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Jan 31, 2018 08:39AM
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Bring us a shrubbery.
Close enough! Ni! :)
I still remember that from being at Spamalot a week ago.
Blimey! Are they still putting that show on? They're all so old now! Or is different actors performing it? I've never seen it.
They had local people in the lead, and quite a few actors. Its very good. I really enjoyed it :)
If i'm ever down that way...I'll check it out for myself...assuming there isn't a 4 year waiting list for it, that is!
It was only here for a week. And I bought the tickets just before christmas. It wasn't quite sold out.
Ah okay..i thought it was of those long running, fixed venue plays.
Its touring - there are some UK dates this year. Not sure where else it is.
I see Gordon's got us in training as a flash mob! Any idea what tune we're dancing to?Let's walk a-that-a-way, not a-this-a-way
That-a-way we can be alone
Take they're throwing our chance to kiss away
This-a-way only leads to home
Notice that we're coming to the crossroads
Should we turn to left or right?
Mother is a-rockin' and a-waitin'
But it's such a lovely night
Hmmm? ... ohhh? - I mean ... yes, Val ...Sorry, I was rather distracted by what else Gordon has put up!!! ;o>
Ooooooooooooooooooooh!!! - Yummmmmmmmmmmmmy!!! ;o>
Ahhhh..now I understand, just seen the new profile piccy....Brazils! Lol! :)
They're mine, I tell ya! ... mine, all mine!!! ;o>
suzysunshine7 wrote: "They're mine, I tell ya! ... mine, all mine!!! ;o>"Ya welcome to 'em..can't stand Brazil nuts...not even choccy covered ones either! :)
How are you sweety....life treating you fair, up your way?
A rough start to the New Year sadly, but still, you also need Rain to make Rainbows, don't you? And I do think that I am slowly getting there now ;o>How are you doing, Poppet? ... x
Aw... sorry hear that sweetpea, are you still recovering from the surgery, or it is the winter's blues?I'm good thanks....finally got that abscess sorted out...had the troublesome tooth yanked out! Pre op session for my first cataract op, has been completed, just waiting for a date for the op itself! And i'm about to try and quit smoking too....switching to vaping instead....it's far healthier and a hellava lot cheaper too!
So yeah...pretty good thanks! :)
Health, a bereavement, and just life in general, Poppet ... x x xYAYYY!!! - on getting that Tooth out at last ... and on getting there with the pending Cataract Op ... and on also trying to quit Smoking as well!!!
Just think what you could do with all of the money that you will get to save on not buying any more Cigarettes?!! ;o>
suzysunshine7 wrote: "Health, a bereavement, and just life in general, Poppet ... x x xYAYYY!!! - on getting that Tooth out at last ... and on getting there with the pending Cataract Op ... and on also trying to quit ..."
Erm...buy more records probably! I still gotta finish the Man cave yet! Or mibbe..save up an have holiday somewhere...I haven't been anywhere in years.
I've remember you saying something about a close friend you once knew, my sympathies sweetheart...very young age I gather.
Chin up poppet..we can only soldier on can't we.
Have you heard about the Court decision on PIP claims for mental health claimants? They are now going to get it, on account that the court declared the government was discriminating those claimants. However the government has decided to review all 1.6 million PIP claimants...so I presume we'll get another load of blinkin' forms to fill in...again!
I had to do a Mandatory Reconsideration on my DLA to PIP changeover a few months back as they deliberately downgraded me by just one point of each part so as to half my Benefit - and they did it by choosing not to use any of my extensive Patient Medical Notes as any part of my Assessment?!! ;oOI eventually got a letter that was still full of mistakes but also full of apologies as well - but the sheer stress of it all while they repeatedly messed me around was just absolutely terrible ;o<
Yeh they're right bar sterwards, that lot. I thought ATOS were the most impossible organisation to deal with....their mandate was just to get as many disabled folks off ESA & PIP as poss, or reduce their claims. When I was reviewed last year...by this new company, that's now doing the assessments, I wasn't expecting anything to change. But surprisingly it went okay for me. Is it still ATOS that does your part of the country? I can't remember who's doing my patch, but it's not ATOS.
I honestly can't remember, Duke? It might have been but I tend to block as much as I can of such horrible experiences out - LOL! ;o>EDIT : Mum says it originally was but they were now using a different name for the company that she can't remember either!
