Slowlycatchymonkey

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[mention]Bender[/mention] I’m not down on the hospital, in all honesty I’m hoping and thinking you must of remembered it incorrectly Although I am a down on some of the opticians and minor injury clinics that don’t know what they are looking at and send away people who need treating, it’s not necessarily their fault if it’s not their specific area but when poor folk turn up worried after hours of unnecessary repeated drops with their eyes inflamed after being prodded about you can’t help but find it a bit annoying. There’s no such thing as a detachment that’s not worth treating though, even if they just use laser to secure the area. You kinda need to know your precise diagnosis, was it vitreous detachment or retinal? The devil is in the detail. Anyhow sounds like you were in the right place so I’m sure all’s well n dandy. Just pls make sure if you have any further flashing lights or missing areas of vision (they tend to be fixed areas) you go straight back!

They all look different, some are more/in/out of focus than others, I was told it's collagen and they can replace the liquid in the eye but it's not something to do unless they are really affecting the vision. By the time I was finished at the eye dept in the hospital I had so many lights in my eye I thought I was going to be blind. Not sure who told you that? Did you accidentally wander into the butchers for advice? They definitely will not replace the ‘liquid’ in the eye unless they have to when doing detachment surgery, even then it’s temporary and will give you rubbish vision until you can produce enough vitreous of your own. Anyway if anyone has the heebie jeebies just stare at some gridded paper and if when staring directly at a central spot everything is present n correct (no distortion or blank bits) your more than likely dandy. If not go to an eye hospital or specialist eye unit, otherwise you’ll be passed from pillar to post with a hundred unwitting amateurs poking your eye about before they dismiss you or send you there anyway. [mention]Mississippi Bullfrog[/mention] People who have always needed glasses find their vision can improve with age because the lens of the eye thickens landing the refracted light on the macula (the central most seeing part of the eye) which is what glasses and contacts have been doing for you before the ageing process thickened the lens

I think @dynax has been playing the long game! After all, @Six30 does play the twat on here, and goes out of his way to wind people up......but does he actually live the life of a Twat? I'm not convinced on that! Dynax on the other hand appears to do so. Because surely any normal person would pass their test and get a proper bike? But he doesn't.....he just keeps getting more weird POS little things and then gives them names. And let's not forget that ludicrous thread where he was on about buying a new 50cc Chinese moped on top of the other shit that he's already got. I put it to you that no normal person thinks like that......I've certainly never come across anything like it before. A compelling case with incontrovertible evidence. I think we have a forerunner. Although [mention]James in Brum[/mention] some dippy shit transcends more than a mere one days news, plus methinks thou dost protest too much!

Are you only saying that to push someone else into the limelight after your headlight debacle yesterday?!

Aw

You always risk losing a colony over the winter. So far I've not had many losses. I had a small nucleus (a small box for bees before their colony grows to the size of a full size hive) which got attacked and robbed out. Bees are terrible at robbing honey from weak colonies if they get the chance. By the time I spotted what they were up to it was too late so that colony was lost. But it came from a swarm I pulled out of a hedge and never really got going so it wasn't a huge loss. Sudden death of a whole colony can happen if they get poisoned by spraying, attacked by wasps, or get a disease. I tend not to treat my bees with any chemicals on the basis that if they're strong enough and healthy enough they'll get through - but if they're weak or vulnerable to disease then keeping them going only spread weaker genes. It seems to work, but my current lot are quite feisty when I'm working on them. The do make huge amounts of honey though so I will tolerate their bad behaviour. So what would have happened if you’d noticed the attack earlier? How would you stop it? Also what it a badly behaved bee? One that doesn’t know how to beehave? Sorry that was more than I could resist.

Only found the grumpys in Cornwall, never Somerset The infection and death rate round here suggests otherwise, it’s either that or we’re all fine upstanding obedient citizens....

Excellent stuff I didn’t know they’d changed it to ‘recreation’

[mention]Fish[/mention] Good you got your ride out Dead as a door nail round here but then I have suspicions the South West has faired well on the Covid charts cos at heart we’re all miserable unsociable buggers who relish a good excuse to avoid each other!

