WAMT....what annoyed me today!

That's 2 minutes you'll never get back!
 
NHS staff.

The receptionists were blunt to the point of rudeness and once I got to see the specialist and assisting nurse it was like 20 questions (from me) as I appeared to be being ignored. I had to ask a series of questions "You want me to lay here?"... "Is that it then?"... "Can I get dressed?" ... "Can I go now?" ... "What happens next?" I've never experienced anything like it before in the NHS.

Honestly. A bit of politeness and curtesy or maybe just recognising that I'm there (and the other people too) and I'm a human with worries and feelings would cost nothing and before anyone mentions the stress and working conditions our angels of the NHS face I saw no evidence of that today. The actual workload looked steady, relaxed even, the workplace seemed bright shiny clean and new and no one was running around like headless chickens or being mobbed by crowds of angry sick people. It was all very low key and quiet really. Maybe a few customer relations courses or sensitivity training could come in useful :(

Actually I'm not really annoyed just a bit phased and disappointed really.
 
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woof woof said:
I saw no evidence of that today.
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It's possible you didn't see the problems they've been having but which were not present during your visit. You might not have seen them stressed out by a succession of awkward patients. Perhaps a colleague has just died. There can be any number of factors of which you're not aware.

Having said that I think there's an endemic problem with medical receptionists being chosen from the ranks of discharged ISIS drill sergeants. :naughty:
 
I have come across similar rudeness from receptionists a couple of times recently at our local hospital too, although the rest of the staff were friendly, helpful & I was kept well informed as I was 'dealt with' once I had arrived at the right department.
 
AndrewFlannigan said:
It's possible you didn't see the problems they've been having but which were not present during your visit. You might not have seen them stressed out by a succession of awkward patients. Perhaps a colleague has just died. There can be any number of factors of which you're not aware.

Having said that I think there's an endemic problem with medical receptionists being chosen from the ranks of discharged ISIS drill sergeants. :naughty:
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I might have but I doubt it and are these acceptable reasons? I'd say not. I think it's just a case of unchecked and uncorrected rudeness or at least unthinking bad practice. If I hadn't spoken up, politely as always, I'd probably still have been stood there wondering what to do when they brought in the next patient.
 
Plusnet again !!!!! :banghead::banghead:

Just had yet another email about my mobile account being due
I left them at the beginning of December because of the rubbish service I was getting
both mobile and BB, cancelled the DD to which I got an email as they wanted to take the January payment,
phoned and the agreed it wasn't due, then got an other email saying I was £10 in credit so they sent a cheque.
This one says the account is £0,00 in credit and payment is due :thinking:
Just phoned them to find out what is going on and was asked for my bank account number and sort code,
no chance and will be keeping an eye on things to make sure they don't reactivate the things, useless lot
 
Send them a cheque for the full amount owing...
 
Nod said:
Send them a cheque for the full amount owing...
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and give them my bank details which I refused over the phone, what a brilliant idea :rolleyes:
 
Coming down with cold, lungs feel raw with all the coughing. Whiskey helping slightly.
 
Saturday evening, and both fans fail in the low profile desktop PC.
Unsurprisingly, I have no spares in that size. :rolleyes:
 
The fact I’ve spent a number of hours trying to pick new tyres for my bike and still haven’t bought any.

Maybe I shouldn’t read buyer reviews. I don’t understand how a tyre can be very easy to fit using only hands but also so difficult it breaks tyre levers or virtually puncture proof and also punctures just by looking at it wrong[emoji848]

It might be easier just buying a new [emoji605]
 
Forgetting the reason why I put some people on [ignore]. :(
 
While I was indicating right and attempting to turn right into our drive someone tried to overtake me. It's only the second time that's happened but it does make me wonder who's behind the wheel and how long they're going to live.
 
woof woof said:
While I was indicating right and attempting to turn right into our drive someone tried to overtake me. It's only the second time that's happened but it does make me wonder who's behind the wheel and how long they're going to live.
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I was stationary (awaiting oncoming traffic to pass) and indicating right to turn into my drive. An IQ zero on a quad bike behind me decided that 5 seconds was too long to wait so he took his bike (all four wheels) up on to the pavement to pass me on the inside. Immediately after that he sped around a left hand turn (on two wheels) whilst still on the pavement then collided with a child's bike. Fortunately there was no child.
 
woof woof said:
While I was indicating right and attempting to turn right into our drive someone tried to overtake me. It's only the second time that's happened but it does make me wonder who's behind the wheel and how long they're going to live.
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Several times, I've slowed down to back onto my drive, put the car into reverse, and someone coming up behind me pulls up about 2 foot short of my rear bumper. Have they forgotten what those little white lights mean?
 
