Life is riddled with a procession of minor impediments

[The Legendary Shark]

Back home in my shed with an insanely happy dog. Looking forward to an unbroken night's sleep.

Thank you all so much for your kind words, offers of help and support - it meant a great deal to me and was (and is) deeply appreciated.

This is the best place on the web!

[TordelBack]

Very good to hear you're safely home. Sleep tight, Sharkie Gruber.

[I, Cosh]

Just about to go in for my angiogram, after a very cheerful conversation with the angiogram man in which he explained all the ways it could go slightly, moderately or catastrophically wrong.

An acquaintance had to get circumcised. For medical reasons. At the age of thirty-ish.

Apprehensive, he turned to the internet for reassurance. Listed amongst the potential side effects: bleeding, discomfort, DEATH.

Very glad to hear you're well. One convincing argument for the state.

[The Legendary Shark]

Not a convincing argument for the state: a convincing argument for medical science. Medical science devises treatments, the state decides who deserves to be treated.

Thank Grud - they left my anarchy muscle intact!

[I, Cosh]

And, in the interests of exercising your new heart, our state (which is indivisible from us) has decided that everyone should be treated.

Grud bless.

[The Legendary Shark]

Pregnant Brit forced to prove nationality by NHS after taking Polish husband's name.

[Bolt-01]

...and he's back to normal.

Don't you ever change, Sharky.

Glad to hear you're back safe.

[IAMTHESYSTEM]

Good to hear you're back and in a positive spirit.

[The Legendary Shark]

Thanks, chaps. You can't keep a good shark down - or a bad one!

[ZenArcade]

More fish and seal meat for that Shark.  Z

[JayzusB.Christ]

And, in the interests of exercising your new heart, our state (which is indivisible from us) has decided that everyone should be treated.

Grud bless.

I hope, despite your government's best efforts, it stays that way. It's not perfect, but it's better than our system, and far, far better than the US privilege-based one.

But that's for the political thread.  Delighted to hear you're better, Sharky, and long may you shark.

[Something Fishy]

Nice one Sharkie.  Welcome back.

[The Legendary Shark]

Thank you

[Tiplodocus]

Keep well Sharky.

I seem to have spent most of this evening trying to install Windows 10. Which seems to be incompatible with my current usb wireless dongle.

On the plus side I did find a whole folder of old photographs in a drive and the lovely Alex Ronald Dredd cover for Zarjaz is back as my screen background.

[TordelBack]

My minor impediment this evening is that I watched a You Tube clip of TNGs The Drumhead, which was presented in that format as an example of Picard 'destroying' a SJW.

Let that sink in for a minute.  Jean-Luc Picard, of Star Trek, defending a crewman from a racist/speciesist Admiral,  was striking a blow against social justice warriors.

And now I can't get it the cultural ramifications out of my mind.