Bob The Badger
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2 hours ago, NottsRam said:
I know its had a few mentions before but for anyone who likes gangland crime drama, Love/Hate is a must. I liked Kin but this is just wow, and 5 seasons to watch.
My favourite series since Top Boy, probably better than Kin. Hence, I've flogged that dead horse down to the bare bones and then eaten the bones.
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Maybe not the most reliable of sources but how brilliant would this be?
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Annoyingly, he's coming across as quite likeable on the My Mates a Footballer podcast.
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1 hour ago, David said:
Saying that, I know, but I don't know why this topic has descended into an NHS topic.
Royalist or not, surely we can all understand why the King of the country would receive priority health care unlike our own friends and family?
Having lost my sister in law recently to cancer, just 42 years old, I am not sat here without experience of watching someone die having been through the NHS system, months of appointments, misdiagnosis before they realised it was cancer and then left cancer cells in her kidney which spread to the rest of her body.
She wasn't royalty, she wasn't the Queen of the country, her death whilst making front page news of the local paper, was not a national story. She was just a regular person that unfortunately due to mistakes lost her life, as many have and will continue to do so.
King Charles, for the record I am no royalist, never watched a wedding, ceremony, couldn't even tell you the full words to the national anthem. He's the King, it's blindly obvious why his health would take priority, avoiding the regular process which all starts being on hold at 8am trying to get a doctors appointment.
He's the King, figurehead of the country. He's probably never had to load a dishwasher, wash his own clothes or hoover his own living room.
Do I believe anyone should be born into that position, no, but the hierarchy in this country exists and it is what it is.
The state of the NHS is another topic in itself, which in fairness due to our political rules on this forum probably can't take place as we ultimately know why all the difficulties exist and with a growing population, will only get worse.
The King of the country has got cancer though, that's the big story here.
I wish him well and catching it early means the treatment will work.
100% agree.
When some on the left were up in arms because Trump got preferential treatment when he got covid, I was like wtf, he's the President?
Whereas my heart says everybody should be treated equally, my brain says that the sheer fact that he signs off on laws in our country and is head of State means we really should throw as many resources at it as possible.
And I'm not at all in favour of a monarchy, but we have to be sensible.
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19 hours ago, Stive Pesley said:
This one dropped off the front page pretty quick eh?
Mrs Badger is a Doctor of Nursing and has spent 25 years working in oncology, mainly colorectal and head and neck and she gets really frustrated by stories like this. Not this specific one, as I don't know if she has seen it, but as her best friend died of ocular melanoma, I will share it with her - but in general.
There was a story not that long ago about a person who had been offered a treatment and declined it. Then a few months later he decided to take it but the doctors determined it was no longer suitable and wouldn’t work
The local news story was all about somebody being denied treatment by the NHS and had to raise money to go to Germany to get it. There was outrage because all they reported was doctors saying it wasn't suitable, not that he'd been urged to take it months earlier.
He got his treatment and died anyway.
And there have been others that she wasn’t personally involved in when she has been incredulous because important elements were left out.
Sooooo, I have no clue about this guy, but I’m leery of blaming anybody. Once cancer hits your liver, it’s really difficult to eradicate.
And FWIW, she thinks it's quite possible Charles has rectal cancer as that would show up on prostate testing. Of course, she cannot be sure as I doubt anybody can outside of his medical team.
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41 minutes ago, True Ram said:
I think the trouble with the NHS is people are in the AE when they don't need to be there I was at the AE at Derby about 5 months ago for 22 hours with the wife Kidney stone I saw the same old faces from about 3 years ago still ordering kebabs to be delivered to AE that is the trouble and as far cancer it's a Basxxrd I've had it and got very good treatment from the NHS
So you were in the A & E 5 months ago, and you can recall seeing people from 3 years earlier and also remembering what they ordered for dinner?
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2 hours ago, Anag Ram said:
Sorry, my point was that more demand for private healthcare would increase the number of facilities for treatment, reducing the burden on the NHS.
A smaller number of doctors and nurses would be required for the NHS which should (and this is hypothetical) mean the government could afford to pay them more.
You're describing the US model.
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36 minutes ago, Anag Ram said:
I disagree. If government encouraged more people to take private healthcare by abolishing the ridiculous 12% Insurance Premium Tax we would be building more hospitals and employing more staff in the private sector.
The NHS simply has too many patients and it has become too expensive to operate, meaning brilliant staff don’t get the pay they deserve.
