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Sbarcher

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  • May 15, 2025
  • #17,256
thekidfromstrettoncamp said:
Little sauce pouches can never undo them. Try to open it where it says "tear here" .Have to resort to my teeth and there getting fewer. at my age .Very often give up didn't want tartar sauce with my fish anyway not worth the effort.
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Sounds. Like you need a bottle of Heinz Fish and Chip sauce.
 

MalcSB

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  • May 15, 2025
  • #17,257
Ccfcisparks said:
And they sit in the middle lane on the motorway.
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Mainly youngsters in my experience! Saves all that weaving in and out of inside and middle lane.
 

MalcSB

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  • May 15, 2025
  • #17,258
Ccfcisparks said:
And they sit in the middle lane on the motorway.
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Mainly youngsters in my experience! Saves all that weaving in and out of inside and middle lane.
Ccfcisparks said:
Bad Drivers. Whether it be those in their BMW's and Merc's going 50mph in the middle lane of the motorway, the older generation going 20mph on 40mph causing traffic to be backed up half a mile, people who break and then indicate, people who don't indicate at all.

Can you tell driving annoys me?
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How do people break? Do their legs fall off?
 

Ccfcisparks

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  • May 15, 2025
  • #17,259
I’ve got another annoyance. The amount of notifications I get off Malc
 

MalcSB

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  • May 15, 2025
  • #17,260
Ccfcisparks said:
I’ve got another annoyance. The amount of notifications I get off Malc
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You say such interesting or outrageous things that are hard to ignore.
 
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AJB1983

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  • May 15, 2025
  • #17,261
MalcSB said:
In some cases nothing.
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True….
 

MalcSB

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  • May 15, 2025
  • #17,262
Eurovision
 
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Nick

Administrator
  • May 16, 2025
  • #17,263
NHS again to get seen by a GP.

"Ring up at 8AM"

Ring at 8, phone system is having a fit, eventually get into a queue at 8:05 where there are "over 30".

Sit on hold for just over an hour for a receptionist to take less than 30 seconds to huff, puff, act like a c**t and then book me an appointment. (the last one they had, as well).

It isn't hard to make it online so the vast majority can use that but then keep some back for people who can't.

Thankfully today I made sure I could sit in the queue but it's a fucking joke. If I couldn't have got an appointment, what then? A and E?
 
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MalcSB

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  • May 16, 2025
  • #17,264
Nick said:
NHS again to get seen by a GP.

"Ring up at 8AM"

Ring at 8, phone system is having a fit, eventually get into a queue at 8:05 where there are "over 30".

Sit on hold for just over an hour for a receptionist to take less than 30 seconds to huff, puff, act like a c**t and then book me an appointment. (the last one they had, as well).

It isn't hard to make it online so the vast majority can use that but then keep some back for people who can't.

Thankfully today I made sure I could sit in the queue but it's a fucking joke. If I couldn't have got an appointment, what then? A and E?
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A&E probably and fuck that service up as well for those that really need it.
 
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OffenhamSkyBlue

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  • May 16, 2025
  • #17,265
Nick said:
NHS again to get seen by a GP.

"Ring up at 8AM"

Ring at 8, phone system is having a fit, eventually get into a queue at 8:05 where there are "over 30".

Sit on hold for just over an hour for a receptionist to take less than 30 seconds to huff, puff, act like a c**t and then book me an appointment. (the last one they had, as well).

It isn't hard to make it online so the vast majority can use that but then keep some back for people who can't.

Thankfully today I made sure I could sit in the queue but it's a fucking joke. If I couldn't have got an appointment, what then? A and E?
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Call 111. They'll tell you to take 2 paracetamol and go to your GP, or call an ambulance if you think it's an emergency

We are very lucky with our GP practice. My wife rang them at 8 (as required) recently. Was answered in a few minutes. Was told she would be on the triage list. Doctor rang back at 8.30. Had quick couple of questions and said "Can you get here for 9.20?". Was home with prescribed meds by 10am.
 
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fernandopartridge

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  • May 16, 2025
  • #17,266
Blame successive ministers on the NHS debacle, as well as successive Chancellors and their useful idiots at NHS England.
 
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chiefdave

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  • May 16, 2025
  • #17,267
Nick said:
It isn't hard to make it online so the vast majority can use that but then keep some back for people who can't.
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This system already exists, its an app called Patient Access.

My GP, and by the sounds of things many others, turned off the option to book appointments on it when covid shut everything down and its never been turned back on.

It worked brilliantly, as someone with ongoing health issues I could book follow up / routine appointments weeks, or even months, in advance, with a specific doctor, and plan around work and any other commitments.

Now even when its something non urgent I have to join the scrum at 8am and hope I can get an early or late appointment so work doesn't get too pissed off, or that there even is an appointment at all because of the total refusal to book anything in advance.
MalcSB said:
A&E probably and fuck that service up as well for those that really need it.
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I ended up in A&E a while back, got patched up overnight and told to go to my GP in the morning. GP did fuck all and when the meds A&E had given me wore off I was back to square one. Phoned the GP again and was told there was no appointments available and to phone 111 ...
OffenhamSkyBlue said:
Call 111. They'll tell you to take 2 paracetamol and go to your GP, or call an ambulance if you think it's an emergency
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... phoned 111, got told they couldn't connect me with a GP or have an emergency GP come out as my surgery was listed as still being open at the time I phoned. Got told to go to A&E.

