melons

I make a return because the child in me is expecting to see the Barrymore picture (and further comments) none have you have bumped it for the occasion? Jacuzzi, pool, not close enough? 

*I did say the child in me

**RIP 

4 hours ago, Bjornebye said:

Well done all, absolutely superb. Can't wait to share an away with that flag/man. 

 

Dan, what the fuck have you got on your feet you cunt. I'm surprised @rubble-rouser would be seen anywhere near them. I'd have just said no and walked away. x 

His feet, can you not see those shorts? I said if they were useless if he chose them to help us find him if he got lost, a bright top or hat maybe, not 1993 neon shorts. Great company, but questionable colour choices. I'm not sure his missus would have let him out the house had she known he had those packed, or thinking about it, she totally did and knew that any woman wouldn't give him a second look in them? 



Absolute honour putting Green Jesus up and yep, a fair bit emotional. Managed to ensure that everyone that sat near us (as I was thoroughly organised, picnic mat and camping chairs obviously) was fully aware of how he came to being, so play nice with any new forumites making enquiries. Also, don't take camping chairs with you as people really think you're organised and have your shit together thus and tend to gravitate towards you the more pissed they get.  

Do we have washing instructions for Green Jesus, please tell me i'm not doing it by hand?
Also whose next for him, or is anyone heading over to North Wales? I've got some velcro rip ties/ribbon that can go in the bag it'll make easier for you to pop him up. Honest it really was lovely being able to do this. 

And its here.... 

22 hours ago, Anubis said:

Welsh Labour act like Labour for starters.

Yeah, i reckon that helps a lot. Plaid did really well too this time though, and with whats going on in NI, the calls for devolution will only grow unless central government is fully hauled over. Be interesting to see if both BJ and KS end up being charged, the impact of the next election could be quite something. 

Pickled onion and a can of fizzy vimto, my mid morning work break sorted. 

The crisp shortage a few months ago had me panic buying if i saw them and rationing (hiding them from the rest of the house) them when i was able to buy them. There is currently a full six pack and a single left over from a multipack in the cupboard. All of the beef and flaming hot remain. Clearly pickled onion flavour wins. 

On 16/04/2022 at 05:34, TheBitch said:

Sat here with my cock in my hand and this post has genuinely made me laugh. 
Section, we’ve been on this forum for over 10 years together now, we’ve seen the highs and lows of the Ibiza thread, it was mainly lows, actually, it was all lows, we’ve been through at least 3break ups together,  I know it was at least 3 because they’re all mine, we’ve seen @RobbieOR’s rep status go from “cooler than Alonsos beard” to “red blob” we’ve almost been married to @melons, well that was me, we’ve been negged by the king of neggers himself, @Leeson, hang on Leeson hasn’t even got his own @

Fuck this site. 
 

Im that old I don’t even know what I meant to say tbh. 

Still can't believe it never worked out. Still love you though. 

Also, those brilliant messages in the reps and negs boxes, ooo they used to fill my evenings with delight! 

On 16/04/2022 at 14:51, RobbieOR said:

 

I was 16 then. Im 30 now. A scary thought.

Fuck off. 30? Can you speak clearly yet? 

1 hour ago, VladimirIlyich said:

Are they still able to claim any benefits as well,if necessary? Or are they disqualified? 

Benefits aren't devolved like they are in Scotland. Yet whilst they're not able to offer benefits, they swerve around it with grants and extra subsidies. From September, every primary school age child will get free school meals, and then even in holidays they've ran SHEP for the last few years in many counties (it's under a new name now that i can't recall). Student finance for further education and student finance for higher education is much better, our nurses and NHS students still get bursaries. 


I love living in Wales, me.

And yes, Drakeford speaks like your grandad reading you a bedtime story, but he's on par with Thornbury when the vicious quips come out. Also like how Welsh Labour and Plaid working together are moving to wanting a more independent Wales. Welsh Labour and Labour are very different. 

