well i have taken the plunge and booked my flight.... Heathrow to Chennai, flying Gulf Air
i will get a coach from Meadow-hall to heathrow [booked] £20... the flight was slightly more, but still a reasonable £700.... remebering a few years ago i got one for £279.... then they decided i should pay for every-ones carbon footprint... :Help:
That will be fuel cost gone sky high... :grin:
i should pay for every-ones carbon footprint.[/size]
I thought I was. Just booked golf trip to Florida in December. Old adage, fly first class or your children will. I won't be but I will be in a more comfortable seat, drinking a better Rioja.
Vintage 1955 .. Well done ..
Good to have something to look forward to :upvote:
sorry Alex.... someone has to guard the fort
Scrumpy is Head Girl :yay: :yay: :yay:
Only till I start big school in September... :clap:
i did say she had educated tones.... [2090]
:grin: :grin:
Now do I dare :grin: :grin: :grin:
Well done to the Crabbster :grin:
I only went and got a star.. crabbyob didn't.. :yahoo: :yahoo:
cause u is a star.... :yell:
Quote from: Scrumpy on March 22, 2022, 09:55:19 AM
I only went and got a star.. crabbyob didn't.. :yahoo: :yahoo:
Got any of these doen south? :grin:
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WTH, is this head boy/girl business?
A joke. You can be prefect if you want. :grin:
she wants a gold star....what have opened up here Mark... :rofl:
Quote from: klondike on March 22, 2022, 11:22:03 AM
A joke. You can be prefect if you want. :grin:
No Thanks. :evil:
Quote from: klondike on March 22, 2022, 10:44:08 AM
Got any of these doen south? :grin:
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:grin: :grin: :grin:
I've just spotted crabbyob's star..!!
The funny thing is I had my eye check up today at Vision Express..
The last one was 3 yrs ago.. Covid kept me away from there.. and there was no change in my eyesight.. Hooray!! I saved a few hundred pounds there.. So happy..
The odd thing is I thought the head boy Mickey take was ages back. After checking it was only just over a couple of weeks ago.
Should either of you wish to resign you only need ask btw.
Wot u sayin' !! .. I is well chuffed.. an 'onered..
It was Alex that promoted you. I just did the admin. :grin:
I will pass my star ⭐️ over to GrannyMac.. Sheila or Alex when I resign next week..
Not that there's much choice.. :grin:
In the meantime I shall be watching their performances.. :grin:
A rolling head girlship eh?
and i have heard the call of the wild also, i wont be able to post very often for a few months so someone will need to up their posts
All the best, sir
er..... dont you mean Sahib... [1120] [1120] lol
Mais brain, m'sieu
i think that must be Urdu Mike
in India we speak Hindu among other things, but Urdu is for Pakistanis
Bloody predictive text! Didn't notice - should be vraiment
Quote from: Michael Rolls on March 22, 2022, 06:42:07 PM
Bloody predictive text! Didn't notice - should be vraiment
Switch it off. :smiley:
Predictive text don't do French ! :rolleyes:
don't do much!
Saw this post on my other forum and it made me shriek with laughter. It fits right into this thread so I thought I'd share as it looks like the head boy/girl might just catch on. :wink: :grin: :embarrassed:
1d
Yes! The TL3s are the new breed of Moderators in this new set up.
There are 35 of them.
It's a ludicrous situation.
This "TL" system amazes me; or should I say it amazes me that anyone goes along with it. Most of us are pensioners, for God's sake, but we are being expected to behave like primary school children. If you're a good boy/girl, you can collect all the spelling books up at the end of class and put them away in the cupboard.
I suggest that we have a head boy and a head girl instead of moderators; or what about prefects?
Quote from: Raven on March 24, 2022, 12:21:05 PM
or what about prefects?
Well I did offer :grin:
crabbyob became head boy when he asked if he got a badge for being top thread starter.
Scrumpy got to be head girl when Alex suggested she should be after a successful video chat with crabbyob.
I take it you are talking about the Over 50s board.
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I took a look. It seems there is plenty of discussion about it. Were there a lot of problems there then? It seems that there are now :rolleyes:
I certainly wouldn't be happy with Moderators or Head Boys/ Girls/ Prefects being in a position to tell us that we have stepped out of line..
Bossy people would have a field day...
There are enough of us on here who will put another straight..
We discussed moderators. The concensus was there should be none. When it came to a test I decided that people need to self moderate by deleting anything they post and later regret themselves as I'm not prepared to do so. (There is a window of several days where that is possible. So far nobody has done so sfaik but of course they could have and I never noticed.
One of my complaints about PF was posts just vanishing which coupled with that forum's glitches at the time left you unsure if you'd posted something and it was deleted or it just hadn't worked. Admittedly not much confusion in my own case. :evil:
I used to tell Sparky that he was to go 'On the naughty step' but that was all in good fun..
You weren't Head Girl then though :smiley:
Quote from: klondike on March 24, 2022, 12:30:29 PM
Well I did offer :grin:
crabbyob became head boy when he asked if he got a badge for being top thread starter.
