0bvious things you’ve only just realised (2019 edition)

[Ferris]

We need a list of posters who are needlessly aggressive for a joke, and those who are needlessly aggressive because they're bad bastards.

No we fucking don't, fucks sake.

[QDRPHNC]

No we fucking don't, fucks sake.

We know which list you're going on.

[pigamus]

Er... Milton Keynes isn't, um.... named after Milton and Keynes.

[Ferris]

A "verdict" comes from the Latin "verus" meaning true (see also: "verify") + "dictum" meaning speech (like "diction").

[gib]

A turret is a small tower.

[ToneLa]

A flying buttress isn't funny

[Endicott]

Ah, but it should be.

[Norton Canes]

There is nothing quite so extraordinary in the usage of the English language as a someone with a thick Leicestershire accent pronouncing a long 'i' sound, as in 'nice'

[Lordofthefiles]

"O" is "0"

[the]

"O" is "0"

Only just noticed that you're a tedious cunt

That the "O" in the thread title is a "0".

The O in the title of this thread is actually a 0.

The O in the thread title is actually a 0.

The "O" is an "0".

Hey, that O is actually an 0.

The "O" is and "0"... still.

The 'O' of Obvious in the name of this thread is actually a '0'

The 'O' of Obvious in the name of this thread is actually a zero.

[Lordofthefiles]

Only just noticed that you're a tedious cunt

Chinny Reckon?

[the]

David Baddiel comeback = Yes you're a tedious cunt

[Lordofthefiles]

David Baddiel comeback = Yes you're a tedious cunt

Do you think that David Baddiel invented that?

*Chingasm*

[Noddy Tomkey]

...which is from the word "flottison", as made famous by my cousin Modest.

I really enjoyed this, zomg ❤

[Cold Meat Platter]

David Baddiel comeback = Yes you're a tedious cunt

Oh no what a personal disaster.

[zomgmouse]

I really enjoyed this, zomg ❤

Ah, I'm glad, thank you! :)

[petril]

that the glyph for what English uses for the IPA symbol ɒ is legally 0. passed in 1983, that one

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that the glyph for what English uses for the IPA symbol ɒ is legally 0. passed in 1983, that one

[Bennett Brauer]

^ New Ozrics album?

[touchingcloth]

Ambulances that look like this:



Probably have all the same stuff in them as the ones which look like:

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I dunno - the top kind might be a bit smaller.

[Sebastian Cobb]

Don't forget a lot of the ones at the top are buses that shuttle invalids and old people to and from hospital.

One of my builder pals had one. He wanted to convert it into a motorhome, they're insulated and have a night heater so are good starting points, but he ended up just using it as his works van. The passenger seat was backwards so you got a view of a cement mixer that'd crush your skull in the event of a crash.

It also had hydraulic rams on the back suspension, great for making it look not overloaded when you've filled it full of concrete blocks.

Similarly it took me ages to realise the black vans that have 'private ambulance' on them don't contain any medical equipment because the people in them are already dead.

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Similarly it took me ages to realise the black vans that have 'private ambulance' on them don't contain any medical equipment because the people in them are already dead.

Seems a bit of a palaver to stop the ambulance, change its labels and bin all the medical equipment whenever the person inside dies.

[Sherringford Hovis]

Ambulances that look like this:



Probably have all the same stuff in them as the ones which look like:

The kit carried by each ambulance is service-specific: if both of these vehicles were from the same NHS trust, most if not all the kit would usually be interchangeable, though it is feasible that an 09 and 14 plate might have some subtle differences.

Though I occasionally work in/drive the lower one (SWAST) and know where all the stuff is kept and how to use it, I'd be flummoxed by the West Midlands upper one (and it'd be awful to drive - those Fiats are utter shit). It'd probably have about 80% of the same kit in common, but it'd be stored in different cubbyholes and might be slightly different in use as it would be from a different supplier, and some of the procedures might be a bit divergent too. The tail-lift and gurney would be just different enough to be really frustrating; the personal and vehicle radios would probably be different; the rugged tablet certainly would be.

