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  • TSasha SmithTSasha Smith Posts: 27,247
    Miss Bad Wolf said:

    I am hungry complaint.  I did not get lunch due to an issue out of my control (or actually a series of unfortunate events) and now I am hungry.

    I got dinner but still hungry.  It helped but I am still hungry.

  • TSasha SmithTSasha Smith Posts: 27,247

    There is yelling on the other side of the house and I could still hear it.  It was about someone not getting her dinner I think.  I am staying out of it, even though I am still hungry.

    l should be getting my computer back sometime Saturday, hopefully before I go spend the night at mum’s.

  • TangoAlphaTangoAlpha Posts: 4,587
    DanaTA said:
    TangoAlpha said:
    DanaTA said:
    TangoAlpha said:
    Miss Bad Wolf said:
    kyoto kid said:

    ...I'd normally say I'll wait until it comes to one of our second run cinemas, but the ones I normally patronise have all gone "first run" fare as well and jacked up their prices. At the one in my old neighbourhood I used to get in for 3$ (senior admission) any time of the day, not just matinees, now it's more like 11$ - 13$.  Crikey for that I used to my ticket, a pint of good beer, and slice of pizza. 

    Now I have to wait until films come out on Netflix.

    ...The Going To The Cinema Is Too Expensive These Days Complaint Thread.

    I am trying out a thing that the local movie theater has which allows me to see up to three movies a week for a monthly fee of 20 dollars.

     

    My local cinema does an 'Unlimited Card' - any showing as often as you like for £18 a month. AND a discount on the concessions. (That's about double the price of a Netflix sub) I would average at least one film a week, sometimes two or three. Having said that, thanks to the Summer of Sickness (cellulitis, sepsis, diabetes, hospital, 3 surgeries . . .), I haven't been able to go since early July.

    Sorry to hear that.  I hope you are well now.  Last movie Diane and I saw in the theater was on Dec. 31st 2017!

    Dana

    Thanks, I'm definitely improving, and glad to be out of the hospital. The biggest worry has been not being able to work, and hence earn money (I'm self employed). Fortunately I don't have to worry about medical costs, thanks to the NHS, so that's one less thing.

    NHS?

    Dana

    National Health Service. One of the better things about being British wink

  • TSasha SmithTSasha Smith Posts: 27,247

    I need to take a shower tonight even though I took one this morning, but I think it is almost night medicine time.

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 12,084
    edited October 2018
    DanaTA said:
    TangoAlpha said:
    DanaTA said:
    TangoAlpha said:
    Miss Bad Wolf said:
    kyoto kid said:

    ...I'd normally say I'll wait until it comes to one of our second run cinemas, but the ones I normally patronise have all gone "first run" fare as well and jacked up their prices. At the one in my old neighbourhood I used to get in for 3$ (senior admission) any time of the day, not just matinees, now it's more like 11$ - 13$.  Crikey for that I used to my ticket, a pint of good beer, and slice of pizza. 

    Now I have to wait until films come out on Netflix.

    ...The Going To The Cinema Is Too Expensive These Days Complaint Thread.

    I am trying out a thing that the local movie theater has which allows me to see up to three movies a week for a monthly fee of 20 dollars.

     

    My local cinema does an 'Unlimited Card' - any showing as often as you like for £18 a month. AND a discount on the concessions. (That's about double the price of a Netflix sub) I would average at least one film a week, sometimes two or three. Having said that, thanks to the Summer of Sickness (cellulitis, sepsis, diabetes, hospital, 3 surgeries . . .), I haven't been able to go since early July.

    Sorry to hear that.  I hope you are well now.  Last movie Diane and I saw in the theater was on Dec. 31st 2017!

    Dana

    Thanks, I'm definitely improving, and glad to be out of the hospital. The biggest worry has been not being able to work, and hence earn money (I'm self employed). Fortunately I don't have to worry about medical costs, thanks to the NHS, so that's one less thing.

    NHS?

    Dana

    Well, here in the US it could be National Honor Society https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Honor_Society but I am more prone to believe he's referring to England's National Health Service https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Health_Service

    Post edited by LeatherGryphon on
  • Charlie JudgeCharlie Judge Posts: 13,243
    edited October 2018
    DanaTA said:
    Charlie Judge said:

    Complaint: My Cocker Spaniel who has been in remission from lymphoma may be coming out of remission. The vet thought she saw some signs and has sent off samples for testing. I can only hope that the tests aren't positive.

    I hope so, too.

    Dana

    Complaint: Sadly, the vet just called a little while ago with the results and they are positive. She will start a new chemotherapy  tomorrow but the prognosis is only about 6 months. Without treatment the prognosis would be 4 to 6 weeks at best. While we will try the new chemo if she has a poor quality of life while on it then we will discontinue it. If she can't have a good life I don't beleive in continuing treatment just to keep her alive

    Post edited by Charlie Judge on
  • TSasha SmithTSasha Smith Posts: 27,247

    As time approaches bed time, the heavier my eyelids feel which make it harder to keep them open.

  • DanaTADanaTA Posts: 13,333
    TangoAlpha said:
    DanaTA said:
    TangoAlpha said:
    DanaTA said:
    TangoAlpha said:
    Miss Bad Wolf said:
    kyoto kid said:

    ...I'd normally say I'll wait until it comes to one of our second run cinemas, but the ones I normally patronise have all gone "first run" fare as well and jacked up their prices. At the one in my old neighbourhood I used to get in for 3$ (senior admission) any time of the day, not just matinees, now it's more like 11$ - 13$.  Crikey for that I used to my ticket, a pint of good beer, and slice of pizza. 

    Now I have to wait until films come out on Netflix.

    ...The Going To The Cinema Is Too Expensive These Days Complaint Thread.

    I am trying out a thing that the local movie theater has which allows me to see up to three movies a week for a monthly fee of 20 dollars.

     

    My local cinema does an 'Unlimited Card' - any showing as often as you like for £18 a month. AND a discount on the concessions. (That's about double the price of a Netflix sub) I would average at least one film a week, sometimes two or three. Having said that, thanks to the Summer of Sickness (cellulitis, sepsis, diabetes, hospital, 3 surgeries . . .), I haven't been able to go since early July.

    Sorry to hear that.  I hope you are well now.  Last movie Diane and I saw in the theater was on Dec. 31st 2017!

    Dana

    Thanks, I'm definitely improving, and glad to be out of the hospital. The biggest worry has been not being able to work, and hence earn money (I'm self employed). Fortunately I don't have to worry about medical costs, thanks to the NHS, so that's one less thing.

    NHS?

    Dana

    National Health Service. One of the better things about being British wink

    Oh.  sad  Still making payments on a test I had in January.

