Unpopular Opinions You Hold

[Aus Fox]

2 hours ago, Parafox said:

In my experience this is true in lot's of cases. Some people have learnt or realised the 999 system of assessment of a 999 call and will use responses to the triage questions in order to get a higher priority of 999 response or an ambulance assessment because they can't get a doctor's appointment and they want something immediately. For example: are you having difficulty in breathing? Pt has a simple cough but responds "yes". This and many other responses, generate an immediate category 1 response, often inappropriately, but we can't take the chance and that's why ambulance services are so often overwhelmed. I could relate hundreds of inappropriate calls. Problem is, they only become inappropriate once the ambulance in on scene and assesses the patient.

 

What’s the worst call out you’ve been on, in terms of why the bloody hell has this idiot called an ambulance? It must be really frustrating when you rock up and pissed up Dave has a slight scrape and has called you out.

[Daggers]

Having had to wash my dogs and car boot after every walk for seven days, not only do I now support fox hunting - but I reckon they should have their faces smeared in their own excrement prior to death. In fact, living foxes should have their pictures posted in the local papers so people can phone a call centre to dob them in.

[Flamey]

26 minutes ago, Daggers said:

Having had to wash my dogs and car boot after every walk for seven days, not only do I now support fox hunting - but I reckon they should have their faces smeared in their own excrement prior to death. In fact, living foxes should have their pictures posted in the local papers so people can phone a call centre to dob them in.

You want FoxStalk Daggers....close though.

[SouthStandUpperTier]

The categorization of the athletes at the Paralympics doesn't always produce a level playing field and spoils the spectacle somewhat.

[ozleicester]

Rich people and corporations should pay more tax so there are more and better funded hospitals and caregivers

[ozleicester]

10 hours ago, Flamey said:

You want FoxStalk Daggers....close though.

quite possibly the funniest comment ever on Foxstalk

[drumbeat]

1 minute ago, SouthStandUpperTier said:

The categorization of the athletes at the Paralympics doesn't always produce a level playing field and spoils the spectacle somewhat.

My unpopular opinion (perhaps) : I have no interest in watching the Paralympics (but then, I had very little interest in the Olympics) When I see the various categories, and read about how they are decided etc, I haven't a clue as to how it can be anything every remotely like a level playing field.

 

So I think one has to watch the Paralympics as something other than as a competition between athletes. Maybe if you watch it as something like 'triumph over adversity' then perhaps it takes on a new perspective. I'd guess that perhaps if you are, or know, or are related to someone with a disability then it takes on greater meaning still.    

[stripeyfox]

19 hours ago, Wymsey said:

People who turn up and use Accident and Emergency departments for minor things such as scratch on the head or being drunk should be made to pay for using the service.

 

as should anyone who "checks in" to A&E on facebook.

 

"Jane Bloggs is feeling worried at Leicester Royal Infimary"

 

U ok hun - stop being an attention seeking tw@t

 

[Parafox]

12 hours ago, Aus Fox said:

What’s the worst call out you’ve been on, in terms of why the bloody hell has this idiot called an ambulance? It must be really frustrating when you rock up and pissed up Dave has a slight scrape and has called you out.

There's lots. Probably the one that springs to mind is one where we had our meal break spoilt to respond to an "uncontrolled haemorrhage". We travelled on blue lights all the way from Narborough to Market Harborough to find a woman in her 20's who'd cut her finger on a tin and yes, it had been bleeding and the blood was running down her hand and wrist. By the time we got there the bleeding had slowed. She hadn't made any attempt to do anything except lift her hand above her head. We cleaned and dressed the cut with a plaster. Whilst talking to her it emerged that she held a first aid at work certificate. To add to our exasperation, the plaster we used was from her box in the cupboard!

[Footballwipe]

2 hours ago, Parafox said:

There's lots. Probably the one that springs to mind is one where we had our meal break spoilt to respond to an "uncontrolled haemorrhage". We travelled on blue lights all the way from Narborough to Market Harborough to find a woman in her 20's who'd cut her finger on a tin and yes, it had been bleeding and the blood was running down her hand and wrist. By the time we got there the bleeding had slowed. She hadn't made any attempt to do anything except lift her hand above her head. We cleaned and dressed the cut with a plaster. Whilst talking to her it emerged that she held a first aid at work certificate. To add to our exasperation, the plaster we used was from her box in the cupboard!

