[Humour] Avoiding Other People

[Guinness Boy]

I was up at the Princess Royal hospital yesterday lunchtime for a tiredness bug that I haven't been able to shake off for about a week now.

The A&E department was chock-a-block with about 40 people in front of me, all looking pretty ill. Now one thing immediately struck me as I grabbed a seat between a couple of girls in their twenties and an elderly sick man with his wife looking after him. There was not one black or Asian face waiting. Amazing that, isn't it? I guess they never get ill. Or is it that their practice gives them preferential treatment for new/foreign people moving to or living in Haywards Heath and the surrounding areas? I do not know but I am very curious of that. One of the girls near me had what sounded like whooping cough (caught from her young child she mentioned) - normally I would run a mile with something like that but as I was so tired, I asked her to give me a nod if I was asleep when my name was called. Fortunately I grabbed half an hour before triage but was awake when called. Then the never ending wait after for treatment. The service was excellent despite waiting nearly five hours in total. Not bad.

And the one thing that actually made me feel quite proud really - everybody was kind and considerate to each other - most were wearing a poppy (not that it's a big thing) and everyone was speaking the same language. It was like going back 25 years in time and it was bloody nice despite feeling absolutely dreadful.

No doubt I'll be attacked for my right-wing views and probably called a racist bellend but I imagine A&E departments up and down the country are in a similar state that if you're white, it's not alright.......

Do you think black and Asian people have special hospitals with no waiting and the best surgeons in the land?

 

[Zeberdi]

Do you think black and Asian people have special hospitals with no waiting and the best surgeons in the land?

Well obviously there’s a secret hospital giving treatment to all the Blacks and Asians somewhere - hopefully @Durlston can find out where and let me know - my BiL and nieces will be thrilled not having to wait 7 hours at Lewisham A&E with all the other Black people when they’re sick.

 

[wellquickwoody]

I was up at the Princess Royal hospital yesterday lunchtime for a tiredness bug that I haven't been able to shake off for about a week now.

The A&E department was chock-a-block with about 40 people in front of me, all looking pretty ill. Now one thing immediately struck me as I grabbed a seat between a couple of girls in their twenties and an elderly sick man with his wife looking after him. There was not one black or Asian face waiting. Amazing that, isn't it? I guess they never get ill. Or is it that their practice gives them preferential treatment for new/foreign people moving to or living in Haywards Heath and the surrounding areas? I do not know but I am very curious of that. One of the girls near me had what sounded like whooping cough (caught from her young child she mentioned) - normally I would run a mile with something like that but as I was so tired, I asked her to give me a nod if I was asleep when my name was called. Fortunately I grabbed half an hour before triage but was awake when called. Then the never ending wait after for treatment. The service was excellent despite waiting nearly five hours in total. Not bad.

And the one thing that actually made me feel quite proud really - everybody was kind and considerate to each other - most were wearing a poppy (not that it's a big thing) and everyone was speaking the same language. It was like going back 25 years in time and it was bloody nice despite feeling absolutely dreadful.

No doubt I'll be attacked for my right-wing views and probably called a racist bellend but I imagine A&E departments up and down the country are in a similar state that if you're white, it's not alright

So you go to A&E because you feel tired? What about your GP?

 

[hans kraay fan club]

So you go to A&E because you feel tired? What about your GP?

He's tired, too.

 

[Guinness Boy]

He's tired, too.

It’s all those Muslims he’s seeing during peak hours.

 

[jamie-oh]

Is it preferential treatment for new/foreign people, or is it for anyone from an ethnic minority?
Its just that as an Irish citizen i'm a foreign, so should qualify for the secret Doctor's surgeries, BUT i'm white. spectacularly so in fact, in that i'm really pale like a lot of us celts are. So i qualify, and i don't as well, dammit

 

[hans kraay fan club]

Is it preferential treatment for new/foreign people, or is it for anyone from an ethnic minority?
Its just that as an Irish citizen i'm a foreign, so should qualify for the secret Doctor's surgeries, BUT i'm white. spectacularly so in fact, in that i'm really pale like a lot of us celts are. So i qualify, and i don't as well, dammit

Good questions, that need answering.

My two lads have both recently successfully gained Irish citizenship. What about them? Do they count as NEW foreigners? How do they go about transferring to the special fast-track surgeries?

 

[nickbrighton]

Yes it was a bit of an eye opener when I, quite recently, found out about it! I was laughing to myself when I saw your post as I have exactly the same problem with TV shows and films, someone will pop up in a scene and I have to ask my wife who they are and its sometimes a main character but I think I have never seen them before, on other occasions I get people mixed up and think a character is a different one. I have always hated films or series where they jump backwards or forwards in time because I completely lose track of who is who and therefore the story line!