Says it all, about them then, dunnit! lol! Dun wanna know...goodbye... good riddance! :)
"Sorry, I was rather distracted by what else Gordon has put up!!! ;o>"whit? his nuts? :)
Careful now, tech, or you might get shown a Yellow Card by The Moderator! ;o>
as long as he keeps his nuts to himself........mutter, mutter! :)
He does? ... he keeps us all here posting on his Group Forum! ;o>
Val - thanks m'dear, much appreciated. I shall get in touch with Foe and alert him of my presence. : )Tech - am inclined to agree with ya re the crazies - and I say 'crazies' with no malice as that'd be hypocritical of me. Yeah it does give the place a bit of colour when the likes of MOT are on the prowl.
Then of course there was Neph/Meses who upset everyone apart from me it seems. Never had any run-ins with him meself and this is the bit where I preach about more tolerance for folk with mental health issues but... yeah he crossed the line many times tho I don't remember what and with whom. I also remember that dude who's every post WAS WRITTEN IN CAPITAL LETTERS but I don't remember his name. Suppose he coulda been another Neph character maybe, I dunno.
D'ya remember Tulip (was that his name?) who put in a showing once in a blue moon with terribly pretentious posts? Fit in nicely on zon did he. : )
Maybe forums need the odd troll-type individual so other posters can sometimes let off steam and bounce a bit of verbal off em?
theDuke wrote: "Aw... sorry hear that sweetpea, are you still recovering from the surgery, or it is the winter's blues?I'm good thanks....finally got that abscess sorted out...had the troublesome tooth yanked ou..."
Hi Duke, i had both eyes done for cataracts a couple of years back and was initially a bit worried but happy to say that the procedure was a doddle and the results were amazing. Takes a couple of days for your eyes to adjust but after that it's fine. I have worn glasses since early childhood with a very strong prescription as they gradually deteriorated but now only need them for small print and close up, those cheap ones from supermarkets are perfectly adequate.
Blastronaut Mk2 wrote: "D'ya remember Tulip (was that his name?) who put in a showing once in a blue moon with terribly pretentious posts? Fit in nicely on zon did he. : )h..."Please don't remind me! He was my particular bête noire! Steam is emitting from my ears as I type.
"Tulip" ? what a Juan Kerr! he was so far up himself that he was in danger of disappearing! :) pretty nasty if memory serves (and obviously val's does!)
others like neph and meses were merely irritating! safe in the knowledge that their often unkind postings wouldn't get them kicked up and down the road for their troubles!
Aahh! Happy Days.Hopefully Exiles will remain Troll free, Suzy and others will remember that NES was infested with the blighters and was eventually abandoned until finding refuge on another forum and is now going strong on here. Wonder what they do now that 'Zon forums are gone?
Martin wrote: "Aahh! Happy Days.Hopefully Exiles will remain Troll free, Suzy and others will remember that NES was infested with the blighters and was eventually abandoned until finding refuge on another forum ..."
Those were the days, indeed. My one "deleted by Amazon " post was where I was defending (late at night) the right of the trolls to free speech, however offensive. Weird are their thought processes, they found that offensive in itself. Presumably, free speech is rationed to them, exclusively. I was never foolish enough to be tempted to engage again.
It's lovely on here, by contrast, and it was great when NES escaped to the Zon beer forum, thanks to the ingenuity of various heroes - you know who you are.
The internet is huge, no doubt the Zon trolls are happily(?) causing mayhem elsewhere...
Isabella wrote: "Martin wrote: "It's lovely on here, by contrast, and it was great when NES escaped to the Zon beer forum, thanks to the ingenuity of various heroes - you know who you are.The internet is huge, no doubt the Zon trolls are happily(?) causing mayhem elsewhere..."
I just took a quick look, Isabella, and it appears that most of them are still to be found seemingly trapped forever more in a far more subtle and polite war of words (because of all of the new Amazon Moderators around!) on the new-look Amazon Kindle Forum.
I'm guessing that none of them could bear to be seen to be the first one to leave?!! - and so now they are all permanently stuck in a kind of stagnant Stalemate. I'd surely be feeling sorry for them if they hadn't been so incredibly Forum destructive and consistently viciously abusive towards everyone else for so many years.
What a terribly sad and pathetic end to what were once such vast and glorious Forum playgrounds that were created for all to enjoy? ;o<
It was/is the 'NeverEnding Story' Game Thread, Lez Lee ;o>
Hill!Thanks Val, and hi Blastro! Have e-mailed you, but it should appear on Goodreads post rather than personnal e-mail, I think. Oh and..... Hill! :-)
This is indeed news. Y'all saying that there was many many trolls (other than the ones I mentioned in the earlier post) lurking in Amazon's corridors? I have no knowledge of the NES thread nor the forum it belonged to, or at least I don't remember it.
