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Dave_Desert229
2 months ago
Bi-curious Male, 61
Bisexual Female, 62
0 miles · Greater London

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I've got over 500 vinyl albums and 12" singles and about 400 7" singles. Some of them, quite rare. Limited editions etc.
I still buy vinyl from charity shops and suchlike. I've always had a turntable. I couldn't live without my old vinyl stuff. Got so many memories attached to it all.
As far as the American public were concerned, the war was a "local" conflict confined to Europe. Japan launched an unprovoked attack on Pearl Harbour, the very next day, Hitler declared war on the US. For most Americans, it was a case of "WTF????".
Despite Hollywood's best attempts to rewrite History, Britain had the upper hand due to the fact that the boffins at Bletchley had obtained an Enigma machine and had cracked the "unbreakable" German code. It is acknowledged that the success of the code-breakers had taken at least 2 years off the war. Britain had the upper hand. America's entry into the conflict tipped the scales. However, the fact that Hitler chose to attack The Soviet Union and moved troops to the Eastern Front meant that the allies had an easier job of landing in France and quickly advancing while the German forces were held up by the Russian forces and the weather.
There are so many "if's and buts", that it's impossible to put the allied victory down to just one thing.
I think the only people who could be called "cheaters" are married people who swing alone and without their partners consent. If everyone is open and honest about things then cheating doesn't come into it. The other example is from people outside of the lifestyle. They've read the 'sensational' stories in the Sunday tabloids or seen the salacious programmes on TV and think that we're all perverts. All the while, they're usually playing around behind their husbands/wives/partners backs.
Mention Lynyrd Skynyrd and everybody thinks of Freebird or Sweet Home Alabama. Have a listen to Tuesday's Gone off their debut. A country/rock ballad of epic proportions.
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Unbelievable.......words fail me
Laura Ripley who has never worked was given a £8,000 op on the NHS to help her slim down from 38 to 22 stone.
But the 25-year-old, who receives £600 a month in benefits is unhappy because as a result of losing weight she can no longer claim disability allowance amounting to an extra £340 a month. This, she says, means she cannot afford to eat healthily - causing her to pile the weight back on.
'I can't afford to buy WeightWatchers crisps and cereal bars any more so I eat Tesco's chocolate bars and packets of Space Invaders crisps, sometimes four of each a day', says unemployed Laura, who spends seven hours a day watching TV.
'People ask why I don't snack on an apple - they're cheap, but emotionally I don't always feel like an apple.'
The disability allowance money she used to receive was spent on gym workouts, healthy food and having her hair highlighted.
She adds: 'Without my disability allowance I'm left with just £210 incapacity benefit which I get because of my depression, and £100 income support I receive every two weeks and out of that I have to give them back £70 towards the cost of the £500-a-month flat I'm living in.'
Since the extra allowance stopped Laura has put on a stone in just three weeks and claims she is being treated unfairly.
'It's heartbreaking that after all my hard work losing this weight someone's come along and ruined it.'
Laura has been offered another operation on the NHS, which would normally cost £12,000, to remove the saggy skin left behind after the dramatic weight loss, but only if she sheds a further five stone, until then she has no plans to find a job.
'I'm not even applying for work at the moment because I'm only going to have to have lots of time off when I have more surgery.'
Speaking from the two-bedroom flat she shares with unemployed boyfriend Simon Hawkins, Laura describes how she was shocked into embarking on the weight loss plan after her mother Doreen died of obesity-related complications on Christmas Eve 2005. 'A doctor told me that unless I lost 20 stone I wouldn't live to see my 25th birthday. He recommended I have a gastric sleeve op.'
Prior to the surgery Laura lost eight and a half stone by cutting out junk food and drinking diet shakes and has since lost a further seven stone after her stomach was shrunk by 75 per cent.
However, without the extra benefits Laura is worried she'll put the weight back on and says she can feel her stomach stretching after binging on the unhealthy snacks.
'I sometimes feel guilty about all the taxpayers' money that's been spent on me but I only want an extra £100 a month, that's all', says Laura.

