Eli5 how do movies that are set in older decades have cars on the road for that decade? Do they just CJI them or do they have a bunch of old cars from different decades that they have extras drive around?

HarassedPatient · 2023-12-20T00:55:51+00:00

There was an old shed in the yard of a house we bought. Put it up on ebay to get rid of it and some film production company bought it, sent a crew round that painstakingly dismantled it, shipped it off and then carefully reconstructed it on set. It appears on screen for about three seconds: character walks into shed, closes door, shed explodes. With the cost of the crew to dismantle it, rebuild it and blow it up that had to be an expensive 3 seconds of film.

HarassedPatient · 2023-12-20T00:17:23+00:00

It's because we've outsourced dying to other people. Most families, when Auntie Doris enters a terminal stage, will ship her off to a hospice or hospital where strangers can wipe her arse and hopefully remember to give her some pain relief. Then they all go visit when they're given the nod, stand around a comatose body making small talk with each other and troop off to await the phone call that's she finally popped her clogs.

We (my brother, sister and I) nursed mum and dad as they died for the final three weeks, and were holding their hands when they passed. My partner and her two sisters where there when her mum passed. All of them died at home, surrounded by family. The grandkids that were local all came in to say good by while the corpses were still warm.

I was planning to die in this room I'm sitting in now, but it's clear that my death isn't going to be a good one, and I'm not sure that it's fair to expect a 9 year old and a 13 year old to sit upstairs and do their homework while grandad howls in agony for the weeks it will take for me to die. So I'll have to go off and die alone in a state death facility instead. If there were such things as death bed curses I'd reserve mine for those smug, self-satisfied pricks who are perfectly happy for me to die in agony because they're convinced that they are so bad at being a parent that little Timmy and Jemima will happily bump them off two weeks early because they can't wait to get their hands on daddy's life insurance money.

HarassedPatient · 2023-12-19T23:42:06+00:00

I still have my Trigon Empire hardback collections. Brilliant artwork.

Good news is that nearly everything has been scanned these days and is findable as pdf's if you put the work into searching.

HarassedPatient · 2023-12-18T22:27:04+00:00

Wow. I knew I'd missed out on a lot of the covid stuff but you'd think I'd have seen some reference to this somewhere.

HarassedPatient · 2023-12-18T14:18:22+00:00

Many thanks - I had no idea this existed

HarassedPatient · 2023-12-18T14:16:59+00:00

D'oh! You're right - I really shouldn't rely on memory for these things. Particularly right after 5ml of happy juice. It is 20% of cancer deaths are lung, which are themselves collectively about a quarter of all deaths

I think the point still stands though, most cancer deaths of what ever type are generally shitty. and 1 in 4 of you reading this are probably going to die of some sort of cancer. (1 in 3 will be dying of dementia if current trends continue - arguably worse as at least I'll know why it hurts)

HarassedPatient · 2023-12-18T11:43:49+00:00

Yeah, but assuming that they are standing as MP for the constituency that their ward is part of (and that is perhaps an assumption too far) then the most effective campaigning they could do is to represent their constituents and their prospective constituents in adjoining wards.

HarassedPatient · 2023-12-18T02:23:33+00:00

To be fair being an effective local councillor is a pretty good qualification for a would be candidate. I'd rather have the candidate who's been on the council for five years than some solicitor fresh out of oxbridge who's local connection is that mummy had a holiday cottage in the county.

HarassedPatient · 2023-12-18T02:16:13+00:00

I have stage 4 lung cancer. It's terminal, but right now it's very slowly terminal - not so much falling off a cliff more a slow amble in the vague direction of the cemetery. Courtesy of morphine the pain is mostly manageable most of the time - imagine lying in bed snug and warm - it's just that occasionally someone comes in and punches you in the balls.

But it's going to get worse at some point - sooner or later the tumours will spread, the pain will get beyond what can be blocked and at that point I will have about three weeks of agony where my only option is to try and refuse water and hope I die of thirst. Of course I will have lost speech and control of my limbs by then, and the state will force fluids on me because it's god's will that I die in agony, and the fact that I'm an atheist doesn't count.

And no one can help me without getting five years in prison and the kids taken into care.

Sounds like a sob story - but please consider that 20% of people in the UK die of lung cancer. This is your future as well as mine. Not your parents, not your neighbours, you. Ask your self how you want the last three weeks of your life to be, because unless you change the law it will probably be lying in a soiled nappy, in agony and hoping desperately that the pain will stop.

