you talkin' to me?

[John Gill]

I organise all my medical affairs online- booking appointments, repeat prescriptions, requests to speak with my gp and quite a bit more. All it takes is a visit to the practice with id and you're given an access code and log in with a password. Booking appointments is quicker too as all the current and future availability is all displayed on screen and just a click away. However, while on the site today i noticed a drop-down box marked 'language', clicked on it and scrolled down....... and scrolled down....... Eventually reached Z ( Zulu). There were 82 different language options and at least a third of them were unknown to me. So, i ask the question, when a request is made from one of the more obscure of the '82' who is able to translate into English that request, or maybe some more technically inclined member can offer a solution, or maybe there is software on the website to reverse translation. Whatever happened to The English Speaking Peoples.
gilly

[happy daze john in oz]

The English speaking people, a nation last heard of in about 1960, since then they have been overtaken aby a group of minorities amny of whom hide in strange garb not allowing the face to be see. It is rumoured that there is still a small group of the English speaking hiding in a wood north of Wtaford Gap.

[robpage]

I was at Watford Gap services yesterday and the Lithuanian serving at Costa Coffee reckoned that the bloke at West Cornwall pasties was Romanian

[Keith at Tregenna]

Lithuanian's serve at Costa Coffee in Lithuania and Romanian's do much in Romania, tried for a few jobs, but not speaking the language did not help, or would have had a pub in Spain years ago. Not much benefit abroad if you do not speak the lingo. Fancy Canada, NZ or Oz. Gonna have to learn French, Maori or Abo PDQ ?

[Louis the fly]

When you finally get to see the doctor you find that he is also one of the 82.

Come out more confused than when you went in.