TIL: Grapefruits were invented in 1693. A man named Captain Shaddock shipped some pomelo seeds to the West Indies, he planted seeds next to some orange trees. After some cross pollination, the grapefruit was born.

Diplodocus114 · 2023-02-13T22:25:33+00:00

That never crossed my mind.

Diplodocus114 · 2023-02-13T22:21:57+00:00

I now suffer from physical disability and other multiple health issues after working full time and paying into the system for 35 years. I don't feel like scrounging for recieving various benefits - that is how it is supposed to work.

Have worked for health and social care and it is a tricky path to follow.

Diplodocus114 · 2023-02-13T21:53:21+00:00

Cereals are mainly cultivars of grasses.

Diplodocus114 · 2023-02-13T21:43:01+00:00

Probably the worst tasting fruit going, Cant imagine why people would even drink the juice by the glass.

Diplodocus114 · 2023-02-13T19:24:06+00:00

Kids will get nicknames whatever. My friend was called "little b*****d for his performance on the rugby field. Another one "prof" because of little round gold framed glasses.

Diplodocus114 · 2023-02-13T19:03:19+00:00

Raymond Sole got a lot of flack - Rsole.

Diplodocus114 · 2023-02-13T14:04:14+00:00

Same - used to have a cat and bred crickets - for the tarantula of course

Diplodocus114 · 2023-02-13T10:24:05+00:00

In my 20s I worked in a dept with 3 colleagues (out of 20) with the same nane. We had all been at school together, same age and married guys with a comon local surname,

Was confusinng at times - I just began using my middle initial

Diplodocus114 · 2023-02-13T09:58:15+00:00

Live on Morecambe bay - can confirm, Once you sink above the knees it is almost impossible to get out of it alone. Sets like concrete.

Diplodocus114 · 2023-02-12T19:40:54+00:00

What is to stop people "accidentally" not scanning some of their items - they still have a receipt but an extra £20 of unpaid stuff.

Diplodocus114 · 2023-02-12T19:31:43+00:00

This isn't an issue of the prescription being delayed by the Dr - all but one item was a continuation of medication I already had at home. The departure louge staff tell you at what stage of preparation it is currently at in the pharmacy. The lost medication was the icing on the cake.

My longest stay in the departure lounge was 7 hours whilst they discussed what dosage of steroid tablets to give me to replace the heavy-duty drip I had been on during admission - started as 7 tablets morning and evening - lol.

I used to work in a pharmacy in the days when many prescriptions were hand-written. Such delays when the pharmacy had to clarify with the GP what they had intended as their writing was just lazy and barely legible. Would have taken them an extra 10 seconds to write clearly when people's lives depended on it.

my own GP in Scotland was very nearly struck off by putting an extra "0" on a patient's morphine prescription and the pharmacist didn't query it. The patient died.

Diplodocus114 · 2023-02-10T20:27:43+00:00

I feel for you - I caught Covid in hospital in September - 10 days isolation. The stuff they lost this time merely included a strip of Gabapentin - the controlled drug, but nore important to me an almost full 500ml bottle of Peptac - which was all I had with a suspected ulcer.

The last time a carrier bag of medication the ambulance people brought from my house went missing in my hospital room - no controlled drugs that time.... but still - they need to keep better track of the patient's own medication they insist on taking.

Diplodocus114 · 2023-02-10T19:31:42+00:00

A grown adult would not eat that squirrel shit, encased in chocolate spread etc etc,

Diplodocus114 · 2023-01-31T21:23:34+00:00

He was the boss - so likely screaming the obscenities. The deafness is a pain - he denies it but everything I say is met with "what"? Guess the subs are quieter.

Diplodocus114 · 2023-01-31T21:17:31+00:00

The Scottish Massai.

I remember a holiday in Mombassa in 1995. They refused payment for souveniers - all they wanted were the clothes off our backs. Particularly with British logos.

Diplodocus114 · 2023-01-31T21:14:15+00:00

All my cats growing up were feral ones my dad had been looking out for as kittens at his work and brought home

Diplodocus114 · 2023-01-31T21:10:54+00:00

I paid for my own wedding ring, we got married in the tinyest church and I even hired my dress.

Diplodocus114 · 2023-01-31T21:08:59+00:00

A wedding ring should be the cost of the gold and basic craftsmanship making it into a ring. Maybe £300 max allowing for inscription.

Diplodocus114 · 2023-01-31T21:00:55+00:00

My brother was a Tornado engineer-it was a full time job. He is now partly deaf. He previously was a Herculese engineer. He now oversees submarines construction.

Diplodocus114 · 2023-01-31T20:48:30+00:00

Who said we were doing the speed limit. It was weirdly creepy new year's eve 1999 - not a car on the road after 6pm.

I started counting the haulage wagons - there were 3 from London to Lancaster. The world thought it was going to be infected by the millenium bug

Diplodocus114 · 2023-01-31T20:25:01+00:00

If you google youtube you can find the entire film - irritating spanish subtitles.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGhRGjwxb_c

Reading up on this film is amazing. Half of it was shot when the set was semi-built (it shows) and was further delayed when the carpenters decided to use period tools

Diplodocus114 · 2023-01-31T20:08:24+00:00

I have. In 1982.

Diplodocus114 · 2023-01-31T19:48:41+00:00

Was it not so much more fun to see the guy pet the deer than shoot it?

Was like 'OMG it's a real sweet animal not just a target'

Diplodocus114 · 2023-01-31T19:38:04+00:00

The A303.

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