Timezone anomoly

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Timezone anomoly

Postby tubeswell » Fri Jun 03, 2011 12:06 pm

So here I am sitting around looking at , well, this forum, and the witching hour strikes and I renew my screen and see hey-presto! that suddenly, I'm the only one who's logged in so far today, even though as I write this, Arneb is also still apparently logged in over in Germany. But over there its still yesterday, so Arneb's name doesn't appear on the record of those who've logged in 'today' (where I am in 'my' today) , even tho it says in the other box (of those users who're logged in) that he's currently logged in. So, if he can disappear while he's still logged in, what is happening to me?

Duh?
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Postby Arneb » Fri Jun 03, 2011 5:02 pm

Probably the first signs of Judgement Day.
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Postby St. Jimmy » Fri Jun 03, 2011 5:22 pm

Arneb was obviously raptured
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Postby Lance » Sat Jun 04, 2011 11:36 am

St. Jimmy wrote:Arneb was obviously raptured

Exactly.
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Postby Blue Monster 65 » Sat Jun 04, 2011 12:20 pm

Again? Sheesh! The guy's got like nine lives or something ...
Is there such a thing?
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Postby Arneb » Sat Jun 04, 2011 6:36 pm

Lance wrote:
St. Jimmy wrote:Arneb was obviously raptured

Exactly.


Sadly,...


BTW, it's "...ought to be reported to the authorities, not "...to authorities"
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Postby KLA2 » Sun Jun 05, 2011 2:14 am

St. Jimmy wrote:Arneb was obviously raptured


Arneb, were you face up or face down at the time?

{Just, you know, curious, in case it happens to me ... } :shock: :lol:
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Postby Arneb » Sun Jun 05, 2011 6:24 pm

Sorry, that should have read,

"Sadly, no such thing happened..." Still kicking around, eating kraut, trying to find a balance between the city I work in and the city I am supposed to live in, still trying to get a life with my family, still an infidel (I may work in a Protestant institution, mind you, but I have nothing, NOTHING to gain from The End of Days). n
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Postby KLA2 » Mon Jun 06, 2011 2:21 am

Not even severance pay? {Sigh} :wink:
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Postby Heid the Ba » Fri Jun 10, 2011 2:56 pm

KLA2 everybody! He'll be here all week. :=D:

Arneb, are all hospitals one denomination or another? I recall you used to work for the other lot.
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Postby Arneb » Sat Jun 11, 2011 11:06 am

No, that's a coincidence. I spent my Final Year at four different city-run hospitals (three in Berlin, one in Portsmouth); I went through my specialization at two different University hospitals. I worked as a senior (briefly) for a county hospital; only my last and my current job have been with confessional hospitals. It could have been any other combination.
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Postby tubeswell » Sat Jun 11, 2011 10:25 pm

Arneb wrote:... my last and my current job have been with confessional hospitals. ....


I've never heard that term before. Are they places where the sick catholics go?
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Postby Enzo » Sat Jun 11, 2011 11:01 pm

Forgive me Doctor, for I have sinned. I ate far too much sodium, and snacked on a lot of candy when nobody was looking.


OK, my son, take three aspirin and call me in the morning.
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Postby Мастер » Sun Jun 12, 2011 9:41 am

Arneb wrote:No, that's a coincidence. I spent my Final Year at four different city-run hospitals (three in Berlin, one in Portsmouth); I went through my specialization at two different University hospitals. I worked as a senior (briefly) for a county hospital; only my last and my current job have been with confessional hospitals. It could have been any other combination.


Are they going to follow the lead if the UK, and ask you to report on suspect jihadis?

Are you in the same time zone as France, or an hour ahead? Assuming the same, I could be overhead about midnight (LHR->DXB).
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Postby Arneb » Sun Jun 12, 2011 10:56 am

"confessional..."

OK put it down to my bad English. I meant hsopitals that are run by one Christian denomination or another.
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Postby Halcyon Dayz, FCD » Wed Jun 15, 2011 6:55 pm

Same difference in Dutch.