    Dana

  • DanaTADanaTA Posts: 13,333
    Charlie Judge said:
    DanaTA said:
    Charlie Judge said:

    Complaint: My Cocker Spaniel who has been in remission from lymphoma may be coming out of remission. The vet thought she saw some signs and has sent off samples for testing. I can only hope that the tests aren't positive.

    I hope so, too.

    Dana

    Complaint: Sadly, the vet just called a little while ago with the results and they are positive. She will start a new chemotherapy  tomorrow but the prognosis is only about 6 months. Without treatment the prognosis would be 4 to 6 weeks at best. While we will try the new chemo if she has a poor quality of life while on it then we will discontinue it. If she can't have a good life I don't beleive in continuing treatment just to keep her alive

    Awwww.   sadcrying

    Dana

  • AmaltheaAmalthea Posts: 224
    edited October 2018
    DanaTA said:
    LeatherGryphon said:

    Complaint:  My over-the-counter supplements cost more than my prescribed drugs. frown  I take a multivitamin daily and I take Glucosamine/Condroitin for cartilage repair for my knees.  I always wait for the drugstore to issue a coupon or have a sale (often 2 for 1) on those items but still I freak out when I go to buy them because I buy in the big bottles to get the most bang for the buck.  But those things aren't covered under insurance.  I started out today happy that I was within sight of getting my budget under control next month.  Now after the drugstore visit the light at the end of the tunnel suddenly got a lot dimmer. sad

    Non-complaint:  All my prescription drugs are covered significantly by my Medicare drug plan, (so far).   indecision  If I had to pay for them without help I'd be dead 5 years ago. surprise

    I used to take Move Free (brand name glucosamine/condroitin).  I stopped.  It didn't repair anything!  I had a torn cartilage.  Now I have no cartilage!!!  angry  I paid a lot of money for those damned pills!  I was told that I'd eventually need a knee replacement.  Good luck with that, couldn't afford it.

    Dana

    The supplemein act back in the 70s gave the supplement industry free of the FDA oversight that the drug industry has.The result is a huge mess. Many don't have the ingredients they claim, others hav them but not in the stated amounts, others have contaminants. It's possible that you were one one of the ones that falls into one of those catagories. Also many glucosamine/condroitin supplements have enough glucosamine (1500 mg) but not enough chondroitin to fully utilize it (1200 mg) and thus only help people with minor issues. Now it doesn't matter as it is just a repair treatment instead of a replacement one and you don't have anything to repair. i wish that the scientists would start doing clinical trials on people in their 40s and 50s with mild problems in their fingers instead of concentrating on elderly with very bad knees because the former group would show that under the right conditions this stuff does work even though the latter group doesn't gain any benifit. This lack of trials showing efficasy is wht insurance doesn't pay for it.

    Name brand doesn't mean anything with this stuff. The drug store I get mine at was out of the brand that was helping me so I got another brand which was a name brand and my left knee got worse. It took a month of being back on the first brand before my knee was back to where it was when I had to switch. As a result I keep extra on hand.

    Post edited by Amalthea on
  • McGyverMcGyver Posts: 7,085
    edited October 2018
    TangoAlpha said:
    DanaTA said:
    TangoAlpha said:
    DanaTA said:
    TangoAlpha said:
    Miss Bad Wolf said:
    kyoto kid said:

    .

    National Health Service. One of the better things about being British wink

     

    I always confuse that with the "Nautical Hamster Service"... Which few people know was a secret naval program during World War Two...

    From what I understand the Royal Navy trained hundreds of hamsters to man (or "hamster") tiny little torpedo boats to protect the coastal waters from German subs.

    It was the brainchild of Sir Neville Gambolputty, grandnephew of Johann Gambolputty, the famous explorer who is most famous for disappearing and not being memorable... Sir (his first name... he wasn't knighted or anything), was a bit eccentric and had a penchant for dressing up hamsters as historical figures and training them to wrestle in tiny arenas which were replicas of obscure Ancient Greek amphitheaters.

    He was particularly fond of having them wrestle each other in hypothetical scenarios like "What if Abraham Lincoln and Jane Austin got into a scuffle over an alfalfa pellet"... Most of the scenarios involved alfalfa pellets.

    One day in early 1940, while dressing up one of his hamsters as Admiral Sir Henry D'Esterre Darby, he was struck by how stunningly magnificent and noble the hamster looked... It is quite possibly this epiphany was the result of him being struck moments before by a large chunk of rotted wood that had fallen on his head from the ceiling of his dilapidated family manor (both his family and his family manor were quite dilapidated).

    Still reeling from his head injuries, he envisioned a fleet of tiny naval vessels manned by hamsters. These tiny warships would be too small for the Germans to torpedo and the hamsters' ability to inflate their cheeks with air would exclude the need for life rafts and floatation vests which would be a huge savings in materials and labour.

    He immediately set about carving several tiny aircraft carriers out of some large wooden beams he found in the main dining hall.

    This proved to be a mistake as he soon learned hamsters were terrible pilots and would immediately crash their tiny replica Fairey Swordfish torpedo bombers after getting airborne... This was compounded by the fact that the wood he used to carve the ship, was actually holding up much of the ceiling of the main dining hall, which promptly fell on him, further concussing him and crushing the vessel.

    After much thought he settled on torpedo boats because he didn't like ordering lumber and there was only enough lumber left from the collapsed dining hall ceiling to build a small fleet of patrol boats.

    His determination and multiple brain concussions soon paid off... After two months of diligent uniform sewing and ship building he had a tiny fleet of brave hamster sailors.

    He immediately brought his idea to the attention of the Admiralty Naval Staff who were apparently either quite drunk at the time or misinformed as to the size and capabilities of hamsters. The program was given the order to proceed as quickly as possible and on the cool morning of 21 April 1940 the first six vessels were launched from a low dock at the Scapa Flow naval base.

    Sir Neville Gambolputty watched proudly as his fleet of tiny hamster warriors sailed off to defend the British isles from the German navy. 
    His pride was short lived as the entire fleet of ten ships sank just feet from the dock in the slightly choppy water. Even more tragic was the fact that Sir had not actually ever tested to see how well hamsters float, nor was he aware that every one of his crew had their cheek pouches stuffed with nuts and alfalfa pellets which they refused to give up or spit out. Their cheeks filled to capacity, they were weighed down and all of them sank to the bottom, resulting in the loss of every member of the fleet.

    Saddened by the loss, but still determined to prove his hamsters could change the course of the war, Gambolputty pushed forward and experimented with bolder and far more innovative designs for the vessels.

    All of which pretty much met with the same results, except for TCMB (Tiny Coastal Motor Boat) 215, which managed to putter about in great big circles until it struck and exploded again the hull of a nearby moored dingy, slightly scuffing the paint. Needless to say, I suppose... TCMB 215 and her entire crew were lost.

