
but the Jimmy Saville glasses threw me
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Because HAL does all my system sounds, and has done since about 1995 when it was actually cool to program your own system sounds.
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I haven't been at B3ta for a very, very long time - forgive me.
In the meantime, I have been fighting cancer. Two years ago, I got given "18-24 months" to live, maximum. Here is a letter that I just wrote to my former Oncologist - I am sharing it in the hope that it might bring some positivity to other people who are also affected by this shitter of a disease. Please indulge me in posting it!
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Dear Dr K,
Greetings, I hope that you are well! I am a former patient of yours, and am very well myself.
On January 26th 2011, I was seen at your clinic and I'm afraid that you had bad news to give me; the breast cancer that I had only recently been diagnosed with had already metastasised to my liver. You told me this - and I felt so badly for you having to deliver such horrible news - and then told me that I now had "18-24 months, maximum" left to live. You followed this up with a letter to my GP, so it is clear in all my medical records: "I have told her that she has life expectancy of a maximum of 24 months".
Dear Dr K, that was two years and one day ago. I am currently so well that my last PET/CT scans were completely clear, and my current oncologist feels that I may not even need another set of scans for six months! I take the drug Letrazole, and have the Zoladex implant, so the side-effects of these two treatments can be uncomfortable BUT in the past year alone I have gone on a walking tour of Rome, visited the archaelogical sites at Pompeii, driven a speedboat across Lake Como, climbed many hills along the Welsh Marches and attended the Olympics, where I cheered our inspirational athletes as they won their golds (something that, following your news, wasn't sure I would live to see). I've explored Guernsey's secret underground tunnels and meditated at the most remote church in Wales and have walked the Monsal Trail in Derbyshire, stopping off at the well in Eyam, the Plague Village. In the face of hell, those villagers didn't give up either.
I'm writing this letter to implore you, next time you have to break the news of advanced disease to someone - especially someone young - please tell them "well, statistically you are likely to live for x amount of months, but people DO outlive the statistics all the time, and one of my former patients has just done that". It is not fair to put an absolute limit on someone's life; there is always hope, however tiny a spark it seems at the time.
I would also ask you to do your best to ensure that your colleagues at the Breast Service are extremely careful and do not cut corners when testing the women who attend ther clinics. Six months before I saw you I was misdiagnosed by one of your colleagues, who noted that I had two breast lumps "but we ony need to test one of them, we're not worried about the other". Big, big mistake. Since then I have had many people tell me to "sue for damages", and whilst that would be the right course of action for some people, it is not how I would want to spend my now-limited life. You and your colleagues save countless lives every day, you are the reason families still have their mothers and their daughters, the reason that people can grow old with their lifelong partners. You cannot get it right 100% of the time and sadly for me, your colleague was very wrong. So, without bitterness, I implore you and your team to make those extra checks in future.
Here's to the next two years!
Yours sincerely,
......
PS my hair grew back, and it came back blonde again :-)
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Thu 17 Jan 2013, 16:39,
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In the meantime, I have been fighting cancer. Two years ago, I got given "18-24 months" to live, maximum. Here is a letter that I just wrote to my former Oncologist - I am sharing it in the hope that it might bring some positivity to other people who are also affected by this shitter of a disease. Please indulge me in posting it!
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Dear Dr K,
Greetings, I hope that you are well! I am a former patient of yours, and am very well myself.
On January 26th 2011, I was seen at your clinic and I'm afraid that you had bad news to give me; the breast cancer that I had only recently been diagnosed with had already metastasised to my liver. You told me this - and I felt so badly for you having to deliver such horrible news - and then told me that I now had "18-24 months, maximum" left to live. You followed this up with a letter to my GP, so it is clear in all my medical records: "I have told her that she has life expectancy of a maximum of 24 months".
Dear Dr K, that was two years and one day ago. I am currently so well that my last PET/CT scans were completely clear, and my current oncologist feels that I may not even need another set of scans for six months! I take the drug Letrazole, and have the Zoladex implant, so the side-effects of these two treatments can be uncomfortable BUT in the past year alone I have gone on a walking tour of Rome, visited the archaelogical sites at Pompeii, driven a speedboat across Lake Como, climbed many hills along the Welsh Marches and attended the Olympics, where I cheered our inspirational athletes as they won their golds (something that, following your news, wasn't sure I would live to see). I've explored Guernsey's secret underground tunnels and meditated at the most remote church in Wales and have walked the Monsal Trail in Derbyshire, stopping off at the well in Eyam, the Plague Village. In the face of hell, those villagers didn't give up either.
I'm writing this letter to implore you, next time you have to break the news of advanced disease to someone - especially someone young - please tell them "well, statistically you are likely to live for x amount of months, but people DO outlive the statistics all the time, and one of my former patients has just done that". It is not fair to put an absolute limit on someone's life; there is always hope, however tiny a spark it seems at the time.
I would also ask you to do your best to ensure that your colleagues at the Breast Service are extremely careful and do not cut corners when testing the women who attend ther clinics. Six months before I saw you I was misdiagnosed by one of your colleagues, who noted that I had two breast lumps "but we ony need to test one of them, we're not worried about the other". Big, big mistake. Since then I have had many people tell me to "sue for damages", and whilst that would be the right course of action for some people, it is not how I would want to spend my now-limited life. You and your colleagues save countless lives every day, you are the reason families still have their mothers and their daughters, the reason that people can grow old with their lifelong partners. You cannot get it right 100% of the time and sadly for me, your colleague was very wrong. So, without bitterness, I implore you and your team to make those extra checks in future.
Here's to the next two years!
Yours sincerely,
......
PS my hair grew back, and it came back blonde again :-)

