Good news/bad news.
The good news is I'm off tomorrow to play with my friends and I bought a lovely blouse today. Linky for the ladies.

www.dorothyperkins.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?beginIndex=0&viewAllFlag=&catalogId=33053&storeId=12552&productId=2148413&langId=-1&sort_field=Relevance&categoryId=208745&parent_categoryId=208610&sort_field=Relevance&pageSize=20&refinements=category~[232530|208745]&noOfRefinements=1

Bad news is I had a blood test and there's nothing wrong with me.
( girlinthehole, Thu 3 Mar 2011, 13:20, 123 replies, latest was 15 years ago)

I'm sorry, the test was inaccurate.
You've got GOTI Syndrome.
( BraynDedd Natasha Kaplinsky's labia majora, Thu 3 Mar 2011, 13:21, Reply)

That sounds hilarious
what does it stand for.
(Bazongaloid, Thu 3 Mar 2011, 13:22, Reply)

Get off the internet.

( girlinthehole, Thu 3 Mar 2011, 13:22, Reply)

Oh.
No, that wasn't actually hilarious.
(Bazongaloid, Thu 3 Mar 2011, 13:24, Reply)

Girl On The Internet Syndrome.

( BraynDedd Natasha Kaplinsky's labia majora, Thu 3 Mar 2011, 13:24, Reply)

I was close.

( girlinthehole, Thu 3 Mar 2011, 13:25, Reply)

Is that where you aren't actually a girl but a fat trucker called Dave?

(Bazongaloid, Thu 3 Mar 2011, 13:25, Reply)

www.encyclopediadramatica.com/Girl_on_the_Internet_Syndrome
( BraynDedd Natasha Kaplinsky's labia majora, Thu 3 Mar 2011, 13:27, Reply)

Well the fatty bit is right but the rest is not really me.
Sorry petal.
( girlinthehole, Thu 3 Mar 2011, 13:29, Reply)

Little NSFW there don't you think?

(wellgroomedwookiee is a filthy-minded hobgoblin, Thu 3 Mar 2011, 13:31, Reply)

*stays clicking finger*
How little is little? My office is open plan. Is this link an unwise move?
( Kroney, Thu 3 Mar 2011, 13:32, Reply)

Very

(Bazongaloid, Thu 3 Mar 2011, 13:32, Reply)

*taps nose; points*

( Kroney, Thu 3 Mar 2011, 13:33, Reply)

I get the feeling he's not really bothered about getting you into trouble at work.

( girlinthehole, Thu 3 Mar 2011, 13:32, Reply)

I get the feeling he thinks he's funny

( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Thu 3 Mar 2011, 13:34, Reply)

I honestly couldn't give even the slightest hint of a fuck.

( BraynDedd Natasha Kaplinsky's labia majora, Thu 3 Mar 2011, 13:32, Reply)

You're like the internet's James Dean.

( Kroney, Thu 3 Mar 2011, 13:34, Reply)

Oh, do the one when you tell us all we're taking it too seriously, I love that one.
and then do the one where you tell Dr Shambolic and he tells us all we're taking it too seriously.

Go on, please, that's definitely my favourite one that you do.
(Bazongaloid, Thu 3 Mar 2011, 13:34, Reply)

Hahaha!

( girlinthehole, Thu 3 Mar 2011, 13:35, Reply)

I'm fairly certain I've never told Shambles anything about my online activities,
but you do seem to be getting a bit wound up, here.
( BraynDedd Natasha Kaplinsky's labia majora, Thu 3 Mar 2011, 13:35, Reply)

Hahaha!
Funny as fuck every time.
( girlinthehole, Thu 3 Mar 2011, 13:36, Reply)

YES!
I was totally holding my lighter in the air with one hand and using my camera phone to record it with the other.

That is my absolute favourite, it really is.
(Bazongaloid, Thu 3 Mar 2011, 13:38, Reply)

I'm not sure what you're trying to achieve other than making yourself look like a bit of a fool on the internet.