Scrumpy got to be head girl when Alex suggested she should be after a successful video chat with crabbyob.
I take it you are talking about the Over 50s board.
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I took a look. It seems there is plenty of discussion about it. Were there a lot of problems there then? It seems that there are now :rolleyes:
Yes it's the OFF. I was a regular on there untill the massive makeover, now I can't abide it, can't find any damn thing for a start. It used to be a war zone in the Political Threads before the change but nearly all of the loud mouths have left as they no longer like it there. BUT, there is an influx of new members and some are turning out to be very nasty indeed. They have chased several long term members off with their vicious posts. The 2 mods retired when the changeover came and these TL3s were fast tracked from day one, Azz asked for volunteers and got 35 of them, us older and wiser members kept stum.
Quote from: Scrumpy on March 24, 2022, 12:37:13 PM
I certainly wouldn't be happy with Moderators or Head Boys/ Girls/ Prefects being in a position to tell us that we have stepped out of line..
Bossy people would have a field day...
There are enough of us on here who will put another straight..
YEP.
I was a very casual poster there but couldn't be bothered to learn how to use the new board software. Most small to medium boards use phpBB which is quite similar to this one. Why make things complex?
Quote from: klondike on March 24, 2022, 12:46:36 PM
You weren't Head Girl then though :smiley:
Even as Head Girl I would not tell another 'Off'.. But I would under the name of Scrumpy..
I had a great time with The Deep.. and Sciatico.. I told 'em.. I did..
I miss those days.. :grin: :grin: :grin: :grin: :grin:
Quote from: klondike on March 24, 2022, 12:50:57 PM
I was a very casual poster there but couldn't be bothered to learn how to use the new board software. Most small to medium boards use phpBB which is quite similar to this one. Why make things complex?
Not one of the older/long term members understand the reason behind it. I joined that place back in July 2011 and it was so easy to use. There was so many sections but we all knew where everything was. A lot of us never posted in the Political Thread but boy did we read, it was hysterical at times, the arguments, the insults, there was no holds barred. I enjoyed the Scottish Threads and became good friends with several of them. I still visit there but just for a nose, as I did today and found that post from Harbel.
It was a very bad mistake to change that forum, it cost Azz a lot of members as very few liked it, and they have scattered to the winds now.....Shame.
Much as The Deep irritated me to the point that I simply ignored anything he posted, I was very sorry to read that his wife has developed Alzheimer's and has to go into care. Nobody deserves that
Mike
Nobody (deserves) that.. !! I know of no-one who would think otherwise...
I feel very sad for him..
I still didn't like him though..
I find it a disgrace that dementia is not treated as any other chronic disease and the patient cared for at state expense. Why the difference between that and any other illness?
Quote from: klondike on March 24, 2022, 07:26:31 PM
I find it a disgrace that dementia is not treated as any other chronic disease and the patient cared for at state expense. Why the difference between that and any other illness?
Amen to THAT!
It is an illness some sort of degeneration of the brain I think? The NHS should pay for the nursing care part of the fees and the person for the social care part, but is is really difficult to seperate the two and get the NHS to cough up.
Feel so sorry for anyone who's wife/husband is so ill that they can't be cared for at home and has to go into care. Those Nursing Homes/Residential Homes should never be in private profit making hands, its disgraceful making money out of people who are too ill to look after themselves.
Our Peggy suffered dementia .. It was heartbreaking to see such a lovely , gentle soul destroyed..
I don't think there is any medical treatment for dementia and that is the government argument that all care for suufferers is social care.
To my mind the test is what happens to a dementia patient if left entirely to their own devices? I think we all know that the answer is exactly the same as happens to somebody with some other debilitating disease which requires a medical intervention so does get fully funded.
I think we all like to think we will be able to pass on the fruits of a lifetime of work (and paying taxes) to our children or other beneficiaries. Why should that be denied some and not others?
couldn't agree more - it is a national disgrace. We - the taxpayer - are funding thousands of illegal immigrants whether we like it or not, but our suffering elderly are ignored by the system
Mike
We had a nightmare few years when my mother had dementia. I was sorry to read The Deep's post but didn't respond because of being offended by his previous posts.
We had very little help with my mum and it was awful and spoilt my memories of her.
Scary stuff... We just have to hope that we and our families are free from such things..
The government are lacking when it comes to the elderly..They know little of being unable to afford the help that is desperately needed at such times..
If it doesn't affect them... why would they care...!!
No dementia in my immediate family which is small as my father was an only child.
Father went with a stroke
Mother with cancer
I do have concerns about my own mental oddities but they could just be normal ageing. I'd take any exit in preference to dementia which must be torture for the victims family.
Covid gives you brain fog. My mobile needed charging and I couldn't think how to do it!
Dad went a little way down the dementia road, but Mum hid it from us. After she died, I learned very quickly how confused he was. He only lived another three weeks after she died, he gave up. After 65 years of marriage, he saw no reason to continue.
I only have sympathy for the family of people with dementia. Seeing a strong man like my father suffering such a debilitating illness is cruel. Deep is a dipstick, but even he does not deserve it.