The Kindle Forum was populated by no-one else but a handful trolls over the last couple of years before Amazon decided to shut the Forums down, Blastro. Any innocent query Thread was jumped on and both the poster and their question was immediately ripped apart between them all in an extremely vicious war of words.The NES Game had been going for several years and was one of the very last and most active Threads left still holding out and going strong on Kindle by then - and so all of the trolls ganged up and went all out to attack and abuse the only decent friendly folk left around and posting on it. The trolls wanted to completely destroy the Thread simply because it was the only nice and positive thing left on the Forum.
One of our regular players, Handybird, went searching and found a small long-inactive and untracked Forum on Amazon and so we sent each other the links to it through our Comment Boxes on our Reviews and carried on with the Thread on there instead. Only one troll found us out and followed us over for a little while, posting up neg votes plus a few nasty remarks too, but they soon got bored and then left us in peace until Amazon ended the Forums.
Martin wrote: "theDuke wrote: "Aw... sorry hear that sweetpea, are you still recovering from the surgery, or it is the winter's blues?I'm good thanks....finally got that abscess sorted out...had the troublesome..."
Sounds encouraging Martin. I too have worn specs since a wee lad was I, and my current prescription is very strong also. Still can't work out how, when I've had the first eye done, that I can continue wearing my regular specs afterwards, as I've been told. I would've thought the 'fixed' eye will not be able to focus properly through the current prescription lens. Wouldn't it be all fuzzy? I'm told, i'll have to continue wearing mine after surgery for 6 weeks or so, & then go to my opticians to have the specs adjusted.
In my head, i'd presumed that a corrected eye will no longer need corrective specs, after surgery, except for readers maybe.
I guess I'll have to wait n see what occurs.
theDuke wrote: "Martin wrote: "theDuke wrote: "Aw... sorry hear that sweetpea, are you still recovering from the surgery, or it is the winter's blues?I'm good thanks....finally got that abscess sorted out...had ..."
It does sound odd but I guess it depends on the kind of replacement lens you get. When my first eye was done, they corrected so that my distance vision was perfect so I found my specs useless but I then couldn't judge distance properly and had a few falls. Once I literally fell out of a garden chair when I leaned across to look at something and finished up with bruises and a scraped face. Because of that, I had the other eye done fairly quickly and now my balance is fine again.
At the risk of sounding ungrateful, I do miss the close up detail that I used to be able to see when short sighted, although I can see much better for distance than even specs allowed. Swings and roundabouts!
It might be an idea to have a think about what you want from the operation and then have a word with your surgeon about what will suit you best. Good luck
My mum had both eyes done when she was in her 80s but didn’t need her prescription changing. She was absolutely amazed when she got home from the hozzy and walked into the living-room. She said all the paint and the curtains were completely different colours from what she thought she’d chosen and didn’t like them!
Isabella wrote: "theDuke wrote: "Martin wrote: "theDuke wrote: "Aw... sorry hear that sweetpea, are you still recovering from the surgery, or it is the winter's blues?I'm good thanks....finally got that abscess s..."
I didn't think one had a choice when it came to types of lenses being fitted....I got the impression that was down to the surgeon! Personally speaking, all I want is better clarity, than what I've got...and maybe reduced prescription strength..as my specs do cost a bit, when I need to replace them. That's even with the discounts I'm eligible for. I've been told that I will probably still need to wear readers afterwards...which I do have, but are next to useless at the moment, due to the blurriness. Just reading normal sized text, like newspaper print, is hard to do without using a magnifying glass.
Lez wrote: "My mum had both eyes done when she was in her 80s but didn’t need her prescription changing. She was absolutely amazed when she got home from the hozzy and walked into the living-room. She said all..."Lol! I may feel the same way, about my choice of paint shades in my bedroom!
Similarly Les I found much the same,pre-op even with prescription glasses my vision had deteriorated so much that the world was just a blurry smudge of existence. Often people would be ignored unless they spoke, even then I would have to peer at them upclose to ascertain who they were. Afterwards colours exploded and images were so sharp and clear, it was like being reborn, though within days as my eyes adjusted this settled down. As both ops were done within about a month of each other I opted for going without my glasses once my first eye was working properly.Duke,I wore a patch for the first few days as recommended and it does involve routine daily applications of two different eye drops but your hospital will give you all the relevant instructions anyway so good luck and best wishes compadre!
Paging Gordon - your presence is required over at CTC.
Martin wrote: "Similarly Les I found much the same,pre-op even with prescription glasses my vision had deteriorated so much that the world was just a blurry smudge of existence. Often people would be ignored unle..."Thank you Martin...all sounds positive! Yes they did tell me about the drops & that I could have a patch if I wanted. I'm looking forward to being able to read normal sized print again....without using a magnifying glass! :)
http://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/...We didn't feel a thing here in Stockport - but I wonder if our Duke felt the Earth move in Pembrokeshire?!! ;oO
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