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    Herself has just been sent an unsolicited Faecal Occult Blood Test kit, as part of the NHS Bowel Cancer Screening Programme. Fine...but...well, you have to send three days worth of "samples" to the lab in a packet. Now, it's not a complete sample, you understand - just a smear each day I think - but...when you sit there in your warm / air conditioned office, on your comfy chair, with your mug of Coffee, in front of your computer and complain that your job is cr@p: Think about the postman who has to deliver these things by the van full... X|

    Never underestimate the power of stupid things in large numbers --- Serious Sam

    "I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
    "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt

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      Herself has just been sent an unsolicited Faecal Occult Blood Test kit, as part of the NHS Bowel Cancer Screening Programme. Fine...but...well, you have to send three days worth of "samples" to the lab in a packet. Now, it's not a complete sample, you understand - just a smear each day I think - but...when you sit there in your warm / air conditioned office, on your comfy chair, with your mug of Coffee, in front of your computer and complain that your job is cr@p: Think about the postman who has to deliver these things by the van full... X|

      Never underestimate the power of stupid things in large numbers --- Serious Sam

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      Lost User
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      If I ever pulled of the great train robbery MKII, it would be just my luck that the 30 mail bags I stole all contained those. :sigh:

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      • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

        Herself has just been sent an unsolicited Faecal Occult Blood Test kit, as part of the NHS Bowel Cancer Screening Programme. Fine...but...well, you have to send three days worth of "samples" to the lab in a packet. Now, it's not a complete sample, you understand - just a smear each day I think - but...when you sit there in your warm / air conditioned office, on your comfy chair, with your mug of Coffee, in front of your computer and complain that your job is cr@p: Think about the postman who has to deliver these things by the van full... X|

        Never underestimate the power of stupid things in large numbers --- Serious Sam

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        Nagy Vilmos
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        That postman's job is joy, unadulterated joy, compared to the poor sap who has to open the mail.

        speramus in juniperus

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          Herself has just been sent an unsolicited Faecal Occult Blood Test kit, as part of the NHS Bowel Cancer Screening Programme. Fine...but...well, you have to send three days worth of "samples" to the lab in a packet. Now, it's not a complete sample, you understand - just a smear each day I think - but...when you sit there in your warm / air conditioned office, on your comfy chair, with your mug of Coffee, in front of your computer and complain that your job is cr@p: Think about the postman who has to deliver these things by the van full... X|

          Never underestimate the power of stupid things in large numbers --- Serious Sam

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          But... that would be contrary to the 1953 Postal Act: "Sending of a Deleterious Substance" ...

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            That postman's job is joy, unadulterated joy, compared to the poor sap who has to open the mail.

            speramus in juniperus

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            He's probably given special clothing because of Elf and Softy rules. :laugh:

            Never underestimate the power of stupid things in large numbers --- Serious Sam

            "I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
            "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt

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              But... that would be contrary to the 1953 Postal Act: "Sending of a Deleterious Substance" ...

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              No it wouldn't, the 1953 act was repealed[^].

              speramus in juniperus

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              • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

                Herself has just been sent an unsolicited Faecal Occult Blood Test kit, as part of the NHS Bowel Cancer Screening Programme. Fine...but...well, you have to send three days worth of "samples" to the lab in a packet. Now, it's not a complete sample, you understand - just a smear each day I think - but...when you sit there in your warm / air conditioned office, on your comfy chair, with your mug of Coffee, in front of your computer and complain that your job is cr@p: Think about the postman who has to deliver these things by the van full... X|

                Never underestimate the power of stupid things in large numbers --- Serious Sam

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                I sent in my FOBT last year.  Thankfully the results were negative.  Never hurts to be proactive when it comes to one's health. :) /ravi

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                  No it wouldn't, the 1953 act was repealed[^].

                  speramus in juniperus

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                  Well what was it replaced with? Anyway, it was in force at the time.... ahem...

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                  • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

                    Herself has just been sent an unsolicited Faecal Occult Blood Test kit, as part of the NHS Bowel Cancer Screening Programme. Fine...but...well, you have to send three days worth of "samples" to the lab in a packet. Now, it's not a complete sample, you understand - just a smear each day I think - but...when you sit there in your warm / air conditioned office, on your comfy chair, with your mug of Coffee, in front of your computer and complain that your job is cr@p: Think about the postman who has to deliver these things by the van full... X|

                    Never underestimate the power of stupid things in large numbers --- Serious Sam

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                    What's with the Occult bit? Is there some sort of ritual involved:confused:

                    “That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”

                    ― Christopher Hitchens

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                      What's with the Occult bit? Is there some sort of ritual involved:confused:

                      “That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”

                      ― Christopher Hitchens

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                      Do I want to know? No. But...http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/occult[^]It's the second meaning: "Medicine (of a disease or process) not accompanied by readily discernible signs or symptoms: careful palpation sometimes discloses occult spina bifida (of blood) abnormally present, e.g. in faeces, but detectable only chemically or microscopically."

                      Never underestimate the power of stupid things in large numbers --- Serious Sam

                      "I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
                      "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt

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