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Horse wrote: Tue Jan 07, 2025 8:14 pm
Yorick wrote: Tue Jan 07, 2025 3:03 pm
I always keep Gaviscon nearby. If symptoms didn't go in 15 mins, I'd be on the phone to the hozzy.
Then pop 300 mg aspirin too.

(As long as you haven't already, don't have an allergy, no liver or GI issues)
Should have said:

Aspirin 300 mg, ideally soluble tablets, and chewed not swallowed
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David wrote: Tue Jan 07, 2025 3:52 pm
Yorick wrote: Tue Jan 07, 2025 3:03 pm
Taipan wrote: Tue Jan 07, 2025 1:07 pm I guess the Ambo crews didn't have the equipment they do today as I got blues and twos to the A&E! :shock:

It was subsiding by the time I got there and Docs did some tests and said it wasn't a heart attack

I felt very embarrassed about the whole thing and started to apologise but doc was having none of it. He said indigestion and heart attacks can initially give very similar symptoms and its right to go to A&E to be sure!
I always keep Gaviscon nearby. If symptoms didn't go in 15 mins, I'd be on the phone to the hozzy.
If it isn't indigestion you would be likely expired.
While I think of it, the sequence can often be:
Chest pain - heart attack - cardiac arrest

Guy I know is a first aid trainer in one of the emergency services.

In the morning he was training his mates.

In the afternoon he quickly went through the chest pain to CA. His mates used the CPR and defib he'd taught them to keep him going.

FWIW, starting CPR within 10 minutes of cardiac arrest improves survival and brain function. CPR within 2 minutes boosted survival by 81% and reduced brain damage by 95%. Even with a delay of up to 10 minutes, survival improved by 19%.
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Last night I made myself some king prawn sandwiches in a home marie rose style sauce with sriracha to bring to work for lunch today. 8-) But I bastard well forgot them! :angry-cussingblack:
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Taipan wrote: Thu Jan 09, 2025 12:33 pm Last night I made myself some king prawn sandwiches in a home marie rose style sauce with sriracha to bring to work for lunch today. 8-) But I bastard well forgot them! :angry-cussingblack:
Get 'em Deliveroo'd. :D
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Count Steer wrote: Thu Jan 09, 2025 12:39 pm
Taipan wrote: Thu Jan 09, 2025 12:33 pm Last night I made myself some king prawn sandwiches in a home marie rose style sauce with sriracha to bring to work for lunch today. 8-) But I bastard well forgot them! :angry-cussingblack:
Get 'em Deliveroo'd. :D
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Taipan wrote: Thu Jan 09, 2025 1:06 pm
Count Steer wrote: Thu Jan 09, 2025 12:39 pm
Taipan wrote: Thu Jan 09, 2025 12:33 pm Last night I made myself some king prawn sandwiches in a home marie rose style sauce with sriracha to bring to work for lunch today. 8-) But I bastard well forgot them! :angry-cussingblack:
Get 'em Deliveroo'd. :D
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Taipan wrote: Thu Jan 09, 2025 12:33 pm Last night I made myself some king prawn sandwiches in a home marie rose style sauce with sriracha to bring to work for lunch today. 8-) But I bastard well forgot them! :angry-cussingblack:
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They then sent the wrong item in terms of sizing.

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The Masked Singer.

Not the show as such, but the fact I don't understand how it works. And I don't actually care enough to actually watch it.

How does it work? I know celebs dress up and sing, but then what? How did they turn that into a popular hour long show?
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McNab wrote: Fri Jan 10, 2025 4:09 pm The Masked Singer.

Not the show as such, but the fact I don't understand how it works. And I don't actually care enough to actually watch it.

How does it work? I know celebs dress up and sing, but then what? How did they turn that into a popular hour long show?
I saw it once here once in a Spanish bar. It was Jorge Lorenzo.
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McNab wrote: Fri Jan 10, 2025 4:09 pm The Masked Singer.

Not the show as such, but the fact I don't understand how it works. And I don't actually care enough to actually watch it.

How does it work? I know celebs dress up and sing, but then what? How did they turn that into a popular hour long show?
No one knows who the celebs are, the panel and the people at home get to guess who they are based on the voice alone (and some very very tenuous clues in short VT clips).

I don't love it, but I don't have the energy to hate it.
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My wife works in a infants school and she says the kids all love the masked singer and don't seem to care that they dont know who the celeb is! :wtf: :lol: So I guess its just good old fashioned, light hearted, family entertainment! :thumbup:
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KungFooBob wrote: Fri Jan 10, 2025 4:38 pm
McNab wrote: Fri Jan 10, 2025 4:09 pm The Masked Singer.

Not the show as such, but the fact I don't understand how it works. And I don't actually care enough to actually watch it.

How does it work? I know celebs dress up and sing, but then what? How did they turn that into a popular hour long show?
No one knows who the celebs are, the panel and the people at home get to guess who they are based on the voice alone (and some very very tenuous clues in short VT clips).

I don't love it, but I don't have the energy to hate it.
Yeah I get that bit but it's the competition bit I don't get. Do they all perform each week? Does the panel guess at the end or can they guess any time? I assume only one singer leaves each week, so do the panel only get one guess?

I seem to care more about the mechanics of The Masked Singer than I really should :wtf: :lol:
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I do so wish I wasn't such a clutz.

A parking guy asked me to reverse the sprinter a little so I said of course, turned to go back to it and forgot I'd got off the pavement and promptly took a proper flyer cos I tripped over it :roll: :roll:

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Re THE masked Singer,
Toad in the hole = Sheridan Smith.
Bush = Kim Wilde.

Wotcha got?
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Taipan wrote: Sat Jan 11, 2025 8:13 pm Re THE masked Singer,

Wotcha got?
*Plonk*
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weeksy wrote: Sat Jan 11, 2025 8:17 pm
Taipan wrote: Sat Jan 11, 2025 8:13 pm Re THE masked Singer,

Wotcha got?
*Plonk*
It was that or Pride & Predudice and as much as I fancy Rosamund Pike, Suranne Jones and Maya Jama won me over! :D
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Rockburner wrote: Tue Jan 07, 2025 12:09 pm I was about to say that maybe a fine or payment should be demanded, but then in all news stories published it does tend to be the case that the "ill-prepared" rescuees are thoroughly lambasted by the leader of the rescue group in his media interview, which could be seen as justice enough?
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Just on a call to my sister and I mentioned that the property tax on the old mans house in Ireland must be due by now. Turns out it should have been paid last week, she has the bill but forgot to do anything with it. I now can't pay it online either, the old man's Irish tax number no longer works (not surprising really, he's been dead for almost a year) and my tax number doesn't work.
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