Youtube comments of Banana (@439bananas).

  1. Sick of queues in your supermarket, just cough.
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  2. And they continue to touch lives after their death by helping to train doctors to treat others.
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  3.  @benrosenbloom8854  If he was behind the cooler, then that is usually where the heat exchanger tubes are so that would be hot. I wondered if he had mummified, but the video said that he had decomposed. Usually, when you have some thing dead then it gets fly-infested, pretty quickly too.
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  4. Or Old order
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  5. Lots of disability living allowance?
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  6. Big thank you to the BBC for this programme, revealing the ongoing UC scandal and also for upholding free speech by allowing comments on this site.
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  7.  @hayleescott1535  She does not care that she is breaking up this woman's marriage and that this poor woman's kids will suffer as a result of her selfishness.
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  8. Can not see the abstinence thing catching on and adults have a responsibility to teach about sex truthfully, which includes not only unwanted consequences or the mechanics, but also about pleasure, consent and giving and taking.
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  9. They probably realize that certain sectors of the population do not vote for them ie the poor. So if you force those people into homelessness, they will not be on the electoral roll and therefore they cannot vote you out of power.
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  10. Why the hell are we not sorting our own 5G network?
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  11. @nobcheesy Yes, Labour bought out a system that was too generous and open to abuse, but the answer is not to try to starve people to death. Well done incidentally for volunteering at a CAB. The current system of Universal Credit is costing more but is leaving people worse off, how is that value for money for the taxpayer? If you force people into poverty then they either suffer ill health and become a burden on the NHS or they commit acquisitive crimes out of need and cost the criminal justice system. At the moment I can foresee the sort of situation where homeless people will live in overcrowded squats and drug-resistant TB will become rampant amongst them and quickly spread to the general population. Desperate people do desperate things. Many will turn to prostitution, soon man or woman you will not be able to walk down the street without being asked if you are looking for business. Not to mention the inevitable upswing in sexually transmitted diseases that will accompany the resultant depression of prices that will be part and parcel of an increased market supply of these services. The human misery that all this has the potential to cause far outweighs the monetary savings. The current situation was caused, not by the poor, but by the banks' poor investments in the subprime market and the subsequent taxpayer bailout. You can bet your bottom dollar that no banker is paying to nowhere near the degree that any poor person will pay. It is just too convenient to portray the poor as villains of the piece, let's face it the tories are probably very aware that the poor do not vote for them so what better way to subvert democracy than to make the homeless and get them off the electoral roll so that they cannot vote you out of power.
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  12. He would probably had something like a flint and steel and some sort of fuse made from either something like char cloth or perhaps rope dipped in oil.
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  13.  @hayleescott1535  The only good thing is that if he leaves his wife hopefully she finds someone that she deserves and karma comes for husband and mistress and they are miserable.
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  14. We are more used to this then Americans, we lived through years of this with the IRA. Had a little respite then it started with IS.
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  15. Completely agree, but the state, even the courts are useless at making feckless fathers pay.
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  16.  @pyroAdapt  I agree that the idea of 'the one' is unhealthy from the perspective of it being egotistical, unrealistic and unhealthy to expect just one person to magically fulfil all of our needs. However, I can see how people might see when they get divorced as being time wasted with the wrong person. For many people, but possibly more extensively for women, a relationship can mean giving up many things that you love. If you want to be with a particular guy and his job moves, then the chances are that you are going to have to give up your job and friends to move and be with him. If as a woman you have a child[ren], then the chances are that such a course of action will damage your career progression and your earnings. So if the guy then leaves you it feels like you have wasted your life, because you could have been with a guy who rewarded your loyalty and sacrifices by being decent enough to stick around for his kid[s].
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  17. Most people would have been all over the place unless there was a reasonable explanation for their absence. His wife is pregnant and a diabetic and his 2 kids are missing and he behaves so casually.
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  18. A relative of mine Luke Perry, has made a statue of a Sikh soldier that stands in Smethwick. I never forget that they fought for us in the war, we owe them a great debt for that and the fact that they respect the beliefs of others. Bless them.
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  19. Two men fell into a crucible at the Round Oak Steelworks, either in the late 70's or early 80's. I was told that they burnt up before they even hit the molten metal.
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  20.  @Shylade  The thing is who in their right mind wants to take someone else's bloke. It just stands to reason if he has got fed up with his wife and kids and is cheating on the wife, how long before he cheats on the mistress? The reality is it does not matter how much the wife tries to hang on to her husband, if he chooses to cheat the only thing that she can do is divorce him.
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  21. RIP Captain Tom, a true hero, God bless his soul.
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  22. Well to be quite honest Based on the fact that the lady has a square jaw and heavy brow ridges, I would posit a differential diagnosis of androgen insensitivity syndrome. This is where the wulferian structures are insensitive to testosterone and so the testes remain internal, whilst the mullerian ducts develop to an extent to give a female appearance. The internal 'ovary' is in fact testes and this puts out testosterone which leads to the facial shape. She would have benefitted from earlier intervention, with appropriate hormones to feminise her appearance.
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  23. Or when you move them and air escapes their lungs and makes them moan.
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  24.  @matthewhearn9910  LOL, but love will tear us apart!
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  25. Karma
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  26.  @hh-ck3yw  But you have to pay leisure centre fees.
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  27.  Luci Phene  No terrifying, because it makes you wonder if they are still alive and have just spent hours in a giant fridge.
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  28. And the situation with special educational needs funding is an utter disgrace
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  29. And for women, if we have sex we are called sluts or slags and we don't we are called frigid or lesbians. Either way we are going to get called by losers that seem to only place value on us as sex objects.
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  30.  @Kara_Kay_Eschel  Indeed!
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  31.  @CookieMuncherz  Let's face it, if someone is doing something that they really ought to know is wrong they are going to punish you whether you are white or not. Chewing gum is illegal in Singapore, if you were found with it as a white person, you may well get away with it, because it is not worthwhile causing a diplomatic incident over something so minor, but anyone with any sense knows that drawing graffiti is defacing someone else's property and that is completely different from an innocent violation.
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  32. Those sort of people are way out of touch with the realities of life.
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  33.  Gray Kin  Most people figure it out pretty quickly as for most people their periods stop and they have morning sickness, they take a pregnancy test and hey presto discover that they are a couple of weeks pregnant. The problem is that not all women have these symptoms, however most of these women would feel the baby moving around and figure it out probably around the 12-14 week period, but some babies lie in odd positions and it seems that a combination of these factors are the cause of surprise births
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  34.  @ileolai  No? but I nearly wound up working as a researcher in an AIS unit, it only did not come off because their grant did not cover my pay grade.
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  35.  @wutang6020  Yes, it would be interesting to see an undercover programme on DWP sanction targets and on how the government have misused non-disclosure orders to gag charities that receive government money (nay, more like taxpayer's money), preventing recipients from exposing the true level of poverty that they have caused and stymying free speech.
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  36.  @SuperA1507  Well, you would have hoped that knowing that the parents were related, that genetic tests would have been done following the birth of any disabled child and the parents told the outcome and appraised of the likelihood of having more disabled children. I was born in 1969 and there was a disabled kid in my class at school. He was odd-looking, he looked like he had Aperts Syndrome and had been born with his legs on back to front. He had an older brother that was also affected and a younger sister too, their mother also had these facial characteristics. His older brother came home from work ill one day and went to bed, he was found dead in bed the next day aged 17/18. My classmate was also found dead in bed at the age of 22/23. Both brothers were found to have heart defects and after the second brother died their mother and sister were found to have the same defects and were successfully treated. The whole family had vast amounts of treatment over the years, you would have thought that after having 2 children with the same disabilities that they would have figured that more would be a likelihood. My classmate was not Asian and so I don't know how the disability arose with his mother, but it was inherited. Things are too PC these days and you can bet your bottom dollar that if there was the public campaign that there ought to be to put a stop to first cousin marriages, it would be branded racist when in fact all that any sane person wants is to protect the resources of the NHS and the welfare state by simply avoiding the creation of individuals whose lives are absolutely blighted by the sorts of conditions seen here.
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  37.  @hh-ck3yw  Well the leisure centres at Tenbury Wells and Malvern, Worcestershire, you have to pay for a swimming session to be able to use the shower facilities, whether you swim or not.
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  38. I know that it is horrible. I was with my ex for over 9 years before he said that he never loved me, I wish I had figured that, because that is 9 years of my life that I WILL NOT BE GETTING BACK.
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  39. @Gregory Martin Thank you for clearing that one up.
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  40. So sorry. Have you seen the case of Emily Lydon, she is 19 has BSE and is not able to walk or talk is doubly incontinent and is fed through a hole in her stomach. She has been moved onto Universal credit and is receiving £58 per week, she has lost £520 per week.
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  41. Geneva convention sets out the standards to which clinical trials should adhere, but I am aware that some unscrupulous companies do not adhere. They should have looked to existing monoclonal antibody protocols which use slower infusions and have prednisolone on standby.
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  42. Probably, people who do not get the cultural referencing of Coronation Street, or the British enjoyment of drag acts. That or homophobia.
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  43. @jesseca38 This is a case where phenotypic sex does not match with the genotype. As embryos, we all start out with identical genitalia and usually either XX or XY genetic profile and then eventually according to our genotype the correct genitalia USUALLY develops. With androgen insensitivity syndrome, the cells that should turn into male bits are insensitive to the signals and so do not develop. The natural state of the body is feminine and so this is how it develops. Testes remain underdeveloped and do not descend and are found in the position usually occupied by the ovaries and what should be the glans penis is the clitoris. Usually, there is no uterus, no periods and the vaginal tract is very short. The person themselves develops a masculine musculature and bone structure at puberty unless this is diverted pharmacologically, which obviously, unless the affected person wishes to transition to being fully male, is the best course of action.
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  44. Exactly.
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  45.  @jhardy1452  I have only just learnt that some of the guys travelled all the way from Coventry to deliver aid to Dover, good on them, I hope that they get to celebrate Christmas too, they are the best of the best to do this for strangers at Christmas.
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  46. Not only that but it would have liquified and become fly infested.
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  47. There were existing monoclonal antibody protocols at that time that would have advised a) dilution of 1:100 b)slow IV infusion c)that prednisolone and adrenaline is kept on standby. Clinical trial needed to take a more cautious approach and stagger the administration more widely in this first attempt.
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  48. Actually it is 1 in 4 affected, plus 2 out of 4 unaffected carriers of the gene who could also go on to marry a first cousin and have the same risk of disabled kids.
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  49.  @brucebiggy3593  Indeed he does, but sadly not everyone is that clued up or assertive or even eloquent.
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  50. I would be a bit careful about taking this guy's word as gospel. Sure all guys want a younger woman to a certain extent and women also overlook a man's age, but again only to a certain extent. That extent is if the man is RICH, if you are rich then there is always going to be some young chick that will be willing to do whatever, if you're not then sorry no matter how much you dream about 20 year olds, it is unlikely to happen. This is not necessarily such a bad thing, let's face it women in their 20s still want to be out having fun where as a guy in his 50s/60s wants to come home from work and put his feet up. Women are also well aware that a guy that is that age is not going to be their lover for very long and that they are going to be playing nursemaid and giving him bed baths and changing his incontinence pads possibly within a decade and so there would have to be something that compensates for that. Women are most desirable to men at below age 25 and men are going to be more desirable in the 30-35 age bracket. That means that people outside of those limits are simply less likely to find someone that is going to meet that criteria. As far as I can see the woman in the picture is reasonably attractive for her age and i am sure if she is happy to put a roof over some guys head then she would be able to find someone, but the chances are he is going to be 50+ and he is likely to be divorced and may well have children elsewhere. That is life, if you are not in the desirable age bracket then your options male or female are going to be reduced.
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  51.  @harrydesai7779  I also had a cousin who unknowingly married a distant relative. Their first child was fine, but their second child started to repeatedly break her bones at age 4, she was taken into care, where of course she continued to break more bones, because the older child did not have a problem social services knew that it was not a result of abuse and she was returned. This was the late 1980s and at the time they did not name the syndrome, but subsequently, I reckon that it would be osteogenesis imperfecta. They said it was a genetic condition and research showed that my cousin was distantly related to her husband, if that can happen with people that are only distantly related then the chance of it happening with cousins must be horrendously high and even more so when the practice is repeated down the generations. Genetic disease as a result of offspring between related parents is not a racist thing it affects all races pretty equally if they CHOOSE to indulge in that practice. It is bad enough that children can be born disabled without their parents being related, who would willingly risk god only knows what disability in their children or grandchildren if they were aware of the risk in the first place?
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  52. Amazing that it cost so much to set up UC and it costs more than the old legacy benefits and yet most people seem to be worse off on it.
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  53.  @brucebiggy3593  It is reckoned that the advisers have sanctioning targets. Something very wrong with a system that imposes loses of money that are greater than criminal fines.
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  54. He was very badly injured in the crash and is likely to remember very little of the minutes leading up to the crash. It was reported at the time that he had bad facial injuries and whoever did the reconstruction did a good job. The camera work and lighting make it difficult to see, but if you look around the area of the left eye and left cheek there looks like some evidence of the injuries there.
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  55. Disgusting, the family have paid for a seat and if the airline needs that seat then they should be COMPENSATING someone to leave the flight. If they have overbooked then if they have a seat in first class that is vacant it makes sense to bump one person up to first class, but if there is no first class seat then they should be looking for people willing to be bumped in exchange for a free return flight of equivalent value.
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  56. @Skunky Monk The problem is that many people do not have the stable job that the bank requires to allow you to buy a house, that plus the rent gobbles up money that should be being saved for a deposit. The problem does not end with owning a house either. I own my own property, but my child is disabled and his father just dicks us around for child maintenance. The list of currently needed repairs looks like this: toilet the diaphragm in the flush is shot and the soil pipe joint is leaking; the bath is completely blocked (plunging and caustic soda not clearing it); the central heating is not working (last time it did not work the problem wound up costing us more than £1,000 to sort out); the porch is leaking too. If you are dependent upon benefits, there is no landlord to fix these problems and there are no extra benefits in lieu of housing benefit to sort repairs.
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  57. Really, you think it only takes seconds to get ready, wow you really do not know many women.
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  58.  @David-ni1pg  If you have not experienced childbirth before or you are not a midwife, then going through childbirth unattended and managing to be so calm is brave. This is not fake it is an excerpt from British TV.
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  59. We know this, we pay National Insurance on our wages to cover ourselves for unemployment, but our government is screwing us over.
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  60. @Rose Joseph In fact they will probably throw it off on to the woman and say that its the woman's fault for tempting them because that Adam and Eve narrative is just too tempting to explain their entirely predatory behaviour with
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  61. Prime minister in the North West, not setting a good example by not wearing a mask and getting within 2 metres of people.
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  62.  @mickshnick6219  This is the thing he gambles with the money of people that are hard up enough to work for him, isn't he worth an estimated £930 million? Well his behaviour is obscene when people are struggling to live.
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  63. I think that the people making negative comments on here have no idea how hard it can be to be unemployed.
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  64. Half the problem is that it is nigh on impossible to get care for these children so that you can talk privately. Children with this can not withstand anything outside of their routine and it can be anything silly like someone switching a light on or a loud noise that sets them off, it is exhausting
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  65.  @turriffterror3881  Thank you for adding this post. I think it exposes the greed and corruption that is going on.
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  66.  @davids3539  Sadly, just having a wife and kids does not stop this sort of behaviour, plenty of blokes have been done for s3xual assault and there is a wife at home.
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  67.  @tinamarisia123  Trouble is that patients like this scream the place down until they get what they want and upset all the other residents at the same time. Many homes try to dump them off at hospital, but the hospital does not want them either. They emptied the asylums in the 80s and this has been the result. My next door neighbour is pretty much the same and she has driven the British Gas Homecare service mad, in a period of one year she called them out 9 times for a thermostat that has nothing wrong with it. I know this because she has made various accusations about British Gas and I have been called in to witness that they have done the job. She has threatened me with court goodness how many times, yet she gets herself in a pickle and knocks my door expecting me to sort it out for her.
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  68. Jesus, it took forty minutes to get help down there and that poor bloke was in a scene of devastation on his own. How many lives would have been lost needlessly because of that sort of delay. This is why it is so important to learn first aid. If you are an employer, please give serious consideration to sending ALL of your staff on a thorough first aid course and claiming it back as a training expense. No one knows when they might see a very serious event with injuries needing immediate attention to save life.
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  69. I thought that he would hold on for his 100th birthday, as many people do. It seemed obvious that he was suffering from end stage heart failure when he was in hospital, he looked terrible when he left the hospital.
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  70. So difficult for you, I hope that they don't try to make you marry a relative.
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  71. And she might just appreciate that.
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  72. It depends how things ended with their ex. Sometimes their ex is more responsible for the break up then they are. In my case we went to counselling, it was just that my ex was not happy that his baby son required so much attention. He was just not prepared for how much attention a baby needs and he was not happy with the effects of childbirth on my body. Those things are just natural and some guys just can not accept that. As such that does not make me a bad partner, I simply had a choice keep our child and lose him or give up our child and hope that my body would return. I chose not to risk my body returning and chose our child, it seemed like the better option. Sometimes if a guy wants out it is the most sensible option.
