EastleighSoulBoy

I caught the end of that and remarked how he had aged and looked poorly. In retrospect I just wonder if the news had already broken? I liked his style, he made mistakes and nothing went totally to plan so he'd just open another bottle. A bit like many of us really and that's what endeared him to me.

Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz:bear:

How did you explain your missing teeth?

Ad infinitum

And on

Ariston

I now take mine at night. Previously, when on night shift, I took them in the morning as that was my night.

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Retinopathy checks are important, this is where a 'flash photograph' is taken of the back of your eyes. They put in drops to dilate your pupils and then take a picture. This can reveal all sorts of things. Can't remember the correct term for it but mine revealed that my eye colouring has a tendency to 'leech', this comes of in segments, can travel around to the back of the eye and put pressure on the optic nerve. So far I have been lucky. Definitely free eye checks, if you go on to tablets such as Metformin, Glucophage (a Modified Release Metformin) , Gliclazide, Pioglitazone then you get free prescriptions. If you go on Metformin then ask about Ramipril. This is favoured by some doctors when using Metformin because the Ramipril protects the kidneys from a side effect of Metformin. You'll also probably get prescribed a Statin to lower Cholesterol. Be careful in using too high a dose. It gave me chronic stomach problems until the dose was lowered. BE AWARE! When diagnosed you must notify your Motor Insurance Company (one they use to wriggle) also the DVLA. If you go on to Insulin then it's even more important to notify the DVLA as different rules pertain than to those only on medication.

bs = blood sugars for those who are unaware.

£35Million matchday takings! Just under £2 Million a game. Quickly doing some maths but that sounds an awful lot of money from 17,000 fans. Presumably that will include programmes and merchandising? Average £120 per fan per match? He really is a loon! Not even the blue few could be that daft . . . . . . could they?

Les Miserableles? There would be no diabetes if the UKIP were in power. They'd kill us all.......

Jeff, you have a PM. I'll tell you more, privately.

This one: http://www.fansonline.net/portsmouth/mb/view.php?id=183719 made me chortle!

Indeed, when necessary it is very advantageous to apply nuances of Health & Safety which, on risk assesment, are not totally needed and slow the job down.

Can't help but think that myself.

I know this reeks of schadenfreude but don't you just love it when a plan falls apart? :cool:

In one!

Toasted cheese, with mint jelly under the slices of cheese.

Agree with Minsk and a fair observation from Tractor. A very slow but, hopefully, sure improvement

Errr . . . me or the beer?

It's easy to say this but most people take action over conditions of employment. Not those notified to them in their contract of employment but customs and practices which are not in that contract of employment. Could a complete workforce all find jobs at the same time and leave en masse? Ideally that could be a good move but in practice is probably near impossible. If succesful though what would that do? The company may well employ enough people to keep running but the root cause of people leaving would not be addressed and we are into the same old scenario again. Most people are happy with most aspects of their job but collectively find something about it that aggrieves them. For instance, a belligerent manager who does not follow previously laid down procedures and practices? Leave and he's totally free to carry on as before with some other poor bugger getting exactly the same treatment. Take collective action, raising grievances is the start, and bringing it to management attention is the way to do it. A strike should be a long way down the list of action but sometimes that point arrives quicker than anticipated. Some people, not neccesarily you Stu, fail to understand that the Unions these days are not out to smash the company but just want fair treatment for the employees. It's when both sides become entrenched in their views that things go sadly pear shaped. I have a feeling that this is the case with the Postal Workers, where both sides are failing to work together to a mutual outcome. I also think that strking when there are redundancies in the offing is a bit daft when all concerned should, again, be round the table trying to find a way forward and minimise the job losses.

And somewhere in between, for the average person who strikes, is the reason. I was involved in a strike once and different forms of collective action a few more times. The strike yielded very little for us, we lost money while off so it was in effect a waste. Other actions, such as overtime bans and other collective actions, have proved far more fruitful in focusing what, at the time, was an intransigent management mindset. It brought management back to negotiation with a far more amenable outlook and produced what the workforce were seeking on each occassion. The small loss of a day's overtime was often far outweighed by the collective gain.

This one made me chuckle " . . . . It is also not widely known but none of the streets have a house with the number 97, this is in memorial to the 97 carpenters who were executed for failing to inform his Majesty that they had forgotten to put the plug in on the Mary Rose " No wonder those skates dislike us!

You bugger! made me choke on my beer!:smt118