My nan died in 2008, as some of you remember as i went on to deal with some fucking horrific family shite following. Recently (in June) came across some paperwork that was never followed up, turns out there was some money held in an annuity. 

in 2016 a relative claimed she had died with no will, provided a death certificate and a birth certificate proving to be her son and claimed 2/5ths of the money (he also blagged he was claiming my mothers). Annuity company didn't bother to check that there was a will and probate logged with .gov and paid out. 

Logged a complaint in September, detailed the 30+ hours of calls i've made, the 17 names of people i've dealt with and they responded last month - they're still refusing to pay out the full amount. To top it all, they've offered me a whole £200 compensation for the hassle they've caused. Yeah, with the ombudsman now, like.

Families can be right cunts - my mother has also called me a money grabbing bitch and informed me she wants nothing to do with me as i'm willing to watch this cunt uncle have a heart attack and criminal charges against him... just as he was willing to put me through criminal charges when he claimed i'd flooded my nans house deliberately following her death to claim on the insurance. 


So, if anyone has a family member thats died and you're not sure of their pensions etc - all you need is a death certificate and evidence of your family connection (in this case birth certificate) and you've nailed it. 

20 hours ago, Rico1304 said:

yes, thinking about an imaginary dog or something definitely helps. Fucking hell.  
 

It looks like the passerby hands the copper a weapon. If that’s the case why the fuck should they take it easy on him?  Do criminals in Stevenage have a 1 weapon policy?  You know fuck all about what happened before he’d been tased.  If he had a weapon would you change your mind?  
 

Have you looked at 35 seconds? What do you think is happening there? 

The point remains. Its unacceptable to treat an animal like that, but you're ok treating humans that way. 

And would you look at that - a post further down you concede it's not a hammer. You'd have the poor bastard hung before you got the full facts in your face, and then you'd twist them to suit your agenda. 

1 hour ago, Leyton388 said:

In response to the title of the thread. 

 

Yes they are 

 

And anyone who votes Tory are also massive cunts. 

I'd go with that. 

1 hour ago, Rico1304 said:

I’ve only seen the end of the interaction, but he didn’t do as he was told by a copper, by several coppers in fact.  There are consequences to that, either being smacked with an asp or being tased.  I have less of a problem with that than you do. 

And at several points he raises his arms defensively, and clearly unsteady on his legs. 2 coppers initially, the rest followed after he'd been tasered and was clearly even more disorientated. 

1 hour ago, Rico1304 said:

At 35 seconds the bystander hands another copper what looks like a hammer. Maybe he was just doing a bit of DIY.  

totally had the ability to do a bit of DIY with his rucksack and 2 tesco bags. 

Stop and think before you type, eh? 

1 hour ago, Arniepie said:

I'd wager money that busy was bullied at school

 

Totally. I also had him as the local gym knob staring at his body in the mirrors all day pretending that his gut is all strength and muscle... 

7 minutes ago, Bjornebye said:

 

 

About right, but I could only dream of it being tarmac...  6 hours of digging when we're snowed in, and that was after 5 days of waiting for it to thaw. 

Just now, Bjornebye said:

You live on a mountain don't you???!!! I'm sure you told me that a few years back. Or a fucking big hill at the very least? 

Yeah but the only time I walk up half of it is if I've got to go down the drive and get the post. We're about half way up a hill by comparison to some of these mountains pictured. It's the Berwyn Mountain range. 

Actually, Easter sunday is another day we are a sure thing to go up, clock up around 5 miles just hiding the kids Easter eggs all over the place before 7am. We then wake them up, get 2 camping chairs out to plonk in a field where we get an ace view of then walking past most of the eggs. The rule is what they don't find, we get to keep. 

First one is when we start with the eggs around 5.30 second image some time has passed and they're still hunting. You can just about make out the kids on that one.

42 minutes ago, Rico1304 said:

What this has to do with a dog, a purely fictional dog at that, is beyond me.  As is you telling me what I can and can’t do on here.  
 

