Once again - brilliant forum!

[Clifton]

I realise my own contributions to this great forum given I was only diagnosed with Type 2 in the last few months are at best barely superficial and hardly insightful. I am however delighted to be here!

That said, I'd like to commend once again everyone on this great resource for their good humour, intelligence, advice and insight, virtual support which makes my diabetic journey far smoother than it might otherwise have been - even with a brilliant GP practice by my side.

So, take a bow everyone - and thanks!

 

[Vonny]

Don't do yourself down @Clifton, we all bring something different to this forum 🙂. Hope the working away is still working well food-wise and that you are managing a low carb diet. I agree, diabetes would be a much rockier road without the support of the forum.

 

[everydayupsanddowns]

Thanks @Clifton 🙂

Glad to have you here, and glad you are getting lots out of being here.

 

[Clifton]

Don't do yourself down @Clifton, we all bring something different to this forum 🙂. Hope the working away is still working well food-wise and that you are managing a low carb diet. I agree, diabetes would be a much rockier road without the support of the forum.

Hi there thanks for asking! - Yes all low carb. Tonight's dinner was scallops and salad followed by a rare steak on its own. Had an interesting day in a very complex case -

There's me - Type 2 Diabetic
QC representing the other side - Type 1 Diabetic
Judge - Type 2 Diabetic

All in the one Courtroom.

Maybe some sort of record?

 

[trophywench]

OTOH - common as muck !

 

[Clifton]

OTOH - common as muck !

You're probably right! I had to look up OTOH - I thought it was an intellectual property rights acronym I needed to know...

 

[everydayupsanddowns]

You're probably right! I had to look up OTOH - I thought it was an intellectual property rights acronym I needed to know...

Plenty more forum acronyms where that came from!

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[trophywench]

They change over the years too Clifton - eg ROFLMAO - rolling on floor laughing my a*se off now stops at ROFL. Still means you found it funnier than LOL though.

On French forums the word 'please' is shortened to SVP. Most things make sense actually!

Unlike quoting legal precedents out loud ...... which I only found out about when taking part in a moot a few decades go - insurers v law students from B'ham Uni ! - but us insurers were OK thanks cos we were very well aware of the precedents established by Rylands v Fletcher !

 

[Clifton]

They change over the years too Clifton - eg ROFLMAO - rolling on floor laughing my a*se off now stops at ROFL. Still means you found it funnier than LOL though.

On French forums the word 'please' is shortened to SVP. Most things make sense actually!

Unlike quoting legal precedents out loud ...... which I only found out about when taking part in a moot a few decades go - insurers v law students from B'ham Uni ! - but us insurers were OK thanks cos we were very well aware of the precedents established by Rylands v Fletcher !

Nothing like a tort argument to stimulate a good robust nuisance discussion 😉 That and Cambridge Water Co Ltd v Eastern Counties Leather plc [1994] and the notion of damage foreseeability...
So TTYL 😉

 

[helli]

Hi there thanks for asking! - Yes all low carb. Tonight's dinner was scallops and salad followed by a rare steak on its own. Had an interesting day in a very complex case -

There's me - Type 2 Diabetic
QC representing the other side - Type 1 Diabetic
Judge - Type 2 Diabetic

All in the one Courtroom.

Maybe some sort of record?

I think this is brilliant.
I have seen a number of newly diagnosed threads, especially from some of our younger members, feeling that diabetes will limit their lives.
Selfishly, I focus more on Type 1 so to see a QC with Type 1 is fantastic.

 

[Robin]

Nothing like a tort argument to stimulate a good robust nuisance discussion 😉 That and Cambridge Water Co Ltd v Eastern Counties Leather plc [1994] and the notion of damage foreseeability...
So TTYL 😉

OMG, I just had to Google that. I got my law degree in 1978, qualified as a solicitor, (so well before you were born, @Clifton) but never practised, so I never admit to it in public! I realise just how out of date my knowledge of the law is now, that case hadn’t even been dreamt of then.

 

[EllsBells]

OMG - I remember that (but not the court case) - my mum lived in Sawston in the late 80s/early 90s. The tannery was at the end of the village. First building you came to coming from the M11. 😱

 

[trophywench]

I was never taught the Law of tort formally meself unlike yourself hence just picked it up as I went along and gradually learned the horrors of snails in ginger beer bottles the trials of chair-o-planes with nearby hillsides et al

Simply continues to irk me that so many folk insist on relying on punctuation instead of being able to change the phraseology of a statement in order to convey its correct interpretation to the reader

 

[Clifton]

OMG, I just had to Google that. I got my law degree in 1978, qualified as a solicitor, (so well before you were born, @Clifton) but never practised, so I never admit to it in public! I realise just how out of date my knowledge of the law is now, that case hadn’t even been dreamt of then.

Three years before I arrived on this mortal coil - not so bad 😉

Still part of the brethren!

Plan to be part of the judiciary soon ...watch this space. Then no-one will talk to me!

 

[Clifton]

Don't do yourself down @Clifton, we all bring something different to this forum 🙂. Hope the working away is still working well food-wise and that you are managing a low carb diet. I agree, diabetes would be a much rockier road without the support of the forum.

I've learned so much here. And everyone is friendly and supportive too. All helps!

 

[KARNAK]

Well said @Clifton we all enjoy the forum or should do, moan, rant,rave or tell us the positive side
when treating your D, or anything you wish to we`re listening. Good man a very fine introduction
to the forum from you well done, hope them Cibies have got lost by now? 😳

 

[Clifton]

Well said @Clifton we all enjoy the forum or should do, moan, rant,rave or tell us the positive side
when treating your D, or anything you wish to we`re listening. Good man a very fine introduction
to the forum from you well done, hope them Cibies have got lost by now? 😳

Thanks! Yes the cibie covers are in a box squirrelled away but the lights are still there - they look ok without the plastic coverings!

 

[Clifton]

I think this is brilliant.
I have seen a number of newly diagnosed threads, especially from some of our younger members, feeling that diabetes will limit their lives.
Selfishly, I focus more on Type 1 so to see a QC with Type 1 is fantastic.

Yes, she has been T1 for some years and manages a demanding career, family of 3 school age children with aplomb. I've asked her to join us here on the forum, which is being considered!

 

[goodybags]

I realise my own contributions to this great forum given I was only diagnosed with Type 2 in the last few months are at best barely superficial and hardly insightful. I am however delighted to be here!

That said, I'd like to commend once again everyone on this great resource for their good humour, intelligence, advice and insight, virtual support which makes my diabetic journey far smoother than it might otherwise have been - even with a brilliant GP practice by my side.

So, take a bow everyone - and thanks!

Well said @Clifton
I’ve found the advice and support available on here of great help in getting the Diabetic monster inside me under control

 

[pm133]

@Clifton, I certainly wouldn't downplay your contribution to the forum.
There are posters on this forum who've had diabetes from a few days right through to 50 years and more and there isn't a single one of us who knows anywhere near everything about diabetes.

Mostly the forum seems to be about people advising each other and a bit of social support. You fit right in. Don't worry about that.