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Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
« Reply #1375 on: 19 April 2017, 04:23:58 pm »

I think he just wanted some painkillers that were stronger than the over the counter ones you can get (which he presumably has tried with no results), to get him over the hump while his body's defence system kicked in and sorted out his problem. As you say, his absence from the Doc's kind of proves he isn't a snivelling hypochondriac, so why shouldn't the doc prescribe a limited amount of Co-Codamol or Co-proxamol? They must cost pennies to the NHS, and if not, a tender should go out to the drug companies for a new supply.

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Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
« Reply #1376 on: 19 April 2017, 05:17:33 pm »
Mrs Sharp swears by panadol extra or any other with a paracetamol in combination with caffeine mix 500 mg/65 mg

next up you go too Ibuprofen and Codeine 200 mg/12.8 mg


And even better than that is Solpadeine Plus Tablets that has codine also caffeine

I am not a doctor, always consult a healhcare professional before taking medicines.
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Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
« Reply #1377 on: 19 April 2017, 05:35:06 pm »
Declaring a general election and the £GBP surges against the €€€€, why did she not declare a general election last week. My pension is paid in €€€€€ and went into the bank the day she declared the election date. okay it is only cents but as Tesco's say every little helps.
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Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
« Reply #1378 on: 19 April 2017, 10:52:52 pm »
 Sorry Joebloggs, that attitude this morning was unnecessary, I'm not usually an argumentative foccer.  I just assumed you were expecting antibiotics and overprescribing is a real problem with dangerous bacteria become resistant. Sorry again.  :rolleyes

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Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
« Reply #1379 on: 20 April 2017, 12:10:34 am »
What did you actually want then? a throatectomy? Antibiotics are way overprescribed nowadays and doctors have been told to give them only when absolutely necessary.  That you haven't been to the doctors for ten years tells him that you're healthy enough to fight a mild infection without them. If it carries on or get's worse you can go back for further investigation. Sorry what's the issue? It's surely a better result than hearing you've got 3 days to live.
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Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
« Reply #1380 on: 20 April 2017, 04:46:15 am »
Sorry Joebloggs, that attitude this morning was unnecessary, I'm not usually an argumentative foccer.  I just assumed you were expecting antibiotics and overprescribing is a real problem with dangerous bacteria become resistant. Sorry again.  :rolleyes

No, billy was right, a few days worth of painkillers was what I was really after, like he said it's not like I'm always up there begging for pills.

As for your post, no problem, its a free world, just hope your balls rot and don't drop off  :b
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Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
« Reply #1381 on: 20 April 2017, 06:08:20 pm »
Sorry Joebloggs, that attitude this morning was unnecessary, I'm not usually an argumentative foccer.  I just assumed you were expecting antibiotics and overprescribing is a real problem with dangerous bacteria become resistant. Sorry again.  :rolleyes

No, billy was right, a few days worth of painkillers was what I was really after, like he said it's not like I'm always up there begging for pills.

As for your post, no problem, its a free world, just hope your balls rot and don't drop off  :b


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Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
« Reply #1382 on: 20 April 2017, 09:06:03 pm »
Arseholes on big torquey bikes who don't know how to overtake!

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Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
« Reply #1383 on: 20 April 2017, 09:21:21 pm »
motorbike insurance companies and brokers. Thieving robdogs

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Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
« Reply #1384 on: 20 April 2017, 09:27:47 pm »
ALL insurance companies and brokers. Thieving robdogs


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Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
« Reply #1385 on: 22 April 2017, 05:11:32 pm »
A 2 parter.......

1. Foccing supermarkets that shut off the closest 50 spaces to make space to advertise cars!!! It's pissing down with rain and they are filling the car park with new Audis, (which in itself doesn't sound that bad u till you realise the Audi garage is foccing next door!!!). Seriously, how many people nip to tesco for a loaf of bread and think "oh I'll just buy a new Audi while I'm here!!"

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Coffin dodgers in cages who stop at every foccing roundabout regardless of if there's anything coming! 6 roundabouts in a row I was behind this foccing fossil and not one of them had anything coming yet she still decided to come to a full stop at every one!! Didn't help that I was trying to get to a meeting on time either!

Special mention for wankers who get up your arse on the motorway while your overtaking, theyre doing about 20 over the limit then flash their lights the moment your bumper is 2 inches in front of the vehicle your passing. Needless to say I didn't move across and forced the prick to undertake me just to prove a point. Not sure what that point was but felt better for inconveniencing him haha
I wouldn't have minded but I was already speeding myself
 
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Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
« Reply #1386 on: 23 April 2017, 11:03:27 am »
Flat battery. That's today's ride out the window, and more expense for a new one before my Euro trip. Bugger. Still, better to find out now rather than half way across Spain I suppose.

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Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
« Reply #1387 on: 23 April 2017, 12:13:58 pm »
Flat battery. That's today's ride out the window, and more expense for a new one before my Euro trip. Bugger. Still, better to find out now rather than half way across Spain I suppose.


Just coz a battery goes flat doesn't mean it needs changing


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Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
« Reply #1388 on: 23 April 2017, 12:32:20 pm »
Flat battery. That's today's ride out the window, and more expense for a new one before my Euro trip. Bugger. Still, better to find out now rather than half way across Spain I suppose.


Just coz a battery goes flat doesn't mean it needs changing


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Thing is, the bike was unused for a couple months in the winter, and I came out to find it completely dead. It charged up ok, and I had a couple of rides with no problems. But to find it flat a second time and not that long after it's last use...nope, not going to take the chance.

