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5 minutes ago, Newbornbairn said:
Love the lift music
Music to fly by
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The use of the word "Super" before every adjective , "oh this is super fun" really boils my piss!!
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For the first time in years, cheers Covid you git!, I actually have a set of decent travel plans. I have two weddings in the space of 3 weeks, the first in Zante and the second in Southport. Two days after the second wedding we're heading off to Japan for two weeks starting in Tokyo, then heading for Kyoto and Osaka then heading back to Tokyo and for the first & probably only time we are flying in First class. We have also pencilled in a couple of long weekends with Stockholm being the main one so far.
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1 hour ago, Mark Connolly said:
I know that I must do what's right, as sure as Kilimanjaro rises like Olympus above the Serengeti
I always liked that line until I realised that Kilimanjaro is over 200 miles away from the Serengeti
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2 hours ago, DiegoDiego said:
What the f**k is a seppo?
We're not pronouncing Iran correctly either. The I should be like the e in penis, not the i in penis.
"Clique"
Seppo- Septic Tank -Yank I think?
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Finally booked for Japan in October 24, spending a few weeks travelling around Central Japan.
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14 hours ago, Inanimate Carbon Rod said:
To be bluntly honest the reason you cant see cars or people on foot is because even with the reduced numbers only about 1/3 of the remaining police are actually front line on a ‘response’ shift. The reason for that is because when the snp increased the numbers of police the result was they have to cut the numbers of civilian staff doing the admin/control rooms/citations/custody duties and other things which previously have been done by someone on 1/2-2/3 the wages of a police officer. The government were told this but wanted the optics of ‘1000 extra police’ . That never ever meant 1000 extra on shifts covering Glasgow/Inverness or wherever. And now its even more reduced in terms of what you see because the numbers are being cut even more. On an average day my team spends about 50% of its time either waiting in hospitals or for ambulances or looking for people that told a social worker or dwp employee that they’d kill themselves at 9am that morning and they phone it in at 4pm before they go home and ignore phone calls asking for follow up information.
Its shit that your family members car got vandalised, maybe there’d be less of that if there were cars on the street, but vandalism is difficult to prove without cctv or an eye witness, it is a shitter but same thing happened when my own car was vandalised.Several years ago I lifted someone who was off his face attacking passengers at Cambuslang Station, we took him to the Victoria Infirmary to check him out medically before heading to custody, whilst in there he kicked off and it took 6 officers to restrain him. After a few minutes we had him secure and I went outside to get some air, I was asked by an older lady what was going on with all the Police vehicles, I turned around and counted 12 vehicles, went back in and counted the Officers and there were 32 Police officers in the A&E. This was a Wednesday night at 5pm in April. No wonder there are no patrols in the City.
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3 hours ago, Inanimate Carbon Rod said:
In certain ways crime has more changed than reduced. Knife crime is concentrated more amongst the groups of people the snp have taken the burden of criminal responsibility from, which means you’ve got 18 year olds arrested for having a machete in Glasgow City Centre and not even seeing the inside of a court room because apparently its not their fault whereas in fairness you’re seeing far less adults carrying knives. You’ve got changes to how crimes are recorded, which is actually how they can claim crime is down. Something that may have been recorded as a robbery may now be recorded as an assault and theft, assaulting three people may only be recorded as one assault but three names on the charge. Its all political bullshit. Is Scotland safer than the 1980’s yes, is it safer than 10/5 years ago nah not really.
Ah yes the good old subsumation of offences malarkey . I did a spell in my forces Crime Management and was told that HMIC were telling Police Scotland not to do this as it utterly skewed the true figures.
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5 hours ago, Inanimate Carbon Rod said:
To fit the decree by the scot government, even though they are shite and need charged more than they can be used. Years ago BMW approached the fleet team and offered to build a special 5 series which they’d trial for PS, to show other forces etc too, the Scottish government felt that it wasnt a good image to have the emergency services in BMWs on general patrols, so they went and bought Peugeots that were more expensive than the offer BMW made and were found to be wholly unsuitable for the task at hand (eventually decreed that you couldnt have more than 3 people in a 5 seater car etc). Essentially what im getting at is Public sector purchasing in Scotland is a fucking riot, it goes through the NHS and all the big spending departments, reduce waste and get better value is necessary, spend a little bit more for quality that lasts longer than the cheap option which will need replaced twice.
