Had mine checked a couple of weeks ago by my nice lady doc, everything appears normal up there she said. The first time I had it done was at the old Chesterfield Royal hospital many years ago, a big coloured doctor just told me to lay on my side and draw my knees up but didn’t say what he was going to do and he certainly made my eyes water, I reckon he had his whole arm up there! 
Can’t be much fun for them either…I hope. 
Pete.
windrush:
Had mine checked a couple of weeks ago by my nice lady doc, everything appears normal up there she said. The first time I had it done was at the old Chesterfield Royal hospital many years ago, a big coloured doctor just told me to lay on my side and draw my knees up but didn’t say what he was going to do and he certainly made my eyes water, I reckon he had his whole arm up there!Pete.
Hiya,
That position is all too well known to me Pete, three or four of the examinations were
carried out by male doctors, I’m always tempted to glance over my shoulder at time of
penetration to check it’s his finger he’s sticking in and not something else but so far I’ve
resisted the temptation to have a look-see, maybe it’s better I don’t know, yuk.
thanks harry, long retired.
harry_gill:
windrush:
Had mine checked a couple of weeks ago by my nice lady doc, everything appears normal up there she said. The first time I had it done was at the old Chesterfield Royal hospital many years ago, a big coloured doctor just told me to lay on my side and draw my knees up but didn’t say what he was going to do and he certainly made my eyes water, I reckon he had his whole arm up there!Pete.
Hiya,
That position is all too well known to me Pete, three or four of the examinations were
carried out by male doctors, I’m always tempted to glance over my shoulder at time of
penetration to check it’s his finger he’s sticking in and not something else but so far I’ve
resisted the temptation to have a look-see, maybe it’s better I don’t know, yuk.
thanks harry, long retired.
My brother Andy, who is one of the world’s innocents, was told he needed an injection at the Saudi/Qatar border. He was told to lower his trousers and lean over the Desk. He only realised what was going on when he looked back to see the customs officer raising his thobe!
John
Hiya
John it’s the way you tell Em’ 
thanks harry, long retired.
harry_gill:
Hiya
John it’s the way you tell Em’
thanks harry, long retired.
Could have made his eye’s water Harry.
Cheers Dave.
Dave the Renegade:
harry_gill:
Hiya
John it’s the way you tell Em’
thanks harry, long retired.Could have made his eye’s water Harry.
Cheers Dave.
Hiya,
They’d have watered even more if they’d brought in the famous Arab donkey, but you
do need to be a bit ancient and have had a run ashore at Port Said. to be able to
remember that.
thanks harry, long retired.
harry_gill:
Dave the Renegade:
harry_gill:
Hiya
John it’s the way you tell Em’
thanks harry, long retired.Could have made his eye’s water Harry.
Cheers Dave.Hiya,
They’d have watered even more if they’d brought in the famous Arab donkey, but you
do need to be a bit ancient and have had a run ashore at Port Said. to be able to
remember that.
thanks harry, long retired.
Have heard various tales about Jack Donkeys from various bloke’s I’ve worked with, who had been abroad with the forces Harry. Some sounded gruseome, and others a bit far fetched. But I’m just an innocent ol country boy.
Cheers Dave.
Dave the Renegade:
harry_gill:
Dave the Renegade:
harry_gill:
Hiya
John it’s the way you tell Em’
thanks harry, long retired.Could have made his eye’s water Harry.
Cheers Dave.Hiya,
They’d have watered even more if they’d brought in the famous Arab donkey, but you
do need to be a bit ancient and have had a run ashore at Port Said. to be able to
remember that.
thanks harry, long retired.Have heard various tales about Jack Donkeys from various bloke’s I’ve worked with, who had been abroad with the forces Harry. Some sounded gruseome, and others a bit far fetched. But I’m just an innocent ol country boy.
Cheers Dave.
Hiya,
Not too far fetched Dave another Arab who used to do a bit of entertaining for the,
troops was the Gully Gully Man he came aboard at either Port Said or Aden not sure
now, what he could do with day old chicks brilliant magician he made them appear
out of nowhere that man was brilliant he was the only Arab allowed to board the
troopships of the day a very entertaining man and a bit of light relief after being
stuck on a pokey troop deck with 50 or 60 other bodies for days on end.
thanks harry, long retired.
harry_gill:
Dave the Renegade:
harry_gill:
Dave the Renegade:
harry_gill:
Hiya
John it’s the way you tell Em’
thanks harry, long retired.Could have made his eye’s water Harry.
Cheers Dave.Hiya,
They’d have watered even more if they’d brought in the famous Arab donkey, but you
do need to be a bit ancient and have had a run ashore at Port Said. to be able to
remember that.
thanks harry, long retired.Have heard various tales about Jack Donkeys from various bloke’s I’ve worked with, who had been abroad with the forces Harry. Some sounded gruseome, and others a bit far fetched. But I’m just an innocent ol country boy.