The coronavirus delaying our shipment with (at least) 10 days. Customers don't really understand that this has something to do with them....not easy being a business these days. :)
 
I have just received a safety recall notice from FIAT for our motorhome. FIAT conveniently included a list of FIAT Professional dealers & their phone numbers, I was shocked to find many use 0843 numbers which are > 55p a minute from a Vodafone mobile!

A quick search on the Internet enabled me to find a local rate phone number for the nearest dealer.

I am not sure who I am more annoyed with, the FIAT dealers for using these numbers or the networks that are ripping off their customers. :mad:
 
Phillip Schofield.

I'm sure some may disagree but I often think there's nothing celebrities won't talk about on TV or other media. Nothing seems too personal or too potentially painful, even to others. Nothing.

Just in case people haven't heard he's come out as gay and had a long and IMO cringeworthy interview with Holly Willoughby. He's gay, I don't care but his wife may. Maybe she's always known? I don't know, I haven't heard much comment about her and her view on this but there's been lots on how brave Phillip has been and the turmoil that must have been going on in his head.

I just don't see why PS's sexual preferences should be the subject of a protracted drama interview on national TV. I'd much rather he talked this through with his family and then got on with life. I expect these days it'd have to be a thing on social media but for decency why not just get it out there and then as politely and tactfully as possibly bat the issue away and move on as surely this matters most to PS and his direct family and friends. Does it really have to be a national media thing? Is nothing private? Ever?

And breathe...
 
woof woof said:
I just don't see why PS's sexual preferences should be the subject of a protracted drama interview on national TV.
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He's a TV star.
How can he "just get on with it"
This way he makes it less sensationalist if someone sees him in a gay bar or holding hands with another man etc.
This way he gets to tell it his way.

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And is anyone actually surprised by his coming out?
 
I find other people's sex lives quite boring...

Unlike my own full and rich one. :naughty:
 
Cobra said:
And is anyone actually surprised by his coming out?
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As a kid, he was a good presenter in the broom cupboard. I never really saw him again until the last few years when the missus has had the TV on during the week. He sometimes had a campy voice, and could be quite serious at other times.

I understand he probably struggled with his sexuality over the years and this is probably some sort of relief. Maybe it'll help others come to terms with their own dilemmas (be it sexuality or something else). But it does seem a bit opportunistic and attention seeking.
 
You mean he's not still in the broom cupboard?
 
WAMT is dry roads, perfect for a Winter ride but I have to wait in for 2 must be signed for deliveries.
 
omens said:
I understand he probably struggled with his sexuality over the years and this is probably some sort of relief.
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Quite possibly, and I think nothing more or anything less of him since the story "broke"
It just that I always assumed he was.
 
I would imagine he's relieved at being able to be open, I doubt if anyone cares now or possibly would have cared 30 years ago. I just wonder what impact it has had on his family, so long as they are ok with it then I don't see it as anyone's business. I do hope though that we don't now have to suffer his constant reference to his sexuality (after all very few straight, is that the right word, people go on about theirs, so why do we need to know about his) or him "camping" it up.
I work with someone who has transed to a female, I have know him/her/them on and off for about 30 years, they are still the same person in their actions and none of us treat them any differently to how we always did and they don't behave any differently, nor presumably do they feel any need to do so.
 
woof woof said:
He's gay, I don't care but his wife may. Maybe she's always known? I don't know, I haven't heard much comment about her and her view on this ....
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From what I read today, his two grown up daughters have been very supportive, but there was barely a mention of his wife, other than how long they have been married.
He has said that although he is gay, he hasn't any current plans on getting into a relationship with a man. I wonder how his wife is going to feel when he decides he does want to.
 
nilagin said:
From what I read today, his two grown up daughters have been very supportive, but there was barely a mention of his wife, other than how long they have been married.
He has said that although he is gay, he hasn't any current plans on getting into a relationship with a man. I wonder how his wife is going to feel when he decides he does want to.
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I saw the interview with him and he indicated his wife has been very supportive until now, as you say it might change things should he want an extra-marital relationship but then it would in most other marriages, so if she did wanted a divorce it would be something we would accept as normal in a straight (or presumably gay) marriage.
We do live in very complicated times.
 
There's just been a quote on TV. Apparently he feels proud of himself.

I know sexuality is a complex thing but I do keep thinking of his wife in all this. Did he know he was gay when he first chatted her up? Maybe she did the chatting but then why would he go along with it? Did she know from the start, find out and accept along the way or did he lie to her for 27 years? If he did lie to her I see nothing to be proud of here.

People keep their sexuality private for many reasons, religious, career, personal safety, the honour of the family, scared of disappointing his family? Whatever. There is though IMO no excuse for deliberately deceiving another and using them as cover for 27 years, if that's what he's done.

