draculina

Depression is a hell of a thing to struggle with.

I was very close to someone who suffered from it very severely throughout her life, and died early because of it.

Rudeboy gives a relevant analysis of depression rooted in the problems we all face, but ‘clinical’ depression seems to go deeper; it may be chemical in nature/ Or childhood traumas,…[Read more]

nem, you sound as though you’re ready for cbt.

It can work, it can be helpful.

But it doesn’t work for everybody.

If it doesn’t work, then post again, or get in touch somehow, and I’ll try to give some advice on why it hasn’t worked, and less hopefully what may need to be done.

But it should work. You sound ready for it.

Fight the good fight,…[Read more]

I think people voted to leave for all sorts of reasons – nationalism, a belief that the EU was the cause of poverty, a belief that somehow if we left the EU we could stop the immigrants taking our jobs and living standards.

I think, if you want to take your image, they think the dog had to move toe scape the nail.

The problem is that if the n…[Read more]

I appreciate those posts, Nem, both for their honesty and for your thinking outside the box, two characteristics I’ve always associated with you.

I’ll bear your points in mind and I hope you enjoy and participate in the discussions whihc hopefully lie ahead.

The nature of the debate, and my taking part in it, is going to depend on the events of…[Read more]

Yes, Nem, I understand that your instinctively pro-Brexit, and you explain that.

My question was why you may reconsider – the reason for you saying that you’re not sure you’d still vote to leave.

You said you were sold a lie. In what way?

This is a genuine question, not a trick one.

Nem, Jamie has already said that the lad was a wrong ‘un. He had form, he knew what he was doing, he should have been punished.

The problem is whether illegal entry and/or theft should be punished by the death sentence. I can imagine someone being killed in a panic – it’s terrifying when someone comes into your house like that. When guns were…[Read more]

I’m sure that will be the attitude of a lot of people if a second referendum is called, Nem.

I’m genuinely worried about such a referendum. It strikes me as too early, it would be fought on the wrong issue of democracy, and it would be bitterly divisive – remember the last one?

But it looks increasingly likely if may fails the Commons vote…[Read more]

Nice post, Nem.

I don’t agree with it all, but I’m glad some people are following the debate, and seeing through all the personal rubbish to get to the points made.

That’s always been the case.

I remember when I was a kid the pressure was on to join a gang because it was safer that way. Not all the gangs were out for trouble, but if you joined the wrong gang then you just had to follow the leader.

There were knives around, then, too. The flick knife was the favourite weapon for street-savvy kids. Showed…[Read more]

Brexit-heavy is my experience.

By that I mean lop-sided. I’m virtually on my own here.

I have no complaints about that – I knew about it from the start. I knew because two years ago when the referendum was taking place, the overwhelming majority of people who posted, and the same goes for f3, were pro-Brexit. A lot more were posting on the…[Read more]

Really nice to see you back, Ms K.

Some pretty nasty comments have been made here, but I think you have a clear approach to debate.

I hope you join in the serious discussions here more.

I absolutely support both of these statements, though master Rude Boy will continue to claim the opposite.

If people who oppose free movement of labour are racists, then we are in dire trouble indeed.

Some oppose free movement of labour because they’re racists.

Most oppose it for the reasons Jamie gave, and she’s not a racist. They’re worried…[Read more]

That’s a scary photo, Soph. Our streets are being turned into a version of airport security areas.

Well, just as with the airport, if it’s something we have to put up with to stop a bomb on a plane or a knife through the heart of some young kid who’s just starting his/her life, then that’s a price we have to pay.

To me, it’s self-evident that we…[Read more]

I don’t live on here, as people are beginning to notice.

This is a brexit-heavy site, and a brexit-heavy board. There is no way that I’m going to persuade Gerry, Rude Boy, Mooosey, etc that we should remain.

Apart from occasional interventions by Paigey, who always makes succinct and sharp points, I’m the only one posting in support of Remain…[Read more]

Thanks, Somer.

Who else could it have been?

Still, I wanted it confirmed. I’d never heard that the Fantasist was also called I.B.M.

I’ll answer that clown Gerry when I deal with Ms Mooosey’s point about the Treaty of Lisbon. Her point is actually much the same, but it’s couched as a rational (and good) arguent  argument against the EU rather than in childish playground terms by a fantasist, and it deals with the same grounds.

Master Rude Boy, I think your arguments are bad…[Read more]

Who is I.B.M., somer??

The amount of crap being made up here by one individual is mind-boggling!

Jeez    

if anyone other than this buffoon disagrees, please explain and I’ll either answer or I’ll admit I was wrong.

Seriously, are you drunk?

You contributed to the research??

Or you contributed by posting this link to a blog??

It’s a pro-EU article, Gerry, attacking the policies of EU monetary institutions as undermining the EU’s fundamental principles. These policies have to be opposed on a EU-wide basis.It’s absolutely right in its analysis.

Read it,…[Read more]

Jamie,

you hold your own against this charlatan.

You’re doing all right.

He’s a genuine, abusive buffoon