Cheers Dave.Hiya,
Not too far fetched Dave another Arab who used to do a bit of entertaining for the,
troops was the Gully Gully Man he came aboard at either Port Said or Aden not sure
now, what he could do with day old chicks brilliant magician he made them appear
out of nowhere that man was brilliant he was the only Arab allowed to board the
troopships of the day a very entertaining man and a bit of light relief after being
stuck on a pokey troop deck with 50 or 60 other bodies for days on end.
thanks harry, long retired.
I quite believe you Harry, but some of the blokes I worked with on building sites had served in the second world war and in Korea, plus others had done National Service,. The story telling used to get a bit far fetched at times. Then you would have others who were still almost coming to blows about accusing the other of hiding whilst working on a farm throughout the war. Should sit at the PC and type it all out, would make a good comedy series.
Cheers Dave.
Dave the Renegade:
I quite believe you Harry, but some of the blokes I worked with on building sites had served in the second world war and in Korea, plus others had done National Service,. The story telling used to get a bit far fetched at times. Then you would have others who were still almost coming to blows about accusing the other of hiding whilst working on a farm throughout the war. Should sit at the PC and type it all out, would make a good comedy series.
Cheers Dave.
Very true that Dave. This is a true story, from a book by a local builder and author who employed several workmen and, like you said, they were swapping stories at breaktime about their time in the Forces (this took place in the late fifties) and one was saying how he parachuted into Arnhem and another about his life in the Navy etc and telling of their exciting adventures. One lad sat quietly and said nothing, eventually they pressed him to tell of his wartime experiences. He replied that he had no tales of great adventure to tell, he and his best mate were captured by the Japanese when Singapore fell and spent their time doing heavy labour at the dock and on the Burma Railway. His mate grabbed a handful of Rice from a sack that had burst open on the dock…he was then executed for stealing it. So, as he said, no great adventure for him to match the tales the others told, and oddly enough the war was never mentioned again apparently! The builder sadly passed away a handful of years ago but he wrote some interesting books about local events and people. So you NEVER know who people are really or what they have done in the past, at school we had an old lad who watched us across the road and he had terrible scars on his face and of course kids took the pi** out of him! He got them from shrapnel in WW1 and had his face rebuilt by early plastic surgery which didn’t take well, it disintegrated and his face dropped on one side, but the kids were not aware of that. He just looked odd and scary to them.
Pete.
windrush:
Dave the Renegade:
I quite believe you Harry, but some of the blokes I worked with on building sites had served in the second world war and in Korea, plus others had done National Service,. The story telling used to get a bit far fetched at times. Then you would have others who were still almost coming to blows about accusing the other of hiding whilst working on a farm throughout the war. Should sit at the PC and type it all out, would make a good comedy series.
Cheers Dave.Very true that Dave. This is a true story, from a book by a local builder and author who employed several workmen and, like you said, they were swapping stories at breaktime about their time in the Forces (this took place in the late fifties) and one was saying how he parachuted into Arnhem and another about his life in the Navy etc and telling of their exciting adventures. One lad sat quietly and said nothing, eventually they pressed him to tell of his wartime experiences. He replied that he had no tales of great adventure to tell, he and his best mate were captured by the Japanese when Singapore fell and spent their time doing heavy labour at the dock and on the Burma Railway. His mate grabbed a handful of Rice from a sack that had burst open on the dock…he was then executed for stealing it. So, as he said, no great adventure for him to match the tales the others told, and oddly enough the war was never mentioned again apparently! The builder sadly passed away a handful of years ago but he wrote some interesting books about local events and people. So you NEVER know who people are really or what they have done in the past, at school we had an old lad who watched us across the road and he had terrible scars on his face and of course kids took the pi** out of him! He got them from shrapnel in WW1 and had his face rebuilt by early plastic surgery which didn’t take well, it disintegrated and his face dropped on one side, but the kids were not aware of that. He just looked odd and scary to them.
Pete.
Hiya,
I once heard an “old sweat” oh’ yes he’d done a 22 year stint spouting off in a pub about
his time in Korea in 1956, no national servicemen there he said, my regiment specially
put together after WW2 was 70% N S men all of us served in Korea 2 years before he
got there and the war had been finished about a year then so the most he could have
done was peace keeping duties like what we did, but after his departure “his mate” who
seemingly had heard it all before said the furthest he got to was Germany and actually
spent most of his time at Catterick and Salisbury Plain, it takes all sorts I guess.
thanks harry, long retired.
harry_gill:
windrush:
Dave the Renegade:
I quite believe you Harry, but some of the blokes I worked with on building sites had served in the second world war and in Korea, plus others had done National Service,. The story telling used to get a bit far fetched at times. Then you would have others who were still almost coming to blows about accusing the other of hiding whilst working on a farm throughout the war. Should sit at the PC and type it all out, would make a good comedy series.