Don't forget a lot of the ones at the top are buses that shuttle invalids and old people to and from hospital.

A giveaway as to which type of ambulance is usually the fleet designation: both of these are response vehicles as their identifier is all numbers. Patient transports are usually prefixed with a letter, commonly a 'T'. With the creeping privatisation of the NHS, many patient transports also sport the logo of the rip-off cunts that own them, such as Arriva.

Similarly it took me ages to realise the black vans that have 'private ambulance' on them don't contain any medical equipment because the people in them are already dead.

Some of these are refrigerated as their involuntary passengers can be a bit whiffy. They do have a bit of equipment on board, mostly PPE and cleaning products for when you inevitably get bits of passenger on you.

[touchingcloth]

Don't forget a lot of the ones at the top are buses that shuttle invalids and old people to and from hospital.

If I'd meant patient transports, I'd've used a pic like this:



Dick head.

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These ambulances look so wildly different from one another that I can barely contain my disbelief.

[paruses]

Though I occasionally work in/drive the lower one (SWAST) and know where all the stuff is kept and how to use it[...]

Can you tell me if the estate car paramedic vehicles are useful? I've always thought that they can't get anywhere quicker than the vans - unlike a motorbike - and when they do there's nowhere to put bits of patient unless they sit in the passenger seat.

[Sebastian Cobb]

Glasgow has paramedic pseudo-4x4 vehicles that are electric. I see the lads charging them by the Tall Ship. It seems a bit daft to have an emergency response vehicle that needs a good half-hour to top up tbh.

I'm in a car club that has some electric motors and they're nice to drive but a pain because it's not uncommon to book one and it to not be charged. Largely because the plastic card you need to flash at the charging station is broken. Then you've got to email the company and say it was flat or you needed to extend your booking because the first half hour was spent in a cafe waiting for it to charge to get a refund.

[Icehaven]

Quite a few currently trendy bloke haircuts are from Peaky Blinders.

[Sherringford Hovis]

Can you tell me if the estate car paramedic vehicles are useful? I've always thought that they can't get anywhere quicker than the vans - unlike a motorbike - and when they do there's nowhere to put bits of patient unless they sit in the passenger seat.

0-60 time of a manual Skoda Octavia or Vauxhall Astra Estate is under 9 seconds; the auto Mercedes van-bulance barely manages 14 seconds when new; many of the squeaky and rattly SWAST fleet can be approaching 300,000 miles so likely even slower. I'll let you guess which is nicer to weave through rush-hour traffic.

I can't speak for any other Ambulance trusts other than South-West, but the way the car/van-bulance system works around here allows the higher qualified staff to be spread more thinly. The car will have a single senior or specialist paramedic in it, while many of the vans are crewed by a pair of Emergency Healthcare Assistants or a trainee/junior paramedic and an EHCA, which is more than enough skills for 70% of calls. For more serious incidents, both the car and the van-bulance will attend. The senior paramedic will stabilise the casualty then the van will scoop 'em off to hospital, freeing up the senior paramedic to attend the next emergency without being off the run for 45 minutes. The ambu-car will often take people to hospital anyway – you don't have to be a stretcher-case to require immediate care.

I mostly attend incidents in a fire-ambulance car myself as a lone responder if the nearest unassigned van or paramedic-car is more than seven minutes away, but it's a very rare day I'd transport anyone to hospital. As a firefighter, our training is concentrated around trauma rather than longer-term medical problems so we're usually only sent to the most serious stuff: unconscious folks requiring oxygen, defibrillation and CPR. You know how on telly a few CPR pumps on the chest and everyone comes back? Nah. Even if you hit the deck right in front of me, it's about an 60% chance you're a goner. If it's taken me 4-5 minutes to show up, that figure rises to 93%.

Don't get ill. Don't get old.