Southerners are softies. Official.
22-12-2004, 16:36
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Southerners are softies. Official.
From tonights Oldham Chron,
Southerners are five times more likely to dial 999 than Northerners if they are suffering from a sore, swollen ankle, a survey revealed.
While 5% of people living in the South would call an ambulance if they slipped when building a snowman, only one in 100 Notherners would do the same.
The results of the poll, carried out by the Department of Health, were released as Health Minister Rosie Winterton launched the annual Get The Right Treatment campaign.
The project aims to raise awareness of the range of NHS services available.
 
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22-12-2004, 16:52
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Re: Southerners are softies. Official.
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22-12-2004, 16:56
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Re: Southerners are softies. Official.
We seldom get enough snow to build a snowman 
Maybe the survey should mention the 4 hour wait in casualty & see how many folks would dial 999 then
Alan
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22-12-2004, 17:08
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Re: Southerners are softies. Official.
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Originally Posted by Scooby
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We use smoke signals from the top of the smouldering slag heaps and the mill chimneys. 
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22-12-2004, 17:10
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Re: Southerners are softies. Official.
You still have mills?
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22-12-2004, 17:12
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Re: Southerners are softies. Official.
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Originally Posted by iadom
We use smoke signals from the top of the smouldering slag heaps and the mill chimneys. |
Made from softie southern slags 
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22-12-2004, 17:36
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Re: Southerners are softies. Official.
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Originally Posted by BBKing
You still have mills?
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One or two, dark satanic edifices escaped dear old Fred's attentions.
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22-12-2004, 17:56
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Re: Southerners are softies. Official.
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Originally Posted by iadom
From tonights Oldham Chron,
Southerners are five times more likely to dial 999 than Northerners if they are suffering from a sore, swollen ankle, a survey revealed.While 5% of people living in the South would call an ambulance if they slipped when building a snowman, only one in 100 Notherners would do the same.The results of the poll, carried out by the Department of Health, were released as Health Minister Rosie Winterton launched the annual Get The Right Treatment campaign.The project aims to raise awareness of the range of NHS services available. |
So is this newspaper so short of local stories they have pick a ridiculous story to print, one can only say: so what?
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22-12-2004, 18:01
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Re: Southerners are softies. Official.
southerners on average earn more, thus pay more taxes, therefore have the right to use 999 more!!! lol (that's a joke by the way)
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22-12-2004, 18:03
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Re: Southerners are softies. Official.
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Originally Posted by Gogogo
So is this newspaper so short of local stories they have pick a ridiculous story to print, one can only say: so what?
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hurting you is it 
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22-12-2004, 18:09
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Re: Southerners are softies. Official.
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I think it's touched a nerve (so they'll all be in A & E tonight )
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22-12-2004, 18:33
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Originally Posted by Nugget
I think it's touched a nerve (so they'll all be in A & E tonight ) |
a raw one at that 
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22-12-2004, 18:36
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Re: Southerners are softies. Official.
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Originally Posted by Scooby
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I thought you were a northerner then, seen as you support Middlesbrough, or do you not support your local team then?
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22-12-2004, 19:13
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Originally Posted by paulyoung666
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No way, I just feel the newspaper concerned is pathetic.
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22-12-2004, 19:23
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No way, I just feel the newspaper concerned is pathetic.
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so if it had been the other way round would it still have been ' pathetic ' 
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