    It was determined that while ahead of its time, the technology and materials were not ready for the open seas or the slightly choppy, or even fairly calm waters of an open sea.

    The entire Hamster Defense Fleet was reassigned to guarding various ponds and small lakes across Britain, in the event Hitler had some crazy plans to invade England via ponds and lakes.

    The NHS continued to defend ponds for the duration of the war, torpedoing an occasional shifty looking duck or goose. Despite their courageous actions defending the empire against questionable waterfowl, they suffered great losses... Mostly due to accidents related to the fact that hamsters are extremely nearsighted and not very bright. Of the six hundred Tiny Coastal Motor Boats launched, by the end of the war only three survived... And of those three, one was snatched up by a passing terrier who ran off with it while the crew was disembarking.

    By that point the NHS was deemed a bit unnecessary and rather damned silly and was stricken from the official history of the Royal Navy.


    Sir Neville Gambolputty continued to pursue hamster and small rodent based military projects in secret up until 1972 when he was shot in the face by a chinchilla with a grenade launcher. It was a small wound but it soon became infected and he lost his left eye, which fell out during a budget meeting. He was forced to retire from his Rodent Research position and given an honorary knighthood for his contributions to waterfowl population management during the war.

    Sir Sir Neville Gambolputty continued to work in private to fulfill his dream of sending a British hamster to the moon, right up until his death in 1979 when his first moon rocket launch crashed into the restored ceiling of the main dining hall at Gambolputty manor, bringing the poorly repaired roof down on him and his tiny astrohamsternauts.

    I suppose this isn't a widely know history and may well have been some sort of alternate timeline I experienced or perhaps invented after having drank too much... But whatever the actual facts, I always confuse the two abbreviations.

    Post edited by McGyver on
  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 12,084
    McGyver said:
    TangoAlpha said:
    DanaTA said:
    TangoAlpha said:
    DanaTA said:
    TangoAlpha said:
    Miss Bad Wolf said:
    kyoto kid said:

    .

    National Health Service. One of the better things about being British wink

     

    I always confuse that with the "Nautical Hamster Service"... Which few people know was a secret naval program during World War Two...

    From what I understand the Royal Navy trained hundreds of hamsters to man (or "hamster") tiny little torpedo boats to protect the coastal waters from German subs.

    It was the brainchild of Sir Neville Gambolputty, grandnephew of Johann Gambolputty, the famous explorer who is most famous for disappearing and not being memorable... Sir (his first name... he wasn't knighted or anything), was a bit eccentric and had a penchant for dressing up hamsters as historical figures and training them to wrestle in tiny arenas which were replicas of obscure Ancient Greek amphitheaters.

    He was particularly fond of having them wrestle each other in hypothetical scenarios like "What if Abraham Lincoln and Jane Austin got into a scuffle over an alfalfa pellet"... Most of the scenarios involved alfalfa pellets.

    One day in early 1940, while dressing up one of his hamsters as Admiral Sir Henry D'Esterre Darby, he was struck by how stunningly magnificent and noble the hamster looked... It is quite possibly this epiphany was the result of him being struck moments before by a large chunk of rotted wood that had fallen on his head from the ceiling of his dilapidated family manor (both his family and his family manor were quite dilapidated).

    Still reeling from his head injuries, he envisioned a fleet of tiny naval vessels manned by hamsters. These tiny warships would be too small for the Germans to torpedo and the hamsters' ability to inflate their cheeks with air would exclude the need for life rafts and floatation vests which would be a huge savings in materials and labour.

    He immediately set about carving several tiny aircraft carriers out of some large wooden beams he found in the main dining hall.

    This proved to be a mistake as he soon learned hamsters were terrible pilots and would immediately crash their tiny replica Fairey Swordfish torpedo bombers after getting airborne... This was compounded by the fact that the wood he used to carve the ship, was actually holding up much of the ceiling of the main dining hall, which promptly fell on him, further concussing him and crushing the vessel.

    After much thought he settled on torpedo boats because he didn't like ordering lumber and there was only enough lumber left from the collapsed dining hall ceiling to build a small fleet of patrol boats.

    His determination and multiple brain concussions soon paid off... After two months of diligent uniform sewing and ship building he had a tiny fleet of brave hamster sailors.

    He immediately brought his idea to the attention of the Admiralty Naval Staff who were apparently either quite drunk at the time or misinformed as to the size and capabilities of hamsters. The program was given the order to proceed as quickly as possible and on the cool morning of 21 April 1940 the first six vessels were launched from a low dock at the Scapa Flow naval base.

    Sir Neville Gambolputty watched proudly as his fleet of tiny hamster warriors sailed off to defend the British isles from the German navy. 
    His pride was short lived as the entire fleet of ten ships sank just feet from the dock in the slightly choppy water. Even more tragic was the fact that Sir had not actually ever tested to see how well hamsters float, nor was he aware that every one of his crew had their cheek pouches stuffed with nuts and alfalfa pellets which they refused to give up or spit out. Their cheeks filled to capacity, they were weighed down and all of them sank to the bottom, resulting in the loss of every member of the fleet.

    Saddened by the loss, but still determined to prove his hamsters could change the course of the war, Gambolputty pushed forward and experimented with bolder and far more innovative designs for the vessels.

    All of which pretty much met with the same results, except for TCMB (Tiny Coastal Motor Boat) 215, which managed to putter about in great big circles until it struck and exploded again the hull of a nearby moored dingy, slightly scuffing the paint. Needless to say, I suppose... TCMB 215 and her entire crew were lost.

    It was determined that while ahead of its time, the technology and materials were not ready for the open seas or the slightly choppy, or even fairly calm waters of an open sea.

    The entire Hamster Defense Fleet was reassigned to guarding various ponds and small lakes across Britain, in the event Hitler had some crazy plans to invade England via ponds and lakes.

    The NHS continued to defend ponds for the duration of the war, torpedoing an occasional shifty looking duck or goose. Despite their courageous actions defending the empire against questionable waterfowl, they suffered great losses... Mostly due to accidents related to the fact that hamsters are extremely nearsighted and not very bright. Of the six hundred Tiny Coastal Motor Boats launched, by the end of the war only three survived... And of those three, one was snatched up by a passing terrier who ran off with it while the crew was disembarking.

    By that point the NHS was deemed a bit unnecessary and rather damned silly and was stricken from the official history of the Royal Navy.


    Sir Neville Gambolputty continued to pursue hamster and small rodent based military projects in secret up until 1972 when he was shot in the face by a chinchilla with a grenade launcher. It was a small wound but it soon became infected and he lost his left eye, which fell out during a budget meeting. He was forced to retire from his Rodent Research position and given an honorary knighthood for his contributions to waterfowl population management during the war.