When I went back there they were fuming that my GP hadn't done anything and said it happens all the time, people end up in A&E either because they can't get a GP appointment in the first place of because the GP hasn't done the follow up properly.
 
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MalcSB

Well-Known Member
  • May 17, 2025
  • #17,268
fernandopartridge said:
Blame successive ministers on the NHS debacle, as well as successive Chancellors and their useful idiots at NHS England.
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I think Covid also contributed.
 
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OffenhamSkyBlue

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  • May 17, 2025
  • #17,269
The main issue is the debacle that is "social care". There are too few places in care homes or nursing homes, so people who don't need to be in hospital but can't live safely at home are bed blocking. Once they have been shifted, it then takes 15 hospital bed managers to decide if there is actually a bed free and communicate that to administrators in A&E, who then free up a cubicle so that the ambulance that the next patient is being treated in can be moved into it and get the ambulance back on the road!
I also struggle with the "over-resourcing" of certain incidents. A guy had a fall in a disused quarry while out walking in the Malverns yesterday, and it was attended by TWO air ambulances! These are charities and keeping them in the air costs a vast amount of money. Why send TWO for ONE casualty? The TV series "Ambulance" frequently shows two or more resources attending a single casualty, most of the time one crew is standing around scratching their arse!
Sorry, not quite GP related, but it's all part of the NHS food-chain!
 
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thekidfromstrettoncamp

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  • May 19, 2025
  • #17,270
Sbarcher said:
Sounds. Like you need a bottle of Heinz Fish and Chip sauce.
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Soon have my pockets full. I'd be weighed down carrying all differece sauces Bottle for this bottle for that..
 
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OffenhamSkyBlue

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  • May 19, 2025
  • #17,271
Sbarcher said:
Sounds. Like you need a bottle of Heinz Fish and Chip sauce.
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Not sure anyone needs one of them!
 

MalcSB

Well-Known Member
  • May 19, 2025
  • #17,272
OffenhamSkyBlue said:
Not sure anyone needs one of them!
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All these companies coming up with niche market items that no one really needs but will spend their money on.
 

Sbarcher

Well-Known Member
  • May 19, 2025
  • #17,273
MalcSB said:
All these companies coming up with niche market items that no one really needs but will spend their money on.
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No doubt subject of a focus group.
 
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OffenhamSkyBlue

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  • May 19, 2025
  • #17,274
Is that Heinz product an attempt to mimic the Scottish "Sauce" they put on their chips (especially in Edinburgh, i think)? Kind of a blend of vinegar and brown sauce. Revolting!
 

ovduk78

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  • May 19, 2025
  • #17,275
OffenhamSkyBlue said:
Is that Heinz product an attempt to mimic the Scottish "Sauce" they put on their chips (especially in Edinburgh, i think)? Kind of a blend of vinegar and brown sauce. Revolting!
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Isn't it Heinz just rebranding tartar sauce? I hope the other makers of tartar sauce keep calling it the correct name & Heinz sales drop and they have to change it back.
 
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MalcSB

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  • May 19, 2025
  • #17,276
OffenhamSkyBlue said:
Is that Heinz product an attempt to mimic the Scottish "Sauce" they put on their chips (especially in Edinburgh, i think)? Kind of a blend of vinegar and brown sauce. Revolting!
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Isn’t brown sauce mainly vinegar anyway?
 

MalcSB

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  • May 19, 2025
  • #17,277
OffenhamSkyBlue said:
The main issue is the debacle that is "social care". There are too few places in care homes or nursing homes, so people who don't need to be in hospital but can't live safely at home are bed blocking. Once they have been shifted, it then takes 15 hospital bed managers to decide if there is actually a bed free and communicate that to administrators in A&E, who then free up a cubicle so that the ambulance that the next patient is being treated in can be moved into it and get the ambulance back on the road!
I also struggle with the "over-resourcing" of certain incidents. A guy had a fall in a disused quarry while out walking in the Malverns yesterday, and it was attended by TWO air ambulances! These are charities and keeping them in the air costs a vast amount of money. Why send TWO for ONE casualty? The TV series "Ambulance" frequently shows two or more resources attending a single casualty, most of the time one crew is standing around scratching their arse!
Sorry, not quite GP related, but it's all part of the NHS food-chain!
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Ambulance can quite often send two resources, a rapid response single crew car and a two person regular ambulance in case a conveyance to hospital is required. Tye single crew car is to get a potentially life saving resource to an incident asap. They could do with releasing that resource as soon as the standard ambulance is deemed to be the required resource.
 
