The election thread - Two middle-late aged white men trying to be blokey and convincing..., same old shit, FFS.
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ozzybmx
taking a shit with my boobs out
The Belair train shuttle, where dozens of kids shuttle the trails in front to my place every weekend and school hols.
We have 1-2 community page rants complaining about them every week.
Throwing rocks, swearing at fully grown men... even called me a cnut and wanted to fight for shouting at them out of the window of the car for manualling across in front of my L plate son, who was also ready to kick ass.
They spit bursties in old peoples hair, swear, play loud swearing music, tell old people to get up off a seat and then sit on it... little shitheads.
About 1 year ago, one of the teachers from the local private school behind me, told them to calm down, they fired back, somehow he put his hand on one (apparent shove), suspended then lost his job.
They all get their phones and film it, then whinge when someone challenges them. There is no fear of going home and dad giving you another beating for getting told off.
Every week we get the vigilante crowd that say 'I'll sort them out next week'... yeah, its still happening. Step in and lose your livelihood.
These are some of the rudest little cnuts I've ever met.
Love the way the Advertiser cuts the 5 minute vid to make the teacher look bad.
ozzybmx
taking a shit with my boobs out
Some good, some bad.
2008 - I had a pomme doc sew this up with sticks and stones still inside my leg. 3-4 days later I had to get an Ambulance to hospital with pus squirting out between the stitches, in so much pain.
The plastic surgeon opened the 9 stitches up and cleaned out my leg, the little metal dish had about 20-30 bits of rock, dirt and wood in it. He was horrified.
1 week in hospital on antibiotic drips and then it had to heal open for many weeks.
pink poodle
気が狂っている男
Look out @beeb ! You've opened a can of Pandora's here...
I'm still friends with a number of the people I went to school with, and even have occasional social interaction with 2 guys I went to preschool with. At the end of high school my only significant achievements included attending more schools than anyone else in my peer group (and I didn't really move around very much).
We had a work related injury where a large steel plate lacerated a boilermaker's leg. Was preventable but the client supplied chinese steel was badly fabricated and caught the young bloke by surprise when it failed. Anyway he went to the local horsepiddle and had it cleaned and stitched up. Weeks later he was still having issues so went to his gp to check for diabetes etc. Turned out the seamstress at the hospital left chunks of zinc paint in the wound. Useless bastard.
beeb
Dr. Beebenson, PhD HA, ST, Offset (hons)
And now you regularly visit to go snowboarding like a boss! The system works.
ForkinGreat
Knows his Brassica oleracea
I had read some articles and seen reports that the NHS was being perhaps deliberately run down by successive gubbinments, with a view to privatising the health system in the UK, just like utilities were sold off decades previously, both there and here, and many other countries, with the false promise of greater efficiencies, and better service.
The public hospital systems are overloaded and understaffed in the UK and Aus, AFAIK, so covid might have been the breaking point for many health workers, especially the UK Nurses and Doctors.
pink poodle
気が狂っている男
How good is no responsibilities? Someone recently asked who will care for me when I get old as a way of implying I should have children...lol, people get paid to look after old folks!
All this good vs bad doctors and nurses...I've spent too much time in the emergency department over the years and had some hilarious shockers. One of my favourites is attending the hospital with a suspected broken left collar bone (a story in itself...I clipped a railing riding over a pedestrian bridge and was going into the murky wager below until my shoulder hit a pile. There was a solid lump but being macho I decided to ignore it, sleep it off, and pulled a huge 20ish kilometre xc ride the following day, score a night of passion after that, roll over for some early morning spoon conversion, and wake my guest up with an audible cracking from my collar bone! To be fair she was a light sleeper). I go in, triage pops me in a sling, I go for some X-rays, the doctor then has a look and comes to tell me that I have shattered my right collar bone and need surgery... while not a doctor or other medical person I was pretty sure my right arm was fine, but the doctor while looking right at me was absolutely certain I was an idiot and had a fucked up right collar bone. Anyway I get her to check the date on the X-ray and surprise! So up comes another X-ray and now I have apparently tore the rc...you are correct doctor, I did tear the rc in new Zealand a little while ago and had some follow up X-rays at this hospital. Oh yes...the dates. Now are there any X-rays with today's date? There was and it showed a fracture to the left collar bone right where the half golf ball sized lump was. I have always suspected the piss pore just leave it in the sling for a few weeks treatment I got was a result of me being right. People can be so petty.
Flow-Rider
Burner
During the end of covid, I banged my foot on a bit of concrete around home, and couldn't put any real weight on it from all the pain. A couple of days later I go to the doctor's surgery and I got some type of Arabic doctor, their English was appalling and I'm saying this as someone who has worked and lived with many different foreigners of all types, so I have a fairly good ear for broken English.
They sent me for x-rays and ultrasounds and they found nothing, yet I could barely put any weight on this foot. Went back 4 weeks later to see if they could do anything but this time I got a different bloke who's Indian, and the same thing very poor English but at least I could understand this one a bit.
He comes to the conclusion that I must have a bone spur and no broken bones, gives me some pain killers and sends me on my way, 2 weeks pass and I can finally hobble on my foot with the aid of painkillers and a day before I'm ready to go away on holidays this Doc rings, and I'm not even sure what this guy is trying to say, I understand every second word and he repeated himself about 5 times. My foot slowly got better over time in the next few months, but it felt like the ache of having fractured bones.
Jabubu
let you google that for me
10-12 yr olds? They're about to move to another school anyway. At that age they're malleable and will adapt. If they're 15-17 and perhaps a year away from sitting exams then yeah I get that.
