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Neil3030 · 18-03-2019 09:53PM

There's talk now that Parliament could vote to change the law that prevents them voting again on a deal they have already voted against twice.

Apologies if you need a few reads of that to figure it out; couldn't make this stuff up.

troyzer · 18-03-2019 10:05PM

Neil3030 wrote: »

There's talk now that Parliament could vote to change the law that prevents them voting again on a deal they have already voted against twice.

Apologies if you need a few reads of that to figure it out; couldn't make this stuff up.

So parliament wants to vote to vote again against the deal.

You have to wonder how they ever managed to rule an empire.

mfceiling · 19-03-2019 11:23AM

Did anyone watch Alan Partridge last night? Funniest 30 minutes of tele I've seen in ages. I won't spoil it but the last 2 minutes are going to go down as comedy gold for the ages.

swiwi_ · 19-03-2019 11:28AM

mfceiling wrote: »

Did anyone watch Alan Partridge last night? Funniest 30 minutes of tele I've seen in ages. I won't spoil it but the last 2 minutes are going to go down as comedy gold for the ages.

I was just going to post whether Irish viewers would find it funny/not funny/offensive?

I was chortling away.

mfceiling · 19-03-2019 01:13PM

swiwi_ wrote: »

I was just going to post whether Irish viewers would find it funny/not funny/offensive?

I was chortling away.

Even the wife was in stitches laughing so it must have been good!!

The Lost Sheep · 19-03-2019 02:47PM

mfceiling wrote: »

Did anyone watch Alan Partridge last night? Funniest 30 minutes of tele I've seen in ages. I won't spoil it but the last 2 minutes are going to go down as comedy gold for the ages.

top class tv. Ending is fantastic.
Scene playing CPR on sex doll to another one bites the dust was very funny
He got accent spot on...

stephen_n · 20-03-2019 12:16PM

This time 4 weeks ago I started to feel unwell in the shower after training. Kind of knew straight away it was a heart attack, but at the same time wasn’t sure. Not wanting to make an idiot of myself I of course didn’t ask for help and opted to drive myself to the hospital, just in case it was a really bad case of indigestion or some bug. Luckily the hospital is only 5 minutes from the gym. Whatever you can say about the Irish Health System, they are pretty damn good when you have a serious issue. Within 2 hours I’d been transferred to Vincent’s and had 2 stents put in. It’s very surreal watching your heart up on a screen as they fiddle about inside you. Again luckily for me, they got this done within 2 1/2 hours of it starting, so not much damage done to the heart muscle. Going from someone who works 50+ hours most weeks and trains 5-6 days a week, to barely being able to walk for more than 5 minutes at a time forces you to slow down a bit

Has its benefits though, currently sitting having breakfast in Lanzarote, feeding sparrows and watching them bully a pigeon. Nice place to recouperate and take stock. I would have regarded myself as extremely fit before this and am only 46. So maybe if you see one of those free Heart Health checkups the Irish Heart Foundation do. Do yourself and your family a favor and get yourself checked.

awec · 20-03-2019 12:28PM

stephen_n wrote: »

This time 4 weeks ago I started to feel unwell in the shower after training. Kind of knew straight away it was a heart attack, but at the same time wasn’t sure. Not wanting to make an idiot of myself I of course didn’t ask for help and opted to drive myself to the hospital, just in case it was a really bad case of indigestion or some bug. Luckily the hospital is only 5 minutes from the gym. Whatever you can say about the Irish Health System, they are pretty damn good when you have a serious issue. Within 2 hours I’d been transferred to Vincent’s and had 2 stents put in. It’s very surreal watching your heart up on a screen as they fiddle about inside you. Again luckily for me, they got this done within 2 1/2 hours of it starting, so not much damage done to the heart muscle. Going from someone who works 50+ hours most weeks and trains 5-6 days a week, to barely being able to walk for more than 5 minutes at a time forces you to slow down a bit
Has its benefits though, currently sitting having breakfast in Lanzarote, feeding sparrows and watching them bully a pigeon. Nice place to recouperate and take stock. I would have regarded myself as extremely fit before this and am only 46. So maybe if you see one of those free Heart Health checkups the Irish Heart Foundation do. Do yourself and your family a favor and get yourself checked.

