty of the process, the deliberate poor design of airports favouring commercialism over comfort or expediency and the general lack of space that are at issue.
  • Algarveaddick
    Algarveaddick Posts: 21,329
    edited November 30
    Stig said:
    cantersaddick said:
    ValleyGary said:
    On another note, I’ve done a lot of travelling lately with work and a couple of city breaks. The average human when in an airport, or train station turns into a fucking div. Accompanied with a suitcase it’s even worse. People are absolutely  brain dead 
    I always say "why do I always go to the airport on the day when everyone else there is experiencing their first day on earth". People just standing blocking the entrance to escalators or being unable to read signs or just walking into people. Must be they just get in holiday mode a bit early. 
    I'll defend people here and say that airports aren't the easiest things to negotiate. There's a whole load of processes to go through, and unless you're lucky enough to be a frequent flier, those processes change between one journey and the next. People have bags to carry and often have children to look after. Everyone has to find out where they are going from the same cluster of screens. Airlines and their sub-contracted check in 'partners' desperately try to minimise all human forms of assistance. Essential services like toilets and drinking water are often tucked out of the way, the limited space being given over to an enforced Ikea-style route marches where the senses are bombarded with bright lights and a cocktail of disgusting smelling chemicals. Airports are designed to cope with optimum passenger flows, but as soon as one flight is delayed, those flows become sub-optimal. The limited space means that as soon as someone pauses for thought, they become a barrier to someone else's progress, and then that person unwittingly, and quite likely unknowingly, becomes a barrier in someone else's desperate slalom towards the exit gate.

    It's not the people who are the problem, but the unfamiliarity and difficulty of the process, the deliberate poor design of airports favouring commercialism over comfort or expediency and the general lack of space that are at issue.
    Yes, but stopping to look around right in front of a bottleneck, when you can walk twenty feet into acres of space to do the same is a bit inconsiderate, mate. 
  • Raith_C_Chattonell
    Raith_C_Chattonell Posts: 5,752
    Yes I know Christmas is commercialised every which way, but this dog ugly  'Stranger Things' tree on Waterloo Station is a step too far imo.  Surely a brightly lit tree with a simple message of Happy Christmas would suffice.



    Close up ...


  • charltonkeston
    charltonkeston Posts: 7,405
    Arsenetatters said:
    ValleyGary said:
    How does someone get ‘pissed off’ with Christmas, unless you endlessly listen to the radio or watch tv adverts?
    Because for me it’s a miserable time of year. It reminds me that my Mum and Dad aren’t alive, it’s full of consumerism gone mad while there are people needing food banks. Unless you have young kids or are religious I don’t get what’s so great. Football on Boxing Day is the start of getting it out the way.
    I’m with you on some of the things you wrote. It will be my first Christmas without my mother who died earlier this year. It’s a tough one but I’m a man in my early 60’s so I’ve been fortunate really and have to get on with it. I still miss having a pint Christmas Day up the pub with my dad but I haven’t done that for 30 odd years, he died years ago.  
    My sister has a friend who lived in a children’s home, no family whatsoever. She was pregnant  as a teenager and had son. She used to have Christmas Day , just the 2 of them, with bugger all. I always think of her at this time of year. 
    There are so many things wrong in this country, loneliness and poverty should not be 2 of them.  
    That said I love the build up to the big day and do try to enjoy the festivities with family and friends. 



  • DaveMehmet
    DaveMehmet Posts: 21,734
    charltonkeston said:
    Arsenetatters said:
    ValleyGary said:
    How does someone get ‘pissed off’ with Christmas, unless you endlessly listen to the radio or watch tv adverts?
    Because for me it’s a miserable time of year. It reminds me that my Mum and Dad aren’t alive, it’s full of consumerism gone mad while there are people needing food banks. Unless you have young kids or are religious I don’t get what’s so great. Football on Boxing Day is the start of getting it out the way.
    I’m with you on some of the things you wrote. It will be my first Christmas without my mother who died earlier this year. It’s a tough one but I’m a man in my early 60’s so I’ve been fortunate really and have to get on with it. I still miss having a pint Christmas Day up the pub with my dad but I haven’t done that for 30 odd years, he died years ago.  
    My sister has a friend who lived in a children’s home, no family whatsoever. She was pregnant  as a teenager and had son. She used to have Christmas Day , just the 2 of them, with bugger all. I always think of her at this time of year. 
    There are so many things wrong in this country, loneliness and poverty should not be 2 of them.  
    That said I love the build up to the big day and do try to enjoy the festivities with family and friends. 



    I’m going to miss probably the last Christmas my mum will know what’s going on. She was diagnosed with dementia recently and appears to be going downhill fast. We’re going to be away for the first time ever over Christmas so she’s staying with my sister. Feel bad for my sis as it’s a lot to put on her and the BIL as they’re not local but we’ve had it booked for months and would lose a fortune if we had to cancel. 
  • Arsenetatters
    Arsenetatters Posts: 6,051
    People who take out their anger on the wrong people. 
    I went into the GP’s surgery to book a blood test and while I was waiting in the queue there was a bloke ranting and raving at the girl who works in the dispensary. She’s such a helpful person and to see her get this abuse was awful. She was keeping her cool and saying that he needs to see the practice manager etc. I felt really anxious and asked him if he would stop shouting as I suffered from anxiety. No luck - he suffers from anxiety too apparently. Fortunately he stormed off saying he will be back tomorrow. 
    But he’s shouting at the wrong people. No one deserves to be shouted at and this poor girl doesn’t make the rules. 
    I expect Bertie Big Bollox will go in tomorrow and demand to see the manager. I really hope they strike him off their list as their notice says. 

