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Old 14th Jun 2012, 05:26
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Loose rivets
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This is beginning to really annoy me. And it takes a lot to make me serious. But this bloke became ILL. He showed symptoms of being ill. If these symptoms distress anyone, FFS, suck it up, that's what the symptoms do.


If he'd had a gall bladder go bad on him, he may well have been lying on the floor screaming. The poor darlings in the back might have had more sympathy for straightforward pain, but it would be just another organ misbehaving - in the literal sense. Heart attack. Well all know those symptoms . . . don't we? Poor chap. Dickie heart. To be pitied.

When the brain plays up - the most complex organ in the body, by many orders of magnitude - it causes bizarre symptoms, and great distress to the sufferer and to those around him/her. It just has to be coped with by the hopefully, competent crew. Job done - at least for those not burdened in the long term.

And as for the people running to lawyers. Get a grip. But you won't, will you? Not when there's $$$$$$$$$ signs on the horizon.

Not a thought for the poor sod who is, or was, ILL.
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