( BraynDedd Natasha Kaplinsky's labia majora, Thu 3 Mar 2011, 13:38, Reply)

Brilliant!
Go on, do some more.
( girlinthehole, Thu 3 Mar 2011, 13:39, Reply)

Oh brilliant! Yes! I love this one too, keep going, go on, please keep going.

*waits nervously while biting lip with excitement*
(Bazongaloid, Thu 3 Mar 2011, 13:40, Reply)

Haha!
I don't know who's more excited, me or you.
( girlinthehole, Thu 3 Mar 2011, 13:40, Reply)

Oh Me! ME ME ME ME ME ME ME ME!
Definitely me.
(Bazongaloid, Thu 3 Mar 2011, 13:41, Reply)

Look, it's like a b3ta mobius strip
www.b3ta.com/talk/7120710

Now lets see, is it irony if you point out that the hilarious troll will go and tell the other board about being laughed at and then they go and do it, but try and paint themselves as the one doing the laughing?
(Bazongaloid, Thu 3 Mar 2011, 13:46, Reply)

What the shit is this pillow-biting?

( Frisbee TeaBoy, Thu 3 Mar 2011, 13:44, Reply)

I don't follow /talk much
Did you get fired?
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Thu 3 Mar 2011, 13:46, Reply)

No
My shit-'waah waah teenager sarcasm'-detector went off so I had to investigate.
Worth its weight in gold, this is.
( Frisbee TeaBoy, Thu 3 Mar 2011, 13:50, Reply)

So was your flounce

( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Thu 3 Mar 2011, 13:51, Reply)

Wait, so you were on /talk and thought THIS was better?

( Frisbee TeaBoy, Thu 3 Mar 2011, 13:53, Reply)

Nah, I was on here
And heard some /talker had a site reviewing their workplace trolled when he put a link on /talk.
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Thu 3 Mar 2011, 13:56, Reply)

Pretty much this
but it was a shit flounce. And anyway, I got better.
( Frisbee TeaBoy, Thu 3 Mar 2011, 13:58, Reply)

Glad to hear it

( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Thu 3 Mar 2011, 13:59, Reply)

Is that the one where JMG makes a joke about wobbly people
and then acts pretend-offended when people tell him to stop recycling the same old joke all the time and then baldmonkey and other associated hangers-on clap and bray and cheer?

It's the internet's best routine, that.
( Kroney, Thu 3 Mar 2011, 13:37, Reply)

No, that's become the equivalent of when Lynyrd Skynyrd play Free Bird.
It's hackneyed and cliched, but this one, this is like the equivalent of when Led Zepplin reformed and played Stairway to Heaven.
(Bazongaloid, Thu 3 Mar 2011, 13:39, Reply)

Is it JMG or Baldmonkey who is the fat one in the pic where they're insulting Rimmer?

( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Thu 3 Mar 2011, 13:44, Reply)

Centre of the internet.

( Jam Master Geordie Hero of B3ta., Thu 3 Mar 2011, 14:21, Reply)

making your way on the boards today takes everything you've got
getting away from all these /talkers sure would help a lot
wouldn't you like to get away?
sometimes you want to go
where everybody knows your name
and they never ever flame
you need to go where you can know
the posters are all the same
you need to go where everybody rates your game

cheers.
( janet aylia y'all motherfuckers need jesus, Thu 3 Mar 2011, 13:44, Reply)

Hahaha!
Another one.

Do the bit where you follow Brayndedd and post something unfunny to make him look funny. Oh and then link this on the /talk board so everyone can see it.

I love that shit.
( girlinthehole, Thu 3 Mar 2011, 13:47, Reply)

whatevs, yeah?

( janet aylia y'all motherfuckers need jesus, Thu 3 Mar 2011, 13:54, Reply)

*cries*

( girlinthehole, Thu 3 Mar 2011, 13:55, Reply)

I detect lip-wobbling

( Frisbee TeaBoy, Thu 3 Mar 2011, 13:56, Reply)

Leave her alone, I like janet.

(PsychoChomp, Thu 3 Mar 2011, 13:56, Reply)

And that's supposed to make me stop.

