It would also increase the average IQ of the planet, too. What's not to like?
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It would also increase the average IQ of the planet, too. What's not to like?
It's Friday....:)
i am still at work :mad:
And i will stay here more 1:30 hours... :(
He was recognized as the top banana.
Monty Burns is a Goa'Uld.
Hospital food is like the Labour government.
Pretty unpalatable, little choice and in the end you end up suffering from something that's Brown, smelly and as solid as water (ie no substance at all)!
Yes, I am typing this from my hospital bed at the moment as I was taken ill recently. Useless doctors took TWO days to get me admitted.
But, hey, maybe this should be in a Rant-related thread. However, I say this to those doubters.
Ephram Gumblebotty the Third for President!
I hope it isn't anything too serious?Quote:
Originally Posted by v85rawdeal
Get well soon!
Quinsy/Tonsillitis [delete according to personal opinion]
All I know was I couldnt eat or sleep since Saturday night!!!
Two of my favourite hobbies!
Are you having your tonsils removed?
I used to get tonsillitis a lot when I was young, but they never wanted to remove them. I remember being off ill from Infant school and not being able to eat much.
They're hesitant about it, as the effect on my body defences could be quite drastic, apparently!
Ho-hum, such is life!
You need all your bodies defences to fight off all the superbugs you'll be exposed to.;)Quote:
Originally Posted by v85rawdeal
That is true. My theory is that all these superbugs have been brought into the hospitals from the 90+ percent of foreign nurses we now seem to have working in them!
I have to say i don't like that last post. The reason there are superbugs is due to outsourcing of cleaning within hospitals and also the drug companies not improving anti-biotics. Superbugs are a prime example of evolution. The only way for bugs to survive an attack by penicillin etc was to become resistant to them and as the life cycle of germs is so short they evolved faster than anyone thought plus the use of anti biotics has meant that our own immune system has not evolved to combat the bugs in the first place so we are more suseptable to them.
The foreign nurses are doing a superb job that very few people in Britain are willing to do. Superbugs were imbedded within our hospitals long before the latest influx of immigrants to the NHS.
Was a joke mate. Sorry you took it the wrong way. Although seriously, the reason we have so many foreign nurses in the UK is not because British people are unwilling to do the jobs. It is because the jobs don't pay enough and the hours are too long so they are all finding better paid jobs with shorter working hours and better working conditions abroad. And equally newly qualified nurses in the UK are now finding it hard to get their fist placement due to foreign nurses taking up all of the jobs and at lower wages.
Also I had to disagree with them doing a good job from my experience of hospitals in Southampton over the past 8 years. My mum has had to go into hospital a lot since an accident she had in 2000. All but one time the wards were filthy, and the equipment and beds/bedding was dirty and covered in dried urine and blood! And what were all the nursing staff doing? They were sitting on their bums at the nurses station drinking coffee, reading papers and talking away in some Indian dialect. This hasn't impressed me at all and the condition of the wards that I've witnessed have to be a huge contributing factor in the increase of infection in hospitals.
You could argue that this is due to the outsourcing of cleaning, but it isn't. A nurses duty should be to the patient. To provide them with clean beds and bedding and a sterile environment. On more than one occasion that tried to put my mum in a bed that was clearly very dirty and we had to tell them it was too dirty and make them either clean it first (one time they had to scrub the mattress to remove the dried blood, urine etc while we waited, and they had been fully prepared to use it as it had been until we complained).
The nurses are not allowed to clean anymore thats why they don't do it. But as more and more nurses are doing the jobs of junior doctors and junior doctors are doing the work of fully qualified doctors they no longer have time.
My mother is a nurse and because the nurses are not allowed to work she took a second job as a cleaner to ensure that where she works is clean.