I have this exactly- time jumps when the characters have a slightly different look completely throw me-and especially multiple time frames- the "12 hours earlier" isnt a problem, but when a story is being told over say three time periods years apart with the same characters but dressed and looking very different buggers me up completely. I get annoyed at times as I have no idea wtf is going on.

 

[Brian Fantana]

I was up at the Princess Royal hospital yesterday lunchtime for a tiredness bug that I haven't been able to shake off for about a week now.

The A&E department was chock-a-block with about 40 people in front of me, all looking pretty ill. Now one thing immediately struck me as I grabbed a seat between a couple of girls in their twenties and an elderly sick man with his wife looking after him. There was not one black or Asian face waiting. Amazing that, isn't it? I guess they never get ill. Or is it that their practice gives them preferential treatment for new/foreign people moving to or living in Haywards Heath and the surrounding areas? I do not know but I am very curious of that. One of the girls near me had what sounded like whooping cough (caught from her young child she mentioned) - normally I would run a mile with something like that but as I was so tired, I asked her to give me a nod if I was asleep when my name was called. Fortunately I grabbed half an hour before triage but was awake when called. Then the never ending wait after for treatment. The service was excellent despite waiting nearly five hours in total. Not bad.

And the one thing that actually made me feel quite proud really - everybody was kind and considerate to each other - most were wearing a poppy (not that it's a big thing) and everyone was speaking the same language. It was like going back 25 years in time and it was bloody nice despite feeling absolutely dreadful.

No doubt I'll be attacked for my right-wing views and probably called a racist bellend but I imagine A&E departments up and down the country are in a similar state that if you're white, it's not alright.......

In all my years on NSC, I think this is the most mental thing I've ever seen posted.

 

[The Fifth Column]

I was up at the Princess Royal hospital yesterday lunchtime for a tiredness bug that I haven't been able to shake off for about a week now.

The A&E department was chock-a-block with about 40 people in front of me, all looking pretty ill. Now one thing immediately struck me as I grabbed a seat between a couple of girls in their twenties and an elderly sick man with his wife looking after him. There was not one black or Asian face waiting. Amazing that, isn't it? I guess they never get ill. Or is it that their practice gives them preferential treatment for new/foreign people moving to or living in Haywards Heath and the surrounding areas? I do not know but I am very curious of that. One of the girls near me had what sounded like whooping cough (caught from her young child she mentioned) - normally I would run a mile with something like that but as I was so tired, I asked her to give me a nod if I was asleep when my name was called. Fortunately I grabbed half an hour before triage but was awake when called. Then the never ending wait after for treatment. The service was excellent despite waiting nearly five hours in total. Not bad.

And the one thing that actually made me feel quite proud really - everybody was kind and considerate to each other - most were wearing a poppy (not that it's a big thing) and everyone was speaking the same language. It was like going back 25 years in time and it was bloody nice despite feeling absolutely dreadful.

No doubt I'll be attacked for my right-wing views and probably called a racist bellend but I imagine A&E departments up and down the country are in a similar state that if you're white, it's not alright.......

I wish I knew you and could recognise you just so I could ignore a racist when I saw one.

 

[SkirlieWirlie]

...my right-wing views and probably called a racist bellend...

Self awareness is a wonderful thing... IF you use it as an opportunity for self improvement

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

In all my years on NSC, I think this is the most mental thing I've ever seen posted.

I'm going all-out generous and am labelling it 'confused'.

Incidentally I was at Faversham station a couple of days ago and everyone there apart from me was black. Three school kids waiting outside for a parent to pick them up, and both the ticket checkers.

The black population of Faversham is less than 0.1%.

I call it spooky, I really do.

 

[BN9 BHA]

I work in occupied homes, sometimes 4 a day and meet lots of people, occasionally I will recognise a customer when I’m out, if I have only worked for them once I wouldn’t go out of my way to say hello as i don’t know if they would recognise me, I would probably just confuse them.
Customers have actually said hello to me when I have been out and i have to guess that I have worked in their property, some people I just don’t recognise.
It’s not so bad when it’s a regular customer that I have been to their home many times, I definitely wouldn’t ignore them if I saw them in the street.

 

[Weststander]

Mrs.W has that knack of recognising faces including celebs. To the extent that she thought she was as good as a super-recogniser (the police use them). A couple of years ago she took a uni test on the subject, she didn’t pass.

We were in a hotel last year where she said a bloke was a former member of a 90’s British band. Turned out that he wasn’t!

