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@pefkos wrote:

why is getting a new kitchen stressful? :?

Having your old kitchen ripped out, place rewired etc., can be pretty stressful for the best of us Pefkos, but when your 94 you can do without all the noise and mess.

I didn’t by the way mean the above, I meant the fact of her going into residential care while its done.

Hope that answers your question :wink:

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Galaxy I wouldnt worry about the lillies, what they call the ‘death’ lillies are the trumpet shaped ones, not the other kind.

I’d tend to agree with your mum too, if there is anything there and it’s not doing any harm, leave it be.

As for those of you who don’t beleive in ”ghosts”. In the off license where I used to work, a young girl was murdered there, yearssssss back, when the house stood in the middle of a field. She was killed and bricked into a wall. At various times, you could clearly hear the voice of a youngster, singing ring a ring a roses, it was usually coming from upstairs, if you started to go up the stairs, the singing would stop. I have to admit that it freaked me out a little at first, but I got used to it. One or two people said that they’d seen a young girls face at upstairs windows late at night, i’d never seen it myself though, but I did hear the singing.

On Monday Pete, my mum went into a residential home, only for 3 weeks while the council rip out her kitchen and put in a new one. It was a stressful day for all concerned, I got into my car on Monday evening to go home and as I pulled away I felt a definate pressure on my shoulder, as if someone was saying it’s ok. Iv’e always believed that my dads spirit is with me and always will. Iv’e been told many times by many people that there is a man, a frail looking man standing at your shoulder. Hocus Pocus to some, but it makes me feel better. He’s been dead by the way, for 33 years.

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@tadpole wrote:

@cas wrote:

@ugo wrote:

If you go into a Jobcentre as I did recently .

You go up to reception & tell them you have an appointment at 10-40am (its now 10-39) your told to have a seat over there & your sat waiting a gd half an hour.
Then An ASIAN guy walks in striaght up to reception in his PJ`s holds out a piece of paper & when asked a question says “me speak not English” (ffs whats the cooont doing here then ) so striaght away the receptionist gets in a flap & runs off for an ASIAN employee to come & interpret for him .
He doesnt get told to go & have a seat for half an hour oh NO he`s taken striaght to a desk & delt with there & then mean while im still waiting to speak to someone & it turns out im waiting to see the same ASIAN that that fooker saw.
POINT BEING YOUR BETTER DELT WITH INTHIS COUNTRY IF YOU DONT SPEAK THE LINGO…..FACT So I leave but upon entering the bottom floor I spot the cooont talking to his friends in plain ENGLISH me being me had to say something which flarred up into a huge arguement & security was called in luckily for me there was a few skin heads in who knew me & it kicked off big time but we were the ones in the wrong as always . This kind of stuff makes my blood BOIL

Ugo, why didn’t you go back to the receptionist and explain that this guy was taking your place, which I agree was wrong. This isn’t new! not all but some of them have very selective abilities of speaking english.

I would have been tempted to say well if he doesn’t speak english it won’t matter that he takes his turn will it. As it was, and as you say yourself, you made yourself look the bad guy and ultimately wrong.

I dont see how being angry at that situation is wrong?

I hate using the word racism but lets face it, these are the things that get ppl bl o o d y narked. As i have said before and will say a million times, racism towards white skin is rife, yet no one does anything about it as its not taken seriously. Where as racism against black skin is …..well lets not even go there is case im arreseted and charged with racism.

Sorry Tadpole, I didn’t mean he shouldn’t be angry, i’d have been angry, and yr right it does get people narked, but when you lose it, they ultimately win don’t they. I know how hard it is believe me, but it’s so much better if you can keep your cool and insist on your appointment being honoured in the first place, it’s not Ugo’s fault this guy chose not to speak english at that point and he shouldn’t have been the one made to wait.

Congrats on your news btw :wink:

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@ugo wrote:

If you go into a Jobcentre as I did recently .

You go up to reception & tell them you have an appointment at 10-40am (its now 10-39) your told to have a seat over there & your sat waiting a gd half an hour.
Then An ASIAN guy walks in striaght up to reception in his PJ`s holds out a piece of paper & when asked a question says “me speak not English” (ffs whats the cooont doing here then ) so striaght away the receptionist gets in a flap & runs off for an ASIAN employee to come & interpret for him .
He doesnt get told to go & have a seat for half an hour oh NO he`s taken striaght to a desk & delt with there & then mean while im still waiting to speak to someone & it turns out im waiting to see the same ASIAN that that fooker saw.
POINT BEING YOUR BETTER DELT WITH INTHIS COUNTRY IF YOU DONT SPEAK THE LINGO…..FACT So I leave but upon entering the bottom floor I spot the cooont talking to his friends in plain ENGLISH me being me had to say something which flarred up into a huge arguement & security was called in luckily for me there was a few skin heads in who knew me & it kicked off big time but we were the ones in the wrong as always . This kind of stuff makes my blood BOIL

Ugo, why didn’t you go back to the receptionist and explain that this guy was taking your place, which I agree was wrong. This isn’t new! not all but some of them have very selective abilities of speaking english.

I would have been tempted to say well if he doesn’t speak english it won’t matter that he takes his turn will it. As it was, and as you say yourself, you made yourself look the bad guy and ultimately wrong.

