trousers

Is it actually possible to fail the FAPPT test?! FL: "hello, are you human?" Applicant: "yes" FL: "well done, you've passed"

Mrs Trousers works in an NHS hospital so I have an insight into how the "patient privacy" laws actually have the opposite effect of protecting patients. I said to my missus once: "if I ever land up in hospital non-compus-mentus, I want a camera trained on my bed 24x7 so my family can see how I'm being treated". Of course, that wouldn't be possible because it would infringe on my privacy and the footage could "fall into the wrong hands". Patient choice goes out of the window when institutions hide behind these "privacy" laws. IMHO of course.

Watched the programme too. Probably the most shocking footage ever to come out of one of these undercover TV investigations. The thing that enraged me the most was the complete and utter ineptitude and arrogance of the industry regulator: "it was a misjudgement on our part to not act on the whistleblowing information provided by a former employee (senior nurse) 6 months ago". "Misjudgement"??? FFS... Why can't these people put their hands up when they are wrong and simply admit to abject incompetence? (rhetorical question, obviously) Mis-judgement my arse. The answer, of course, is to have CCTV facilities as all these "hospitals" but you can bet your bottom dollar that there will be a law somewhere preventing it due to "protecting the patients' privacy"...if ever the law was an ass here we have exhibit A...

Saintmarc - Liverpool

I've had these posts on speed-dial for 5 years! ;-)

Saintlee - Hull City

HelpMeRhonda - Blackburn

Cherrypip (aka LifeLongSaint) - Bournemouth

Jordan Sibley - Yeovil

Haven't they already gone bust several times since this thread began...? ;-)

#pompeyfc It's understood a deal could be close at Portsmouth yet again for Convers to complete takeover. Sources tell BBC South. web • 31/05/2011 18:06 Retweeted by bbc_matt

For anyone remotely interested, a reminder of the opening post:

Idiot cyclists (yes, I know 'cyclists' didn't need overtly qualifying with 'idiots')

- the three women in front of me at the train station ticket machine faffing around in handbags for payment card - people dragging suitcases on wheels cutting me up - the guard on my train interrupting me to check my ticket despite having to stick it in a machine at both ends - bloke sitting in the middle seat of three and suddenly thinking he owns the place by shuffling in and sticking his elbows in my ribs

It's all too easy to blame the big, bad, nasty supermarkets but, as with most things, the people who ate ultimately to blame are the apathetic general public who feed this 'evil' via their wallets day in, day out. If 'the public' were truly outaged by the practices and methods of the big supermarkets they have the collective power to put a stop to it. We're largely a nation of people that like to look for someone else to blame for our own actions when we should be taking personal and collective responsibility for what we do. What next? Everyone taking out bank loans they can't afford to pay back, then blaming the banks for a banking crisis...oh... ;-) IMHO of course

God created humans to destroy planet Earth. HTH

4-2 (Game over...again)

Penalty to Swansea

Corners: Reading 13 Swansea 0

Jeeeez....how didn't Reading equalise then?!

2-3 !

Yep, same happened to me. Have switched to this one: http://www.firstrowsports.eu/watch/67006/1/watch-reading-fc-vs-swansea-city-fc.html

1-3 Game back on....

3-0

This one seems to be working again today: http://afnsports.blogspot.com/p/channel3.html