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We use Premier all the time and this is the first this has happened, Might just stick to Travel Lodge ,

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Thankfully every time we have used PI everything has been fine.

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Normally you get a full refund if you cancel but not on the Saver bookings which to be fair is understandable.

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We know that when we book, it is just unlucky if something else causes us to cancell, I could not fault them ,they are great to stay in,

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A couple of friends of mine had the same trouble. They'd booked hotels and train tickets to follow a band on some random tour dates but the band pulled out.

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The use of the word "Traditional" when it comes to food.

You see food like Cottage or Shepherds Pie and they have chilli in them. I meean WTF chilli is not a Traditional British food

The other is Traditional Fish & Chips, they should be cooked in beef dripping, NOT any oil.

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Stuff like that really annoys me. I can't have chilli (as it makes me unwell), but "food engineers" (you can't really call them chefs or cooks) are adding it to just about everything, ususally to disguise the taste of cheap meat, or possibly to disguise reduced salt levels.

The worst was when my sister put some gherkins with a meal. Turns out they were pickled gherkins with chilli. Who the hell thought that was a good idea?

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Staff.......:rolleyes:

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I too cannot eat chilli, spicy food does not agree with me at all. I suffered last week when I bought a Korma in a supermarket. Korma normally meant to be mild with no spices in it. This one had been loaded with spice and I suffered badly all evening with indigestion, even though I had taken my medication. Gaviscon was luckily on hand to help ease the pain.

I feel like complaining to all these supermarkets and ask why add spice to a dish that is not meant to have spice in it.

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I'll come and work for you :tu:

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Toilet's got blocked. I keep filling the pan to the top with a bucket hoping it'll unblock itself. Don't want to think about the alternative. :erm:

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Might be worth getting hold of the "strong" acid based drain unblocker from B&Q

http://www.diy.com/departments/one-s.../254799_BQ.prd

Just be careful as its pretty nasty stuff.

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The only reason I can imagine for the prevalence of chilli is to hide crap ingredients and the reduction of salt in foods.

The only thing currently guaranteed not to have chilli added is breakfast cereal, but that can't last long...

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Virgin Media's billing system :mad: Just renewed my phone line rental saver. Got various acknowledgements from them, so far so good.

Received new bill from them yesterday. On in is recorded payment by card for Line Rental saver, payment of it AND a payment for the monthly rental :shocked: Phone them up and guy says oh I note we forgot to set the marker to say you've paid it.

Why if the billing system knows you paid does it insist on a separate marker being set?

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Thanks. If push comes to shove. It's only paper blocking it and only just in the bend so I'm hoping the paper breaks down and dissolves away. It's happened before just not this bad.

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The acid stuff will dssolve paper so should help.

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Received. Letter from Scottish Gas, that my yearly maintenance was up for renewal For my boiler etc, but as a good customer I was due a reduction of £12 50. So instead of paying £18 40'. My new rate is £19 10'. How is that for sense, Seemingly the rates go up every year, Makes. you laugh or cry,

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Bus drivers who hold up the traffic by not using the bus stops/lanes that are provided for them :mad:

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Tractor just came in my street to spread grit and very little came out if any. The road is like an ice rink. Gosh I'm having a right old moan today.

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Keep it up! I'm trying to loose the no.1 spot in the thread :)

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There is nothing wrong with having a moan here and there.:)

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Here is a thing. Does men moan more than women,

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l will let someone else answer that vexed question.:)

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People who get on the train, then stop when they are on the train and only then decide where to go.

I got stuck behind a couple today. They actually stepped on the train and both stood there deciding where to go, thus blocking the door and almost causing me to miss my train. There was a *lot* of empty space in front of them, they could at least have taken a further step forward, then decided.

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People who park their cars in the cycle/motorcycle bit in our Tossco car park. They have the WHOLE car park, we have one little space. Lazy buggers.

Also, Samsung- for continually dragging their asses regarding updates. I WANT MY LOLLIPOP!

Also, the weather.
My aching hips.
The almost total lack of anything good on Virgin 'Freeview'
Varicose veins.
Pink - the colour, not the musician, although....
My age.

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Women have better grammar at least....apparently. ;)

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That annoys my hubby too, then he comes home and moans to me :) only difference it's usually the Asda carpark.

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LOL, one space fits all....

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Sadly our washing machine has broken down this morning.:(

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Not good den :(

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Well luckily the repair people are coming out tomorrow as we are insured.

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That's not so bad then at least you don't have to fork out for a new machine den :)

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Indeed Weenie out of all our appliances its always the washing machine that's the most vulnerable thus it pays to insure it every year.