( girlinthehole, Thu 3 Mar 2011, 14:00, Reply)

YES.
alright, big-girl's-blouse?
( janet aylia y'all motherfuckers need jesus, Thu 3 Mar 2011, 14:01, Reply)

Ok!

( girlinthehole, Thu 3 Mar 2011, 14:06, Reply)

i meant 'alright' as in 'how are you'
but whatevs, yeah?
( janet aylia y'all motherfuckers need jesus, Thu 3 Mar 2011, 14:12, Reply)

Sorry!
Wassup Janet!
( girlinthehole, Thu 3 Mar 2011, 14:18, Reply)

whatevs, yeah?

( janet aylia y'all motherfuckers need jesus, Thu 3 Mar 2011, 14:41, Reply)

BraynDedd, earlier:

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 3 Mar 2011, 13:40, Reply)

Then he carefully pulled his ipad out of the pannier rack
and started posting with a smirk on his face, and all the girls standing by the milk bar over the road got spontaneously wet and then started touching themselves.
(Bazongaloid, Thu 3 Mar 2011, 13:42, Reply)

He just does. not. give. a. fuck.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 3 Mar 2011, 13:43, Reply)

You can tell by the angle of his hat
No normal, fuck-giving person could pull that off.
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Thu 3 Mar 2011, 13:44, Reply)

He honestly couldn't give even the slightest hint of a fuck.
No sir.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 3 Mar 2011, 13:47, Reply)

He's like Sid Vicious, but on the internet.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 3 Mar 2011, 13:49, Reply)

Dead?

( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Thu 3 Mar 2011, 13:49, Reply)

/talk, earlier:

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 3 Mar 2011, 13:53, Reply)

That made me laugh quite a lot.
Well played.
( BraynDedd Natasha Kaplinsky's labia majora, Thu 3 Mar 2011, 13:54, Reply)

Oh shit
that makes us the internet equivalent of Bill Grundy.
(Bazongaloid, Thu 3 Mar 2011, 13:55, Reply)

Man, look at that motherfucking jaunty angle!

( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Thu 3 Mar 2011, 13:47, Reply)

Hi!
*waves*

I knew you liked me really.
( girlinthehole, Thu 3 Mar 2011, 13:22, Reply)

I dunno what's going on up there.
I was just trying to turn the tables on you following me around.
( BraynDedd Natasha Kaplinsky's labia majora, Thu 3 Mar 2011, 14:06, Reply)

Does that mean you're going to be my friend now?

( girlinthehole, Thu 3 Mar 2011, 14:08, Reply)

I wouldn't go that far,
but I'm not not anybody's friend on here. Apart from perhaps that bloke that pisses on kids.
( BraynDedd Natasha Kaplinsky's labia majora, Thu 3 Mar 2011, 14:12, Reply)

Nah! I don't like Baldmonkey either.

( girlinthehole, Thu 3 Mar 2011, 14:19, Reply)

That's no way to talk about the b3ta person of the year 2010.
I meant this nonce. b3ta.com/questions/lastlaugh/post1069780
( BraynDedd Natasha Kaplinsky's labia majora, Thu 3 Mar 2011, 14:31, Reply)

Sorry hon.
I'm not really interested in your QOTW obsession.
( girlinthehole, Thu 3 Mar 2011, 14:35, Reply)

Good news: a friend just got the results of a blood test and there's nowt wrong with her
Bad news: she's probably going to get molested by TGB this weekend.
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Thu 3 Mar 2011, 13:23, Reply)

Ummm
Surely having nowt wrong is a good thing?
(The Empress it seems you CAN polish a turd!, Thu 3 Mar 2011, 13:23, Reply)

Then why am I sooooo tired all the time?