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  • T_C_E
    T_C_E Posts: 16,449
    After almost a month of illness and several attempts to get a doctors appointment Mrs TCE lapsed into the onset of a chest infection and took to her bed, with no apparent time for even a phone call from the gp I ended up calling 111.
    With her breathlessness along with asthma and a heart condition they decided to send an ambulance, the paramedics were brilliant but were hampered by the system and ended up transferring her to Medway hospital where after nine hours the hospital sent her home at 3am with no diagnosis but recommended bed rest at home.
    Three days later she went downhill again, again 111 more paramedics who again were fantastic but again hampered by the system where they could see an issue which treated by the correct drugs was easily remedied but they were not qualified to prescribe them.
    Several calls to our gp by the paramedics resulted in no return calls as promised by receptionists and after 90 minutes they got in touch with their boss who used his position to circumnavigate the system and a doctor called within minutes and appropriate drugs prescribed.
    The following day, she got up to sit in the chair alongside me in the lounge, as she sat down she made the most horrible noise and as I described to a doctor at the hospital it was like her last breath. 
    Staring straight ahead, mouth slightly open and not responding she had swallowed her tongue, I dragged her out of the chair,  hooked her tongue using my fingers and managed to remove my hand before losing a digit as her breathing returned to normal as she returned to the room. 
    This time a call to the gp resulted in an appointment two days later, where we were told a viral infection had brought on an epileptic siezure unlike a fit there was no flaying about and my actions which now she’s better are really grinding my wife’s gears were commended by the doctor. 
    Then the punchline came as we were leaving, any more problems “COME BACK AND SEE ME” 

    Something we wanted a month ago was the politest reply I could come up with.
    Those in the front line often receive our anger, do they deserve it? 
    No they don’t……
    Whats the answer? 
    I don’t know…..
    But I thought I’d lost the most precious person in my life, because we couldn’t get a doctors appointment so something is wrong with the system. 
  • Covered End
    Covered End Posts: 52,234
    Phew hope she’s on the mend T_C_E
    (says the man currently sitting in the same day emergency care room at the PRUH with his wife who has blood pressure 220/100.
  • KBslittlesis
    KBslittlesis Posts: 8,744
    Christ it all sounds bloody awful.
    Himself and I have put ourselves down as Community First Responders. We’re a back up for the paramedics who can take forever to get to you in rural communities. Had all the training now, so should start in the New Year. 
    Reading what everyone is having to put up with I’m just glad to be of some help to someone should they need it.
  • LargeAddick
    LargeAddick Posts: 32,930
    That sounds horrific @TCE, unfortunately the whole NHS is a shambles. There are loads of good people working within it but the organisation itself has gone to hell in a handcart. 
  • cantersaddick
    cantersaddick Posts: 17,400
    That's awful TCE. Glad she's in the mend now.
  • ME14addick
    ME14addick Posts: 9,821
    LargeAddick said:
    That sounds horrific @TCE, unfortunately the whole NHS is a shambles. There are loads of good people working within it but the organisation itself has gone to hell in a handcart. 
    I won't repeat here, the details I put on the 'value of the NHS' thread, but my husband's experience of the NHS over the last 4 months has been excellent. I know it isn't the same everywhere, but the whole NHS is not a shambles. 
  • ValleyGary
    ValleyGary Posts: 38,178
    People that click their bones, especially their fingers one by one. Fucking rancid.
  • Carter
    Carter Posts: 14,349
    ValleyGary said:
    People that click their bones, especially their fingers one by one. Fucking rancid.
    I do that, and I hate it too

    Its a habit, my missus whacks me when I do my neck. When other people do it I want to throw them off a tall building 
  • thickandthin63
    thickandthin63 Posts: 2,998
    During the latter part of my working life,I spent 6 years managing a farm shop.Christmas time for me was horrific,2-3 times a week up to Spitalfields Market 4am,unloading maybe 150 sacks of potatoes every couple of days.(not alone doing this)And then the icing on the cake,Fucking Christmas trees.They were delivered to me netted up,but every one who wanted one,obviously wanted to see what it was like out of the netting,this one is too sparse,this one too bushey,wrong height,and whatever else you could find wrong,I drew the line at un netting 3 trees per person because some people just pissed you about.Come Christmas I was out on my feet,(I was in my 60s) at the time and have hated christmas ever since.This was some time ago when we were in the premiership,and my claim to fame is Claus Jensen bought a Tree from me.What a lovely man he ,insisted on loading it into his Range Rover himself,which I did not allow in case he buggered his back up and couldnt play .
  • Algarveaddick
    Algarveaddick Posts: 21,329
    ValleyGary said:
    People that click their bones, especially their fingers one by one. Fucking rancid.
    Bones clicking by their own accord, uninvited. 

    I stood up after squatting down for a while the other day (no I wasn't doing that) and the noise from my knees was like someone sitting on bubble wrap...  

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