    Sir Sir Neville Gambolputty continued to work in private to fulfill his dream of sending a British hamster to the moon, right up until his death in 1979 when his first moon rocket launch crashed into the restored ceiling of the main dining hall at Gambolputty manor, bringing the poorly repaired roof down on him and his tiny astrohamsternauts.

    I suppose this isn't a widely know history and may well have been some sort of alternate timeline I experienced or perhaps invented after having drank too much... But whatever the actual facts, I always confuse the two abbreviations.

    Are you an escapee from Mad Magazine or the Monty Python group?

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 12,084
    Amalthea said:
    DanaTA said:
    LeatherGryphon said:

    Complaint:  My over-the-counter supplements cost more than my prescribed drugs. frown  I take a multivitamin daily and I take Glucosamine/Condroitin for cartilage repair for my knees.  I always wait for the drugstore to issue a coupon or have a sale (often 2 for 1) on those items but still I freak out when I go to buy them because I buy in the big bottles to get the most bang for the buck.  But those things aren't covered under insurance.  I started out today happy that I was within sight of getting my budget under control next month.  Now after the drugstore visit the light at the end of the tunnel suddenly got a lot dimmer. sad

    Non-complaint:  All my prescription drugs are covered significantly by my Medicare drug plan, (so far).   indecision  If I had to pay for them without help I'd be dead 5 years ago. surprise

    I used to take Move Free (brand name glucosamine/condroitin).  I stopped.  It didn't repair anything!  I had a torn cartilage.  Now I have no cartilage!!!  angry  I paid a lot of money for those damned pills!  I was told that I'd eventually need a knee replacement.  Good luck with that, couldn't afford it.

    Dana

    The supplemein act back in the 70s gave the supplement industry free of the FDA oversight that the drug industry has.The result is a huge mess. Many don't have the ingredients they claim, others hav them but not in the stated amounts, others have contaminants. It's possible that you were one one of the ones that falls into one of those catagories. Also many glucosamine/condroitin supplements have enough glucosamine (1500 mg) but not enough chondroitin to fully utilize it (1200 mg) and thus only help people with minor issues. Now it doesn't matter as it is just a repair treatment instead of a replacement one and you don't have anything to repair. i wish that the scientists would start doing clinical trials on people in their 40s and 50s with mild problems in their fingers instead of concentrating on elderly with very bad knees because the former group would show that under the right conditions this stuff does work even though the latter group doesn't gain any benifit. This lack of trials showing efficasy is wht insurance doesn't pay for it.

    Name brand doesn't mean anything with this stuff. The drug store I get mine at was out of the brand that was helping me so I got another brand which was a name brand and my left knee got worse. It took a month of being back on the first brand before my knee was back to where it was when I had to switch. As a result I keep extra on hand.

    G&C still works for me.  However, I know that if I stop taking it then, about 2 or 3 weeks later knee pains come back.  So after starting to take it again it takes about a month or 6 weeks and the pain sessions lower in intensity and frequency (i.e. non-crippling and non-constant).  Believe me I'd like to stop having to take those horse pills twice a day and have tried it but hey, don't question what works.  I'd chew sea urchins if it would help. surprise

  • TJohnTJohn Posts: 11,339
    DanaTA said:
    LeatherGryphon said:

    Complaint:  My over-the-counter supplements cost more than my prescribed drugs. frown  I take a multivitamin daily and I take Glucosamine/Condroitin for cartilage repair for my knees.  I always wait for the drugstore to issue a coupon or have a sale (often 2 for 1) on those items but still I freak out when I go to buy them because I buy in the big bottles to get the most bang for the buck.  But those things aren't covered under insurance.  I started out today happy that I was within sight of getting my budget under control next month.  Now after the drugstore visit the light at the end of the tunnel suddenly got a lot dimmer. sad

    Non-complaint:  All my prescription drugs are covered significantly by my Medicare drug plan, (so far).   indecision  If I had to pay for them without help I'd be dead 5 years ago. surprise

    I used to take Move Free (brand name glucosamine/condroitin).  I stopped.  It didn't repair anything!  I had a torn cartilage.  Now I have no cartilage!!!  angry  I paid a lot of money for those damned pills!  I was told that I'd eventually need a knee replacement.  Good luck with that, couldn't afford it.

    Dana

    "Move Free"? Are you sure you weren't taking a laxative by mistake?

  • TJohnTJohn Posts: 11,339
    McGyver said:
    TangoAlpha said:
    DanaTA said:
    TangoAlpha said:
    DanaTA said:
    TangoAlpha said:
    Miss Bad Wolf said:
    kyoto kid said:

    .

    National Health Service. One of the better things about being British wink

     

    I always confuse that with the "Nautical Hamster Service"... Which few people know was a secret naval program during World War Two...

    From what I understand the Royal Navy trained hundreds of hamsters to man (or "hamster") tiny little torpedo boats to protect the coastal waters from German subs.

    It was the brainchild of Sir Neville Gambolputty, grandnephew of Johann Gambolputty, the famous explorer who is most famous for disappearing and not being memorable... Sir (his first name... he wasn't knighted or anything), was a bit eccentric and had a penchant for dressing up hamsters as historical figures and training them to wrestle in tiny arenas which were replicas of obscure Ancient Greek amphitheaters.

    He was particularly fond of having them wrestle each other in hypothetical scenarios like "What if Abraham Lincoln and Jane Austin got into a scuffle over an alfalfa pellet"... Most of the scenarios involved alfalfa pellets.

    One day in early 1940, while dressing up one of his hamsters as Admiral Sir Henry D'Esterre Darby, he was struck by how stunningly magnificent and noble the hamster looked... It is quite possibly this epiphany was the result of him being struck moments before by a large chunk of rotted wood that had fallen on his head from the ceiling of his dilapidated family manor (both his family and his family manor were quite dilapidated).

    Still reeling from his head injuries, he envisioned a fleet of tiny naval vessels manned by hamsters. These tiny warships would be too small for the Germans to torpedo and the hamsters' ability to inflate their cheeks with air would exclude the need for life rafts and floatation vests which would be a huge savings in materials and labour.

    He immediately set about carving several tiny aircraft carriers out of some large wooden beams he found in the main dining hall.

    This proved to be a mistake as he soon learned hamsters were terrible pilots and would immediately crash their tiny replica Fairey Swordfish torpedo bombers after getting airborne... This was compounded by the fact that the wood he used to carve the ship, was actually holding up much of the ceiling of the main dining hall, which promptly fell on him, further concussing him and crushing the vessel.

    After much thought he settled on torpedo boats because he didn't like ordering lumber and there was only enough lumber left from the collapsed dining hall ceiling to build a small fleet of patrol boats.

