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you would have liked them,FEMALE/Scottish/red heads and 20 and 21 years old...

I'd sure as hell rather watch it than "synchronised swimming".

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2 sisters i knew were barmaids in my local at the time and both represented GB at that certain sport.

not that good as they never got anywhere near the medal positions but what figures they had............

i always went into the pub when i knew one or each was working.just to drool over them,along with other men.

just a shame they never fancied older men..........

I'll spend it on , and and waste the rest.

any chance of a loan?,enough for ?.

you mean an extra 60,000+ bt to spend when I get to LOS in June....

ah,i saw the figure of 6600+ mentioned and assumed it was in bt.

never mind,just promise us all you won't waste it on useless things like cigars and women.

Good news, those nice folks at AXA PPP refunded my Dhs 6640 (~Baht 60K) medical expenses even though I didn't use one of their nominated hospitals.

good news.....an extra 6000+ bt to spend when you get to LOS in June....

Knowing you (and me!!) I would suspect that liver trouble would be the first thing to crop up!

another fair point.

in the past my doctors were worried about the blood test results indicating problems with my liver.

when asked searching questions about my drinking habits,i told small untruths to try and put them off the scent.

no liver tests for a long time now and while i like a drink i don't worry about things.

if anything does happen to me concerning my health i hope it's late June after i have returned from LOS.

Not necessarily. The test I was referring to is simply looking for cells from a spleen. No reason to do it at all unless the practitioner is suspicious you dont have one. And no reason to do that unless you are unconscious in an emergency room or we just dont trust your medical history. (distrust of stated medical history is why we ran it on everyone that showed up in trials) So unless you specifically asked for one, I highly doubt you were ever given that test.

that's a fair point.

the tests i were having were to do with something unconnected with the spleen,so probably never looked into.

but 2 of my ultrasounds were performed by my General Practioner and while he never saw my spleen on the screen he did'nt seem that worried.

but i have never worried about it and have never had any problems with internal organs in the past.

I would be willing to bet you have it. If you really want to know a blood test will show you. Not being able to visualize it is no big deal.

blood tests............

because of my blood disorder being diagnosed in 1999 i had blood tests twice a week up until 2010 and a monthly procedure of blood-letting to help with my treatment.

the treatment was painful to me,maybe a low pain threshold? and it used to take me a good 24 hours to recover from the treatment.

but after many years i seem to have got over the problem as i have been discharged from any treatment since 2010.

but it meant i had to take precaution when flying,surgical socks and certain drugs but even that did'nt stop me from suffering from 2 DVT's and a PE.

now i am limited to the amount of physical things i can do,but i've just got used to taking things easy when i need to.

that's why i like a Lady on top and i can just lie back and enjoy....

i'm sure something concerning my spleen would have been found out in that time period.

If you did not have a spleen you would really know it as your ability to fight off infections like phenomena would be greatly reduced. As I recall the literature, those who have had it removed have almost a 60% greater chance of dying of infections disease. Which is an astounding number.

 

Oh and a traditional MRI machine will rip a ferrous metal item right out of you. I saw one suck a steal bullet right out of a guy in Iraq. So I would not be surprised they would want you to take it out. In our labs, if you did not remove it, the test would not be run and you would have to pay us for wasting our time. But to each their own.

as i say i have no idea of the explanation about the spleen?.

scans and the suchlike have never found it and i KNOW i have never had it removed.

the case of my nipple ring was in a CT scanner,not an MRI scanner.

the MRI scans were before a drunken day out when a few of us decided to have the painful procedure,i never knew it would be so painful and the alcohol did'nt mask the pain.

CT Scan was OK but MRI was very unpleasant.

 

i've had those as well and i never found them a problem.

and it helped working in a hospital where i would see the procedures a number of times during a week as i understood what was going on,many patients don't.

not that i'm saying you might have been confused.

 

 

You have a nipple ring. Why?

 

why not?.

 

 

So you still don't know if you've got a spleen or not? Strange although I suppose it could be hidden behind another organ?

 

quite possible,but i just find it odd no-one has ever found it when i've had the tests,something i cannot explain.

The downside was I started having dizzy spells the following week so went to the hospital where they took bloods and did a CT Scan and MRI (about Baht 60K) and discovered that part of my brain is missing?!

i used to like my CT scans,i was having around 5 a year due to my medical problem at the time.

but i used to have an argument each time due to my nipple ring,they wanted it removed but i argued it was no problem.

i had no idea how to remove the bloody thing and the staff(who had been friends for years)were surprised that i had a little knowledge.

i had 4 ultrasounds over a period of 2 years and each time my spleen was not found and i was asked if it had ever been removed?.

i think i would have known if it had been removed and surely there would have been some sort of scar,wether major surgery or keyhole surgery.

but the people doing the test could'nt explain it,good technicians/doctors they may have been according to their qualifications but repeatedly missing an organ in the body is not good in my eyes.

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If you are over 45 yrs old, you MUST take this Alzheimer's Test

 

How fast can you guess these words and fill-in the blanks?