He was told to comply several times, he didn’t, he was tased.  Looks like it didn’t deploy properly due to his thick coat.  He still didn’t comply, the copper booted him.  You could argue he shouldn’t have done that. I’m less arsed. 

He didnt comply, lots of people don't comply, doesnt warrant the actions of the copper. 

My point of the dog was that the RSPCA would have somone strung up for that. 

You seem to be condoning the coppers actions.  Hes clearly a knuckle dragging bully who needs to get back into some training. The fucking state of him there with the taser on a man who could barely stand. 

You're massive wrong uns, I'm nauseous just looking at some of those images and heights. 

Congratulations Bitch, still negged though. Can't believe you're going to be like, proper unavailable. She must be incredibly special. X

Anyway, my mountain climb this morning... ha, as if. My mountain view when taking dick head rescue dog out for his walk at 8 this morning...

Aran mountain range from Llyn Tegid. 

Just now, Rico1304 said:

What are you on about? 

The fact that not all things or people respond appropriately, the guy wasn't aggressive, he was hardly a threat, so no. No you don't get to justify or make a snide comment as though it's ok to taser and boot someone because he'd been given enough warnings. 

You wouldn't boot shit out of your dog or taser it if it didn't respond the way you wanted it, why is it ok to do it to a human being? 

2 minutes ago, Rico1304 said:

How many warnings did he want? 

How many warnings does your dog get before you taser it and kick it while its down?

On 17/10/2021 at 15:00, Remmie said:

It's Halloween coming up and want to get a costume for Yara who is nearly 4. I look online and her options just seem to be Disney princesses or a witch. She was a witch last year and I don't understand this change in Halloween costumes to make kids into cute characters, they are supposed to be scary. Any suggestions? 

Loads of crepe bandages and make her up as a mummy? 

5 hours ago, lifetime fan said:

Daily Mail? 

Negged for being able to even make that out. 

22 hours ago, Bruce Spanner said:

 

I don't know what person to shout at anymore.

 

My work in the UK means I'm front line on a lot of this shit and you have poverty and suffering on a Dickensian scale and cuts are getting deeper and deeper, and crueler and crueler and the support, and networks, are being removed with an almost glee like fervour.

 

The country turned a corner years back and we ain't getting back to a place where compassion, community and care are central to anything anytime soon.

 

Without doing the woe is me shit I grew up in abject poverty, raised on a rough as shit council estate, on an inadequate state pension by a single (grand)mother, who had worked her hands raw to provide for he kids arm free he husband died in his early thirties. We literally had fuck all, always hiding from Monday man, shaking myself to sleep in the cold and skipping meals. My first line on my Cambridge application was genuinely 'It was toast again for dinner for the third night on the trot, but today was different, we had no margarine. At this point I knew there was something wrong with the world and I need to be part of a change' and I know that many, many more have it far worse than I had now.

 

How the fuck can it be worse than a family half starving themselves and hiding from debt collectors, but it is.

 

The shit I saw on a day to day was genuinely soul destroying, fathers crying as you hand them a food parcle, families cheering you as you come up the drive with, barely, a few days worth of stuff.

 

And the above will be considered good times.

 

Fuck me, stop this bullshit, I need to get off. 

 

This, but you get the same fucking reject boomers harping on that when they were growing up and had ice on the inside of their windows like it was a fucking badge of honour. Seriously, they're revelling in the fact others are going to have to go to bed cold - they're forgetting it's those that are a decade or two older than them, it's kids, it's anyone who is going to feel the bite on the arse from the energy prices. Why revel in it? Why aren't we moving forward as a society, it's soon to be 2022 and people are going to bed cold and hungry. Fuck this fucking shit hole tory cunting government. 

21 hours ago, Strontium Dog™ said:

Is part of the issue that so much poverty is hidden?

 

Let me qualify that. I just checked the UK indices of deprivation 2015 and apparently my area is in the 2% most deprived in England. I never would have known that unless I checked. Cars I've seen parked in the street include MGs, Mazdas and Porsches. Someone a few doors down has a Jaguar. I popped to the Tesco round the corner today and they had a £7 bottle of apple cider vinegar; who is buying this stuff? The poor?

