TLPTPW---Kingdom Edition

Mike Hewson
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RE: Don't recognise the

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Don't recognise the shiver model must be local to your market. Whats the model No.? HP kit is normally fairly foolproof, sounds as if it might be a buggy or corrupted driver?


At first I thought the model # was 'Order-A-Cartridge' but that was a sticker on the side. It's a Laser Jet Pro M402dn. The problem was that the printer needed rebooting to take up the new settings .... LOL. Anyway I might by the 3D version and start my own body parts franchise.

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"I'm not a doctor, but .... " That's the first bit, then it usually continues with "but I've been on the internet and I think I've got ......" that's when a doctors heart sinks in his boots! Then tries to convince the patient that they have indigestion and are not dying of the galloping lurgi!


If I'm really not in the mood for such discussions I sometimes say to the patient ( paraphrase ) :

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You're clearly familiar with my qualifications that are available to offer you advice. What do you see as your qualifications that are available to offer yourself advice ?


.... which results in ( what we call in the trade ) a 'single-consult therapeutic relationship'. :-)

Cheers, Mike.

I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...

... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal

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RE: 'Order-A-Cartridge'

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'Order-A-Cartridge' but that was a sticker on the side


Hehehe

Always used Inkjets like my HP 990CXI, ink cartridges are a lot cheaper then toners. But for an office use Lasers are faster in a pressured environment, and the running costs are deductible. Horses for courses.

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and start my own body parts franchise.


Tell you what Mike, concentrate on Mk IV brain replacements with the optional sensibility circuit. Given the state of the world today you'd be a millionaire in no time!!

But do you have these "sleeve notes" down under? Doctor slang I just LOVE the GROLIES and LOBNH ones :-)) A rollicking good read!

Waiting for Godot & salvation :-)

Why do doctors have to practice?
You'd think they'd have got it right by now

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Damnit Jim, I'm a printer not

Damnit Jim, I'm a printer not a doctor!

As for the self diagnosed patients sent 'em in my direction. What's that? You think you've got Ebola? Here you go *hands over bottle filled with unflavoured tic tacs* Take two daily.


Annie minion :)

 

 

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I always thought that

I always thought that placebos were things attached to babies until I went to Specsavers :-)

In the latter half of the 20th Century all doctors used to prescribe bottles of "tonic" for under the weather nuisance patients. Mainly contained potassium bromide and Tincture of Nux Vomica. The worse it tasted the better the patient believed it was doing them good. The grins on the pharmacists faces when they dispensed it ought to have given the game away :-))

Mind you this stuff still sells well in the UK Sanatogen Tonic Wine Well anything that says Tonic has to be good for you doesn't it!! Many years ago I went to the Docs feeling lethargic and run down, and he prescribed a super high dose of Vitamin C, something like 1000mg tablets. I peed orange for a fortnight 'cos the body can't store Vitamin C. Too big a dose can cause Kidney damage I believe. Didn't do much good either!

Waiting for Godot & salvation :-)

Why do doctors have to practice?
You'd think they'd have got it right by now

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RE: But do you have these

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But do you have these "sleeve notes" down under? Doctor slang I just LOVE the GROLIES and LOBNH ones :-)) A rollicking good read!


Alas, that fruitful & frank formula has fatally fallen foul of FOTUL ( Fear Of The Unknown Lawyer ).

About thirty years ago when I was working in Mildura ED ( remote rural posting at desert's edge ) we used the acronym YAMs* for Young Accident-prone Males. This is a sub/transitional species of the human race that still persists to this day. The biological trigger for transform to that class known as Homo Sapiens efftardia seems to be a hormone imbalance combined with an oxidative metabolism. It is a very active group to deal with, study if you wish, and has many intriguing habits. Probably their key defining characteristic isn't any specific feature of injury or scenario of you meeting them. It's the extreme degree of expressed fantasia emitted by themselves pertaining to their explanations of what 'really' happened, while also attempting to escape the rather obvious spectator's deduction : they are in fact simply stupid twats.

But times have moved on somewhat so when a YAM is now encountered as a mere blur in your peripheral vision - motoring past you at high speed on a Rice Rocket** - then the somewhat more exact epithet of IOD ( incipient organ donor ) applies.

Cheers, Mike.

* The fact that they have vegetable qualities and can also be dug out of the ground by the straightforward use of a stick is coincidental.

** An 800+ cc high performance Japanese manufactured motorcycle. No cultural offense intended with this term.

I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...

... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal

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RE: It's the extreme degree

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It's the extreme degree of expressed fantasia emitted by themselves pertaining to their explanations of what 'really' happened, while also attempting to escape the rather obvious spectator's deduction : they are in fact simply stupid twats.


Exceptional and outstanding :-) I might borrow that for future use!

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The fact that they have vegetable qualities and can also be dug out of the ground by the straightforward use of a stick is coincidental.


Oh yes an entirely causal chance, of course. Seems to be on the increase these days though -)

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RE: Many years ago I went

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Many years ago I went to the Docs feeling lethargic and run down, and he prescribed a super high dose of Vitamin C, something like 1000mg tablets. I peed orange for a fortnight 'cos the body can't store Vitamin C. Too big a dose can cause Kidney damage I believe. Didn't do much good either!

Today they'd prescribe 500mcg of B-12 under the tongue once a day, or come into the Office once a month for a shot, at your own expense of course! Another option is to give the shots to yourself, but lots of people refuse to even consider that!! Being a former Type 2 insulin using Diabetic I think they are nuts!!

As for printers these days they are becoming alot like pc's, give them a good reboot once a week or so and they tend to run much better than if you just let them run forever. I scan my pc's for viruses and malware, then reboot them and then backup them up once a month. They tend to run much better after the reboot. And yes all my pc's have the anti malware and anti virus programs running 24/7, in fact 99% of them come up squeak clean every month, the ones that don't usually find something that I only delete because my anti virus or malware program doesn't really know what it is, like when I use Google Chrome it leaves behind some file or other that the anti malware doesn't understand. I delete it and Chrome recreates it the next time I use it.

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Once as a YAM I was sawing a

Once as a YAM I was sawing a price of wood when my knee got in the way, didn't even notice till I felt something wet running down my leg.

Lol :)


Annie minion :)

 

 

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Ok ..... So you peed yourself

Ok ..... So you peed yourself at the cost of it?? Must have been a dear bit of wood :-)))

Waiting for Godot & salvation :-)

Why do doctors have to practice?
You'd think they'd have got it right by now

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RE: Once as a YAM I was

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Once as a YAM I was sawing a price of wood when my knee got in the way, didn't even notice till I felt something wet running down my leg.

Lol :)

My takeaway: Tools which are maintained at their ultimate sharpness hurt less. Great to know!!!!! I am going outside now and sharpen my rotary lawn mower blades. :>)

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