Considering "words fail" you, that's one long-ass post. smile
I've just tried to get into the chatroom and it's saying I need to log in before I can access. I'm logged in, so I don't see any problems from this end.
Any help is appreciated.
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I have a full time job, too. However, I don't have to start til midday at the earliest and I don't finish til most nights. So by the time I get home, have something to eat and relax for a while, I don't feel ready for bed until 3am.

So is this a roundabout application sort of then? :giggle:
Could be! lol
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Surely the answer is to have more mods that cover the times when the current ones aren't online.

We all go online when we can, sometimes its at different times every day so how would your suggestion work??
As I said, more ops. If the current ops all log off to go to bed or whatever at midnight, then it needs people who are regularly online til -3 AM. As I said in my original post, the problem seems to start at about midnight when they've been out for a skinful and come home the worse for wear. They know they can get away with it because the ops are unavailable.
Well if there are people who are online till the wee small hours and feel they want to apply then that's exactly what they should do. I have a real job that pays the mortgage and if I stayed up till 3am on a week night I wouldn't be fit for work in the morning. lol
Maybe we should have an informal 'ask the Ops' night in chat and people could ask any questions they had about becoming an Op?
I have a full time job, too. However, I don't have to start til midday at the earliest and I don't finish til most nights. So by the time I get home, have something to eat and relax for a while, I don't feel ready for bed until 3am.
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Surely the answer is to have more mods that cover the times when the current ones aren't online.

We all go online when we can, sometimes its at different times every day so how would your suggestion work??
As I said, more ops. If the current ops all log off to go to bed or whatever at midnight, then it needs people who are regularly online til -3 AM. As I said in my original post, the problem seems to start at about midnight when they've been out for a skinful and come home the worse for wear. They know they can get away with it because the ops are unavailable.
Nice to see the mods have such a professional atitude.
Surely the answer is to have more mods that cover the times when the current ones aren't online. That way, the problem with drunken, abusive single males on a Friday night/Saturday morning wouldn't be a problem.
This seems to be the worse time for drunken single blokes to come into the chat rooms (particularly the BBW room on server 1) and cause havoc by whispering without asking and then getting insulting when the females tell them they're not interested. It happens nearly every single week. Yet, there are never any ops around to sort them out. I looked on all 3 servers but couldn't find a single op online. They may have been in rooms with over 70 people in watching the fun. If they're about, then surely they should be patrolling all 3 servers and ready to help to sort out the numpties.
Desi and I are going to the BBW Chams meet on the Thursday. We are planning of making a weekend of it and attend the Mancs do.
Please put our names on the list.
Ta, muchly.
Mrs B.
Desi and I can make it. We've booked our hotel room so all it needs is for you to confirm there's enough room for us.
Ta, hun.
My Brother did one last Summer. It was a charity thing and he had to do a tandem dive as he was a complete novice. He had to have a full medical to ensure his body was up to it.
He jumped from 13,000 feet and he said it was utterly exhilarating.
I couldn't live without music.
I'm always listening to stuff. CD's, vinyl albums, Spotify etc.
I do prefer seeing bands live. Big arena gigs are cool but some of the best shows I've seen have been "underground" bands playing at poky little clubs like JB's in Dudley or The Underworld in Camden. Going to small clubs to see bands is brilliant because you can get close to the band and a lot of them come and have a pint with the fans after they've played their show. Practically every band I've seen in that situation are great people who are no different from the fans on the floor or in the pit. I've sat and drunk beer with ex Faith No More guitarist Jim Martin backstage at JB's, had a 20 minute conversation about speedway with Lee Dorrian of Cathedral and had a hug from the singer of Alabama Thunderpussy for venturing out to see his band on a cold, wet Monday night.
I'd love to have been naked in this weather, but I don't think the manager of the bookies where I work would feel the same way.
Having said that, it puts a whole new slant on "got any tips?"