We're no different to any other country with an ageing population, but we're struggling worse than most wealthy countries.
The US operate what you want to see, and all it creates is a brilliant system for the wealthy and a terrible one for the poorer sector.
If the Government did encourage people, as you're suggesting, the NHS would go the same way as the dental service, with doctors bailing out to do the more highly paid, less stressful work.
We're not a few quid or even a few hundred million away from building new hospitals; we're billions, and more importantly, the will isn't there. Because the reality is that tax cuts and money in the pocket win more votes no matter what people like to think.
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28 minutes ago, therealhantsram said:
Sorry bud, you got that all wrong.
What you forget is that there is only a limited supply of doctors. The more demand there is from paying clients in the private sector, the less work they are able to do in the NHS.
Private healthcare does not mean shorter waiting lists for the rest of us, it means longer ones.
Yep.
Lots of doctors work short weeks for the NHS now so they can do private work.
That is accentuated with specialists, of which, in most areas, there is a desperate shortage.
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13 minutes ago, David said:
Getting my Mrs a doorstop this year.
Nothing says I love you like a sinister looking doorstop.
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2 hours ago, Mucker1884 said:
With respect, this ain't the thread for using the word "lucky", regardless of context, and regardless of our personal thoughts towards "The privileged few".
Cancer is a b****** to all classes, and all peoples.It's unlucky to get the diagnosis. But he is lucky he's getting immediate care. You would even get same day treatment with private health cover
Context is important and imho, shouldn't be disregarded.
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1 hour ago, DarkFruitsRam7 said:
I read a tweet the other day suggesting that it's basically Love Island now.
People have seen that it can launch an influencer career (see Tom Skinner and Ryan-Mark Parsons, as well as the likes of Katie Hopkins if you go back further) and apply to the show for a shot at fame. The tweet also suggested that this is obvious from the quality (or lack thereof) of the contestants' business plans.
I've not watched it in years so would be curious to know if this is the case.
I watched about half of last years but lost patience when it became obvious they didn't even understand the basics of business.
And literally every one of them had stupidly white teeth. The kind of white that doesn't even exist in nature. Whatever happened to good old fashioned yellow British teeth? It's an outrage.
Sugar's a knob too.
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28 minutes ago, Mucker1884 said:
I'm thinking "Skirt", "Rump" and "Filet" are all worthwhile puns here, but I'm damned if I can organise them all into a post that will escape the attention of the forum decency squad, so for that reason, I'm out!
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Don't forget New York Strip.
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51 minutes ago, ketteringram said:
That's interesting. I'm part way through season 3, and think it's a huge drop in quality from 1 and 2.
It's like it's written by a different team or something. I'm not at the stage where I'd bail out of it. I just think it's a big drop off .
I think from memory it may dipper a tad, but the last couple of episodes make it. The last one mostly.
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Rest in peace Pike, you're not really a stupid boy.
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57 minutes ago, NottsRam said:
Just onto season 2 of Love/Hate, tremendous viewing.
I thought 2 was maybe the weakest, but 3, 4 and 5 were incredible.
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25 minutes ago, Reggie Greenwood said:
Will it meat her needs?
I'll stake my life on it.
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I send Mrs Badger one and never sign my name, but I've no idea why. Thinking of not bothering this year and getting her this instead.
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What was the allocation?
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9 minutes ago, Jimbo Ram said:
Are you from St Austell Bob? I went to school there. Lovely place and still feels like home despite moving away 40 years ago 😊
I'm actually from Matlock, but after living in Orlando for 14 years we moved to about 4 miles outside St Austell for my wife to be near her family about 3 years ago.
It's gorgeous, but duck me, it rains a lot! Way more than Derbyshire.
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Finally got around to Mr Bates versus the Post Office.
My sister said it was brilliant and would work as a standalone drama
I disagree. The only thing that made it interesting was the fact it actually happened, and Alan Bates is still fighting.
I think if I hadn't known the story, I'd have loved it, but it was just okay to me.
Watching True Detective (I hadn't realised it was being drip fed so had a shock last night when we caught up).
It's pretty good, but I really don't like Jodie Foster as an actor; I just cannot warm up to her. The same goes for the other cop working with her, she scares me.
I find it really hard to love something when I dislike the characters and they have no screen charm/charisma. For example, Nidge in Love/Hate was a lunatic, but his character was charismatic and super complex. The same went for Ginny in Gomorrah and Sully in Top Boy.
Jodie Foster is a great actor, but I don't find her at all compelling like say, Kate Winslett is.