If he has lied for decades and possibly caused others a lot of pain for his own selfish reasons (career, safety or whatever) then he's a grade one barsteward and I have no respect for him at all.

I do think todays spectacle was self serving and not nice to witness. Shame on me perhaps for thinking this way but I do hope that in his place I'd have either been honest with myself and others much much earlier or just stayed single if being gay was too damaging to those around me or too dangerous to myself wherever I was.

I often dislike celebrities and today's done nothing to change that.
 
And a PS.

I watched the body in the pool documentary last night and the sight of celebrities laughing and fawning with Michael Barrymore turns my stomach. Holly and Phil? They're both just morally bankrupt self serving celebrities IMO.
 
Cobra said:
And is anyone actually surprised by his coming out?
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I’ve never googled him but assumed he was gay. I came to this conclusion ages ago not by regularly watching his tv appearances but catching glimpses channel-hopping.
 
woof woof said:
There's just been a quote on TV. Apparently he feels proud of himself.

I know sexuality is a complex thing but I do keep thinking of his wife in all this. Did he know he was gay when he first chatted her up? Maybe she did the chatting but then why would he go along with it? Did she know from the start, find out and accept along the way or did he lie to her for 27 years? If he did lie to her I see nothing to be proud of here.

People keep their sexuality private for many reasons, religious, career, personal safety, the honour of the family, scared of disappointing his family? Whatever. There is though IMO no excuse for deliberately deceiving another and using them as cover for 27 years, if that's what he's done.

If he has lied for decades and possibly caused others a lot of pain for his own selfish reasons (career, safety or whatever) then he's a grade one barsteward and I have no respect for him at all.

I do think todays spectacle was self serving and not nice to witness. Shame on me perhaps for thinking this way but I do hope that in his place I'd have either been honest with myself and others much much earlier or just stayed single if being gay was too damaging to those around me or too dangerous to myself wherever I was.

I often dislike celebrities and today's done nothing to change that.
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I was just going to add a ‘like’ but re your ‘Shame on me’ comment I wanted to say..no..absolutely not .Reading your posts ..the last one too re Barrymore . I chose not to watch it ...a grubby,sordid affair ..I agree with every word . Re Schofield it’s exactly how I feel and it’s made me feel better because this evening I was getting very annoyed because as soon as I saw them on one channel ,I went to another to find them on that too ..so ITV-BBC1..BBC24 hour news..-..even Chn4 and my wife said, .’You’re so intolerant’. I then told her that it made me want to puke..sorry..lol..watching all these self-promoting self indulgent luvvies falling over themselves to get ‘in on it’. It was cringeworthy. What actually prompted her comment was a short while later I changed a channel only to see an other male who had ‘come out’ being interviewed about how he coped with it. He was married too So I made a few more choice comments. To make matters worse ..and I pointed this out to my wife..who then agreed..I’d watched Ch4 news in which they continued with their coverage of what are crimes being carried out by Russian bombers/drones and Assad’s forces In Idlib. The footage tonight was about how they targetted an ex Finance minister in Assad’s regime for accusing the regime of corruption. They bombed his homes ,wife and children who miraculously survived. Last night it showed the valiant,heroic ‘white helmets volunteers going into bombed buildings and rubble to get victims out and in the dark whilst bombers were still overhead. Also, featured was the Chinese doctor who first raised the alarm re this virus and has died as a result of contracting it. Then a doctor, Manish Shah who was handed down 3 life sentences for sexual assaults on women in his surgery including a 15 year old Girl. Then there was the case of Jony Bravery who pushed the 6 year old french boy off the Tate gallery roof and now ut transpired that he had told his care worker he wanted to do it. That conversation was recorded and management was informed given the tape . No action was taken but management deny any knowledge.

I could go on but you get the picture.

Here’s a prediction which I really hope does not come about. On Monday the 5-Live 9-10am Nicky Campbell phone -in will be about Schofield and the question(s) will be ... ‘have you come out ..? what made you decide to do that ?.... and how did your wife react abd if you have children how did they react... call 08085 909693..we want to hear from you.” I do listen to that phone-in when it’s interesting and I never cease to be amazed at the amount of personal information people address the nation with. 5 million listeners I think.

Stephen Nolan’s phone-in will be on now. I’ve just checked . Well, you can guess. It’s about Schofield and sexuality .You pose the question ..’did he know when he chatted up his wife?” I’d have thought so as it gene-based . That’s my understanding,anyway. This phone-in won’t stop the BBC having another on Monday morning. Some people will say it’s a good thing to get it out into the public arena to initiate debate. ..or more debate.
 
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