to find the word "bloods" irritating?

[Joy27]

Every pregnancy appointment involves some talk of "taking your bloods"/ "I'll need some bloods from you" or similar.

It's not bloods, it's blood or "some blood" or "blood samples". You wouldn't say "look at those sheeps", unless you were three.

I know I am being a bit unreasonable, but it just seems lazy and the sound of it makes me want to poke myself in the eye.

No doubt there is some legit medical reason for it, and I am going to feel like a buffoon....

My mum once told me she had 'a low grade fever' I think she meant she had a bit of a temperature. She does it all the time and always gets things wrong. It annoys the hell out of me.

I have to admit to using a fair bit of medical terminology due to being in hospital so long with DD. I was also a medical sec. for years so speak fluent medic. I try not to because it can make doctors suspicious. They think you are a bit too interested in medical stuff and are probably boarderline Munchausens.

fear not someone will be along to hector the hcp about their egotistical exclusionary designed to keep the wee folk down language

hcp bastards,how very dare they

Let me take your bloods, sounds like something a vampire would say!

The Vampire off of Seasame Street followed by a maniac laugh AH AH AH AH AH

I think thunder should roar overhead and lightning flash whenever the word is mentioned from now on.

claw an appropriate name for discussion of bloods

I actually changed my name to claw on Halloween about 2 years ago when it was all the rage, then forgot how to change it back again doh!

I will figure it out one day, its so last year

is there a claw1 and claw2?or is 3 random

I hate when people add on an unnecessary 's' to a word..theres a woman at work she calls New Deal (specialist programme for unemployed) New Deals ..what the fuk is that extra 's' for?... ..just pisses me off

But every job has its terminology.

I think if this bothers you then you don't have enough to worry about!

If there are, we are not related in anyway and i state my disclaimer now!

I couldnt think of a relevant user name, so being the creative genius that i am, thought of 3 because i have 3 kids. See what i did there!

Yy Mumcentreplus

See also Tescos and Trivial Pursuits

Who cares? What a trouble-free life you must lead to worry about such trivia

come to think of it i say im off to waitroses

More classy than off to Lidls I suppose

well it kept me amused for a while

hangs head in shame and goes off to do something important

i do say i bought it in sainsburys/markies

argh, meds is fine - short for 'medicines'

bloods is fine too, calm down. Realised that it's not necessarily to do with number of tests all the time, can be to do with number of patients.

our lab processes hundreds of patients blood samples every day - they refer to them as 'bloods'

If you are taking blood from someone, you don't say 'I am taking some blood samples, or blood test' you say 'bloods'

you don't run blood tests, you run bloods. Sorry, just how it is.

Am now getting that thing where if you say/write a word often enough it starts to look weird.

blooooooooooooooooood

lol at this thread is anyone else laughing or is it just me with too much time on my hands

I think it's the wine depravation making you all type this

Sainsbury's actually has an 's'

Sainsbury's makes sense as it was established by Mr J Sainsbury (and in fact Messrs Sainsbury given it started as a family firm). As does Marks and Spencer's, given there was a Mr Marks and a Mr Spencer.

Tesco not quite the same but there was a Mr Cohen involved, IIRC.

Do some people have no real problems to worry and fret about?

love the term 'Messers'