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Sophia

@Occams_Blazer

8 years

Correct selfie stick usage.

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Sophia

@Occams_Blazer

3 years

Silent wrappers?! I’m on my period, not an MI5 mission ffs.

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@Occams_Blazer

3 years

Please witness the most beautiful of crash trolleys

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@Occams_Blazer

3 years

So last night I’m wedged in a hallway, folded up like an origami swan on the floor trying to cannulate my lovely patient, and I feel something on my shoulder. I look around to discover... a golden retriever sat behind me with his paw resting on my shoulder 😭

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@Occams_Blazer

2 years

Don’t mean to cause alarm, but this is an NHS cutlery drawer. Those are actual teaspoons and forks. Incredible. Outstanding.

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@Occams_Blazer

8 years

Right, you can all stand down, I've found the worst thing on Facebook.

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@Occams_Blazer

3 years

@Melanie4855 Maybe if teens weren’t made to feel as though this is something to be embarrassed about it wouldn’t even be an issue

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@Occams_Blazer

3 years

He then did that dog thing where they lean against you and press their face into you and honestly it’s the best thing that’s happened to me in this absolute binfire of a year ❤️

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@Occams_Blazer

2 years

Worried I might meet a patient who is spending their day alone tomorrow so have stocked up on some wee presents just in case 🚑💚

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@Occams_Blazer

3 years

Honestly, grow up @Tampax_UK - what is this stigmatising bullshit?

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@Occams_Blazer

3 years

So, this happened last night…

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@Occams_Blazer

3 years

ALSO THEY’RE NOT EVEN QUIET

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@Occams_Blazer

3 years

This is the pinnacle of my whole career nothing will ever top this

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@Occams_Blazer

6 years

Guys. GUYS. A doctor borrowed my pen last week and today THEY GAVE IT BACK. Unprecedented. 👏🏼

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@Occams_Blazer

3 years

Never imagined I’d be crewed up on an ambulance with a soldier, but I’ve had the most brilliant day working with @UKArmyLogistics - what an absolute credit to the military my partner was today 💯

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@Occams_Blazer

3 years

Public service announcement: If you hear blue lights and sirens behind you at a roundabout, you do not need to literally mount the roundabout furniture to clear space for us, simply ✨entering and exiting the roundabout✨ will do. Thanks x

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@Occams_Blazer

3 years

If you’ve ever drunk in the Wetherspoons on Elephant and Castle Roundabout, don’t worry about what’s in the vaccine.

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@Occams_Blazer

4 years

First shift as a qualified paramedic tonight lads #IAmNahhhtReady

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@Occams_Blazer

3 years

Is there anything more peak 2020 than working frontline throughout the entire pandemic, avoiding contracting COVID-19 until literally a week after a vaccine is rolled out? 🙃

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@Occams_Blazer

3 years

I have thoroughly Had. Enough. Please send me pictures of your dogs

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@Occams_Blazer

2 years

Christmas run of shifts: completed ✅ Off to pour Buck’s Fizz into my face for 4 days 🥂

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@Occams_Blazer

6 years

Britain 2018: staff have to fundraise to buy drip stands for their unit. I have no words.

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@UHDBTrust

6 years

Our Medical Assessment Unit will be celebrating all things acute medicine next Thursday. MAU will host a 24 hour swingballathon & cake sale from 10am to raise both awareness of MAU & money to buy a drip stand for each patient bed on the unit. #AcuteMedicineAwarenessWeek

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@Occams_Blazer

5 years

Day 11: Mistake There’s always someone who leaves the APL screwed down 🙃 #AnaestheticLyf #LoveAGoodBeachBall #FebruaryPhotoChallenge

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@Occams_Blazer

3 years

@ali1m There’s no ‘I’ in nursing, Ali #teamwork

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@Occams_Blazer

5 years

Aspirating whilst trying to eat my lunch in 47 seconds because I work in the NHS

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@Occams_Blazer

4 years

Nobody warned me about how much of being a paramedic is just endlessly ironing uniform.