Sincerely. Cancer took my Uncle just a month ago.
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Thu 17 Jan 2013, 16:43,
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Thank you. I'm so sorry you lost your uncle to this fucker of a disease.
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Thu 17 Jan 2013, 16:47,
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having cancer sounds great.
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Thu 17 Jan 2013, 16:45,
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good for you!
It seems that many b3tans are getting to the age where shitty illnesses like cancer are now a reality. I know that for some it is sooner.
We've lost a few friends to this disease recently and will lose some more. Greg_Evigan's brutally honest post on the FP is a graphic and stark reminder of this.
Not sure what I'm trying to say here other than go and see your GP if you have any symptoms of any cancers. There's no shortage of sites listing these.
B3ta has some strange turns occasionally. That's it's nature.
Cunt cancer in the fuck is what I say
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Thu 17 Jan 2013, 16:45,
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It seems that many b3tans are getting to the age where shitty illnesses like cancer are now a reality. I know that for some it is sooner.
We've lost a few friends to this disease recently and will lose some more. Greg_Evigan's brutally honest post on the FP is a graphic and stark reminder of this.
Not sure what I'm trying to say here other than go and see your GP if you have any symptoms of any cancers. There's no shortage of sites listing these.
B3ta has some strange turns occasionally. That's it's nature.
Cunt cancer in the fuck is what I say

Cheers Gruffi. I hope everyone reads your advice and make sure they get checked out if they're worried about any odd symptoms etc x
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Thu 17 Jan 2013, 16:50,
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I've bored enough people about my adventures about it today :)
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Thu 17 Jan 2013, 17:03,
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I promised myself a scan for my 40th birthday - bowel cancer took my mum 5 years ago
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Thu 17 Jan 2013, 17:17,
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Do it, you know it makes sense. There isn't a person alive who hasnt lost someone close to them due to this cunting arsefuck of a disease.
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Thu 17 Jan 2013, 17:20,
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it's a pretty straightforward procedure. Just a couple of days of laxative induced squirting and no food beforehand and a team of people exploring your arse deeper than you thought possible. You even get some cool drugs to take during the procedure, unless your are hard like me and refused them*
*I didn't read the info properly and drove to the appt on my own. Turned out I didn't need them anyway
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Thu 17 Jan 2013, 17:41,
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*I didn't read the info properly and drove to the appt on my own. Turned out I didn't need them anyway

