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Middle one deffo would have got it, i'm not saying I'm a virgin but I'm sure a surgeon could have fixed that. He needn't have gone to all that effort of being blown to bits. Bit harsh on an Amoeba that, at least they have a function.

I was watching it, just waiting for the tears to start falling, either that or a bolt of lightning to strike him dead. He's not resigned from Government though, has he? Just his position as Work and Pensions secretary.

7 years and 3 days later this thing was finally no longer my responsibility!

Do it there and tell everyone after the event? We looked into Italy on a holiday/wedding thing. Worked out for the holiday, flights, hire car and a town hall type thing it was just under £1200, maybe worth considering if you're looking at a holiday too? Also, my sister got married at Gretna, looks miserable. Or that could just be here given the cunt she was marrying...

Glad we started our family law proceedings years ago, £10k so far and the bitch boot is still a pain in my arse. Still, she pays the fees and goes to jail (hopefully) the next time she stops contact. Signed and posted on face ache.

Help for Heroes is one of the many charities I avoid, if they spent as much time and effort lobbying against unjust wars, there might not be as many needing the service in the first place. There are many reasons this lot irritate the shit out of me, but i'd just bore the pants off people. Thats me, right there. I found out last week that I'll still have a job in 2 weeks. I've a friend who works for another charity that still doesn't know if she's got a job in 2 weeks as whilst the local authority have confirmed they'll renew the contract they've cut the funding so no office space is funded. So like me, she works in the community has to be an accessible face in the community yet they're not willing to fund desk space in the community. Some of what we deliver is a statutory service, and once we were part of the council, however as cuts continue the charity has become just that, but constantly trying to secure funding from other sources to offer more than what the council contract us to do and provide a better service. All of which should be provided by the government, as ultimately those we support save the government £87bn a year.

Just because the system isn't fair doesn't mean that it entitles an individual to have a pop at another. Be angry at the system by all means, but not at those less fortunate, it's really not their fault.

Hope you had a boss day, and some coffee shop finally got your name right. x

£103 is too low. I'm not sure what it should be, but it should be more than that. Maybe have assessments to qualify the level? Every single person in this country should have a basic standard of living, ensuring that these standards are met will vary from person to person. It costs an average of £550 extra a month (2014) to live if you're disabled, the more complex the disability, the greater the cost. The thing is, the more money available to an individual impacts their quality of life, the more money an individual has access too the more is spent on living aids. 30 years ago, most of these would have been supplied by Health, occupational therapists doing assessments, housing implementing the adaptions, rehousing ect. There is no longer (allegedly) the funds in these budgets for these things, so an individual is expected to fund their own adaptions, better quality disability equipment (if they want a little bit more than a basic chair with 2 silvercross pram wheels on it and a rope for steering) and again, inequality strikes again, an individual with a disability from a more affluent background in the south will have more opportunities and will also live up to 16 years longer than an individual with disabilities in the North East. If the bill needs to be cut, means test it, means test all benefits. I seriously doubt Cameron needed to apply for his sons DLA but given it was a statutory non means tested benefit, he claimed it. And was his right to do so. It's not a case of just attacking the vulnerable, it's about closing the loops and attacking those that have audacity to take the piss.

I watched the program last night, it seems straight forward. Ruffle HMRC's feathers. The issue is so many people are happy to use companies like Amazon and Subway without a thought to the consequences. If all these small towns act in this way, maybe, just maybe HMRC will close the loop holes? These companies argue they bring revenue to the country, but pay comparatively little corporation tax, but by employing people paying a wage, they pay income tax, ensuring these people can purchase things (that they would pay tax on) and pay housing costs, that they pay tax on and so on. It's utter bollocks. These huge companies pay minimum or as close to minimum wage as they can get away with, offer low hour or 0 hour contracts and many if not most of their employees are in receipt of work related benefits, which their tax contributions don't cover. So, please, if anyone can, could you please explain to my lack of economics gcse brain, why HMRC are letting them run riot? I've also got a massive soft spot for Hayden Prowse. I think double fist TV did that.

Barbaric sport. They go across the fields around me regularly. I've warned the game warden under no uncertain terms the next time his dogs come onto my garden they will be physically kicked out along with me ripping his head off. The farmers were about this morning roaming the fields shooting. I've not as much of an issue with this, the idea that a pack of hounds so eager to get to the fox are jumping barb fences wire and tearing their own flesh makes me wonder what damage they're keen to inflict on the fox.

It's worth checking out MIND in your area, they often run mindfulness courses. I've always found it easier to meditate and stay on track in locations outside the home and work place. At home I'm constantly thinking of things that I need to crack on with. I can't say how good MIND's sessions are, but I've never heard anyone come back with negative feedback.