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Sophia

@Occams_Blazer

8 months

Finally debuting the contraversial uniform shorts Do I feel cool and breezy? Yes Do I look like I’m about to join Dai Attenborough in the jungle? Also yes #ShortsGate

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@Occams_Blazer

6 years

If you want to know how bad HR is within the NHS, I just tried to apply for an ODP role on NHS jobs that requires you to state whether you have NMC registration. Stated no, as that is not the registration body for ODPs, now blocked from applying. Outstanding 👏🏼

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@Occams_Blazer

7 years

When you're in the middle of a Code Red and you've got to agitate your platelets 💁🏻 #HeathRobinsonODPSkillz #DoesTheJob

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@Occams_Blazer

3 years

Obsessed with this @LucyandYak number even if it makes me look like I’ve come to fix some plumbing 👩🏻‍🔧

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@Occams_Blazer

6 years

Major trauma is fun but have you ever had a 2 year old wake up from an anaesthetic, decide you’re the only person they want to hug and insist on you cuddling them to all the way to PACU 💘 #DayInTheLifeOfAnODP #SnottyShoulder #WorthItThough

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@Occams_Blazer

7 years

Most accurate anaesthetic meme ever

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@Occams_Blazer

3 years

@Gigsandtravel ‘Well they’re really good at blocking drainpipes so they’re probs be fine for The Ladies’

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@Occams_Blazer

3 years

@xoxsteviexox1 Just in case someone thinks it’s a packet of crisps and wants one, you know, happens all the time

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@Occams_Blazer

6 years

Spent my whole life telling my mum how ‘unplugging the life support’ isn’t actually a thing in real life and yet HERE WE ARE

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@Occams_Blazer

2 years

Absolute highlight of my day was being able to sit with a lovely elderly lady and read her Christmas cards and letters to her because she hadn’t been able to get anyone else to do it. I love my job so so much. Merry Christmas everyone ❤️

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@Occams_Blazer

2 years

Worried I might meet a patient who is spending their day alone tomorrow so have stocked up on some wee presents just in case 🚑💚

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@Occams_Blazer

3 years

*Alarm, set for 3.30am* *Brain* ‘Ah yes it is 1.30am, you must wake now and luxuriate in bed with existential dread until approximately 3.20am when you will suddenly be exhausted, enjoy’

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@Occams_Blazer

3 years

I’m starting to genuinely wonder why we bother.

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@Mattbklee

3 years

Worked the late A&E SHO shift on NYE and came out to this. Hundreds of maskless, drunk people in huge groups shouting "Covid is a hoax", literally outside the building where hundreds are sick and dying. Why do people still not realise the seriousness of this pandemic?

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@Occams_Blazer

6 years

What a simple and superb idea 👍🏼

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@MonashAnaes

6 years

Red stripe on the wall above the emergency buzzers ensures they can always be easily located.

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@Occams_Blazer

6 years

If you’re wondering what sort of a kind human @k_d85 is, he’s home two hours late because he was holding the hand of a dying man whose family is abroad. Top doctoring 💕

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@Occams_Blazer

3 years

Did I just spend my 15 mins post-COVID vaccination Googling whether I could be a paramedic in the RAF because the medics all seemed like absolute top lads? Yes, yes I did. (No I can’t)

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@Occams_Blazer

4 years

Three years ago, I was sat in my car crying because I was so terrified of driving that I couldn’t even manage to drive around an ASDA car park. Today I passed my emergency response driving course 🚑 Whoever needs to hear this today, believe in yourself, yo

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@Occams_Blazer

3 years

@Leanne_adele I feel like normalising it would help towards this though, not having to feel embarrassed in the first place ☹️

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@Occams_Blazer

3 years

I’ve worn contact lenses almost every day for over a decade and I still marvel at the fact I can just pop a tiny pair of disposable wafers onto my eyeballs and then suddenly I can see ALL OF THE THINGS. Properly magical. As you were.

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@Occams_Blazer

3 years

@MrDMcDonnell I paid for my ticket just like everyone else *rustling intensifies*

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@Occams_Blazer

6 years

One of those public transport ‘Baby on Board’ badges except it’s for people post-nights. “Hello please don’t speak to me or even look at me, I’m currently so exhausted I’m seeing through time”

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@Occams_Blazer

10 years

This 80's Lego advert is ace. Wish it was more like this now and less 'pink stuff for girls'. http://t.co/ibPb7p5QIh

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@Occams_Blazer

3 years

Open the end opposite to the expiry date for a leaflet-free experience ✨

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@BethMatthewsz

3 years

Every. F*cking. Time.

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@Occams_Blazer

6 years

The beauty of Twitter; Boycie and Ice T having a little chat

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@FINALLEVEL

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Yes sir! It’s all perspective!