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  73.  @TheHelper151  I was MARRIED and had been with my ex for over 9 years. He did not like what childbirth had done to my body and there was domestic violence from him. We went to counselling, the therapist would not work with us together because she believed that he had a narcissistic personality disorder. He had an affair and by this time I was frightened for my own life and I had been given no option but to give him a second chance. He eventually gave me the option of giving up our child for adoption or he was going to leave to be with his mistress, there was no way that I would ever give up my child. He left so I started divorce proceedings, for a guy who had chosen to walk out on his wife and child he made the divorce hell. Things did not work out with the mistress and he continued to be violent during child contact handovers, my solicitor advised me that to involve the police would risk the judge seeing it as frustrating the court order and that I would be risking losing my child. He advised that I move to my parents and let them handle the handovers. I did and he decided to take us back to court. By then I had considerable video footage, including him threatening my 70 year old mother. CAFCASS removed support for contact due to HIS behaviour. Skip forward to 2015, the extra marital affair had not translated to real life and he had married a foreign woman in summer 2012, the police showed up on my parents doorstep, because he had attacked wife number 2 and they were now worried that I might be dead as I have functionally disappeared. I was told to contact the police in a different area, I did and was asked loads of questions as to what had caused our marriage breakdown. I gave them chapter and verse and unlike the divorce hearing this time I was believed. The police could not give me full details as to what had gone on because they have to be careful not to prejudice the trial. But I was told that things had quickly become violent when wife number 2 bought her kids to this country and that he had been remanded in custody for attacking her and that the starting point for sentencing for his crime was 5 years. Whilst they could not detail the assault, I know that a sentence that big equates to a charge of grievous bodily harm, this is a serious charge that results from serious injuries. Wife number 2 was so terrified of him that when she was discharged from hospital, she went straight to the police station and rescinded her statements and fled the country. As a result the Crown Prosecution Service dropped the case. NO I DID NOT CHOOSE TO BE A SINGLE PARENT, I CHOSE TO BE ALIVE AND I HAVE LITTLE DOUBT THAT IF I HAD NOT CHOSEN TO DIVORCE AND LIVE IN HIDING THAT I WOULD NOT BE ALIVE TODAY AND NEITHER WOULD MY SON.
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  74. Because you have to own a washer and dryer or have money for central heating to get them hygenically clean. So they probably work out just as expensive.
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  75.  @timofarrelly9380  Hey matio, only used a non-defamatory turn of phrase. I think we all know the governments game. Face it, they must be aware that the poorer members of society do not vote for them, so if they are driven to homelessness and therefore off the electoral roll, ergo they won't be voting for the opposition.
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  76.  @nicholdsouza6482  Yes, I know it is difficult when it involves children, I have a son with my ex and sadly, he suffers with autism and because of my ex's behaviour towards us we now cope pretty much alone as the courts put a stop to contact due to his behaviour. I don't know if you have tried marriage guidance, I found them very good, but mine did not want to improve the relationship and just thought that the grass is greener on the other side; the truth is the grass is greener where you water it. Long and short he had been having an internet-based affair. I answered the 'phone to her once and asked her to stop misbehaving with my husband as we had an 8 month old baby. She took no shit and made it abundantly clear that she felt that I had no right to tell her what to do and that if my husband was straying it was my fault. He left me to be with her, but she was not the type to take his shit and the grass really was not greener on the other side, she dumped him. Which of course meant that I refused to take him back and he absolutely played up throughout the divorce and after. He went on to marry a lady from a very poor country, who already had 4 children that were not his, she also had a pile of debts and she did not work, I didn't come with any debt or anyone else's children and I worked. This lasted all of 3 years, when the police turned up on my parent's doorstep concerned about my welfare. It turned out that I was not the only one to suffer from his behaviour, he attacked wife number 2 and during the process of police investigations more evidence came to light that landed him in prison on remand. My advice make a reasonable effort to make it work with outside marriage guidance, if he does not make the effort and he is making you miserable then do not stand for it, life is WAY TOO SHORT, to waste it being unhappy. He will either step up and realise that his behaviour is risking his marriage and will make the changes to save the situation because he values your relationship or he won't. Please just remember that our children use us as their model for their own future relationships. So generally little girls choose men that are like their fathers in relationships and little boys look to their fathers to model what a husband should look like and will emulate his behaviour in their own adult relationships. Sadly, this means that to continue in a bad relationship, risks passing on bad relationships to the next generation. Good Luck
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  77. Not to mention the bankers who had to be bailed out by the taxpayer due to their investing in the subprime sector
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  78. People are resorting to this show because the cost of legal redress or rehab or counselling or DNA testing is too expensive. The folk who appear are desperate, which makes them vulnerable, the show has a duty of care to people not to exploit them.
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  79.  @RaysRena  Even where parents are not related, children can have a genetic problem called a point mutation, this is where there has been a mutation in the DNA of either the ova or a single sperm that has fertilised the egg. Whatever problem that would cause, which if it is a recessive condition would not even be apparent, would not reoccur in any subsequent siblings. The problem here is the fact that the parents are related. Many genetic conditions are what is termed recessive. Genes come in pairs, just Like jeans! but in the ova and sperm they don't, they only pair up at conception. This means that if there is a fault with one of the pair and it is a recessive gene, then the gene from the other pair can take over the function. If you are inbreeding then you massively up the chance of marrying someone with the same genetic faults as yourself so there will not always be a second healthy gene to take on the role performed by one faulty gene.
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  80. I think the placebo guy would figure it out pretty quickly. But the investigators did not use established monoclonal antibody administration protocols and were therefore negligent
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  81. She has probably lost her job or wound up divorced at that age and found herself virtually unemployable, so she has likely had little choice.
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  82. Most people do not earn enough to save 30% of their wages, most people like to be able to have some sort of life.
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  83. Just over a year back I had a gas leak, I turned off the gas and called out an engineer who confirmed the leak and it was fixed by a third party. Yesterday my parent's carbon monoxide alarm went off and they had to have it checked out, my neighbour wanted to know why I was late back and I said what had happened and that I had just gone to check that my parents did not need any electric heaters. My neighbour says that such behaviour is paranoid and that she does not know anyone who has ever had a gas leak. Mine was definitely a gas leak and it was fixed my parent's problem could not be traced. I think that she has the idea that I am paranoid because I left an abusive relationship and moved miles away, cutting off all contact with people that my ex and I knew in common. My ex used to sit outside my home night after night during the time that I continued to live there. He had attacked me multiple times in the relationship and he has gone on to spend time in prison on remand for attacking wife number 2, she has since fled the country. I have told my neighbour this and that I am living in secret because I am frightened of him coming back, I have residency of our son. My neighbour says that I am paranoid and that he would not come back after 9 years. Do you think that I am paranoid or simply someone who takes reasonable precautions to minimise risk as I see it?
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  84.  @secretsquirrel7374  People with autism frequently look OK. My son who has autism, looks OK but he has trouble with the finer points of social communication. He can not read people's faces or gestures or 'read between the lines' in implied situations. He has problems with gross and fine motor co-ordination and balance. Problems with executive functioning and sequencing tasks. He has sensory problems and can meltdown from overstimulation. BUT HE LOOKS NORMAL.
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  85. The pandemic is massively receding and this is a point that needs to be made. One day women will be back at work and walking home from those jobs and in some cases that can be late at night. Women deserve better protection.
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  86. Frankly disgusting that there can be what, 9? incidences of sesame seed allergy reactions and a national chain does nothing about it, not even to alert people about ingredients. Surely, Pret has some sort of duty of care to their customers or this must fall under health and safety law in some way? Pretty bad situation with the Epipen manufacturer, whose syringes at 16mm are too short to deliver the muscles where it is needed, also needs urgently addressing.
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  87.  @bittersweet82  Last summer my father had heatstroke, I received a panicked 'phone call from my mother who said that he was shaking uncontrollably. Threw some rehydration sachets and aspirin [I thought that he was possibly having a heart attack] in my bag and made it over there. Got 2 lots of rehydration drinks down him before the medics arrived. In extreme cases where the person is unable to drink you have to give this as an enema. Diarrhoea dehydration salts do this job great as do isotonic sports drinks, part of heatstroke is the loss of salts from the body.
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  88.  @jrt818  Mummification is generally quite rare because it requires very specific conditions of dry air and airflow. Even with those conditions, it is quite frequent to find that you have partial mummification where the arms and legs may dry out, but the main torso rots due to the bowel bacteria starting the decomposition process.
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  89. This could be applied to most of the male population!
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  90.  @maxgumm646  Sorry to hear of that. I hope that they have secured your home for you at least. The insurance claims are not going to be much fun, but at least it is something reported in the press. A few years ago a lorry hit the back wall of mine and my neighbours garden and despite the fact that we have different insurers, the same assessor was sent to assess the damage to both properties. So it would seem that multiple insurers use the same assessors. Going to be some very happy glaziers!
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  91. Exactly. People turn to crime to feed themselves or starve and wind up in hospital, both of which cost more than just paying.
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  92. They kind of rely on the working class not having a working brain. Anyone with any sense can figure that austerity is the result of the taxpayer bailing out banks after they stupidly invested in the subprime sector. Time to lay the blame at the right door for a change.
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  93. They did not inject cancer. Monoclonal antibodies are made in a complex way. I will try to explain. Firstly, you identify a unique molecular sequence on the type of cell that you wish to kill. Secondly, you get the sequence made up in relative bulk. Thirdly, you mix the sequence with something to make it dirty so that an animals immune system will react to it by producing antibodies to the target sequence, this is called Freund's adjuvant. You inject your animal with this inoculant. Fourthly, you harvest the animals immune cells. Fifthly, you take those immune cells and fuse those cells with a myeloma line that does NOT produce any proteins itself, this is done by adding anti freeze. The resulting hybridoma line is immortal as long as you keep feeding it. You then have to pan out any unfused cells by using selective growth medias and then you have to identify the correct cell line by a combination of repeated passaging and the use of mimotope dot blots and Enzyme Linked Immuno Assay techniques. Once you have found your clone you then have to expand the numbers for both a seed bank and to use for creating the drug. When you have decent numbers of cells they are put in a hollow fibre fermenter, where they are kept warm and fed oxygenated nutrients by pumps. The hybridoma cell lines put out monoclonal antibodies. The nutrient mix is spun at high speed to make the cells and cell fragments drop out, these are then disposed of. The remaining nutrient soup then contains the valuable monoclonal antibodies. This is passed through a chromatography column packed with a protein A sepharose gel. The antibodies stick to this gel and the crap flows through. The raw soup is tested by electrophoresis to establish the isoelectric point of the antibody. This the turning point where the arrangement of folding can be changed by the addition of salt. The drug can then be washed off the separation column by a sterile solution of salt at the appropriate concentration. The salinity of the drug is then adjusted to that of the human body and its concentration is measured photospectroscopally. Dosimetry is then calculated and any adjustments made. The drug is then passed through a sterile filter and dispensed. The dispensed drug is stored frozen and upon thawing it should be dispensed into an IV drip with a sterile filter between the syringe and the needle, just in case any of the protein based drug has either precipitated out or aggregated as proteins are want to do.
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  94. He is 99 so he has had a longer life then most of us and one of luxury at that.
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  95.  Deepbone4u  Just seen an item about a 19-year-old BSE suffer, who cannot walk or talk, is doubly incontinent and is fed through a hole in her stomach. Her Universal Credit award is just £58 per week, a loss of £520 per week compared to legacy benefits. Not sure how this is supposed to help her or her carer. I have a friend who has a son who is similarly affected by severe global mental delay, his mother has to drag him for a fit note every 3 months, even though there is no hope of improvement. Some idiot even suggested that as he likes music perhaps he could be a DJ, not too many DJs out there that wear a nappy and cannot even operate the equipment me thinks
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  96.  Kenjamin Slutton  Ever heard the phrase fair exchange is no robbery. It pretty much sounds like you figured that you are being used and you have chosen to do the same back. Fair play, just make sure you don't invest too much of your life in someone who doesn't give a toss at the end of the day.
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  97. I am sick of seeing selfish people not wearing masks. I used to wear a surgical mask and spectacles to prevent catching it through the eyes, but so many people in the UK do not wear masks and it was so obvious it was going to get worse, that on 27 December, I got myself a FFP3 mask. The FFP3 mask has a diaphragm style valve that the pressure of breathing out opens, but when I breathe in it shuts and incoming air is forced through a special filter. So for all of those people that are going to say that I am selfish for using such a mask, well I am protecting other people by protecting myself from catching it, if I haven't caught it then I can not be passing it on or using up precious medical that other people could be using, the big irony is that the people that are using those resources will probably be the selfish anti maskers.
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  98. One very good reason to date a single mom: you're a single dad. Let's face it child contact is a whole lot easier if you have an experienced pro at hand.
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  99. Try to contact your local disabled information advice line
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  100. Sad, probably costs the system a hell of a lot more than simply paying his benefits in the first place.
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  101.  @jrgboy  There have been allegations in the press that the aftercare in cases that do not make good TV have been as perfunctory as a ten minute chat with people who have had earth-shattering news. If this is true then it is not going to really fulfil the concept of duty of care.
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  102. You can guarantee that the questions will have been agreed beforehand and it is not live either.
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  103.  @rizwanmahmud9353  I will also add that pregnancy test kits are very heat labile, meaning if they are exposed to much in the way of heat, they no longer work and also the reliability of the test deteriorates over time. As well as false negatives there can also be false positives, this is usually down to trophoblastic tumours. It is the same with the Prostate Specific Antigen test that guys do, they frequently come back with false positives and I knew one guy where he had a false negative. The problem is that these kits are not always stored in the correct conditions.
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  104.  @brianjohnston4929  But when there is a change in benefits, the appropriate department is immediately informed, resulting in loss of housing benefit, unless the claimant contacts housing themselves.
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  105.  @abdiasvelasquez1185  Only worth it if she can change her identity and move a long way away. Otherwise, there are 16 people and their families with some very large axes to grind.
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  106. Ok, if you want your wife to give you attention once the baby-making is over, take some of the pressure off her. So instead of expecting your wife to cook your usual 2/3 course evening meal, arrange that you are going to bring a takeaway home that evening. Keep it light, cause she will not feel like sex if you stuff her silly. At 9 pm run her a nice bath, aim to be in bed and giving her a massage by 10pm. She might need a bit more attention to get her going, so don't rush her too much, let her dictate the pace. Remember in a woman's mind lots of things that you do count as foreplay. I am not talking about flowers and chocolates, they are just seen as an outright ploy to 'buy' sex in the absence of the truly thoughtful stuff like taking the bins out so that she does not have to struggle, ditto helping with the food shop [because you eat it after all], maybe look after the baby on a Sunday afternoon so that she can have a long nap. All of these things take away some of the day to day stress, because let's face it stress is a killer for your sex life.
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  107. But has he thought what their pay looks like in comparison with the rent that the worker is paying
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  108. I completely agree. No one actually knows how many people have actually been infected or when or if this results in immunity. The only numbers that they have to go on are the numbers of people with severe symptoms that are admitted to hospital and the numbers of deaths. Many, many people will just have a cough that is not bad enough to bother their doctor or maybe asymptomatic, that does not mean that these people are not passing the virus on to others, in fact, they may be worse spreaders precisely because they are unaware that they are infected.
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  109.  @europeancitizen6375  The guy was desperate to resolve his issues. Sadly things that should be being dealt with by counselling, rehab, courts, DNA testing have become too expensive for ordinary people to do and so they have resorted to this. If a show is going to set itself up to do this sort of thing then they have a duty of care to the vulnerable to do so in a productive way, but of course, that is not entertaining.
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  110.  @aubasanchez1566  What you mean some poor sap who has not cheated, who goes on the show to prove this and fails a dodgy polygraph and now has everyone who knows him thinking that he is a cheating liar, hasn't been driven to suicide?
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  111.  @hanaflick2675  Some countries it is rare to non-existent, yet in others it seems the norm. A guy that I used to be friendly with was a stateless person from P@lestine. He was living in the UK and his father was also stateless, but living in the USA, because of 9/11 it had made travelling impossible. The guy wanted to settle down and find someone, but he told me that he did not feel able to search for a potential wife because his dad was not around to OK it. I told him that his dad would probably just want him to be happy and that as long as his wife was an observant Muslim and the girl's parents were on board then really there should be no conflict. I hope that he found someone because he was a really nice guy. One day he had been having a hard time with a particular boss and was telling me about it, this boss was a particularly nasty bully. So I blurted out that the boss was a complete pig, then remembering Islam's prohibition on the consumption of pork and swiftly apologised, my friend laughed and said that he didn't know why I was apologising as pig was an accurate discription.
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  112.  @billybomba2771  Agreed, but together with the sort of history that was presented, it is a good basis for testing. Which to be fair when diagnosing, it is frequently the case that differential diagnoses are reached. In this case, the hospital did not seem to be entirely sure about what it was doing. To be fair, where a condition is particularly rare, it can be difficult to reach a diagnosis. Back at the end of the 80s, my cousin had a child with a mysterious genetic disease. My cousin is a Jehovah's witness and she has nothing to do with us short of when she wants something. This child was born OK, but as a toddler, she kept breaking bones. The initial diagnosis was child abuse, but the child continued to have broken bones in foster care, whilst her older sister had not suffered any of these problems. She was returned to her parent's care. At the time the DNA testing that would have given a diagnosis did not exist. As a result, all that anyone could say was that it was a genetic condition. What I can say is that the symptoms of the disease matched what is now known as osteogenesis imperfecta. A lot of medical testing is simply done off the back of a hunch.
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  113. I completely agree, it seems like an extremely narcissistic attempt to get people to like him. If he really felt that then he would not have continued to k!ll.
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  114. People who are poor eat whatever is cheap and filling, add in the fact that many cannot afford electricity and you quickly have people living off chips and takeaway pasties from Greggs.
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  115. Sorry to hear this. The levels of desperation are criminal.
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  116.  @Gooburst4771  no no no
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  117. Cytokine storm same as when people die of flu.
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  118. Sorry to hear this, that is terrible.
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  119. Just seen the case of Emily Lydon. She is 19 and was born with BSE. She cannot walk or talk, is doubly incontinent and is fed through a hole in her stomach. She has been awarded £58 per week in Universal Credit, a loss of £520 per week for an extremely disabled individual and her carer.
