Stupid, stupid, stupid and pointless composition of public messages

[nevali]

Er, no, that's just the way it's spoken. It doesn't mean it's evolved, just that it's easier to pronounce that way

Just as with ‘PAC’, ‘MAC’, ‘DIN’, and so on.

[hotblonde]

Originally Posted by LesMTS

I don't know. I'll ask one of the surgeons tomorrow.

You are meant to stay with the patient. ICU patients also, do not get moved and dedicated staff stay with them.

[LesMTS]

Originally Posted by hotblonde

You are meant to stay with the patient. ICU patients also, do not get moved and dedicated staff stay with them.

I've not asked a surgeon yet, I asked one of the girls in the lab. She reckons they have to evacuate if the fire is actually in or right outside the theatre. If I can find a surgeon today I'll get the definitive answer.

[djtoast]

You mean ICU Unit, surely

[nevali]

*neg*

[hotblonde]

Originally Posted by LesMTS

I've not asked a surgeon yet, I asked one of the girls in the lab. She reckons they have to evacuate if the fire is actually in or right outside the theatre. If I can find a surgeon today I'll get the definitive answer.

If the fire is threatening to the staff in theatre then they will close and try to move. I'm not sure about those in the ICU unit though Toast. I don't think the entire hospital is ever evauated when an alarm goes off.

[djtoast]

If you ever end up in a wheelchair, don't go see a play at the Traverse.

In the event of a fire, rather than trying to manhandle you up the stairs to street level to escape the burning building, they wheel you into a special "fireproof" room, which gives the firemen 2 hours to put the fire out before you get engulfed by flames.

Assuming they succeed, and you survive, they then presumably have to manhandle you up the stairs at that point anyway, the only difference being that by this point the building has likely suffered structural damage and may collapse on you.

Great idea, chaps.

[Frankie LiDeo]

All patients on a hospital ward I was in were shepherded into the sitting room (which, incidentally, was the furthest place from the stairs) every time the fire alarm sounded.

[Bobzilla]

Originally Posted by djtoast

If you ever end up in a wheelchair, don't go see a play at the Traverse.

In the event of a fire, rather than trying to manhandle you up the stairs to street level to escape the burning building, they wheel you into a special "fireproof" room, which gives the firemen 2 hours to put the fire out before you get engulfed by flames.

Assuming they succeed, and you survive, they then presumably have to manhandle you up the stairs at that point anyway, the only difference being that by this point the building has likely suffered structural damage and may collapse on you.

Great idea, chaps.

I'm sure the cathouse has something similar as well.

I know thanks to my 'status' as official helper to my colleague whos lost several toes and broken his ankle etc that unless theres an evac chair nearby (which there usually is) theres an area by the fire escape stairwell that doubles as the fireproof room despite the fact teh firedoors that open into it don't fit the doorframe 100% and we'd die a burny death in there.

oh and heres another though not quite the same.

Koi Carp. You'd be just as well saying Koi Koi.

[djtoast]

A fishmonger was getting a new sign made and he asked the signwriter to make it say "Fresh Fish Sold Here."

The signwriter quoted him £10 per word, took his brushes out and was about to start when the fishmonger said "you know what, we don't need the word 'fresh' , obviously it's fresh, nobody's gonna sell stale fish.

"In fact, come to that, we don't really need the word 'here'—that's obvious, a shop sign always goes on the shop. Leave out 'here.'

"And you know what, 'sold' is a bit silly, clearly I'm not giving it away, nothing's free in this life, my old man used to say."

The signwriter gives him a hard stare and says "Then I'll leave out the word 'fish' too, you don't need to say that cause you can smell the fucking things a mile up the road."

[Semprini]

Originally Posted by djtoast

No, it's away getting a PAT Test.

Point After Touchdown? What's to test? It either goes between the posts or it doesn't.

[Frankie LiDeo]

Originally Posted by McLeary

"If you require ingress" on the sign attached to that shut-off lane near Sauchiehall Street. Was "entry" unavailable due to other commitments? Fuckin' "ingress" indeed.

I've just had an MSN conversation in which I was told:

''If some random turned up on my doorstep wearing any sort of mask I would probably be disinclined to allow them ingress (to either my house *or* my daughter), cf. Hannibal Lecter, Jason Voorhees.''

I don't think it's unreasonable.

[Withnail]

at my work, the drive to ditch acronyms has meant re lengthening some standard phrases. so originally, we had personal effects drawers, or PEDs. some bright spark has decided this was originally 'pedestal', so now people talk about putting their sandwiches and things im pedestals. idiots.

[Devastator]

I wish I had an example.