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@Occams_Blazer

6 years

So it’s official, I’m a *clears throat* *sweats* *reconsiders entire career choice* Myfyriwr Parafeddyg 🚑 THE DUOLINGO OWL DID NOT PREPARE ME FOR THIS

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@Occams_Blazer

3 years

Crystal Maze: NHS Edition

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@EdSWPara

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‘God, your job must be so hard, you must see some really terrible things’

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@Occams_Blazer

6 years

I’ve walked along the beach almost every day since I moved here and it’s honestly the best thing for the old brain. I’m not saying living by the sea is the answer, but the answer is living by the sea. Thank you for coming to my TED talk.

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@Occams_Blazer

6 years

I love the silly little noise this anaesthetic machine makes when you turn it off 🎈💨

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@Occams_Blazer

6 years

Also, shout out to the person in Nottingham who made an Oxylog cake 👌🏼 #ODPday

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@Occams_Blazer

3 years

Tired Girls Club

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@Occams_Blazer

2 years

Shed a wee tear leaving Blackweir for the last time today. You were a bit of a dump, but you were our dump 💚

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@Occams_Blazer

3 years

New year, new mug

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@Occams_Blazer

7 years

Leaving work just as the sun rises after being called in overnight. Proud to be part of an…

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@Occams_Blazer

6 years

Very diverse Christmas range in Wilkos this year...

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@Occams_Blazer

3 years

@tonibrooks1984 Ones that play a Pingu ‘noot’ when you deploy the applicator

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@Occams_Blazer

7 years

Me pre-nights: 'I'm gonna eat really healthily, swim after work in the morning etc..' Me on nights: *wildebeest noises, barely functioning*

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@Occams_Blazer

5 years

Day 22: ‘Random Act of Kindness’ . So 3 years ago, my beloved tiny fish pal Nigel passed away. He’d arrived in a horrible condition, survived the carnage of a student house, been moved from pillar to post, been my confidant in times of joy and sorrow. He was absolutely bombproof.

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@Occams_Blazer

3 years

When you’ve got a pool party at 2 but blackboards to wipe clean at 3

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@Occams_Blazer

3 years

Did a shift last night crewed up with one of my best friends and let me tell you what an utter joy and privilege it was 🚑💚 I bloody love my job.

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@Occams_Blazer

7 years

Surgeon: “Can I get a footstool please?” Scrub nurse: *whips these bad boys out* “Have I got JUST the thing for you...”

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@brycoo

7 years

Get ready to be furious in April 2018

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@Occams_Blazer

4 years

I once stood in this canteen at 3.30pm crying exhausted, frustrated tears because despite literally having started putting hot food out they ‘didn’t start serving till 4.30’. I went hungry. Can’t believe things still haven’t changed.

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@Occams_Blazer

7 years

So much respect for all in the emergency services who have to run in the opposite direction of the fleeing crowds. Incredible humans.

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@Occams_Blazer

7 years

*exhales deeply*

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@Occams_Blazer

4 years

Yet another NQP Bingo box ticked today - left some of my kit in a patient’s house 🚑🔔

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@Occams_Blazer

7 years

GUESS WHO PASSED THEIR MOTHERFLIPPIN DRIVING TEST 🚗 #Beepbeep #ProperlyPoopingItNow

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@Occams_Blazer

6 years

So I’m having a chat with my mum about how much I’m struggling with getting back into driving. Her response: ‘you can hop up and down on someone and save their life, and stick a pencil in their oesophagus, YOU CAN DRIVE A CAR’. A pencil in someone’s oesophagus?

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@Occams_Blazer

6 years

That surgical time 👏🏼does👏🏼not👏🏼account👏🏼for👏🏼anaesthetic👏🏼time👏🏼 and no your case won’t ‘just take half an hour’ Mr Surgeon

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6 years

Lets flip that meme around: what’s something that should be obvious, but your profession seems to misunderstand?

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@Occams_Blazer

6 years

A few people at work have asked ‘why on earth’ I’m off to become a paramedic and it turns out that an alarming number have no idea what paramedics actually do 🤔 #AmbulanceDriver

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@Occams_Blazer

7 years

'Manslaw'? Fuck the fuck off, and once you've fucked off, fuck off again.