Can I ask you to do the opposite now  because for every case of idiots like that, you've surely come across one or who where, after getting there, you think "why on earth didn't you call us sooner!" with someone's finger actually hanging off, or a cut having developed.

 

I guess it's trying to show that whilst people are like that lady, there are loads of people who are far too proud/embarrassed or polite not to bother the ambulance when it's definitely needed.

[Alf Bentley]

1 hour ago, Footballwipe said:

Can I ask you to do the opposite now  because for every case of idiots like that, you've surely come across one or who where, after getting there, you think "why on earth didn't you call us sooner!" with someone's finger actually hanging off, or a cut having developed.

 

I guess it's trying to show that whilst people are like that lady, there are loads of people who are far too proud/embarrassed or polite not to bother the ambulance when it's definitely needed.

 

I heard this bloke was too proud to call an ambulance....

 

[FoxesAreBlue]

I love Richmond sausages 

[bovril]

37 minutes ago, FoxesAreBlue said:

I love Richmond sausages 

that's up there with the most unpopular

[Heathrow fox]

2 hours ago, FoxesAreBlue said:

I love Richmond sausages 

Won’t have anything else.

[Parafox]

5 hours ago, Footballwipe said:

Can I ask you to do the opposite now  because for every case of idiots like that, you've surely come across one or who where, after getting there, you think "why on earth didn't you call us sooner!" with someone's finger actually hanging off, or a cut having developed.

 

I guess it's trying to show that whilst people are like that lady, there are loads of people who are far too proud/embarrassed or polite not to bother the ambulance when it's definitely needed.

This is true and it's mainly true of the elderly because they think they've caused us some inconvenience by calling 999, particularly on a night shift. I recall travelling to an 80-ish lady who'd fallen and tried to get up by herself and failed. She decided to wait on the floor for 6 hours until daylight before "bothering us". When we rocked up we had to get the fire service to gain entry so that was a further, albeit brief, delay. We got in to find her lying on the on a cold, tiled bathroom floor unable to move. She was hypothermic and very pale and not really responding normally. She did keep apologising for bothering us. We did the whole works we could do to make her comfortable and relieve the pain in her abdomen, back and hips before extricating her on a trauma board with her having been fully immobilised with straps and a cervical collar. We put a drip up, gave her morphine and IV paracetamol. We thought she'd done some serious damage to either her hip or pelvis. We blue lighted her in to resus. When we checked later it turned out she had Osteoporosis and had, indeed, fractured her pelvis and her neck of femur. 

It was tragic to think that she'd not called sooner and lain in such pain until she felt it a reasonable time of day to press her personal alarm button. 

Sadly, we found out she didn't make it. 

There's been a few people who have been embarrassed when making the call but that hasn't stopped them delaying calling. I went to one poor guy who, after some fun with his partner, had his foreskin shrink tightly behind his bell-end and cut off the blood supply to that part. He was in agony until my colleague and I used lubricant that we normally use when inserting a tube into an airway during advanced life support along with a couple of other implements at our disposal to slowly and gently ease the foreskin over the swollen end and back to where it should be after one's erection has subsided.

Embarrassingly for us we were both on our knees in front of him fiddling with his flaccid penis.

[Analysethis]

I have a son with a Black South American girl, my girlfriend of 12 years is Indian. Somehow though, I thought that Enoch Powell was a brilliant politician! Ive been screamed at for my views!

 

If you take away some of his thoughts, this bloke was brilliant. When I see these daft MPs on TV these days who cant string a sentence together, it makes you wonder WTF happened.

 

Another unpopular view with the missus is that I want to buy her a bungee rope, tie it around her waste so its long enough to get about the house into the kitchen and spring back into the bedroom. That thought didn't go down too well either.

[The Bear]

1 hour ago, Parafox said:

I went to one poor guy who, after some fun with his partner, had his foreskin shrink tightly behind his bell-end and cut off the blood supply to that part. He was in agony until my colleague and I used lubricant that we normally use when inserting a tube into an airway during advanced life support along with a couple of other implements at our disposal to slowly and gently ease the foreskin over the swollen end and back to where it should be after one's erection has subsided.