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When a bit torrent only has one peer. More like bit dribble. Took nearly 24hrs to get a 1.4GByte file down. :(

Normally a torrent will max out my 20Mbs link at about 2.4MBytes/s if there's a decent number of peers.

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People in cars who play really loud music really bugs me, then you come home to NFH who is playing loud music which also is bugging me :mad: wish I could just get back to work.

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Especially in the summer when they have their window wound down stating hey everybody look at me.

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That's Good Den. Nothing to pay. ;)

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Not used Torrents in years, i saw the light and moved over to Newsgroups with no sharing and full speed.

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Things I was searching for kept coming up torrents so I popped bittorrent client on the PC to get them.

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Much pain for a few weeks now. I'm just not getting much sleep and can't find any painkillers (that I can take) - that touch it. I guess I am going to have to go to the gp. I hate that - I hate that a LOT

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Sending you a virtual gentle hug dilli.

Could you not get a prescription on your next hospital visit? I hate having to go to my GP. He never reads the latest screed from my hospital Consultants and treats me like a childish hypochondriac when I try to get the prescription I know my notes advise him to give me.

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If you are getting acid problems after chillied food, talk to your GP about GERD and Campylobacter Pylori. You should find that a short course of antibiotics and/or Omeprazole (Proton pump inhibitor) will sort you out like magic.

Chilli does not cause stomach problems, but often cures them IMHO.

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Not back 'till next Weds so I guess I'll have to bite the bullet it's quite bad.

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So do I . I've been waiting ages for my S5 to update

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Nothing worse than not getting enough sleep and being in a lot of pain dilli hope you get the meds you need sooner rather than later.

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l am sorry to hear about your ongoing pain dilli and l do hope that you are given something that can curb your uncomfortable pain as soon as possible.

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As I found out at my cost, my doc put me onto morphine pain patches.
Started with 5micro gram then 10, finished up with 15microgram which I could only manage for 3week periods. (Ended up with blocked bowel)
Now back onto pregabalin which although causes same bowel problems is not as severe.

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Its a very fine line regarding pain control as l take Tramadol but l never take the full dose.

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The hospital gave me a long list of painkillers I can't take but a really short list of ones I can which is paracetamol so I need to go back :(

My kidney problems restrict what I can have.

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Paracetamol have never done anything for me either Dilli and l like you l have had reduced kidney function thus l have to adopt a tiptoe approach with regards to pain control and also get my kidney function checked on a regular basis

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Omerprazole is one that I take for Acid reflux and it is very good ;)

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Could ask for something like Targinact, which has an added ingredient that counters the binding effect of opiates. Buprenorphine patches did the same for me too as do any other type of opiates.

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Had a worrying letter today. I saw the ophthalmology team last July for my right eye being a bit funny, with regards to seeing a bright light all the time. They said there was nothing wrong with me. Letter today, with a copy sent to my GP as well says I have corneal scarring and I need to take drops for a week. Now I need to see what is happening, as it is the right hospital number and everything.

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l hope everything works out with your eye Mark and l hope its not too serious.

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Yup - see if you can get it sorted ASAP. If there's one thing I learnt with my eyes, sometimes it can't wait.

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Just read the letter again, and I'm fuming. All the right details, name DOB, NHS number and address. Yet the patient described in the letter is not me. I don't wear contact lenses, I have worse vision than 6/9 and so they have got patients mixed up. I feel sorry for the poor person who gets an all clear letter. And the appointment line at the hospital is busy. Number 50 in the queue. Will try again around 3 or 4.

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Back on a course of antibiotics again as my urine test showed up bacteria.:(

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Sorry to hear that den, hope the antibiotics kick in soon. Take care.

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l seem to be prone to getting infections as my immune system is not 100% sadly.

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Home Energy Services (formerly Eon's central heating cover). I've never had the misfortune to deal with a worse company. 9 days to get an engineer out to the boiler - and they think that's acceptable!! Contract runs out at the end of January so isn't being renewed. A case of pay peanuts....

British Gas coming tomorrow to fix the boiler (they can get here quicker than the shower above can get a manager to phone back!!), and new contract set up with them for the next 12 months.

I don't normally get angry but this lot have got right under my skin!!

Cheers

Grim

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Have you looked into acupuncture, my sister has IBS and swears by it. It doesn't work straight away, but will do after a several sessions, and the acupuncturist knew my sister was pregnant before my sister got to the 12wk stage.

So it might be an option to look at, and its drug free.

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Hope it clears up soon.

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I remember my brother got a letter to come in the hospital and get his leg amputated, There was not a thing wrong with his legs. Wrong patient same name,

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Yeah, the NHS Trust are now launching a full investigation into this. Also got a reply from my MP, passed the details onto them as well and MP says he will make sure this is investigated. Shocking really. I just thank God it wasn't anything more serious, like a cancerous tumour or something like that.