Glad to hear you're alright!

Must have been scary, did you feel a pain in your chest and light headedness or what?

stephen_n · 20-03-2019 12:30PM

awec wrote: »

Glad to hear you're alright!

Must have been scary, did you feel a pain in your chest and light headedness or what?

Pain in the chest, shortness of breath, nausea and slightly dizzy. Just not laying on the floor clutching my chest type of feeling. Pain felt like bad indigestion.

Buer · 20-03-2019 12:31PM

Glad you're ok, Stephen. I can only imagine that was a rather scary experience. I would imagine that a lot of us would be similarly stubborn and dismissive to the point where we would drive ourselves to the hospital (if at all).

I've generally had excellent experiences with the health system in the past even with non-critical issues. I previously went to my GP with a lump (turned out to be benign) but within 48 hours I had been seen by a consultant in his clinic, booked in for surgery and was sitting in hospital recovering. I had to spend the bulk of a day on a trolley but so be it.

Any time I have had to bring a child to Temple Street or D-Doc, I have had exceptionally smooth and quick service. When I call D-Doc, I have a phone call back from a nurse within 5 minutes. I have an appoointment with an on call GP within another hour and my child is home having been seen with a prescription within 2 hours of making the initial phone call.

I know there's a huge amount of bitching and moaning about the health service but, in the grand scheme, it's light years ahead of most other nations.

stephen_n · 20-03-2019 12:39PM

Buer wrote: »

Glad you're ok, Stephen. I can only imagine that was a rather scary experience. I would imagine that a lot of us would be similarly stubborn and dismissive to the point where we would drive ourselves to the hospital (if at all).

I've generally had excellent experiences with the health system in the past even with non-critical issues. I previously went to my GP with a lump (turned out to be benign) but within 48 hours I had been seen by a consultant in his clinic, booked in for surgery and was sitting in hospital recovering. I had to spend the bulk of a day on a trolley but so be it.

Any time I have had to bring a child to Temple Street or D-Doc, I have had exceptionally smooth and quick service. When I call D-Doc, I have a phone call back from a nurse within 5 minutes. I have an appoointment with an on call GP within another hour and my child is home having been seen with a prescription within 2 hours of making the initial phone call.

I know there's a huge amount of bitching and moaning about the health service but, in the grand scheme, it's light years ahead of most other nations.

I’m probably the luckiest unlucky person in the world. I had cancer when I was 28 and similarly once I was diagnosed, everything happened extremely quickly and I was treated very quickly, efficiently and honestly with great care. If I had the misfortune of being born in America, my heart attack would have cost me $50,000 and the cancer would have been another $100,000. I’ve no medical insurance, could never afford it. All this was done publicly, I’m alive due to our public health system, because I was lucky enough to be born in Ireland.

troyzer · 20-03-2019 12:42PM

stephen_n wrote: »

I’m probably the luckiest unlucky person in the world. I had cancer when I was 28 and similarly once I was diagnosed, everything happened extremely quickly and I was treated very quickly, efficiently and honestly with great care. If I had the misfortune of being born in America, my heart attack would have cost me $50,000 and the cancer would have been another $100,000. I’ve no medical insurance, could never afford it. All this was done publicly, I’m alive due to our public health system, because I was lucky enough to be born in Ireland.

Christ that's a rough rap sheet. Are there any lifestyle changes they're recommending to you? If you're going to the gym at 46 it stands to reason you'd be healthier than most of your peers. Are you eating lard by the tub load or are you just really unlucky?

thomond2006 · 20-03-2019 12:46PM

Glad to hear all is ok Stephen.

Zzippy · 20-03-2019 02:03PM

Glad you're alright! Definitely will heed that reminder to get checked - on my to-do list now...

Dubinusa · 20-03-2019 02:08PM

God bless you Stephen. Best of luck.

mfceiling · 20-03-2019 02:10PM

Wow!! Glad that you're still with us Stephen. Your health is your wealth.
As Buer says for all the flaws of our health system it's actually pretty damn good.

