The General Chat Thread (2016-2022)

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I got put out because mr.7 was here early yesterday and it threw me with timings, plus he had been naughty with his mum earlier and I had to find out what was going on with him. He talks to me, pretty openly. I got him to do a card saying he was sorry for being naughty.
Daughter txt last night, he's back to his normal self.

Russ
 
Yorky said:
I've been out on a few of them.

In fact, many more than a few.
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So, you've driven the porcelain bus? Done the Technicolor yawn? Talked to Ralph about a Buick? Made some pavement pizza?

CD
 
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Heading my way...
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In 1996, we moved to Minnesota. My wife had never been there, and I'd only ever driven through it once as a kid. Sounded like a good adventure.

We drove two cars and had a system where if my wife needed to stop, she'd just pass me and get off at the next exit.

We arrived in Minneapolis the afternoon of June 10th, and it was snowing. Snowing. June 10th.

About 15 minutes from the hotel, suddenly my wife zoomed by and shot to the exit, and it was all I could do to react fast enough to follow her.

She'd pulled into the parking lot of a filling station and jumped out of the car in a rush, and I thought there surely must be something terribly wrong.

I quickly pulled in beside her and hopped out, urgently asking, "What's wrong?! What's happened?!"

"It's snowing! I can't believe you moved us somewhere where it snows in June! It's f**k**g snowing!" - then she jumped back in the car and tore off.

I'd known her eight years at that point, and that was the first time I ever heard her drop the f-word. :laugh:
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I went to Minneapolis one time... in January. I left thinking these people are crazy. Who would want to live here. I can't speak, because my lips are frozen. I walk across the street, and wonder if I still have feet.

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Stepson has now officially been removed from the facility, he's in a crisis facility now.

He's been agressive and absolutely unmanagable, doing things like urinating in the common rooms etc and refused to follow any directions. His reaction to any and all comments was 'fark you'. His idea of getting help, as it turns out was that he would be serviced and he would not have to do any work himself. When that turned out to be untrue, he decided to make himself impossible. For as far as he can understand the effect of what he's been doing, that is.

So now he's going to a place for people who are mentally disabled, which he is as we've tried to make clear to doctors the whole time but they thought they knew better because he can fake reasonable behaviour if you only see him for one hour. The behaviour that made them stop his treatment at the old facility is exactly what made us struggle with him every day.
 
I am pleased to say that I had my ears srynged this morning so now I am able to hear you all much better.

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Stepson has now officially been removed from the facility, he's in a crisis facility now.

He's been agressive and absolutely unmanagable, doing things like urinating in the common rooms etc and refused to follow any directions. His reaction to any and all comments was 'fark you'. His idea of getting help, as it turns out was that he would be serviced and he would not have to do any work himself. When that turned out to be untrue, he decided to make himself impossible. For as far as he can understand the effect of what he's been doing, that is.

So now he's going to a place for people who are mentally disabled, which he is as we've tried to make clear to doctors the whole time but they thought they knew better because he can fake reasonable behaviour if you only see him for one hour. The behaviour that made them stop his treatment at the old facility is exactly what made us struggle with him every day.
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I'm sorry to hear this. I hope that the crisis centre is able to find a more stable and appropriate solution for his care.
 
Timenspace said:
How fascinating! It could be a number of associations indeed...

'Bees knees' is a new favourite of mine.
Would you say it is really used?
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You hear it occasionally, more likely from older people. My understanding was that the original implication of the phrase was that it meant something very small and trivial, but somehow became a synonym for "very good". I believe the transformation is an Americanism rather than from Britain, though the phrase is certainly used here. As usual, there are equivalents and one is "the cat's whiskers." This, I'm pretty sure, is British though I have no idea of its origins.
 
Time, I think, to dump our energy supplier. British Gas are behaving appallingly - they are "firing and rehiring" their engineers, offering them worse contracts. The money is the same, but they are increasing their hours from 37 to 40 per week.

We signed a petition against this and also wrote a letter to the Chief Executive. We received a reply, informing us that we "were mistaken" in saying that this represented a pay cut.

Hang on, let's have some very basic arithmetic. If I work 37 hours for (say) £500, that's £13.51 an hour. If I'm working 40 hours for the same amount, then it's £12.50 an hour. Exactly where in this is there "no pay cut"?

This is immoral scumbaggery. Time to find someone with at least a vague sense of ethics.
 
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