    His determination and multiple brain concussions soon paid off... After two months of diligent uniform sewing and ship building he had a tiny fleet of brave hamster sailors.

    He immediately brought his idea to the attention of the Admiralty Naval Staff who were apparently either quite drunk at the time or misinformed as to the size and capabilities of hamsters. The program was given the order to proceed as quickly as possible and on the cool morning of 21 April 1940 the first six vessels were launched from a low dock at the Scapa Flow naval base.

    Sir Neville Gambolputty watched proudly as his fleet of tiny hamster warriors sailed off to defend the British isles from the German navy. 
    His pride was short lived as the entire fleet of ten ships sank just feet from the dock in the slightly choppy water. Even more tragic was the fact that Sir had not actually ever tested to see how well hamsters float, nor was he aware that every one of his crew had their cheek pouches stuffed with nuts and alfalfa pellets which they refused to give up or spit out. Their cheeks filled to capacity, they were weighed down and all of them sank to the bottom, resulting in the loss of every member of the fleet.

    Saddened by the loss, but still determined to prove his hamsters could change the course of the war, Gambolputty pushed forward and experimented with bolder and far more innovative designs for the vessels.

    All of which pretty much met with the same results, except for TCMB (Tiny Coastal Motor Boat) 215, which managed to putter about in great big circles until it struck and exploded again the hull of a nearby moored dingy, slightly scuffing the paint. Needless to say, I suppose... TCMB 215 and her entire crew were lost.

    It was determined that while ahead of its time, the technology and materials were not ready for the open seas or the slightly choppy, or even fairly calm waters of an open sea.

    The entire Hamster Defense Fleet was reassigned to guarding various ponds and small lakes across Britain, in the event Hitler had some crazy plans to invade England via ponds and lakes.

    The NHS continued to defend ponds for the duration of the war, torpedoing an occasional shifty looking duck or goose. Despite their courageous actions defending the empire against questionable waterfowl, they suffered great losses... Mostly due to accidents related to the fact that hamsters are extremely nearsighted and not very bright. Of the six hundred Tiny Coastal Motor Boats launched, by the end of the war only three survived... And of those three, one was snatched up by a passing terrier who ran off with it while the crew was disembarking.

    By that point the NHS was deemed a bit unnecessary and rather damned silly and was stricken from the official history of the Royal Navy.


    Sir Neville Gambolputty continued to pursue hamster and small rodent based military projects in secret up until 1972 when he was shot in the face by a chinchilla with a grenade launcher. It was a small wound but it soon became infected and he lost his left eye, which fell out during a budget meeting. He was forced to retire from his Rodent Research position and given an honorary knighthood for his contributions to waterfowl population management during the war.

    Sir Sir Neville Gambolputty continued to work in private to fulfill his dream of sending a British hamster to the moon, right up until his death in 1979 when his first moon rocket launch crashed into the restored ceiling of the main dining hall at Gambolputty manor, bringing the poorly repaired roof down on him and his tiny astrohamsternauts.

    I suppose this isn't a widely know history and may well have been some sort of alternate timeline I experienced or perhaps invented after having drank too much... But whatever the actual facts, I always confuse the two abbreviations.

    The military use of hamsters reminded me of this wiki page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bat_bomb

  • DanaTADanaTA Posts: 13,333
    Tjohn said:
    DanaTA said:
    LeatherGryphon said:

    Complaint:  My over-the-counter supplements cost more than my prescribed drugs. frown  I take a multivitamin daily and I take Glucosamine/Condroitin for cartilage repair for my knees.  I always wait for the drugstore to issue a coupon or have a sale (often 2 for 1) on those items but still I freak out when I go to buy them because I buy in the big bottles to get the most bang for the buck.  But those things aren't covered under insurance.  I started out today happy that I was within sight of getting my budget under control next month.  Now after the drugstore visit the light at the end of the tunnel suddenly got a lot dimmer. sad

    Non-complaint:  All my prescription drugs are covered significantly by my Medicare drug plan, (so far).   indecision  If I had to pay for them without help I'd be dead 5 years ago. surprise

    I used to take Move Free (brand name glucosamine/condroitin).  I stopped.  It didn't repair anything!  I had a torn cartilage.  Now I have no cartilage!!!  angry  I paid a lot of money for those damned pills!  I was told that I'd eventually need a knee replacement.  Good luck with that, couldn't afford it.

    Dana

    "Move Free"? Are you sure you weren't taking a laxative by mistake?

    Funny, but yes I'm sure.  It didn't do a good job of that, either, if it were.  laugh

    I think they changed the name to Pain Free...or maybe it was the other way around.  Neither was true, anyway.

    Dana

  • DanaTADanaTA Posts: 13,333

    Shall we deploy the Bat Bomb, Batman?  laugh 

    Holy Rodent Infestations, Batman!

    Dana

  • starionwolfstarionwolf Posts: 3,670

    I did a search for budget NVidia video cards.  The first result that I saw is: GeForce GTX 1060 6GB GDRR5 for $249.  Um, no thanks.  The search algorithm is not working as I expected.

  • TSasha SmithTSasha Smith Posts: 27,247
    DanaTA said:

    Shall we deploy the Bat Bomb, Batman?  laugh 

    Holy Rodent Infestations, Batman!

    Dana

    Where?  I want a good rodent for my studio.

  • TSasha SmithTSasha Smith Posts: 27,247

    The egg in my signature is all grown up.

  • TJohnTJohn Posts: 11,339
    DanaTA said:

    Shall we deploy the Bat Bomb, Batman?  laugh 

    Holy Rodent Infestations, Batman!

    Dana

    laughlaughlaugh

  • McGyverMcGyver Posts: 7,085

    The military use of hamsters reminded me of this wiki page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bat_bomb

    Yeah... It's unfortunate the hamsters never got their own Wikipedia page... All the bats really ever did was burn down the military base they were working at... The hamsters on the other hand managed to torpedo several potential Nazi spy geese and ducks... And at least one even seemed to have been torpedoed on purpose.

     

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 12,084
    edited October 2018

    I believe there was also an experiment to use pigeons to guide aerial bombs dropped from planes.  They were trained to peck at the image of a ship on a telescope projection inside the nose of the bomb, and where they pecked would activate controls to guide the bomb as it fell toward that spot.  Sky rat kamikazis. surprise

    Post edited by LeatherGryphon on
  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,847
    LeatherGryphon said:
    McGyver said:
    TangoAlpha said:
    DanaTA said:
    TangoAlpha said:
    DanaTA said:
    TangoAlpha said:
    Miss Bad Wolf said:
    kyoto kid said:

    .

    National Health Service. One of the better things about being British wink

     

    I always confuse that with the "Nautical Hamster Service"... Which few people know was a secret naval program during World War Two...