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Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
« Reply #1389 on: 25 April 2017, 12:12:58 pm »
Dickhead HGV drivers.

Going up to London, approaching the Hindhead Tunnel, the traffic is all backed up and a 40mph limit is in effect, so I'm filtering up through it as always and I've just got most of the way past an artic when he starts indicating right and begins to try to push into Lane 2 because, up ahead, the sign for Lane 1 has a red X on it.

I brake, because I don't want him pulling over on me and I'm looking up at him in his mirror, he's waving and effing and blinding because I'm stopping him from moving over.

WTF? If he had a) checked his mirror before starting to manoeuvre or b) would wait about five seconds more, the vehicle on my right would move up, I could get past and he could move in, everyone wins.

But, no, he seems to want me to stop, let 40 feet of trailer go by and *then* proceed! Bugger that.

So I stay where I am, wait for the vehicle on my right to move, slip through and carry on, giving the guy a wave (and not with one finger!) to which he responds by flashing his lights repeatedly and waving his hand about.

Whatever.

So I go past the red X lane closed and there's a matrix sign saying "Pedestrian in road" and maintaining the 40 limit.

Next lane sign, however, has both arrows green. "Hmm, ok," I think, "I could move over to Lane 1, but nobody else has. The sign could be a mistake, so I'll wait for the next one." The next one is also both green, so I move over even though pretty much everyone else is staying in Lane 2.

I say "pretty much everyone", because guess who I see coming up behind me...

Now it's still a 40 limit, I'm not going to risk a ticket because of this idiot trying to tailgate me, so I keep my speed down, just tweaking the throttle to keep far enough ahead of him.

Finally we get out of the tunnel and past the second average speed camera, I kick it down a couple of gears and "Goodbye, asshole!"

I hope he feels better...

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Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
« Reply #1390 on: 26 April 2017, 07:21:27 pm »

 Re: Dickhead HGV drivers
  A few weeks ago we were going through Elkesley on the A1. It's a 50 mph speed limit with cameras and occasionally police cars. The OH was driving and keeping to the speed limit in lane 1 with driver who were happy to risk a ticket going past in lane 2 and a Knobhead in a bloody great artic behind was trying to get into our boot 'encouraging' the wife to speed up a bit. She didn't. About 1/4 of a mile from the derestriction sign he forced his way into lane 2 and drove past, my wife pulled out to overtake the slower trucks ready to accelerate and this arsehole stayed in the outside lane at about 45 mph for about 5 miles cos we'd slowed him down through the 50mph speed limit. They think they own the bloody road.

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Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
« Reply #1391 on: 27 April 2017, 11:24:07 am »
if you've got it all on dashcam report to the police. they are very obliging I must say.
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Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
« Reply #1392 on: 28 April 2017, 03:17:46 pm »
The French language, there's a not unattractive woman sitting no more than 5feet away from me and for some strange reason I have the urge to tell her to shut the foc up
horrible language
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Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
« Reply #1393 on: 28 April 2017, 03:23:51 pm »
The French language, there's a not unattractive woman sitting no more than 5feet away from me and for some strange reason I have the urge to tell her to shut the foc up
horrible language

Try this

Ferme-toi et asseyez-vous sur mon visage

or

Obtenez vos gencives autour de ceci
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Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
« Reply #1394 on: 28 April 2017, 11:40:45 pm »

Shut yourself and sit on my face gold
Get your gums around this.


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Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
« Reply #1395 on: 29 April 2017, 12:33:32 am »
Probably the sign of a misspent youth but when I here a german woman talking ( except Angela Merkin Merkel) it sounds like a porno :rolleyes
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Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
« Reply #1396 on: 29 April 2017, 08:15:31 am »
Probably the sign of a misspent youth but when I here a german woman talking ( except Angela Merkin Merkel) it sounds like a porno :rolleyes


There was a German fella at my work yesterday, a really pleasant and decent bloke, but he had an accent that was comedy gold when he spoke English.
His real voice resembled something straight out of 'Allo Allo'.
If i was to mimic his voice he would've probably looked at me thinking "Why is he talking like that?"  :lol
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Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
« Reply #1397 on: 29 April 2017, 08:19:32 am »
Probably the sign of a misspent youth but when I here a german woman talking ( except Angela Merkin Merkel) it sounds like a porno :rolleyes


There was a German fella at my work yesterday, a really pleasant and decent bloke, but he had an accent that was comedy gold when he spoke English.
His real voice resembled something straight out of 'Allo Allo'.
If i was to mimic his voice he would've probably looked at me thinking "Why is he talking like that?"  :lol

One of our top managers is Irish, sounds just like farther Ted, really not easy to keep a straight face when he asks you something
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Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
« Reply #1398 on: 29 April 2017, 09:01:15 am »
Went to a dentist here in France yesterday, never been to this fella before. He was from Dublin and can talk more than my Mrs who talks for England. Turns out he is a biker has a string of classics his favourite being the CBX 6 cylinder. By the time we finished talking bikes he says I will be needing to make another appointment as my next patient is waiting, lol, ah well it was only for a descale and polish. :D
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Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
« Reply #1399 on: 30 April 2017, 07:45:01 pm »
lucky you I had to have my front feckers taken out,loose through gum disease .
so now I have a bigger knashers.lol :D

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