Top 3

[Menelaus]

Here's a thread in which we can vent our spleens (pre-splenectomy, naturally) and list our top three "professions" against the wall when the revolution comes.

For me:

Journalists - redtops and tabloids first (tabloids includes the Daily Heil)

Lawyers - ambulance chasing twunts first

Recruitment Consultants - paternalist client owners ("MY client") first

Who's on your list?

[bogeyman]

Here's a thread in which we can vent our spleens (pre-splenectomy, naturally) and list our top three "professions" against the wall when the revolution comes.

For me:

Journalists - redtops and tabloids first (tabloids includes the Daily Heil)

Lawyers - ambulance chasing twunts first

Recruitment Consultants - paternalist client owners ("MY client") first

Who's on your list?

Doctors (GPs). I normally avoid medics at all costs, but have recently developed quite severe lower back pain, so went along to surgery and got treated like an idiot by some slip of a girl younger than my daughter.

Back in Canada next month so will try to get it sorted there. Hellishly expensive but at least you get treated like a human being.

Oh, them and Estate Agents - obviously.

[Mich the Tester]

Tax inspectors

[sasguru]

Doctors (GPs). I normally avoid medics at all costs, but have recently developed quite severe lower back pain, so went along to surgery and got treated like an idiot by some slip of a girl younger than my daughter.

Back in Canada next month so will try to get it sorted there. Hellishly expensive but at least you get treated like a human being.

Oh, them and Estate Agents - obviously.

Sorry there is no treatment for most back pain. That's probably what "the slip of a girl" was trying to tell you.

[sasguru]

How about insular, ignorant IT bods with zero personal skills who think that their knowledge of Java (or whatever) qualifies them for godlike status and makes them pontificate on matters which they know nothing about.

[bogeyman]

Sorry there is no treatment for most back pain. That's probably what "the slip of a girl" was trying to tell you.

There is treatment for many types of back pain, in fact. At the very minimum there is palliative care to reduce pain.

The 'slip of a girl' did not impart any such information, was sullen and generally unhelpful.

[bogeyman]

How about insular, ignorant IT bods with zero personal skills who think that their knowledge of Java (or whatever) qualifies them for godlike status and makes them pontificate on matters which they know nothing about.

Whereas your personal skills are clearly outstanding. Well done.

[Menelaus]

There is treatment for many types of back pain, in fact. At the very minimum there is palliative care to reduce pain.

The 'slip of a girl' did not impart any such information, was sullen and generally unhelpful.

You might find that a TENS machine might help you?

The ex-Mrs Menelaus when in labour with Menelauette had a TENS machine and it was apparently wonderful.

[Drewster]

How about insular, ignorant IT bods with zero personal skills who think that their knowledge of Java (or whatever) qualifies them for godlike status and makes them pontificate on matters which they know nothing about.

bandit

Try to be brief man!

[Amiga500]

Traffic wardens and Hector.

Oh, and maybe PCSOs.