 

If I can't see poverty, and I live in one of the 700 (out of nearly 33,000) most deprived neighbourhoods in the country, then what chance does someone in the more prosperous parts of the country - where I assume they have even more Jag-driving, seven quid vinegar-swigging denizens - have?

You're on about kids being dressed and their faces washed before going to school hungry? Because you can't see whats inside those letters of final demands for payments? 

What exactly do you mean Stronts? Because you can't see it it isn't real? 

7 hours ago, No2 said:

Everyone knows that, you're the only one that consistently bites. A thread on poverty is tory heaven for him, don't engage with him.

Yeah, soz, too tempting no matter what. 

5 hours ago, Strontium Dog™ said:

 

I don't really see clunkers that often any more. It's not like the 80s where every other person drove an Austin Allegro or similar crapmobile.

 

 

Keep on building those strawmen.

Think about it - how many of those clunkers were maintained by those that own them? How many dads that were in school in the 70s did a mechanics type course? How have cars moved on in terms of maintenance? Do you own the equipment to maintain your car? Can you maintain your car or are you forking out shit loads of money to a garage to maintain that banger you must own (I mean you've said enough times you're on a shit wage so you clearly aren't driving any of these posh ones you're on about)? I ask, because many actually find it cheaper to maintain a newer car on finance than buy an older one out right and have huge maintenance bills. 

You know what does my head in, you're not a thick cunt. You just like to make out that because you can't see it, it isn't real, isn't happening and you'll argue that point. Look at the wider picture or get some new fucking glasses, even milk bottles would improve your vision. 

2 hours ago, Section_31 said:

 

 

There's a self congratulatory tone to a lot of people who aren't utterly broke, that they work hard and others don't, yet dig beneath the surface and see the housing deposit they got from mum and dad, or the half decent school they went to where they could concentrate on their work, rather than not getting their heads kicked in.

 

Ha, thats my inlaws right there. Had to manage on the dole for 3 months after leaving uni... yeah while living at home and paying no keep. Thats totally relative to a single mum in Rhyl trying to manage her UC whilst working part time cleaning jobs. 

2 hours ago, Strontium Dog™ said:

 

I didn't know anyone who had it for a long time. Then I knew a few who did. Still don't know anyone who died from it, like.

You're a lucky bastard, then.  

12 hours ago, Creator Supreme said:

I've just been told by my union Unite that they've been unable to get any energy supplier to participate in a group energy auction at present. They've informed everybody who signed up to let their fixed rate contract lapse, go on to a variable tariff, and they'll try again in February.

 

My monthly payment is going up from £88 to £132. If I took a fixed rate from the same supplier it would be at least £160.

 

Privatised energy is a fucking con! It always has been!

£98 to £234 for us... 

We can cushion it somewhat over the winter - keep underfloor heating off and use the log burner more, but shit me, that direct debit is going to be a massive hit.  Like you, it's holding on until spring.

16 minutes ago, Rico1304 said:

So your statement was bollocks then. 

No, you're just being a picky twat. 

2 hours ago, Rico1304 said:

You didn’t answer the question. 

Ooo get you. The training is available, whether they are given the opportunity to access it due to internal workings i wouldn't know. 

On 08/10/2021 at 17:12, Karl_b said:

In the context of forthcoming parenthood,

One thing that bothers me is the stress that some books put on parents to be and new parents, you do your best, you're not expected to be a perfect parent. All books have an agenda and not all are suited to each parent and child yet many take it to the nth degree. More so if we've hardly had a good childhood experience ourselves.   

It's not about being a perfect parent - it's about being good enough. Was that meal perfect or was it good enough... was that bed time story perfect or was it good enough, did that bath time routine go perfectly or was it good enough, was that trip to the park perfect or was it good enough. Society puts pressures on us to make us think we need to be textbook perfect. I only wish i'd have come to that realisation earlier, trying to be perfect absolutely obliterated my MH when mine were little.  Once I'd dealt with that, i had the most feral but well behaved children possible. 