 

1. _ _NDOM

 

2. F_ _K

 

3. P_N_S

 

4. PU_S_

 

5. S_X

 

6. BOO_S

 

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Answers:

 

1. RANDOM

 

2. FORK

 

3. PANTS

 

4. PULSE

 

5. SIX

 

6. BOOKS

 

You got all 6 wrong....didn't you?

 

You do NOT have Alzheimer's

 

You are a Pervert!!

i only got 5 wrong...not a 100% pervert...

He came across as a good guy, but the Monkees stars were picked for that. When they came in to audition, they had stuff pulled on them like hitting them in the face with a bucket of water or a custard pie. The producers wanted to see how they'd react.

 

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the tv programme was obviously strictly made to suit their image of silly,happy-go-lucky lads of the era and some of the soundtrack was played by session musicians,whilst the monkees themselves swapped instruments around for various reasons and became a 'better' group amongst themselves.

but when they decided to on tour it 'seemed' to come together and they carried the live sound quite well so it seems and they were VERY popular in their day.

still performing in various guises until recently and still popular in recent years.

Davy Jones, member of the 1960's group The Monkees, died today of an apparent heart attack. A band not given as much credit as it should have. http://www.cnn.com/2012/02/29/showbiz/obit-davy-jones/index.html

i grew up with the tv programme and their music is under-rated but easy to listen to and sing along to.

he had a home near where i worked in the hospital and was often a patient whenever he or one of his kids had an accident involving their horses.

he was a nice fella and always had a smile on his face and never refused to sign an autoraph.

the younger members of staff had no idea who he was and were amazed at the reaction of people in the hospital when they saw him.

and he was often raising cash for the hospital....

a nice fella.............

The Road

 

A post-apocalyptic tale of a man and his son trying to survive by any means possible.

 

 

Not sure about this one. Well made I suppose but fairly depressing throughout.

Hangover 2.

i knew this was set in Thailand and borrowed it from my visiting American cousin.

i knew it would be a purile American film aimed at American teenagers and i was not disappointed.

did'nt really find it funny but it had a couple of scenes which made me chuckle.

it did'nt really seem to show much of how Thailand looks apart from the few shots of Bangkok and Phang-Nga.

The humble crisp has become flavour of the moment after a senior food executive said the tasty treat is now the No. 1 snack food in the world.

 

Speaking at Gulfood 2012 – the high-profile regional food expo that opened in Dubai yesterday – the boss of Pepsi in the Middle East claimed Lay’s crisps, a brand owned by his firm, is now the top snack food brand in the world.

 

Sanjeev Chadha, PepsiCo president for the Middle East and Africa, told delegates at Gulfood’s Food Leaders Summit said the Lay’s brand was “worth a whopping “$9.7 billion to us in the year just past.â€

 

He added: “Fifty-five million bags of crisps were purchased every single day in over 60 countries.†Chadha also revealed some of the weird flavours that make up the most popular crisp in various countries. Mexicans love lemon crisps, while in Thailand one third of sales come from seaweed flavour crisps. Kebab flavour takes first billing in Egypt, while Indians devour packets of spicy Kurkure Masala Munch.

 

In Russia, Mushroom and Cream flavour is by far the top bag, while good old Cheese and Onion tops the table in the UK under the Lay’s brand’s British identity of Walkers.

 

having my American cousin over here at the moment gives his dad the chance to get some of his fave crisps taken back to the USA.

Marmite/Tomato Ketchup and Branston pickle flavours are on his way.

Indeed.

Who needs to act when you look like that?

The Road Home.......Chinese film from 1999/2000.

such a sad story but finally uplifting in the end.

reminds me a little of the adventures of Coss as the protaganists in his story and the film never manage to get together for a long time.

and i cry everytime i watch it,such a sad and then happy film.

A young lady in the maternity ward just prior to labour is asked by the midwife if she would like her husband to be present at the birth.

 

"I afraid I don't have a husband" she replied "O.K. Do you have a boyfriend?" asks the Midwife.

 

"No, no boyfriend either."

 

"Do you have a partner then?"

 

"No, I`m not attached, I'll be having my baby on my own."

 

After the birth the midwife again speaks to the young woman.

 

"You have a healthy bouncing baby girl, but I must warn you before you see her that the baby is black."

 

"Well," replies the girl, "I was very down on my luck, with no money and nowhere to live, and so I accepted a job in a porn film. The lead man was black."

 

"Oh, I`m very sorry," says the midwife, "that’s really none of my business and I'm sorry that I have to ask you these awkward questions but I must also tell you that the baby has blonde hair."

 

"Well yes," the girl again replies, "you see the co-star in the movie was this Swedish guy."

 

"Oh, I`m sorry," the midwife repeats, "that’s really none of my business either and I hate to pry further but your baby also has slanted Eyes."

 

"Yes," continues the girl, "there was a little Chinese man also in the movie, I really had no choice."

 

At this, the midwife again apologizes, collects the baby and presents her to the girl, who immediately proceeds to give the baby a slap on the butt.

