NHS Fail

 

A colleague just told me of his recent travails with our illustrious health system. It is brilliant (from a pub anecdote point of view at least).

Apparently a couple of months ago he ended up with an inch-long wood splinter stuck deep in his arm while moving a wardrobe.  At the time he went in the local NHS walk-in centre, where they were unable to extract said splinter with the means at their disposal.  He was then referred to the local A&E where they anaesthetised his arm, made an incision and went at it with the tweezers. Still no joy.

So they made an appointment with the local orthopaedics department for a couple of weeks later.  Appointment comes, he is told that they just do bones and that what he needs is an appointment with Excisions (which I think means somewhere within Dermatology).
An appointment with whoever is made for another couple of weeks time

So he finds himself this morning -with a splinter which is completely healed over and now several millimetres under his skin- phoning the admin number to see about the scheduling of his morning appointment and what time he can expect to get back to work afterwards. He is told:

“Oh you won’t be able to go back to work after a vasectomy”

Yes, really. They’d booked him in for the Snip.

Envy of the world, it is.

What are the RAF for?

 
Over at The CatCounters, NickM remarked on the rather sad image of a MR2 (MRA4, even) Nimrod being scrapped before it was even deployed:

As we( me and Dave; mainly Dave) have mentioned before, the project was a farce, but when you've paid to the point where there's a product, you might as well use it. Or at least keep the option of using it.
Unlike the MoD, we do understand sunk cost as a concept, but.....
What we hadn't noticed was they'd put the Sentinel aircraft on the chop list also (for after we pull out of Afghanistan).
These are the ground scanning radar that gives ground commanders a God's eye view (through cloud, the dark etc.). I appreciate that the drones we have are much cheaper that these planes, but these things can do it from a 100 miles away, so they can be used against militaries with decent air defence.

If you have a small Army (we do) this is exactly the sort of thing you would need so it can punch above its weight. And this isn't a prospective project; the aircraft are in service.
Is it just me, or have the Air Force just given up the stuff they do in order to support the Army/Navy so they can keep lots of stuff we don't need?

Heidi

 

WHAT
THE
FUCK?

The title itself sent me into bemused hysterics.

There's a clairvoyant wok-eyed possum in the fucking Telegraph?

Christ.

It's the end times.

In other news, did you know that Tyco Brahe had a clairvoyant dwarf who sat under his desk whilst he was working? Apparently it didn't quite work without the dwarf.

Brahe anecdote c/o my mate Dave.