Brendan

Yeah I know (and I realise I brought it up) but Pilates is only one step away from pink leg warmers. ..surely.

I know what you mean. I have been advised by the physio and the osteopath to take it up for my back and my other half keeps on badgering me about it. I just can?t bring myself to do it.

Is that rhyming slang?

Stuff the spiritual side. You can always do pilates.

This is all assuming WW3 doesn?t break out, all public funding is redirected to the military and the Olympics are cancelled.

Chiropractor, osteopath or a physiotherapist are all options. Take up yoga. That will sort it long term.

There are battalions of lettuce making their way out of Iceland (where else) as we speak and fanning out across the area. They have been waiting for the temperature to drop sufficiently for them to survive long periods out of the fridge.

Yeah if you make clear what options are available and what the pros and cons of said options are.

I have seen NHS GPs twice in my life and this is how the encounters went: ME: Doctor I have a chronic cough. It started about 3 months ago and hasn?t shifted. I do not have any other associated symptoms. DOCTOR: It seems you have an upper respiratory tract infection. They are common this time of year (you know coughs and colds). It should clear up in a week or so. ME: No doctor I do not have a cold I have painful cough that comes from deep in my chest. As I said I have no other associated symptoms. It started 3 months ago and has not gone away. I am rather worried about it. DOCTOR: Oh a cough you say. Hmmmmm?.. Would you like me to examine you? ME: I don?t know. You are the doctor. (Makes a halfhearted gesture of absentmindedly listening to my lungs with a stethoscope) DOCTOR: Well I would say you have a viral infection in your lungs. ME: Oh. Can it be treated? DOCTOR: Yes. I am prescribing you antibiotics. ME: But doctor, antibiotics kill bacteria not viruses. DOCTOR: Yes. Very good. That is correct. ME: So what is this script for? DOCTOR: Antibiotics of course. ME: What for? DOCTOR: To treat your cough. (This one is verbatim) ME: Doctor I have terrible back pain. I can?t sleep or sit at my desk to work. I had a bad back injury a couple of years ago that was treated with physiotherapy. I had a bump recently that seems to have brought it back. DOCTOR: Have you taken ibuprofen? ME: Yes. But it offers very little relief. DOCTOR: Well what would you like me to do about it? (He actually said this) ME: Well can you treat it or refer me to someone? DOCTOR: I would advise that you take ibuprofen.

ssshhhht!

Whenever you see someone wearing one in a movie they are inevitably insane. ?or a lumberjack

Note to self: Stop going to the GP with my clothes on backwards and drooling on myself.

All very good points and I agree with you about the benefits of state funded healthcare. The only problem I would point out is that I have not yet seen an NHS GP who was able to tell me anything more than I learnt in primary school biology.

Just think Steve Buscemi in Fargo.

Perhaps there should be a universal ?child friend? sign that pubs/restaurants can display (or not display as the case may be).

Could be. Traditionally worn by escaped Canadians or those who have taken a holiday south of sanity.

Has anyone else noticed that there are an awful lot of them walking around at the moment? You can identify them by their hats: Has there been a mass breakout at a local asylum?

Yeah! Back in my day we would walk 10 miles to work in the moring through 6ft snow drifts. ...barefoot

Pretty Vacant - Sex Pistols

Yeah it's a vegetable and a very handy one to have if you are going to be spending lots of time with nothing much to do.

What type of plant do pork pies grow on?

It's down the road Not a patch on the CPT though. Oh it may have chairs that don't collapse under you and it?s paint may not be peeling but do these things a pub make?

So if vegetarians only eat vegetables (which includes fruit) surely they shouldn?t eat mushrooms (or anything containing yeast for that matter) unless they call themselves fun-vegetarians (or something like that)

Keef Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I'm not a big veg fan, but love fruit, so if > you're allowed tomatoes and avocados, then I am > taing bananas, oranges, melons, strawberries and > pineapple. You could argue that strawberries are actually a vegetable as the fleshy bit that we eat is a type of stem. Technically their ?fruit? are the little black dots on the outside.