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Did he still attend the appointment :)

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LOL
and he's still telling people the story of how come he's only got the one leg :)

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My 4 year old daughter has peeled off a large amount of foam from the bottom of my Steel series mouse pad

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There is a distinct lack of Marmite here! I think I'm going to have to start flirting with the nurses to get some in for breakfast. But I've got to do it without getting my heart rate up :) ;)

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l have to say Marmite and l have never been in love dilli.:nono:

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l hope you are okay in hospital dilli as no one likes to be there if they can help it.:)

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Well just pick a less well endowed nurse to flirt with. :D

Safer still get Natalie to bring some in and keep it in your drawer, check that you can have it though as I think it has quite a high salt content. :(

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Natalie did bring some in this morning :)

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You naughty man.:naughty:

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:)

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I need to get out of here :(

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Why?.

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To live life :(

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Define "Here" Not CF surely. :D

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Nope.

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It's a terrible thing to waste that's for sure

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I feel like I let myself down as I had to have sedatives during my angiogram. I hate being weak :(

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Nothing to be ashamed of dilli, last angiogram I had @3.00am after being admitted for heart attack I couldn't have much cared what they did.

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You are not weak as l have had many angiogram's and l did exactly the same so less of that silly nonsense dilli.:nono:

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No you are not life seems to hit you with blow after blow and you just keep going so to think you are weak or have let yourself down is utter nonsense dilli you seem to me one of the strongest people I know if anything you were having a low moment and no one could blame you for that at all :hugs:

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We're all keeping our fingers crossed for you dilli.

My moan:
Quotations: Trying to work out first how much I want to charge minimum to cover my time and overheads and then trying to judge how much extra to add on and still get the client to place the order and think he's getting a good deal as well. :erm:

Still must be doing something right as they keep coming back. Maybe I'm too cheap. :D

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Behave!!!!! No way have you let yourself down.

What you are going through would have the strongest person in the world asking for anything that would help them. Hope you and Natalie hear something positive soon.

Massive hugs to you both.

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My copy of Mediacoder (0.6.2) has broken and I can't find a new copy anywhere that AVG doesn't say is carrying a payload of viri/adware/toolbars etc. :(

Temporarily using handbrake to prepare .mkv files (H264 and AC3/AAC) that the smart TV likes. Works but nowhere near as flexible as Mediacoder.

BTW current versions of Mediacoder are junk as well as giving AVG a fit.

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Not sure if this will be good for you but i use it to mux the audio on MKV movies to AC3/AAC for my Xbox One and it is very quick and easy to do, also sometimes do the video too but not often.

Try it out it maybe what you need.

How to use

1. Open the movie file
2. If you want to change the audio from DTS to AAC then click 'Audio output' on the left and select AAC(faac)
3. If you plan on leaving the video untouched, then leave that part set to 'copy'
4. If you want the output file to be an MKV then select 'MKV Muxer'.
5. Click the 'Save' icon at the top.
6. Job done after a few minutes.

http://fixounet.free.fr/avidemux/

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I'll take a look but I really want a universal transcoder that diss's DRM. ;)

The coder did that, I just want to reload the copy I had as I was getting a faulty .dll warning.

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Sky News videos that have to show adverts before. which can be a bitch over 3G/HSPA

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Marmite:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/foodanddr...superfood.html

It does have quite a lot of salt but you only need a tiny amount of the stuff...

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Managed to rescue an earlier copy (0.6.0) from backups. Since the major registry entries were still intact just needed to copy the working files over. It'll do until I can locate the 0.6.2 version.

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So the news is I was rushed to addenbrookes hospital last night to start emergency dyalysis as the dye from the angiogram has killed my kidneys. I must admit at the moment I don't feel positive.

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l am so sorry to hear to hear that you are having dialysis because of your worsening kidneys and l do hope things improve for you dill as my thoughts are with you.

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Our thoughts (and virtual hugs) are with you, dilli.

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My thoughts are with you, and I hope you get things turned around ASAP.

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Our thoughts and best wishes are with you dilli. :group:

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:mad::mad::mad:

Seems that some people get everyone else's bad luck all at once..My fingers and toes are crossed as well as my heart for you both. :hugs:

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So sorry to hear your news dilli. My thoughts are with you and Natalie and just wish you could get some good news. XXX

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i had good news, they do marmite here :) ;)

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:D

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Do they do peanut butter?.;)

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Every cloud... :)

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Yuck.

On a moaning note, trying to arrange patient transport to get to Lister Hospital tomorrow, being knocked from pillar to post :(