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I had an on line chat with Amazon regarding an item I wanted to return. The agent was obviously not listening to what I was saying. I told him at the start that I wanted to return the item because I could not get it to work, also said I didn't have a smart phone or working printer They had sent me an email with a 'code'. I didn't have a smart phone to copy the code (one of these black and white squares that look like a crossword) and I didn't have a working printer. He then asked me to follow the link to print out a label, I DON'T HAVE A PRINTER, well send the email to a friend and get them to print it out. I don't have a friend with a printer. Well then use the code we sent you, I DON'T HAVE A SMART PHONE, Well in that case we can't refund. I saw red and asked to speak to a supervisor, within seconds the phone rang it was Amazon, not only are they going to come and pick it up the parcel from our house, but will also bring a label, on Monday, sorted. :rolleyes:

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Was the original agent one of their Indian staff by any chance?

Absolutely inflexible the lot of them. They rigidly stick to their script and if what you say or ask isn’t on the script they simple ignore what you’ve said and carry on.

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If you have a tablet you could open the email and take the tablet to the place you send it back and print the code their, i did this the other day.

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You are right on both counts Russ, but they met their Nemisis when they were dealing with me, I'm far too long in the tooth to stand for their nonsense.

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Lost one of my only pair of gold earings yesterday. :(




People who smoke (near you) these smelly vape things that spew smoke all over the place.

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I hate loosing an earring, I can never dispose of the singleton as I always hope that by some miracle the lost one will be found. At least if it's gold you can always cash it in if that's any consolation. <<hugs>>

I'm with you on the smoking, so few people seem to smoke anymore that when you get down wind of one the smell is really horrible. I do wonder about the Vapers who wander about in their own personal cloud, maybe it's the 21st century version of rose tinted glasses

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Why is our TV Obsessed with Ronaldo, even during the Spurs game they stopped and spoke about him, WHY?????


I don't care about him like many fans, he's a cheat who gets players sent off.

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Hope you find your earrings Tinky

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Back at Moorfields, think I'm turning into Jefferson :)

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I believe she did find the.

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Taking my once-baby girl to her new place at Leeds university tomorrow.
So she’ll have officially moved away.
Yeah she’ll be back during the holidays but still she will now be living almost 4 hours away.

Grumpy Russ.

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Wow! Hasn’t time flown?

She’ll love Leeds - lots of good clubs and bars, and both of the City Centre Unis have very reasonably priced bars with lots of activities.

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Enjoy the peace, she'll be back in 3/4 years (with accumulated junk and a huge debt ! ) No graduate can afford a house....

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Flipping heck, I still remember you telling us she was born on here. This forum has become like some kind of generation ship. :D

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My niece was given a place IIRC at the Royal Holloway near Reading.


But as she is still struggling with anorexia she has decided to do her degree online over 4 years, but will do it in 3, then her Masters, I put the idea of a PhD, I said how good would Dr K sound? She liked it.


Doing it online means she can keep her support group near, see her girlfriend, and do her new job.

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I applied there to read Medical Biochemistry in one of the first years they let men in. Would have been interesting to have been in the very small minority maybe but didn't get the grades.

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What the heck's happened to shaving foam? Seems to have completely disappeared from the supermarket shelves.:mad:

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Yes, well, along with other empty shelves, you should have thought before you voted....

In the meantime, grow a beard? It's something to do and you could dye it red, white and blue if you like ;)

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I don't remember voting to ban shaving foam, maybe it's down to the recent 'refugees' buying it all up :shrug:

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Tried buying some scented wax melts from eBay earlier. Added them to my shopping basket, went to pay with PayPal, only PayPal came back with an error saying there was a “problem” with my card and should try a different card. But I don’t have another, I only use the one.

Checked my balance, yep money was there as expected. Tried it again, same “problem”.

I ring my bank as sometimes they put a block on “suspicious” transactions. Spoke to the bank, the problem was with eBay as they didn’t run the transaction using “recognised security”. I smell rotten BS but called eBay as they suggested.