The outsourcing of cleaning means that each hospital has no control of how the cleaning is done as all they can do is threaten the company that provides the service that they will not renew the contract but that doesn't work because the hospitals generally cannot afford to hire anyone else. The contracts then employ cheap foreign labour and do not tell them what to do, all the time making huge profits. The same goes with the outsourcing of hospital food. When it was in house the hospital could ensure taht it was healthy and nutritional. Now they're all outsourced they have the health and nutritional benefits of cardboard. The NHS used to be the best in the world but has been destroyed by cost cutting exercises brought in by Margret Thatcher and John Major and continued by the current government that were brought in without thinking about the impact on services.
Very true. Out sourcing is the biggest cause of most work related problems in the UK. The second is the unions who force rules such as nurses not being allowed to clean.
For once I don't think it was the unions that stopped nurses cleaning but management and the contractors. The contractors usually stick an exclusivity cause so that only their staff are allowed to clean and the managers basically say "If we're spending all this money on cleaners lets make sure that only they clean". If anything the RCN one of the biggest nursing unions actually wants cleaning in house even though it would mean more work for their members.
Normally the unions act in the other direction. In Royal Mail the managers union were forced to agree that Line Managers were not allowed to do post office work and had to stand by and watch. This was because the line managers used to hands on and the workers union complained that they were doing the work of a postman and taking away their overtime. Mad!
I agree most the time unions get so involved in their own self importance that they forget they are destroying their members employers businesses and so costing their members jobs. When will both employers and unions realise that there is a middle ground where workers rights can be upheld without destroying businesses. Too many people with their own self interests in this world IMO.
Why are some of the ex Eastern block countries using 8-bit numbers on the back of their shirts in Euro2008?
Look. I-- I'd had a lovely supper, and all I said to my wife was, 'That piece of halibut was good enough for Harrison.'
Blasphemy!!! Stone Him!!!!
Since I have been manager, I am proud to say there have only been twenty-three deaths. And not one of them was a staff member.
E chu ta!!
How Rude!
I was unmarried once myself too, you know. Used to go to the pub with my mates, have a few drinks, a game of darts, a few more drinks, go for a takeaway, next thing you know, it's three in the morning and you wake up on the floor in some total strangers flat!
A banana, sir?
You know Ronnie Corbett? He's brilliant! But he's not really small. They made him look small to fit on telly. They did it with trick photography, which is brilliant. Only they call it special effects, and they're brilliant. Like in Terminator 2. Have you seen it? It's about this bloke who can turn into a puddle and back again. Fantastic! Aren't sequels brilliant? They're the same film but with a different number, like two or three. Even bad films are great, 'cause at least they try. In the future, all films will be brilliant. In fact, everything will be brilliant in the future, with cars on monorails, brilliant silvery costumes, food in pills and probably some special futurey can-opener. Fantastic! And everything will be done by computers. Aren't computers brilliant? They can do anything! Except play football. They'd be no good in goal, but they do everything else, virtually. I'n't virtual reality brilliant? It's exactly like reality, only you wear a hat! I tried it with me brother's crash helmet and I fell down the stairs. Aren't hospitals brilliant?
You my wife now!!
Ich bin auslander und spreche nicht gut Deutsch.
I don't know what you're talking about but i see your point.
How can you see our point if you don't know what we're talking about?
I don't know, i see things sometimes...
Ich bin ein Auslander is a good song by PWEI.
Why, are my trousers too tight?Quote:
Originally Posted by my_lo
Oh, I see your point!
There are several points on the screen. I haven't counted them all, but if I did, I would keep it a secret. :ninja:
But the more i run in its direction, the more the point gets smaller, maybe i should go backward?
Or go backward forward?
Four candles?
L.O.
You mean no pyjama because it is summer?
R.U.B.C?
There is no charge for awesomeness... or attractiveness.
F.U.N.E.X?
S, V F X.
F.U.N.E.M?
9. . .
I.F.C.D.M.
V.F.N.10.E.M.
C. D.M.
O.S. V.F.M.
O.K. M.N.X.
M.N.X.
F.U.N.E.T?