The “ I’ve got something to say, but it doesn’t warrant its own thread “ thread.

[FoxesDeb]

1 hour ago, The Bear said:

Chops are the biggest con in meat products. 

 

A tiny little portion of meat surrounded by mostly fat and bone. Which you have to fiddle about with to cut away and end up with tiny morsels to eat. 

 

For the same price or cheaper you can just buy a small 1kg joint of whichever meat you fancy. 

Agreed. Far too much faff for such little reward, and so many better alternatives. 

[Grebfromgrebland]

1 hour ago, The Bear said:

Chops are the biggest con in meat products. 

 

A tiny little portion of meat surrounded by mostly fat and bone. Which you have to fiddle about with to cut away and end up with tiny morsels to eat. 

 

For the same price or cheaper you can just buy a small 1kg joint of whichever meat you fancy. 

 

15 minutes ago, FoxesDeb said:

Agreed. Far too much faff for such little reward, and so many better alternatives. 

You guys have never had decent chops then. Get yourself to a proper Indian barbeque and you'll see what the fuss is all about. 

[RonnieTodger]

Watching sport on a crap stream is so stressful. It’s much better to just not watch it at all. 

[jgtuk]

My house insurance is due and the annual fee has actually gone down by about £20 from the current company.
I’m still going to shop around though. 

[Parafox]

I was asked a specific question by @Tommy G in the "New Mattress" topic which took an unexpected turn as you'll know if you've looked at it. 

 

Following a few posts about abandoned mattresses etc, in front gardens on council estates and then my response, as follows:

 

"We mock but going into such homes and seeing the existence therein would need a whole new topic to describe the squalor and neglect I have personally experienced and I wasn't even a social worker, just a passing presence in an emergency". Tommy G then legitimately asked what was the worst I'd seen with regard to squalor and neglect?

 

I posted this, which I think needs a wider viewing than a mattress topic just to accentuate that poverty and squalor are not that uncommon and are distressing for all involved:

 

 

Tommy G: Whats the worst you've seen?

 

My reply: A baby born on a filth encrusted sofa that had recently been the birth place of a litter of kittens and was still damp from the animals placenta. The baby had the umbilical cord intact but separated from the mother. Mum was still bleeding onto the sofa, The human placenta had been delivered. Two dogs were sniffing around it.

 

There was no electricity or central heating. The walls in the room were bare plaster that had the old wallpaper scraped off to burn in the fireplace and had subsequently been smeared with animal excrement. Dog and cat food and bodily waste was trodden into the "carpet" and had hardened off so it was more like lino. 

 

It was a while ago now but I seem to remember there were 3 adults and 5-6 kids ranging from toddler to young teen also living in the property as well as a number of "pets" including reptiles in tanks.

 

I recall being told that the adults slept downstairs as the floorboards in the main bedroom had been ripped up for firewood. The same reason that were no doors or architraves.

 

The baby girl was born healthy, a good weight and size and was full term.

 

We took baby and her mother to hospital for the baby's safety and made a safeguarding referral.

 

I have no idea what became of any of them but it was so tragic and overwhelming at the time.

 

A part of the real world that not many of us see or experience first hand.

 

Edited 3 hours ago by Parafox

 

 

[kenny]

Just spoiled my first ballot.

 

Lib Dems calling a pointless election Vs reform.

 

Nothing worth voting for.

[HighPeakFox]

7 minutes ago, kenny said:

Just spoiled my first ballot.

 

Lib Dems calling a pointless election Vs reform.

 

Nothing worth voting for.

Yet ironically, by not voting you are effectively affecting the result. 

[Nalis]

20 hours ago, Parafox said:

I was asked a specific question by @Tommy G in the "New Mattress" topic which took an unexpected turn as you'll know if you've looked at it. 

 

Following a few posts about abandoned mattresses etc, in front gardens on council estates and then my response, as follows:

 

"We mock but going into such homes and seeing the existence therein would need a whole new topic to describe the squalor and neglect I have personally experienced and I wasn't even a social worker, just a passing presence in an emergency". Tommy G then legitimately asked what was the worst I'd seen with regard to squalor and neglect?

 

I posted this, which I think needs a wider viewing than a mattress topic just to accentuate that poverty and squalor are not that uncommon and are distressing for all involved:

 

 

Tommy G: Whats the worst you've seen?

 

My reply: A baby born on a filth encrusted sofa that had recently been the birth place of a litter of kittens and was still damp from the animals placenta. The baby had the umbilical cord intact but separated from the mother. Mum was still bleeding onto the sofa, The human placenta had been delivered. Two dogs were sniffing around it.

 

There was no electricity or central heating. The walls in the room were bare plaster that had the old wallpaper scraped off to burn in the fireplace and had subsequently been smeared with animal excrement. Dog and cat food and bodily waste was trodden into the "carpet" and had hardened off so it was more like lino. 

 

It was a while ago now but I seem to remember there were 3 adults and 5-6 kids ranging from toddler to young teen also living in the property as well as a number of "pets" including reptiles in tanks.

 

I recall being told that the adults slept downstairs as the floorboards in the main bedroom had been ripped up for firewood. The same reason that were no doors or architraves.

 

The baby girl was born healthy, a good weight and size and was full term.