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Sbarcher

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  • May 20, 2025
  • #17,278
Another gripe about the NHS, although not the caring side.
Why does the NHS cost so much to run?
I've just had a call from my wife who was odering an item for her ward.
It costs £38 so she put the order through. She gets a call from "Procurement" saying she has to buy through them, that's the system.
It's exactly the same item from the same supplier but through the official channel it cost £230!
She is livid and will be complaining the the Trust CEO if she can't buy it direct.
Our money, being squandered away from the front line services.
 
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fernandopartridge

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  • May 20, 2025
  • #17,279
Sbarcher said:
Another gripe about the NHS, although not the caring side.
Why does the NHS cost so much to run?
I've just had a call from my wife who was odering an item for her ward.
It costs £38 so she put the order through. She gets a call from "Procurement" saying she has to buy through them, that's the system.
It's exactly the same item from the same supplier but through the official channel it cost £230!
She is livid and will be complaining the the Trust CEO if she can't buy it direct.
Our money, being squandered away from the front line services.
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What's the item?
 

Sbarcher

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  • May 20, 2025
  • #17,280
fernandopartridge said:
What's the item?
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Covers for sterilised equipment.
 

Nuskyblue

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  • May 20, 2025
  • #17,281
ovduk78 said:
Isn't it Heinz just rebranding tartar sauce? I hope the other makers of tartar sauce keep calling it the correct name & Heinz sales drop and they have to change it back.
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It's probably that it's no longer 'tartar' sauce cause they fucked with the recipe or something.

Also, what is the etymology of tartar here, something to do with the Mongolians?
 

pitts head

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  • May 20, 2025
  • #17,282
Having to go to Hackney for a week cat sitting for my daughter, while she is on tour. Would not have been to bad had we made the play off final.
 

LastGarrison

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  • May 20, 2025
  • #17,283
Having to meet partners from Sunderland in our head office today who were very quick to mention they’ll be back in London on Saturday.

Not ashamed to admit the professional mask slipped a little and I was very quick to tell them that Hamer and O’Hare were gonna smash them and I’d see them next year.
 
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OffenhamSkyBlue

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  • May 22, 2025
  • #17,284
LastGarrison said:
Having to meet partners from Sunderland in our head office today who were very quick to mention they’ll be back in London on Saturday.

Not ashamed to admit the professional mask slipped a little and I was very quick to tell them that Hamer and O’Hare were gonna smash them and I’d see them next year.
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Is it regarded as poor form in your organisation to call your partners "c*nts" in a meeting?
 
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skyblueinBaku

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  • May 23, 2025
  • #17,285
Sbarcher said:
Another gripe about the NHS, although not the caring side.
Why does the NHS cost so much to run?
I've just had a call from my wife who was odering an item for her ward.
It costs £38 so she put the order through. She gets a call from "Procurement" saying she has to buy through them, that's the system.
It's exactly the same item from the same supplier but through the official channel it cost £230!
She is livid and will be complaining the the Trust CEO if she can't buy it direct.
Our money, being squandered away from the front line services.
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The official reason for that would make interesting reading
 
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MalcSB

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  • May 24, 2025
  • #17,286
skyblueinBaku said:
The official reason for that would make interesting reading
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It used to be in the interest of standardisation and reducing variability. part of the theory was that NHS Supplies had national purchasing power and would be able to get the very best prices. Problem was, they used to have to add the NHS Supplies costs on to this prices to sell on in to the service. Purchasing staff, warehouse costs, logistics. A 600% on cost does seem extreme.

I expect @ fernandoprtridge could give you current chapter and verse on todays reasons.
 

MalcSB

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  • May 24, 2025
  • #17,287
Sbarcher said:
Covers for sterilised equipment.
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They don't sound terribly technical or complex.
 

MalcSB

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  • May 24, 2025
  • #17,288
Nuskyblue said:
It's probably that it's no longer 'tartar' sauce cause they fucked with the recipe or something.

Also, what is the etymology of tartar here, something to do with the Mongolians?
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Googled etymology

  • Tatars:
    The word "tartar" has historical ties to the Tatars, a Turkic-speaking group from Central Asia and Eastern Europe. They were known for their nomadic lifestyle and military prowess, and their diet included raw meat.

  • Steak Tartare:
    The Tatars' practice of eating raw, minced meat led to the French dish known as steak tartare, which is often served with a sauce similar to tartar sauce.

  • Sauce Tartare:
    The sauce that became popular with steak tartare was named "sauce tartare" by the French, referencing the Tatars' association with raw meat dishes.

  • Tartar Sauce:
    Eventually, the sauce evolved and became popular on its own, becoming known as tartar sauce in English.

  • Cream of Tartar:
    It's important to note that cream of tartar, a baking ingredient, is also named "tartar" but it has a different origin related to a byproduct of wine fermentation and is unrelated to the Tatars or steak tartare.
 
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CovValleyBoy

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  • May 24, 2025
  • #17,289
This generational thing where people arrive at a food counter.
Say a coffee shop & order by saying "can I GET..... " wtf does my head in
 
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Nick

Administrator
  • May 24, 2025
  • #17,290
People who work in recruitment.

There are some very decent people however there are a LOT of snakes.
 
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