I get through to their “wonderful” Filipino call centre.

Apparently the transaction was done correctly and I need to speak to PayPal.

Already I can see where this is going.

I ring PayPal. I get their to their “wonderful” Filipino call centre.

I explain that when I tried to make the transaction, the PayPal app said my car was declined

“Well that’s easy sir” he bangs in his fake American accent, “you need to simply use a different card”.

I explained I didn’t have another card and eBay told me the problem was with PayPal.

“No sir you just said it yourself!! Your card was declined so you don’t have enough money or your card is wrong”

Cue scenes of an already grumpy Russ now head butting the table.

I asked was does the error say his end.

“Oh I don’t know sir I haven’t looked at your account yet!!”

I asked him to confirm if he’d told me the problem was elsewhere without even looking at my account.

“Yes!!”

I’m seriously doing my best to not lose it at this point.

He looks as my account

“Aha yes I can see your card has been associated with suspicious activity and now cannot be used with PayPal. You will need to use one of your other cards”

I remind him that I said I only use the one card.

~silence~

I asked if anyone was going to let me know my card had been blocked by them.

“No sir! You find that out when you try to use your card on PayPal!”

I asked him if he thought doing that was good service.

“The very best service!” he said cheerfully.

No wonder humans annoy me.

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Good luck to her,

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Went in the next day for surgery, had

Vitrectomy, cryotherapy retinopexy and gas injected into the old eyeball.

Can't really complain as it had to be done but the post op procedures have been worse than the op itself, lay face down when I got home till morning and then five days and nights of laying on my left cheek, it got dull quickly but it's over now, hopefully the old eye is fixed and we'll never err look back

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There used to be a really good greasy spoon opposite Moorfields and it went during the pandemic.

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Glad that is all over for you, not a nice experience , Take Care

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I like the homeless cafe, it's profits are for them rather than run by them or like a soup kitchen, yes someone did ask me this :)

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Not heard of that one....

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It's on commercial street heading towards or in Shoreditch, Crisis run it

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2 part moans.


The number of quizzes vomited onto our screens.


The number of comedians being the host.


Don't get me wrong, I like a quiz, that are the QI, and Mock the week type, no money and just for fun.


Stuff like The Chases & Pointless are a waste of an hour.

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I've gone right of them, to scripted plus oddly since I've been off I've got into tenable and tipping point the latter of which is atrocious, the presenter just wants to lick himself and the contestants in the main would have trouble finding their way out of a room without being shown so no chance of them answering questions correctly

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Not 100% sure yet but i think i may have to get the plumber in as the radiators downstairs stay 100% cold and upstairs they seem to work!

Boiler is due a service anyway but my unprofessional guess is there is an issue with the pump and the radiators downstairs bleed ok.

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Good luck with your radiators

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Is your heating zoned?

If so it could be a stuck motorised valve that services the downstairs radiators.

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I’ve just spent this morning fretting that our central heating engineer damaged our motorised valve when he froze the pipe next to it in order to install an upgraded expansion vessel yesterday. It took me far longer than it should have to realise that the transformer-like hum was being caused by the valve’s natural operation, amplified by the new pipes and vessel. It’s not loud enough to hear in adjacent bedrooms but it will annoy me so I’m going to have to see if I can dampen it somehow.

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My moan today is my back has been very painful all day, Must be an age thing,

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I've no idea but the heating system is 23 years old so nothing fancy.

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Not a moan but just when you think you've seen it all you spot a mobility scooter with a tow bar, towing a guy in a wheel chair:)

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Sounds like the disability version of a wagon train. :erm:

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Waiting on a video app with the PDSA Vet. Dog looks like he has a Mast Cell Tumor but that is just a google diagnosis but still worried

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Being asked to do a 10 hour video editing job and rendering in about 10 minutes.


Sorry, but it aint gonna happen!