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  120. Firstly, I am sorry that your wife did such an awful thing to cheat on you in the first place and it is even worse that the guy killed your son. Personally, I am not particularly religious and I do not think that you have to be so to recognise that we are all human and therefore deserve respect and compassion from that viewpoint. If anything I would probably be considered more Buddhist in practice. Even evolution places an emphasis on the survival of our genes and that is why love and lust exist, to protect our own interests. People that do wrong it often bites them on the backside in unexpected ways and I know that in this case it has also done the same to you, but you know that you are not to blame for the actions of others, whereas the other guy is going to spend a long time in prison where as the killer of a child he will be universally and rightly hated and the mother of your child is going to blame herself everyday of her life for leaving her child with her bit on the side. You have a chance to rebuild your life because while you carry the burden of grief you do not also carry the burden of guilt for your actions and the chances are that people empathise with you whereas they revile the other 2. That is their karma and their punishment, please go and get some counselling and rebuild your life, you did not deserve what happened and while you will never forget, try to bring something positive into your life.
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  121.  @iqbalbhayangkara3816  I think that is the point, an inanimate object receiving more care and attention than NHS patients.
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  122. £2 billion for cycle paths? Waste of money at a time when it is sorely needed elsewhere, the NHS for instance. Try investing it in training our own doctors and nurses instead of poaching them from other countries.
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  123. I completely agree, everyone castigates the mothers, but it takes two to tango.
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  124. Well said
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  125. Having been to the USA and known people living there, the standard of living seems much better.
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  126.  @sagemorrigan153  As a parent of a child with autism, I completely agree with 'Bring on 2021'. There is a spectrum of autism from mild to severe and to be honest my marriage did not last and neither did that of 3 of my friends who have children with autism. Many guys just leave their partners to cope with it and while that is not ideal when the children are younger, it is even worse as they get older and mum starts to find it difficult to cope with an adult that is lashing out at them. One of my friends who is on her own has 3 children the oldest has severe autism and then she has twin boys that were only 2 to 3 years younger. The oldest grew into a six foot odd man mountain that must have weighed 20 stone. He picked my friend up and threw her across the dining room, breaking the table in the process, he was given Respiridon to quieten him down but he was allergic to it. He has had to be taken into care and has to have 2 male carers with him all of the time because he is so strong and volatile, the worry was that he could seriously injure my friend or her other children, well if it takes 2 male carers to look after him 24/7, you can see what the danger was to my friend. I have not worked since my son has been born and we are reliant on state benefits. This month my son's DLA stopped because he is 16 and I now have all the worry of trying to sort out the Personal Independence Payments for him. I am terrified that they either will not be paid or be paid at a really low rate. He is inclined to be extremely clumsy and therefore destructive, he has broken his own bed, damaged the toilet flush so that does not work anymore, broken the toilet seat and the join between the toilet and the soil pipe is leaking, he has broken goodness knows how many chairs, door handles and pulled the stair hand rail off numerous times. To be honest I need those benefits just to keep up with repairing and replacing the number of things that he has damaged. It is not just about the impact that autism has on its sufferers but also about the impact that it has on the quality of life of their carers too and the serious lack of state support for both parties.
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  127. Just goes to show the foolish wastage in the system.
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  128. Sadly, now all too common in work.
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  129. It is the perpetrator's schedule that should have been moved around.
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  130. The trouble is even with a nest egg, it goes surprisingly quickly these days, as the benefits system is much less generous then it used to be.
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  131. I am a bit more worried about the woman given the fact that she is covered in bruises and her partner in the main looks totally uninjured. You see if he did this to the dog, it would defend itself and bite back, the arsehole knows this and that is why he will not attack the dog, just a woman that does not fight back.
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  132.  @theycallmejpj  There was the poorhouse or the workhouse or the alms house
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  133. Britain doing the same.
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  134. They did not follow appropriate protocols and whoever was guilty of that could be done for gross negligence or even manslaughter by gross negligence.
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  135. Because it did not amount to murder, because he chose to go and it could not be proved that her intention was to kill. It could reasonably be proved that it was her intention to disfigure.
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  136. Hopefully, ISIS will take offence at her berating them and will take her out of the picture before she becomes a burden on the sort of people that paid taxes that paid for her education in the UK
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  137. Because you can be damned sure it won't be his loved ones that it kills.
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  138.  @ytkaci  Government pay for one, LOL. A friend of mine with a severely autistic son was thrown across her dining room by him dislocating her arm. He was given an antipsychotic called Respiridone, this did nothing for him and now he lives in a padded cell and is only taken out when there are 2 nurses available. He spends 23 hours a day locked up like a prisoner.
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  139. If you are so busy doesn't it make sense to be the one doing the inviting? If I get turned down repeatedly and the guy makes no attempt to initiate some dates then I assume that he is not interested and I drop contact.
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  140. Still does not seem to be working though as people are taking out loans with massive interest repayments attached. Many people on minimum wage and below have very little in the way of savings and have been paid wages on a weekly basis, so they are ill prepared should their job evaporate.
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  141.  @ErenYeager-mc2li  That is because they were all the descenters that shipped themselves out there.
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  142.  @lickopotamusslurperton1944  I think that some of the people saying that participants know what they are letting themselves in for are deluded, or have no idea of duty of care.
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  143. They do have relationships, but either they are whirlwind romances that move too quickly before their love interest realises what they are really like and backs out or they will choose someone who will put them on a pedestal and worship them, which let's face it many of us are guilty of when we are in love. They only choose to appear to be committed, they are the folk who have affairs. They like to have their cake and eat it.
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  144. Because prayer is all you'll have if you claim UC!
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  145.  @skysthelimitforeveryoung3437  Had pretty much similar happen. Mine tried to run me over and police recorded it as a road traffic accident and no action was taken. In the divorce the judge pretty much called me a liar and gave him unsupervised contact, which he used to abuse me. It was only when he took it back to court claiming that my moving was done to frustrate contact, that I had video evidence and could prove his behaviour and put a stop to contact. He remarried and abused wife number 2 this time he spent 3 weeks on remand before she came out of hospital, retracted her statement and disappeared. He is out there now, with no criminal record, God help whoever he has shacked up with.
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  146.  @Mofasho  No it looks like a pure Staffie. They start to look real broad and strong across the chest when they reach about 3 years old
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  147. Doesn't it seriously depend upon what she is eating? Dripping on toast, cheap, tasty, filling, but seriously fattening.
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  148.  @ericgavidia291  No social services just threaten to remove people's children.
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  149. Why on earth would any man go to a church to find a rational woman. If you want to find a rational woman go and find a woman with a degree in maths, science or engineering because those subjects are logical and do not depend upon an emotional response, ergo those women are likely to have a rational mindset.
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  150. Forcing people to apply for jobs that are manifestly unsuitable is not the way either. Generally, when an employer advertises a job they want around 30-40 applicants, of which they would expect to find 5-6 suitably qualified or experienced candidates, whom they will interview. A larger mass of applicants just leads to a needle in the haystack hunt, that is costly and time-consuming. I have been in this position myself. I was being pushed to apply for all sorts of positions, so I applied for a job in Cambridge University radiology department. They gave their candidates a surprise maths test, that revolved around dosimetry. As you can imagine, I did my level best to produce a precise and accurate graph for the figures given that amounted to a straightforward linear graph. The last question being that if x was a certain value, then what would I predict y to be. My answer was that this could be predicted in 2 ways: firstly by simply extrapolating the line; secondly, that the line conformed to a y=mx+c equation where m=gradient and c=y intercept. With the proviso that this did not always work for all apparent straight lines, for example in Hooks law inevitably the relationship broke down as the spring deformed. That day I received a 'phone call, to my surprise, they deemed me too smart for the position they had on offer. Very flattered, but that is a few hours of my life I'm not getting back and I assume that the interviewers have better things to do than reviewing unsuitable candidates. What you really need is people producing good quality applications for the few positions that suit their qualifications and experience, rather than a scattergun approach.
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  151. Rocks all around!
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  152.  @chrisrobles2012  Sex has a great deal of importance in a relationship it is our means of connection to the other person. Part of the problem is that a woman can wind up feeling stressed out by all the responsibilities and chores, so this is not a great place to start sexually. Try to take some of the pressure off her. If you usually clean the windows and do the gardening and clean the car, then try paying people to do these tasks and use the spare time to help in the house a little. Kids can also be somewhat inhibiting too. Put them to bed late at night on Friday, get them up early on Saturday and have them do something really active in the day time so that they are begging to go to bed early on Saturday night. Now your wife is a bit rusty in the old sex department, so you need to start SLOW. Get a light takeaway in. Run her a bath and then when she is all relaxed give her a massage. Tell her the only rules are that she MUST NOT touch you as this is solely for her enjoyment and if there is anything that you do that she does not like she is to tell you and you will stop immediately. Massage her all over except do NOT touch her lips, nipples, vagina or anal area. Start with some feathery strokes down the back and don't forget to massage her hands and feet. Use a variety of strokes, pressures and speeds. Tell her all she needs to do is breathe deeply, relax and enjoy. This is called sensate focusing. Do it again on Sunday night, do not make any sexual moves on her at this stage. Next weekend ask her to reciprocate, but do NOT initiate sex. Notice where and how she touches you, because this will tell you what she liked. The following weekend when you start your massage of her you can bet that she will be so aroused, at this stage you can extend the massage to the erogenous zones, but still do not go for sex, leave that for next weekend. Then you should be getting back on track.
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  153. I completely agree, half the problem is that the chances are the guy will probably be out in 15 years time
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  154. Some of these payments are being made to top up people's wages and while there will always be people with no intention to work there are also people in difficult positions. I have a disabled child and care for him the last time I was asked to investigate work in 2012 would have been £10:30 per hour. A job would have meant paying out £40 per school day in care fees and £100 per day in the school holidays. The working tax credit system is only set up to pay for the care of non-disabled children. When the state deems my caring role to be at an end, I will have not worked for many years, but I will be treated just the same as people that lost their job yesterday and have an excellent chance of work. As for £500 per month it costs around £2,000 per year to keep a car on the road, my house insurance on becoming unemployed will skyrocket to £1,000 per year, gas & electric are around £1,000 per year. It is one thing not making people's lives on the dole a luxury, it is another when they can not afford the essentials. The person who is smelly, unclean and dressed in rags is unlikely to get the job, no matter how much they need the income. Just the other month my drainage pipes from the bathroom blocked from 50 years worth of limescale, plunging and putting down drain clearing chemicals did nothing, had to pay a drainage guy £244 to clear it. For anyone on a limited budget this sort of unexpected expense would break them.
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  155. Perhaps someone ought to make the absent, feckless fathers pay. Then maybe they might put something on the end of it and lower the STD rate in this country and save the NHS some money to boot! The fathers that refuse to work should be put on work details to pick crops at farms for their benefits.
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  156. linus you spoke too soon with regards to the yt channels being hacked
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  157. He controls you with his threats, he is likely to be suffering from a Narcissistic Personality Disorder. It is a very worrying sign that a guy of 17 has got himself into a relationship with a 13 year old for 2 reasons. Firstly, in most countries, the legal age of consent is 16. Secondly, I think this is a guy who has cynically chosen a minor as a partner as he knows that he can use your inexperience in life to his advantage. In the UK what you are describing is called coercive control and is a danger sign for much worse to come. The fact that you have written this on here shows how uncomfortable you are in this relationship and it is a big red flag that this relationship is not right for you and could become a whole heap worse. Tell your parents and get help to get out of this as soon as possible. You are only young and you do not want to waste any more of your life and emotions on this douchebag. People who love us, love us for who we are, not what they want us to become.
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  158.  @voornaam3191  No, I didn't know, very interesting. Most anatomical terms have Latin or Greek roots. Last year I took my son to a very interesting anatomy lecture by Cambridge University where the origins of some of these terms were discussed. We got to handle a variety of human bones. It made me laugh when they said make sure you do not mislay the patella (kneecap), because if you are found with that by the police, you'd have some explaining to do. The immediate thought was only if they actually recognised it, given that it looked like nothing more than an off white chalky, roughly triangular stone.
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  159.  @ileolai  Swyer's produces streak gonads which do not secrete any hormones. Any circulating hormones would, therefore, come from the adrenal glands, which both men and women have. This lady has markedly masculine characteristics, heavy brow ridges, square jaw and pronounced musculature in the neck, which points to the secretion of testosterone going on.
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  160. Because when you evaluate a drug, you want to differentiate between the effects of the disease and the side effects of the drug.
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  161. In my opinion, there are 3 reasons why men date single mums 1] They are single dads 2] they are in their 50s and are single and they have a limited pool of interested women 3] they see single mums as low hanging fruit. As a woman when I was single and childless, I would not have entertained a guy with kids, so why would a guy without kids want to take on someone else's unless he is a single parent himself or he is older and seriously missed the relationship boat? As for the women themselves, they will vary in characteristics. A FEW will be single mothers because they are quite simply nightmares and that is why they are on their own in the first place. A larger number will have a degree of wariness of men because of what has happened to them in the past. And a smaller number will probably just dismiss the ex as a one-off arsehole. To be fair if you are a single father you are probably better off with a single mother because they have experience of dealing with their own children and from that perspective, they are probably not only better equipped, but they are going to be more sympathetic to your children's troubles. If you have missed the boat relationship wise it is just tough luck, because there are going to be more single women out there with kids than without. It is a case of suck it up and do your best or stay single.
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  162. I know exactly what you mean. I have a disabled son and my husband walked off, but prior to that I worked and lived in a far more middle-class area. The area that I moved to has far more of these types. One mother lives on the council estate and was reckoned to be cleaning for an old couple and the next thing you know she was arrested for defrauding them of £8k over 12 months. She tells everyone that she was innocent, but frightened so she plead guilty. The only thing we can think if she is not guilty is that she must have been defrauding the DWP or something. What gets me is that she still keeps plastering pictures of her and the kids on holiday in exotic locations over facebook. Another child that lived with her grandmother was appallingly behaved at primary school, she moves off to live with the mother and does not start the local secondary school. The mother was allegedly involved with drink and drugs and the child is then taken into council care. The child is now 15/16 and last month the mother committed suicide aged 33. Another child that happened to be in my son's class this time. The mother has 8 kids by various different blokes, she has never worked, lives in a council house, kids have been in care. Her oldest kid she had at the age of 19 and dumped him to live with the grandmother. The kid had Aspergers, but they still let him run the streets where he was getting into trouble, but despite being charged with crimes they were never tried because of his mental state, this kid winds up being killed and the circumstances around this means that there was a massive Independent Police Commission inquiry. Another of her kids that was in my son's class continually bullied my son in the final year of primary and despite going in regularly and telling the school to keep them apart they chose to blame my son, because of course I am the decent person that does not show up and shout my mouth. This child was expelled within a week of starting high school. He went onto another school where other parents I knew had children and was a nightmare there too and we believe he was expelled from there too. There were rumours all around the primary that the kid had behaved in an inappropriate way with younger children and the next thing you know his uncle was convicted for child porn. That family are a Jeremy Kyle show in themselves.
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  163.  @deathscythe26duo  Exactly, most people do not understand probability. In fact folk with these conditions, if they are insistent on having more kids should be paying for IVF and pre-implantation genetics to be done.
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  164. I weirdly know this woman in the town where I live that has cancer everywhere, yet rather than dying with cancer, she appears to be living with it. It must be somewhere in the region of 8 years since her diagnosis and she is still working. Another lady I know was given 6 weeks to live and started on the RCHOP clinical trial and she is hale and well some 10 years later, so miracles do happen.
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  165. Many people do have the means when they have the children, it is just that the unexpected happens.
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  166. My son suffers from autism and Deficits in: Attention; Motor co-ordination and Perception with Pragmatic Disorder. I am divorced, ex does not want to know and I do not work. I am terrified what will happen when he is deemed an adult or if there is a change to our benefits. Do the politicians not think that we have enough to cope with. I am disgusted that having had a son with complex disabilities himself, David Cameron started the ball rolling on these detrimental reforms.
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  167.  @RadioRich100  No, a hooker wants repeat business a surrogate puts a strict limit on the number of sessions
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  168.  @eyesofnight  Not unless you want her to lose interest and start bedding someone else.
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  169.  @leonardkajtazi3753  Best answer yet!
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  170. Easy, the cheapest food they can eat is chips or dripping on toast
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  171. Problem is firstly, he will be likely to get a huge payout on the ending of the show, secondly, he is likely to monkey branch and do something similar on channel 5 and thirdly, even if neither of those things happened he still owns TWO properties in Windsor and a racehorse. He won't go short.
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  172.  charlie cheeseface  In the end I had to have a drainage company fix it. They dismantled the pipe and discovered that it was actually limescale that had totally blocked the pipe. The drainage pipe is particularly narrow and is fifty years old. I got a grant for a free boiler, but a lot of people are nor aware that it is available.
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  173.  charlie cheeseface  The house is about 50 years old and the pipes have a narrow diameter. Problem with benefits system is that it is not set up for people who own their own homes. If I had not worked hard and bought my own home the state would pay housing benefit and these sorts of problems would be sorted out by the landlord.
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  174. To get the same calorific value from 'healthy' food costs 3 times the amount that it does to get from 'unhealthy foods. My husband walked out on our son and I, we manage because my son is disabled, so we are entitled to more money. But if we weren't we would be in a very difficult position. I don't pay rent because I own my own property, but house insurance if you are unemployed tops £20 per week, gas and electricity around £24 per week, water around £6 per week and that is before we talk about the internet connectivity that seems pretty much mandatory for kids at school these days. There would not be a lot left over once clothes and shoes are bought for children. Most people that I know that are unemployed are dependent upon the local food bank so their choice of food is not great. And it does not matter how cheap the food is if your cooker breaks, because there will be no way to cook it anyway.
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  175.  Ken MacDonald  Given that she has been fairly ill with cancer she may now find it rather difficult to get a normal job with a great big hole o her CV
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  176. Most people forget that people have bought their televisions etc when times were good
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  177. Charity shops or Christmas gifts, where people are poor gifts from parents are often a jumper.
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  178. Not when travel costs and/or care costs outweigh your income. My son is disabled and when asked to investigate work the adviser gulped when I demonstrated that care would cost at least £10.30 per hour and it would be dependent upon being able to find someone who could meet my son's needs.
