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General Discussion Area / Re: Short term SORN or not?
« on: 30 April 2008, 18:57:59 »
Post office still give out tax disks for the same month until about the 14th/15th, after that they revert to the next months disks.

Done it a coupld of times on my vectra due to exercises, a low subaltern wage and what not, no fines

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so .. if I understand it .. so far ....

Child falls over grazes knee ....

Teacher treats with antiseptic - child has a reaction - teacher gets sued.

Teacher doesn't treat with antiseptic - child gets septiceamia - teacher gets sued

Teacher washes graze - child complains of scalding - teacher gets sued

Teacher ignores graze - child complains - teacher gets sued

 :-/ :-/ :-/

Pretty much, unless a full H+S survey has been undertaken and you follow that to the T, then you rass is covered, which often means only doing something if there is an immediate threat to life..

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Common sense went out the window a long time ago and has been replaced with pish!

Ahh, OK. Confirms my observations then. It's not just me going mad.  >:(

Kevin

Yup before I try and save someone's life I have to think if I am allowed to by law!  Its a disgrace!!x

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Surely the consequences of an allergic reaction have to be balanced by the probability of a pupil actually being allergic to the medication though (which must be remote)?

As someone who's allergic to Aspirin I see it as my responsibility to make that fact known to those around me, rather than for them to switch off their common sense for fear of me suing them.

Kevin

Wrong!

This all falls out from H+S laws, further under pinned by the new Corporate Manslaughter Act which came into effect this month.

Common sense went out the window a long time ago and has been replaced with pish!

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As a medical manager I can comment slightly on this.  As absurd as it sounds they may be right to not put antiseptic on wounds.  I'll explain:

If they do not have a proper anaphylaxis kit and the necessary qualifications to use it they cannot even administer an asprin!  Crazy I know but once they give them the pill to swallow or put a cream on their skin they are responsible for what happens after that.  Anaphylaxis can kill in minutes which means the risk from an ambulance being delayed etc is too high to take.

To note as well; to be competant in administering anaphylaxis (alergic reaction) procedures you have to be able to administer a 1/1000mg shot of adrenaline into the vein and be able to perform a Tracheotomy.  Having trained to do the latter it aint as easy as in the films, you can so easily cut the jugular if you get it wrong!  CPR is only effective if you can open up the throat post allergic reaction otherwise you may as well rush them to Emergency.  

In short, a school being able to afford someone sufficently qualified is very remote!

Just my 2p  ;)

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General Discussion Area / Re: Things to do once you retire
« on: 30 April 2008, 14:42:23 »
Looking at the titel I was about to say:

Building my own sail boat and sailing it around the world.... dream..... :P

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General Discussion Area / Re: Smoking
« on: 26 April 2008, 17:29:24 »
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All them patches and gum are no good, you are trying to get rid of the addiction of nicotine and pumping it into your body through patches is not going to stop you wanting a fag the only way to do it is cold turkey and will power as simple as that!!!! :y

I agree I quit twice once cold turkey and once with lozenges.  The first time I managed to quit for 3 years cold turkey bnecause I was under very little stress at the time.  I only started again following a very stressful scenario involving a Lt Colonel doctor and an exercise with people's lives at stake!  The pressure has pretty much stayed on since with the job but I quit a few months later through using lozenges as it gave the 'hit' when I needed it.  Over time I mixed it up with mints using fewer lozenges and 2 months later I was done!  No fags since!  :y

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General Discussion Area / Re: grill that didnt arrive
« on: 25 April 2008, 06:58:37 »
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well it was away back middle of march i paid for it,and tell me,does any members earn 75k in a year?

I reckon you'd have to be a real Omega nut to have one and earn that sort of money.

Surely if you earn £75Kpa you're going to have a newer and flashier car than an Omega?

Yeah but I would still have a VERY nice meega ;)

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General Discussion Area / Re: Just wondering..
« on: 21 April 2008, 01:25:09 »
I could tell ya but then i'd have to kill ya   ;D ;D ;D ;D

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General Discussion Area / Re: T.C WHERE
« on: 25 April 2008, 07:06:13 »
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Thanks for the replay
Someone at work said they joined the (Vauxhall Owners Network) told them hear was better but he said they do T.C for £15 with membership pack but they have a back log so his been waitng two weeks an still no card

Unless things have changed in the past few days, there is a backlog of a couple of years at VXON.....

I origonally registered with VXON before finding this site, never got the confirmation email and thus my account was completely fubared.  Emailed them several times to try and rectify to no avail so I gave up and by luck found this place.

Never looked back!  :y

(Disclaimer:  This statement is by no means a reflection on the site VXON, this is just a statement of facts and not opinions)  ;D

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General Discussion Area / Re: sweating n a speeding ticket.....
« on: 25 April 2008, 11:12:26 »
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.....Customer picked it up and promptly put it on its' roof on the way home. >:(
Kevin

 ::) Jeeesh!...there`s just no helping some folks is there?  :o

Are you sure the Sav Nat didn't 'Flip car over here' ????   ;D ;D ;D ;D

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General Discussion Area / Re: sweating n a speeding ticket.....
« on: 25 April 2008, 10:06:48 »
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GPS speed is highly accurate under CERTAIN CIRCUMSTANCES. GPS will measure the time between two points in 3 dimensional space to a high degree of accuracy... the problems are :

1. GPS makers do not tell us what the time interval is - so we have to assume it is quite small - The larger it is the bigger the errors that :

2. GPS works in straight line in 3D, so if you are on a bend, or a hill then you will have an error ( draw your "true" path on a piece of paper to see what I mean)

3. GPS cannot take acceleration or deceleration into account .. it works purely on the total time and total distance between sampling points.

4. A minimum of 4 good satellite signals must be present throughout the sampling period.

So .. if you are on a dead level, dead straight road, driving at a constant speed in an exactly straight line, throughout the (unknown) sampling period, with good satellite coverage, ... then your SatNav will give a good indication of your true speed.

Note the "dead level" requirement .... the surface of the earth curves ....  :)

(the last comment is slightly facetious ... the difference caused by the earth's curvature is negligible ... but hills DO make a difference ..)    :)
Not to good on altitude either, the gps on my boat will often give an altitude figure of up to 65 feet :o

Gar! A fellow sailer!  Good to meet ya!  ;)

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General Discussion Area / Re: Any locals to me!
« on: 25 April 2008, 10:16:31 »
I'll be in your area middle of next month on a sailing course, but alas this weekend I have a Fly Fishing Expo in Hamburg...

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General Discussion Area / OOF Flyers
« on: 25 April 2008, 10:02:44 »
In the absence of MikeDundee does anyone hold the electronic version of the flyers so I can get some printed off here in Germany.  Therre seems to be a lot of meegs here and I guess I am the only one on here!

Cheers in advance!

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General Discussion Area / Re: Help!
« on: 22 April 2008, 20:16:13 »
turn it off (if you can) take out the battery then wait a few mins.  Put it back together and try again.... if that dont work its Fubared, sorry!

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