I first bought a BMW from Park Lane BMW ( who are basically BMW UK) a few years ago, I could buy a BMW for about £100 per month less than a local dealer could, anyway I asked BMW why they didn’t offer Police forces the same deal and they said they do but most forces were worried about the image. They said that they could put a 1 series marked up on the road cheaper than Ford could offer a bog standard Focus.
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Having relocated from the West coast to the East Coast recently, we’ve been trying out some of the local chip shops including the Anster Fish restaurant and the Wee Chippy , both are good with my preference being the Wee Chippy. Now to me there’s a great chip shop in Mallaig in the Station building, everything is cooked to order and totally fresh. Another good place for Fish and chips in Mallaig is the “Fish Market “ restaurant. I was in there once when a young American couple came in and asked if there was any Plaice available, staff went to the back window and shouted out, next thing someone pops up from a fishing boat carrying some fish and hands them over to the staff. The look on the couple’s face was brilliant.
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Have a look at the Skylark Lounge on 39th Street, good location and drinks.
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4 hours ago, TxRover said:
I was addressing the comment about risk of pollution, by pointing out they tried to avoid damaging the oil tanks. A sunken oil tanker is still an environmental timebomb, but if the tanks are intact, you can drain them.
That’s a very good point TxRover, something I hadn’t considered
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56 minutes ago, TxRover said:
Note that, judging by the video, they ran the drone by the vessel first to ID it, and then attacked via striking toward the rear of the vessel, behind the tanks, and instead by the machinery spaces.
If you want to sink a ship you don’t go for the cargo space you go for the engineering space, disable the engines and you lose power, more importantly you lose your emergency pumps to counteract the flooding. Plenty of ships have sunk with relatively minor damage but it was where the damage was. Another reason is that the cargo areas tend to be subdivided whereas engineering spaces by and large are very much more open and more susceptible to “ Free Surface Effect “ which is what sank the Herald of Free Enterprise back in the 80’s.
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4 hours ago, Billy Jean King said:
We haven't played in Montrose in the guts of 50 years competitively so there could well be plenty like me who, despite following Saints for 40 odd years have never been to Links Park. I'm going purely for that reason as there are very few grounds left I haven't seen us play in bar the obvious newer additions. Four of us coming on the train and a day out, I expect a good few others will be seeing this similarly. I would hope 500+.
I’ll be heading to Montrose for the first time myself, it’s a bit easier for me now that I live in Fife, train from Markinch via Dundee and takes just over an hour
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25 minutes ago, TommyDickFingers said:
Fill yer boots mate,you're not an outlier here in that regard.
Very true
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I am no military genius but I do know a few people who were ex military and would say that the comment by others that the Russians are holding back from using their “overwhelming “ forces is patently wrong, if you are going to attack someone then you go in full force not piecemeal. If you go in halfhearted you allow the opposition to use their “limited “ resources in a way that “allows “ them battlefield parity and if they have better tactics then they can wear you down bit by bit. In the first Gulf war did the coalition forces send in a couple of tanks and soldiers? Nope! It was a full on assault with overwhelming force and that was pretty swift in finishing the fight.
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1 hour ago, welshbairn said:
There was some American at the press conference repeatedly shouting questions about recovery of the bodies, not sure if the families would appreciate being handed a bucket of goo and random bone fragments, Davy Jones's locker seems the most appropriate resting place in the circumstances if Mrs Vardy doesn't object.
Yes, heard that utterly oblivious to what happens when your body is smashed by 400 atmospheres
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I’m planning on a trip to Montrose, nice journey on the train as it’s only just over an hour away from the new place in Fife.
Cowdenbeath is even closer at about 15 minutes so will head to that one as well.
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7 hours ago, IrishBhoy said:
I’ve been a contractor in the rail industry for the past 8 years or so and I’ve worked in depots all over the UK, and unfortunately I’ve had had to deal with stock being brought into the depot due to train strikes on an almost monthly basis. As you have hinted at the train drivers take on a huge burden when someone decides to end their life by stepping in front of a train. When I worked in London on the west coast main line Virgin fleet I know that a driver involved in a train strike was entitled to an initial 3 months paid leave. If the same driver was unlucky enough to have to deal with another train strike they were offered a package which would take into account their length of service and they would basically get a pay off. Not to be insensitive here but these pay offs were usually very lucrative and most drivers were happy to take the package. I think most rail franchises operate a similar system and try to protect their drivers from these situations.