Depends on the particular dealership. The Bristol BMW motorrad are a waste of space, unhelpful to the extent I went in ready to part with my cash and left to look elsewhere. A friend of mine didn’t really believe me, went in there to buy a bike a couple of years later and ended up tearing them to shreds, they were so rude. The Dorchester BMW dealer CW Motorcyles (not now exclusively BMW so they can only sell used BMW’s) couldn’t have been better, helpful, friendly, fitted my bike out with all the extras with no charge and gave me by far the best deal of all four dealers I was going between. Contrasting the Triumph dealer Wellington Taunton which I may have been unlucky in but the woman who I asked a couple of questions about the bike was so miserable in my direction I didn’t even proceed with a test ride, I went to Fowler’s in Bristol instead, who were like Folwers are- layed back to horizontal! So brands can state what they expect from their dealers but just as with a franchise it’s down to the person who owns the dealership what experience you’re going to have. I won’t even start on the Mercedes commercial dealer in Gloucestershire, just don’t go there!

Very nice, I’ll take the one on the left, I’m thinking one month around Easter Have you suffered any of these bee hive death problems I keep hearing about?

Couple of layers of Merino n you’ll be laughing, or at least it’ll look like that while your teeth chatter

Love a bit of RE myself. Welcome. Enjoy. Some pics when you get out on it What caused the re-entry after 15yrs?

A pool of water? Hoho. Im guessing you have been living the high life in the sunshine for long enuf for the swimming pools that form in the poorly drained dips of Blightly after the briefest shower to become a distant memory?! I have a reputation for precipitation avoidance. As I've said many times.......the only good moisture is vaginal! Well I can’t say thats not a prerequisite for happiness for many but then again a cup of tea can be pretty good too.

A pool of water? Hoho. Im guessing you have been living the high life in the sunshine for long enuf for the swimming pools that form in the poorly drained dips of Blightly after the briefest shower to become a distant memory?!

[mention]MarkW[/mention] Just the one empty bottle of wine? Bet it’s a 1996 Chateau Latour

Summerhouses... plural.. how many homes do you have?! And when can I come on holiday?

I suspect if you did a poll off this forum you’d get the majority agreeing with that sentiment regardless of their abilities.

The advert for SuperNova works but the link for Billy Baxter on a mobike won’t play?

Morning. Not sure when exactly the privileged position of waiting for someone to deliver your groceries became an imposition but somehow in spite of being lucky enough to have the money to buy whatever food we need all picked and delivered to my doorstep by someone else its a bit annoying when you want to go out. I think maybe just possibly there’s a consideration here somewhere that I maybe just perhaps the tiniest weeniest bit spoilt... Noooo I hear you shout? Jolly good I’ll carry on being annoyed I’m waiting in. And if there’s a substitution I’ll make sure I focus disproportionately on how annoying that is too. This second lockdown maybe effecting me slightly

'Twat' is pretty tame stuff. Someone on here once called me a Guardian reader. Oh yes @Slowlycatchymonkey - I haven't forgotten. My arm is long and my vengeance is total... Nice deflection from the reality of your guardian reading, sock n sandal wearing, support group attending, neo liberal self. You’re thinking quick hurl some insults before anyone notices I’m a whole human being. Too late they cried you revealed yourself as a complex thinking human being in the ‘how are you feeling’ thread and now the only way to correct that ‘misconception’ is to go on a full blown rampage. I look forward to the savagery and destruction reaped by the closet Guardian reader. No-one slices n dices quite as well as you. GO go go Rahahahaaa Shit no, what have I said? Wait, dont really, damn I’ve scared myself now

Sorry to hear about your retinal tear, they can take quite some adjusting to. Judging distances can be difficult to start with but clever little monkeys we are our brains seem to adapt ways around it until you won’t really notice it anymore. Talan Skeels-Piggins is paralysed from the chest down. Still races motorbikes and provides opportunities for other disabled riders to have a go. There’s a YouTube vid of him and his story on this page. Yes he was paralysed in a motorcycle accident so don’t watch it if you don’t like hearing about those things! https://drivetribe.com/p/the-bike-experience-helping-disabled-LSa_L0ktSmeqgnoh92ERnA?iid=P6JoHEjSRyeUFTGpfnAVEA

You need to repost that in the fireworks thread n see who explodes mwahahahaa

Thanks for that. Great write up. The BMW dealer I was talking to said ask anyone who’s rude about them if they’ve ever ridden one. And yes some people have had bad experiences but mostly the sneers seem to come from people who’ve never owned a BMW. I spent about 6 months trying and failing to explain to my other half why he needs a different bike for touring, not that he couldn’t do it on a low rider but it just wasn’t the best tool for the job. Eventually I hit the right spot when I said, so you’ll be happy leaving all that shiny chrome out in the rain will you? Three days later he said “I’ve found a bike” and bought without much thought his winter/touring/I’m not fussed what happens to this bike. It’s not a GS it’s an F800GT. Since May he’s ridden the Harley twice. He still loves the Harley but the proof of the pudding... Anyhow is there an update? How are you getting on with it a couple of months down the track?