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MAnagement of Really SIck Patients with Anorexia Nervosa.

This is the title of the NHS protocol for treating such patients. It seems to be a real thing.

Can anyone top it for inappropriateness and/or just general crapness?


 
Posted : 19/12/2016 6:52 pm
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Posted : 19/12/2016 6:54 pm
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We briefly had the CRAP - Customer Returns Authorisation Process


 
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There was a study we were offered to recruit for which was named after a racehorse (PHARLAP-RCT, since you ask).


 
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Apparently Westminster and North Kensington Sub Aqua Club had a technical diving group called Westminster and North Kensington Extended Range Scuba


 
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Zilog6128, I salute you sir!


 
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Not so much give quiche a chance as let them eat cake.


 
Posted : 19/12/2016 6:57 pm
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I'm a member od a group whose title had to include the letters T, W and A
my suggestion was rejected 🙁

and the British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons must push yours pretty close


 
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Me and a mate founded DERA's (QinetiQ/DSTL) Farnborough Appreciators of Real Tandoori.


 
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Proton-enhanced nuclear induction spectroscopy seems legit


 
Posted : 19/12/2016 7:08 pm
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FUD = Firefighter Under Development

many of them are


 
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OP on a serious note that is appalling


 
Posted : 19/12/2016 7:15 pm
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A quick google suggests that it does exist, however nothing to do with the NHS


 
Posted : 19/12/2016 7:24 pm
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The NHS may not have coined it but it does seem to be used in the NHS.


 
Posted : 19/12/2016 7:27 pm
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We have a sap team and they are indeed saps and we also have dim officers unfortunately the department isn't big enough for the amount of actual dim officers we have


 
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I've worked for several Business Unit Managers.

I felt a bit left out so I started referring to myself as the Assistant Regional Surveying Executive..


 
Posted : 19/12/2016 8:12 pm
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To counter the worst, this is surely the best/most appropriate....

British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons.


 
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Free the United Kingdom from Drugs and British Opposition to Metabolically Bisturbile Drugs.

FUKD and BOMBD for short.


 
Posted : 19/12/2016 8:18 pm
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As a teacher in Scotland I hate that one.


 
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Zilog6128.. I stand with onzadog saluting!!

Stuart Hall International Travel was quite bad....


 
Posted : 19/12/2016 8:19 pm
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FUKD and BOMBD for short.

Funny but not real world acronyms are they?


 
Posted : 19/12/2016 8:21 pm
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Frost Auto Restoration Technique was always a good company to buy spares from.


 
Posted : 19/12/2016 8:47 pm
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A plant I was working on was going to be the Sludge Handling & Intermediate Treatment plant, the design was a load of crap though


 
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We used to have a research partner called ISIS. We don't hear about them so much any more. Last I saw was a news story "ISIS Secures Space On Campus"


 
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cardiff university netball Team
https://www.cardiffstudents.com/activities/sport/netball/
Deliberate onw ould assume
Bangor University mountaineering Society
https://bangorbums.wordpress.com/


 
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I used to be part of a group that used to go camping walking and boozing together. We all lived in the shore area in Edinburgh

[b]S[/b]hore [b]H[/b]illwalkking [b]A[/b]nd [b]G[/b]ames [b]S[/b]ociety

although we did make the name to fit the acronym


 
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FUKD and BOMBD for short.

Funny but not real world acronyms are they?

Might as well be - yesterdays satire seems to have become todays documentary 🙂


 
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Girfec
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What saddens me most about this, and others like it, is that time (and therefore money) was spent coming up with it. People sat in meetings to discuss it, I have no doubt. There would have been biscuits, too.


 
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Fire service have fart vehicles which are Fast Action Response Team


 
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Cycle Mickleover started out as Mickleover Out On Bikes - deliberately.

Membership increased dramatically after the name change!


 
Posted : 19/12/2016 9:46 pm
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There is a West African hydrocarbon company called, well, have a guess.

And of course Danish Oil and Natural Gas.


 
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When the Philippines had an earthquake a few years ago, we had to do some research on the 'Moro Islamic Liberation Front'.

For weeks we had a MILFWATCH Alert State projected in the office...


 
Posted : 19/12/2016 9:55 pm

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