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Posted 29 May 2025 at 10:08

Originally Posted by: Online Community Member

they're the only nuts I get any pleasure from nowadays........Oooh matron 😆

Talking about Carry on films, nuts and cancer.

Picture this:

Scene one of Carry on Surgeon

Sid James is in an operating theatre, having an open prostatectomy performed by the eminent urology surgeon, Professor Kutzitov, played by Kenneth Williams.

Scene two:

Three days later Sid's in a recovery ward, lying bed and still having to wear an oxygen mask.

A young student nurse, played by Barbara Windsor, is wiggling by, when Sid calls out from behind the mask "Nurse, are my testicles black?"

Babs embarrassingly giggles, " Sorry, I don't know."

Still masked up, he struggles again to ask, "Nurse, please check for me. Are my testicles black?"

Concerned that the op may have caused testicular bruising, she overcomes her embarrassment and wiggles over to him. She pulls back the covers. She raises his gown and holds his his testicles gently, and gives them a very thorough examination. Five minutes later she says, "There's nothing wrong with them, they look fine to me" and giggles.

Sid then slowly pulls off his oxygen mask and says "Thank you very much for that, nurse. Most enjoyable. Now, please listen very closely. Are my test results back?!

https://youtu.be/FzLBY6PK6OE?si=zYEdV6MgHgNaE6qj

😬

Edited by member 29 May 2025 at 11:26 | Reason: To add Sids laugh.

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Posted 29 May 2025 at 11:53

Priceless Adrian,

You should have been a screenwriter mate 😄

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Posted 29 May 2025 at 12:11

That is so funny Adrian. You’ve brightened my day.. 💡

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Posted 29 May 2025 at 19:11

Do we know if anyone has reported the 502 error. Seems to be happening a lot. I wonder whether it might be to do with the size of the ‘A place to chat’ thread as I haven’t had it on other smaller chats?

Just settling down to watch Where Eagles Dare - a Thursday evening treat 😃

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Posted 29 May 2025 at 20:00

Hi Spongebob

I know nowt about tech stuff. You're our IT specialist. Do you think our virtual pub has become so popular it crashed the national grid! I wouldn't mind shutting it down, refurbish it, and have a grand reopening of the Protocologist's Finger.

Having said that I've been getting the 502 warning on all threads on every bit of the forum. I'd hate to think we were disrupting the serious cancer stuff.

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Posted 29 May 2025 at 20:11

I don’t know Adrian, it was just a thought. My phone always seems to have difficulty loading and updating on ‘A place to chat’ whereas other smaller threads no problem. But then again I’m not a massive user, so might not notice how widespread it is.
It does need to be looked at by whoever provides IT support for the site.

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Posted 29 May 2025 at 20:24

I’ve dropped an email to try to report it 😬

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Posted 29 May 2025 at 20:31

I'm not a massive user. I limit myself to twelve hours a day.🙂

Now you mention it though, when I joined Lyn Eyre had a huge thread which was on part three, I think. I haven't got a clue how much space is on here and how much we're using. If we're anyway compromising the site we should shut down I reckon?

Do you I think I should contact them on their feedback and make them aware that we could be blocking the system?

It seems to be working fine tonight.

Edited by member 29 May 2025 at 20:33 | Reason: Additional text

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Posted 29 May 2025 at 20:42

We carry on unless told otherwise 😃. But need to report errors as ‘they’ may be blissfully unaware. I’ll see what reply I get (the automatic response gave a 2 day eta).

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Posted 29 May 2025 at 20:48

Thanks for that, mate. 👍

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Posted 29 May 2025 at 20:56

Originally Posted by: Online Community Member

Just settling down to watch Where Eagles Dare - a Thursday evening treat 😃

Dont spoil your viewing, mate. I've just been watching Where Golden Eagles Dare Copulate on Springwatch.

Are we the only animals that get ED?

I love that programme, but isn't nature cruel. Two chick's in the eerie on top of a mountain, The stronger one picks on the other. The parents take the bully's side. So it ends up getting starved or pecked to death.

Did you see much wild life when you climbed Ben More?

Edited by member 30 May 2025 at 07:43 | Reason: Typo

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Posted 30 May 2025 at 00:22

Adrian, I have reported the slow and 50? Issues to two different people at PCUK, I got a reply today saying it is being looked at.

Thanks Chris

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Posted 30 May 2025 at 07:25

Cheers Chris. It is becoming very annoying. Although the site and forum are excellent I've always found the technical side pretty poor. Hopefully who ever is 'looking into it' will have good rummage around, find the fault and try and get us back to normal. A bit like our prostate surgeons. 🙂

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Posted 31 May 2025 at 19:05

So. How about a little story from my school days…

I was 14 and just moved back to my old school and decided to go for the DofE Gold Award . So we were transported up to the Brecon Beacons for an expedition, where we were divided into 4 groups of 8 and told we were being given a route which called for 4 nights out before we were to get back to base camp. Remember this is January 1970 so no mobiles etc. no teachers with just 8 kids.