There are two ways to look at the OP, mentally I'm incredibly resilient. I've not always been that way, there were times when each day was a battle (especially when the kids were really little) just as i joined here i had 2 close bereavements in 2 months, my nan and my cousin (23). My nan was my stay, she left me some funds in her will, as a result i was absolutely vilified by family members, i had to go into supported accommodation with panic alarms and police locators on it. A few months later a family member had suggested i was committing insurance fraud so had to go through rounds of questioning for that, on and on it went. I eventually cut pretty much all family out of my life. They were affecting my ability to move forward. My second daughter then became ill and lost her vision, i bumped into my sister in the supermarket and told her, so family slowly crept back in. Anyway - a decade down the line they're gone again. They totally try and drag me back to that life that i moved on from. That period of my life stretched me so thin that i refuse to go back there, as alluded to earlier by Cochyn, it's not a case of bouncing back, it's bouncing forward. We should learn from our challenges, our triggers, our struggles. Do what we need to do to maintain our wellbeing where possible. If that means changing aspects of our life, change what you can top protect your own wellbeing. 

Jobs shit, don't like it - get a new one. 

Neighbours are cunts - move. 

Siblings are shits - tell them to leave. 

Yeah, I maybe over simplifying it, but am I? What is your wellbeing worth? To me it's everything. 

Physical resilience - I'm totally shit these days. I've developed sepsis 3 times in the last 2 years. 3 fucking times, each time down to a shitty hospital and it's staff not listening or recognising symptoms. Last time though, yeah all hell broke lose on that ward. It should never be down to a patient to notice the monitors are tanking and for the patient to raise the alarm address it. Ski and i joke about this hospital now and what it's next attempt to see me off will be from. Anyway, recovery from that one is still ongoing. 

On 07/10/2021 at 20:04, Rico1304 said:

Ok, so is the training they receive adequate?  

I work in the third sector, i deal with MH crisis on a regular basis, their training options are actually a whole level above mine. I sit on LITs regularly and hear of what opportunities are out there in terms of training support. 

On 07/10/2021 at 20:34, Bob Spunkmouse said:

That’s not true from what my other half tells me. Especially as - at least in her area - the crisis and mental health teams are severely under resourced and (as a result) practically absent.

 

many faults with the police, one of which is their lack of training in many areas.

All MH services are underfunded. My LHB has literally cushioned every area to have an ICAN centre which if it's close to an acute facility has just become a dumping ground for those that don't meet admissions to inpatient treatment. 

The training ops are there, it's that they're not mandatory and they're often expected to complete things in their own time. I've just taken on a level 4 to brush up on some of my skills, it's below my degree level and not directly beneficial to my role because i've already got a level 6 in an area more suited to those i engage with more at board level - as a result i won't get the paid time to do this, but it will absolutely benefit everyone i engage with on the days i'm working front line.   

I doubt many officers even hold a MH first aid, which is pretty much funded in all areas.  

6 hours ago, Tony Moanero said:

Uptight. I would have voted for Over the Rainbow had it been the Judy Garland version.

Negged - have you even listened to it, this song is just well, it's my beautiful song. Yes Judy was ace, and all that, but come on, this is something ese.  

5 hours ago, Bjornebye said:

@melons your boy is taking a thrashing here although I suspect if it was an actual fight he'd win easily. 

He'd only have to swing his grass skirt and everyones eyes would be out. 

Can't believe you pitted him against shine on you crazy diamond. Brutal. 

21 hours ago, Rico1304 said:

Yes, the money is rubbish. Shift work fucks you up and takes years off your life (there’s a thread on it here somewhere), working with the dregs of society is shit, they aren’t trained to deal with lots of the mental health jobs they have to deal with. Etc etc. 

They are though, they're just as trained as many other sectors, many officers just choose not to put that training into practice.