SBS Insight Live Chat 14/7/2009

Below are some of the things I tried to get put onto the Live Chat forum that is available on the SBS Insight website after the end of the episode with some of the guests. As It is moderated I thought I'd try to see what interesting topics and questions I could bring up and possibly get answered, I laughed so hard when they got posted and some even got answered! You may notice I used many different names to avoid getting kicked off the site.

Q.
8:45
[Comment From Dave]
After having open heart surgery I became violently ill with flu like symptoms and went to get tested by my GP but she told me there was no need to test me at all even though two weeks later I was diagnosed with H1N1 virus, do most GP's have this view?

Q.
9:00
[Comment From Shinji]
My temperature has risen to 41 degrees in the last half hour and I was recently watching the Back To The Future trilogy when the room became extremely dizzy, I'm 23 heavily obese and suffer from respiratory problems would I be at risk of H1N1 virus?

A.
9:03
Professor Peter Collignon: If you've got a temperature of 41 degrees you need to be seen by your local dr or if there's any delay seen by a local hospital as such a high temperature is a sign that something more serious could be going on.

A.
9:16
Dr Kathryn Mainstone: Shinji, I would suggest that you seek medical attention now.


Q.
9:12
[Comment From Mark]
My daughter has diabetes and has very bad asthma and has be quite sick with what seems to be a flu over the past 2 days after competing in the South Australian swan racing championships, I sent her to the GP on the first day of the symptoms but our GP wouldn't test her do you think this has to do with faults within the heath sector not willing to test the public?

It's been so damn long.

Yes I know I haven't posted anything on here in how long I cannot remember, I guess I have been very slack and haven't been focusing enough on this.

Anyway check out my YouTube Channel pretty please and leave comments on my videos and be my friend. http://www.youtube.com/scotdodgy

New music on a compact disc.

Yesterday I purchased the new Passion Pit LP titled Manners and I must say even though I haven't had a great deal of time to listen to it yet that it's a very good array of tunes. Buy it, listen to it and let me know what you think of it!



In other Scot related news I managed to find my iPod which has been lost in the black hole that is my house, after nearly two weeks without my portable music collection I'm very glad to have it back.

New stuff.

In response to my earlier post about the packages not arriving and having to pick them up from the post office.
I picked them up right on 5pm to my disgust, but the good news is that now I own 10 more Super Famicom games, a SNES universal adapter and a Nintendo DS.
Yes that's about it.

Just a matter of time.

I wake up this morning and look towards the clock to relise the postman will be coming by my house soon and I am awaiting some packages to arrive, so I wait around for the postman to drop by but the wait is long and boring so I decide to quickly jump into the shower in the mean time so I can tick that off my to do list for the day.
After getting out of the shower I notice there is a van outside of my house which looks like the one that drops stuff of for me sometimes so I rush into my room and grab some clothes to wear when I answer the door, so I wait and the person isn't leaving the van so I thought to myself that maybe I should walk out the front to check what's going on but before I could even attempt to do that the van drove off, the end result is me having to go to the post office to pick up my packages.
Grrrrrrrrr.

Sport or a thing people do when mentally ill?

The short list for worst sports of all time:
Badminton and well yeah badminton, it just seems to have a total lack of purpose. I wonder if it was created by a group of small men wearing tiny overalls in Parramatta?

Car banter.

So I was traveling back home from Sunbury yesterday and I had a very interesting idea come to mind about how when I become Premier of Victoria I shall make it mandatory for all holders of Victorian drivers licenses and probationary licenses to wear night vision heat seeking goggles at all times during the hours of 5.30pm and 5.30am during the daylight savings period of the year. If someone is found to have violated this law the penalty shall be instant loss of license, $5,000 fine and 17 years in gaol with the possibility to leave early with good behavior after 16 years and 11 months.