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goatwarden wrote:I suspect I succumbed to Stockholm Syndrome in the hospital. I had three days of pretty good care (although no information) followed by three completely unnecessary days of effective holding against my will at huge unnecessary expense to the NHS.

eltonioni wrote:Lucky sod.

Colin63 wrote:Recently I went out with a group to celebrate an old friend's 47th birthday. For some reason or other he chose to go to a new bar which was very trendy and specialised in expensive cocktails. I was remarkably restrained and just had a couple of glasses of wine and my friend seemed to be pacing himself nicely. After a few hours we both went outside for a smoke and as we stepped into the fresh air he had a dizzy attack and stumbled (obviously hadn't paced himself as much as I thought). He tried to correct his fall which would have seen him stagger into the road and in doing so fell into a group of people. It was quite funny as I haven't seen him do something like that for well over twenty years, but obviously needed a bit of intervention to extricate him from the group of people, make apologies and make sure that we replaced any spilled drinks. I grabbed him and steadied him and apologised for the incident but what happened next really shocked me. The women in the group rounded on him and started kicking and punching him. Now this is a small balding middle aged man, and while the accident had no redeeming aspects to it (apart from my amusement) to see such a response of violence was just gob smacking. It just took a few seconds for their male friends to pull them back and calm them down (at least to the point where all they were doing was swearing at my mate). Luckily I was sober and the bouncers, yes it was one of those places, were quick to accurately assess what had happened and deal with me which diffused the situation, but blimey! Perhaps not grumpy old women but a case of the cold hostility which seems to be bubbling under the surface of this society these days.

mark a. wrote:
That was replaced with a B&W Ixon IQ and not surprisingly it blows the other two out of the water. It's very bright and the rechargeable batteries last for ages even on full power. Even better is the beam pattern, which has a nice cut-off to prevent dazzling other people and focuses the light where you need it: down and to the sides.

Grandad wrote:
He puts his recovery down to faithfully keeping to the post op physiotherapy routine.

Good luck.

[XAP]Bob wrote:Adding FaceBook is easy, and is a good publicity tool - but I've no idea how flexible it is in terms of publishing.
Also, however pervasive it appears, there are a good number of people who do not use FB.

Any better ideas than helmetsense... One advantage - It's available

dameunmate wrote: I punched him in the face knocking him to the ground. ...I was just defending her rights.

dameunmate wrote:

I think if a women touches a male stranger it's acceptable because he can defend himself, but if a man touches a female stranger this is not acceptable because in most cases she can do nothing for fear of further assault.