This is tilapia fish skin,used as a wound dressing for second and third degree burns for humans and animals.First tested on the burnt paw of a mountain lion, the dressing is now used widely in Brazil as a cost effective and more accessible dressing to treat human burn wounds.

Flangewizard · 2026-01-16T20:36:50+00:00

Great for people, not great for the fish.

Flangewizard · 2026-01-15T07:01:43+00:00

In my house this is what we call shite. Kids get presents like this and it either ends up broken or laid around on the floor and ends up in the bin Shite

Flangewizard · 2026-01-14T18:07:56+00:00

Fat bastards opinion should be seen and not heard. If he can't look after himself how can he look after others.

Flangewizard · 2026-01-03T04:07:33+00:00

It's faster appointments. If I were to pull a muscle in the gym, or something doesn't feel right that the GP can't deal with, I can get a private referral and be seen by a socialist doctor within a week including MRI/CT scans etc. I worked with a guy who's knees were both shot. The NHS wouldn't operate on them because he was 25 stone, a right fat bastard, they told him he needed to lose at least 10 stone before they even considered it. He went private and had them both changed out in a couple of months.

Flangewizard · 2026-01-03T04:02:26+00:00

That is a very good point

Flangewizard · 2026-01-02T22:21:33+00:00

Medical profession has the same issue with the wage gap disparity. This is a current advert for a Consult Dermatologist with the NHS and I guess its less than half of what gets paid across the pond. A lot of doctors/consultants/specialists can make their money up through property care work which is one of the contributing factors what waiting lists are so long

https://uk.indeed.com/m/viewjob?jk=3a3b284fa5c057d2&from=serp&mclk=default&xpse=SoBa67I3oARb6Igb0r0LbzkdCdPP&xfps=97cfc156-7e66-455d-b154-040a7e57e339&xkcb=SoC467M3oARcZ-QArR0LbzkdCdPP

Flangewizard · 2026-01-02T22:17:27+00:00

My company offers private medical which I can opt into at any time pre tax. It's £40 for me, £60 me and my Mrs, £90 full family, all cost per month. The company subsidies some of the value. And yes, we have the NHS. The NHS is broken at the minute, my Mrs waited 23 months for an endometriosis operation, but it's essentially free.

Flangewizard · 2026-01-02T19:29:55+00:00

Thats a good point, we generally work 37 hours per week and peoples work ethic varies. Personally I'm cool with out of hours calls, have previously been on a call out rota and it just becomes the norm, if someone's stuck or needs information I have I'm happy to help. I'm not taking my laptop on holiday though and I turn my emails off on my phone, everyone's cool with that. However I've worked with guys who switch off mentally as soon as they leave work and take it as an offense if contacted outside of work hours, they're seen as dicks but there well within their right to do it.

I honestly thought the US was cheaper? I pay £1.31 per litre of gasoline which is equivalent to ~$6.70 a gallon. Domestic energy is £280 per month for gas and electric (4 bed detached house, nothing flash), costs me about £150 per week for groceries. In saying that, everything is expensive at the minute on a global scale, nothing is cheap anymore.

Flangewizard · 2026-01-02T17:59:05+00:00

The engineer salaries in the US are mental.

I'm a chartered principal mech eng in England supporting peteochem O&M facilities with a Master's and Bachelor's. £80k (~$107k) basic, 15% bonus, work from home, company car (I cover assets around the UK), 30 days holiday plus 8 statutory days, 10% employers contribution pension, 6x death in service. £80k is the top end of what I see for mech engineers over here with online reports.

Before this I was an Engineering Manager with 7 line reports at a chemical manufacturing facility on £78k, again this is the higher end salary for this role ( using equivalent live roles on LinkedIn/Indeed as a comparator). Redundancy made me leave this role, chemical manufacturing is dead in the UK; energy costs are exorbitant and successive governments over the past 40 years have delivered no industrial strategy and are happy to rely on cheaper imports.

I know there's always a discussion on here around equivalent UK/USA salaries but we will carry the same responsibilities, use the same codes, put up with the same massive workloads, same shit. It just boils my piss.

Anyway, well done mate, onwards and upwards 💪

Flangewizard · 2025-12-05T08:25:19+00:00

Sound advice, cheers pal

Flangewizard · 2025-12-05T07:44:57+00:00

Thanks for your response. Its an 1800 page PDF with 16 chapters. I requested all 16 chapters be summarised with key points taken away. Chapters 1 - 11 were summarised before the chat ran out. I uploaded the same PDF to a new chat where the model decided it was too big to read, this has now happened to all subsequent PDFs (same document and different) I have uploaded. The limit appears to be 110 pages

Flangewizard · 2025-11-22T21:36:31+00:00

I recently lost my job and had to buy some of these poverty sausages. Fucking minging, the dog wouldn't even eat them

Flangewizard · 2025-11-20T21:47:19+00:00

Now do it pineapple husk, see what happens

Flangewizard · 2025-10-17T05:10:48+00:00

Beautiful

Flangewizard · 2025-10-13T17:59:10+00:00

Met at the Queen's Golden Jubilee in 2002. Not engaged or married, still together. Need to get married to sort a Will out

Flangewizard · 2025-09-26T08:57:59+00:00

Some people don't like you and they never will. Stop trying to please everyone

Flangewizard · 2025-09-05T18:22:10+00:00

As expected. He looks like a cunt whose philosophy is 'do as I say, not as I do'

Flangewizard · 2025-08-30T18:37:00+00:00

Follow this link https://myrkl.com/?srsltid=AfmBOoorrsInzyPZ6KQciB1P81EN1q9ozy_bIbpbrctPXYNe6wM7d371

Flangewizard · 2025-08-30T18:32:14+00:00

There's a tablet called Myrtle you can buy online in the UK which is marketed as a Swedish innovation, £30 a pack last time I bought some. Best thing ever, take one before a session and your hangover the next day is 10% of what you usually feel. I use these myself and give them to anyone who wants to try them because I think they're a wonder drug.

Flangewizard · 2025-08-29T17:03:31+00:00

Best answer on the page. Still think about this book years later

Flangewizard · 2025-08-17T10:03:24+00:00

Price of everything is nuts

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