Today I'm neither Angry nor Happy about....

[Dujon]

Sorry, thebish, I had to laugh. It's all well and good in hindsight but, even though I was closeted in my own toilet at home, I found myself profoundly embarrassed by the exercise.
As far as the delivery of the product to the pathologist put your sample(s) in a black plastic bag. No one else in the waiting room will know what it is and probably couldn't give a **** anyway.

[boltonboris]

due to some ongoing health problems I am having - have been sent home with a blue pot and a little blue plastic spade - to provide a poo sample... the spade is attached to the inside of the lid... all of a sudden I don't feel like doing a poo... how much do they expect me to put in there?? do they want it crammed full and leveled off at the top with the back of the spade - or just a little skid on the end of the spade... think I'll impress them with the former! but then I'll have to push the spade back in... hmmmm..... also - is there an etiquette for handing such a thing over at reception during the morning rush?

Have a shit in a tupperware dish. Chuck the pot into the dish with the shit, then seal it shut. Rugby throw it towards reception and scream "THINK FAST"

[thebish]

due to some ongoing health problems I am having - have been sent home with a blue pot and a little blue plastic spade - to provide a poo sample... the spade is attached to the inside of the lid... all of a sudden I don't feel like doing a poo... how much do they expect me to put in there?? do they want it crammed full and leveled off at the top with the back of the spade - or just a little skid on the end of the spade... think I'll impress them with the former! but then I'll have to push the spade back in... hmmmm..... also - is there an etiquette for handing such a thing over at reception during the morning rush?

Have a shit in a tupperware dish. Chuck the pot into the dish with the shit, then seal it shut. Rugby throw it towards reception and scream "THINK FAST"

I gift-wrapped the (partially filled) pot in a large box addressed to the reception staff with a label saying - with thanks from a grateful patient - and left it on the surgery steps...

[89bwfc89]

I'm just eating my dinner...thanks!!

[boltonboris]

I'm just eating my dinner...thanks!!

Was it in a tupperware dish?

[89bwfc89]

I'm just eating my dinner...thanks!!

Was it in a tupperware dish?

Yes! Luckily it wasn't the leftover stew I was going to bring hahaha!

[boltonboris]

Cool.. Lion bar instead?

[89bwfc89]

Cool.. Lion bar instead?

Nah....leftover chocolate log from Christmas.

I'm sickening myself.

[Montreal Wanderer]

Not a good day yesterday. Up at 5.00 am to take the wife to the airport - she is staying with family in Winnipeg for ten days (you wouldn't get me there in January!). Got home to receive a phone call from the animal clinic. The biopsy on one of her cats was positive for Squamous Cell Carcinoma. I was told a feline oncologist might be able to operate and prolong her life at the cost of half her jaw. This was only discovered because she had to have most of her teeth removed. At 14 years of age there did not seem much point in further medical intervention. Then I had to break the news to the wife . On the bright side the cat does not seem in pain (although I don't know how one really knows) and still eats - so we just have to give a good life while it remains bearable.

[thebish]

presumably a feline oncologist is a human that treats cancer in cats rather than a cat who specialises in cancer treatment?

[Bruce Rioja]

is there an etiquette for handing such a thing over at reception during the morning rush?

Hand it to the receptionist, give her a wink and proclaim "Holy shit".

[bwfcdan94]

That feeling when somebody beeps their horn at you and gives you a thumbs up but you don't recognise them.

[Lost Leopard Spot]

That feeling when somebody beeps their horn at you and gives you a thumbs up but you don't recognise them.

The only people who do that to me are strangers because all my friends know by now that anyone beeping me whilst I'm walking along are only going to get the finger back in return.

[Lost Leopard Spot]

...downloading a 586 page book, one pdf page at a time.

[Dujon]

Finished yet, my sad spot orphan?

[Lost Leopard Spot]

Finished yet, my sad spot orphan?

nah... I took a break at page 48, having compiled up to page 36 as one pdf, and the will to live ran out. Busy week at work and getting hammered by seven goals didn't help either - I shall take it up again next week when I might have more enthusiasm.

[clapton is god]

23yrs ago today since the person who perhaps had the biggest influence on my life passed away:

Alfred Wainwright.

‘That day will come when there is nothing left but memories. And, afterwards, a last long resting place by the side of Innominate Tarn, on Haystacks, where the water laps the gravelly shore and the heather blooms and Pillar and Gable keep unfailing watch. A quiet place, a lonely place. I shall go to it for the last time, and be carried: someone who knew me in life will take me and empty me out of a little box and leave me there alone.

And if you, dear reader, should get a bit of grit in your boot as you are crossing Haystacks in the years to come, please treat it with respect. It might be me.’

[Bruce Rioja]

^ He was a bit of a one, was owd Alfred.

[mummywhycantieatcrayons]

When did the word "jealous" become synonymous with "envious"?

[Montreal Wanderer]

When did the word "jealous" become synonymous with "envious"?

Well, some time back according to the OED although it does have other senses.

Jealous:
b. in respect of success or advantage: Apprehensive of losing some desired benefit through the rivalry of another; feeling ill-will towards another on account of some advantage or superiority which he possesses or may possess; grudging, envious. Const. of (the person, or the advantage).
c1385 Chaucer Legend Good Women Prol. 331 Ffor hate or for Ielous ymagynyng.
1477 Caxton tr. R. Le Fèvre Hist. Jason (1913) 42 Alle were Ialouse of him, But Iason neuer thought on none of them.
1563 B. Googe Eglogs sig. Cvv, You iudge but of malicious hart, and of a Ialouse brayne.
c1601 Sir C. Hatton in Hatton Corr. (1878) 2 My many iealious observers prevent my presence.
1708 F. Atterbury 14 Serm. 106 It is certain, that they look'd upon it with a jealous Eye.
1838 C. Thirlwall Hist. Greece (new ed.) III. xxiii. 289 Several of the leading persons in the state were jealous of his glory.
1897 Eng. Hist. Rev. Jan. 152 The Church was, as early as 1254, becoming jealous of the civil law.