United Kingdom chat thread V3: We still miss our empire
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[QUOTE=MadBomber;51953506]2 hour wait in the Minor Injury Unit at my hospital, help what do I do[/QUOTE]
I used to work at a MIU and I can tell you that the 2 hour wait is probably because of someone with a home-treatable injury like a cut finger or something.
Bonus points if they demand to see a specialist in a country hospital like the one I worked at which rarely had any physicians present in the unit.
Now there's been an emergency and the wait time is longer, aaaaaaah
[QUOTE=UberMunchkin;51953699]isn't that just a normal night out in manchester?[/QUOTE]
Yeah, there's nothing but goblins in manchester
[QUOTE=TrannyAlert;51953883]Yeah, there's nothing but goblins in manchester[/QUOTE]
I feel ya, nothing but gobshites in croydon.
[QUOTE=Doozle;51952611]I'm trying to cancel a Vodafone mobile broadband account over a live chat. So far I've spoken to Esther, Malik, Gavin, Karan and now Matt.
I feel like I'll be paying for this broadband for the rest of my life, it's linked to my mobile too so I can't just not pay it
On the bright side my work PC has reverted back to UK keyboard layout after deciding that it wanted to be American
[editline]13th March 2017[/editline]
Quoting you to put you top of the page, hang in there buddy[/QUOTE]
If you are running windows 10 it's because there some spastic hidden key combo to flip between us and uk keyboard layouts that is stupidly easy to press.
[editline]13th March 2017[/editline]
win key + space
[QUOTE=Torjuz;51951197]The only thing that sucks in Southampton is fucking Chiko-land Extra and Jesters.
I stopped going out all together, since there is not too many clubs like I was used to before I moved to England. Pubs are nice though.[/QUOTE]
clubs here aint too bad, heard bad shit about jesters though
I went to Junk the other day and that was shit, full of ketted up posh boys from university of southampton, solent representing
oceana isn't too bad but the bouncers there are wankers, switch is good though, but the clubs/small bars in bedford place like orange rooms are really good
[editline]13th March 2017[/editline]
[QUOTE=NeonpieDFTBA;51953169]So one of the guys I'm living with next year wanted us to sign on a house so he agreed to take the room which was the sticking point to get it done. Now it's been assigned to me in the random lottery they all decided on and he says he only said it to get the house. Needless to say I'm pissed off right now.[/QUOTE]
where you moving to next year by the way? Im going to milton/wilton road which is apparently full of uni of students
[editline]13th March 2017[/editline]
...we can be neighbours!
[QUOTE=Mr Kotov;51953588]I used to work at a MIU and I can tell you that the 2 hour wait is probably because of someone with a home-treatable injury like a cut finger or something.
Bonus points if they demand to see a specialist in a country hospital like the one I worked at which rarely had any physicians present in the unit.[/QUOTE]
Don't you just bump the most minor of the injuries down? My hospital is pretty good at shoving GP patients to the in house GP, minors basically cares for itself, and of course majors and resus are, well, majors and resus.
Then again, I just image them, red dot if applicable, and send them back.
[QUOTE=metallics;51954280]If you are running windows 10 it's because there some spastic hidden key combo to flip between us and uk keyboard layouts that is stupidly easy to press.
[editline]13th March 2017[/editline]
win key + space[/QUOTE]
holy shit thank you I thought something had broke.
[QUOTE=Crumpet;51954511]holy shit thank you I thought something had broke.[/QUOTE]
Yeah, me too, I found out about it by pure accident and I was pissed.
Anyone know any good second hand websites for buying cars other than autotrader? After a Seat Ibiza but autotrader has got bugga all in my area.
[QUOTE=metallics;51954280]If you are running windows 10 it's because there some spastic hidden key combo to flip between us and uk keyboard layouts that is stupidly easy to press.
[editline]13th March 2017[/editline]
win key + space[/QUOTE]
Mate why is this even a thing
I tried to change it last week through the windows settings and it seemed to suggest I'd need to download a language pack
[QUOTE=UzumakaiPatch;51952041]Student debt is the most irrelevant thing ever. You're either not going to ever pay it back, or be earning enough that there's no noticable impact from paying it back.[/QUOTE]
After I graduated my employer fucked up my paye one month so HRMC/SLC took that as a sign to start charging me for it. In that first year of work my loan accrued more interest than I actually paid off.
[QUOTE=uwut;51955043]Anyone know any good second hand websites for buying cars other than autotrader? After a Seat Ibiza but autotrader has got bugga all in my area.[/QUOTE]
Pistonheads, eBay, gumtree
Today at work I had 4 hours of meetings and all that was decided is that we are going to do what I said in the first place. Fucking meetings man... :suicide:
[QUOTE=halflife_123;51955135]After I graduated my employer fucked up my paye one month so HRMC/SLC took that as a sign to start charging me for it. In that first year of work my loan accrued more interest than I actually paid off.[/QUOTE]
Now that right there is some bullshit.
