The Retirement Thread

[Dave7]

I had REAL flu once in 1983. I was literally out of it and semiconscious for 3 weeks.
Apparently, at first, the Doctor thought it was Meningitis.
I was off work for 6 weeks.
Still never had a flu jab till today and that was only because of the sh*t thats happening and what Covid has done to me.
Don't know what to recommend.....each to his/her own choice I suppose

 

[numbnuts]

I went to our local Tesco this morning.
I reckon about 60% of people there weren't wearing masks.

Same in Sainsburys, the girl on my checkout had it on her chin
My parcel from yodel has just come, I think I'm the last on his round

 

[numbnuts]

I had REAL flu once in 1983.

Yeah but having "Man Flu" is another matter

 

[ColinJ]

More than 50% of people were not wearing masks on my train down to Exeter yesterday, and that train was surprisingly busy - around 95% of seats were taken.

I also noticed that virtually nobody in Exeter city centre was wearing one.

On the subjects of Exeter and climate change... Exactly why are the supermarkets there trying to combat global warming by turning themselves into giant fridges? Don't they know that it is doomed to failure? (Most places that I shop at these day have doors or transparent plastic strips to keep the chilled air around the cold shelves. Exeter Aldi felt really cold as soon as I walked in. It felt like they had air conditioning on and turned up to the max. None of the cold shelves had anything to stop the cold air cascading down into the air in the store! )

 

[classic33]

Observations on a trip to Brum:
Following our brief journey to Brum which saw us arrive into New Street Station just in time for the rush hour. In our walk through the City Centre and on the very busy bus to our Hotel almost nobody was wearing a face mask. Those of us who were wearing a mask tended to be older, though there were a few younger people ( mainly females ) who were wearing them. On the train journey there had been far more mask wearers with no obvious age / gender bias. I was sitting in the main concourse of the station killing a bit of time and thought I'd see if there was any obvious pattern to mask wearing among the streams of people of all ages who were passing. More elderly people were masked up, more females than males were masked, and among the younger people it seemed that spectacle wearers were more likely to wear a mask ( perhaps because they were familiar with wearing something on their faces? )*
I wonder if this is a "big city thing" or more general 🤔

* As I originally wrote that sentence it read " having something sitting on their faces " but knowing you smutty lot I decided to rephrase it

How many of those wearing one had both mouth and nose covered though?

 

[Flick of the Elbow]

Re dentists, in all our lives, neither Mrs F or I have ever been treated by, or even known, a female dentist. How strange is that ?

 

[Dirk]

Re dentists, in all our lives, neither Mrs F or I have ever been treated by, or even known, a female dentist. How strange is that ?

Very.
The best dentist I ever had was an Argentinian woman who worked at our local village dentist.
I went to have a tooth extracted about 10 years ago.
I literally never felt a thing and had to ask her to show me the extracted tooth, to convince me that she'd actually pulled it.
Unfortunately, she's moved on to another practice.

 

[Tenkaykev]

How many of those wearing one had both mouth and nose covered though?

The majority

 

[Flick of the Elbow]

Just been listening to Mitch Docker’s Life in the Peloton episode covering his last Roubaix, completely awesome insight into the riders’ experience of it.

 

[postman]

Did your knees come right after four months exactly how much rest did you have to do .

The knees are perfect now,I guess if I put them back under stress again they would swell and lock up,too much twisting turning bending over a short time three to four hours brought the swelling back,but it took weeks to build up.Now normal everyday tasks do not harm the knee.It was the actions of setting up a playgroup room week in week out that brought the swelling back.Once I stopped and just did normal things around the house the swellings went. So not really resting as such ,just not extra work.If that makes sense.

 

[welsh dragon]

You only need 2 tools in life. WD40 and duct tape. If it doesn't move and should, use WD40. If it moves and shouldn't use duct tape.

 

[Deleted member 1258]

From my facebook page tonight, lol!

 

[ColinJ]

Ready for a Devon metric century in about 8 hours time!

It might be a good idea to get some sleep first though...

 

[classic33]

Ready for a Devon metric century in about 8 hours time!

It might be a good idea to get some sleep first though...

You'll have done your crosswords then.

 

[ColinJ]

You'll have done your crosswords then.

I do have a Times quick crossword puzzle book with me but am stuck on one puzzle. I might try and solve the last few clues of that one before before lights out.

No Metros here and I'm not making the journey to get one. Exeter or Tiverton would probably be the nearest places to get them,