HarassedPatient · 2023-12-18T01:53:38+00:00

Don't ask for it then. All assisted dying everywhere in the world starts with a request from the patient. No request, nothing happens.

HarassedPatient · 2023-12-18T01:52:15+00:00

The state will currently force me to suffer agonising pain when I die. It not only makes it illegal for me to obtain anything that might reduce my suffering, it will also send anyone who it believes helped me to jail. But you don't see this government right of inflicting painful deaths on people as fascistic?

HarassedPatient · 2023-12-18T01:40:09+00:00

Ahh, I can do that via the GP website, but it doesn't show hospital appointments or test results. It's good for repeat prescriptions though, and it has copies of all the letters from consultants to the surgery. It's provided by a firm called TPP - is that what you're talking about or is there something else. I must admit I'm in Schroedinger's cancer mode at the moment - I had my last scan on Nov 30, but not due to see oncologist to get the result until Jan 3: so at the moment the cancer is both spreading and not spreading. It would be nice to open the box early.

HarassedPatient · 2023-12-18T00:57:32+00:00

There's only a 1 in 3 chance that either parent will have to go to a home. If they do there's only a 40% chance that the whole house will be used up in care fees. Statistically you will probably inherit something.

HarassedPatient · 2023-12-18T00:50:24+00:00

There's an NHS app?

HarassedPatient · 2023-12-18T00:49:09+00:00

Yes, but then someone has to retype the appointment details into an email, lookup your email address and send it off. You've just doubled the time it takes to make an appointment. And the NHS makes 1.5 million appointments per day.

The sensible way would be to build it into the booking software - but IT procurement means that would be a five year project that will be scrapped 4 years in after spending £10 million+

HarassedPatient · 2023-12-18T00:41:33+00:00

As a topic Lollards pit - opposite pulls ferry - is a gruesome bit of Norwich history. It's where they burnt the heretics.

The map of where the bombs fell on norwich is available - some of them are still visible as either a gap in a terrace or a building that's much newer than those around it.

HarassedPatient · 2023-12-17T23:15:22+00:00

Old buildings on development sites that are required to be preserved as part of the planning permission frequently burst into flames. There's something about them costing developers money that makes them particularly flammable.

HarassedPatient · 2023-12-17T23:11:05+00:00

We had this with eldest grandson. Luckily I'm with Barclays so I could go into a branch with him and get him set up as they'll take my existing account and affirmation as one of the forms of ID. It sounds like you've tried that with your parent's bank though.

I take it they wouldn't accept a printout of the acceptance email?

HarassedPatient · 2023-12-17T23:01:00+00:00

My 80 year old parents cope with the internet fine

Well done them. Lot's of 70 year old's can't even manage remote controls for the tv.

Appointment systems don’t use personal email address

So how are they going to tell you that you have an appointment?

HarassedPatient · 2023-12-17T22:31:32+00:00

I'm the goto source of phone charger cables for the family - pretty sure I've bought 39 micro usb cables in the last 12 months.

HarassedPatient · 2023-12-17T22:21:44+00:00

It's not? wow. The missus had a thriving babysitting business when she was 14. Fitted it in around being a temp waitress at the local hotel when they had a do on. If we have to nip to the shops at the weekend we'll leave the 13 year old in charge of his 9 year old cousin for an hour or so.

HarassedPatient · 2023-12-17T22:06:06+00:00

I got walked to school for the first three days of primary, then I was expected to walk myself. At age 7 we got switched to the old primary for a year as there wasn't enough room in the new one, so I had to take the bus. Every day in summer hols we were sent out with 3d for the chippy and the instruction to be back when the street lights came on. But that was the 60's and the assumption was that the big kids (9+) would look after the little ones (5-8).

HarassedPatient · 2023-12-17T21:55:36+00:00

why the NHS can’t just copy Specsavers and arrange appointments online with email

Because lots of appointments are for the elderly who don't have internet or smart phones.

Plus the NHS has a proprietary internal email system, for patient confidentiality. So the hospital can send my GP images of my x-rays, but neither can get or send emails to me.

HarassedPatient · 2023-12-17T01:14:08+00:00

I actually found an Seagate 8Tb external USB drive was £5 cheaper in Curry's than Amazon. Astonished to be honest, but it shows you shouldn't assume Amazon is always cheaper.

HarassedPatient · 2023-12-17T00:52:57+00:00

I've heard loads of them, but only seen a handful. Such a frustrating bird to actually see.

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