[QUOTE=uwut;51955043]Anyone know any good second hand websites for buying cars other than autotrader? After a Seat Ibiza but autotrader has got bugga all in my area.[/QUOTE]
at the low end ebay/gumtree is your best bet
[QUOTE=Morgen;51955266]Today at work I had 4 hours of meetings and all that was decided is that we are going to do what I said in the first place. Fucking meetings man... :suicide:[/QUOTE]
I recently had a two hour meeting about having a larger meeting in the future. The future meeting didn't happen.
Basically the guy it was with, the part of the company he managed was sold off so now he doesn't really manage anything, so now he's trying to get involved/stick his nose in. I'd really prefer he didn't
[QUOTE=Terminutter;51954482]Don't you just bump the most minor of the injuries down? My hospital is pretty good at shoving GP patients to the in house GP, minors basically cares for itself, and of course majors and resus are, well, majors and resus.
Then again, I just image them, red dot if applicable, and send them back.[/QUOTE]
Most of what we saw was folk with minor injuries who were referred to either home care or GP but you had folk wandering because, I shit you not, they had nicked themselves with a knife and it was the smallest injury that a plaster would basically be over kill. Not that people walking into hospital s other the most minor of ailments is surprising. One of my favorites was a guy with stretch marks over his lower back who thought it was an allergic reaction.
There were no majors or resus here because we were a cottage hospital so it is a trip to the main hospital by car or blue light.
I don't work there anymore, though. I'm looking into music therapy instead of emergency care but I still do event cover on a voluntary basis.
left uni for good today lads, not the foggiest what I'm going to do now.
just going play some tony hawks underground and hopefully it'll sort itself
[QUOTE=IAreLegend;51955997]left uni for good today lads, not the foggiest what I'm going to do now.
just going play some tony hawks underground and hopefully it'll sort itself[/QUOTE]
Did you drop out?
ye
Any reason why? I dropped out of my old course and took some years out to work and find out what I really wanted to do.
[QUOTE=NeonpieDFTBA;51953169]So one of the guys I'm living with next year wanted us to sign on a house so he agreed to take the room which was the sticking point to get it done. Now it's been assigned to me in the random lottery they all decided on and he says he only said it to get the house. Needless to say I'm pissed off right now.[/QUOTE]
Did you already sign something? Also if you didn't agree to the random lottery thing I would say you aint taking that room since he agreed to have it in the first place, especially since it was the condition for moving there.
What would be more awkward is if you just gambled and agreed to the lottery thing then after you ended up with the short straw made it an issue. Either way I'd let them know its a bit fucked and you arent happy about it otherwise you are just going to spend the entire time living there feeling bitter and if they don't all openly know then they will probably just think everything is fine.
If you didn't sign anything I'd tell them you aren't gonna unless the original agreement is upheld, if you did sign something I'd tell them you really arent very happy about having that room because the only reason you signed anything is because you were told you wouldn't be in that room.
[QUOTE=Mr Kotov;51956108]Any reason why? I dropped out of my old course and took some years out to work and find out what I really wanted to do.[/QUOTE]
Just wasn't working for me to be honest mate, wasn't passionate enough about my course to put in the effort I should have. plus I didn't get into my first choice, so I went to a uni that was 10 miles from home & didn't really get the change of scenery I wanted
[QUOTE=IAreLegend;51956297]Just wasn't working for me to be honest mate, wasn't passionate enough about my course to put in the effort I should have. plus I didn't get into my first choice, so I went to a uni that was 10 miles from home & didn't really get the change of scenery I wanted[/QUOTE]
I can get that. I am saving up to study in Canada right now, partly because the standard of training is better and tuition is cheaper and partly because I want to be somewhere that is not the UK
[QUOTE=IAreLegend;51956297]Just wasn't working for me to be honest mate, wasn't passionate enough about my course to put in the effort I should have. plus I didn't get into my first choice, so I went to a uni that was 10 miles from home & didn't really get the change of scenery I wanted[/QUOTE]
What were you doing?
I was doing a games development degree at a college 4-5 years ago and I quickly realized it was basically a scam...The lecturers had no industry experience, no idea what they were on about and the course content was completely outdated and nothing used was industry standard.