It's great to hear some good news, congrats on the clear scan x
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Thu 17 Jan 2013, 17:21,
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A lovely succinct letter.
Like you said you could be riding the sue yo ass horse (if I wasn't eating it in a bun tonight)but you won't.
It's nice you know that they do see alot of patients, and can get it wrong on occasion.
And I'm glad your hair came back!
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Thu 17 Jan 2013, 16:48,
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Like you said you could be riding the sue yo ass horse (if I wasn't eating it in a bun tonight)but you won't.
It's nice you know that they do see alot of patients, and can get it wrong on occasion.
And I'm glad your hair came back!

It's not up to much, tbh. Happily I have a good arse to make up for it.
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Thu 17 Jan 2013, 16:56,
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Cheers Xandmi! Maybe I will get back to Photoshopping or whatever you young pups do here these days. I got Frontpaged back in about 2003, you know.
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Thu 17 Jan 2013, 16:57,
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I'm sure you can do one in 2013 or 2017 or whenever :)
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Thu 17 Jan 2013, 17:00,
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I hope it's the colour you wanted :D
also woo to driving speed boat across lake Como and all the other ace stuff
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Thu 17 Jan 2013, 17:00,
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also woo to driving speed boat across lake Como and all the other ace stuff

Incredible that a doctor would put a definite limit on life. Good to see you stuck it to him kid. Now ask him to write a reply to your letter and put it on the new QOTW.
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Thu 17 Jan 2013, 17:21,
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like the episode of the IT Crowd when Moss tells Roy when he's going to die (apols for facileness, obviously)
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Thu 17 Jan 2013, 17:27,
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Aye, I've seen other doctors/oncologists since, who didn't believe that my first Onc had very definitely said "18-24 months as a best case scenario". So I pointed out that it was all there in my notes, and in the copy of the letter that was sent to my GP. They were surprised too.
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Thu 17 Jan 2013, 17:33,
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glad you're beating it - it sounds like you have a very positive outlook
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Thu 17 Jan 2013, 17:23,
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Keep living it to the full and fire up potatoshop. Shane Macgowen has outlived doctor death predictions by 20 years or so and you can too! The glass is ALWAYS half full . . .
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Thu 17 Jan 2013, 17:45,
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I lost my Mum 4 years ago, and it's just proper horrible, but as life constantly reminds me, it's not all bad and shit things can be properly overcome!
Mega yaaays and cheers and party poppers and smiles and joy and love going out to you and here's to a long a fruitful life!
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Thu 17 Jan 2013, 17:58,
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Mega yaaays and cheers and party poppers and smiles and joy and love going out to you and here's to a long a fruitful life!

I believe though that the docs, esspecially an oncologist, would be better trained on how to handle patients in the majority of situations.... rather than a one-off.
Well done on your new lease.
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Thu 17 Jan 2013, 18:17,
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Well done on your new lease.

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This week's challenge is a two word challenge celebrating one thing: Gay Robots. Go wild. Challenge suggested by mictoboy.

www.b3ta.com/board/10911112
and YAY it looks like it did win the compo :o)
www.b3ta.com/board/10906695
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Thu 17 Jan 2013, 16:32,
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and YAY it looks like it did win the compo :o)
www.b3ta.com/board/10906695

* may have been blatantly fishing for compliments
It was such an enjoyable pic to put together I'm really chuffed that it did well :D
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Thu 17 Jan 2013, 16:38,
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It was such an enjoyable pic to put together I'm really chuffed that it did well :D

I did a thing with that a while back, so I stuck it p-roast style in the compo
it's so fucking random, I love it!
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Thu 17 Jan 2013, 18:01,
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it's so fucking random, I love it!

eyeballs, arseholes bollocks and brains sounds like some kind of exercise regime
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Thu 17 Jan 2013, 16:08,
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and rice krispies were made from rice
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Thu 17 Jan 2013, 16:11,
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of 'cornered', as in, 'cornered in the abbatoir'
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Thu 17 Jan 2013, 17:53,
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www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/news/local/10168591.Design_a_bag_for_store_service/
what could possibly go wrong?
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Thu 17 Jan 2013, 15:53,
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what could possibly go wrong?