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@slayer wrote:

Cas- we may never see eye to eye on many things and it would be boring if we all did.

To the BNP, you can’t be black and British- it starts with voluntary repatriation and ends with laws which ensure there is no option but to leave if you aren’t white, only then it will be without compensation.

We don’t live in a perfect country, never have done and never will but to blame all our ills on minorities and immigrants is simply ludicrous

Doesn’t mean there’s much else to choose from when it comes to voting cos they’re all much of the same to me at the mo.

I agree with you Slayer that we can’t see eye to eye on everything all the time and yea of course it’d be boring.

No we don’t live in a perfect country, who does? :roll: I don’t blame all the ills on minorities and immigrants. I do tho, feel that there needs to be a limit to the immigration into this country. Were a very small island compared to the rest of the world. People have to cross many countries to get to this one, why can they not settle in another country, one where they would be just as safe but perhaps don’t have the welfare state that we do. Now i’m sorry if that sounds racist, it’s not meant as racist but it stands to reason that were not a bottomless pit. I know too that not all immigrants to this country are on state handouts, and I admire the ones who do find work/businessess etc and make a contribution. Where I live, the vast majority of people are! on state benefits, many of them, Kosovans/Albanians/Russians, who have been given homes by the council (which the council deny) and are subsequently sub-letting room by room at around £60 – £75 a week, not bad for someone who’s already receiving benefits and then have around 2 or 3 rooms let at that cost each week, nice work if you can get it eh :roll: :roll:

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@emmalush wrote:

@tommy-toxen wrote:

People like Emma who think white people are all Jew-hating Christians and all black people are christian-hating Muslims really need to get a reality check.

Religion is blind when it comes to colour.

When did i say that oh great mighty one?

I wonder how tolerant the christians are of islam, in the way that islam could force sharia law in this “christian” country.

I don’t know enough about it so feel i’m not able to make a constructive comment, other really than to say that i’d like one of you to pick up on this one. Iv’e not been one to agree with Emma in the past but she does have a point here. And………….. it wasn’t these pc people with nothing better to do who thought that one up :roll:

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Like I said Emma, I dunno who i’m going to vote for and yea, tuff choice, well between tuff and no choice really.

I’m interested in Nick Griffin’s statement of ”encouraging” what exactly does he mean by he’d ”encourage” them to go home, I find it a little of a disturbing statement.

I feel that there extreme inasmuchas their policies on immigration. There are black people in this country who came and were welcomed by this country, they have since gone on to have families, who now have families of their own, is he talking across the board black, or only those who came here after the 2nd WW, cos lets not forget, this country then welcomed them with open arms. In other words I suppose, is it ok if your black but british.

[Cas]

Probably for the first time I have to agree with you.

I watched last weeks question time, iv’e said in another post here somewhere, that all the politicians seemed to be doing no more than scoring points off one another. Iv’e no idea who i’m going to vote for but I can assure you, although living in Margaret Hodge’s constituency, it wont be for the BNP. Far to extreme for me i’m afraid.

It’s worrying tho, that the people who are supposed to be running the country and acting in all our best interests, are behaving no better, in fact worse in some cases, than a group of primary school children in the playground :roll:

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@drivel wrote:

@slayer wrote:

I would say my post was pretty conclusive and one sided but feel free to disagree-

If you find you can’t say anything without being labelled a racist or homophobic, perhaps you should look at what you’re saying (conclusive enough for you!)- assimilation is a two way street- if you expect people to adapt to “our way of life”- try and meet them half way, and learn theirs too- we’ve just had a Polish shop open up not far from me, first in the whole city….and guess what, my world didnt end because of it.

Mosques harbouring Britain hating terrorists, Catholic churches harbouring Britain hating terrorists! No difference- different decade, different church, same hatred.

You prove my point – the fact that I don’t agree with your opinions then you would label me .

I disagree with assimilation – it’s not 2 way at all – you have to assimilate to the country you move to – not the other way round

It was St Georges day yesterday for what publicity it got !!!

What’s your point about a Polish shop – we have loads of shops run by different nationalities here . No one has got any argument against folks coming here , and working for a living , contributing to society and the economy – that’s fine no problem – just don’t complain about me eating bacon for breakfast , celebrating Christmas or reading nursery rhymes to my kids

=D> =D> =D>

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@slayer wrote:

@cas wrote:

Someone else mentioned a little while a go, a programme that used to be on TV several years ago now, I can’t remember who it was, it was called ”Love Thy Neighbour” it was hilariously funny. The jokes were on both sides, black and white, no one took offence, it was all in good fun, on both!! sides.

It wouldn’t be tolerated now, which is a great shame

You can’t know many non white people then Cas- this was a show for a time- it was funny in the 70’s but it says more about our society today that people consider it a shame it’s not around now-

I know plenty ‘non-whites’ as you put it slayer, I work with them, I have to deal with people daily of all colour/creed/religion etc. It doesn’t really matter to me the colour of a persons skin, it matters more about the person themselves.

I’m sorry that you appear to have taken offence to my meaning, it certainly wasn’t meant to offend. I think people had more of a sense of humour then maybe, than they do now :roll:

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