Politics Thread 5

[Moggy]

My wife has to get prescription medicine, the last time the doctor prescribed her, he wrote down that she also needed a strong dose of folic acid.

She told the pharmacist that she wasn’t going to pay £8.80 for folic acid (it’s very cheap without a prescription!), but the pharmacist wouldn’t do the rest of the medicine without the folic acid.

It’s crazy that you have to pay £8.80 for stuff that costs 50p.

[That]

Don't get me started on the time/resource drain of treating drunks on Fri/Sat nights.

Absolutely. While these drunks do need to be treated once they get into a mess, it's still so frustrating that they get into such a state as to be a drain on our hospitals.

[Preezy]

I once went to A&E because I started coughing up blood. It turns out there was literally nothing wrong with me and I didn't require any treatment

You should have told the doctors you'd been reading the Buying a House thread a few hours earlier, they'd have been able to diagnose it much quicker.

I'm glad you're having fun at my expense. As you're aware, I don't find it funny and actually consider it to be a kind of bullying.

*sigh*

Referencing the goings-on in other threads is a staple form of joke on the forum. Plenty of people have been the subject of it, including myself. It's not like I said "murrrrr you should have told the doctors you were bumpain for being a prole durrrr". You chose to view it as a negative poke at you, but it wasn't intended as such. I'm sorry if you feel that way, but I won't apologise for the joke as I don't think I've done anything wrong.

[That]

Okay. A meta-discussion on whether a remark was or wasn't appropriate is off-topic, and I don't feel comfortable moderating you when I'm emotionally involved in the conversation, so I won't comment further.

[Jenuall]

I'm fairly certain that most people would have been advised to just use over the counter medicines for those ailments at the moment anyway - they may not be saving as much money as they thought by doing this!

[7256930752]

I take it this is for mild cases? There is no effective over the counter solution for ear wax, olive oil works to a point but getting ears cleaned out at the GP's is the only solution.

[Jenuall]

I take it this is for mild cases? There is no effective over the counter solution for ear wax, olive oil works to a point but getting ears cleaned out at the GP's is the only solution.

Really? Having your ears syringed is the ultimate solution of course but I have certainly used over the counter products successfully to clear a build up of ear wax in the past.

[Drumstick]

For blocked ears I bought my own cheap plastic syringe. Fill it with lukewarm water and you're away, it works very well. Cost me £5 on Amazon.

[Squinty]

I tried Olive oil in one of my ears. Gave me a shooting pain right down to my jaw line. Hurt like a bastard.

And then there was that time where the GP nurse decided to syringe my ears despite being told not to. Cue me abandoning the procedure because of the pain and then picking bits of dried blood out my ears for months on end.

This was after them taking a sample of my wax to see what infection it was, and mislabelling the sample. They put me down as Mrs Squinty, and labelled it as a vaginal swab.

I absolutely hate going anywhere the GP for my ears.

[7256930752]

Mine is really bad, to the point that it's quite painful. Nothing I've ever tried does anything. It's just a bit gooseberry fool to lose an NHS service that I need fairly frequently.

[Jenuall]

I tried Olive oil in one of my ears. Gave me a shooting pain right down to my jaw line. Hurt like a bastard.

And then there was that time where the GP nurse decided to syringe my ears despite being told not to. Cue me abandoning the procedure because of the pain and then picking bits of dried blood out my ears for months on end.

This was after them taking a sample of my wax to see what infection it was, and mislabelling the sample. They put me down as Mrs Squinty, and labelled it as a vaginal swab.

I absolutely hate going anywhere the GP for my ears.

Blimey - sounds like your GP/nurse is a bit gooseberry fool!

I've never had much luck with olive oil on ear wax, I thought it was a bit of a myth that it was supposed to work.

[That]

This was after them taking a sample of my wax to see what infection it was, and mislabelling the sample. They put me down as Mrs Squinty, and labelled it as a vaginal swab.

That must have really confused the lab technician!

[KK]

I've always just used cotton buds in my ears. Never had a problem, despite what the packaging insists on telling you.

[Rex Kramer]

Oh look, something Grayling is involved with has gone tits up again.

[KK]

The Jacob Rees-Mogg in Tracey Breaks The News is bloody brilliant.

Rest of it not very funny though.

[Lotus]

The Jacob Rees-Mogg in Tracey Breaks The News is bloody brilliant.

Rest of it not very funny though.

Has to be better than the Michael Gove and Jeremy Corbyn impressions - terrible.

[Garth]

The Trump impressionist is pretty good:

[Preezy]

Yeah that's not bad at all.

[Buffalo]

Mine is really bad, to the point that it's quite painful. Nothing I've ever tried does anything. It's just a bit gooseberry fool to lose an NHS service that I need fairly frequently.

A product called Audiclean is what you want. The little bottle of concentrated remover is only packaged in with a diluted ear wash, post-shower bottle.

[KK]

Am I the only one that thinks Gatwick would have been better to expand rather than another runway at Heathrow...