Embarrassingly for us we were both on our knees in front of him fiddling with his flaccid penis.

 

Kin ell fire

[FoxesAreBlue]

1 hour ago, Parafox said:

I went to one poor guy who, after some fun with his partner, had his foreskin shrink tightly behind his bell-end and cut off the blood supply to that part. He was in agony until my colleague and I used lubricant that we normally use when inserting a tube into an airway during advanced life support along with a couple of other implements at our disposal to slowly and gently ease the foreskin over the swollen end and back to where it should be after one's erection has subsided.

Embarrassingly for us we were both on our knees in front of him fiddling with his flaccid penis.

I’m a firefighter and a couple of Christmas day’s ago we got sent to a hospital to cut a c0ck ring off some poor fellas chap.

 

It had been on there for about 48 hours and his Hampton had swelled to the size of a balloon and I spent about an hour of that Christmas afternoon eyes to eye with the beast, like yourself, very hands on. I missed the Queens speech that day.

 

The guy had out the ring around both his shaft and his nut-sac, apparently that they best way to do it, I’m to vanilla to know really, what I did know was that no amount of line was getting this thing off.

 

In the end, we cut it with a hydraulic tool that is used to cut the pedals off of cars when people feet are trapped in them after road collisions.

 

The guy was lucky, the doctors said either we cut the ring off or he’s going to have to cut one of his spuds off.

[Benguin]

On 02/09/2021 at 18:12, Corky said:

 

This bloke would do it.

Is that Jack Nicholson?

[bovril]

Just now, Benguin said:

Is that Jack Nicholson?

Perhaps if you've literally never seen any Jack Nicholson films or even a photo of him. 

[Claridge]

19 hours ago, FoxesAreBlue said:

I love Richmond sausages 

like taking all the bog paper off and stuffing it in the cardboard bit. literally taste of nothing

[tom27111]

12 hours ago, Claridge said:

like taking all the bog paper off and stuffing it in the cardboard bit. literally taste of nothing

 

It's like going to a really nice Indian restaurant and ordering a Korma with boiled rice.

[Unabomber]

I don’t know if this is unpopular but cats are so shit. Who would want to own a cat? Why get a pet that doesn’t like you, doesn’t do anything, adds no value to your life (not funny, can’t walk them, can’t teach them tricks etc). Dogs are so much better it’s not even a debate. Also some cats just walk around outside and do whatever they want. You then see posters on lampposts saying “lost cat” yeah no shit it’s prob been run over on one of its lone walks through the streets. 

[Guest Electric Yetis]

1 minute ago, Unabomber said:

I don’t know if this is unpopular but cats are so shit. Who would want to own a cat? Why get a pet that doesn’t like you, doesn’t do anything, adds no value to your life (not funny, can’t walk them, can’t teach them tricks etc). Dogs are so much better it’s not even a debate. Also some cats just walk around outside and do whatever they want. You then see posters on lampposts saying “lost cat” yeah no shit it’s prob been run over on one of its lone walks through the streets. 

Not wanting to get into a debate as I love both cats and dogs but cats definitely get a rough reputation for not liking you. Our cats will come and put their arms(paws) around your next and go to sleep for hours.

 

If my youngest son is crying one of the cats will come and meow loudly next to him rubbing around him until he stops. 

 

Love dogs too though, would have got one in the last couple of years if they weren't so expensive!

[Unabomber]

4 minutes ago, Rain King said:

Not wanting to get into a debate as I love both cats and dogs but cats definitely get a rough reputation for not liking you. Our cats will come and put their arms(paws) around your next and go to sleep for hours.

 

If my youngest son is crying one of the cats will come and meow loudly next to him rubbing around him until he stops. 

 

Love dogs too though, would have got one in the last couple of years if they weren't so expensive!

Yeah it’s crazy the price of dogs. Luckily my Nigel is 4 now so I got him when they were at an acceptable value. No wonder there’s a lot of dog thefts atm.

Edited 5 September 2021 by Unabomber