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  179. They have not figured out that if you are not the greatest looking guy, then advertising yourself in a market where only looks have attached value is simply not a good strategy. So internet dating and pubs and clubs are probably not going to yield much success. They need to get into a situation where people can get to know them and fall in love with an attribute other than looks. The most immediate practical advice beyond taking care of personal hygiene would be to do some volunteering or join a class: cooking; yoga; meditation; salsa dancing, something with some ladies in it. Get to know some ladies and start valuing them for attributes other than their looks.
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  180. People pay taxes and National INSURANCE, which is supposed to act as a safety net, why would you think that people would not use it? When people pay taxes etc why should they live in a tent?
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  181. Mortgage or rent eaten it all?
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  182. Many people who are desperate will look to drug trials to make extra money, but it is not unusual for research staff to be pressed in to being guinea pigs and some people are simply altruistic.
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  183. it's amazing how we go from this to AN EXECUTIVE ORDER SIGNED BY PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN HIMSELF
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  184. Completely agree.
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  185. Several holes in the implants line. The most obvious being how do you know without touching them or being told that they are not natural. The other being some people's reason for implants is not just to make themselves look bigger. How about women who's breasts have grown unevenly, where one is an A cup and the other say a D cup, or a woman who has had one breast removed or a woman who has lost breast volume due to breastfeeding and now the skin is saggy. It is just the same as someone having a glass eye instead of a patch, they are simply conforming to other peoples expectations. Is it right to objectivise people that are merely trying to conform?
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  186. Yeah and he probably does not get paid as much as Kyle
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  187.  @spencerwilton5831  If a child has autism they generally need one parent at home full time. My son has autism and my husband walked out when he was 10 months old. In the early years there are many, many appointments to take your child to and meetings at school over and above that which a 'normal' child might have. My son needs more supervision than a 'normal' child, because he has no sense of danger and is unable to sequence tasks. His sleep patterns are also highly disturbed. His sensory problems mean that the home has to fit around him to give him a complete break from the outside world. When my son was 7, I was asked to investigate work, the reality is that I have moved to a very quiet rural location and I am an hour away from the sort of towns where I might find the sort of scientific work that I am qualified to do. I went to the only childminders in our area and talked to them about childcare. Their response was that disabled children have to be cared for on a 1:1 basis rather than the usual 1:6 basis and that they would need to find someone suitably qualified to care for an autistic child, because this is a condition of their insurance, as a result childcare in 2012 would have cost at least £10:30 per hour. I would have needed at least 4 hours care per day on school days and 10-11 hours during the holidays. I could not afford to work on that basis alone, but when you factor in that I would lose benefits, plus school meals, free prescriptions and dental treatments and council tax exemption, I could not make it pay.
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  188.  @abdullahfarooq9183  It is wrong to have kids here and expect them to see people all around marrying partners for love and not expect their own kids to want to do the same.
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  189. This is a mistake that many people make. The reality is that many people that earn serious money do so as a result of being ruthless and who wants to be in love with someone who is ruthless because those types always have an eye out for the bigger better deal.
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  190. There are jobs, but they are poorly paid jobs in places where the rent is sky high.
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  191.  @BossySwan  Sorry, but life happens, frequently not in the way we would like it to. Jobs come to an end, people get ill, children and elderly parents need carers. folk get ill and have accidents and are no longer able to work. That is what we pay our taxes and National Insurance for, to act as a safety net so no one should be left destitute by the state.
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  192.  @Pathofplenty  Nice one! But on the bright side if they get sacked from there, they still have to go in next day to sign on LOL
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  193. We should be more careful about letting the rich get away with using tax loopholes and tax havens. When they make profits here, they should be paying tax on those profits here.
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  194. The problem is not anything to do with dorms. In Cambridge, there is a system called supervision, this occurs in small groups and is frequently one to one and is likely to be the source of the problem.
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  195. Yes, your parrot is cute, but he probably is not so cute for the people on the other side of the wall. You should obviously try to remedy this with your neighbour. Independent mediation could be good here. Explain that you are sorry if your parrot disturbs her and suggest that perhaps you could try moving the parrot to a different room and see if that works for her. Or perhaps you could cover the parrot over in evenings when it is most likely to annoy her, or failing that maybe you could install some sound insulation.
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  196. Sounds like a good idea in theory, until you realise there is very little in the way of public transport and it costs a fortune to sell your home, even if you are moving from rented accommodation it is not cheap.
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  197. This is bollocks, the only bit that is true is that women in their 30s are more likely to be serious about forming a relationship which will result in having children. The worrying bit is that the guy says at the beginning of the video that a woman in her 20s allows you the leadership role. Sorry, excuse me, but relationships are not about leadership, but about partnership. Here is the newsflash once you have kids whether it is with a woman in her 20s or a woman in her 30s, it is a whole new dynamic, there is no difference between a 20 year old and a 30 year old once you have kids. When kids become part of the equation you BOTH have a responsibility to them. Many people still live in traditional households and yes the fun goes out of the window when you have a newish baby, as dad should be tired from working all hours God sends to provide for and give their new child a good start in life. And new mothers should be shattered from all that breastfeeding, night time colic, nappy [diaper] changing and the never-ending piles of laundry. As for your relationship, you should carve out one Saturday per month where you blow some money on a romantic meal out and you have a lie-in and some adult fun time on the Sunday. Grandparents are usually only too happy to help out every other month or maybe even more. It is important to look after your relationship, but anyone responsible has got to realise that children require a lot of energy and it is tiring looking after young children. You know guys if you are not pulling a 60 hour plus week at work, would it really hurt to take some of the pressure off your wife by perhaps looking after the kids so that she can have a nap or perhaps doing the washing up after a meal? The most worrying phrase is: "If you even so much as contemplate leaving her" "then you are horrible and acting selfishly". Damn right if you have kids and as a father you go off and abandon them to spend your resources on other people, then you are selfish. Once you have kids they are not just the responsibility of the mother UNLESS the mother has been told that you only intend to be a sperm donor. Reality check, woman gets pregnant and from the second she is pregnant she has to look after not only her health, but the health of the unborn child too. No alcohol, although it still tastes good, no liver, no pate, no mushrooms, no rinded soft cheeses or blue cheese or unpasteurised milk cheeses, no uncooked or partially cooked eggs, so no mayonnaise, no cured meats, no undercooked meats, no game, no swordfish, marlin or shark. It goes without saying no drugs, even the legal variety without checking them out first and even caffeine is bad for baby. No heavy exercise or lifting. This is not to mention the physical effects of pregnancy, morning sickness, or backache as the growing bump deforms your spine, or the constant heartburn and reduced lung capacity as the bump pushes up into the thorax and displaces organs there, or the need to go urinate more regularly or the baby kicking through half the night. Or even the pain of birth and blood loss. Or the joys [pains more like] of breastfeeding. No in this video it is all about the needs of this guy and his dick. Use your sense, if a woman is in a relationship where she wants children, she is unlikely to want a guy who is not able or willing to provide for her child, this would be unfair on the guy and more importantly irresponsible to the child.
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  198.  @silvaxander6901  I have a child with autism and my husband did a bunk. I live in a small rural market town and I meet on a regular basis with 6 other mothers of disabled children, 3 of those mothers also have children with autism and the father has just walked away and left the wife to deal with it on their own. It is not easy, there is no respite, social services provides none, child's father does not want to know and child is too exhausting for grandparents to deal with. The state is absolutely overburdened with kids like this. No one adopts these sorts of children, if they do they are dumped back in care very quickly and spend their lives being shuttled around different foster homes. A person I know has had no choice but to give up her child because he picked her up and threw her across the dining room dislocating her arm. They tried to give him an antipsychotic called Respiridone, but it simply was not effective. He now lives his life in a padded cell and to move him require 2 staff members, there are simply not enough staff members to give these people the support that they need. As for absent fathers, well the mother is not the only one with a kid, but they have just abdicated their responsibility and left the ex to shoulder all of the burden alone, while they start a new life fancy free.
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  199. Apparently, they are not letting people home yet because of structural damage to some buildings.
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  200. Go to the press and tell your story
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  201. Thank goodness for a sensible response, I get sick of all the people who don't seem to think that this sort of misfortune could ever befall them.
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  202. You would have thought that if something was stinking out a food store that they would have investigated it?
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  203.  @Ben.N it was on the gofundme
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  204.  @Blox117  Exactly, half the things this guy says are BS. If you are too unavailable then you are married to your job or your computer or chasing girls. if you have zero time for someone, they just are going to think that you have zero interest in them and will find someone that will have that interest.
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  205. Well given that they are endangered it is likely to be one sexually frustrated parrot and it has simply gone for anything green that is showing it any attention, bet the camera guy wishes he had chosen a different coloured jumper.
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  206.  @TriedNot2Hate  I think parrots are one of those species that pair bond and live in flocks, so it does kind of explain his enthusiastic 'performance', he was so desperate he thought that's a weird looking partner, but hey there's no one else around here , so here goes. There is a brilliant one on here titled: 'Bird interrupts David Attenborough'. A bird with really exotic plumage appears to be doing a courtship dance for the guy, WOOHOO. You'll see what I mean, the guy can't get a word in edgeways.
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  207. Well he does talk a load of crap doesn't he?
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  208. I know what you mean a couple of weeks ago when I told my neighbour that it was the last time I was going to be shopping anywhere big she poo-pooed the idea and made out that I was overplaying the dangers. It was not until this Saturday that her granddaughter who is a doctor in Swansea or Cardiff had been treating a stroke patient with no PPE when he started showing signs of coronavirus, now she is terrified.
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  209.  @timeforcommonsense.3136  The thing is people never think it will get them, I am lucky in that I live in a rural market town. Nevertheless, I now wear a surgical mask and spectacles, I have had people sneer that they are no good, but they are supposed to be splash-proof and the virus is reckoned to be carried on larger drops; at the least, it stops me from inadvertently touching my mouth or eyes.
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  210.  @timeforcommonsense.3136  It sure looks nasty in Italy and Spain, hopefully, we won't follow suit. I feel sorry for those poor sods all crammed into tube trains, they have got to be at terrible risk. The only problem for us is people possibly coming to the countryside and bringing it with them. Then again Boris did encourage people to go out in open spaces, the result everyone flocked to places like Snowdonia. I have been spending my time starting off some crops, I am trying to grow: potatoes; tomatoes; radishes; mizuna; chard; chives; carrots and nasturtiums and calendula to ward off bugs and add a bit of colour. The last time I grew food my son was little, he is now 15.
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  211. Some people choose to be buried in cardboard boxes, wooden ones are prohibitively expensive.
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  212. I doubt whether a janitor would be wielding the scalpel, they may have asked him to lift the organs en block or to help move the body. It is not just a matter of making the incision, you also have to cut through the ribs to remove the organs. The head is partially degloved and the top of the skull removed, fair amount of skill required.
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  213. I have heard that the BCG vaccination has reversed or improved type1 in a number of cases. As it is only a tuberculosis vaccine, that is well tried, might it be worth a go?
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  214. Half the time these women are not leading the guy on. The woman may well just want to be friends and no more, but guys frequently misread what women say. Women can believe that a man is a great guy, but have absolutely no romantic attraction to that person. Just saying someone is a great guy is not telling them that you want a relationship with them, if you are a guy a woman wants you if she is happily snogging the face off you. If you are making the moves and she is not, then she may not be that interested or you may be taking it too quickly. It is a case of better communication that is needed.
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  215. And yet we have people who were born in this country, whose parents have paid tax and national insurance who are living in poverty
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  216. Sorry to say this, but you should be really suspicious about this relationship. Why would he not want to introduce you to his friends? Does he think that you are not good enough for him or worse has ha formed a relationship with someone else and now sees you as his 'bit on the side'. I know it sounds horrible to say this, but please do not waste your life chasing after someone that is treating you this way.
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  217. @Grace Morgan It says that she is 18, so unless he started a relationship when she was below the age of consent [16 in the UK], then it is not illegal. Pretty gross, but not illegal unless adultery is illegal in that state. He does have the main responsibility to not start a relationship with her, but I guess that she has been doing a deal of the flirting and her mother should have taught the old addage: 'A mistress that aspires to replace the wife creates a vacancy in the position'
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  218.  @misss299  She might not have promised to be faithful to anyone, but decency should rule her behaviour, if not then common sense should tell her that the novelty of the wife has worn off now he has the responsibility of kids, I mean wow what a catch, a bloke that is capable of such behaviour.
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  219.  @Anna-qq7rw  I agree that he made the vows, but still, any woman with any sense does not try to be any more than a mistress to a married man.
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  220. OK, if a guy was making that much an hour he sure would not have a problem finding women, most men are not in that bracket. If you are too unavailable, then quite simply she IS going to assume that you have better options than her and if she is already playing her A game, well why is she going to waste her effort on someone who is so unavailable? She is either going to start seeing other guys at the same time as you or just straight up dump you. This is a bit arrogant and assumes that women do not have lives themselves, a woman is not going to sit at home endlessly waiting for a guy to be ready. I have a trade fair next week in Milan, fine, you have a job, you can not make Thursday night because of work commitments, fine, can not find time to see me this month because you are unspecifically busy, then bugger off, I'll find someone that is interested enough to make time for me.
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  221. OK, I used to work making clinical trials drugs and there are some things that you should know about the law in this area. Just because it is a clinical trial does not exempt the experimenters from a duty of care to their test subjects. Those drugs have to be pretested in animals, that is part of the Geneva convention. Those drugs have to be made to Good Manufacturing Practice industry standards. And the test subjects are still entitled to a degree of care in the way in which the trial is conducted. At the time that this trial was conducted there existed protocols for the administration of monoclonal antibodies. It was already well known at that time that this class of drugs could cause cytokine storms and anaphylaxis and for this reason it was normal procedure to add the drug to a litre of saline and infuse slowly over the period of an hour or so and to have an anti inflammatory drug called Prednisolone on stand by for emergency use. The clinical trials company did not follow these procedures and as such if such a case were to come before a court, then it is very likely that they would be found negligent or their client would be found negligent and compensation would have been awarded. The chances are that any company that did anything like this would offer a substantial compensation package, in return for no court proceedings, because they know that it would not end well for them.
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  222. This is a difficult one. It is difficult to know if this person is just someone who is simply way over sensitive and I know that this is the way that it is going to come across to you. But for people who have suffered violence, they frequently have post traumatic stress disorder and therefore anything that reminds them of the start of the sort of attacks that they suffered is going to trigger their memories or act as a red flag.
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  223. Sorry. but John chose to risk his own life and risking your own life is one thing. He was lucky that there are people willing to risk their lives in an effort to rescue him, let alone to risk their lives once he was deceased
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  224. They should be dumped in some grotty, damp bedsit with a shared bathroom and a card electricity meter, in some really rundown area for a month. During that time they should only be able to live off UC and they should have a work coach continuously haranguing them, just like the real unemployed.
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  225.  @kelseyalvesdorosario4422  Sorry, I have not replied sooner. This is why date night can be a really good idea. Some guys do not like the idea and feel that it is too scripted and not spontaneous. On the other sex can drop off the menu because of all the other pressures, by scripting in a date night, you are putting some of the focus back on you and yor relationship. You are BOTH making time for that, you are both preparing yourselves and each other for a fun night and 'our' time.It may seem selfish, but it is an effective way of keeping things alive.
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  226. They probably could not execute them under the Geneva Convention, they may have been able to execute them if they were spies rather than soldiers.
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  227. It is not the wedding that counts, but the marriage.
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  228.  @Monochr0meMan  Those sort of people are just complete wasters, just the sort of people that drug testing and treatment orders were made for.
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  229. Not forgetting the zero hour contracts where you might just be filling in for staff absences or a production surge.
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  230.  @vitamincisgoodforme  It is probably rather difficult to get a job, prospective employers tend to screen out candidates who have had serious health issues. Very, easy to do this, just takes a quick call to her last employer, after all who wants to employ someone who might go off sick.
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  231. There is a point at which trying to save someone tips over from doing the best for them to being torture and sometimes we have to recognise that.
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  232.  @NoNoNoMeansNo  The problem is that it is difficult to differentiate between the deserving and undeserving poor. I worked for years before I had my son and own my own house, but it is in a small rural market town. My nearest jobcentre is 12 miles away with no bus route to it, the next nearest is 20 miles away, with a sketchy bus service. I have a car, at the moment it is at the garage as the slave cylinder on the clutch has gone and it needs extensive work. It is only because of my son's disability that we have an enhanced level of benefits that allows me the money to fix it. Without my car, I would be pretty trapped where I live and there is not a great deal of employment here. I am 50 years old so if I get dumped on UC the chances of getting a job are slim. The trouble is that most people are not very understanding as to how you got to be in the unemployed position. I worked as a research scientist, but if your experience is not current and you do not live near one of the tech hubs like Oxford or Cambridge, your opportunities are not so good. People just say go and work in a shop, but employers are not keen on taking on someone that they feel are overqualified for the job, because they might not stick around for long.
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  233. My ex husband is like that pays the minimum that he can get away with, no presents, no additional help. Our son has autism and I took the local education authority to tribunal to provide suitable schooling for our son, but no cash for it from him, it had to be done out of child support money.
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  234.  @sammyisherenow  It is the poor that are paying for the banks mistakes from a decade ago.
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  235. This is the thing, food costs money and it is one thing if she was keeping an account of all that she was giving away and paying for it, quite another if it is theft.
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  236. Because their diets are filled with fat and carbohydrates, they eat these because they are cheap and filling. Lots of dripping on toast and porridge and chips, cheap and filling.
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  237. They actually don't look that big inside either. They might look quite pretty and desirable if they were twice the size, on a decent plot of land and in the countryside rather than a complete set of eerie clones.
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  238. Well they are not suggesting that you personally need to dress up in drag and I don't think any men were harmed in the making of this video. This is just freedom of expression.