Haakon
has an accommodating arse
It’s hit and miss out there. I had one horror night nurse who left me in massive pain and wouldn’t help. And jerked me around making my broken bones go crunch… I yelled a lot…
But with the profession in general you do have to be on the ball and take some responsibility for pushing things. Kirsty had trouble convincing doctors she was in pain from a botched knee surgery, a common issue with women which is shit. Her Mum died of ovarian cancer because she was sent home being told it was nothing and she was being a hypochondriac - all way too late by the time the problem was found.
dancaseyimages
Mountain bike pornographer
I think you got lucky. I was there a few weeks ago and a lot are moving on due to the expensive houses vs lowest wages in Canberra and sign on bonus's now being offered for interstate, same with the police force and AFP.
The bonus of Canberra is a lot of the wards that exist in other states are only 9-5ers here so they do get a 5 days week instead of being burnt out like the rest of the states. Not so great if you need to get into Chemo without private health but that's just how it is.
I had an op done there quite a few years ago and op went well, but physio on the public system took so long my tendons froze again. Learnt a valuable lesson. Weirdly Veterans (ADF) are sent to Sydney, Brisbane and Qld instead of the Canberra System unless its something small like counseling.
Flow-Rider
Burner
The problem in Qld is the pressure on the health system, doctor surgeries were under immense pressure and they chucked a stink, then restricted the amount of clients they would take in a day so they ended up overloading the hospitals.
My last visit to the public ED was a horrific one and reminded me what my life was worth to them. I had chicken wing bone stuck in the back of my throat and was untended to for over 4 hours because of the waiting list and I could hardly breathe. While I was waiting in the triage area there was an old lady beside me who broke her hip and knee lying on a stretcher and started choking on her own gastric reflux because she was lying flat on the stretcher, I had no clue how to raise it and I had to run around the hospital and find someone to assist her. Then I needed to go to the toilet while waiting in the hospital and as I looked down to do my business I started to spit blood and the bone had dislodged until I coughed it out on my own.
As soon as I have time I'm looking for private cover.
dancaseyimages
Mountain bike pornographer
Use all the benefits you can, its semi worth it, riding a bike especially MTB the emergency dental could help in an accident and numerous other things. Plus the tax implications if earning a certain amount above the threshold.
And with the benefits, there are exclusive providers, so for us its Defence health and we go to their providers to get the free teeth cleaning and Xrays, certain physios etc with little or no gap (others you have an amount they can claim and then you have a gap, but preferred providers leave you paying a bit less of a gap).
I saw some new providers have picked up HCF with no gap payments as well.
I am hoping the Qld system is a bit better than the ACT one, as thats part of the reason for us moving up that way, apart from the lifestyle
Haakon
has an accommodating arse
Yeah but for emergency stuff you’re in the same ED anyway, PI doesn’t do squat for those situations.
Jpez
Down on the left!
When I spent a week in hospital a year ago the ambulance took me straight to the least busy trauma hospital which turned out to be Footscray hospital. One of the shittiest hospitals around. The ambulance bay was full of ambos leaning on walls and patients on their trolleys. Some had been there almost an entire ambos shift. Luckily I didn’t have to wait. There is a new hospital being built to replace it and zero dollars are being spent on maintenance or upkeep. The ceiling in the CT scan room was literally leaking some weird rusty shit into a bucket next to the machine. I kid you not.
There is a private hospital next door so as soon as I’d recovered from surgery my missus asks if I can be transferred next door where it’s a whole lot more pleasant than a room with no windows, paint peeling off the walls, machines that are on the blink and terrible staff morale. They uhhmed and ahhed until it wasn’t worth it any longer.
So in that instance our expensive private insurance counted for diddly.
Flow-Rider
Burner
There are private emergency surgeries here, even if I have to pay better than going through that again. They didn't even look to see how bad it was, if the bone had perforated my throat area I could have been found dead in the toilet when it dislodged.
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Flow-Rider
Burner
A lot of doctor surgeries won't take on new clients here, be careful of the catchment area you pick to live in.Use all the benefits you can, its semi worth it, riding a bike especially MTB the emergency dental could help in an accident and numerous other things. Plus the tax implications if earning a certain amount above the threshold.
And with the benefits, there are exclusive providers, so for us its Defence health and we go to their providers to get the free teeth cleaning and Xrays, certain physios etc with little or no gap (others you have an amount they can claim and then you have a gap, but preferred providers leave you paying a bit less of a gap).
I saw some new providers have picked up HCF with no gap payments as well.
I am hoping the Qld system is a bit better than the ACT one, as thats part of the reason for us moving up that way, apart from the lifestyle
ozzybmx
taking a shit with my boobs out
You just pay on the day for the private ED's.There are private emergency surgeries here, even if I have to pay better than going through that again. They didn't even look to see how bad it was, if the bone had perforated my throat area I could have been found dead in the toilet when it dislodged.
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Ashford & Calvary here in Adelaide are $430 for everyone. The only bonus of private cover is if you are hospitalised, you'll get wheeled to your room in the bed, for us commoners, we'll be transferred to a public hospital by horse and cart.
Then the other issue of being rushed into ED by Ambo and ramped, you wont get a choice of ED.
Flow-Rider
Burner
Depending on the cover you have and what it's for. My uncle needed a hip and knee replacement and he got it done within 2 months of the diagnosis and got to pick where it was done, my neighbour's father's knee replacement was postponed for 4 years on a waiting list for public. The same uncle had a cancerous tumour cut from the side of his neck and it was done in a private hospital within a week. You are out of pocket with private a bit but even the aftercare is much better most of the time, you're not waiting at a public hospital all day to see a specialist.
Hospital waiting times are inadequate here, people pass away all the time before they can get medical treatment.
Queensland man dies after waiting for hospital bed in ambulance
A Queensland grandfather has died after allegedly waiting hours in an ambulance for a hospital bed west of Brisbane.
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