The No Subject Thread - The Bear and Badger

yourfavouriteuncle

It’s short for frustration. Like the noise you make when the forum you use won’t give you a proper answer for a simple question.

equinox_code

I recently discovered that my GP is not actually a GP, he's a surgeon. For 2 years I've been hassling him for prescriptions for all my minor non-surgical complaints. This explains why his receptionist was always really reluctant to give me an appointment. I'm surprised he never said anything.

Brooks

How did that even happen in the first place?

nick_md

Bet he's good at jokes.

Lord_Griff

Maybe he thought Noxy had an identical twin.

nick_md

nick_md wrote:

Bet he's good at jokes.

Because he'd have him in stitches guys, c'mon!

equinox_code

the setup for doctors and specialists is quite different from the UK. Doctors of all varieties often do a lot of their consultations from within repurposed apartments. For many specialists you need a referral to get a fixed appointment, however, some will see you if you just show up early enough in the morning and wait. You're not really supposed to do it this way but I do anyway. I think success depends on demand, amongst other things. I never had any problems just waiting for my urologist to see me, but I wouldn't expect the radiologist or dentist I saw to be so spontaneously flexible.

2 years ago I moved to a new room and since then I have been visiting a different doctor. I guess I just googled 'doctors near me' and didn't pay too much attention to the details beyond the star rating and how far id have to walk. What surprised me about this doctor was how quiet the waiting room was. This also made it doubly strange that I found his receptionist so uncooperative. I had to be quite pushy to be seen, even when they evidently weren't so busy.

Anyway, I discovered my error when going for a psychotherapy diagnosis. The women working front desk looked really confused when I handed them my referral on a piece of paper. "why have you been referred to us by a surgeon?", they asked. I assured them I hadn't, he was just my regular doctor. They disagreed. I still disagreed. Whatever. It didn't occur to me for a moment that I might be completely wrong.... Until several weeks later, when the thought randomly crossed my mind. So I googled my doctor again, and, yes, he's a surgeon.

mk64

Lol

Armitage_Shankburn

equinox_code wrote:

the setup for doctors and specialists is quite different from the UK. Doctors of all varieties often do a lot of their consultations from within repurposed apartments. For many specialists you need a referral to get a fixed appointment, however, some will see you if you just show up early enough in the morning and wait. You're not really supposed to do it this way but I do anyway. I think success depends on demand, amongst other things. I never had any problems just waiting for my urologist to see me, but I wouldn't expect the radiologist or dentist I saw to be so spontaneously flexible.

2 years ago I moved to a new room and since then I have been visiting a different doctor. I guess I just googled 'doctors near me' and didn't pay too much attention to the details beyond the star rating and how far id have to walk. What surprised me about this doctor was how quiet the waiting room was. This also made it doubly strange that I found his receptionist so uncooperative. I had to be quite pushy to be seen, even when they evidently weren't so busy.

Anyway, I discovered my error when going for a psychotherapy diagnosis. The women working front desk looked really confused when I handed them my referral on a piece of paper. "why have you been referred to us by a surgeon?", they asked. I assured them I hadn't, he was just my regular doctor. They disagreed. I still disagreed. Whatever. It didn't occur to me for a moment that I might be completely wrong.... Until several weeks later, when the thought randomly crossed my mind. So I googled my doctor again, and, yes, he's a surgeon.

Did he go to Hollywood upstairs medical college?

Anyways srs for a second..looks like you are experiencing setbacks in series. It happens. Look after yourself.

equinox_code

Yea all healths started going wrong. Can’t keep up with the amount of different docs I’m supposed to seeing.

acemuzzy

Let's get some security statistics... https://www.ons.gov.uk/

nick_md

hah

equinox_code

regrettably I saw this in the supermarket today.

poprock

Of all the crimes committed on that pack, I think labelling it as ‘Italian’ might be the worst.

LivDiv

Pretending its a pizza is the error there.
Flatbread with houmous and veg, yes please.
Set it up as pizza though and I'm out.

Still better than vegan cheese I am sure. I accidently got a pizza a while back with vegan cheese on it and it was disgusting. Dont believe what these vegans tell you, they know nothing of cheese.

nick_md

poprock wrote:

Of all the crimes committed on that pack, I think labelling it as ‘Italian’ might be the worst.

I explained to an Italian colleague once that pizza actually originated in Turkey. The look on their face, I still don't think they've forgiven me.

Similarly, I told an Italian friend's father that parmesan is indistinguishable in smell from vomit, due to the chemical makeup/compound of the fats/acids or whatever, and if you did a blind smell test, you wouldn't be able to tell. The Italians in the room scoffed at me and told me that's bollocks. I said it's not, it's science. One of them went, 'sure, science lol'.

Italians eh?

Frosty

Shrug. I've had good vegan cheese and I've had bad vegan cheese. Same way I've had good cheese and bad cheese.

The best vegan cheese isn't as nice as a good regular cheese but it's fine. I find the trade off worth it.

Armitage_Shankburn

HOUMOUS SAUCE ON PIZZA IS A CRIME

poprock

CALLING HUMMUS A SAUCE IS ALSO A CRIME.

equinox_code

I once went to an Italian pizza place here in Berlin with my ex girlfriend a few years ago. I can't remember the exact details of what it is I wanted, only that it involved swapping one ingredient out for another on one of their listed pizzas. 'Absolutely not' was the answer I got. No further reason was given. Somehow I respected them for it.

Frosty

Were they serving frozen pizzas?

Kow

Most places won't put mdma on pizzas for you.

Frosty

I will say at least that pizza up there is not the cauliflower variety. Absolutely the worst pizza I've ever had.

Was given it a the veggie option despite a lot of regular pizzas being veggie.

LivDiv

Yeah there is nothing meat or dairy based about pizza dough.
Unless its like a 10th tier vegan thing where they won't eat yeast.

Frosty

I think it's a "healthy" thing for the weirdos who don't eat carbs.

Unlikely

Frosty wrote:

Shrug. I've had good vegan cheese and I've had bad vegan cheese. Same way I've had good cheese and bad cheese. The best vegan cheese isn't as nice as a good regular cheese but it's fine. I find the trade off worth it.

Yep, if you've never had actual cheese then some vegan cheeses are a huge hit.

nick_md

I don't think I've ever had truly bad cheese.

Unlikely

Brie. Fuck Brie.

GooberTheHat

The worst proper cheese I've ever had was better than the best non dairy "cheese" I've tried.

yourfavouriteuncle

Given the chance I’d really like to try that cheese in Spain that’s basically maggot larvae and you need a doctors note to say you can try it. That, I presume, will be really bad cheese.

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