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That was the three things, in that order, the people of Portsmouth are most scared of according to a not so recent survey. Quite strange really as two of those groups would run away if confronted (ay you see what I did there Rage) I had actually heard about this poll before, but an article I re-read yesterday which was written when we got promoted to the PL (seems an age ago now) reminded me of it.
I'm not sure if the article will interest anyone outside of Pompey, or who doesn't know the City but it's here anyway[^]. I found it a great read, especially as I know or know of most of the people mentioned and also know that the general descriptions of the people of Portsmouth are so true. Seems like it has always been that way too.
'The necessity of living in the midst of the diabolical citizens of Portsmouth is a real and unavoidable calamity. It is a doubt to me if there is such another collection of demons upon the whole earth.' - General James Wolfe, 1758
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P0mpey3 wrote: Paedophilles, Drunks and the French
I thought that was a description of the residents? 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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That would be:
Paedophilles, Drunks and the Romanians
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... and you're not Romanian or a Paedo, so you must be?
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Running away?
Alberto Brandolini: The amount of energy necessary to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it.
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Say all you want about pedophiles, at least they drive slow in school zones...
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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My doctor's surgery is computerised - this is all good.
And for a couple of years now, I can order Herself's medication repeat prescriptions online: I log in, tick what she needs, send the request, and then collect the medication from the pharmacy one or two days later.
This is complicated, as the NHS rules in Wales will only allow 28 days of medication, and you can only re-order in the last 7 days of the 28 since the last issue. Not a problem, I just sort it out (and "juggle" reorder dates to get it to "one-order-per-four-weeks".
It works: no paper, no fuel to drive paper to surgery, no phone, no people involved.
Except they changed systems 4 months ago, and the first two months it just lost all requests. Last month, it was fine, so on Sunday I submitted a new request. And this morning it's still sitting there on the computer as status: "Requested". Not "Approved", or "Rejected", but "Requested" - which means it hasn't been dealt with. OK, drive down to surgery and sort it out.
Now, you and I probably figure it goes like this:
1) User submits request to central internet system
2) System sends request to surgery for processing
3) Surgery system checks request and validates that it's all on the "approved" list for the user, and that he ordered in the appropriate period.
4) System passes request to doctor, who scans, ticks and moves on.
5) System produces physical prescription, which is passed to pharmacy. (Legal requirement: must be paper copy)
No. Found out today that step 3 is human: An employee prints out the request, gets the user computer file up and manually checks it, then types in the prescription request for the doctor to look at, check against the computer, sign and put in the "out" basket...
And "The girl that does that is off this week" 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Try the Dept of Work & Pensions! Had a battle down there yesterday as I received a text message 'To Attend At 13:40' and go there (I have noticed something the Security Guards are all over weight/obese 40+, how good would they be if a 17 year old goes Jeremy Kyle???) End up sitting for around 3/4 of an hour...It strikes me that Civil Servants are a strange breed they have one speed (in my experience slower than an arthritic tortoise!). Only to be told I should look for work in the computing area, possibly PC World!!
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This is why they changed their name from "DHSS1" to "DoW&P" / "Job Centre": they were known as the "Department of Stealth and Total Obscurity" for good reasons, and the people haven't changed at all...or moved significantly in some cases. 
1: "DHSS" == "Department of Heath and Social Security", for our non-UK readers
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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OriginalGriff wrote: "DHSS" == "Department of Heath and Social Security", for our non-UK readers
As a non-UK reader I found that quite an easy guess; but then I am a fellow victim of bureaucracy, and acronyms for departments of all sorts. In SA they have tried some obfuscation by replacing Departments with Agencies, but I'm onto that.
No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly. - Oscar Wilde
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I know, I wanted to get a copy of some tests that were done, so the receptionist did screen prints :-/
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Well at least you got something close to what you wanted! 
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OriginalGriff wrote: I log in, tick what she needs, send the request, and then collect the medication from the pharmacy one or two days later.
Dang, I wished we could do that here in Sweden. But even though almost everything is computerized, you cannot renew a prescription without contacting the doctor in person. And you can't email him or contact him online, you have to call him on the real, physical phone (during a certain timespan, of course).
I don't know, but it just feels so 1975!
Most annoying thing is that after a couple of heart attacks, I get heart medicine that I need to have FOR THE REST OF MY LIFE. But I can't get a running prescription, I need to go through the above procedure at least once a year anyway... 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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I'm surprised, I always thought of Sweden as a "modern" country.
Even prior to the online system, there was a "pre-approval" system in the UK, where a year's worth of prescriptions were sent to the pharmacy and you could just "call them off" on a monthly basis. (That died when the 28 day limit for medication was introduced). And that years's worth was automatically renewed each year. Well, mostly it was...
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Johnny J. wrote: ...FOR THE REST OF MY LIFE. But I can't get a running prescription...
That my dear friend is called bureaucracy. Long lives Bureaucracy!
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No shite? I tell you: Sweden strives to be King of Bureaucracy! 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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Johnny J. wrote: No shite?
No shite !
I'd say Germany is king of please fill paper XYZ-1 and take it to Floor 3 - 309 and there you need to fill paper XMT-34 to take it to Floor 2 - 212 and then you get XZY-101, you fill that out and come back to me.....
It's really like this, i had that sh.. on filling out my BaföG (Money assistance for students)
You fill out 12 papers to get told that 6 arent valid and you are still missing 7 other. then you redo that with the 13 new papers to get told that you are still missing this and that
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Pretty much the same in Canada (Ontario anyway!).
The reason here is that doctors get paid by patient visit. Some doctors will permit phone requests for repeats and will even fax the scrip to a pharmacy. My doctor doesn't!
Life is like a s**t sandwich; the more bread you have, the less s**t you eat.
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I can quite easily phone my Doc for a new prescription, but a pharmacy is only allowed to accept a faxed script for one month, where for a six month one, I have to go and fetch it from him.
No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly. - Oscar Wilde
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OriginalGriff wrote: the NHS rules in Wales ...
... are just the same as those in England. In Scotland, of course, anything could happen.
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Not sure they are: last time I got an English prescription, it was a three month supply. The rules in Wales changed to a 28 day max when prescription charges were abolished and may have been related to that.
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It changed to 28 days max a couple of years ago. My GP said it was new NHS rules to cut down on the amount of unused drugs being thrown away.
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I take tablets for my Diabetes and they let me have 56 days worth of stock - see if your GP will change your wife's prescription.
I was very impressed a couple of weeks ago - I went to the surgery to book my annual check-up with the practise nurse, and as I was giving my details to the receptionist, I got a text message on my phone - it was from the NHS confirming my appointment details!
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I'm an optoholic - my glass is always half full of vodka.
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They used to allow 3 months worth, but that all changed when prescription charges were abolished in Wales years ago. Now it's 28 days at a time, even for "continuous" conditions.
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