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  239. Men do this too, so it is not uniquely female behaviour. Lots of men that are in relationships still have an eye out for there being a bigger better deal out there, the difference is that women label them commitment phobic, they are edging their bets and will be in a relationship with a woman for YEARS and may never make a commitment to them while seeing other women. How is that any different from this?
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  240. Bet that camera man regrets choosing a green jumper that day, but at least we now know why they are endangered, its because they must be so short sighted that they shag anything that is green and moving.
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  241. @The Drunken Gamers Given that we are in the middle of a pandemic they should redouble their efforts to send them back. We don't need any new variants that could be more dangerous then we already have.
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  242. Understanding end of life issues should not be as taboo as it is.
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  243. Brilliant answer and it is about time that this guy had a better understanding that his wants are his responsibility and not the responsibility of every woman he fancies to fulfil
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  244. Nevermind her fella! Sleepless nights to come methinks!
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  245. most of the time i never think to like youtube videos this one is an exception.
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  246. Completely agree and half of the problem is how big a cut the 'agency gets'. This sort of business is so open to exploitation as long as it is criminalised. The sensible way is to legalise, regulate and tax it.
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  247. We all have a wide range of people with which we can have successful relationships with. Try not to get too hung up on one person and take up activities that will bring you into social contact with plenty of women to maximise your chances of success.
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  248.  @juliaarnold1078  Apologies, shouldn't really have presumed. Can be useful to track them though, when you try for a baby, there are even ovulation test kits, they are really good.
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  249. Do you have any domestic violence charities in your area, if so get their help. If not try to secretly get some money together so that you can leave. If you are able to leave, go and change your job and your name and cut contact with any mutual friends or anyone who might innocently pass on your new details. Good luck.
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  250.  @hanaflick2675  Well Egypt is mainly Muslim country with a minority Coptic Christian community. Muslims often have arranged marriages, so mum and dad pick who their offspring will marry and sons have little say in that and daughters are required to obey, if a daughter is seen to bring any disgrace on the family, she can be killed for it. That is how these individuals have wound up married and unfortunately in their culture they treat women as less than nothing.
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  251. Deadly COVID variant?
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  252. You'd need a darn sight more than that where I live. The nearest job centre is 12 miles away, with no bus service and the nearest with a bus service is 21 miles away and also takes forever to get to.
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  253.  @voornaam3191  The Queen is lending some of her collection of da Vinci's sketches to museums in Britain, so hopefully might see some in the flesh, if you'll excuse the pun.
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  254.  @voornaam3191  Most of us carry some of the Neanderthal genome. The kneecap is not directly attached to any other bones, it kind of has a bibble on the underside which should sit in a groove in the leg bone. I know someone who is unfortunate enough to miss this groove. The arrangement of the bones in the feet also have about 7 different arrangement and these seem to have some sort of geographical basis too.
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  255.  @voornaam3191  Not without practising necromancy mate, I meant that I would be seeing the original drawings rather than copies.
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  256.  @voornaam3191  On that subject I met someone who had a high degree of syndactyly, to such an extent that both hands looked like lobster claws. Since now a days there are quicker methods of analysis, I am guessing that rarer genetic anomalies will be being characterised.
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  257.  @mstarburst  I suspect that the lady has had undescended testes buried deep within her, but developed female genitalia externally. As it was picked up relatively late, those testes would have put out serious quantities of testosterone around puberty and this looks like it has resulted in a masculine appearance as evidenced by heavy brow ridges, square jaw line and her general muscularity. If you are interested, try googling 'androgen insensitivity syndrome', hopefully it will tell you about the interaction between hormones and the wolffian and mullerian ducts during development.
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  258.  @ХареКришна-т7г  Trans individuals are born fully into the opposite sex, she is neither fully male nor fully female and she had no choice about that.
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  259. The women walking around with kids from different fathers in the UK has sadly come from the way that welfare state moved in the 90s. The tax credit system paid out a large amount of welfare per child, without any limit to how many children that it would pay for. Child maintenance in the UK is not very high either, if the bill was shifted more towards the absent parent then fewer children in single parent families would be the result.
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  260. Sometimes people could get by when they planned to have kids, but circumstances change.
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  261. YES
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  262. The medication has serious side effects and is not approved for children.
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  263.  @riggedforyourpleasure2546  Apparently, he was texting her up to 50 times a day and many of the texts contained sexual innuendo. The correct thing to do would have been for her to text him and say that the frequency of the texts was uncalled for and that she did not appreciate their sexual content. I do not know if she took this step, but upon knowing this was going on, as it was a fellow student, then he should have been put on a year's sabbatical and threatened with being sent down, so that their lectures could be arranged at none mutual times and so that a time table could be drawn up for meal times so that they would not meet, additionally, counselling should have been arranged for the affected student.
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  264. He may have received the placebo, the dummy dose designed to ensure that any reaction is genuine.
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  265. They have extended the school holiday by 2 weeks.
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  266. Have you ever thought that women are bought up to be polite, so a guy comes along who you don't know and don't fancy and you might lie and say you have a boyfriend instead of saying piss off, because you are not really into hurting the guy. But the guy does not get the message and perseveres and you are trying to tell the guy in as kind a way as possible that you are not interested. The guy says he is only trying to be friendly, so you let him be friendly, the problem his version of friendly involves hugging and kissing you and he will not stop because he has been given some script of escalate and overcome any LMR by brushing it off. Now you really want this guy to stop, but unless you are straight out rude to him, he intends to continue. So you finally tell him to get his hands off you and the next thing you know he is throwing every insult in the book at you. You're a dyke, you're ugly, you're frigid, he might reck your day by throwing his beer or coffee over you. All because he has been told that if you put in x attention that women will dispense y sex like some sort of vending machine.
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  267. Actually, administering a steroid called Prednisolone would have been most effective.
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  268. There is a white object that is low down , but only apparent for a couple of frames. Remember it was going very fast.
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  269. Just because someone is disabled it does not mean that they are not human and do not have a need to experience intimacy. If surrogacy is their only way to achieve this, then so be it, at least there are people who are empathetic enough to provide such a service.
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  270. He appears to have some sort of systemic infection and would benefit from antibiotics, but how to give a regular dose??
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  271.  @TheFirstWhiteRanger  Not sure if you are replying to my comment. But here goes: First lady received a suspended sentence. Second parent had dumped her child with the grandparent, before taking back control of the child and moving the child 25 miles away, for some reason that child wound up in care and the mother has committed suicide. Third situation oldest kid was murdered, youngest rumoured to have behaved inappropriately with younger children and his uncle was convicted for indecent images of children. Had been to the school on numerous occasions to complain that her child was bullying mine, but the school did nothing about it as I am not as aggressive as the other mother and they seemed to find it more convenient to blame my son. The teacher gave my son a rotten report, despite the fact that my son has autism and had worked extremely hard and passed ALL his SATS tests scoring in the top 0.5% for spellings, punctuation and grammar. It was not until some of this child's other misbehaviour came out 2 years later that I actually received an apology from the particular teacher. I was not happy as those reports follow the children into secondary education and it could have potentially blighted my son's school days. It is now 3 years on and my 14 year old son has been invited to speak at a conference at Cambridge University about computer programming and he has just won an award at school for his overwhelming positivity and achievement in the face of adversity. The problem with these sorts of people, their bad behaviour is very deeply entrenched and it seems to pay dividends, so they simply will not change.
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  272.  @deathscythe26duo  Exactly, if you know that you carry the CF gene then given that 1 in 37 of the population have it then the ideal is to get together with someone without the gene, failing that, then either adopt or go down the pre implantaion genetic testing route. What is the sense of bringing children into the world that have a very high 1 in 4 chance per child of having it, terrible to knowingly bring a child into the world that you know will suffer, when it would have been better not to create that child in the first place.
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  273.  @valeriemacfair2205  Problem is by law to get a murder conviction it has to be proved beyond reasonable doubt that a defendant behaved in a premeditated way with the intention to kill. This would be nigh on impossible to prove in a case like this because the defendants are likely to say that they did not know that what was swinging behind their car was the police man and that all they were trying to do was evade capture. It might sound callous, but it is difficult to disprove that. One thing I will say is that manslaughter can result in a life sentence, but I suspect that a more likely sentence will be around the 16 year mark. Even with half off for good behaviour it would be 8 years of not being able to pull the birds for them and 8 years of them not thieving from the general population.
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  274. Such a bypass procedure would be absolute last resort, it requires surgical intervention and the administration of anti-clotting drugs. ECMOs are usually used for relatively short periods during surgery to maintain circulation, it is not likely that they have been tested as a longer term treatment. The manpower to perform such a procedure is also likely to be under extreme pressure.
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  275. @Mateus Marini absolutely not
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  276. Lack of credible opposition and the liberal democrats were willing to throw their hat in with anyone and damaged their own reputation.
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  277. It matters because they do more for their fellow man regardless of creed then many other groups. Some of them drove down from Coventry to help a bunch of strangers.
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  278. They injected it all in one go instead of slowly infusing it through a drip.
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  279.  @Campbellteaching  Actually there are clear visors that could be worn, that are used as personal protective equipment in labs.
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  280. Problem is some people have little choice. If your guy thinks the grass is greener on the other side it is nigh on impossible to stop him from leaving no matter how long you have been together or how good things are in reality.
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  281.  @irondad-np7hz  I know it does not work. Three of my neighbours have family members living in garages, one of those neighbours has epilepsy and has been forced out to work, her landlady wants her out so she can sell the house, she cannot drive so if she has to move out of the area, she will lose her job. That's just due to the changes in housing benefit. As for sanctions, we had a guy living in the church porch and begging as a result. The poor guy used to spend all day in the library and used to have to pay to use the leisure centre to get a shower in the communal showers there. I gave him the details of Emmaus and thankfully he now has a roof over his head.
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  282. The jury does not decide the charges. The judge and Crown Prosecution Service do this in accordance with guidelines. For a charge of murder to result in a conviction it must be proved beyond reasonable doubt that the defendants set out with the intention to kill. That would be too difficult to prove in this case and such a charge could result in an innocent verdict, so to ensure a conviction the court has gone for the lesser charge of manslaughter. The jury only decides whether the defendants are innocent or guilty of the charges.
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  283. Day of national mourning for such an absolute hero
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  284.  @ObjectiveAnalysis  Completely agree that they are paying out much less, this is the reason that the unemployed are using what should be partially for rent on living. I am aware that the media can be skewed in what it reports, he who pays the piper calls the tune, but as far as I am aware, comments on youtube are not being censored; hence what I mean about free speech. Nevermind what the media says or does not say, I am sure we all have the evidence of our own eyes when it comes to the increase in poverty and desperation around us.
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  285.  @spacecowboy7755  Well, ladies who are flat chested have no real need, but for those of us that are ahem, bigger, the bra stops the breast tissue from drooping and damaging the Cooper's ligament.
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  286. Completely agree, should have been told 'put your mask on or get out of here' and if she refused, she should have been physically removed by security.
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  287. I think it is more common in situations where the people live within areas that have a high density of Pakistanis and there is a higher community pressure to conform to traditional Pakistani values. The risks of first-cousin marriage need to be discussed within schools and Imams need to be discussing this with their followers. The problem is that children with these conditions eat up resources and the children and their families must live in misery.
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  288.  @sta4rgi1rl  Well it is not easy to live with a severely disabled child. My cousin had 2 children the first was OK, but the second had osteogenesis imperfecta. It is a rare recessive gene disorder and it turned out that my cousin and her husband were distantly related, it was a dreadful condition and to think that it occurred when people are not even first cousins, it beggars belief that seeing such conditions people continue with such a tradition that is bringing such misery.
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  289. I did wonder whether it was the human or the deer. Last night I was kept awake by a muntjac deer barking, now that is a weird sound.
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  290. Keloid scarring following burns
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  291. School should have the kids that do not have cash at the back of the line and feed them what is left over rather than waste food.
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  292. Fruit trees are grafted all the time, but usually onto rootstock of smaller trees. This way the tree is kept smaller, so that harvesting is easier and you can probably get more fruit yield for the land used to grow it.
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  293. Nice to hear someone so kind.
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  294. Or give them extra help while they are in there so that they have a better chance of turning their lives around on release.
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  295.  @vickvique3859  Thank you, that's a very kind sentiment.
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  296. Or smarter than you as in this case
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  297. Try Emmaus.
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  298.  @AaronP108  Half of them had more than their fair share of luck in life. It is nearly always more about who you know than what you know
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  299. Would be unlikely to calm he cascade reaction/ cytokine storm. They should have had prednisolone on standby, at the time they did this work, there was already protocols that suggested that this drug be on standby when administering monoclonal antibodies.
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  300. I understand, but in the UK our health service is free to use, it is paid for by our higher tax rates. People are not paid for blood here, but the blood transfusion service is giving it to private companies that fractionate it and sell it back at vast profits. The only blood that should be fractionated is blood that is in excess of that needed for transfusion and this should be provided back to our own healthcare system at no more than cost price, at the most. Any excess could be sold to other countries with the profit from that returning to the health service. People do not give their blood for private individuals to make a profit from it.
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  301. Neither a DB7 thanks
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  302. Only some of these mummies would have had black ethnicities because for a large part of history the Egyptians were at war with the Nubians, there was a point at which they were assimilated and that would have resulted in black mummies. The colour of a lot of these mummies comes from the use of resins and beeswax used in embalming, which not only can be dark in themselves but can oxidise over time to a darker colour.
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  303. God knows how many times and hours that I have now listened to that piece of music
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  304.  @SingerKeyaa  I am aware of Varanasi and its ghats and that the remains are put in the Ganges river. In the UK where I am, people are buried whole or cremated. When people are cremated, a very hot gas oven is used to do the job. These have a little inspection window around the back, really for the staff to check the progression of burning, but when there are Hindus or others that have a desire to watch their loved one reduced to an elemental state, then they are able to view the process. The heat in these gas ovens is great enough to only leave behind the long bones and they are crushed and returned with the other ashes to the relatives. There is much more of the person left when they are burnt on a pyre because it is difficult to reach the higher temperature where the bones become very friable. Whether the belly button is left, I guess would depend on 2 intertwined factors. 1] the heat of the fire and 2] the amount of fat on the person, fat burns very nicely and would add to the burning. People who have died very suddenly, may have a fair degree of fat, but often you find that very elderly people carry very little weight and people that expire from cancer or tuberculosis can be very thin indeed. In medieval times in Europe, witches and heretics were burnt at the stake and I have heard of examples of body parts, specifically the heart not burning.
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  305.  @chriswilde7246  You are most certainly right there.
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  306.  @hammerwell0868  Yep, if your phone is switched on and it is not a burner then the state knows where you are at all times. They can probably work out your day to day life by monitoring the times your meters register an upswing in power consumption.
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  307. Benefits are not regarded as taxable income.
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  308. So sorry that you cannot afford dental care. Try a dental training hospital.
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  309.  @sambenjamin8576  The guy is having epileptic seizures, he is not safe to leave in charge of small children as a result of that. She did say that he has had 48 seizures in the period of 5 months and they have had to have the ambulance out to him multiple times. So no, not appropriate really
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  310.  @sambenjamin8576  The little kiddies' father has epilepsy, that is why he does not work and that is why the mother can not go out to work and leave the guy at home to look after their kids.
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  311.  @sambenjamin8576  Fair enough it is a video about a couple with kids living in appalling council accommodation. The guy lost his job due to epileptic seizures and so neither the mother nor father works. The other person's comment was that since he was ill, the woman should go to work and the father look after the kids. Your comment was 'women brains'. Which I took to be sarcasm, but the reality is if a guy is having repeated seizures then he is not able to look after small children alone.
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  312. But this is a true story.
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  313.  Brighton  But the thing is they do not behave towards their own kind in the same mean spirited way.
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  314. Hi Louis! I saw this video a few months ago, thought to contest it and decided not to. I came back to bring one point up. It depends who the other person is and what they're like. This video nearly convinced me to confess to my previous crush, of whom I'm pretty close friends with. Even though I didn't in the end, there was a lot of potential for things to go wrong, including potentially screwing up a friendship by accident, making things awkward or whatever, and my point of view was they I'd rather remain close friends with her and keep such things to myself than tell her and screw things up entirely. I remember overhearing a conversation where she said about someone else "and then he told me he liked me and then I took an even bigger step back", which was one of the contributing factors holding me back from telling her. Any message that implied any kind of intimacy I guess (ie I miss you etc) she would ignore which would also push me away slightly to think that telling her like you suggested in the video might screw things up. Nonetheless, my current crush (who I basically see as a best friend) knew as soon as I realised I liked her and I had the guts to tell her simply because of the relationship we had, one that had already had romantic/intimate vibes to it and someone who is just outright amazing. As a result I feel that your advice here is pretty subjective and depends on the kind of relationship you prerequisitely have with that person.
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  315.  @spinaway  Try Disabled Information Advice Line, they're brilliant.
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  316. Yes, because that is how they elucidate the effects of the drug from the effects of the disease.
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  317. He was 99 so he was way past the average life span, just looks like heart failure.
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  318. But the tax and National Insurance pay for these things and how do you know that they have not paid in to the system or that their parents and grandparents have not paid in.
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  319.  bill Bloggs  Mate I know what my parents and grandparents did and that included paying taxes and National Insurance. As for killing, I had a relative called Sir Geoffroy du Bois who put an axe through someone's chest in 1351 during the Hundred Years War, but as for what any of our far distant Neanderthal ancestors are concerned, we would all be hard pushed to know what they got up to.
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  320.  charlie cheeseface  If you live in Cambridge, that would be the case, other parts of the country are cheaper.
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  321.  charlie cheeseface  I borrowed a flexible rod, but it did not work, the limescale was solid had to have a plumber with specialist equipment to fix it.
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  322.  charlie cheeseface  Some areas have something called care and repair, I tried them, I can not remember whether they operated or not in our area or if it was the usual case of you own your own house so no go.
