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| Thread ID: 142269 | 2016-05-30 23:20:00 | Top Gear , new season, new presenters | 1101 (13337) | PC World Chat |
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| 1421198 | 2016-06-15 09:39:00 | I'm not familiar with any of Chris Evans work. Haven't seen any of it, or heard a word from his mouth, but every still image I see of him just leaves the impression that he's a squealing queer (OK, I'm drunk and far from being PC). Perhaps if he could lose the over-excited look and actually behave like a man... then maybe the show would regain some of the casual masculinity it used to have. I suspect LeBlanc will end up being the primary host. Evans is just there to appeal to the huge pommie audience that is used to having a pommie host. Pity he's more of a hostess. |
Paul.Cov (425) | ||
| 1421199 | 2016-06-15 20:31:00 | sigh, | SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 1421200 | 2016-06-15 23:09:00 | sigh, Hey Joe, today is Friday..... not:banana Sighday!:banana Ken (Ooops, forgot youse guys are on USA time) |
kenj (9738) | ||
| 1421201 | 2016-06-15 23:27:00 | . . . . . and my head is pointing up too . Youse guys! I just got back from the eye surgeon who wil ultimately have to either remove my right eye or destroy the melanoma in it (an eye freckle they call it to make it a lot less onerous) or aspirate the thing and check the DNA to see if it's an aggressive type of growth . I am partially blind from the dilating solution yet, but I'm getting my standard vision returned slowly . (I'm getting to a more correct response in a moment - wait for it - I'm somewhat chatty today even with a stylus and my tablet . ) If I could see better, I'd be watching the syndicated shows right now . I love the comedic troika and interplay between those guys . And they have funny accents too . That makes it better than "Doc Martin" or "Keeping Up Apearances" with Mr . and Mrs . Bucket . Boy did my spellchucker have fun with that last sentence! I can't even train Google to accept your words, accents (it comes through) or your inverted vowels . |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 1421202 | 2016-06-15 23:47:00 | "Apearances"........ chuck away your spellchucker Joe. :banana Ken |
kenj (9738) | ||
| 1421203 | 2016-06-16 01:23:00 | Change your spell checker to true English Joe not American English your version has many letters missing from words | gary67 (56) | ||
| 1421204 | 2016-06-16 06:08:00 | You have to learn English as spoken. I walk with a Pom who speaks English as she is spoke and keeps saying things like "Eh bah Gum" The English spell checker quit and walked out on me over that one. :) Ken |
kenj (9738) | ||
| 1421205 | 2016-06-16 07:05:00 | Warning - highjacking in progress: I cannot fathom why my spellchunker can suggest and substitute such arcane and sometimes totally nasty words in place of purely legal and logically applied good ol' English words and then when I leave a simple ONE letter out of a simple four-letter word, it goes totally sto-o-o-o-o-pid and can't figger out what I intended. :mad: Returning you now to your regularly scheduled broadcast, already in progress.................... |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 1421206 | 2016-06-16 20:09:00 | Hi Joe, If what you have is a choroidal melanoma, then the frank and honest truth is that the best measure is removal (enucleation) of the eye. These things have a 50% survival rate, at the 5 year point, and often by the time they are found it's a bit late to deal with them. Sorry. To some extent, that will depend on the scale of the thing. If it has been caught early, then there is more scope for alternative diagnoses, but if it is large, then the diagnosis will be a lot more easily determined. The worry, is that the best (survivable) option is total removal, but this is almost always based on nothing more than a diagnosis based on appearance, size and thickness of the mass. At times it can mean that a later biopsy shows that the diagnosis was wrong, and the eye could have been left alone. I work as on optometrist. My original employer was Peter Lowes, an optometrist. He became aware of his own choroidal melanoma due to the phantom lights he was seeing, and consequently tracked down diagnosis and treatment early. He opted to keep his eye and have a radioactive plaque placed behind the eye. This blinds the eye, but cosmetically and psychologically is less distressing. It didn't save him. Enucleation should not proceed until you have had opinions from 2 or 3 specialists, but don't waste your time in getting those opinions, and then waste no time in actiing on the advice you are given. |
Paul.Cov (425) | ||
| 1421207 | 2016-06-17 00:40:00 | Hi Joe, If what you have is a choroidal melanoma, then the frank and honest truth is that the best measure is removal (enucleation) of the eye . These things have a 50% survival rate, at the 5 year point, and often by the time they are found it's a bit late to deal with them . Sorry . To some extent, that will depend on the scale of the thing . If it has been caught early, then there is more scope for alternative diagnoses, but if it is large, then the diagnosis will be a lot more easily determined . The worry, is that the best (survivable) option is total removal, but this is almost always based on nothing more than a diagnosis based on appearance, size and thickness of the mass . At times it can mean that a later biopsy shows that the diagnosis was wrong, and the eye could have been left alone . I work as on optometrist . My original employer was Peter Lowes, an optometrist . He became aware of his own choroidal melanoma due to the phantom lights he was seeing, and consequently tracked down diagnosis and treatment early . He opted to keep his eye and have a radioactive plaque placed behind the eye . This blinds the eye, but cosmetically and psychologically is less distressing . It didn't save him . Enucleation should not proceed until you have had opinions from 2 or 3 specialists, but don't waste your time in getting those opinions, and then waste no time in actiing on the advice you are given . Kinda the same news I got now from three retina specialists . I think they call it a "choroidal nevus" which they also say has a pretty high kill rate . , I dunnow at the mo, the "radioactive seed" is not a good viable alternative since it's already return-reflection color is seriously bad, although it hasn't grown in more than a few years, and the nevus's coronal color is still only around 25% of the periphery of the nevus itself . Needle aspiration is ruled out because the eye has had six surgical traumas with #1 being cataract removal and lense replacement, envelope obscuration - and then a year later a detached retina that had to be surgically fixed three times by invasive surgery and four more times by yag (is "yag" the correct term?) . With all the scarring and retinal regression, I've lost about 40% of my right side peripheral vision so far . The retina however seems stable at the moment . I also have a scleral buckle in/on that eye which was nasty to feel for a few years, although now it doesn't bother me . I'm very happy for the vision I yet still have and also thankful for the hands and dedication of a very fine surgeon . The left eye has piggyback lenses for somewhat complicated reasons, not the least of which is that the blood supply vessels in that eye are obverse and caused the doppler refraction numbers to skew and fall short of the retina, resulting in the wrong implant . Good on me, huh? If you like, I could post the interior picture of the nevus showing the scar tissue . Let me know . . . . as I would like grossing out all my inverted buddies in Upsidedown Land . I hope I'm spelling Nevus correctly . . . . the spellclucker doesn't like it any which way I attempt to spell it! |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
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