    From what I understand the Royal Navy trained hundreds of hamsters to man (or "hamster") tiny little torpedo boats to protect the coastal waters from German subs.

    It was the brainchild of Sir Neville Gambolputty, grandnephew of Johann Gambolputty, the famous explorer who is most famous for disappearing and not being memorable... Sir (his first name... he wasn't knighted or anything), was a bit eccentric and had a penchant for dressing up hamsters as historical figures and training them to wrestle in tiny arenas which were replicas of obscure Ancient Greek amphitheaters.

    He was particularly fond of having them wrestle each other in hypothetical scenarios like "What if Abraham Lincoln and Jane Austin got into a scuffle over an alfalfa pellet"... Most of the scenarios involved alfalfa pellets.

    One day in early 1940, while dressing up one of his hamsters as Admiral Sir Henry D'Esterre Darby, he was struck by how stunningly magnificent and noble the hamster looked... It is quite possibly this epiphany was the result of him being struck moments before by a large chunk of rotted wood that had fallen on his head from the ceiling of his dilapidated family manor (both his family and his family manor were quite dilapidated).

    Still reeling from his head injuries, he envisioned a fleet of tiny naval vessels manned by hamsters. These tiny warships would be too small for the Germans to torpedo and the hamsters' ability to inflate their cheeks with air would exclude the need for life rafts and floatation vests which would be a huge savings in materials and labour.

    He immediately set about carving several tiny aircraft carriers out of some large wooden beams he found in the main dining hall.

    This proved to be a mistake as he soon learned hamsters were terrible pilots and would immediately crash their tiny replica Fairey Swordfish torpedo bombers after getting airborne... This was compounded by the fact that the wood he used to carve the ship, was actually holding up much of the ceiling of the main dining hall, which promptly fell on him, further concussing him and crushing the vessel.

    After much thought he settled on torpedo boats because he didn't like ordering lumber and there was only enough lumber left from the collapsed dining hall ceiling to build a small fleet of patrol boats.

    His determination and multiple brain concussions soon paid off... After two months of diligent uniform sewing and ship building he had a tiny fleet of brave hamster sailors.

    He immediately brought his idea to the attention of the Admiralty Naval Staff who were apparently either quite drunk at the time or misinformed as to the size and capabilities of hamsters. The program was given the order to proceed as quickly as possible and on the cool morning of 21 April 1940 the first six vessels were launched from a low dock at the Scapa Flow naval base.

    Sir Neville Gambolputty watched proudly as his fleet of tiny hamster warriors sailed off to defend the British isles from the German navy. 
    His pride was short lived as the entire fleet of ten ships sank just feet from the dock in the slightly choppy water. Even more tragic was the fact that Sir had not actually ever tested to see how well hamsters float, nor was he aware that every one of his crew had their cheek pouches stuffed with nuts and alfalfa pellets which they refused to give up or spit out. Their cheeks filled to capacity, they were weighed down and all of them sank to the bottom, resulting in the loss of every member of the fleet.

    Saddened by the loss, but still determined to prove his hamsters could change the course of the war, Gambolputty pushed forward and experimented with bolder and far more innovative designs for the vessels.

    All of which pretty much met with the same results, except for TCMB (Tiny Coastal Motor Boat) 215, which managed to putter about in great big circles until it struck and exploded again the hull of a nearby moored dingy, slightly scuffing the paint. Needless to say, I suppose... TCMB 215 and her entire crew were lost.

    It was determined that while ahead of its time, the technology and materials were not ready for the open seas or the slightly choppy, or even fairly calm waters of an open sea.

    The entire Hamster Defense Fleet was reassigned to guarding various ponds and small lakes across Britain, in the event Hitler had some crazy plans to invade England via ponds and lakes.

    The NHS continued to defend ponds for the duration of the war, torpedoing an occasional shifty looking duck or goose. Despite their courageous actions defending the empire against questionable waterfowl, they suffered great losses... Mostly due to accidents related to the fact that hamsters are extremely nearsighted and not very bright. Of the six hundred Tiny Coastal Motor Boats launched, by the end of the war only three survived... And of those three, one was snatched up by a passing terrier who ran off with it while the crew was disembarking.

    By that point the NHS was deemed a bit unnecessary and rather damned silly and was stricken from the official history of the Royal Navy.


    Sir Neville Gambolputty continued to pursue hamster and small rodent based military projects in secret up until 1972 when he was shot in the face by a chinchilla with a grenade launcher. It was a small wound but it soon became infected and he lost his left eye, which fell out during a budget meeting. He was forced to retire from his Rodent Research position and given an honorary knighthood for his contributions to waterfowl population management during the war.

    Sir Sir Neville Gambolputty continued to work in private to fulfill his dream of sending a British hamster to the moon, right up until his death in 1979 when his first moon rocket launch crashed into the restored ceiling of the main dining hall at Gambolputty manor, bringing the poorly repaired roof down on him and his tiny astrohamsternauts.

    I suppose this isn't a widely know history and may well have been some sort of alternate timeline I experienced or perhaps invented after having drank too much... But whatever the actual facts, I always confuse the two abbreviations.

    Are you an escapee from Mad Magazine or the Monty Python group?

    ...I've been wondering  the same myself.as these writings are hilariously brilliant.

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 12,084
    kyoto kid said:
    LeatherGryphon said:
    McGyver said:
    TangoAlpha said:
    DanaTA said:
    TangoAlpha said:
    DanaTA said:
    TangoAlpha said:
    Miss Bad Wolf said:
    kyoto kid said:

    .

    National Health Service. One of the better things about being British wink

     

    I always confuse that with the "Nautical Hamster Service"... Which few people know was a secret naval program during World War Two...

    From what I understand the Royal Navy trained hundreds of hamsters to man (or "hamster") tiny little torpedo boats to protect the coastal waters from German subs.

    It was the brainchild of Sir Neville Gambolputty, grandnephew of Johann Gambolputty, the famous explorer who is most famous for disappearing and not being memorable... Sir (his first name... he wasn't knighted or anything), was a bit eccentric and had a penchant for dressing up hamsters as historical figures and training them to wrestle in tiny arenas which were replicas of obscure Ancient Greek amphitheaters.

    He was particularly fond of having them wrestle each other in hypothetical scenarios like "What if Abraham Lincoln and Jane Austin got into a scuffle over an alfalfa pellet"... Most of the scenarios involved alfalfa pellets.

    One day in early 1940, while dressing up one of his hamsters as Admiral Sir Henry D'Esterre Darby, he was struck by how stunningly magnificent and noble the hamster looked... It is quite possibly this epiphany was the result of him being struck moments before by a large chunk of rotted wood that had fallen on his head from the ceiling of his dilapidated family manor (both his family and his family manor were quite dilapidated).

