Re: I'd like my three pound fifty back please

Ivan.Reid@xxxxxxxxxxxx Dr Ivan D. Reid says...
> On Sat, 8 Oct 2005 17:49:25 +0100, Bear <bastardDOTbear@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote in <MPG.1db208ede573307598a877@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> > news@xxxxxxxxxxxx Champ says...
> >> On Sat, 8 Oct 2005 15:48:53 +0000 (UTC), "Dr Ivan D. Reid"
> >> <Ivan.Reid@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> >> >> What a diverting site. This one surely has to be a Wicked Weasel :
> >> >> http://RateMyCamelToe.com/X.php/V/183791 - where's Ivan when you need him?
>
> >> > What makes you think *I* am an expert? Though to be sure, it does
> >> >have some elements of the local shop's designs. Errm, so I've been told...
>
> >> And you're a local boy, aintcha?
>
> >> > I'm hearing of cheap flights in the next two months, I might have
> >> >to check it out personally. I do _so_ need a holiday, I've been v. tired
> >> >lately. OTOH, the practice clerk took one look at my glucose levels
> >> >yesterday and immediately booked me an appointment with the doctor; I
> >> >might be joining the insulin brigade after all. :-(
>
> > Strewth. Heavy Ivan, best of luck and GWS.
>
> >> Bummer. Diabetes is the biggest health threat of the 21st century,
> >> according to the Independent.
>
> Thanks Champ, Bear, 'Hog. Guess I'll know the worst Monday night;
> it might be a red herring, but pretty much all my cousins on my mum's side
> (and there are a fuckload of 'em! She was the youngest of 13[1].) got
> diabetes before 50 so I'm buckin' the odds @ just gone 54.

Well hang in there, and see how you go with it.

> > It also has the potential to disable the NHS, since the cost of
> > treatment * the number of likely patients = some fucking scary numbers.
>
> I rather thought obesity is the bigger bugaboo, not least because
> obesity->diabetes but also because obesity->a shitload of other diseases.

It's all connected ... but the numbers make for highly scary reading.

> [1] Granpa died at 34; in their irreverent moments his descendants suggest
> it was due to exhaustion.

Jesus Christ. Did he ever get out of bed?
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Bear
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