I prefer the anticipation of travelgeddon and maybe staying at home tomorrow
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Thu 17 Jan 2013, 15:04,
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Thu 17 Jan 2013, 15:15,
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if my daughter sees those tonight and there isn't enough snow tomorrow there will be hell to pay
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Thu 17 Jan 2013, 15:16,
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2 sons have been snow-checking every morning for a week. IT's JUST STARTING NOW!
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Thu 17 Jan 2013, 15:14,
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Looking up as the snow's coming down is blissful.
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Thu 17 Jan 2013, 15:19,
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could do with some rain here,
410 yesterday!
a bit warm!
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Thu 17 Jan 2013, 15:25,
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410 yesterday!
a bit warm!

-41 +41 -41f -41c +41f +41c oh it's too confusing..... :)
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Thu 17 Jan 2013, 15:47,
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So it was 1°? Stop whinging and man up, 1° is nothing to complain about.
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Thu 17 Jan 2013, 15:49,
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or something else
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Thu 17 Jan 2013, 15:37,
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Come on B3ta. Get your finger out.
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Thu 17 Jan 2013, 15:50,
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fantastic style
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Thu 17 Jan 2013, 16:03,
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Missed your stuff as well. Are you back for good or just a fleeting visit?
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Thu 17 Jan 2013, 16:06,
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just seeing if the same things that contributed to my leaving last time are still going on.
So far, more or less, so good.
Although the time away has led to a lot of perspective on this place.
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Thu 17 Jan 2013, 16:12,
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So far, more or less, so good.
Although the time away has led to a lot of perspective on this place.

Like Ferris Bueller.
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Thu 17 Jan 2013, 16:23,
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I'm bored of the snow now, still hasn't cleared from the other day and now it's been dropping again for the last 2 hours...
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Thu 17 Jan 2013, 16:47,
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I saw 2 flakes today, and then there were about 10 facebooks from other folks in Bristol saying "snow!"
they ain't gonna get a day of work for 2 flakes :D
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Thu 17 Jan 2013, 18:06,
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they ain't gonna get a day of work for 2 flakes :D
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A berce mon coeur pour la vie lala la laAA etc.
(It's a reference to the crap French song in Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy... It's supposed to be all gay and romantic).

I always thought that phonetically it made for a good expletive though :o)
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Thu 17 Jan 2013, 14:59,
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a bus stop.
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Thu 17 Jan 2013, 15:22,
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Now, who would shit through a crack like this?
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Thu 17 Jan 2013, 15:20,
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Celebrity Arsehole
ITV4 every night at 22:00 for the rest of your life
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Thu 17 Jan 2013, 15:31,
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ITV4 every night at 22:00 for the rest of your life

that a channel DID have celebrity enemas or something like that? I know that woman wanked off a pig but did someone get enemad on TV?
Did I dream this?
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Thu 17 Jan 2013, 15:41,
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Did I dream this?

that spoke very limited English as he was messing around down there with his pipes, tubes and lube.
Reminded me very much of a lads weekend I once had in Amsterdam but was at least, substantially cheaper and the after effects were less...
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Thu 17 Jan 2013, 15:32,
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Reminded me very much of a lads weekend I once had in Amsterdam but was at least, substantially cheaper and the after effects were less...

had had a video camera in his bum. She was laughing like an idiot and I had to explain to her that it wasn't a normal camera with film crew, sound boom and a director in a chair shouting CUT!
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Thu 17 Jan 2013, 15:51,
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WTF have I just been through then....?
Hang on, Ben Dover isnt even the name of a real doctor...
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Thu 17 Jan 2013, 16:01,
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Hang on, Ben Dover isnt even the name of a real doctor...

Is looking away from us, nonplussed also.
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Thu 17 Jan 2013, 14:51,
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He's had that pichfork shoved so far up his arse it has poked his hat out of shape.
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