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Once again, our local council paid a company to do a job, then didn't inspect the work.

Damage to the tiles on 3 neighbours' homes' roofs during TV aerial refits got the council riled-up and ready to charge the tenants to do the repairs. But then another tenant told them that the tiles had all been replaced on similar style homes many years ago because they had become excessively fragile.

A quick check of records, and it was found that the council had been billed for retiling those 3 homes but the work had not been done.

The council is now trying to get the original contractor to actually do the work.

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Talking of councils wasting money a couple of years ago I had squirrels living in my loftspace. Their access was a poorly repaired edge of the roof so I complained.

Eventually they come and checked and indeed the nest was right behind the damage so they decided to fix it when they knew the squirrels were out.They scaffolded the eaves and did the work. A couple of week later they removed the scaffold. Literally the same day another company come out and said they needed to scaffold the whole house as I was getting a new roof hahahaha

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Pensions!

Like a growing number of people, I have had a number of jobs over my working lifetime, which has meant I have ended up with 7 different (small) pensions - now, the 4 Defined Benefit ones are easy (I've taken them, as they all rise with inflation each year, and SWMBO still gets half the payments should I pop my clogs).

The moan is the three defined contribution pensions I have from 3 jobs I worked at in the 80s, 90s, & 00s - three different schemes (Aviva, Standard Life, and was L&G now LCP ReAssure); I've got the fund values and the transfer values for each of them (they can be different), now got to figure out the best way to utilise them as retirement funds.

a) not an annuity - I would need to live 30 more years to get the value of the fund if I took one, and nothing gets passed on to SWMBO

b) probably a SIPP Drawdown fund, as this gives me more flexibility, and if I pop my clogs before the fund is empty, SWMBO gets what's left

Just need to look for the best SIPP - thinking about either Vanguard or Aviva, as both have very good ratings.

I've had initial chats with some Financial Advisors, and I have to say I was struck by how "shark-ish" they were - one advised me to move two of my pensions immediately to a higher risk fund (he would get commission for the move and the ongoing fund management) as the bonus payment on them wasn't guaranteed; when I checked, the bonus payments were guaranteed. The others just seemed to want to transfer me to schemes where they would get ongoing commission, even though I was willing to pay a one off fee for (supposedly) impartial advice.

The moan is that I didn't realise it would be this much work...:D

(could be worse - could not have them.. :shocked:)

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I'm with Aviva for my pension and have a vanguard fund thing as well, like them both tbh

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R4 "You and Yours" consumer affairs programme has been highlighting loads of pension scams out there promising improbably high returns and many people have lost all their money in them. Go with a well known name.

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The Government sorts mine out, £191 a week, no messing about with advisors, goes up every year, no worrying about investments crashing ;)

Life of luxury . . which, to be honest, I never really expected to live long enough to experience :D

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Came across this really nice smart long sleeved buttoned-down collar Superdry shirt on eBay and decided to buy it. It was used but for a tenner I didn’t mind and it looked in great condition. In my size too, XL.

Arrived today and yeah, it looks brand new so I tried it on….and could barely get my arms through the sleeves.

It totally slipped my mind that Superdry’s sizes are based on Japanese people and their XL must be like a Medium to us. Gutted, I really liked the shirt.

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It’s actually a U.K. company…

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superdry

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I don’t doubt it. However their sizes are based on the Japanese population for some reason.

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Agreed - I am a 46" chest, and can't find hardly anything in there to fit (some jackets, but no polo shirts).

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Not sure if that's correct. I've got a couple of jackets and they are a bit big on me when going for my usual size.

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I’m pretty muscular, I mean I’m no Dwayne Johnson but I couldn’t do any of the buttons up and my arms were extremely tight in the shirt and that was an XL.

The other XL shirts I have fit properly.

I have 2 Superdry t-shirts in XL and if I’m in poser mode during the summer I’ll wear them as they’re pretty tight. Superdry’s sizes are definitely smaller on “westerners” in general.

