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When I was on JSA, was doing unpaid work in the city centre, wearing my old sixth form suit and shirt, would always be harassed by tramps begging for money or food. It seemed as I was dressed even slightly smart it was probably assumed I was on a decent wage. Summed up everything I hate about modern Britain really.

Find it hard to believe almost 25% of the uk is obese.

How do they know anyway?

As a liberal, the case interested me a lot at the time. It is one thing when terrorists commit an atrocity but it is quite another when the state executes a member of the public without warning, due to a suspicion that turns out to be wrong.

When terrorists are able to make us kill each other out of blind fear then they have won.

The response of the police was disgraceful too. Not enough was done to stop misinformation spreading (their is strong suspicion the police were putting out misinformation). Suspicions of a cover up. Strong suspicions of police lying in their witness statements. Evidence of written logs being modified.

The mission itself was either totally incompetent or more sinister, obviously we will never know the truth.

Yeah there was probably only 1 homeless person in reality.

I think using the term "stoned" didn't help. That implies a level of impairment, I wouldn't say I was driving drunk after having a pint.

Really.

Are you agreeing or disagreeing?

I'd imagine there are safe limits as there are with alcohol.

We have recently introduced ridiculously stringent drug driving limits and I wouldn't be surprised if alcohol limits are brought down, not because there is any great need but because it allows an official to look like they are doing something.

The current legislation on drugs is ridiculous and wastes public resources and undermines the police.

I think it is about control.

Terminally ill people live in fear of a painful death and the uncertainty of what lies ahead.

People in debt worry about their future, will they lose their home and possessions?

People who have no job feel hopeless.

Those who care for a dying relative feel helpless to save them.

Social interactions help us to retain control over our lives. Loving parents, loyal friends, pets, partners, children, colleagues, so if we allow our social interactions to be dominated by one entity then we become vulnerable if something happens to them or that interaction breaks down.

I think most of what we categorise as "mental illness" could be cured by a more cohesive society and giving people more control over their lives. I think if somebody is aware of something that will bring them happiness and knows what they need to be doing at the lowest level then they will choose to do that over suicide.

I'm sceptical that drugs and "cbt" are particularly effective solutions although they may help in some cases.

I think it's more of a social problem than we are prepared to admit as a society.

As a society we value productivity above happiness.

 

I don't know vast amounts about the armed forces but I'm pretty sure that's their last option, they have to have taken incoming fire from an opposing force before they can even consider killing anybody. 

 

I don't like the way the "right" (especially the far right) often uses the armed forces for political propaganda, usually in a covert manner. Overblown celebrations on November 11th or constant fundraising for certain charities while trying to claim anyone who doesn't worship the forces is unpatriotic (I'm not directing this at anyone on here or in particular).

Soldiers pay is better than it appears due to the amount of subsidy they receive for accommodation, food and transport and other perks. Certainly for a young person who isn't academic, it's a very good career to get. What we must do better is ensure our troops have the best levels of equipment available to them. More helicopters so troops are less exposed to ambushes. Having the latest and best protected vehicles. Not getting involved in unnecessary conflicts.

It shouldn't really be seen as "being paid to kill people". Killing is a by product of armed conflict and we shouldn't sugar coat it, but armed forces can prevent genocide in foreign countries and effective international organisations like the UN and NATO can prevent war from occurring in the first place.

At the end of the day I respect any decent human being regardless of their pay or what they do for a living so long as it is moral. Somebody who deliberately tries to con vulnerable people out of money I do not respect, regardless of the legality. A politician who is willing to attack a section of society for personal gain I do not respect.

How can air con give you chest infections? Or did I miss a joke somewhere?

I find the concept of the universe quite interesting. You wonder how much of what we think we know is actually rubbish, a bit like people assuming the world was flat.

Probably deserves its own thread.

Of course it's up to them, and fair play if they want to make the change. It's the way it's been made in to some kind of headline news. Even you must agree it's unnecessary?

Most headlines are unnecessary. It isn't a big deal to me. Seems like it's riled a few social conservatives/bigots.

I had a quick gander Ken, I didn't intend to read it in any depth as soon as I saw 'Green Party Member' immediately underneath the name as I've read hundreds of these posted over the years now. Although this one was some effort, I don't think I've ever read someone who has managed to pick virtually every single problem a human being can have.

 

She's clearly had a a rough time but what can you really do with someone who says she finds a trip to the job centre 'horrific'? How and why are we are now producing so many folk who seem to have total mental collapses at the most basic things I have no idea, it's something that is becoming very strange and something we do need to try and sort out though. In her own words a tiny bit of bad news can send her into a panic attack, I don't agree with it but maybe we do need some national service to be brought back to stiffen us up, it's getting beyond a joke just how weak and feeble some of the nation are becoming, they aren't going to be able to get through the realities of life and the number of these people seem to be vastly on the increase.

 

I see also a drop in temperature can send her into a panic attack, again, going to be tough to sort that out as it's generally something that happens that people will have to deal with at many stages through the day.

 

I scanned the bottom when she went into politics as it went into the usual bollocks about Tories killing people, trying to socially cleanse the country, rich robbing poor etc - You could tell she was lying as well in parts, one point she's telling us she can't leave the house yet in the next paragraph she is managing to hear numerous people saying why they voted Conservative in the street.

 

It's baffling someone who was heading for a law degree and was a straight 'A' student now can't fill out a basic form. Unfortunately I don't see any hope for this girl whatsoever, she's clearly not fit for modern life and mentally incapable of getting through it. If everything she says is true I think she's in big trouble. I presume someone else wrote the blog for her.

Some quite offensive things there.

Una's banned for a month because he shared a video that the news media are telling the whole world about, then poked fun at it?  I really hope that's not an accurate description of the scenario and I've missed something here, because otherwise that's overkill and then kill a bit more.

Afaik Una made a joke that there was a "full version" asking for PMs, then saying things like "loved the bit where player X walks in at the end", getting more and more ridiculous which was obviously meant as a joke and others were joining in. Trouble is a lot of journalists at various levels of professionalism would be reading that and it basically amounted to making up rumours about several first team players and could have got the forum into a lot of trouble legally.

Are we really going to collapse back into 19th century attitudes towards poverty?

Personally I favour the introduction of a citizens income set just above the level of relative poverty.

Been to sign on for the first time, turns out 18-24 year olds have to go daily - so there's £4.20 bus fare a day for what I highly doubt will be helpful. Still, I've got home to a phone call looking for a job interview at the start of next week, if successful starting at the end of next week, so hopefully I'm not going to have to put up with the job centre for long.

You should be able to claim expenses for the bus.

Finding your posts have been deleted for some reason.

People who can't correctly use an apostrophe.

I've no idea why they are so bitter.

Would love it if they went down but can't see it happening unfortunately. Wish Kramaric hadn't missed that open net, would have been the icing on the cake.

Wonder whether we'll be able to send a probe to another solar system in my lifetime.