Today I should be laying in the sun watching a game of cricket, rain has scampered plans. Now looking for alternative so I think I will put my music on and go and bake some cakes.
Then pop in here while searching for some more music I like.
I planned a day off from working so I might as well fill it with what I enjoy doing and have a selfish day while everyone else here are away doing what they enjoy.
I just want to moan about phone numbers you dial to talk to someone. You then don't get someone you get an automated voice that then gives you instructions and tells you to press a number that then leads you to more directions to another set of numbers that then says press 4 to talk to someone, you press 4 and get cut off.
3 times it happened to me yesterday, where the hell are the people they say you can talk to. Maybe nobody works there really but someone forgot to tell the automated voice.
Hello, I am Minx the quiet one.
I don't know what I am here for, I only signed up for a month to see what was here and I can't find my way back out.
Can anyway show me the escape route please?
I have just read a thread that mentions bullying in the forums and chat rooms. I have heard of bullying on facebook something I have never used.
After years at school being bullied as I wouldn't conform to a group of girls that thought they could control me both physically and mentally, I could stop the mental abuse as I wouldn’t let them control my mind but I couldn’t stop the physical.
For this reason I can never understand the term cyber bullying.
Bullying for me means you have no control to get away, at school I had no choice I had to go to school. I could have changed schools but thought at 12 it could happen anywhere. I could have told my parents but I never wanted them to worry about me at school, my mum had recently lost her mum and was coping with enough. I never wanted her having the added upset of worrying about me at school. So for 4 years I endured it, the constant pokes beside me, the tugging of my hair, the tripping over down the corridors.
At school I felt a victim of a system I had to get through I know I am not the only one it has happened to.
I learnt on leaving school never to put myself in a position when I don't have a choice to walk away.
I saw an incident last night in the chat rooms and I searched for a op in the end I asked a friend who I knew was in the pool to ask if anyone had a contact for a op as one was needed. The argument then when back and forth for ages other people joined in and nasty things were said.
I did wonder why the people that it was aimed at just didn't walk away but stayed being hurled abuse at and then hitting back. Eventually an op was located and the situation dealt with.
In situations like these I would have walked away not given the abuser the satisfaction of a response. In the years of my children using the internet I have told them the same thing.
Some people in life it seems get pleasure out of feeling in control of others.
I guess over the years I have learnt to take no notice, it isn’t worth my time or thought when someone wants to try and intimidate me, I have better things to occupy my mind than to have such people have control of it.
I do however feel that calling it cyber bullying has diminished the physical pain that some of us had to endure when we had no choice within the situation we are in.
I personally don’t see it as bullying and have told my children this over the years it is I believe cyber intimidation and they can only try and intimidate you if you allow them to. You have a choice block, delete them or walk away form the pc.
When I was a little girl a man across the road used to keep homing pigeons.
He told me he use to take them out into the country let them go and they would come home.
My question is, how do these birds know where home is?
Do you have a question you have always wondered about?
I have only encountered Neil in the forums, I was told about this sad lost in the chat rooms having not ventured in here for a while. I always looked forward to what Neil had to say over the years. As others have echoed he made me laugh, ponder, Smile and learn with his words and skill in writing. I was totally shocked and moved when I heard the news about someone I had not even met but feel I had got to know just a little bit from these forums.
What a lovely person he was, such a sad loss.
My thoughts and best wishes are with those that knew and loved him.
Minx
xxx
I thought football was supposed to be a civilised game played by civilised people. I haven't watched the game for years now as it changed into breeding fame and fortune. While money is the driving factor behind football the players in the eyes it seems of supporters and clubs are gods to them, it seem anything is tolerated if a player is part of your team.
I would have to ask them, don't they have a individual conscious and basic thought on our treatment of other humans. Would they react the same way if their children bit another?
For me I would apply the same principles but we can make allowances on age of child as they have to learn what is right and wrong.
As a parent I am pleased my children are old enough to be disgusted when they saw the actions of this player. They said he should never be allowed to play the game again. Young children watch the game and look up to these players.
For anyone to try and make allowances for such behaviour for me raises a question, would you be or are you allowing your young children to watch and admire these types of players?
I thought part of being a civilised human was our conduct towards others.
We teach our children not to bit others, how can anyone have seen what happened and try and defend a grown man from doing it?
I only saw it on the news and I thought he didn't even look human doing what he did.
If I had my way I would never want him to play for any club in my country.
15 years ago my twins who were 11 months old somehow came into contact with measles, first one was hospitalised in an isolation, she was lifeless and had to be drip fed as she never woke up for a week. It was awful seeing your child so ill. A week after having her back home her twin was admitted it had gone to his lung causing his stats levels to drop so needed to be on oxygen.
My children were to young at the time to have had their MMR then they were giving the MMR after 12 months, but many parents at that time were wanting to opt out of the tripple vacination being given to their child. In doing so put my children at risk.
Those parents should be taken to see how really ill children are with measles.
At the time I had to have environmental health officers come to my house and confirm they had actually had the disease. It is a reportable disease and they told me at the time, they were seeing an increase then because people were opting out of giving their children the MMR.
I felt then and still feel now, that other parents are not just putting their children more at risk by not having the jab but other's children too.
For me a great Politian should be known for uniting a country together, not dividing it.
They should have a long term foresight not a short term power gain.
It seems Thatcher won the short term power gain as many see her as one of the most powerful Politian’s in this country.
Long term foresight tells me she had short term aims. I also believe she wreaked the chances of another woman becoming MP. As there hasn’t been one since.
There are far better Politian’s that have helped in trying to uniting this country than Thatcher ever tried to do.
For that reason I don’t think her funeral should be paid from the tax payer’s purse, she earned her wages at the time doing her job and should have saved like the rest of us to pay for her own funeral.
I believe these animal rights activists don't have a clue about the psychology of children. My children went to a farm and helped raise baby lambs for a week.
It was a night mare when they came back as they decided they never wanted to eat lamb again. It took years to get them to try it again and they really think about eating it first.
So the fact that these so called animal activists says the teaching this way is making the children see the pig as a lesser being than them is totally wrong in my view. It is in fact in my experience making them think the reverse to what they are stating.
I think people with such diverse views should not be allowed to try and influence in our children's education and all children should be taught these basic facts about survival and let them decide then if they want to eat meat or not.
I believe in animals being protected from cruelty but I think they have lost the plot in basic survival and being cruel represents. I think everyone has a right to choose if to eat meat or not, children should be left to know the facts and make that choice themselves.
I would love to see all schools take on this form of education. The children all need to know where meat comes from and the process to the table.
probably the best i can come up with is that i like drinking lots of wine to ease my pain
