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Re: What annoys people????
Posted: Sat Jul 31, 2021 8:38 am
by big mervyn
rumncoke wrote: ↑Fri Jul 30, 2021 5:27 am
The lack of clarity is deliberate -- there are those who read and post here would recognise me if I provided too much information.
2 clogged with blood and had to be removed one was in, removed, and all was well in the land of rumn for about 18 hours when problems arose and I was told to go to A&E at the Royal where the first clogged and the Dr goes I need a bigger catheter -- fine except the wife started to laugh the other side of the screen
Life is hard for those the wrong side of 70+++
Good to see nobody's taken the p$ss.
Re: What annoys people????
Posted: Sun Aug 01, 2021 11:34 pm
by rumncoke
BaST==D !!!!
DEAD painful each one is believe me
Re: What annoys people????
Posted: Sun Aug 01, 2021 11:58 pm
by big mervyn
rumncoke wrote: ↑Sun Aug 01, 2021 11:34 pm
BaST==D !!!!
DEAD painful each one is believe me
Joking aside Rum. I have some indirect experience from caring from an elderly relative so I do sympathise.
Re: What annoys people????
Posted: Mon Aug 02, 2021 7:51 am
by rumncoke
It reminded me of an old story of a man selling a country cottage with an out side loo .and a buyer commented that it was doorless to which the old man replied " I lived here 60 years and more and nobody stolen a bucket of pi$h yet"
Re: What annoys people????
Posted: Wed Aug 04, 2021 1:53 pm
by rumncoke
nobody tells you of bladder spasms, penile pain and super urge and surge -- near blackout time
Must say most of the nurses are wonderful
Re: What annoys people????
Posted: Wed Aug 04, 2021 7:30 pm
by solidarity
Hang in there, Rum. Keep posting.
Re: What annoys people????
Posted: Thu Aug 05, 2021 6:22 pm
by Bart S
What annoys me - Including Test appearances for the Lions in the number of international caps a player has. They are completely different things. Reaching 100 caps is a great milestone but celebrate 100 caps for your country, not 96 plus 4 Lions ones.
Re: What annoys people????
Posted: Thu Aug 05, 2021 7:14 pm
by big mervyn
Bart S wrote: ↑Thu Aug 05, 2021 6:22 pm
What annoys me - Including Test appearances for the Lions in the number of international caps a player has. They are completely different things. Reaching 100 caps is a great milestone but celebrate 100 caps for your country, not 96 plus 4 Lions ones.
Test caps are a bit of a joke these days. I don't think one should be awarded unless a player is on the pitch for at least 20 mins. There are probably a few "one test wonders" with 2 mins of international rugby.
Re: What annoys people????
Posted: Wed Aug 11, 2021 6:49 pm
by solidarity
Lionel Messi's pay packet. Between a quarter and half a million per week. For playing football?
Re: What annoys people????
Posted: Wed Aug 11, 2021 6:54 pm
by solidarity
A level results.
I know a bloke with a PhD who, on the basis of current A level results is in the bottom 25% of A level students. Of course, at school, like me, he was more interested in kicking a ball than studying.
Re: What annoys people????
Posted: Wed Aug 11, 2021 8:14 pm
by big mervyn
Wasps. Don't listen to that "if you don't annoy them they'll leave you alone" ballix. I was dandering thru Belvoir minding my own business and one of the stripey feckers stung me on the leg.
Re: What annoys people????
Posted: Wed Aug 11, 2021 11:16 pm
by justinr73
solidarity wrote: ↑Wed Aug 11, 2021 6:54 pm
A level results.
I know a bloke with a PhD who, on the basis of current A level results is in the bottom 25% of A level students. Of course, at school, like me, he was more interested in kicking a ball than studying.
When did it become compulsory to be photographed jumping in the air upon recent of your examination results?
Re: What annoys people????
Posted: Thu Aug 12, 2021 12:05 am
by big mervyn
justinr73 wrote: ↑Wed Aug 11, 2021 11:16 pm
solidarity wrote: ↑Wed Aug 11, 2021 6:54 pm
A level results.
I know a bloke with a PhD who, on the basis of current A level results is in the bottom 25% of A level students. Of course, at school, like me, he was more interested in kicking a ball than studying.
When did it become compulsory to be photographed jumping in the air upon recent of your examination results?
Though they're not actually "examination" results are they?
I don't get it. Did they all not know what they were more or less getting anyway? Surely they were given a pretty close approximations when they were filling in their Uni applications.
When I was at school I think about 10% got A grades. Now it's 50%+
Re: What annoys people????
Posted: Thu Aug 12, 2021 12:28 am
by Dave
My kids did more testing than they would have (had exams not been cancelled) when they finally returned to school. Hell of an effort after a heavily disrupted school year.
Re: What annoys people????
Posted: Thu Aug 12, 2021 8:51 am
by Lurgan Lad
Definitely need to change the grading that a specific percentage get each grade each year. So say 5% get A*, 10% A, 20% B etc., because surely the purpose of the grades is to be able to understand who did well and who didn't, and giving everyone A grades doesn't make a lot of sense.