Pet Peeves IV

[Pretty Boy]

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Trying to get a GP appointment.

Been phoning since Monday, bang on 8am and the line is just constantly engaged for 2+ hours. Finally got to speak to someone yesterday at about 11.30 and before I'd even finished speaking was told 'there's no appointments left, call earlier tomorrow' and the call was ended. Tried again this morning, engaged for an hour then a recorded message saying 'our routine GP appointments are now full for today'.

It's not an emergency so can't/wouldn't go to A&E but it definitely needs a GP and can't just be seen by a pharmacist or similar.

My dad had similar lately with an inability to get an appointment and that did end up being fairly serious and he ended up in hospital.

Just to balance this a bit.

Finally got a GPs appointment on Friday past. GP wasn't overly concerned but did think a hospital referral was in order just to have a second opinion and confirm her assessment. Received a letter today saying I am on the ENT waiting list and current waiting times are, on average, 13 days for urgent and 53 days for non urgent. I was told by the GP I would be the latter. I don't think being seen in under a couple of months for an issue that a GP has deemed non urgent is too bad at all when you consider the winter pressure the NHS is under.

[nonshinyfinish]

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In the last few hours I’ve read and heard 5 times …. “ It was very fun.” When I was at school, ‘very’ was an adverb which qualifies a verb or adjective and fun was a noun which was qualified by an adjective. Call me a pedant, but *******ising the English language is not fun.

'Very' as an adjective (meaning 'true') is older than its use as an adverb – it still appears in phrases like 'the very end' or 'my very best'. The adverb form became more common as usage changed over time (or was *******ised as you put it).

[lapsedhibee]

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'Very' as an adjective (meaning 'true') is older than its use as an adverb – it still appears in phrases like 'the very end' or 'my very best'. The adverb form became more common as usage changed over time (or was *******ised as you put it).

Is very an adverb or adjective or something else in How very dare you?

[Pedantic_Hibee]

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Just to balance this a bit.

Finally got a GPs appointment on Friday past. GP wasn't overly concerned but did think a hospital referral was in order just to have a second opinion and confirm her assessment. Received a letter today saying I am on the ENT waiting list and current waiting times are, on average, 13 days for urgent and 53 days for non urgent. I was told by the GP I would be the latter. I don't think being seen in under a couple of months for an issue that a GP has deemed non urgent is too bad at all when you consider the winter pressure the NHS is under.

Just to counter this PB, I’ve had major issues with my sinuses for about three or four years now and yet am fobbed off with penicillin and nasal sprays. I told the GP the last time that penicillin doesn’t suit me as it encourages me to violently sh*t myself at the most inopportune moments. Again, I was sent away with penicillin. I was referred to ENT about 18 months ago and aside from receiving an acknowledgment letter about six weeks ago to say they knew I was still waiting, I’ve had absolutely nothing.

[Hiber-nation]

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Just to counter this PB, I’ve had major issues with my sinuses for about three or four years now and yet am fobbed off with penicillin and nasal sprays. I told the GP the last time that penicillin doesn’t suit me as it encourages me to violently sh*t myself at the most inopportune moments. Again, I was sent away with penicillin. I was referred to ENT about 18 months ago and aside from receiving an acknowledgment letter about six weeks ago to say they knew I was still waiting, I’ve had absolutely nothing.

Jeez that is poor. Had a sinus problem myself, docs appointment in Feb then got ENT appointment in April. Non-urgent. Have to say I was amazed.

[nonshinyfinish]

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Is very an adverb or adjective or something else in How very dare you?

Technically an adverb I think (because it's intensifying the verb 'dare'), but it's a non-standard construction because 'very' (as an adverb) normally only qualifies adjectives or other adverbs, not verbs.

I think it's correct to describe it as either an adverb or an intensifier, but calling it an intensifier better captures its function in that phrase.

[lapsedhibee]

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Technically an adverb I think (because it's intensifying the verb 'dare'), but it's a non-standard construction because 'very' (as an adverb) normally only qualifies adjectives or other adverbs, not verbs.

I think it's correct to describe it as either an adverb or an intensifier, but calling it an intensifier better captures its function in that phrase.

[Moulin Yarns]

Folk in front of me at the checkout, total cost £554, scanned £123 worth of vouchers, took forever!!! (Tesco in Perth)

[Fuzzywuzzy]

Maybe I'm just a tight **** or have no understanding of my wife/women in general.

Her pals husbands sister who lives in Spain, has never met, never likely to meet just had a baby. For some reason we had to but a present for them

[Smartie]

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Maybe I'm just a tight **** or have no understanding of my wife/women in general.

Her pals husbands sister who lives in Spain, has never met, never likely to meet just had a baby. For some reason we had to but a present for them

We've had a couple of babies within the past 5 and a bit years and I'm actually bowled over by the generosity of people we have the most tenuous of tenuous links to.