 

[Justice]

I work in occupied homes, sometimes 4 a day and meet lots of people, occasionally I will recognise a customer when I’m out, if I have only worked for them once I wouldn’t go out of my way to say hello as i don’t know if they would recognise me, I would probably just confuse them.
Customers have actually said hello to me when I have been out and i have to guess that I have worked in their property, some people I just don’t recognise.
It’s not so bad when it’s a regular customer that I have been to their home many times, I definitely wouldn’t ignore them if I saw them in the street.

Or they call you from a job you did like four years ago and say it’s John like you are meant to remember them

 

[BNthree]

Interestingly there are also 'super recognisers', people that have a significantly higher than average ability to recognise faces. I have a friend who is like this, he can spot people that we went to school with 35 years ago in a crowd of people! When we were younger he would start chatting to someone that we both knew in the past and could never understand why I was standing there absolutely oblivious as to who they were!

Whilst I’m not a super recogniser I did a test that was created by some university researchers to find super recognisers and apparently I scored better than 75%(ish can’t remember exact score) of the population at recognising faces.

 

[Weststander]

Whilst I’m not a super recogniser I did a test that was created by some university researchers to find super recognisers and apparently I scored better than 75%(ish can’t remember exact score) of the population at recognising faces.

Was it Bournemouth Uni?

 

[The Clamp]

I was up at the Princess Royal hospital yesterday lunchtime for a tiredness bug that I haven't been able to shake off for about a week now.

The A&E department was chock-a-block with about 40 people in front of me, all looking pretty ill. Now one thing immediately struck me as I grabbed a seat between a couple of girls in their twenties and an elderly sick man with his wife looking after him. There was not one black or Asian face waiting. Amazing that, isn't it? I guess they never get ill. Or is it that their practice gives them preferential treatment for new/foreign people moving to or living in Haywards Heath and the surrounding areas? I do not know but I am very curious of that. One of the girls near me had what sounded like whooping cough (caught from her young child she mentioned) - normally I would run a mile with something like that but as I was so tired, I asked her to give me a nod if I was asleep when my name was called. Fortunately I grabbed half an hour before triage but was awake when called. Then the never ending wait after for treatment. The service was excellent despite waiting nearly five hours in total. Not bad.

And the one thing that actually made me feel quite proud really - everybody was kind and considerate to each other - most were wearing a poppy (not that it's a big thing) and everyone was speaking the same language. It was like going back 25 years in time and it was bloody nice despite feeling absolutely dreadful.

No doubt I'll be attacked for my right-wing views and probably called a racist bellend but I imagine A&E departments up and down the country are in a similar state that if you're white, it's not alright.......

 

[BN41Albion]

Never done it, for the simple reason that I am really really, and I mean really bad at recognising people - so I never have to avoid anyone as I don't know who I'm seeing. People do think I'm extremely rude though, people are always saying to my wife "I saw your husband the other day and he completely ignored me."

EDIT: The other side of the coin is that, knowing that people think I'm rude, I quite often 'recognise' someone and go up to talk to them - and of course it isn't the person I thought it was. Had some odd conversations like that.

I have the opposite - always been very good at recognising faces but terrible, really terrible, at remembering names - even of famous people I know well my mind often goes totally blank in the moment. Weird, as generally my memory is pretty decent other than people's names

 

[BN41Albion]

I was up at the Princess Royal hospital yesterday lunchtime for a tiredness bug that I haven't been able to shake off for about a week now.

The A&E department was chock-a-block with about 40 people in front of me, all looking pretty ill. Now one thing immediately struck me as I grabbed a seat between a couple of girls in their twenties and an elderly sick man with his wife looking after him. There was not one black or Asian face waiting. Amazing that, isn't it? I guess they never get ill. Or is it that their practice gives them preferential treatment for new/foreign people moving to or living in Haywards Heath and the surrounding areas? I do not know but I am very curious of that. One of the girls near me had what sounded like whooping cough (caught from her young child she mentioned) - normally I would run a mile with something like that but as I was so tired, I asked her to give me a nod if I was asleep when my name was called. Fortunately I grabbed half an hour before triage but was awake when called. Then the never ending wait after for treatment. The service was excellent despite waiting nearly five hours in total. Not bad.

And the one thing that actually made me feel quite proud really - everybody was kind and considerate to each other - most were wearing a poppy (not that it's a big thing) and everyone was speaking the same language. It was like going back 25 years in time and it was bloody nice despite feeling absolutely dreadful.

No doubt I'll be attacked for my right-wing views and probably called a racist bellend but I imagine A&E departments up and down the country are in a similar state that if you're white, it's not alright.......

Wtf - reading through the thread and get to this