Cheers Dave.Very true that Dave. This is a true story, from a book by a local builder and author who employed several workmen and, like you said, they were swapping stories at breaktime about their time in the Forces (this took place in the late fifties) and one was saying how he parachuted into Arnhem and another about his life in the Navy etc and telling of their exciting adventures. One lad sat quietly and said nothing, eventually they pressed him to tell of his wartime experiences. He replied that he had no tales of great adventure to tell, he and his best mate were captured by the Japanese when Singapore fell and spent their time doing heavy labour at the dock and on the Burma Railway. His mate grabbed a handful of Rice from a sack that had burst open on the dock…he was then executed for stealing it. So, as he said, no great adventure for him to match the tales the others told, and oddly enough the war was never mentioned again apparently! The builder sadly passed away a handful of years ago but he wrote some interesting books about local events and people. So you NEVER know who people are really or what they have done in the past, at school we had an old lad who watched us across the road and he had terrible scars on his face and of course kids took the pi** out of him! He got them from shrapnel in WW1 and had his face rebuilt by early plastic surgery which didn’t take well, it disintegrated and his face dropped on one side, but the kids were not aware of that. He just looked odd and scary to them.
Pete.
Hiya,
I once heard an “old sweat” oh’ yes he’d done a 22 year stint spouting off in a pub about
his time in Korea in 1956, no national servicemen there he said, my regiment specially
put together after WW2 was 70% N S men all of us served in Korea 2 years before he
got there and the war had been finished about a year then so the most he could have
done was peace keeping duties like what we did, but after his departure “his mate” who
seemingly had heard it all before said the furthest he got to was Germany and actually
spent most of his time at Catterick and Salisbury Plain, it takes all sorts I guess.
thanks harry, long retired.
The nearest I got to military service Harry, was having a bollocking off a Squadron Leader at RAF Hereford at Credenhill Camp, for spinning a dumper right in front of the camp headquarters This officer saw it through the window and came striding out and bawled at me. The site foreman told me to stay off the dumper for a few days, otherwise I’d be in the glasshouse.
Cheers Dave the Renegade builders labourer 1965.
In October I was diagnosed with Bowel Cancer. The “■■■ test” showed traces of blood and a Colonoscopy identified the tumour that a biopsy proved malignant. The surgeon has decided on 3 months of chemotherapy followed by 5 weeks of daily radiotherapy. Then I will have a 6 week break before the operation to remove the tumour and fit me with a temporary colostomy bag for about 3 months. After that lot- back to normal, fingers crossed.
The reason I am telling you all this is to warn you not to ignore thepoo stick test. It will SAVE YOUR LIFE.
So far the treatment is tedious, not painfull, the only discomfort is tingling in the fingers and toes if they get cold.
The team at the Macmillan centre are kind and attentive and the drug is administered in the most comfortable way.
We are none of us getting any younger but if it happens stay positive. It is a bastxxd but deal with it for your friends and family.
I hope and pray that none of you have to go through this, but if you do I will always be here to advise and help in any way I can.
Have a Happy and above all healthy 2015 and if you have ANY concerns PM me. Jim.
Stay positive jmc, you’ll beat it. My dad had a colostomy bag…for 26 years, it didn’t beat him, they did offer to do a tidying up job and remove the bag but he was having non of that.
Think this goes to prove that we are right after all
I’m ill 
Being a man I normally suffer in silence but this is too much, I’m not getting ANY sympathy from my staff, I was in bed at 9;00pm last night and I’m worse this morning. I have the worst head cold ever known anywhere. I’m ill Before taking to my bed last evening i tried to drown the bugga with Laphroaig…it didn’t work.
grumpy old man:
I’m ill
Mix a bit of Jeyes fluid with the Laphroaig Brian, it will kill all the germs, and your staff won’t molest you, as the fumes from Jeyes will keep them at bay.
Cheers Dave.
The only thing I can do for a cold is steam my face with hot water & menthol crystals or place a bowl of it in the bedroom
Not allowed any of the cold remedies you can buy
we have an advantage ang , you ladies have colds but we men have man flu . our suffering is of biblical proportions , we need constant coddling and care . we never get it though because women just don’t understand us . i myself am suffering this terrible affliction at the moment , what sympathy do i get ? a packet of paracetemol . ah well , i’ll just have to suffer alone and hope i survive , happy new sniffles , dave
Oh for goodness sake ‘man up’ the pair of you! 
No need to fake an illness nowadays, you aint got any work to get out of going to, no sicknote to forge so you might just as well get on with life and stop feeling sorry for yourselves. What are you, men or mice■■?
Pete.