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Re: Random Observations
« Reply #525 on: April 18, 2017, 01:55:49 PM »
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Re: Random Observations
« Reply #526 on: April 20, 2017, 06:24:50 AM »
  Doctors' and dentists' waiting rooms are ugly.  Uuuuuug-LEE.  Why can't they get it right?  :dunno:
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Re: Random Observations
« Reply #527 on: April 20, 2017, 06:43:16 AM »
  Doctors' and dentists' waiting rooms are ugly.  Uuuuuug-LEE.  Why can't they get it right?  :dunno:

Was thinking this last week. The mental health practice where my son goes to talk to his counselor switched offices.

There is now parking. Yeah.

The fucking office is enough to encourage suicidal thoughts. Boo.

Most cold, depressing place I've seen in awhile. Told the lady he sees...she laughed. Her office is the only nice one there so far. She said she's brought it up to the head honcho and they're working on it.

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Re: Random Observations
« Reply #528 on: April 20, 2017, 06:47:14 AM »
  Doctors' and dentists' waiting rooms are ugly.  Uuuuuug-LEE.  Why can't they get it right?  :dunno:

Was thinking this last week. The mental health practice where my son goes to talk to his counselor switched offices.

There is now parking. Yeah.

The fucking office is enough to encourage suicidal thoughts. Boo.

Most cold, depressing place I've seen in awhile. Told the lady he sees...she laughed. Her office is the only nice one there so far. She said she's brought it up to the head honcho and they're working on it.

I saw a mental health hospital and it looked like a prison.
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Re: Random Observations
« Reply #529 on: April 20, 2017, 07:35:16 AM »
Oh, cool! The pound has risen a bit against the dollar! I mean, noticeably. Yay!!
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Re: Random Observations
« Reply #530 on: April 20, 2017, 11:06:42 AM »
Oh, cool! The pound has risen a bit against the dollar! I mean, noticeably. Yay!!

It has? That's good news, considering I'm getting paid in pounds.
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Re: Random Observations
« Reply #531 on: April 20, 2017, 11:36:42 AM »
Oh, cool! The pound has risen a bit against the dollar! I mean, noticeably. Yay!!

It has? That's good news, considering I'm getting paid in pounds.

Oh, cool! The pound has risen a bit against the dollar! I mean, noticeably. Yay!!

It has? That's good news, considering I'm getting paid in pounds.

I usually look compare £15 to whatever the equivalent is in dollars. Years ago it was at least 1.5 times the pound (Late 20s? Can't remember) then roughly $23, then brexit happened and it went right down to $18. Now it's over $19. I know it isn't much but it's better than it was.

Hmm, that could be even more out cos before the import tax limit was £18, then they reduced it to £15, though that was still a while back.
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Re: Random Observations
« Reply #532 on: April 20, 2017, 12:39:20 PM »
Oh, cool! The pound has risen a bit against the dollar! I mean, noticeably. Yay!!

It has? That's good news, considering I'm getting paid in pounds.

Oh, cool! The pound has risen a bit against the dollar! I mean, noticeably. Yay!!

It has? That's good news, considering I'm getting paid in pounds.

I usually look compare £15 to whatever the equivalent is in dollars. Years ago it was at least 1.5 times the pound (Late 20s? Can't remember) then roughly $23, then brexit happened and it went right down to $18. Now it's over $19. I know it isn't much but it's better than it was.

Hmm, that could be even more out cos before the import tax limit was £18, then they reduced it to £15, though that was still a while back.

Is that the pound rising, or the dollar falling?

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Re: Random Observations
« Reply #533 on: April 20, 2017, 12:44:37 PM »
Oh, cool! The pound has risen a bit against the dollar! I mean, noticeably. Yay!!

It has? That's good news, considering I'm getting paid in pounds.

Oh, cool! The pound has risen a bit against the dollar! I mean, noticeably. Yay!!

It has? That's good news, considering I'm getting paid in pounds.

I usually look compare £15 to whatever the equivalent is in dollars. Years ago it was at least 1.5 times the pound (Late 20s? Can't remember) then roughly $23, then brexit happened and it went right down to $18. Now it's over $19. I know it isn't much but it's better than it was.

Hmm, that could be even more out cos before the import tax limit was £18, then they reduced it to £15, though that was still a while back.

Is that the pound rising, or the dollar falling?

The pound has risen!

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2017/04/18/pound-touches-three-week-high-against-us-dollar-ftse-100-suffers/

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Pound soars to six-month high after Theresa May calls general election, but £46bn wiped off FTSE 100 in worst day since Brexit vote
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Re: Random Observations
« Reply #534 on: April 20, 2017, 03:04:39 PM »
Isn't Earth a beautiful planet?
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Re: Random Observations
« Reply #535 on: April 20, 2017, 09:23:21 PM »
Doctors' and dentists' waiting rooms are ugly.  Uuuuuug-LEE.  Why can't they get it right?  :dunno:
At the doctors where my friend goes, they have painted practically the whole practice yellow. My Irlen lenses (which are blue) can't even filter it out. The last two times I've been there I have gotten a headache.
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Re: Random Observations
« Reply #536 on: April 21, 2017, 03:33:37 AM »
Isn't Earth a beautiful planet?

  It really is.  I'm glad to be an earthling.  :)
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Re: Random Observations
« Reply #537 on: April 21, 2017, 03:38:12 AM »
Doctors' and dentists' waiting rooms are ugly.  Uuuuuug-LEE.  Why can't they get it right?  :dunno:
At the doctors where my friend goes, they have painted practically the whole practice yellow. My Irlen lenses (which are blue) can't even filter it out. The last two times I've been there I have gotten a headache.

  Yellow, yikes.  The dental practice where I go now has accent walls in bright green,
   smoky-gray plastic chairs, a couple of dying plants, even I could have done better than that.  :facepalm2:
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Re: Random Observations
« Reply #538 on: April 21, 2017, 03:50:47 AM »
My dental practice looks modern and very clean, and has a TV. They do regular free samples of toothpaste too, ideal for taking travelling. :P

A lot of dental practices here are both private and NHS. The orthodontist I used to go to did both, and he had much better equipment than the NHS hospital I went to.

Maybe it works well for dentists because...actually, I can't think of a reason.

On the other hand, the hospital I went to for a blood test that was previously NHS, then run privately, was an absolute shambles. It was terrible, and there were so many people waiting around. I think it was one staff member doing blood tests plus other things.
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Re: Random Observations
« Reply #539 on: April 21, 2017, 03:52:54 AM »
^ I'm guessing that the privately run hospital is a shambles because their profits come out of tax money instead of directly by patients. Otherwise they would get nothing because their service is so bad.
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