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@Occams_Blazer

6 years

Just cycled into work for the first time and SWEET JESUS, nobody warned me how smug you feel afterwards. Excuse me, I’m just off to be insufferable.

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@Occams_Blazer

3 years

Work at the minutes feels like we’re all drowning in an endless tide and it can be a bit bloody miserable, but today has been the massive boost I’ve really needed 💚

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@Occams_Blazer

10 years

This courtroom exchange is utterly brilliant. (Via @johnmyersteam ) http://t.co/twtTUUFE75

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@Occams_Blazer

6 years

Had the best nightshift of my life. Highlights included the anaesthetic reg turning up with a teapot and a pile of buttery toast to three of us having to be literally helped off the floor from laughing for 45 minutes solid. What a team 🙌🏼

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@Occams_Blazer

3 years

@DrLindaDykes Exactly that

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@Occams_Blazer

2 years

7 days of pretending like life back in the UK doesn’t exist 😌

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@Occams_Blazer

7 years

Could whoever left their space hopper in the anaesthetic room please come and collect it 😂

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@Occams_Blazer

2 years

Turns out it actually worked beautifully in the back of the 🚑 much more pleasant than the interrogation spotlights!

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@Occams_Blazer

2 years

Got one of those projector lights for the 🚑 to distract upset kids (and adults?!)…seems pretty relaxing…

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@Occams_Blazer

2 years

Just wondering how long the waiting list is to upgrade from the Sad Single Girls Club to the Thriving Single Girls Club? Is there a discount code?

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@Occams_Blazer

3 years

Ditto for all my fellow NQPs, newly qualified ODPs, nurses, midwives and current healthcare students. Tolerate absolutely zero ‘back in my day’ patronising hot takes from the old guard 🚫

Dr Chloe Beale 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

@DrChloeBeale

3 years

Dear med students & FY1s. When any senior doctor inevitably tells you about things being harder in their day just remember: you trained & qualified in a global pandemic. That’s something NONE of us at any level of seniority have experienced. So fuck ‘em. You’re a true badass

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@Occams_Blazer

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So, I’ve been at an RTC rapid extrication training day. Training centre is in hospital grounds. This afternoon, while I was upside down managing a c-spine my iPhone managed to set off that SOS function, which not only alerted my next of kin, but literally rang the police...

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@Occams_Blazer

4 years

Thanks for the lovely messages ❤️ it was, as is the Law of Sod, ✨horrible✨

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@Occams_Blazer

4 years

First shift as a qualified paramedic tonight lads #IAmNahhhtReady

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@Occams_Blazer

7 years

Accurate.

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@Occams_Blazer

6 years

Keep thinking I’ve found my favourite Welsh beach then I go to another one. Outstanding. Just obscenely beautiful.

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@Occams_Blazer

8 years

Official exam results finally released, hello first class honours degree 😎 #TeamODP #ByeStudentLife

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@Occams_Blazer

2 years

Having a horrible time x

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@Occams_Blazer

6 years

Had a salad for lunch today (Never Event in itself) and honestly it threw my day right off. Who eats a SALAD for lunch when they work in the NHS? #ShowMeTheCarbs

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@Occams_Blazer

3 years

Anyone got any crimes I can witness so I can have a golden retriever and a pretty gaff please #LineofDutyFinale

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@Occams_Blazer

6 years

@SamWhyte People who had ice dispensers attached to the fridge were basically royalty

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@Occams_Blazer

7 years

I’m no economist but I’m pretty sure our weekly bag of Costco teabags isn’t what’s crippling the NHS, lads.

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@Occams_Blazer

6 years

I am, very rarely, speechless.

exveindoc

@theveindoc

6 years

@RslewisSally Partly due to malignant feminists. A gentleman is reluctant to be civil to a lady for fear of finding it is not a lady but a woman with a bloody great chip on her shoulder and a nasty tongue in her head.

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@Occams_Blazer

3 years

Well this has absolutely thrown my heart down the stairs

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@Occams_Blazer

6 years

I have never been so excited to get new clothes 🚑💨 #StudentParamedicLife

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@Occams_Blazer

10 years

*snigger* http://t.co/oszl1wS4Dw

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@Occams_Blazer

6 years

Survived the first week of uni. What an absolutely delightful, enthusiastic and engaged bunch of lecturers who treat us all like the grown ups that we are. My cohort are mostly ace too. Result 🚑💨

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