I mean, we're enormously grateful but the sheer volume of stuff we have received has been almost overwhelming and the identity of some of the gifters has been truly astonishing.

[Jones28]

The ****ing perfume adverts at this time of year. They’re so stupid.

[WeeRussell]

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The ****ing perfume adverts at this time of year. They’re so stupid.

Agreed. They stink.

[Jones28]

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Agreed. They stink.

Does anyone look at the JPG advert and think “I want to smell like a sweaty sailor?”

[Keith_M]

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Does anyone look at the JPG advert and think “I want to smell like a sweaty sailor?”

I think you've opened a can of worms there.

[Jones28]

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I think you've opened a can of worms there.

I think you’ve announced a name of a new perfume 😂

[Jay]

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Maybe I'm just a tight **** or have no understanding of my wife/women in general.

Her pals husbands sister who lives in Spain, has never met, never likely to meet just had a baby. For some reason we had to but a present for them

I'm a woman and I can assure you I wouldn't be buying my pals husbands sister who lives in Spain a present. So I think your just tight

[Northernhibee]

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The ****ing perfume adverts at this time of year. They’re so stupid.

Daisy Daisy Daisy Daisy Daisy Daisy Daisy Daisy Daisy Daisy Daisy Daisy Daisy Daisy Daisy Daisy Daisy Daisy Daisy Daisy Daisy Daisy Daisy Daisy…

[Keith_M]

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I think you’ve announced a name of a new perfume 😂

[HUTCHYHIBBY]

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Daisy Daisy Daisy Daisy Daisy Daisy Daisy Daisy Daisy Daisy Daisy Daisy Daisy Daisy Daisy Daisy Daisy Daisy Daisy Daisy Daisy Daisy Daisy Daisy…

Marc Jacobs? 🤔☺️

[Northernhibee]

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Marc Jacobs? 🤔☺️

Aye. It’s perfect. Perfect. Perfect perfect perfect perfect perfect perfect perfect perfect perfect perfect perfect perfect perfect perfect perfect perfect

[weecounty hibby]

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Daisy Daisy Daisy Daisy Daisy Daisy Daisy Daisy Daisy Daisy Daisy Daisy Daisy Daisy Daisy Daisy Daisy Daisy Daisy Daisy Daisy Daisy Daisy Daisy…

The power of advertising!! I knew that was Marc Jacobs. Sadly annoying **** works

[Jones28]

Turkey. It’s just ****. It’s a waste of oven space.

I’d sooner have chicken breast.

[Scouse Hibee]

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Turkey. It’s just ****. It’s a waste of oven space.

I’d sooner have chicken breast.

Chicken or Turkey, they’re both ****. It’s just a waste of oven space, I’d rather have Lamb & Duck.

[weecounty hibby]

Edinburgh derbies

[WeeRussell]

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Turkey. It’s just ****. It’s a waste of oven space.

I’d sooner have chicken breast.

I used to like you. Reported.

[WeeRussell]

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Chicken or Turkey, they’re both ****. It’s just a waste of oven space, I’d rather have Lamb & Duck.

You anaw.

[Keith_M]

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Turkey. It’s just ****. It’s a waste of oven space.

I’d sooner have chicken breast.

I hate turkey as well. No idea why so many people have it at Christmas.

[Pretty Boy]

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I hate turkey as well. No idea why so many people have it at Christmas.

I sometimes buy a turkey leg during the year and make a pot roast thing with it and it's really nice.

I think the issue with a whole turkey at Christmas is that it is such a big bird it's hard to cook it evenly. If you roast it whole then you can end up with the white meat being way overcooked. Add to that a decent chunk of people are so terrified of a bit juice in poultry that they already set the oven to cremate.

I think quality of meat is an issue as well. My father in law works in chicken farming and he gets a few birds a year to raise as a perk of the job. Once he has them they are fed the best of gear and totally free range and the difference in taste between happy, slow grown birds and those cheap Frankenstein things you get in the lower priced ranges in supermarkets is night and day.

[Moulin Yarns]

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I sometimes buy a turkey leg during the year and make a pot roast thing with it and it's really nice.

I think the issue with a whole turkey at Christmas is that it is such a big bird it's hard to cook it evenly. If you roast it whole then you can end up with the white meat being way overcooked. Add to that a decent chunk of people are so terrified of a bit juice in poultry that they already set the oven to cremate.

I think quality of meat is an issue as well. My father in law works in chicken farming and he gets a few birds a year to raise as a perk of the job. Once he has them they are fed the best of gear and totally free range and the difference in taste between happy, slow grown birds and those cheap Frankenstein things you get in the lower priced ranges in supermarkets is night and day.

This year we got the butchers to butterfly turkey breast and I got a bag of bones etc to make the soup. Very easy to cook and quicker than a full bird.

[J-C]

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I hate turkey as well. No idea why so many people have it at Christmas.

Big large bird that feeds a large family.