You're not just addicted to technology, Zubaz, with a post like that you ARE technology.

I did, however, notice there was a bit of Zubish contained in that code... perhaps a grease and oil change is in order  to correct it.

Yeah, I spent 3 years in Ipswich Hospital back in the Seventies... and about one month in I had lost touch with all reality and became the bane of hospital administrators and some nursing staff.  The larrikin in me was working double triple time and... um, let's just say that it became  a 'military' hospital and I got a dishonourable discharge for (among other things) visiting the nurses quarters once or thrice too often.  Hehe, the admins thought they had thwarted my visits by adding more surveillance to the main door... but what they didn't know is that all I had to do was knock and one of the nurses would let me in one of the fire exits that wasn't being watched.

I can tell you, my parents were not at all impressed with me being sent home... I was in a spiker (a body cast that went down my right leg to my toes) and they just weren't equipped to cope with it - but the admins were adamant and said that they could no longer tolerate my mischief making.

He has been for years... but no institution is able or willing to book him in because of his striped zebra pants, which are known to set off psych patients with a history of black and white phobias.  Personally, I think that he could wear some thing else, and that his resusal to do so is a ploy on Zubaz's part to avoid hospital food... And who wouldn't.

I remember someone in my ward calling out one day: "Orright, who called the cook a bastard?"

My response to that was: "Who called that bastard a cook?" 

Now I'm convinced that you need therapy!  Anyone who loves hospital food has to have something seriously wrong with them.  I mean, really, I worked inthe kitchen of the Ipswich Hospital some years later (yeah, I'll get to that in a minute) and I saw the cook turn a perfectly good piece of meat into shoe leather, baked rice custard into floor tiles and perfectly good Nescafe Blend 43 into dishwater. So yup, anyone who likes hospital food has to have rocks in their head... and if they've eaten hospital food, probably in their stomachs as well.

Ahem, did I call that bastard a cook?

But yeah, after having to live on it for 3 years straight (and ya gotta remember the cook's (?) reputation)... like yuk bigtime, and if I EVER have to eat it again it'll be too soon... especially that lime green jelly they served up with just about every dessert and was either like rubber or thickened cordial, it was that runny.

Quite frankly, I believe that hospital food is a conspiracy hatched by Health Dep't bureaucrats to stop people getting sick... or at least thinking they're not sick enough to be hospitalised.  Now I'm wiiling to bet that if you could get a hold of hospital admissions records and the meal rosters for the last few years, you'd notice that there's been a decline in patients being admitted to and fed in hospitals... why, because the hospital food has been designed specifically to scare them away and save money.  It's a penny pinching plot to prove to the Minister that the Dep't and the taxpayer can afford the 32% payrise they want to award themselves.

So there you have it!  Hospital food is bad on purpose... and is prepared by 'so-called' cooks who got the job because they answered 'NO' to the "Have you ever burned water?" question on the application form.

Same here... well I thought the Ipswich Hospital would hate me after my shenanigans in the Seventies, but I ended up getting a job there in the mid-Eighties when work was real herd to find and I was desperate for a job.  I was understandably nervous and pessimistic about my chances when I fronted up the the CEO's office for the interview for a 6 week stint as a kitchen hand, but very pleased when I actually got it.  What started out as a 6 week fill-in while someone was off sick turned out to be almost 2 years work... when the regular kitchenhand returned I was offerred a gardeners position and I took it, leaving only because I had to move North to Rockhampton for a while on family matters.

Just to set the record straight, kiddies: Link

Zubaz's binary text translates as:

"I have to say inall honesty that I an not in any way addicted to technology. It's merely a tool I use to communicate or accompish tasks in a streamlined manner.

Funny jokes though."

Now, what I find amazing is that he went to the trouble of finding a site to translate his text,

but more importantly  he managed to mistype in binary!!!! (see words 5 and 9 in the first sentence as well as "accompish" which is traditional Zubish).

I believe this IS a "Guiness". "Communicate in a streamlined manner" indeed, if anyone could understand.

BiZubish = Binary Zubish, the language of striped computers! 

I had a similar experience (being thrown out) a few years ago... was taken by ambulance to the PA Hospital with a dislocated hip, but because the ambos somehow managed to relocate it, the little twit of a doctor felt there was nothing wrong with me and refused treatment/pain relief, despite the fact that I could not bear weight on the hip or walk due to pain.  He told me to leave the ER, and when I couldn't he got 2 security guards to drag me out and down the front driveway, inflicting injuries to both knees and ankles, etc.  Worse still, I did not raise my voice or swear at him, so the forcible removal was certainly unwarranted and way over the top.

To culminate to entire sad and sorry affair, the securiity guards then called the cops, accused me of assault and disorderly conduct and had them remove me from the hospital premises.  Althought the assault charges were dismissed by the court, i was still fined $250 for trespass (??? trespass on public property???) and disorderly conduct for my troubles.

As always, when someone does me wrong without just cause, the security guards got their come-uppance and I got the last laugh. After doing some investigation, I discovered that both of them were moonlighting as bouncers at a local nightclub, which is a breach of their employment requirements, and I forced an inquiry by the hospital administration which led to both of them losing their jobs and all entitlements.  But the icing on the cake was the subsequent court case that banned both of them from ever being employed as bouncers/security personel... and 5 years jail for one of them for the use of excessive force on a nightclub patron who is now a quadriplegic as a result of his actions.  Had I not pursued the matter and made it public, it is quite likely he would have gotten away with it and the victim never receiving justice, so at the end of the day it was worth the trouble.

Vengeance is mine sayeth the starkers.

Oh yeah *back on topic* you know someone is addicted to technology when they have 'Short Ciruit' playing on 5 out of 6 TV's in the house, and the 'Science' channel playing on the other.

starkers, when I was 6, I apparently use to watch old Professor Julius Summner Miller [spelling?] doing his rocket science [or whatever, probably putting eggs into milk bottles, remember that one? lol] class on ABC, and understood every word, according to my Grandmother.

 I went from possible child prodigy, to complete and utter moron, how's that for technology

We had an American science teacher, Mr Stiddum, damn he was hot, I was totally in love  he never went off at me ever! even when I torched my desk with the ol' bunsen burner

This whole post rocks, thanks a lot folks

You know you're addicted to technology when... you install an ATM-like machine in your toilet to dispense toilet paper

You know you're addicted to Technology when you try to clear the documents on your Nintendo DS

Hey Ed, it's a game console, something along the lines of Xbox and Sony Playstation.  Not knowing that, however, does not make you old.

You know you're addicted to technology... and old when you hang on to your abacus for the want of something better.

Or were you playing pocket billiards?

Just a handheld console Ed, remember the gameboy? this is a way advanced version

Dual screen, touch screen, microphone etc, nice little system.. actually, it's a really expensive dust magnet