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.

It was colder in Manchester yesterday than Antartica so the penguins were trying out the new motorway - the Manchester ship canal. All you need to get to Wigan faster than by car is a pair of skates!

Senior citizens are the nation's leading carriers of AIDS!


hearing aids

band aids

roll aids

walking aids

medical aids

government aids

most of all,

monetary aid to their children!

And talking of 'Aids' and 'Old People', I read this very sad and shocking story in my local newspaper. It beggars belief that this sort of situation is still going on in our society and it did make me think quite a bit. I did think our Councils and their enormous budgets and staff had got it more than covered.

'How could this have happened?'

Published Date: 09 January 2010
By Liz Lee
Northampton Chronicle Reporter

AN elderly couple found dead in their Northampton home were left to die in cold and squalor as a result of a failure in local authority services, their caring neighbours have claimed.

Jean and Derek Randall, both believed to be in their mid-70s, were discovered dead when police forced their way into the home the couple shared at an address in Kingsthorpe, on Thursday.

It is feared they may have been there for as long as five days before being found, despite desperate attempts by their neighbours to make contact.

Mrs Randall was confined to a wheelchair and her husband was her sole carer. It is not known how, or when, either of the couple died but police have confirmed there are no suspicious circumstances.

Neighbour Heather Footitt, who had been visiting the couple daily to deliver food and check on them, said Mr Randall's health had deteriorated in the past month. She said she had spent weeks contacting Age Concern, Northamptonshire County Council and health services trying to get the couple into a home.

She said: "I last spoke to him on Saturday, when I went round because he had asked me to bring him jelly and ice cream. Since then I have been ringing them five or six times a day. Their bathroom light came on each night so we thought they must be all right, but we've since found out it was on a timer. I am furious this has been allowed to happen and I even predicted it would.

"Jean could not do anything for herself at all, and Derek got to the point where he simply could not cope with lifting her, doing her washing or anything.

"When I spoke to him before Christmas, he said he might be able to cope if Jean was taken into a home so we contacted everyone we could possibly think of to come out and get their needs assessed, but nobody came."

Mrs Footitt contacted Labour MP for Northampton North, Sally Keeble, a few days before Christmas stating the situation with the Randalls had become very desperate. Mrs Keeble's office immediately contacted Northamptonshire County Council as a matter of urgency, but a reply was not received from the authority until the beginning of January.

Meanwhile Mrs Footitt contacted Age Concern asking for their help, but was unsuccessful. She said: "We got absolutely nowhere. I was so frustrated, I even said it would end up in us finding them dead. You could see what state their house was in, and the cold could not have helped at all, but no-one did anything."

Mrs Footitt's brother Ian Walters, who also helped care for the Randalls, said: "It is disgusting that it came to this. I believe they died because everyone who is supposed to care for the elderly in our society did not do it.

"Everyone passed the buck," he added.

Care campaigner calls for a review

Northampton Chron & Echo
Published Date: 09 January 2010
By Unknown

A disability rights campaigner has called for Northamptonshire County Council to review its care home policy following the deaths of Derek and Jean Randall.

Chris Kinsey, a carer who has campaigned against the closure of respite homes in the county for several years, said the case highlighted the need for some elderly people to have urgent access to qualified support.

She said: "This is extremely sad news, but unfortunately it was bound to happen. I fear it is likely to happen more and more often if the council insists on closing more care homes. It just proves that you cannot have a one-size fits all policy, and not everyone is suited to a do-it-yourself care system. Some people simply will not be in a position to care for their loved ones without help. Yes, it is fantastic to have options, and to be able to stay at home, but clearly it is not suitable for everyone."

She added: "What is so sad here is that this seems not to be a case of society turning its back, but of authorities no longer viewing disabled and elderly people as a priority."

Hmmm?

Perhaps it would have been better for them if Jean and Derek Randall had been members of some Islamic religion, thereby being more on the way to getting themselves recategorised as 'Islamic Immigrants'? Loudly and clearly, I keep reading how it is this category of society, who are consistently getting tons and tons of the benefits that get dished out.

since this is the talk to myself thread i expect no answer. the latest post on the Lloy thread disgusts me so i have posted another
regards
jkd

seems we have a bit of conflict on the Lloy thread.having posted the above post which originaly ended with the words "disgusts me" i then felt it only right and proper to express my feelings and go over to the Lloy thread and say so. which i did, i then came back here and added the latter part of my above post. i should of course have added it as an edit.have now been caught with my pants down and am the villain. what a weird world.
regards
jkd
edit lets not forget or overlook the cause and reason for my original post.it is that that matters, not my villainy.

Surely, what happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas?

The ban for Al-Muhajiroun and Islam4UK comes after the announcement of a peaceful procession in Wootton Bassett to highlight the atrocities which have been and are being committed by the British regime supposedly within the framework of freedom of expression. However, what is clear is that if you differ with the Brown regime and those who advocate freedom and democracy and whose citizens are supposedly dying for these ideals abroad, then freedom quickly dissipates to be replaced by dictatorship.

Moneyam respectfully request you nip this one in the bud right now!

C.c. are you trying to censor discussion?

Why?

Get a grip Fred!

We know the date of at least one election in 2010. It's the Local Elections on May 6th.

So....it looks like the General Election is also going to be on May 6th.

There also has to be a General Election by Thursday, June 3rd.

As Labour's positon in the Polls improved a bit of late, the Sunday Times has been mentioning March 25th as a possibility too.

Watch this space, eh?

Exec, have watch the space. Couldn't make out anything new.

GB I don't think the election will be before May, which will allow for the economy and employment to be seem to be picking up.

This will give time for the public to realise what it is happening to the economy and for Wisteria and team to expose their obvious weaknesses or naivety even more.

Also time for the tory mods to split with the tory rockers!

Might even have a few more bob in the kitty by then.

I am not sure if there is time for constitutional changes, but may be interesting to look out for.

Anyone watching the odd CBB?

Heidi Fleiss's lips? Hmmm?
Ivana Trump's lips too? Hmmm?

I now have the answer, I think.
A. Silicone injections.

Here's a good example. The pictures are of Lisa Rinna:



Haemorrhoids anyone?

Mwah, mwah.

Self inficted neoplasm? gross!

Oh my God! Oh my God! Get out of the water! NOW!

Seems like they are going to need a bigger boat.

Exec, think the top pic on right of your article needs a bloody good feed....lol...Hell!

Takes me back - I can't remember the nth shot you should shoot the flying saucer with to get the maximum (300?) points.

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One of the funniest posts I have seen on this thread. Pity it's all true. Have e-mailed it to everyone I know.

Regards Greek.