I spent a couple of years at Scotrails Shield Road depot and they have a designated pit outside the shed which is solely for pressure washing human remains from the underside of a train. Again, it was something which happened far too often and was not a pleasant job for the guy that had to go under. On a couple of occasions the British Transport Police came in and left with a bag containing the deceased’s eyeballs, parts of their brain matter or shards of bone that had been stuck in the undercarriage of the train. It must be a horrific sight for the first responders on the scene.
I think one of the grimmest fatalities I attended was out at Carluke, a young lad stepped out in front of a Pendolino, not a lot of him left intact and the worst bit was finding his face lying in the four foot, not good
On another note it’s been reported that the Met will no longer attend mental health calls, I wonder how long before this will spread to other forces?
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4 hours ago, Cappiecat1.2 said:
No, that's Hersheys chocolate.
Surprisingly Hersheys supply Reece’s with their chocolate and bought out Reece’s years ago .
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18 hours ago, TxRover said:
The biggest problem (in both the UK and the U.S.) is neither side of this tragic situation received any of the assistance they likely needed. She was likely on the receiving end of at least minor abuse, deliberate or situationally induced, and didn’t have any understanding of the danger she faced and the resources to help her…he was likely similar, not capable of understanding the depth and darkness of his situation. The situation in the UK seems to be trending the way of the situation here in the U.S.
To use a recent (U.S.) case I’m familiar with, a spouse with a deteriorating mental condition lashed out, was arrested and released with no attempt to address the issue…returned because there was no other option…left…returned…and made at least two more physical attacks before the other spouse could remove themselves and the child from the environment. Calls to mental health resources basically said “if the spouse hasn’t threatened harm to themselves or others, very little can be done”…”if the spouse has caused harm, it’s a police matter”…it is, to use a phrase, mental!
There are limited resources for people to get away, but they require basically abandoning nearly everything, which isn’t practical and causes, sometimes deadly, delays.
On the suicide by train/truck/car theme, we also should probably be pushing for better treatment for the drivers/engineers involved in these situations, as they are as much a victim as the family of the deceased.
In regards to your last sentence I dealt with a suicide on the Glasgow Subway at Govan, I spoke to the driver and he was distraught with what had happened, I found out about a year later that he had left the Subway as he could no longer drive the train.
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Just now, IrishBhoy said:
No it wasn’t Milliken Park it was further along the line at Linwood Toll, although it was 6 and half years ago now.
Agree with what you say though there’s not enough put in to mental health services and I think they struggle to recruit competent staff due to just how tough the job can be. It’s a job I certainly couldn’t do so I commend anyone who does, but there’s still a tendency to shy away from these awkward situations and hope for the best. It seems like it’s been talked about for years how mental health services are ignored in the NHS and nothing really seems to change.
I think I remember your friends incident but I wasn’t involved. When I started in the BTP many moons ago if you found a vulnerable person you’d take them to the nearest A&E department and they would have a CPN on the case very quickly, by the time I retired you could be there for 24 hours before you saw sight of anyone remotely qualified to help.
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5 hours ago, IrishBhoy said:
I think a lot of the problems around the treatment of mental health stem from a lack of understanding on the part of people who cant empathise with just how dark the mind can become.
To someone of sound mental health who has been lucky enough to get through their life without suffering with periods of depression, anxiety etc., how can they be expected to understand someone sitting in-front of them telling them that they want to jump in front of a train? That they have ran through every possible scenario in their head a million times over and they have came to the conclusion that the only option they have left is to end their life? Most people would rightly find that extremely hard to understand, but you would hope that someone trained in dealing with these kind of situations would be able to spot the warning signs and direct them to the help they need.
A mental health nurse who spoke to my friend hours before he committed suicide said she didn’t deem him as a high risk patient because he was able to hold a conversation with her. He was given a glass of water and put into a room for a few hours until he was told they could phone him a taxi if he wanted to go home. I don’t want to be too harsh because it’s an endlessly complicated subject, and I don’t know what specific training they get in dealing with these situations, but if someone is able to hold a conversation with you but the words coming out of their mouth are ‘I want to end my life’, then I would deem that pretty high risk.
The level of mental health care here is shameful, In my past employment I had to deal regularly with the consequences of mental health problems and it’s highly likely that I had to deal with your friends suicide ( Milliken Park ?) I’ve lost count of the number of people who have been turned away from help who then taken their lives shortly afterwards. To me it’s the complete lack of mental resources available on the NHS. The railway have now to their credit implemented a Samaritan helpline and according to my ex colleagues it is helping a good deal. We as a nation really need to invest heavily in mental health.
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Everything seem to be going to plan so apart from the booster engines failing to light on the return but they seem pretty upbeat about it all so far.