( girlinthehole, Thu 3 Mar 2011, 13:24, Reply)

You're lazy

( Kroney, Thu 3 Mar 2011, 13:30, Reply)

Fucking hell! Why didn't the nurse tell me?
I knew I should have seen a doctor.
( girlinthehole, Thu 3 Mar 2011, 13:31, Reply)

Haha
probably sleep debt though, innit.
( Kroney, Thu 3 Mar 2011, 13:32, Reply)

Ah, right. Sorry to hear that.
Is Psychochomp sneaking into your house, drugging you and pounding you rotten? That would tire you out and explain why you don't know why.
(The Empress it seems you CAN polish a turd!, Thu 3 Mar 2011, 13:31, Reply)

I don't think she'll like having it referred to as her "Rotten"

(Bazongaloid, Thu 3 Mar 2011, 13:33, Reply)

Hahaha

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 3 Mar 2011, 13:37, Reply)

oops
edited...
(The Empress it seems you CAN polish a turd!, Thu 3 Mar 2011, 13:38, Reply)

Not when we all wish she would die.

(PsychoChomp, Thu 3 Mar 2011, 13:24, Reply)

Haha!

( girlinthehole, Thu 3 Mar 2011, 13:25, Reply)

I'll send more used needles in the post this week don't worry

( Peej, Thu 3 Mar 2011, 13:28, Reply)

You need more protein, try having aprotein shake as you have veggie tendencies

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Thu 3 Mar 2011, 13:31, Reply)

I get plenty of protein.....if you know what I mean.
*wiggles eyebrows*
( girlinthehole, Thu 3 Mar 2011, 13:33, Reply)

You mean you eat a lot of Quorn?

(Bazongaloid, Thu 3 Mar 2011, 13:37, Reply)

Stop copying me.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 3 Mar 2011, 13:37, Reply)

Jimmy Hill.
Unless you mean you eat lots of soya.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 3 Mar 2011, 13:37, Reply)

Well, you could possibly blend in with curtains with that blouse.
And I'm glad there's nothing wrong with you, can't have you cancelling your bash!
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Thu 3 Mar 2011, 13:35, Reply)

I've decided I'm only holding the bash if Brayndedd can make it.
I like him.
( girlinthehole, Thu 3 Mar 2011, 13:38, Reply)

If he comes, I'll let him share the bed with my wife.

(Bazongaloid, Thu 3 Mar 2011, 13:40, Reply)

Lucky bitch!

( girlinthehole, Thu 3 Mar 2011, 13:41, Reply)

Good news: don't really have any
bad news: got turned down for another PhD. Fucksocks.

Sorry to hear your tests didn't come back with anything, perhaps try changing your diet? Although you do seem to eat quite sensibly..
(berk, Thu 3 Mar 2011, 13:43, Reply)

Unlucky, mon.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 3 Mar 2011, 13:44, Reply)

Cheers blud
I'm putting my last few applications together now and then I think that's it for this round. Most probably nothing will come of these either.
/sigh
(berk, Thu 3 Mar 2011, 13:47, Reply)

Aw buggering bollox : (

( girlinthehole, Thu 3 Mar 2011, 13:44, Reply)

Chin up, you'll get one eventually.

(PsychoChomp, Thu 3 Mar 2011, 13:45, Reply)

I probably won't
but cheers.
(berk, Thu 3 Mar 2011, 13:47, Reply)

Is your dad a dictator in an Arabic country?

(PsychoChomp, Thu 3 Mar 2011, 13:57, Reply)

He's dead
so, no.
(berk, Thu 3 Mar 2011, 14:01, Reply)

Sorry to hear that :/

( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Thu 3 Mar 2011, 13:49, Reply)

that sux
christ, if djtp can get one, I thought they must have been giving them out with cereal packets.

Can you self-fund? Might there be an employer who would love to exploit your research who might consider funding?

If all else fails, you could try going on the game.
( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Thu 3 Mar 2011, 13:52, Reply)

I doubt I would earn much as a prossie
but I can't self fund, it doesn't really work that way in biological sciences. There's no real way of finding/applying for your own funding if you want a paid PhD: I could probably find one which comes without a stipend but then I would have no money to live off. So that's not really a go-er.
(berk, Thu 3 Mar 2011, 13:56, Reply)

if it's biological sciences
wouldn't some of the big pharmas be interested? Or, assuming you're in Europe, have you thought about Erasmus?