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Cotton Traders ?
I can always get shirts from them that fit.

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Thanks - I use there and Joules.

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I got offered by a guy in an unwritten white van £20 to check and clear the gutters on the house. Only the front really needed doing so I said yes. He didn't have a card or flier.

Anyhow he cleared the gutter but said that some of the concrete in the valley of the gable was insecure and removed it.

Now they're keen to come and do major works on the valley. Now call me suspicious but unwritten van, call from withheld number, no business card, a call this morning from a mobile number that doesn't trace to a bone-fide business in the area and I'm suspicious of being scammed so I've asked for a written estimate. What's the betting I don't get one?

:rolleyes:

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I think you know the answer, keep well away from them.

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[QUOTE=heero_yuy;36098344 said that some of the concrete in the valley of the gable was insecure and removed it.[/QUOTE]

It is a known con that they carry material up to the roof, then bring it down saying it had come off and offer to do the repair.

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Personally, I wouldn’t have let him anywhere near my house in the first place. He’s actually removed material from the building because he decided it was loose? That stinks to high heaven. If I were you I’d be getting a reputable local property maintenance company to have a look at that, and don’t be surprised if your white van man has actually caused the damage in order to get you to pay him for repairs.

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Thanks for the opinions guys. Just confirms my suspicions. I'll get a reputable company to give me a free survey of the valley to see if any remedial work is needed.

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If they have removed anything keep an eye out for squirrels as I had a gap and they made a home and then noise then chewed through my alarm cable

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Looking from street level the valley looks quite intact and there's still crap in the gutter so it's definitely an attempted scam.

I'll put an alert out on the local nextdoor site.

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The birds regularly clear out any crap in my gutters. If you haven't got a problem, I'd leave it (and them).

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Need the heating fixed asap, it is now too cold downstairs!

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SnoopZ: Are the radiators cool to touch, might need bleeding?

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Already bled them, radiators upstairs get reasonably warm but downstairs stone cold, if i turn the thermostat up to +30c in the hall it should fire the boiler into life but it doesn't. I know the boiler is OK as it heats the hot water just fine.

Got a plumber coming on 10th Nov to service it so hopefully they will find the issue.

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At a guess, your thermostat is bust, and convection alone is carrying a little heat to the upstairs rads while the boiler is working to heat your hot water.

However your friendly neighbourhood plumber will diagnose and sort it pretty quickly I’d have thought.

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Did you say that with one hand on your hip, the other on your chin, sucking in air through your teeth whilst slowly shaking your head? :D

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and then shaking his head saying who done this

I've found the tradesmens preferred answer to this to be, the wife

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Garage mechanics have this off to a tee. :D

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Incorrect and overuse of the words "Emergency" & "Crisis".

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I’ve had the BMW for just over a year and it’s been fantastic, no problems at all. The previous owner was a mechanic so he looked after it really well and it shows.

Over the past month or two the engine coolant warning light has been randomly coming on for a minute or so then going off. I had the car serviced in March and the coolant level has remained the same so I can’t see that being the problem. The car still runs perfectly well yet the warning light comes on now and then, sometimes every day, sometimes not for weeks.

So I took it in to the garage yesterday and despite them taking 2 hours to tinker about they can’t find what’s causing it.

That in itself isn’t my moan, my main gripe is being charged £60 to be told “we don’t know….” :rolleyes:

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Ah, the good old fashioned intermittent fault. And when it does finally go kaput it will be the sensor monitoring the part, rather than the part itself, that’s broken.

Trade it in for a Ford model T. So much simpler … :D

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Can you get them as a convertible? If so I’m sold :D

Apparently they checked the sensor (which was hoping would be the problem, they cost about £6…) but it was responding ok.

And just the sort of worry to have while I drive to Leeds and/or Leicester….

