Thought Id start this one going because its rather dead on this board at the moment and I suppose all my usual muckers are either at the Stella tennis event watching Dim Tim (lose again) or at Henly Regatta eating cucumber sandwiches (they wish,...NOT).

Anyway please feel free to just talk to yourself blast away and let it go on any company or subject you wish. Just wish Id thought of this one before.

cheers GF.

As a Police Officer you are bound to take people as they look.
I could often see someone yards away and think, I bet they have a CRO (Criminal Record Offense Number) and 9 times out of 10 I would be right. This is human nature, as we all make views on first impressions.
The main thing is we must always remember that there are many exceptions. My son has a friend who dyes his hair a different colour about once a month, he wears bother boy clothes, and has tatts and earing's. He is one of the nicest, well mannered people I have ever met, and holds a masters in micro bionics (whatever that is) and is sent by his firm to countries all over the world to lecture and advise on the subject.

So if it looks like a duck (yob), walks like a duck (yob) and sounds like a duck (yob), it's very probably a duck (yob), but sometimes you do see it wrong and it might just not be a duck (yob).

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Looking at all those school kids' shirts hanging out...

Frequently reading about how very difficult it is for teachers to maintain any kind of discipline in the class...

Reading about how illiterate lots of kids are...

Watching the kids on TV rioting and causing so much mindless destruction in so many different locations...

Knowing that kids can't get into university unless they go deeply into debt...

Knowing that there aren't jobs for lots of them, even if they do get a degree...

Getting low interest on my hard earned savings...

Getting stuffed by most professionals, banks, etc,...

Watching the stockmarket tank...

Seeing hedonistic crap on TV and having to turn to another channel...

Reading about so much binge drinking...

and much, much more besides......

......make me very much more than just a bit sad really.

I think I'm going to turn the telly off and go into the garden and do some tasks. Then I'm going for a walk in the forest. Then I'm maybe going for a swim. That should take my mind off it all.

I have to say that if I was a shop keeper,.....I would have no hesitation in shooting dead any of these complete rioting morons that are wrecking our suburbs......bring the army in.....no excuses for this intolerable behavior....they might be angry but this is not the way to go about showing frustration at unemployment and such...first shot in the air...second one....etc....

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Two big issues in this country...a crackdown (no pun )on drugs and some intelligent jobs to be created and not just to get the figures down....

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Oh dear!

I've just rung an aged friend of mine, who I hadn't spoken to for a few months. He's in a rest home in Croydon. (That's why I gave him a call, because he was 'going out and about a bit' last time we spoke and had actually swapped his really old well-loved Merc for a newer car):

Hi xxxx. How are you?

Terrible! I'm just hoping I die one of these nights.

xxxx! That's not like you to say that. What on earth is wrong?

I've got Shingles. I've had it on my body and now it's in my head. There's no cure for Shingles and nothing much gives me any relief. I am in utter agony with it.

Oh dear! How sad to hear you say that, (etc, etc - and then just a bit more)

The old guy is actually 83. This call made me cry, I don't mind telling you.

Shingles (herpes zoster) results from a reactivation of the virus that also causes chickenpox. With shingles the first thing you may notice is a tingling sensation or pain on one side of your body or face. Painful skin blisters then erupt on only one side of your face or body along the distribution of nerves on the skin. Typically this occurs along your chest, abdomen, back or face, but it may also affect your neck, limbs or lower back. The area can be very painful, itchy and tender. After one to two weeks, the blisters heal and form scabs, although the pain often continues.

The deep pain that follows after the infection has run its course is known as postherpetic neuralgia. It can continue for months or even years, especially in older people. The incidence of shingles and of postherpetic neuralgia rises with increasing age. More than 50% of cases occur in people over 60.

There is no cure.

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I have seen shingles on a person....not a pretty sight.....I thought that it was curable....

I seem to remeber an elderly relation in my childhood, going bilnd from it.

Yes. I had a corneal ulcer in my left eye two years ago. No underlying diagnosis found and eventually it was put down to shingles, although there were no other symptoms. It damn near cost me the sight in my left eye but was cured by the fine people at the Royal Berks eye clinic. Left me with some corneal scarring, though.

MM
You would be fine on these BBs then. They say that in the land of the blind, the one eyed is king.

I've had shingles on my head twice, fortunately I had medication just in time before it went into my eye the first time and the second time it was caught early on. That was a few years ago and although there is no real pain, I still have tingling where it was. My sympathies with your friend Exec.

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Just had a cold call from someone asking if i have had a good day, then went on to ask if a had a broker and had i thought about investing on the Frankfurt exchange , then said he could make me a lot of money investing in a Iron ore share , think it might have been in South America.

I kept on telling him i had no spare cash to invest, then i asked him what company it was and he said if he told me i would buy i then said again i had no money so he said good night and put the phone down.

Frankfurt = Boiler room scam

That was Fred.

http://www.moneymarketing.co.uk/1032780.article?cmpid=MME01&cmptype=newsletter&email=true

Got so fed up with cold phone callers, I either act very deaf and shout down the phone several times, making out I can't hear or understand what they are saying, or if I have the time spend 5 mins giving them the impression I am interested whilst also giving false details.
After about 5 mins the penny drops that I am winding them up and they end the call.
I have been told be a relative that they took this route after getting several calls a week, and they have started to trail off, presumably because these companies share info and word gets around.
I think we should all fight back and give them some of their own medicine back, especially these cold call accident claim companies.
I gave the last one the impression that I was interested and strung her (it was an Indian lady) along for nearly 10 mins giving her all false details. When she eventually clicked, she shouted at me that 'I had been wasting her time'.
I wonder what they think they are doing.

A good tip re cold door callers. I have no bother just saying no, but if they persist, I allow them a few minutes giving me their guff, then tell them I can't afford it. They then as expected offer credit. That is when I tell them I am an undeclared bankrupt with several court orders against me awaiting hearings.
Strangely they then give up.