Dropped out and did a few years of an apprenticeship for a big tech company, that seems to be the way forward now. Starting on a £20k salary with decent yearly increases, plenty of training opportunities and lots of perks and they would have paid for me to do a software engineering degree if I wanted to after the apprenticeship was over. Was the best decision I ever made even though I don't work there anymore, gave me tons to put on my CV (Enough that I don't even need to mention that I was an apprentice because I was doing just as much if not more than plenty of colleagues that had been there for 10+ years)
Stuff like BAE Systems, Capgemini, Accenture etc etc, as long as you aren't a moron and can write a bunch of rubbish in an application they don't seem to be that hard to get on to. Since it's apprenticeships you don't even need to be qualified, like I said just the ability to write a load of junk on applications and maybe do a few free online courses on the subject just to show you are extra keen.
Big companies have realized that a lot of young people aren't actually that stupid, and if you hire the right kids you can pay them a salary of £20k and find they will learn very quickly and begin to outperform people who are being paid 2-3x more than them. One reasons I left is because I felt like I was being undervalued after a few years, a few of my friends quit just before me and their few years of experience there landed them jobs in the £35-40k range straight away.
Anyone reckon Scotland will get their independence?
If they do I am moving! Seriously the EU won't take them and if they do, it will just be another Greece, the price of oil is still low and Scotland can't compete. It is very troubling times, Brexit and now this
[QUOTE=Cushie;51956250]Did you already sign something? Also if you didn't agree to the random lottery thing I would say you aint taking that room since he agreed to have it in the first place, especially since it was the condition for moving there.
What would be more awkward is if you just gambled and agreed to the lottery thing then after you ended up with the short straw made it an issue. Either way I'd let them know its a bit fucked and you arent happy about it otherwise you are just going to spend the entire time living there feeling bitter and if they don't all openly know then they will probably just think everything is fine.
If you didn't sign anything I'd tell them you aren't gonna unless the original agreement is upheld, if you did sign something I'd tell them you really arent very happy about having that room because the only reason you signed anything is because you were told you wouldn't be in that room.[/QUOTE]
We're mates, it'll get sorted. I said before the lottery thing that i expected him to take it but it would have been a bad idea to talk about it the because I wasn't in a place for any constructive conversation. I'll try and talk to him tomorrow.
[QUOTE=Cushie;51956345]What were you doing?
I was doing a games development degree at a college 4-5 years ago and I quickly realized it was basically a scam...The lecturers had no industry experience, no idea what they were on about and the course content was completely outdated and nothing used was industry standard.
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I'm in my final year of uni (spent 2 years in college doing Software Engineering, got an A in an HND and moved into 2nd year Computer Systems at uni (computer science minus the maths basically)) and I know that feeling.
We're told "ah yes, this part of the course is required in industry" and when you get there - they look at you strange and just flat out tell you they'll re-teach you because the stuff in uni is outdated as fuck, or incomplete (worst case scenario: no longer used and you spent a year or 2 being examined on something which is no longer used at all, so you have to learn something completely new from the beginning).
I'm not even sure where to go once I graduate to be honest. I haven't been looking at grad placements as I've been doing my dissertation instead and I'll most likely have to go down to London to get a grad placement in programming (although my girlfriend got her programming grad placement down there so at least I'd be with her if I had to go there (we're both from Edinburgh)).
I'm more worried about not being good enough (I'm friends with much better programmers than I am, but I'd say I was alright at it.... just a bit slow to understand it at times) and having to take a year out because I couldn't get a placement the first time (which means I wouldn't fall in the "grad" category (or so I've been told)) is an even worse feeling when I think about it.
[editline]14th March 2017[/editline]
[QUOTE=joshthesmith;51956544]Anyone reckon Scotland will get their independence?
If they do I am moving! Seriously the EU won't take them and if they do, it will just be another Greece, the price of oil is still low and Scotland can't compete. It is very troubling times, Brexit and now this[/QUOTE]
To be honest, after Westminster more-a-less ignored the promises they gave us about extra powers and the obvious stay vote (which seems to have been ignored) - I think so.
We've got oil and green energy we can offload to other places, and if we really needed to - sell water to England during the drought months.
I voted no for the first vote as I believed Scotland didn't have enough to survive on its own, but after the Brexit vote and lack of increased promised powers - even I'm beginning to swing to yes. It's a farce, yes, but independance maybe the lesser of the 2 evils on offer.
Although in my case, I'm from Scotland but may need to go to London for work so I'll be slapped with potential independance (and all the issues which come from that) [B][I]AND [/I][/B]Brexit in England. Fun, fun stuff.
I get what you are saying, however we are doing great as a united nation at the moment. I wouldn't want to see all this history being undone by some politician trying to line her pockets...
I think we are better together, I cannot imagine an Ununited Kingdom
Foot pain is so bad I cant sleep, the MIU said that it seems to be some kind of soft tissue damage but id have to make an appointment with the doctors in the morning. This suckssss.
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