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Parkdrive Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Narrow minded really? You've managed to rubbish every single heath system in the world, based (by your own admission) on one experience that occurred in a relatively poor country 12 years ago. That's pretty much dictionary definition stuff.

Jeremy Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Loz Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > Jeremy!! Five minute of your time and it lasts for five years. Do it now!!! > > I know I know. I will before I go to Euroland again... I'm gonna go for a nag, here: it lasts for five years and there is no time like the present. A good lunchtime task!

miga Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Loz Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > There is one and only one criteria that mush be kept, having seen Australia make this mistake. It > > must always remain free at the point of delivery. > > > > Anything else is irrelevant ideology. > Hang on - it is free (if you don't earn enough), and you get varying levels of rebate depending on your income. Precisely. It is not free at the point of delivery for all users. And even 'free depending on income' is becoming a little theoretical. And, a bit like dentists in the UK, fewer and fewer GPs provide the necessary bulk billing service for the service to be free to even those who would qualify. Medicare defines standard rates, but doctor can set their own rates. But you only get the standard rate back. So if Medicare say a GP visit is $50, but your doctor charges $75, then you are left out of pocket. If the doctor bulk bills, then he/gets the standard rate directly from the government and you pay nothing, but as I said, few do that. And now most states have started charging for ambulance calls, often a few hundred dollars. Charging really is the thin edge of the wedge stuff.

Jeremy Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I stupidly didn't have an EHIC card (and stupidly still don't) Jeremy!! Five minute of your time and it lasts for five years. Do it now!!! https://www.ehic.org.uk/Internet/startApplication.do

Parkdrive Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > If you've been unfortunate enough to be sick or suffer as a result of an accident overseas, you > wouldn't need to ask that question. I had a mate go through the Austrian system when he tore his ACL skiing. Within two weeks of the injury he had the initial treatment by the local GP, his knee operated on and physio started, all for free as he was working (as I was) in Austria at the time. He'd have been lucky to get all that done in four to six months under the NHS.

The NHS is very good - indeed it is currently keeping me on my feet. But having seen other countries in action, then I agree with the premise that amongst first world nations (not, obviously, the USA) it isn't anything amazingly exceptional. Which is why all this talk about privatisation is a load of scaremongering. Successful national health services all over the world have a wildly varying mix of private and public. There is one and only one criteria that mush be kept, having seen Australia make this mistake. It must always remain free at the point of delivery. Anything else is irrelevant ideology.

Louisa Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > ...or if you don't want to get banned, just repeat the above process but just point out every so > often that you're a blow in from somewhere posh. Admin won't touch you with a barge-pole. Well, that certainly helps your case.

There's a reasonably new channel on FreeSat called 'Bonanza Bonanza' which shows loads of old (mainly US) stuff. I was rather pleasantly surprised how good The High Chaperrel was, having remembered it being shown on Saturday afternoons when I was a little one.

TD Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Is there any places local that sells wood chips for smoking? If you can't find any locally, Amazon has loads.

I suspect that if Louisa would agree to stop whatever behaviour caused her ban, she might have a chance at re-instatement. I also suspect she won't do that.

robbin Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > That Alex Dowsett? Are you suggesting he is just 'some bloke on a bike' or 'Fred Nobody'? If so, I > stand impressed by what you must have achieved in life to make him look so anonymous in your mind. I'm sure he's achieved a lot, but he's pretty unknown outside cycling circles (or even cycling in circles). If they asked for 'Famous British Cyclists' on Pointless, he'd be pretty damn close to, if not actually, a pointless answer. There are a lot of high achieving people in sport that are pretty anonymous. Likewise, there are a lot of footballers with a much higher profile than their talents deserve. > That said, if you are not at all into cycling or sports endurance feats generally, I can see that watching > a bloke riding round in circles might not be the most riveting way of spending an hour of your life. Probably the best summary. Mind you, lots of people go to watch F1 live and I've never really understood that, either. I suppose at least with cycling you can see them all the time, not just fly past every 2 minutes.

robbin, did you watch Alex Dowsett set the previous record earlier in the year?

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jun/07/flybe-flight-to-dublin-forced-to-turn-back-because-of-bee An aeroplane heading to Dublin was forced to turn back after a bee became lodged inside its instruments. The name of the airline? Flybe. Chortle.

But why? What what was so watchable about a bloke riding around a track on a bike. For an hour. I know there is the Wiggo effect, where people would rock up to watch him pick his nose. I suppose a better question to ask is: would you watch Fred Nobody try the same record attempt?

It's a fantastic sporting achievement, but who would want to watch some bloke ride around and around and around and around for an hour. It's a bit like Formula One, but more boring! Whoever thought that was possible? And who the hell actually paid good money for tickets?

Good advice, Foxy, especially marking public Wifi networks properly. And you should always have Windows Firewall on anyway, public network or otherwise.) Https generally foils MitM attacks, but there is more comprehensive solution: VPN. Mine costs USD40 a year and you are safe from prying eyes (assuming you trust your VPN provider). And you have the added advantage of being able to change countries to take advantage of things like US Netflix or back to the UK when you are overseas to pick up iPlayer.

I've always used weather.com for things like that.

450g (well, 453g) IS a pound, so you are cooking it for too long. Most people just use 25 min per 500g plus 25. Anyway, do what I did and buy one of these - you get perfect roast meat every time. (65C to 70C for chicken) http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B003ARNMD2?psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=oh_aui_detailpage_o03_s00

BLOW IN!

DulwichFox Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > 2 nights ago a woman 40ish ran across L.L all > smiles and arms extended and said to me :- > > 'If you can spare any money, I'll give you a big Kiss' The streetwalkers in ED are a little chaste, aren't they?

Wouldn't steaming be ineffective on perennial weeds?

I thought everyone came under the category of 'The Blow-in'?

*Bob* Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > It's up there with Dave Cameron's "I met a man.." schtick Wasn't it Miliband who kept meeting men called Gareth on Hampstead Heath?

Actually, RC, it changed a while ago according to the SI. A kilobytes is 1000 bytes and kibibyte is 1024. Same with most prefixes. Having said that, most techies do still us 1024. Get up to tera and peta and they soon fall back to 1000, though!

FJDGoose Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Have we had the 'pompatuss of love' yet ? I can't be bothered to check Bit like 'Blinded by the light. Wrapped up like the deuces of the rollers in the night." Like 'The Joker', the real lyrics make even less sense.