Pet Peeves

[Eoin McLove]

I'm not a religious man but fucking myself in the ear with a vibrating implement seems against some undefined principle of existence.

[Carnage]

They're mighty, I have one myself for the shnozz and ears. Depressing realising I needed one though.

[Ducky]

The ears are no bother with it, but sticking it up the snozz is a fucking experience.

I did get me ears singed recently at the barber, and will be sticking with the wee trimmer going forward.

[Mithrandir]

I started running/playing rugby over the last couple of years and was loving it, but started getting these severe crippling leg aches. So after a year of tests and appointments, turns out I have something called compartment syndrome and have 2 options,  get quite invasive surgery on both legs that would have me not being able to walk for 3 months or just put up with it and stop running any semi-substantial distance and give up any sport and the hopes of ever doing anything like rugby again. It's also considered an elective surgery because it's not degenerative and there's no risk to not having Surgery so would cost about 10k. Bloody disaster, maybe just putting me down would be easier  I'd never heard of it before all this, couldn't it have just been the lotto I won?,

[mickO)))]

Customs with UPS. UPS have held a package that was shipped to me since December 16th demanding document after document to prove the value of the contents. Then when I sent them all the stuff they started responding with things like "research shows the items are worth a lot more then you are telling us" "the amounts on the statements and the given value don't add up" the simpleton looking at it didn't seem to cop that it was paid for in USD and being in Ireland the payment shows up on my account in Euro.

Stood my ground even though I was worried they would return to sender. Hadn't heard anything in about a week so called them yesterday and was told a €12 charge is due which hasn't been paid yet. Nobody had notified me of this and the person on the phone told me "the sender didn't include contact info so we couldn't contact you" then I asked how did they both call my mobile and email me when they demanded the customs info then of course she apologised. That's not the first time with UPS that they had a customs charge ready then never let me know about it. Finally the delivery was made today.

Anyone know what way it works in regards to stuff coming from outside the EU then ending up with UPS? The person that shipped this to me sent me 2 records after this which arrived last week through an post with no issues. I don't ever want to deal with UPS when it comes to customs again so I am trying to figure out how the parcel ended up with them unless it has something to do with weight because the anpost package was 2 LPs while the UPS one was 5LPs.

[Bürggermeister]

It depends on the service the sender uses. Generally, any state shipping service will arrive via An Post and quite a few private foreign services hand over local delivery to An Post too, but if the sender used a service affiliated with one of the big couriers, that's who it will come to you through. I say generally, because I've ordered stuff from Thomann who use DHL in Germany and hand it to An Post to deliver, so there are anomalies, but I don't think I've ever seen a state service hand it over to a private one for delivery.

[Carnage]

The phone ringing when you're in the jacks. Twice it's happened to me today.

[mickO)))]

It depends on the service the sender uses. Generally, any state shipping service will arrive via An Post and quite a few private foreign services hand over local delivery to An Post too, but if the sender used a service affiliated with one of the big couriers, that's who it will come to you through. I say generally, because I've ordered stuff from Thomann who use DHL in Germany and hand it to An Post to deliver, so there are anomalies, but I don't think I've ever seen a state service hand it over to a private one for delivery.

Yeah it's becoming a real pain in the bollox even the postage in itself is making things too expensive never mind being charged fees on top of that. Just picked up another box from anpost a few minutes ago 2 hoodies from the US and no charge which was great as the postage was $60. That UPS incident is the worst I have dealt with since those new rules came in a few years ago.

[101_North]

I started running/playing rugby over the last couple of years and was loving it, but started getting these severe crippling leg aches. So after a year of tests and appointments, turns out I have something called compartment syndrome and have 2 options,  get quite invasive surgery on both legs that would have me not being able to walk for 3 months or just put up with it and stop running any semi-substantial distance and give up any sport and the hopes of ever doing anything like rugby again. It's also considered an elective surgery because it's not degenerative and there's no risk to not having Surgery so would cost about 10k. Bloody disaster, maybe just putting me down would be easier  I'd never heard of it before all this, couldn't it have just been the lotto I won?,

Had this same condition a good few years back. I never had the excuse of playing much sport and it took ages to diagnose as they initially discounted it. Have they suggested a fasciotomy on both legs? That's what I got done but one leg at a time. I was fortunate that it was covered on the NHS here. 10k is a fucking nightmare! Can't give any advice there except I consider the surgery to have been an unqualified success.

