RANT CORNER

[Derek27]

Have they changed the process? I seem to remember you had to take a sample a day for 4 days.

flipping hell, it took me six months to produce one sample.

Just one sample in a sealed tube and posted in a prepared envelope. It's even got a tracker number so you can track the journey of your shit all the way to Nottingham.

[greenmark]

Have they changed the process? I seem to remember you had to take a sample a day for 4 days.

That's quite odd. It suggests regional variation in appproach. Isn't standardisation one of the core principles of the NHS?
Here it's one sample every 2 years.

[Derek27]

I would expect medical professionals who devise these schemes to know that not everybody craps every day!

[firlandsfarm]

well all this chat has brought about my postman delivering a little blue and white box for me on Tuesday so I will find out soon if it has changed.

[Derek27]

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Brilliant, let the party begin! I can see how much that bird is enjoying receiving her latest credit card statement.

[firlandsfarm]

Have they changed the process? I seem to remember you had to take a sample a day for 4 days.

Opened my pack this morning and yes, they have changed it to a single sample ... maybe there were too many people who couldn't do one every day!

[Derek27]

Have they changed the process? I seem to remember you had to take a sample a day for 4 days.

Opened my pack this morning and yes, they have changed it to a single sample ... maybe there were too many people who couldn't do one every day!

Or perhaps there were too many people who couldn't be arsed to take four samples. Personally, I'd just take my chances with the bum cancer.

[Derek27]

If you filter the Betfair page to see markets of more than £1000 matched, first it lists markets of £1, then £10, then £100, refreshing with every flipping keystroke!

[Derek27]

Why in the name of fuck would anyone schedule a match to start at one minute past ten?

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[Derek27]

Why do supermarkets sell dead parsley or coriander plants that only appear to be alive because they're held up by a plastic/cardboard sleeve?

And why do idiots like me purchase them?

[Derek27]

I'm sure the bastard that designed spice jars knew that recipes ask you to use them by the teaspoonful, so he designed it of such a size that a teaspoon won't fit in. You have to hold a teaspoon over the kitchen sink and try to empty the jar onto the teaspoon. But as most spices aren't free-flowing, you end up emptying the entire flipping jar just to get a flipping teaspoonful!!

[Derek27]

Some people have no shame. They buy Kershaw ready meals and dump the box on their street!

Personally, I'd burn the box after eating it.

[firlandsfarm]

I would burn the box before eating it ... I would resist the temptation to eat the box that would probably be more tasty than the meals within!

[Derek27]

If you want to eat less meat to protect the environment, just cook an omelette. Why eat crap that's designed to emulate meat?

[greenmark]

Need any more proof that the Taliban are both mad and evil?

"Afghanistan: Taliban burn ‘immoral’ musical instruments"

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-66357611