Wow, I really refuse to believe there's someone I can't help...
( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Thu 3 Mar 2011, 13:58, Reply)

There's something called a CASE studentship
which is where a company - usually a big pharma - supplies the funding and the research is carried out mainly at the university but partially at the company too. But you still have to apply for those in the same way, meaning I'd likely get turned down and pharma doesn't really interest me. There really is no way and nowhere you can apply for your own personal funding and then go to a lab of your choice. I've asked. The few PhDs I've looked at in Europe would require me to have an MSc - it's this pesky 2ii I have, see.
(berk, Thu 3 Mar 2011, 14:05, Reply)

bummer
in that case, I would definitely recommend retail therapy.

Also, one of my teachers at school was doing a PhD of her own, and had been working on it for at least 15 years as and when she could afford it. Take a job, earn some money and a good reputation, then take a sabbatical and do your PhD later.

Or, kidnap a family member of one of the review board, and threaten to strat sending body parts back until you get the result you want.
( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Thu 3 Mar 2011, 14:13, Reply)

Yeah, that works less well
when you're doing primary research. A PhD which just involves a lot of reading and writing and not being in a lab, you can take as long as you like. Sadly without a PhD there is no career, no progression so I'll just have to stay at the shitty level I'm at and lump it.
(berk, Thu 3 Mar 2011, 14:15, Reply)

I'm sorry, I don't like that blouse.
You should probably dance more.
( Lisette von Falcon, Thu 3 Mar 2011, 13:45, Reply)

With jeans and trainers that blouse will be hot.
You need to see the whole ensemble K.
( girlinthehole, Thu 3 Mar 2011, 13:51, Reply)

erm
no
not trainers, skinny jeans and knee high boots yes
( Lisette von Falcon, Thu 3 Mar 2011, 13:53, Reply)

I'm 45 so I don't do skinny jeans.

( girlinthehole, Thu 3 Mar 2011, 13:57, Reply)

I stand by my stement down there
that it will look awesome with a shift dress or rencil skirt.
( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Thu 3 Mar 2011, 13:59, Reply)

Age is nothing but a number, blousie.
trust me, this paired with your blouse, you'd be super hot
( Lisette von Falcon, Thu 3 Mar 2011, 14:00, Reply)

I would agree
personally I wouldn't wear trainers with that blouse, not at all. But then that blouse isn't really 'me' to begin with. Nice though.
(berk, Thu 3 Mar 2011, 14:06, Reply)

sometimes, even if it's not you, you should still try it
I went dress shopping for new years and saw a ton of dresses that were more my style and none of them looked right, at the last minute I just grabbed something off the rack that I'd never pick for myself and it looked awesome
( Lisette von Falcon, Thu 3 Mar 2011, 14:08, Reply)

It's not really me hon!
Plus I don't do heels.

If I get something nice like that then I have to dress it down.
( girlinthehole, Thu 3 Mar 2011, 14:09, Reply)

stop being old and set in your ways

( Lisette von Falcon, Thu 3 Mar 2011, 14:12, Reply)

haha! You could not be more right.

( girlinthehole, Thu 3 Mar 2011, 14:16, Reply)

I have a very similar blouse in a sort of greyish blue colour
it came from Matalan. I have real class, me.

It goes ver well with a pencil skirt or shift dress.

There are a number of reasons for chronic fatigue that don't show up on standard blood tests. Don't take no for an answer. Insist on a full range of tests. A lot of doctors don't like to do certain tests because they cost a lot of money, and will tell you to get them done privately.

KNOW YOUR RIGHTS BLOUSIE
( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Thu 3 Mar 2011, 13:50, Reply)

Will a full range of tests include a finger up my bum?
Because I don't want that test.
( girlinthehole, Thu 3 Mar 2011, 13:51, Reply)

OK, how about if the Doctor offers 4 fingers?

( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Thu 3 Mar 2011, 13:52, Reply)

that test is for appendicitis
or prostatitis.

I think it's unlikely they'll test for the latter.
( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Thu 3 Mar 2011, 13:54, Reply)

It's not great
but be glad it's just a finger and not a camera. I can't see any possible reason for them performing that particular test, unless your GP fancies you.
(berk, Thu 3 Mar 2011, 13:54, Reply)