[Mithrandir]

I started running/playing rugby over the last couple of years and was loving it, but started getting these severe crippling leg aches. So after a year of tests and appointments, turns out I have something called compartment syndrome and have 2 options,  get quite invasive surgery on both legs that would have me not being able to walk for 3 months or just put up with it and stop running any semi-substantial distance and give up any sport and the hopes of ever doing anything like rugby again. It's also considered an elective surgery because it's not degenerative and there's no risk to not having Surgery so would cost about 10k. Bloody disaster, maybe just putting me down would be easier  I'd never heard of it before all this, couldn't it have just been the lotto I won?,

Had this same condition a good few years back. I never had the excuse of playing much sport and it took ages to diagnose as they initially discounted it. Have they suggested a fasciotomy on both legs? That's what I got done but one leg at a time. I was fortunate that it was covered on the NHS here. 10k is a fucking nightmare! Can't give any advice there except I consider the surgery to have been an unqualified success.

No way! Yeah fasciotomy is the one! They want to do 4 compartments in in each leg so 4 incisions but both legs at the same time. What was your healing process like? I've been told they're applying for special funding for me because of my age and because it was affecting my work but my last appointment I had some wanker doctor that basically talked me out of it while putting me on the waiting list for surgery so not sure if I'll even go through with it even if it's covered.

[101_North]

I started running/playing rugby over the last couple of years and was loving it, but started getting these severe crippling leg aches. So after a year of tests and appointments, turns out I have something called compartment syndrome and have 2 options,  get quite invasive surgery on both legs that would have me not being able to walk for 3 months or just put up with it and stop running any semi-substantial distance and give up any sport and the hopes of ever doing anything like rugby again. It's also considered an elective surgery because it's not degenerative and there's no risk to not having Surgery so would cost about 10k. Bloody disaster, maybe just putting me down would be easier  I'd never heard of it before all this, couldn't it have just been the lotto I won?,

Had this same condition a good few years back. I never had the excuse of playing much sport and it took ages to diagnose as they initially discounted it. Have they suggested a fasciotomy on both legs? That's what I got done but one leg at a time. I was fortunate that it was covered on the NHS here. 10k is a fucking nightmare! Can't give any advice there except I consider the surgery to have been an unqualified success.

No way! Yeah fasciotomy is the one! They want to do 4 compartments in in each leg so 4 incisions but both legs at the same time. What was your healing process like? I've been told they're applying for special funding for me because of my age and because it was affecting my work but my last appointment I had some wanker doctor that basically talked me out of it while putting me on the waiting list for surgery so not sure if I'll even go through with it even if it's covered.

Yeah I got 4 done too. Part of me wishes I'd got both legs done at the same time simply because it doubled the recovery time getting them done separately. In both cases I had to walk out of the hospital as the physio wouldn't give me crutches...something about the tissue closing over if I rested too much. Not going to sugar coat it...it was bloody painful. The recovery time for both legs was only a couple of weeks but taking it easy for a while longer. The pain eased to easily manageable after a few days though.

I'm really glad I got it done. Made a massive difference as it was badly affecting me every day. I get the odd twinge every now and again but cured for the most part. Absolutely zero regrets.

[Pagan Saviour]

US bands ragging on whatever President is currently in term. The Jesus Lizard show the other week was a lightbulb moment for me, Yow's "Fuck Trump" between every three or four songs was nauseating. I'm there to forget about the world for a couple of hours. You guys voted him or whatever dodgy President is active - don't want to hear it.

[Mower Liberation Front]

Fucking morons cleaning the shelves out of bread. Do these fucking spacktards believe the storm is going to selectively target and destroy all the bakeries?

[Giggles]

You'd be surprised at how many people can't cook, or are too used to buying their meals every day.

A fully stocked fridge/freezer could be useless for eating if the power goes and you've no means of cooking your food.

The nation will be kept alive with sandwiches during tomorrow's storm 

[Carnage]

The tension and dread of this fucking storm. Will this be the one that takes the roof off the shed? The dividing fence will definitely go, that's on the neighbours' side so I'm not bothered, more worried about what damage it does if the wind catches it. I hate this shit.