Thought Id start this one going because its rather dead on this board at the moment and I suppose all my usual muckers are either at the Stella tennis event watching Dim Tim (lose again) or at Henly Regatta eating cucumber sandwiches (they wish,...NOT).

Anyway please feel free to just talk to yourself blast away and let it go on any company or subject you wish. Just wish Id thought of this one before.

cheers GF.

Hays how do you mean, Threshers went into administration and 400 units were sold to small off licence chains..........muslims if I recall correctly.

I think the others were, about 1100 or thereabouts were leased back to landlords.

Quench owned the chain.

Dont forget I was in the retail business for M@S Woolys and Tesco.

My best friend drives an Ambulance, the amount of call outs she's called to every week due to obesity, depression, domestic violence and non-emergency is the real waste of the Ambulance service and knocks onto A&E...

gf
My family sold it to Flowers in the later 1950s I think. Flowers were bought by Whitbread. The Threshers pubs were converted to Whitbread and the off licences left with the original brand. What you refer to was what Whitbread did with the chain.

Vic.

No.

As suggest previous posting, may be a start. Find out who is financing them.

Increase alertness. Fortified UK is easier to protect, or inspect some of the comings and goings in the UK. Maybe of some use.

"Europe is more difficult to defend against such actions as appeared to occur in Paris, because of the extent of their borders"

But the real problem is to analyse the motivations and motivators and deal with those at source.

Terrorism breeds on the disgruntlement and disillusionment of the "masses", who "think" that there are not alternatives to the action they are taking.

(The instigators, or "leaders" may see the actions as justifiable to obtain their goals, or may be seen as psychopaths by "normal" standards.)

(IRA Ireland, Basques etc.)

It doesn't matter if their cause is justifiable to their victims, at an emotional level it is justifiable to the perpetrators of "said" terrorism or "guerrilla" actions.

That is the problems which one has to deal with, not simply the eradication of foot soldiers.

The most recent estimate of wastage in A&E is that in excess of 30% of A&E visitors should not be there.

i think perhaps this thread should be re-christened as "The Magic Roundabout"

if that appeals, suggestions please for casting from our friends here
Florence
Zebedee
Dylan
Flappy (a rabbit)
Ermintrude (a cow)
Brian (a snail)
Mr Rusty (the roundabout's operator)

54517 - true, but it also presupposes that there are local walk-in clinics or similar, some of which i think have been shut down ..... and before certain people start hopping about, those decisions may well be made at local level

Haze.

Which ones.

A parent who just notices and is worried by their child who has a slight temperature and a spotty rash, but seems a little different to normal.


Something, or nothing.

Tell me the difference between nothing and early treatable meningitis.

Next question is how you can help "carers" to tell the difference between trivia and consequential states.

Education, maybe a start.

But could a Haze really be educated more than he already is?

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Perhaps, He could go to school with Manuel and watch the magic roundabout.

I wondered what the defect was in Napoleon's education.

sorry fred, but over and above the usual drunk oafs, there certainly are a great many "nonsense" patients who, if they had to put up say £20 at the door, might well think twice before going to A&E with a slight sprain or similar

fred's allusion to the magic roundabout refers back to my recent post 54518 which may entertain some

Maybe a lot of the problem out there today is that through all this Political correctness religious guff , you can't take the piss anymore can you.

Why don't you go out for another few hours cynic.

Manuel.

Some haven't got £20 in their pockets.

Ask a doctor how one tells the difference between some sprains, a fractures, torn ligaments or a contusion, etc.,

Also, self evaluation is sometimes difficult.

Like wondering if there is a knife in one's back without a mirror.


8-)

easily! ......

suggest you talk to your multitude of medical acquaintances - i guess they're not friends - and ask them about the number of total time-wasters presenting themselves at A&E, or even their doctor's surgery

however, and as i mentioned initially, if there is no walk-in clinic or similar, then inevitably A&E will get swamped

as for paying up front, it's certainly how the french system works and very well too, or did you choose not to read that excellent post a day or two back

Victim,

Have a certain amount of sympathy with post 54524.

But there again if I said your belief P54524 was bullshit, you would be offended.

Hopefully, not sufficient to pay for a gun man to satisfy your desires.


8-)

You certainly can't take the piss out of terrorists VICTIM, they don't have a sense of humour.

Manuel,

Have you ever wondered why the "time wasters" keep on turning up at casualty, or GP surgeries?

DB4.

Perhaps, not yours.

But, I wonder what brings a smile to their faces?

They obviously don't have our sense of humour or maybe not any , but is it religion or BRAIN washing.