Mike Oxlong · 20-03-2019 02:15PM

Glad to hear you're doing well Stephen... very sobering thought for some of us in the same age bracket.

I'll try my best not to rise your blood pressure with my posts for a while

stephen_n · 20-03-2019 03:09PM

Mike Oxlong wrote: »

Glad to hear you're doing well Stephen... very sobering thought for some of us in the same age bracket.

I'll try my best not to rise your blood pressure with my posts for a while

If Ireland didn’t manage that on Saturday no one will

serene as the Buddha

20-03-2019 10:56PM

Glad you are ok Stephen - mind yourself and hope the tan is coming along nicely!

ionadnapóca · 20-03-2019 11:35PM

Good man Stephen - Driving to the hospital when having a heart attack!!
Tough out
Feed those birds!

stephen_n · 20-03-2019 11:52PM

ionadnapokot wrote: »

Good man Stephen - Driving to the hospital when having a heart attack!!
Tough out
Feed those birds!

In retrospect not the cleverest thing I’ve ever done.

Mike Oxlong · 21-03-2019 12:04AM

stephen_n wrote: »

In retrospect not the cleverest thing I’ve ever done.

Someone I worked with had a heart attack as he was flying a microlight...managed to land it and was taken to hospital

stephen_n · 21-03-2019 10:19AM

Mike Oxlong wrote: »

Someone I worked with had a heart attack as he was flying a microlight...managed to land it and was taken to hospital

Now that would be scarey :eek:

mfceiling · 21-03-2019 11:14AM

Father's best mate had a heart attack while out fixing a milking parlour. Drove himself to the hospital (where all the mid Ulster ambulance services are based which was lucky for him). They gave him some kind of medication/injection to increase the blood flow to the heart. He feels grand so gets out of the bed to go back to work. Doctor nearly has a fit...Get back into bed cause you're going for surgery asap!! Treble bypass later and he's back on his feet. Met him recently and he's still smoking like a chimney!! Fool.

Mike Oxlong · 21-03-2019 11:16AM

stephen_n wrote: »

Now that would be scarey :eek:

I was in the HARI with the missus at the time doing ivf...he rang asked could I cover for him..said no...he rang again the next day to day he was going in for a triple bypass

He was a lucky lad...think the clotbuster drug saved his Life when he got to the hospital

stephen_n · 21-03-2019 01:36PM

Mike Oxlong wrote: »

I was in the HARI with the missus at the time doing ivf...he rang asked could I cover for him..said no...he rang again the next day to day he was going in for a triple bypass
He was a lucky lad...think the clotbuster drug saved his Life when he got to the hospital

Yeah getting to the hospital and getting the blood thiners as quick as possible is vital. Luckily they had given me that with 30 minutes of it starting.

Hope the IVF worked out for you.

Mike Oxlong · 21-03-2019 02:07PM

stephen_n wrote: »

Yeah getting to the hospital and getting the blood thiners as quick as possible is vital. Luckily they had given me that with 30 minutes of it starting.

Hope the IVF worked out for you.

That was the 7th attempt and it did...i have an 11yo daughter from it all

21-03-2019 08:40PM

I've never accepted the reality that a no-deal Brexit could happen and presumed that at some stage the grown ups would step in and some politically sensible option would surface.

I actually think the UK could be on the verge of doing something really very damaging here and highly consequential for the decades ahead.

sydthebeat · 21-03-2019 08:48PM

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I've never accepted the reality that a no-deal Brexit could happen and presumed that at some stage the grown ups would step in and some politically sensible option would surface.

I actually think the UK could be on the verge of doing something really very damaging here and highly consequential for the decades ahead.

Ya think?????

There's literally nothing I would surprised with at this stage.
The Tory party are in the middle of an existential crisis and don't seem like being able to get their sh!t together to prevent a no deal exit

Synode · 21-03-2019 08:57PM

It's dreadful to watch but I can't look away. May's speech last night was nothing short of disgraceful and she needs to be removed immediately. I really can't understand her strategy thus far, especially her unwillingness to work on getting some type of cross party consensus on how to move forward. The whole situation isn't helped by Corbyn being totally incompetent

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