Random Rants
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@EdH:
Scotomas…
Can't see whatever I'm trying to look directly at for an hour or two... having to rely on peripheral vision while working at my computer is a PITA. Then I'll have a banging migraine later...
I had a student with a bad case of this a while back. Learnt a lot about it. Must be exhausting.
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It’s all down to the individual.
Our local DHL drivers are a couple of stars. But they are also two cheeky ginger nuts who everybody knows. If they fucked about they’d hear about it pretty quick.
@AdamC and @Graham hand deliver to you or is one of them @Megatron1505
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It’s all down to the individual.
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Edit: I’ll add that in Norway at least, being a professional vehicle operator of any kind is very, very badly paid.
Same here… our UPS guy is a crabby Ghanaian... but we tip him alomst everytime. If he has to deliver something to the office and there is none he takes a detour and brings it to our home...
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Our old DHL driver was great! I had his personal phone number and he would text me to see if I was home pre:delivery and if I wasn’t he would ask if he could leave it at the door. I routinely slipped him a six pack of beer for his help.
Sadly he changed routes and the new guy’s a twat…
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It’s all down to the individual.
Our local DHL drivers are a couple of stars. But they are also two cheeky ginger nuts who everybody knows. If they fucked about they’d hear about it pretty quick.
@AdamC and @Graham hand deliver to you or is one of them @Megatron1505
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It’s all down to the individual.
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Edit: I’ll add that in Norway at least, being a professional vehicle operator of any kind is very, very badly paid.
Same here… our UPS guy is a crabby Ghanaian... but we tip him alomst everytime. If he has to deliver something to the office and there is none he takes a detour and brings it to our home...
More grey than ginger these days
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-stoke-staffordshire-62985430
Where in the world did you find a news site that actually shares GOOD news. I don’t think we have those here.
The BBC! It’s glory is somewhat dimmed, but still a bastion of journalism. The Guardian actually has a weekly column with only good news too, a little something weigh up for war, planet death, capitalism and so on.
I read most of the world news on the BBC website as I find they still put a little effort into articles. Sadly, a lot of Canadian news is just a video clip with a vague title and an even worse description of the clip. On written articles, they are either so extremely biased in either one way or another that you doubt the validity of the article or the journalist has just written a puff piece with no fact checking or investigation of the subject.
I know it was bad for the environment, but I miss newspapers and journalists who used to work for a week on an article to be published on the weekend. None of this breaking news continuous news cycle with little or no effort put into it.
Rant over…
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British journalism in general is so much better than what we have in the states. British journalists will keep asking you the same question if you don't sufficiently answer, will challenge nonsensical answers, and we let people off the hook too easily. "Access journalism," in which you burn bridges by doing your job and only get opportunities by effectively becoming a prop in a given subject's infomercial, has turned journalism into propagangistic entertainment instead of truth seeking here, and the gray line between entertainment, opionion, and actual journalism has resulted in spinning talking heads instead of serious journalists.
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when I was living in Australia, my family (aunt and uncle) and a couple of mates worked for Australia post and have good relationships with the contractors. my parcels were all hand delivered while they're at work.
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@EdH:
Scotomas…
migraine with visual aura, poor man @EdH hope you have a good neurologist
PM me in case not
I've been getting them on and off for a few years - I think I've had maybe 5 in the last decade. I've logged them all but no uptick in frequency. My NHS GP thinks its nothing to worry about as they are so infrequent. Maybe I should go private to get them checked out properly tho, d'you think?
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@EdH:
I've been getting them on and off for a few years - I think I've had maybe 5 in the last decade. I've logged them all but no uptick in frequency. My NHS GP thinks its nothing to worry about as they are so infrequent. Maybe I should go private to get them checked out properly tho, d'you think?
It sounds quite typical, and you don't have to worry. Difficult to do anything against the aura (the scotoma), for the headache you could try a triptane if ibuprofen doesn't work.
