What is hacking you off today?

[jassyfa1]

The Internet connection in this hotel in Rhodes, shocking just shocking.

 

[Berrichonne shrimper]

The Internet connection in this hotel in Rhodes, shocking just shocking.

Christ on a bike you go a long way to chase down a runner.

 

[Benfleet A1]

What? .........

Shut up you.

 

[londonblue]

Tendinitis in my shin. I had last week off work, and had a huge amount of fun cleaning the patio front and back with my Karcher. The problem was that I then spent the afternoon playing tennis, and felt a pain in my shin. I've even struggled to walk, and have had a huge amount of pain since then. I've also had to forgo the gym and tennis.

The real frustration is that I had got to the fittest I've been for about 5 years a couple of weeks ago, and it's now all going south.

However, see the What is Making You Happy Today thread.

 

[MK Shrimper]

Went for a lunchtime run, ferk me that was hard work. About 7K, but that last K was tough!

 

[Massimo Giovanni]

Went for a lunchtime run, ferk me that was hard work. About 7K, but that last K was tough!

You are on the wrong thread!
That is a "what has made you happy" post surely?

 

[londonblue]

Went for a lunchtime run, ferk me that was hard work. About 7K, but that last K was tough!

Why was it hard? The weather?

 

[MK Shrimper]

You are on the wrong thread!
That is a "what has made you happy" post surely?

Well sort of, but I usually do a little bit more on a sunday morning without much bother.

Why was it hard? The weather?

That's what I'm putting it down to!

 

[MK Shrimper]

So, had to pop to the post office on the way to work, leaving plenty of time to get my train. Open at 9, so get there 5 minutes before, 1 person in front of me. One till open - this woman goes to the counter and starts faffing around with forms and filling out paperwork and takes for-****ing-ever...then the entire system crashes. Too late to make my train, so have to walk home, drop off my parcels, and do the whole thing tomorrow. :angry::angry::angry::angry::angry:

 

[Ricky Otto]

Hayfever!!

 

[MK Shrimper]

The Welsh Environment Agency. :angry:

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Tendinitis in my shin. I had last week off work, and had a huge amount of fun cleaning the patio front and back with my Karcher. The problem was that I then spent the afternoon playing tennis, and felt a pain in my shin. I've even struggled to walk, and have had a huge amount of pain since then. I've also had to forgo the gym and tennis.

The real frustration is that I had got to the fittest I've been for about 5 years a couple of weeks ago, and it's now all going south.

However, see the What is Making You Happy Today thread.

Watch out for that.I had a diagnosis for tendinitis a couple of years back.Rested up for a couple of weeks then went to see a football match (Montpellier v PSG).Next day I ended up with a new diagnosis for a partially ruptured achilles tendon.Not nice.

 

[londonblue]

Watch out for that.I had a diagnosis for tendinitis a couple of years back.Rested up for a couple of weeks then went to see a football match (Montpellier v PSG).Next day I ended up with a new diagnosis for a partially ruptured achilles tendon.Not nice.

I trust my wife to get it right! Plus, it's at the front of my shin, nowhere near my achilles.

As it happens it's pretty much cleared up now. She's done a fantastic job: I've had acupuncture and laser treatment pretty much every day...

 

[Yorkshire Blue]

I trust my wife to get it right! Plus, it's at the front of my shin, nowhere near my achilles.

As it happens it's pretty much cleared up now. She's done a fantastic job: I've had acupuncture and laser treatment pretty much every day...

One for Pubey - does acupuncture have a scientific basis?

 

[londonblue]

One for Pubey - does acupuncture have a scientific basis?

According to a (very cynical) doctor friend, it does.

Read this:

NHS

Western medical acupuncture is the use of acupuncture after a proper medical diagnosis. It is based on scientific evidence that shows the treatment can stimulate nerves under the skin and in muscle tissue.

That said, I was also having laser treatment (which is basically a better version of ultra sound), so it would be difficult to say if one or other (or neither) worked in this case.

 

[MK Shrimper]

According to a (very cynical) doctor friend, it does.

Read this:

NHS

Is it not the placebo effect?

http://www.dcscience.net/2013/05/30/acupuncture-is-a-theatrical-placebo-the-end-of-a-myth/

As a consequence, a lot more research has been done on acupuncture than on any other form of alternative medicine, and some of it has been of quite high quality. The outcome of all this research is that acupuncture has no effects that are big enough to be of noticeable benefit to patients, and it is, in all probablity, just a theatrical placebo.

 

[Firestorm]

One for Pubey - does acupuncture have a scientific basis?

or do you just end up feeling a prick ?

 

[londonblue]

Is it not the placebo effect?

http://www.dcscience.net/2013/05/30/acupuncture-is-a-theatrical-placebo-the-end-of-a-myth/

As a consequence, a lot more research has been done on acupuncture than on any other form of alternative medicine, and some of it has been of quite high quality. The outcome of all this research is that acupuncture has no effects that are big enough to be of noticeable benefit to patients, and it is, in all probablity, just a theatrical placebo.

Not according to the NHS, but who really knows. It's impossible to say if it works or not because you don't know if you would have got better anyway.

 

[MK Shrimper]

Not according to the NHS, but who really knows. It's impossible to say if it works or not because you don't know if you would have got better anyway.

Didn't the NHS once subscribe to the old hokum of homeopathy once upon a time?

 

[londonblue]

Didn't the NHS once subscribe to the old hokum of homeopathy once upon a time?

I don't think it did in the same way...I don't really know. Either way my leg is better (and it wasn't a problem with my achilles). That's all I care about!

(Although according to the NHS website you can get homeopathy on the NHS even though they say there is no evidence that it works.)