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Had the 'engine management light' on in my Avensis for 3 years. Checked at garage when it first appeared and nothing wrong (glitch somewhere? ) so they cleared it, said if it comes back we'll look further . . . ££££ . .

It came back on 2 months before it's MOT . . I reset it . . flew through the MOT (emissions etc) and after that I just kept resetting it occasionally.

There were absolutely zero engine problems in those 3 years . . apart from a new starter motor . . bloody modern cars eh :rolleyes:

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For the sake of £6, they could have just changed the sensor anyway, thus ruling it out in the future.

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Fireworks and tonight because of the damage he has done due to fireworks fear and me having to answer the door my dog too

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It's been pouring with rain here, with the sound of fireworks all evening.

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Colonoscopy prep day.:(

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prep is worse than the procedure. I quite enjoyed looking at my insides haha

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A permanent position by the bathroom is a wise idea.

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I feel your pain, I detest taking it. Drink plenty of water to help with the dehydration headaches.

I had emergency bowel surgery 3 weeks ago (resection), because it was an emergency I didn't have to go through the prep beforehand.

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I had actually cleaned myself out with the first bit and did not really have that much of a mare. The second lot just went through in one hahaha

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l think hopefully l am over the worst of it.

---------- Post added at 17:26 ---------- Previous post was at 17:25 ----------

l have been drinking water and sports drinks.

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l hope you are starting to feel better after your operation.

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Good luck with it :tu:


Hope you're feeling better :tu:

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Well it was quite an ordeal at the time but I can't really complain as I nearly died. But still in limbo at the mo to see if things have worked out. Early days yet.

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I have to agree with Jaymoss, get the prep over with and you're over the worse of it. The procedure is just uncomfortable more than anything else. But I hope everything goes okay anyway.

If you want a laugh check out Billy Connolly's colonoscopy take on it... https://vimeo.com/24340828

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l had the Colonoscopy procedure today and there is no cancer but they said l have some diverticulosis and a anal fissure quite deep in.

The consultant will be phoning me later this week to discuss things.

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That 'd' word brings fear to me den, some thing that I suffer from, mind you both my mum and younger brother had surgery to correct problems with above.
Been on special heart meds to stop my blood from clotting for last 8yrs, now been told to stop so now nothing to stop me having investigations?

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Hope you get better soon Den

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Dropped a 12.5kg dumbbell on my shin at the gym this morning.

Picture taken earlier but now a nice purple bruise is forming

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A few years back my mum dropped a 1" thick solid wood cutting board on the toe, it was painful for ages, and she lost the toe nail.

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Hope it is not too painful

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Thanks. Various 4 letter words were uttered.

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I could imagine ,

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Talking of the dreaded colonoscopy, I had one just over 2 years ago. I didn't have any sedation but wish I had, they did have gas and air available though which helped. I never knew just how deep a human could inhale and for how long... let me tell you it's very long and very, very deep.

And they hadn't finished with me there, after that, they literally spun me around and did the endoscopy! They assured me that they were not going to use the same camera that had just been up my anus. Saying that, I really didn't care, I was still higher than a kite from all that endless sucking I'd done less than a minute ago! The cylinder / tank must have looked like an empty crushed coke can.

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I’m sorry, I shouldn’t, but :rofl:

(I’ve had it done 3 times, and insisted on maximum sedation. I have absolutely no memory of the second one at all)

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I had no sedation no gas and tbh quite enjoyed the experience ( not in a sexual way just cuz I enjoyed watching my internals on TV hahahaha )

Endoscopy I had no sedation and hated it and will have to go again next year and every few years for the rest of my life but I still won't have sedation

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Lightweights- - wait till you have a kidney stone endoscopy…

For the preliminary examination, they use local rather than general anaesthesia; they use this…

https://www.cableforum.uk/board/atta...6&d=1363287789

All joking aside, I share your pain.

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This was my second Colonoscopy and this time l asked for sedation and l have to say it was a good decision given how l felt during and after the first one.