Confessie means the faith one confesses to, i.e. the particular brand of religion/church one belongs to.

So we have confessional hospitals, confessional schools, confessional broadcasting societies, confessional trade unions, etc.
Might have something to do with keeping the peace in a country with considerable geographic discrepancies in religious demographics.
Typically Catholics in the south, and Lutherans/Calvinists in the north.
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Postby Heid the Ba » Fri Jun 17, 2011 3:02 pm

Arneb wrote:No, that's a coincidence. I spent my Final Year at four different city-run hospitals (three in Berlin, one in Portsmouth);

You worked in Pompey? You have my sympathy. :D
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Postby Heid the Ba » Fri Jun 17, 2011 3:05 pm

Arneb wrote:"confessional..."

OK put it down to my bad English. I meant hsopitals that are run by one Christian denomination or another.

It is a fairly archaic and formal usage, but correct in the UK at least.
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Postby Arneb » Fri Jun 17, 2011 10:13 pm

Heid the Ba' wrote:
Arneb wrote:No, that's a coincidence. I spent my Final Year at four different city-run hospitals (three in Berlin, one in Portsmouth);

You worked in Pompey? You have my sympathy. :D


Oh, it was great. The pund was weak at the time, beer was affordable. The staff and students were exceedingly nice. We lived in a
Victorian mansion on the hospital grounds.

When everyone but me left for the weekend I had the whole area, including a small swimming pool, to myself.

I got into cricket abit, watching entire test days, lazily lying on a couch with a beer. The first thing I ever watched in cricket, was the 22nd test cricket hat trick, by Dominic Cork - it started the moment I turned on the television.

History... Also, in the same year, Boris Becker won the Wimbledon semifinal against Andre Agassi, after being 2 sets and 1 break down. I mean, can you ask for more (he had no chance against Pete Sampras, alas.

It ws a glorious, carefree, beatiful two months, during when I learned to love my profession (incidentally, I also learned that surgeons can be wonderful, friendly, competent people, something I had not anticipated after my first expiriences in Germany).
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Postby Heid the Ba » Thu Jul 07, 2011 1:03 pm

Oops, missed this post sorry.

Arneb wrote:I got into cricket abit, watching entire test days, lazily lying on a couch with a beer. The first thing I ever watched in cricket, was the 22nd test cricket hat trick, by Dominic Cork - it started the moment I turned on the television.

A much under-rated hobby watching test matches. I had just finished my law degree and was working as a security guard.

History... Also, in the same year, Boris Becker won the Wimbledon semifinal against Andre Agassi, after being 2 sets and 1 break down. I mean, can you ask for more (he had no chance against Pete Sampras, alas.

Alas not, he does the BBC commentary now. Very knowledgable and funny.

It ws a glorious, carefree, beatiful two months, during when I learned to love my profession (incidentally, I also learned that surgeons can be wonderful, friendly, competent people, something I had not anticipated after my first expiriences in Germany).

Stern, humourless germans? Say it ain't so! :D
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Postby Arneb » Thu Jul 07, 2011 2:19 pm

I need to watch my spelling and grammar. Probably a PUI incident.

The role model of the surgeon in Germany used to be that of the technically proficient, 16 hrs a day, no-nonsense surgery hero, subservient while in training, progressively imperious while climbing the ladder. Most talk in the operating theatre would be about cars, girls, hunting (very important!) and making jokes about the elderly, foreigners, other colleagues and the patient currently on the table. Intellectual pursuits were looked down upon with utter disdain.

There are still pockets of resistance in the German surgery landscape where yelling at subordinates during surgery, throwing hooks, hammers and scalpels around and humiliating younger colleagues in the no-escape situation of the operating theatre are commonplace and seen as normal - some kind of "tough love" you have to get through to prove worth your salt.

My medical bogeyman image was fixed after my first clerkship, four weeks in an orthopedic surgery department...

Portsmouth was a much different place.
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