Do you think that will be the reason? I think that as things stand it will change for economic reasons. Right now there are chronic shortages of care staff and the babyboomers haven't even reached the mark where they themselves will require the considerable care that ageing may require. Currently in my area nursing homes and residential homes and possible respite care is over subscribed, waiting over a year for a space, people are expected to care for their relative until breakdown or until a place becomes available. Trust me, it's always the former and often lands in A&E as it seems to be the only way to expedite things when a person is at the end of their tether. It's currently a minority of babyboomers who are fully established at doing the caring for their parents or a rising number who are just beginning the caring path for their partner, they are the ones who will shout loudest, yet it's too late, they won't be heard as there is no money in the pot to remedy the issue, any funding for their care will come from their own purse - and that won't be used until they are too advanced in their health to have had a say in what form of care is available to them. We're an aging population and we've become a a society that is conditioned to be selfish with our own needs being paramount, coupled with how geographically spaced out families are, we simply lack the infrastructure to deal with the oncoming strains. For me, I believe the euthanasia topic will only be brought to the forefront due to a lack of money to pay for the care needs of whats to come, not for any false notion of dignity. Well, we're under a Tory government, shouldn't be too long. Personally I agree with euthanasia, I've held the hand of a person dying of cancer through the nights and in the moment of their death. No person should ever have to endure any illness or pain to that extent. On topic, my heart went out the bloke, dementia is an absolute bastard, and the time it takes to reach diagnosis is absurd, whilst this person my have been in a home for some time, he may have been watching his wife deteriorate for years. I question more the (lack of?) support he was getting then him actually doing it.

Funding is different depending on his needs and the new care act that has been coming in over the last and next few years. I came across the most cuntish video the other day, basically saying this old fella won't need home help, he can get a neighbour popping by every day to check he's had his dinner and taken his tablets. Contact social services initially as they might have to make up the short fall regardless. Following on from that there are a fair few avenues, contact an advocacy group and carers trust (because ultimately you're likely to be the one picking up the pieces), let them do all (or at least most of) the running for your dad so it removes the stress and as a result some of the risk of returning to former behaviour. They will forward on to as many 3rd sector agencies as they can that have capacity to help.

It's been on going for the last 3 years, you become detached and just go through the motions so that the kids know you never gave up on them, as much as you want to in order to avoid the nut job and her boyfriend you have to do whats right for them. I'm hoping that the judge sees sense this week and tells her to behave. We get a period of calm after each court order, then when there's a full moon she or he goes off on one again. I'm pleased for your mate, Rico. Some women are just parasites and use their children to generate income.

She got a new boyfriend, in 3 years we've had 2 section 7's completed, spent 9k in fees and currently enduring another suspension of contact whilst she requests another vary of the order because we're (via solicitor) threatening her with an enforcement order if she continues to prevent contact. We're back in court on Wednesday, in Oxford at her demand. She is a fucking cunt of the highest order.

Ha, sleeping on the bus. That'll be the best sleep you'll of had for the next 3 years. Congratulations to you and Mrs Mook on both the babi and the new house. x

This was our reason, I'd had the forms on the desk for over a year, possibly as long as 2 years. Mr Melons hadn't even thought about it but he occasionally mentioned mine. I pushed his details on, and it seems he had a fair few, and yes we'll be handing over 30%, but its 30% of something we wouldn't have the time to spend in order to get it in the first place or even the inclination to get on with it despite the possible outcome.

Fuck me, really? If Mr Melons gets any of the ones he's passed to you refunded he can kiss my fat arse if he thinks he'll be able to buy me off with an air-beam tent, I'll be demanding we start the extension on the house!

Flowers from a garage imply last minute panic buy. A bit like getting Mr Melons a single malt from the co-op on the way home on our wedding anniversary*. I'm like Mrs lifetime, the thought of a £30 bunch of flowers is enough to make me wince, a £1 reduced bunch that'll last a few days will do me. *I'd forgot our first anniversary. Yes, I'm a twat.

I see Gazelle about on facebook, I look on with total envy at how she's just grabbed life by the balls. Courageous lady. Doesn't Neil G still post occasionally? Whenever I'm in Aber I always nose about in case I see some big hairy dude with a scouse accent, I've still not bumped into him and Aber isn't that big!

Where did you get those from? Well, the Goonies one. Massive potential to bribe the daughter with one of those.

Negged for not looking as fit in a suit as you do in the shorts and vest top. Total fantasy let down. (i've been wanting to point that out for ages)

Hardly ever lose my temper, takes quite a fair bit to wind me up. Even when I'm rowing I never raise my voice and its rare that I'm the aggressor. I do however flip when I get pushed to far, I'm vile. I've an incredibly sharp tongue in a row, I always try to keep it in check (once you say something, you can't take it back). When I lose my temper, it all flows far too well and i know that any relationship/friendship I had with the person is well and truly over at that point, it's always said coldly and callously. I'm horrible.

Negged for the name change. Only messin' glad you're back and on the mend. x