    Still reeling from his head injuries, he envisioned a fleet of tiny naval vessels manned by hamsters. These tiny warships would be too small for the Germans to torpedo and the hamsters' ability to inflate their cheeks with air would exclude the need for life rafts and floatation vests which would be a huge savings in materials and labour.

    He immediately set about carving several tiny aircraft carriers out of some large wooden beams he found in the main dining hall.

    This proved to be a mistake as he soon learned hamsters were terrible pilots and would immediately crash their tiny replica Fairey Swordfish torpedo bombers after getting airborne... This was compounded by the fact that the wood he used to carve the ship, was actually holding up much of the ceiling of the main dining hall, which promptly fell on him, further concussing him and crushing the vessel.

    After much thought he settled on torpedo boats because he didn't like ordering lumber and there was only enough lumber left from the collapsed dining hall ceiling to build a small fleet of patrol boats.

    His determination and multiple brain concussions soon paid off... After two months of diligent uniform sewing and ship building he had a tiny fleet of brave hamster sailors.

    He immediately brought his idea to the attention of the Admiralty Naval Staff who were apparently either quite drunk at the time or misinformed as to the size and capabilities of hamsters. The program was given the order to proceed as quickly as possible and on the cool morning of 21 April 1940 the first six vessels were launched from a low dock at the Scapa Flow naval base.

    Sir Neville Gambolputty watched proudly as his fleet of tiny hamster warriors sailed off to defend the British isles from the German navy. 
    His pride was short lived as the entire fleet of ten ships sank just feet from the dock in the slightly choppy water. Even more tragic was the fact that Sir had not actually ever tested to see how well hamsters float, nor was he aware that every one of his crew had their cheek pouches stuffed with nuts and alfalfa pellets which they refused to give up or spit out. Their cheeks filled to capacity, they were weighed down and all of them sank to the bottom, resulting in the loss of every member of the fleet.

    Saddened by the loss, but still determined to prove his hamsters could change the course of the war, Gambolputty pushed forward and experimented with bolder and far more innovative designs for the vessels.

    All of which pretty much met with the same results, except for TCMB (Tiny Coastal Motor Boat) 215, which managed to putter about in great big circles until it struck and exploded again the hull of a nearby moored dingy, slightly scuffing the paint. Needless to say, I suppose... TCMB 215 and her entire crew were lost.

    It was determined that while ahead of its time, the technology and materials were not ready for the open seas or the slightly choppy, or even fairly calm waters of an open sea.

    The entire Hamster Defense Fleet was reassigned to guarding various ponds and small lakes across Britain, in the event Hitler had some crazy plans to invade England via ponds and lakes.

    The NHS continued to defend ponds for the duration of the war, torpedoing an occasional shifty looking duck or goose. Despite their courageous actions defending the empire against questionable waterfowl, they suffered great losses... Mostly due to accidents related to the fact that hamsters are extremely nearsighted and not very bright. Of the six hundred Tiny Coastal Motor Boats launched, by the end of the war only three survived... And of those three, one was snatched up by a passing terrier who ran off with it while the crew was disembarking.

    By that point the NHS was deemed a bit unnecessary and rather damned silly and was stricken from the official history of the Royal Navy.


    Sir Neville Gambolputty continued to pursue hamster and small rodent based military projects in secret up until 1972 when he was shot in the face by a chinchilla with a grenade launcher. It was a small wound but it soon became infected and he lost his left eye, which fell out during a budget meeting. He was forced to retire from his Rodent Research position and given an honorary knighthood for his contributions to waterfowl population management during the war.

    Sir Sir Neville Gambolputty continued to work in private to fulfill his dream of sending a British hamster to the moon, right up until his death in 1979 when his first moon rocket launch crashed into the restored ceiling of the main dining hall at Gambolputty manor, bringing the poorly repaired roof down on him and his tiny astrohamsternauts.

    I suppose this isn't a widely know history and may well have been some sort of alternate timeline I experienced or perhaps invented after having drank too much... But whatever the actual facts, I always confuse the two abbreviations.

    Are you an escapee from Mad Magazine or the Monty Python group?

    ...I've been wondering  the same myself.as these writings are hilariously brilliant.

    I am curious however, is Sir Neville Gambolputty any relation to the composer Johann Gambolputty de von Ausfern- schplenden- schlitter- crasscrenbon- fried- digger- dingle- dangle- dongle- dungle- burstein- von- knacker- thrasher- apple- banger- horowitz- ticolensic- grander- knotty- spelltinkle- grandlich- grumblemeyer- spelterwasser- kurstlich- himbleeisen- bahnwagen- gutenabend- bitte- ein- nürnburger- bratwustle- gerspurten- mitz- weimache- luber- hundsfut- gumberaber- shönedanker- kalbsfleisch- mittler- aucher von Hautkopft of Ulm?

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    i'home!!!

    was in hospital again, 5 days.

    was putputting my rolerator last caturday.  stopped to rest on it halfway home.  polceman found me passed out. called a rescur truck. then they called ambulance.

    they prescribed me on a second insulin pen, humalog. and a 3rd bp pill.  i havent been working the hours i need to pay for any of it,

    and learned even when approved for disability 3-5 months lter,  income starts 6 months later.  medicare starts 2 years later.  i's be without insurance for about 3 years.
    cried myself to sleep a few times while in hospital.  they brought in psychiatrist consult.  wanted to give anti-depressants.

    .

    anyway ... who bakin cookies?  is officially October

    squirrels wanna know why hamsters get all the love

  • carrie58carrie58 Posts: 4,081
    Mistara said:

    i'home!!!

    was in hospital again, 5 days.

    was putputting my rolerator last caturday.  stopped to rest on it halfway home.  polceman found me passed out. called a rescur truck. then they called ambulance.

    they prescribed me on a second insulin pen, humalog. and a 3rd bp pill.  i havent been working the hours i need to pay for any of it,

    and learned even when approved for disability 3-5 months lter,  income starts 6 months later.  medicare starts 2 years later.  i's be without insurance for about 3 years.
    cried myself to sleep a few times while in hospital.  they brought in psychiatrist consult.  wanted to give anti-depressants.

    .

    anyway ... who bakin cookies?  is officially October

    squirrels wanna know why hamsters get all the love

    Didn't bake any cookies but made some dried Sweet potato chips with pumpkin pie seasoning on them ,turned out pretty good  take care of you woman

     

     

  • DanaTADanaTA Posts: 13,333
    kyoto kid said:
    LeatherGryphon said:
    McGyver said:
    TangoAlpha said:
    DanaTA said:
    TangoAlpha said:
    DanaTA said:
    TangoAlpha said:
    Miss Bad Wolf said:
    kyoto kid said:

    .

    National Health Service. One of the better things about being British wink

     

    I always confuse that with the "Nautical Hamster Service"... Which few people know was a secret naval program during World War Two...