 

The baby starts crying and the mother exclaims, "Thank god for that!"

 

"What do you mean?" says the midwife, shocked.

 

"Well," says the girl extremely relieved, "I had this horrible feeling that she was going to bark".

not a joke by myself just a true story about my ex-wife.

she was a midwife and helped delivered at about the time Rock Hudson died.

the grandmothers fave actor of all time was Rock Hudson and the babies mother decided to call the baby Rock.

my ex and others finally persuaded the mother not to call the baby Rock.

after all her surname was SALMON......

I am actually, just not with them!

too young for you?......

tou hoping for a 3some next time you get back to Scotland?

I used to spend a week in Thurso every summer when I was younger and fished for trout in Caithness's many lochs with my uncle.

 

Love the coastline from Thurso to Cape Wrath, especially when the Pentland Firth is a bit wild.

i remember driving from John 'o' Groats to Cape Wrath,well as near as you can get.

wonderful scenary and one of those roads you don't see another car/person for a long time.

i love the drive through Glencoe but the best road has to be from Edinburgh to Inverness....A9?

i always enjoyed cruising up the road at m leisure and met some interesting people.

i remember once seeing what i presumed was an RAF harrier flying around and kind of stalking me,coming up behind me and just following me and then peeling off.

i assumed the plane was on a training mission and practising locking onto a target.

certainly unnerved me for a while and i had to pull off the road.

but now i look back and find it rather funny.

went to Scotland for a week with my uncle and his american friend who beforehand had never seen the sea.

we hired a car and just drove all over the place but the american absolutely loved Plockton and the surroundin area.

i like Plockton and have spent many happy days there.

Loved this picture of Ben A'an that was posted on the BBC (Scotland page).

 

 

Ben A'an is one of the most popular amongst Scotland's smaller hills. Often known as the mountain in miniature, its position at the heart of the Trossachs makes it a truly wonderful viewpoint.

i loved my trips to Scotland in the 90'.

based in Edinburgh and would spend time travelling the country.

i used to normally miss the trossachs as i was normally headed northwards to my favourite places.

but i have a vague memory of spending time on a boat trip along Loch(lake) Katrine?.

i'm sure you will correct mr if i am wrong....

but i've always preferred the highlands and the scenary which i loved.

i liked the west coast the best and have many happy memories of places like Plockton and the Isle of Skye.

but the Orkney Islands were way above my league.

what a fantastic place to visit.

Reminds me of this old chestnut, apologies if it has been posted before.

 

At the end of the tax year, the Tax Office sent an inspector to audit the books of a Synagogue.

 

While he was checking the books he turned to the Rabbi and said, ‘I notice you buy a lot of candles. What do you do with the candle drippings?’

 

‘Good question,’ noted the Rabbi. ‘We save them up and send them back to the candle makers, and every now and then they send us a free box of candles.’

 

‘Oh,’ replied the auditor, somewhat disappointed that his unusual question had a practical answer.

 

But on he went, in his obnoxious way: ‘What about all these bread-wafer purchases? What do you do with the crumbs?’

 

‘Ah, yes,’ replied the Rabbi, realising that the inspector was trying to trap him with an unanswerable question. ‘We collect them and send them back to the manufacturers, and every now and then they send us a free box of bread-wafers.’

 

‘I see,’ replied the auditor, thinking hard about how he could fluster the know-it-all Rabbi. ‘Well, Rabbi,’ he went on, ‘what do you do with all the leftover foreskins from the circumcisions you perform?’

 

‘Here, too, we do not waste,’ answered the Rabbi.

 

‘What we do is save all the foreskins and send them to the Tax Office, and about once a year they send us a complete dick.’

once again i like it.....

will have to tell that joke within earshot of a jewish fella who i know and is the original dick.

An elderly Scottish Jew has decided to take it a little easier and take up golf. So he puts his name down at the local club.

 

After a week he receives a message that his application has been turned down. So he goes down to the club to enquire why.

 

Secretary: You are aware that this is a Scottish golf club?

 

Scot: Aye but I am as Scottish as you are Jock.

 

Secretary: This means that on formal occasions we wear kilts.

 

Scot: Aye, so do I.

 

Secretary: You are aware that we wear nothing under our kilts?

 

Scot: Aye, neither do I.

 

Secretary: But you are a Jew?

 

Scot: Aye, I be that.

 

Secretary: So you are circumcised?

 

Scot: Aye, I be that too.

 

Secretary: I am terribly sorry, but the members just would not feel comfortable with that.

 

Scot: Ach, away with ya man. I know that you have to be a Protestant to march with the Orangemen. And I know that you have to be a Catholic to become a Knight of Saint Columbus. But this is the first time I heard that you have to be a complete prick to join a golf club.

as the thai's say...........i like....

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good link flash....

reminds of the restaurant in londons chinatown.

'lee ho fuks' is the name and name-dropped in the late,great warren zevons song 'werewolves of london'.

have a photo of myself and friends in front of it somewhere....