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I wish I'd discovered drinking at work earlier, it'd have made my first job in Mainz that bit more bearable. What's Mainz like? Nice enough actually (except at carnival time, where it descends into the very belly of hell). Not nice enough to justify living there for two and a half bloody years though.

I wish I'd discovered drinking at work earlier, it'd have made my first job in Mainz that bit more bearable.

That's still the most rubbish bit of Photoshopping ever committed to file.

I'd imagine he wouldn't be.

Give Stevie some credit, he's hooked an absolute knacker here. Is that not the definition of a decent Friday night out?

The "Country" station on Spotify. It just played the demo of Bowie's "Ziggy Stardust".

Hark, is that the sound of the joy being sucked out of everything I hear?

It's like the upper-class compartment on Incontinence Airways.

And just as another young talent gets his shot at the big-time: http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/motorsport...one/8158722.stm It's a cruel old sport sometimes.

R.I.P. old boy, a life well lived.

Just in time for the new season!

Tuesday.

I... know?

That's no way to talk about Mini-Midds.

Shi'ite

Everyone who posts on an internet messageboard is an incurable attention-seeker. And that wedding show is a bit cack, aye. Although getting married in a cave was a canny idea.

Line of the year.

Happy deathday!

Well when you all put it like that... I shall grow a pair forthwith.

Aye, the surgery I go to is usually like that - I hadn't seen the same doctor twice until this case, they've just been booking me in to see the same person because she's the one who's been dealing with it. I'll make a point of asking to see someone else next time and doing it that way then.

Aye, you're probably right. I just don't like creating a scene, unstereotypically enough.

Have any of you lot ever asked for a second opinion from another GP at your practice (or at another practice altogether)? Without wishing to bore you with the details, I'm in the process of trying to work out why I've had what I've had - constant tightness and discomfort in my upper chest area, numb/tingly hands/arms/feet, bouts of faintness whenever I try to do anything strenuous (oi, hush ), and so on - for the last four or five weeks, and the doctor I've been seeing keeps attributing it to my asthma (which has been mild to nonexistent since I was a kid), booking me in to asthma clinics, telling me it's probably just a virus that'll go away, and so on. She might be right, but this doesn't feel like anything I've had before, my symptoms don't really match what she parrots back to me (I keep telling her my breathing's been fine; she keeps telling me the numbness is because I've been struggling to breathe - ?!), and there's basically just something about her way of doing things that feels outright dismissive - the problem being that now I end up going to see her already knowing fine well I won't accept what she says, whatever that may be. I know they say you can quite happily request a second opinion, but it strikes me as the kind of shit you don't want to be stirring unless it's absolutely necessary, particularly when it's your local surgery and you're probably going to end up being treated by the same doctor again in future. And I realise it's likely just my typical male paranoia/hypochondria kicking in here. On the other hand, I know having an X-ray done, say, would at least put my mind at rest a bit - but I realise you can't exactly bustle into an inner-city NHS surgery and demand the service elements you want. But aaaanyway. Any thoughts/experiences?

Bit strange that someone so competitive was satisfied with playing second fiddle to Schumi for so many years, then. I guess even he knew he wasn't in the same league.

Internet forum in lack of natural justice shocker