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  323.  charlie cheeseface  I tried them the answer was no. I live in a small town and I don't know anyone else that both do not work and own their own home, but not be loaded. There is a loan scheme where we live, you can borrow money with no interest, but my income was deemed to be too low for this. My son has damaged a piece of kit that he needs for school, I am hoping to be able to get a grant to repair it. Some people in our community have had flood grants, but we did not flood.
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  324.  charlie cheeseface  Problems with that: I receive income support and that benefit would stop and my son has autism it means that our home is his refuge, if he does not have that refuge he becomes overstimulated easily and can go into meltdown. I have to go to quite long lengths to keep him happy and calm. He is very sensitive to light and sound, if he senses any disturbance he can be up at 4am. He is very dependent upon routines and if those routines are disturbed it is then very difficult to get him back on track. Because of this it is not worthwhile taking respite care, on the few occasions where I have been ill he has had to go to my parents overnight, my parents response is that they do not know how I have managed to cope. Our situation is not conducive to having lodgers, I have not even had a boyfriend over the last 14years, it is just too much hassle. My ex did not get that with our son's condition he had to be consistent. He messed us about repeatedly with contact and our son started to scream the place down so much when he kept showing up that the neighbours called the police and CAFCASS put an end to child contact because they felt that he was unable to understand his son's condition and act in his best interests. Also at the moment because my son is at home because of corona I am unable to go to the food bank because it is open when he is doing lessons at home. Last time I was able to go was in the half term holiday and before that it was Easter.
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  325. @Greg Hallanan It depends on where you live in the UK London/Cambridge sky high rent, so if you are a hospital porter you're going to struggle. Preston dirt cheap, but high unemployment.
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  326. I am terribly sorry to hear this. So many people fail to wear masks, that as an asthmatic, I have now bought a FFP3 respirator and for all of those that say it is selfish because it does not filter exhaled air, my answer is that those that do not wear masks do not care about my health, at least by not catching the damned virus, I can not be passing it on to other people.
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  327. And the one that got me is Harry whinging about Charles cutting off support. Not like he has not had the best educational opportunities afforded him at Eton or £20 million from his mother's will. Do I feel sorry for him, not while there are loads of people in this country losing jobs and lives because of COVID and having to rely on food banks.
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  328.  @garycooper9207  I completely agree. It is now so bad that there are not just food banks, but hygiene banks too. Because of course where there is a lack of money for food then inevitably hygiene has been restricted beforehand. I agree that benefits should not be so generous that people can afford luxuries such as drinking and smoking, but it has gone way beyond that now. Even the working are poor. My son was 16 in February and they were originally going to be paying DLA until he was 17, but then Christmas time they moved the goal posts and his DLA has come to an end and I have to apply for PIP. I am bricking it and hoping that we get past first time and don't have to appeal. We are lucky here because the food bank is run by the local church and so they don't have the usual 'must be referred by a social worker, can only receive 3 food packages per year' type proviso that many food banks have. They realise that people are poor and that there are enough stigma with being so poor as to need a food bank without putting barriers in people's way. Thankfully, they are still paying me income support and have not tipped me on to universal credit. The job centre that administers our rural market town is 23 miles away and a real pain to get to, so at least I have been spared that.
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  329.  Ken MacDonald  She said that she had, had a mastectomy; which is a breast removal. It would be pretty unusual to need that procedure for anything other than cancer.
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  330.  @BrunoGarutti  Yeah, fair enough, I've had some pretty random recommendations too.
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  331. Sad that these industries have declined.
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  332. Think that is too far gone for a garden hose.
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  333. shortcircuit brought me here
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  334. pretty sure it's not ai...
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  335. Better pray you don't get too ill to work or have an accident that puts you out of work, as the state will treat you as simply being lazy.
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  336. Problem with that is more children with disabilities are born to older parents, so more cost to the NHS
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  337. Should have stopped all large gatherings such as sports events and big concerts. Courts should be restricted to serious cases heard with judges, but no jury, retrial after the danger period. The Universal Credit claimant agreements and signing on should be halted and people simply paid until this is over. Routine hospital appointments and none urgent stuff put on the back burner and repeat prescriptions should be issued over the 'phone with the pharmacy delivering. Get as many people to work from home as possible. These measures would cost money in the short term, but they would save lives and result in a quicker economic recovery long term.
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  338.  @LittleKitty22  People like to look after themselves, there is no altruism in this suggested path. Many people would be happy about this because they are thinking about themselves and their own family. People take the view of not being too bothered if you catch it, but if you catching it puts them or their loved ones at risk then the thinking changes. I can not order repeat prescriptions by 'phone either, but doing so until the epidemic dies down is common sense.
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  339. People have paid tax and National Insurance to be messed around and people are paid to administrate these benefits, so people have more than a right to complain.
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  340. Because you would not be able to differentiate symptoms due to the drug from those caused by the disease
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  341. Exactly, some of these women said that they were interested even before they heard about his money. He seems friendly from his picture and I personally have a HNC in engineering and work in a technical field myself, so yeah I'd be interested from that point of view. His hobbies might turn me off a bit as they make him sound quite introverted and I am not. But if the guy is trying to make out that women are all gold diggers, he failed to prove his point with this one
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  342.  Jesus Christ  Usually the guy wants something that the wife does not like so possibly: 3some, @nal, 0ral, watersports, f!sting; pegging; scat etc.
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  343. Monarchy used to do it. The Queen is related to Prince Philip and Prince Charles was extremely distantly related to Princess Diana, but his sons have not followed suit.
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  344. Straight or gay, folk don't hit 70 and become asexual
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  345.  @nialldevine1156  Karma has not condoned the murder, what she is probably doing is criticising the lack of support from the state and the ex husband. I have a son with autism and a husband that did not stick around and there is very little support from the state, I was even called in to an interview to investigate going to work in 2012, thankfully the DWP did not force me as care for my son would have costed at least £10:30 per hour. The reality is that children with these sorts of conditions can be hypersensitive. It means that they frequently wake at 3am and not go back to sleep, it means that you can not hoover the house because they can not stand the noise, they have to be watched every second. This means that the time my son is at school is the time that I catch up with house work and on my sleep. Lockdown will have deprived her of this time. There is no respite, it does not matter how tired you are or how bad your migraine is, there is no one else who wants to take on that responsibility, not grandparents and in many cases not even fathers and certainly not the state.
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  346. Keeping it simple and not getting into unnecessary arguments is sane advice. Try not to wind up your ex it is just is not worth it. My ex used to show up for contact when he chose to and was totally inconsistent. If you do this your child gets to know that you are unreliable. Mine also used to keep showing up and boasting about his latest shag. He was told repeatedly that I did not regard it as any of business who he was bedding. He did this repeatedly and made out that I was only saying that I did not care because I was jealous. All I did was make sure that I looked glamorous whenever he showed and I would stick a big bunch of flowers in the window for when he returned with our son. I never said anything specific that I was dating anyone, but I knew that doing this would make him wonder. Then one evening my son vomited during child contact and of course he wanted to bring him home, unfortunately, I was out with friends so he could not reach me. He was furious when he returned our son, he got the response that all children get ill and that I do not demand that he is around to deal with his son when is ill on my watch. He demanded to know where I had been and he got the answer that I did not consider it my business what he got up to on the 13 out of 14 nights that he was not responsible for our son, it was, therefore, none of his business what I got up to on my fortnightly night off. Show up to parents evenings and if your kids have any serious medical appointments. Mine despite being invited did not and that is part of the reason the courts put a stop to contact. If things are rocky to start with it is worthwhile suggesting a contact book to deal with issues relating to your child's welfare. Be careful what you write in this, it very quickly becomes court evidence, as it did in my case, but it can work in your favour. So to start a contact book you need to stress that it exists to help you both efficiently co-parent your offspring and that you are requesting that your child's mother copies you in on details such as: where your child is going to school, who their teacher is, progress reports, parents evenings, school plays and sports days, class outings. Ask who their doctor is and ask to be kept up to date with what has gone on with any illnesses, inoculations, courses of treatment and future appointments. It should go without saying that you should turn up to any events outside of working hours to support your child, you should also take holiday if parent's evening clashes with work or if your child has a major hospital appointment. In time your ex will appreciate you as a supportive parent. Christmas and birthdays are going to be fraught times. Don't buy a present and you will come off as a mean jerk, buy something generous when you are being really tight about child maintenance and you will come off as buying your kid's love. If you are planning on buying something big, discuss it with the mother and say that you would like to send it as a present from both of you. Try buying practical presents for birthdays, so for instance a school rucksack and water bottle and pencil case or lunch box can be a good combo and toys at Christmas when your child might get bored during the holidays. If you want to wangle yourself a few extra days contact during the summer holidays, an easy way to do this will be to offer to sort out the new term's uniform and shoes and coat, for this time. It is a costly chore that no mother enjoys, she will probably be frazzled from 5 weeks with the kids and will be grateful that you are taking on this chore. Just DO NOT buy that lycra belt oops I mean mini skirt that your daughter will insist all her friends are wearing. You want to come off as a responsible supportive parent who is able to put aside your past differences with your ex to provide your child with the best childhood possible under the circumstances.
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  347. It was a class of drug called monoclonal antibody. The contract company that did the testing failed to use the existing protocols for administering this class of drugs and were therefore totally negligent.
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  348. These were monoclonal antibodies and the existing protocols for their administration were not followed, a completely different class of drugs.
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  349. Exactly, this is the crazy thing they have encouraged people to go back to work, if people can work from home, then that is what they should encourage them to do.
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  350. Or hard up or very altruistic.
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  351. Yes, it is annoying when you see people who are abusing the system. There is a woman where I live who has never worked. To be fair she does do a lot for charity, she rides a disability scooter, but she somehow manages to stand for hours on end at charity events. One day whilst I was waiting at the co-op tills I could see her loading heavy boxes into an estate car, there was no evidence whatsoever of mobility issues. You kind of know that, that person has had years and years when she could have, I even heard her complaining that her disability benefits had been stopped. It is not that I am unsympathetic. My own son has autism and deficits in attention motor co-ordination and perception with pragmatic disorder. But at least I worked until I was 34 and paid £75,000 in tax let alone National Insurance and the ex-husband is a higher rate taxpayer. The problem is that the people who take the biscuit, have ruined it for the genuine cases.
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  352. We all pay tax and National Insurance to cover us in times of need and those who are unable to work. There are some people who are simply scroungers, but many are in situations that are not of their own making and no one should be punished with poverty for that. During my working life, I paid £75,000 in tax. I was with my husband for over 8 years when I had our child and within 10 months he was off. I divorced him and was forced to pay him £80,000 and could no longer afford to live where my industry as a research scientist is based. It was then found that my son had a condition called Deficits in: Attention; Motor co ordination and Perception with Pragmatic Disorder, he went on to be diagnosed with autism. As you can imagine I now live in a cheaper area in the back of beyond. The Jobcentre has been on my case and have asked me to investigate work. It would be impossible to make work pay here. Care for my son would cost at least £10.30 an hour, as insurance for childcarers demands that disabled children are looked after on a 1:1 basis by a suitably qualified carer. He would require at least 4 hours a day care and that is just during term time, in the holidays it would be more like 10 hours a day. You can see that by adding in travel costs of 45 miles a day, that actually it would leave us with nothing to live on. It is way cheaper for the state to pay the benefits that it pays me then to pay for my child to be in care. If my benefits were stopped, I would have no choice but to put my child into the care system, as I would not be able to realistically work, for one thing I am too knackered! As a carer, I am a member of various groups that have bought me into contact with foster parents and social workers, many children in the care system have disabilities, some of them not as bad as my own son and with two parents to care for them. The basic pay for a foster carer is around £450 per week per child and that is for non-complex cases, carers of children with disabilities are paid even more. That is not too mention the costs of social workers and reports and care hearings in the courts. I can tell you that every time that I stepped foot in court during my divorce it cost me £3000-£4000. In care hearings, both the state and the parents are represented by legal teams that are funded from the public purse. Very expensive. Similarly, if you stop people's benefits and they become desperate they are apt to turn to crime, not from greed, but from need. Who wants prostitutes, drug dealers and muggings on their street and who wants to pick up the resultant policing, court and prison costs, not me or you I would bet given that these functions cost a lot more than simply paying a fair system of benefits. Do I feel guilty about claiming benefits? No, I do not. Not only did I pay indirectly into the system, but during the time that I worked I was involved in the development of one drug now on the market and I cloned a cell line that also produces a drug that is used for arthritis and Crohn's disease that is also on the market. Later in my career, whilst working with a group who were trying to develop an autologous blood device, I suggested an alternative development. Essentially, the other scientists were in the process of developing a novel aerosol. It worked like this: blood shed during surgery was collected and kept in the bottom of the aerosol where it was kept liquid by balls of agar with heparin attached to them. When surgery was finished and the patient sewn up, the wound would then be sprayed, the blood would pass through a second stage where it would mix with a proprietary coagulant and it would then form an immediate protective scab of the patients own blood over the wound site. My development was to suggest that if we could get the proprietary coagulant to stick irreversibly and stabily to agar, then we could make sheets of agar and attach the coagulant and use it as a dressing to stop bleeding. As far as I am aware, it is not licensed for general use as yet, but it has been used on the battlefield to good effect and apparently, a helicopter medic had some packs when he was called to an incident where a tree surgeon had accidentally cut his own throat and the dressing saved his life. Austerity was caused by the taxpayer bailout of the bankers that unwisely invested in the subprime market. I do not see any bankers paying for their mistakes in the way in which the poor of this country have paid. Not to mention the rich individuals and companies that do business here, but do not pay tax here. Maybe it is time that you did not swing your axe so broadly and took a surgical swing at the real cause of the problems. The Tory party and it's media mouthpieces are only too happy for the poor of this country to take the blame for their poor management whilst they and their cronies line their pockets at our expense. Too many sheeple buy the lies.
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  353.  @cedricworthingtonbroadaxe2287  Completely agree that there is shocking wastage. The NHS is a case in point, where there are too many expensive pen pushers at the expense of frontline staff, drugs and equipment. There is no joined up thinking. The drug that I helped to develop, that work was half funded by the Medical Research Council and the Wellcome Trust. Part way through clinical trials Wellcome was taken over by Glaxo, who did not want to continue funding our project as they saw the product as being a competitor to drugs that they produced. They stopped funding us and the Medical Research Council would not pick up the other half of the bill. So all of our cell lines were sold off via the British Technology Group. Now, 1.2ml of this drug costs £7045 and the other drug whose cell line that I cloned costs £419 per 100mg, because they are sold by big pharma. I find it immoral that many people worked very hard to discover these drugs and we all worked way over a 37 hour week, for these drugs whose discoveries were funded by the British taxpayer are not available on the NHS. Why would you not have a parallel drug industry, where drugs discovered in MRC funded labs are produced free of charge for our own NHS and all the quantity that is produced in excess of our needs are sold to other countries with the profits being ploughed back into the NHS and further research? Could it possibly be that too many politicians have personal interests in big pharma? Two friends of mine are Cambridge graduates who have set up a charity for non-neurotypical individuals who are unemployed. The idea is that lots of autistic individuals are really good with computers and as they are unemployed they could be using that time productively by receiving some free training that would get them into a job. However, their efforts are being completely thwarted by the Jobcentre's completely beaurocratic and inflexible approach to 'conditionality'. Yet the crazy rules mean that people with degrees are being sent on basic numeracy and literacy courses that are a complete waste of taxpayer's money. Now whilst I wouldn't say that my writing or mathematics are perfect, they go way beyond the crap taught in these courses, you would have thought that they might have figured that if you have worked in a lab that you do not need to be taught how to do percentages. It is yet another example of the non joined up thinking and money wasting that goes on. Sense just does not come into it.
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  354. The state does not always hold men to account as much as they should do. When an absent father is given contact, he needs to show up consistently for contact, because their child should be more important to them than chasing skirt. It has become increasingly hard to find decent guys and their kids pay the price of this.
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  355. Live fast, die young, punk!
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  356. To be fair because a lot of what goes on around sex work is illegal then escorting would have been advertised as being a companion to muddy the waters.
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  357. You'd have thought so.
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  358. I used to make clinical trials drugs.
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  359.  @shielamariehankinson3824  Well, the people we treated were drinking in the last chance saloon and there are many people around today that would not be if it were not for their inclusion in the trial.
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  360.  @shielamariehankinson3824  Then you will know that surgery is even more of an unknown than drug trials. Surgery really is flying by the seat of your pants stuff and definitely not for the faint-hearted, however much surgeons earn they sure earn every penny of it. The reality with clinical trials is that drugs go through a battery of tests mandated by the Geneva Convention before they get anywhere near administering a drug to a human. In general they first go through chemical tests in the lab and then on to tests in the lab in cultured tissues to try establish the action of the drug/ toxicity. The drug then goes into lab animals usually starting with rats or mice to establish the LD20. This is the dose at which 20% of the animals die, this is usually expressed as mg/kg, in other words how many milligrams per kilogram weight of the animals that results in the death of 1 in 5. This is extrapolated to give a safe dose for usually either monkeys or dogs, at this stage it is looked to model the disease as well. The reality is that frequently there are already similar classes of drug out there, so there is some level of prediction of a drugs action. So for instance monoclonal antibodies, as in this case, your own bodies make a cocktail of antibodies in response to the pathogens that it meets every day. If your body comes up against a big challenge, you get 'flu for instance, then the presence of antibodies will massively ramp up your bodies immune reaction to give you the classic fever/headache combo of 'flu. The same thing happens when you put artificially produced antibodies into people, their bodies ramp up cytokine production and these cytokines can attack your own tissues, if you have got the dose wrong. In general antibody doses are tiny, in the 2-10 mg category once every few weeks, compare that to paracetamol where a typical dose would be 1,000mg up to 8 times a day and you can see that antibody drugs are powerful and there is not much room for error. Nevertheless, the people that ran this trial were extremely negligent in that they did not use the long established protocols for the use of this class of drug.