    From what I understand the Royal Navy trained hundreds of hamsters to man (or "hamster") tiny little torpedo boats to protect the coastal waters from German subs.

    It was the brainchild of Sir Neville Gambolputty, grandnephew of Johann Gambolputty, the famous explorer who is most famous for disappearing and not being memorable... Sir (his first name... he wasn't knighted or anything), was a bit eccentric and had a penchant for dressing up hamsters as historical figures and training them to wrestle in tiny arenas which were replicas of obscure Ancient Greek amphitheaters.

    He was particularly fond of having them wrestle each other in hypothetical scenarios like "What if Abraham Lincoln and Jane Austin got into a scuffle over an alfalfa pellet"... Most of the scenarios involved alfalfa pellets.

    One day in early 1940, while dressing up one of his hamsters as Admiral Sir Henry D'Esterre Darby, he was struck by how stunningly magnificent and noble the hamster looked... It is quite possibly this epiphany was the result of him being struck moments before by a large chunk of rotted wood that had fallen on his head from the ceiling of his dilapidated family manor (both his family and his family manor were quite dilapidated).

    Still reeling from his head injuries, he envisioned a fleet of tiny naval vessels manned by hamsters. These tiny warships would be too small for the Germans to torpedo and the hamsters' ability to inflate their cheeks with air would exclude the need for life rafts and floatation vests which would be a huge savings in materials and labour.

    He immediately set about carving several tiny aircraft carriers out of some large wooden beams he found in the main dining hall.

    This proved to be a mistake as he soon learned hamsters were terrible pilots and would immediately crash their tiny replica Fairey Swordfish torpedo bombers after getting airborne... This was compounded by the fact that the wood he used to carve the ship, was actually holding up much of the ceiling of the main dining hall, which promptly fell on him, further concussing him and crushing the vessel.

    After much thought he settled on torpedo boats because he didn't like ordering lumber and there was only enough lumber left from the collapsed dining hall ceiling to build a small fleet of patrol boats.

    His determination and multiple brain concussions soon paid off... After two months of diligent uniform sewing and ship building he had a tiny fleet of brave hamster sailors.

    He immediately brought his idea to the attention of the Admiralty Naval Staff who were apparently either quite drunk at the time or misinformed as to the size and capabilities of hamsters. The program was given the order to proceed as quickly as possible and on the cool morning of 21 April 1940 the first six vessels were launched from a low dock at the Scapa Flow naval base.

    Sir Neville Gambolputty watched proudly as his fleet of tiny hamster warriors sailed off to defend the British isles from the German navy. 
    His pride was short lived as the entire fleet of ten ships sank just feet from the dock in the slightly choppy water. Even more tragic was the fact that Sir had not actually ever tested to see how well hamsters float, nor was he aware that every one of his crew had their cheek pouches stuffed with nuts and alfalfa pellets which they refused to give up or spit out. Their cheeks filled to capacity, they were weighed down and all of them sank to the bottom, resulting in the loss of every member of the fleet.

    Saddened by the loss, but still determined to prove his hamsters could change the course of the war, Gambolputty pushed forward and experimented with bolder and far more innovative designs for the vessels.

    All of which pretty much met with the same results, except for TCMB (Tiny Coastal Motor Boat) 215, which managed to putter about in great big circles until it struck and exploded again the hull of a nearby moored dingy, slightly scuffing the paint. Needless to say, I suppose... TCMB 215 and her entire crew were lost.

    It was determined that while ahead of its time, the technology and materials were not ready for the open seas or the slightly choppy, or even fairly calm waters of an open sea.

    The entire Hamster Defense Fleet was reassigned to guarding various ponds and small lakes across Britain, in the event Hitler had some crazy plans to invade England via ponds and lakes.

    The NHS continued to defend ponds for the duration of the war, torpedoing an occasional shifty looking duck or goose. Despite their courageous actions defending the empire against questionable waterfowl, they suffered great losses... Mostly due to accidents related to the fact that hamsters are extremely nearsighted and not very bright. Of the six hundred Tiny Coastal Motor Boats launched, by the end of the war only three survived... And of those three, one was snatched up by a passing terrier who ran off with it while the crew was disembarking.

    By that point the NHS was deemed a bit unnecessary and rather damned silly and was stricken from the official history of the Royal Navy.


    Sir Neville Gambolputty continued to pursue hamster and small rodent based military projects in secret up until 1972 when he was shot in the face by a chinchilla with a grenade launcher. It was a small wound but it soon became infected and he lost his left eye, which fell out during a budget meeting. He was forced to retire from his Rodent Research position and given an honorary knighthood for his contributions to waterfowl population management during the war.

    Sir Sir Neville Gambolputty continued to work in private to fulfill his dream of sending a British hamster to the moon, right up until his death in 1979 when his first moon rocket launch crashed into the restored ceiling of the main dining hall at Gambolputty manor, bringing the poorly repaired roof down on him and his tiny astrohamsternauts.

    I suppose this isn't a widely know history and may well have been some sort of alternate timeline I experienced or perhaps invented after having drank too much... But whatever the actual facts, I always confuse the two abbreviations.

    Are you an escapee from Mad Magazine or the Monty Python group?

    ...I've been wondering  the same myself.as these writings are hilariously brilliant.

    Agreed!   yes

    Dana

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,847
    Mistara said:

    i'home!!!

    was in hospital again, 5 days.

    was putputting my rolerator last caturday.  stopped to rest on it halfway home.  polceman found me passed out. called a rescur truck. then they called ambulance.

    they prescribed me on a second insulin pen, humalog. and a 3rd bp pill.  i havent been working the hours i need to pay for any of it,

    and learned even when approved for disability 3-5 months lter,  income starts 6 months later.  medicare starts 2 years later.  i's be without insurance for about 3 years.
    cried myself to sleep a few times while in hospital.  they brought in psychiatrist consult.  wanted to give anti-depressants.

    .

    anyway ... who bakin cookies?  is officially October

    squirrels wanna know why hamsters get all the love

    ...good they came by and you are OK.

    Yeah, you don't get benefits for the first five months.  What I would do is inquire about SSI (Social Security Supplemental Income). Even though you were working it sounds like you lost a lot of time and wages. They had me do that and it covered that 5 month gap.

    I wish psychiatrists would understand that anxiety due to financial difficulties is not something that can be mitigated with "uppers" as they don't get to the root of the issue (and end up costing you more out of pocket)

    I'm actually dreading having to go on Medicare as that means having to shell out and extra 136$ a month from my meagre benefit cheque on top of all the other expenses (including rent which is about 50% of my monthly income).  I'm already barely scraping by month to month as it is.

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    needed a nice

     

    tee hee

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