So i was told i was the leader of our group. It was bitterly cold and beginning to snow when we were dropped off. I did notice a few of the group had inadequate clothing but it’s not really my problem……. We set off and found where we were meant to camp overnight. By this time id noticed one of the lads had developed a really nasty barking cough. Anyway we got through the night but he was still the same in the morning and i was really worried. He’d only got a leather jacket.

So i put to the team that we need to get him straight back to camp and forget the route. No one agreed with me and they all wanted to carry on with our set route as the teachers would know where we were. I understood that but was worried about the lad. Well i stuck to my guns and plotted a route to get us back to base camp in a few hours. I wasn’t backing down and we started off back to base camp. We shared the load of his rucksack and got him back to the camp. All the teachers piled into one of the minibuses and took him to hospital where it turned out he had pneumonia.

With hindsight we could have found a farm house and called an ambulance, although still no means to contact the teachers.

While the teachers were gone we got the campfire going and then went looking for more firewood. Up a steep bank nearby we found some new telegraph poles laying on the ground. We rolled and carried one down and started burning the end. Well it absolutely stunk of creosote and even our porridge tasted of it in the morning…

Luckily the lad with pneumonia recovered ok and im glad i stuck to my guns. Might’ve saved his life….. not one person ever said we’d done well .

Take care guys

Phil

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Posted 31 May 2025 at 19:37

What a great story Phil.

The SAS train at the Brecon Beacons and just like them, you showed who dares wins.

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Posted 31 May 2025 at 21:04

Originally Posted by: Online Community Member

What a great story Phil.

The SAS train at the Brecon Beacons and just like them, you showed who dares wins.

When I was 15 I wanted to be a flight technician in the RAF and passed all the medicals etc. Then I had to go up to Stafford for a 4 day induction course. I got the train up there and met all these lads from oop North . They were trying to avoid the pits… Good bunch of lads 👍

I was doing ok until day 2 when I ended up having an argument in an interview… Woops.
They still offered me Radar Technician but I wanted to be the bloke in charge so I told them thanks but no thanks. I asked if I could leave a day early. I was getting the train down to Plymouth instead of home as my parents were on holiday down there. So they sorted my forces ticket and took me in the land rover to the station.
On the train an inspector looked at my ticket to Plymouth and told me I needed to change at the next station. So I got off and tried to work out what my next train was. Only to be told I should’ve stayed on the one I was on.. 2 hour wait and no way to contact my parents. Hoping they’d be waiting for me . They were. But a bit of a dull holiday as I was too old to be following them round….!

Phil

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Posted 31 May 2025 at 21:21

Hi Phil,

A great story and a demonstration of excellent leadership especially at 14. Shame you didn't get the thanks you deserved but it's clear you did the right thing.

Well done!

Kev.

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Posted 01 Jun 2025 at 10:40

Has anyone seen the new Lynx lower body spray advert. Apparently, if you spray your balls or bum with it, you become irresistible to either sex.

In the ad, a bloke who's used it, leaps up to score, in a basket ball game. Before he falls to the ground, a opposing player is amorously sniffing his groin.

Then there's a bloke in the Gents at a cinema, who's been for a dump, and sprayed his bum. On his way back to his seat, a lady is so attracted by the fragrance, that as he squeezes by her, she sticks her nose against his backside.

What's this got to do with cancer you might ask?

Well, imagine using the stuff before a DRE. Being bare bottomed the fragrance would be at its most potent! Isn't there a danger that the clinician would be so intoxicated with scent, that they'd get carried away with their probing!?

Perhaps, there should be a warning on the can, 'Do not use during medical procedures'?

Edited by member 01 Jun 2025 at 21:25 | Reason: Typo

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Posted 01 Jun 2025 at 12:49

With an imagination like that Adrian, you should have had a career in advertising.

Cheers,

Kev.

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Posted 02 Jun 2025 at 08:10

Originally Posted by: Online Community Member

Always a risk Adrian. I remember having one done back in the early days of diagnosis. The Urologist was getting himself ready, snapping on the marigolds and dispensing KY Jelly, whilst I lay there putting my best side forward so to speak. Next thing, I hear him mutter "right, here we go, please try not to get aroused, Dave". It's Ian, I said, and I don't think that's very likely! It was then that I clocked his name badge, Dr David Davies.........😂

Shamelessly knicked from someone else, but It made me chuckle.

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