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  361.  @shielamariehankinson3824  I understand that a monoclonal called Ruxolitinib is used when PV fails to respond to the standard treatment regime. The body can eventually form antibodies to many therapeutics as the constant region is often murin in origin.. If this is the case your best next course of action is likely to be a clinical trial, bone marrow transplant increases the risk of AML in this condition.
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  362.  @shielamariehankinson3824  Try Cambridge Uk, beautiful place and plenty to do.
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  363. Completely agree, homelessness is in the main caused by poverty rather than someone's sexuality. Let's face it if any of us live under someone else's roof we live by their rules, if we can not live by their rules then we get a job, save up and move into our own place where we can do as we please.
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  364. Unfortunately, they did not use the existing monoclonal antibody protocols that say to infuse slowly.
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  365. Cambridge University has a legal duty of care to its employees and students. This means that if an employee is behaving in a questionable manner then it should be investigated, because quite frequently, as you point out people who get away behaving badly towards one person, will go on to behave badly towards others. As for the police, forget any idea that they will want to be involved unless it is on the very severe end of the scale of bad behaviour. We can all agree that male or female, when our kids enter tertiary education, they will meet lecturers; supervisors; demonstrators who may well try it on with our kids. That is fine, what is not fine is when someone is unwilling and gets groped or worse or they are bullied or disadvantaged for rejecting someone's advances.
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  366. I don't think he was in the cooler, but behind it, where the heat exchange pipes are.
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  367.  @rooban989  Sorry, but what sort of life do you think her child is going to have, if that child survives, or that woman's poor parents. They have all had losses that are none of their making. A big punishment is the only deterrent and therefore it must be applied with full force when the crime is so abhorrent as to be the slaying of a pregnant woman and injury to her unborn child.
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  368. And send it by recorded delivery, so that it can't be lost in the system
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  369. The linea alba becomes very obvious during late pregnancy. And sometimes the navel does not seal off properly from the bladder at birth, leaving a sinus canal, when this happens there is an increased risk of cancer at the site. Yes you read me right, you can get cancer of the belly button, thankfully, it is EXTREMELY rare!
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  370. Yep, time to claim whiplash and neuropathic pain from that wrist injury.
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  371.  @fabmack1961  It might have been well worthwhile HRH getting solicitors involved early and getting them to offer a generous no liability settlement with some sort of non disclosure agreement attached. Then at least he could truthfully say that all damage had been paid for and all parties had been suitably compensated
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  372. Used to work under a DDX license making a clinical trials drug called CAMPATH, so I can say that anyone in charge of these sorts of trials have to be able to demonstrate that they took reasonable measures as they have a duty of care to those taking such drugs.
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  373. I worked making monoclonal antibodies and had a hand in various parts of the production. I spent time: cloning cell lines; epitope mapping; making affinity chromatography purification media; QA testing. All culture ingredients were thoroughly tested and the final product went through a battery of tests including: haemagglutination; chromium 60 cytotoxicity test, endotoxin tests, thin layer chromatography, isoelectric focusing; Enzyme Linked ImmunoSorbent Assay; DNA quantification. Our product was originally meant to treat rheumatoid arthritis, however, it was no better than existing medicines, apart from in cases of psoriatic arthritis. It was then used for bone marrow transplants where the patient had a failed treatment with the standard of the day Fludarabine. It was also used in some rarer cases for vasculitis and Wegener's granularcytoma. It has since been relicensed as a treatment for relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis and has been remarketed under the name Lemtrada.
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  374. This is a monoclonal antibody. I was involved with the development of CAMPATH in the mid 90s. We always used to add the drug, usually about 5-10ml, to a litre of isotonic saline and then pump into the patient at a slow rate. If there is an adverse reaction, then you can stop before they have received the whole dose and therefore lessen the dose and by extension the adverse effects. We also used to have prednisolone and adrenaline on standby. It would have been better to follow this sort of protocol and as this was the first time in humans they should have staggered the administration across the group by at least 30 minutes. I do wonder what sort of other production precautions that they took, eg did they check all culture materials and separation materials for endotoxins, What sort of separation material did they use, by then there was more effective affinity techniques that could have been used.
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  375. Nightingale hospitals should have been used to treat all COVID patients and should have been staffed with military medics and auxillary jobs like cooking meals, cleaning floors making beds, laundry, washing people, feeding people and toileting people should have been done by the army. Hotels and university accommodation should have been requisitionned for the purposes of housing personnel or for the forced isolation of people coming in from other countries.
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  376.  @MrDAVIDGBJONES  I know what you mean, back in 1991, I covered a maternity leave in a school as a lab technician. The holidays, 13 weeks per year, were unpaid, but you were not able to claim benefits in those periods, as you had a job. The system needs to be much, much more flexible to accommodate employers needs and not leave the poor employee either badly off or filling in reems and reems of DWP forms.
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  377.  @F1Tom2005  But they can 'leak' other fluids.
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  378. Yes, but at least you know whatever you take for it has been previously tested
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  379.  @jamescook9775  Not as much as Kyle though I'd like to bet.
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  380. The relevant question is: where are the fathers of her children and why are they not paying for their kids?
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  381.  @donniedanko  It can take years to diagnose. My son was first diagnosed with 'expressive, receptive speech disorder' at 3, 'Deficits in: Attention; Motor co-ordination and Perception with Pragmatic Disorder' at 4. The paediatrician refused to diagnose autism as she was concerned as to whether or not he would 'grow out of it'. The diagnosis was made at age 7.
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  382. You are completely right. It should have been administered through a drip over the period of about an hour. That way the administration could be stopped once adverse symptoms were noted. They should also have staggered the administration times, then at least they could anticipate problems, rather than be overwhelmed. They should have had a steroid called Prednisolone on standby as well. This is established protocol for the administration of monoclonal antibodies.
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  383.  @lightend100  While we all have remnants within our biology of the opposite sex, I have no personal problem with men being identified as male and females being identified as women. Sorry, I identify with the 95% or so of people out there that are not trying to identify themselves as the opposite sex to the set of genitalia that they were born with. On average those with XY chromosomes are physically stronger and more easily able to overpower those of us with XX chromosomes.
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  384. I used to work making anti-rejection drugs in a unit on top of a blood transfusion centre. The lab workers in there used ferrets for some sort of test, they used to keep a bucket of water next to them in case they got bit, if they got bit they plunged their hand and the attached ferret into the bucket. Eventually, the ferret would have to let go to be able to breathe. As for mink, I am not sure how tamable they are, but if they get free they reek havoc on the ecosystem because they eat everything in sight. They can climb and they predate birds eggs and they can swim and deplete freshwater fish stocks, any 'liberated' ones would be a nightmare because they would breed as long as there is food. They would probably push native predators out of the equation too.
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  385.  @milasuljagic7913  Actually in this case "the could not predict the outcome" get-out clause would be unlikely to hold much water. You see the drug was a monoclonal antibody and at the time of these tests, it was well known that not only do they provoke the immune system, but that the immune system can respond to such provocation with a cytokine storm as seen here. Back in '93 I was making monoclonal antibodies for clinical trials myself and a number of our lines were further on in the trials process than this drug. The drug itself was added to a saline drip prior to running a very slow infusion. That way if any adverse reactions are observed, then the drip can be stopped before the patient has received the whole dose. Our box insert also said that an anti-inflammatory drug called Prednisolone needed to be on standby in case the patient had a severe reaction. Given that cytokine storms are a recognised adverse reaction for this class of drugs and that there existed at the time protocols to ameliorate any adverse reaction, the question is likely to be: why did they not follow a suitable protocol. Usually, these trials have to be approved by an ethics committee, did the committee realise the risks of these class of drug and if not were they competent? Or did the drug company put forward a suitable protocol, but the clinical trials company fail to adhere to the protocol because it meant more work and resources? So the legal issues are likely to come down to who is responsible for the outcome, which is likely to be either the drugs company jointly with its ethics committee or a rogue, external clinical trials company that has failed to follow protocol. Either way despite any waivers that have been signed by the trial participants, the drug company, its ethics committee and the clinical trials company ALL have a duty of care to the test subjects both individually and severally jointly. Under UK law it is extremely likely that given these factors, the test subjects have a case for negligence against at least one of these parties.
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  386.  @tomaszsosnowski9279  Yeah, that is quite a wise and insightful comment, after all who wants to wind up with a game playing prat as a partner.
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  387.  @francismuir9313  Just the way it is in Cambridge.
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  388. If one person was infected, then they would further isolate that individual and the remaining people would be subject to further testing using a very sensitive technique called PCR to establish whether anyone had contracted it. Given that there are people in the video wearing surgical masks, that would reduce the risk of transmission.
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  389. It is worse now, because there is way less in benefits. In areas where there are no laundries kids turn up in dirty clothes to school. I live in a rural market town and my friend commented to me that her son came home in the wrong school jumper, so I asked if it happened to be my son's jumper and she said she knew it wasn't my son's jumper because it was filthy. There was a child that literally used to get his jumpers and polo shirts cleaned by swapping his clothes with other children's on the sly when it was PE day.
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  390.  @imgreen2563  If people do not have enough money to keep themselves clean then it becomes a public health matter. Thankfully, my own child has never caught lice, but I know a number of kids that have and the problem just goes round and round the school, same with impetigo, which my son has contracted from other kids at school. You hear of kids having UTIs, scabies and balanitis and girls suffering from toxic shock syndrome because they are trying not to use too many tampons, this winds up costing the NHS more than simply ensuring people have the means to keep themselves clean in the first place.
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  391. Horrible to say that they can turn cancerous.
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  392.  @gillenzfluff8380  Keep an eye out for a reoccurrence, all the same.
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  393.  @gillenzfluff8380  Cannabis is like many other plant-based drugs out there, full of complex chemicals, some of which act synergistically when it is taken as a whole plant. I think it is a shame that more research is not done into it, but as it is not a novel drug as such, big pharma does not stand to profit and they would not fund it and the university departments that you might expect to do this sort of work are often part funded by drug companies, so they dare not tread on their toes either. Take for instance elderberry extract. Get a cold, it will make you feel much better and your cold will resolve 3-4 days earlier taking this stuff. It is what I take myself, it is not cheap to buy and not available on NHS, but by God it is effective. There have been clinical trials to back this up and during the swine flu epidemic a decade ago, it beat the pants off the standard treatment Tamiflu. So if you get a cold try Pukka elderberry syrup.
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  394. Absolutely negligent.
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  395. But, he might have only been alive that long because of previous trials. When you are drinking in last chance saloon the options arenm't great
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  396. Kids do stupid stuff
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  397. Yeah, half of them are on their own because they have impossible standards for women, but few for themselves.
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  398. Can not imagine anyone using his technique would score.
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  399. But people sometimes, like this, have kids when the going is good and some misfortune befalls them. We are not all psychic.
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  400. OK here is the story of my ex he had an affair and walked out on me and our 9 month old son. Affair did not translate well to real life. He went on to marry a woman from Zimbabwe. This woman had debts [unlike me when I married him , I had savings], she had no job [I worked] and she had 4 kids that my ex was paying for in Zimbabwe. We found this out because he stopped paying child maintenance for our son, so I took him back to court. She was no more attractive than me and she had the cheek to say I should go to work. I responded with "I do not work because my son is disabled, perhaps you are the one that should go to work as your kids are being looked after by your mother in Zimbabwe. But you see how badly he is treating his own disabled son, well just think on your kids are not his kids, if he can treat his own flesh and blood this badly, perhaps you should think about how he will treat you and yours when he has had enough of you" This was 2014. Skip forward to December 2015, my parents get a visit from 2 police officers checking on my safety, they call me and I am told that I must get in touch with the police in another area with regards to my ex. Now my ex had his child contact revoked in 2010 because his behaviour was so bad. So when I spoke to the police it transpired that Miss Zimbabwe had bought 2 of her kids to live in this country and the relationship descended into violence. Long and short, my ex spent 3 weeks over Christmas in prison on remand. The sad thing is he hid £250k in the divorce which meant that I had to pay him £80K, this meant I had no choice, but to sell up and move away and the areas that have biotech industries are too expensive for me to live in. Other work is not profitable because of the increased care costs for a disabled child. We currently live 60% below the poverty line, but I can tell you what, I bet she walked away with a damn sight more than I did even though she never contributed to the household and her kids are not even his kids.
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  401. but it can mean that you're the only surviving passenger of a flight (air algerie 6289)
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  402. Honestly, why would she actually want a full time man around. No guy that is earning more than her is going to want to keep some other blokes kids. As a woman I would say that she could find a man regardless of weight or kids if she takes on either someone a couple of decades or so older than herself or if the guy does not work and wants an easy life. I am female, divorced and have one child and I own a property. I do not want to date anyone that does not own their own property, but I don't expect them to work or even be anywhere close on my own age, I realise that the best that I can hope for is a guy 2 or 3 decades older than me who may well be ill or disabled, it is likely to be someone who wants someone who is going to stick around
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  403. Exactly, double standards and given one of their own is the accused, it is incredibly insensitive too.
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  404. Neither do British donors.
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  405. Use your sense, if a woman is going to go out with a guy that much older than her then she is going to expect some sort of decent compensation for that, if you don't want to pay that much try women your own age.
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  406. Sadly, self respect does not pay the bills, especially in the case of the older woman.
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  407. Some women continue to have periods throughout their pregnancy. So beware.
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  408.  @TheDaleDalek  They probably don't have the degree of PPE and inspection that would go on in a US or UK facility. Plus the initial symptoms of COVID may have been nothing more sinister than a cough and the affected scientists may have thought nothing about it and gone about their daily life infecting multiple people before they got really ill. Then instead of reacting appropriately, it was allowed to run wild. Other countries are just as bad because they were allowing people to return from China without isolating the whole plane load on arrival.
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  409. I really miss my Rover too. I had a Rover 75 and had to get rid of it because my dad couldn't get down into it anymore :'-( A guy at my garage bought it and loves it, if I won the lottery and could afford 2 cars, I'd buy one like a shot and so would my son, but he is only 15.
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  410. I was making CAMPATH in 1993, when it was still a clinical trials drug. We used slow infusions then.
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  411. Exactly, people in the UK are useless at following instructions. The number of people increasing transmission by not wearing masks, is unbelievable. Most of those claiming they are exempt probably have more chance of coming to harm because they are not wearing masks then having harm from wearing a mask.
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  412. And of course Jesus will pay your gas bill/put shoes on your kids feet.
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  413. The woman shouting 'I have a breathing problem'. Hilarious, did not sound like she had a breathing problem when she was yelling and if she had a problem she would be frightened enough to wear a mask.
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  414. Unfortunately, the only way out is either death or abandon your life as you know it. For me I had to leave my career and cut contact with all my friends and sell up and move many miles away. I am not on the electoral roll, so I can not vote and even my doctor does not know my real address.
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  415.  @traciemartin3785  Thank you, I have a son with my ex, the violence started with his birth. I am one of the lucky ones, as I escaped with my life.
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  416. One the population is so much higher. Two there are more cousin marriages in some populations. Three there maybe both fewer diagnostic ultrasounds and abortions of such dangerous pregnancies.
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  417. Well the guy did wear a green jumper and they are supposed to be rare, a green jumpered man might have been the closest thing the bird had seen to a female parrot.
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  418.  @mami1330  He was found behind the freezer, where if anything it would have been hot.
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  419.  @mikeking683  A teacher at my son's school told me this phrase and I couldn't help but laugh, he wasn't too impressed!
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  420. Go get advice from the Disabled Information Advice Line, they're really good
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  421. But they know that some of these people are vulnerable and they exploit the fact that they can not afford counselling, rehab, DNA tests, legal redress, whatever to make a show. Don't you think that they have a legal duty of care to the participants? I have serious concerns about polygraph testing that it is unreliable, that is why it is not used in British courts and yet it is being used here and it is potentially publically branding people as liars, cheats, thieves, whatever, who may, in fact, be totally innocent. Yes, you may not like them because they are chavy and not your social class, but does that make it right to exploit these people?
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  422.  @silvaxander6901  My cousin's child had what I now believe to be osteogenesis imperfecta. She died in the late 80s. It is a brittle bone disease, it was terrible, but at least my cousin had help from her husband and her parents and also she used to get respite care from Acorn's Hospice in Birmingham. These days so many people seem to get nothing.
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  423. @LouisM Seen active service AND raised over £32 million for charity, makes him a hero in my book...............you can match that I assume!
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  424. It is just likely to be safer to destroy the OTP because then you have no trace of activity.
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  425. The Nazi's tested in humans and as a result part of the Geneva Convention states that any drugs tested in humans must be tested in animals first, it is just the law.
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  426. Sadly, the I'm alright Jack attitude is alive and well in many. Some of these self-centred individuals must think themselves invulnerable to serious illnesses or accidents, or they would not say the stuff they do say.
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  427. If someone says sorry, then it is fine to accept and state your boundaries and what the person can do to resolve the situation.
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  428. What an absolute waste of NHS resources. I might be more sympathetic if this was a normal DIY accident, but superglue tells you not to get into contact with skin. Why the hell wouldn't the guy just use eyelash glue, even just using a spot of the glue would have done the job to such an extent that he could have cut the rest of the hat off at home.
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  429. Peer pressure is going to play a big part. If you are stuck with the same group of people for a year then you are going to have to fit in, even if it is simply not disapproving of others that are doing stuff that you don't like. I worked in a workplace where the bosses seemed to regard the women as fair game, there were male bosses who were married having affairs with their subordinates. They left me alone because I was married. I did not approve of what they were doing, but I can guarantee if I had voiced that then I would not have had a job for very long or they would have made my life hell. It is not a question of wanting to fit in more a question of wanting a quiet life by keeping my opinions to myself. Secondly, loads of guys rate women's looks on a marks out of ten basis. Women are not so bothered by looks and are simply doing the same thing with regard to bedroom performance, they are no better than each other in that regard.