 

We took baby and her mother to hospital for the baby's safety and made a safeguarding referral.

 

I have no idea what became of any of them but it was so tragic and overwhelming at the time.

 

A part of the real world that not many of us see or experience first hand.

 

Edited 3 hours ago by Parafox

 

 

Sometimes I don't know how you did your job.

 

Did you just have to detach completely from your job in your personal life? If you did, how easy or hard did you find it? 

 

Curious to know but it's ok if you prefer not to answer.

Edited 21 hours ago by Nalis

[Dahnsouff]

No words @Parafox  no words

 

[Parafox]

4 hours ago, Nalis said:

Sometimes I don't know how you did your job.

 

Did you just have to detach completely from your job in your personal life? If you did, how easy or hard did you find it? 

 

Curious to know but it's ok if you prefer not to answer.

 

When I was at work, I was at work and I had to separate that from anything else otherwise it would affected me and my home/family life.

 

Fortunately (?) I'm the kind of person that sees things in black and white and I was able to detach the tragedy, trauma and sadness of other peoples lives, from my own. That's not to say I wasn't affected in the long term and those experiences still haunt me from time to time. I might drive past a location where I attended a fatality or past a house where someone had tragically died and recall the whole incident.

 

(I'm writing this and finding it difficult to express 34 years of random involvement in other peoples crises, trauma and distress, be it serious or relatively insignificant).

 

My immediate family only know what I chose to tell them because Mrs P would never want to hear about it, so the most grim, sad, emotional, unpleasant and sometimes horrific stuff I've experienced, I keep in a closed box in my head, but yeah, I could tell you some stories.

 

I hope that answers your question, at least in part.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited 17 hours ago by Parafox

[Nalis]

6 hours ago, Parafox said:

 

When I was at work, I was at work and I had to separate that from anything else otherwise it would affected me and my home/family life.

 

Fortunately (?) I'm the kind of person that sees things in black and white and I was able to detach the tragedy, trauma and sadness of other peoples lives, from my own. That's not to say I wasn't affected in the long term and those experiences still haunt me from time to time. I might drive past a location where I attended a fatality or past a house where someone had tragically died and recall the whole incident.

 

(I'm writing this and finding it difficult to express 34 years of random involvement in other peoples crises, trauma and distress, be it serious or relatively insignificant).

 

My immediate family only know what I chose to tell them because Mrs P would never want to hear about it, so the most grim, sad, emotional, unpleasant and sometimes horrific stuff I've experienced, I keep in a closed box in my head, but yeah, I could tell you some stories.

 

I hope that answers your question, at least in part.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cheers mate it does. In hindsight it was probably a bit insensitive of me to ask you those questions if it brought back any bad memories.

[Parafox]

4 hours ago, Nalis said:

Cheers mate it does. In hindsight it was probably a bit insensitive of me to ask you those questions if it brought back any bad memories.

 

No problem. It didn't. 

[Dahnsouff]

Our what point does our seeming lack of hope or fashionable cynicism become self defining?

 

Told you so is a shite epitaph (Unless you are Spike Milligan of course...)

[HighPeakFox]

I can't post in General, so I'd just like to say that I'm terrified about what lies ahead. The philistines are at the gate. 

[Bordersfox]

On 29/04/2025 at 20:32, FoxesDeb said:

Agreed. Far too much faff for such little reward, and so many better alternatives. 

Go to London.  Go to Tayyabs.  Eat lamb chops.  Or just make them on your own bbq, the recipe is widely available online.  Then come back and apologise. Firstly to me, but secondly (and far more importantly) to Tayyab.  I never expected such heresy from you Debs.  

[leicsmac]

22 minutes ago, HighPeakFox said:

I can't post in General, so I'd just like to say that I'm terrified about what lies ahead. The philistines are at the gate. 

The only rather cold comfort I can offer is that their ideology will never conquer for even a short time, because either it will destroy itself or the Earth will not tolerate the ignorance of the laws of physics that it embodies.

 

So, no matter what, such people cannot "win" - not for long, anyway.

[HighPeakFox]

33 minutes ago, leicsmac said:

The only rather cold comfort I can offer is that their ideology will never conquer for even a short time, because either it will destroy itself or the Earth will not tolerate the ignorance of the laws of physics that it embodies.

 

So, no matter what, such people cannot "win" - not for long, anyway.

It plays on my PTSD something chronic

[leicsmac]

2 minutes ago, HighPeakFox said:

It plays on my PTSD something chronic

As well it might, what I've read about how the world is changing and will change in the future sometimes terrifies me.

 

But for all that, we owe it to that future to do what we can, until we cannot.

[David Hankey]

1 hour ago, HighPeakFox said:

I can't post in General, so I'd just like to say that I'm terrified about what lies ahead. The philistines are at the gate. 

Me too, HPF, the miserable bastards. It's their loss not hearing from another dimension

[HighPeakFox]

57 minutes ago, David Hankey said:

Me too, HPF, the miserable bastards. It's their loss not hearing from another dimension

Well, in my case I can say they've done me a favour. There is so much boilingly nonsensical stuff posted that I am saved from being able to get a whole forum ban, as it would be all too easy to cause offence to someone with a big gob and an ego made of biscuits.