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  430. The drugs are monoclonal antibodies. Your own bodies make them as a flagging response to ramp up an immune system response and this is exactly what they saw in this clinical trial. The drug should have been diluted with about a litre of buffered saline and infused over an hour with prednisolone on standby.
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  431. It would have been incredibly British. It is situated near Milton Keynes which is between Oxford and Cambridge and not too far from London.
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  432. No, they just want to get a drug onto the market
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  433. It is just a matter of good luck that no problems have occurred. A relative of mine married a more distant relative and only discovered that they were related when one of their 2 children developed osteogenesis imperfecta and genetic testing was performed, this led to a lot of family tree tracing. The more times that a family marry back into their own family the more chance of problems arising. Don't believe me, then google Habsburg jaw. The royal house of Spain repeatedly in married and the result was an unsightly jaw until the line came to an end with a very sickly King who despite 2 marriages could not sire offspring.
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  434.  @akirniayt3543  The osteogenesis imperfecta gene is incredibly rare in the population as evidenced by the rarity of the condition. I reckon that my risk of being a carrier is about 1 in 16, but unless I had planned on marrying a relative, then it is pretty irrelevant. My cousin at the time of marriage was unaware that her spouse was in fact very distantly related, given what happened the risk to people that marry cousins is absolutely horrendous. The risks need to be spelt out to people without folk saying that this is either racist or some form of discrimination against the disabled. The truth is that if people were not having children with their own relatives then there would be fewer disabled children and more resources for those that there are.
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  435.  @BringbackgAmberleafns  Look at it this way. If they did not want this to spread in the community they would have taken action to stop big events such as football matches. It would also make sense to suspend all universal credit claimant agreements and not have people showing up to offices to sign on, yes it would cost money to do that, but it would mean that claimants were not coming into contact with multiple people at interviews and at libraries etc. UNLESS of course you actually want rid of the economically inactive?
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  436. Just because someone has autism it does not mean that they are not an individual, why on earth would anyone think that they think the same?
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  437. It would not have just been tested on monkeys. It would have gone through a number of tests in tissue culture, it would have been tested for haemagglutination, chromium 60 cytotoxicity tests, endotoxin assays and Enzyme Linked ImmunoSorbant Assay and thin layer chromatography. Only then would it be tested in animals and they would not start with monkeys, they would most likely start with smaller mammals to try to establish a measure known as a lethal dose 50.
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  438. OK the reality is that NO ONE IS PERFECT, but there are a lot of people out there that are a good enough match for you to have a good relationship with as long as you are both prepared to invest in the relationship. If you are cheating then it winds up that you are not only cheating on the other person but you cheat on yourself. When people cheat, they think that the grass is greener on the other side the reality is that the grass is greener where you water it. While they are chasing after the illicit partner they are not putting the work and effort in to feed their legitimate relationship and it withers and dies. Meanwhile the affair goes great guns, but probably only because it exists in a bubble. When you have an affair you are not with that person 24/7 and as a result both parties make a big effort to ensure that everyday life does not intrude. The man in the affair, scrubs up, shaves, uses deodorant, changes his socks, buys flowers and gifts for his mistress. The mistress is manicured and perfect and wearing heels and sexy lingerie. They do things together, nice meals sometimes holidays etc. That is not real life 24/7. Real life is when the central heating fails and the baby pukes over with you and you've got to get on and do the washing up. If you are cheating it detracts from the effort that you should be making to make your legit relationship work, you are chasing after a fantasy that exists in a bubble and bubbles are ultimately fragile and prone to bursting. Sooner or later either you will be found out or you will disappear off into the sunset with your lover and even if it is the later, it probably won't be the end of the story. You see when someone gets together with someone as a result of cheating, the mistress always wonders if they are going to be cheated on themselves. Mistrust is not the greatest basis for a relationship. If you do not want mutually exclusive partnerships then do yourself a favour and be honest about it. Go polyamorous, it has to be easier than all of the deceit and recriminations that result.
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  439.  @DipsyMum29  I know it is really difficult. I am divorced with a disabled son. I had to pay my ex £80,000 by the time I had paid that plus my legal expenses, I could no longer afford to live in my home and had no choice to move. The income support people told me to go investigate work, but care for my child would cost at least £10.30 per hour. Fortunately, they have got off my case or God only knows what I might have been forced to resort to, as normal work would simply not pay. Some friends of mine have been trying to set up a charitable cause to train non-neurotypical individuals in cybertech. But they are coming up against stupid DWP rules which are thwarting their efforts to help train vulnerable individuals into work.
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  440.  @DipsyMum29  Thanks
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  441. Not approved, clinical trial.
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  442. This is already happening in Bristol where large numbers of people live in vans on the streets.
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  443. No, they may like having the security of a roof over their heads and food on the table, but they probably not too keen on violent arguments. The only way to get away from some of these sorts of men is to functionally disappear and that takes planning and an ability to source loans, because you will not have your own money, the guy will have taken control of it. It means cutting contact with ALL of your friends that your abuser knows, it means moving many miles away, it may mean abandoning your career, it means having to forego voting, because if you are on the electoral roll he will find you. It means turning your life upside down to simply stay alive.
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  444. But, in a commercial reactor, you have lead and concrete screening. This had nothing but a shed and a bit of carbon to absorb some of the particles. Scientists would take a Geiger counter and calculate the levels of radiation at various different distances from the source and they know roughly what the effects are according to dose and they will know how many live within the affected radius. Ergo there are your figures.
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  445. This is the thing if anyone JUST categorises people just on looks then they are going to find it difficult to find someone who they are compatible with on a deeper level. The problem with these dating apps is the sheer numbers of people on them which means that people are categorising people on looks because that is the most obvious metric. The reality is if a woman meets a guy in the supermarket and that guy is polite and charming, then there is every chance that both of them are going to be happy enough to have a date and take it from there.
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  446.  @JoannaT2  Too right.
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  447. On benefits themselves?
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  448. She had them before she got ill
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  449.  @uncatholic_pope  In the UK environmental health would have been called like a shot. In the UK the only store with anything like that would be butchers shops that are licensed to sell game and even then the game is hung up outside the shop.
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  450. So that they can differentiate the actions of the drug from the course of the disease.
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  451.  @hannaspade7915  I am sorry, I find that extremely difficult to believe. If she was having mental health difficulties, then ANY responsible and ethical psychologist would be duty bound to client confidentiality and secondly, she could easily ensure this by having them sign a non disclosure agreement before engaging their services.
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  452.  @TASIAawful1  Meghan is an adult, if things were so bad why would she go through with the wedding and there would be nothing stopping her getting appropriate help
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  453. Yes, but part of the problem is the 6-10 week wait for this benefit to start. Fine if you have just lost a well paid job, not so fine if you have left a minimum wage job or been transferred from legacy benefits. These people are then reliant upon hardship payments coming through in a timely fashion or they are left o the loan sharks and vast interest payments.
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  454.  @marklittle1651  Well I have no idea how he managed to get that amount in benefits. My husband walked out and our son is disabled and I receive nowhere near that figure.
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  455. Drug was infused too quickly and resulted in a cytokine storm.
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  456.  @thesenate5521  The only one wearing a seatbelt in that car, the bodyguard, survived it.
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  457. @Mrcaramel84 Simple, give her a choice of the child staying there with her or to be adopted in the UK
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  458. It amazes me that the new universal credit is costing more than the old legacy benefits and yet people are getting less money, so a bit of dyscalculia there I think
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  459.  @scooter_b123  LOL
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  460. You know the whole situation has become ludicrous when they include K for kinky. I mean: 1] Who defines kinky, after all, your kinky could just be my normal weekend fun. 2] Who knows that you are kinky unless you are so kinky that you do it with the curtains open! 3] Since when has kinky been an oppressed, discriminated against sexual orientation? Folk have become too tied up with labels instead of all appreciating each other for their uniqueness and respecting each other's rights to their own gender and sexuality.
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  461. To be honest, here in the UK we have been used to terrorist attacks from the IRA years.
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  462. Gave themselves a massive pay rise, have a nice tax payer subsidised dining room, but can not give the nurses that we all relied on so much during all of this, who put their lives on the line a pay rise. And don't want to know about the poor. Pigs at the trough comes to mind
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  463. Were they testing for CJD.
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  464. Chances are that he is an accountant, they are pretty well paid and know what to do with their own money too.
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  465.  @grimmdul9808  I am not an accountant, but I am female and put it this way, cars on the whole depreciate in value. The only time that you are going to have a car that does not do that is if it is a particularly rare car or if there is some sort of waiting list for it and you have a pretty much brand new one ready to roll. I think that used to be the case with Lotus, the problem was that they used to blacklist customers that did that. A friend of mine has a 1931 Phantom II Rolls Royce and I would imagine that, that would gather value, but other than that cars do not gather value they just get you from A to B. I would imagine that a guy with a good job like that would probably invest his money in a nice house to live in as property is generally a good investment.
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  466. Creepy is where the guy will not take 'no' or 'I am not interested' for an answer OR the sort of guy who immediately starts touching you with his opening line OR the sort of guy that instead of looking at your face when he is talking to you just stares at your tits. If you're a guy that sort of behaviour will get you labelled a creep.
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  467. My son's playstation is about to be £30 secondhand.
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  468. Mate if they wanted rid, they had a golden opportunity when he was in Afganistan
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  469.  @misss299  OK, so what is she doing, she is hoping that this guy will leave his wife and kids for her? And you think that she can not see that when that happens those kids are going to be a lot worse off financially, because 9 times out of 10 that is what happens when people get divorced, Its the kids that are totally blameless that suffer the most. Divorce is common enough for us all to know people who are divorced with kids and to see its effects on the kids. I agree that the guy is more responsible, but that does not exonerate her actions. To draw an analogy, it is like you and a friend going out and stealing a car. You see the person unhook the lock on it, so you 'hotwire' it for them and you both drive off together. OK so it might have been the other person that initiated the theft and was the one that was driving, but you have still actively participated in the theft. That is called aiding and abetting a crime or the other phrase that is used is 'joint enterprise' and the idea of someone being wrong because they were involved is a legal concept. Years ago, if a man went off with another woman the judge would award that if the guy could not pay child support then the other woman had to pay. I even heard of one case, before the age of DNA testing where a man got his girlfriend pregnant and because he didn't pay for his own child, he got 5 of his mates to lie and say that they had all slept with the woman too and so the child might not be his. His attempt to make his girlfriend look like a slag, might have worked, but it backfired on the friends big time because the judge made them ALL pay some child support for the child as he judged them all equally responsible.
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  470.  @Sue-sx3io  I agree that he is as much at fault. He is older than her and he made those kids, so he is as responsible for them as the mother. But the mistress knows that he is married and she is happy enough for him to leave his wife and make the kids miserable into the bargain. She is not happy enough to be a mistress in the background, which can be bad enough in itself, it is clear that she will not be happy until she has split the marriage up.
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  471. They were like a blooming tank to drive.
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  472.  @oldcargeezer  Love Lotus Elan my ex boss had one.
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  473. Well, if you are a spook reading this comment, sorry but if you are watching me you are in for a REALLY boring Monday.
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  474. Life changes, no one can foresee some of these changes.
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  475. Unfortunately, adults who kill children do not always serve life, so the chances of ten year olds doing so were always pretty slim. Robert Thompson appears to be rehabilitated, but not Venables, when people do this sort of thing, if they are guilty of any further serious crimes after release then any remaining sentence should be enacted, but it isn't.
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  476.  @mpono1864  My thoughts exactly.
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  477. If he treats you like trash then do not marry him, a piece of paper and a ring will not improve the way in which he behaves towards you. And if you have really done something to deserve this behaviour, like cheating or stealing from him or his family, then move on because if you have done something seriously wrong he will never trust you anyway.
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  478. More like the government's fault.
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  479. Gay guy would be hit on relentlessly and aggressively by other gay guys and the woman would be chatted to by other lesbians and straight women, but there are guys that would give her a right mouthful for being lesbian.
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  480. Exactly, large numbers of guys have no idea when they are going too far and excuse their bad behaviour with:- 'Oh she is playing hard to get because that is what society teaches women to do'
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  481. The thing is these results come from a speed dating event. It is very easy to assess someone as attractive, not so easy to assess whether someone is sincere, intelligent or ambitious.
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  482. If someone is angry does this guy not think it is a good idea to find out what the cause of the anger is? Is it being caused by something external or is it something that you are actually responsible for? In my case with my ex husband I would tell him a number of times that what he was doing was winding me up, but he would still continue to do crap. Typical example. It is the weekend of our son's christening, his parents, my parents and the vicar are all coming for lunch. He has not been asked to contribute in any way to the preparations other than to stay out of the way. I have got up at 5 am and started to do the housework and start the food. I quietly get on with it and see to our 8 month old son while he lies in bed till 10 am. He comes down stairs and immediately leaves a mess in the clean bathroom. He makes himself a coffee and I tell him to drink it in the kitchen where the mess can be contained, but no, he drinks it in the dining room and spills it on the freshly starched tablecloth. 'I told you to drink that in the kitchen, why did you ignore me? LIke I don't have enough stress on without needing to starch another tablecloth.' Starch a new cloth and continue setting out and preparing food. I am now really pressed for time, so the last thing that I need is for him to start eating the food off the table as I am running backwards and forwards between preparing food and laying it out, but of course that is exactly what he does. Has no understanding that I am annoyed that he is spoiling the appearance of the food by picking at it and it is rude to start eating before the guests arrive. We have assembled guests and have lunch. I ask him to continue conversation and take care of our son while I take care of organising the coffees for everyone, instead he buggers off to bed. He then wonders why I am so angry with him following the christening. Personally, if you are not the one doing the shopping and all of the food prep and you get to sleep in an extra 5 hours over what the person who is doing all the work is, maybe you should be grateful enough to not continuously throw a spanner in the works. Not that explaining this did the least bit of good.
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  483.  @davelong9055  Please be so kind as not to stereotype all claimants. You do not know their backstories and most of us are only an accident or serious illness away from the merciless state.
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  484. The normal process of clinical trials involves a lot of faffing around as tests are run in series rather than in parallel so that investors get maximum value. So they generally go something like this: 1] Someone finds a possible drug in a lab and lots of chemical tests are run to prove that it is a possible drug. The results are presented to investors to get funding for the next stage. 2] Company gets funding for the next stage, they then have to go to the Human Tissue Authority to get tissue culture tests signed off so that they can get their hands on spare human tissues from procedures such as circumcision, abortions, amputations, removed teeth etc. Can be a lot of toing and froing while experimental design is approved by HTA. 3] Tests are performed in tissue culture, this takes time due to its laborious nature. Results are collated and presented to the investors for the next tranch of money. 4] Money comes in and the drug can move into animal testing in rodents to start with, but your experimental design has to be licensed by the Home Office and this takes time. This establishes a lethal dose 50 figure and helps establish dose and establishes effectiveness in an animal model 5] then it can move into primate testing to refine likely dose further and to look for potential adverse reactions, but it all has to be approved by the Home Office and a license given for every stage. 6] Assuming success it will then be back to investors with the results for more money to run human trials and then it will be off to the ethics committees to approve a human trial in healthy humans to establish the safety and side effects of the drug and in the case of a vaccine then antibody titres and epitope specificity would be part of this testing. 7] Assuming the drug looks OK then it is back to the investors and then on to the ethics committee to run a trial in affected patients. In the case of the vaccine it would be to administer the vaccine and then deliberately infect the test subjects to see if it works. All of this usually takes 8-12 years. Time that we do not have. So governments have stepped in and have funded this getting rid of the normal funding rounds. Stages 1-5 have been able to run largely in parallel as ethics committees have been told to allow this stuff to run. The human trials will have been subject to rigorous scrutiny, but the ethics committees will have been told to prioritise the vaccine ahead of any other drugs that are in the pipeline. They have simply dispensed with a lot of the faffing around that goes on with normal drug development.
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  485. 3] Because their work would be SECRET and in most countries such an admission would result in treason charges being laid
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  486. Well I wondered if the heat had mummified his body, but they said it was decomposed?
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  487.  @charlesmichaels6648  New name, move to a different state, not going to be good in prison though.
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  488.  @charlesmichaels6648  And then nick herself some new clothes LOL
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  489.  @charlesmichaels6648  REALLY!
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  490. Exactly, who wouldn't save their dog?
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  491. Doubt if he survived, would suspect torn aorta.
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  492. Should have given them Prednisolone to knock back the cascade immune reaction that was going on.
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  493.  @samgarlick3082  There are existing protocols for the administration of monoclonal antibodies, which tell you to keep Prednisolone on standby.
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  494. The doctors should have administered the drug in a drip form that could have been stopped and they should have staggered its administration amongst the subjects.
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  495. The end goal is to encourage them not to marry first cousins in the first place.
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  496. Surprised they did not ban the Cheltenham Gold Cup, thousands of people mixing handling cash and betting slips and shaking hands, no wonder there are so many cases in Gloucestershire.
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  497. Exactly!
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  498. It is crazy to expect disabled people to vacate specially adapted properties. Where children have disabilities they frequently need attention during the night which is going to disturb any sibling sharing a room.
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  499.  martin corderoy  Thank you for alerting this complete nutter to her 'rights' and costing the rest of us taxpayers money. She cut herself in the process of committing a criminal offence and it is not as if she is going to bleed to death. She will be checked over at the station.
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  500. If it is not your child then it is probably better to let the mother discipline their own child, but their needs to be a dialogue about boundaries. As a single parent in some ways I am pretty strict, but in others, I am laid back. My son has autism, but I still expect him to be polite and well behaved and do his homework. He hates art lessons, but he is told to show up and not disturb the enjoyment that others have of that lesson. The result is that he is doing OK. The other night he won an award at school for being so positive in the face of his autism and for being so polite and helpful. He has been programming remotely with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and he has been invited to talk about it at their conference at Cambridge University and the Raspberry pi foundation has also asked him to speak, he is only 14. In the 3 years that my son has been at high school, I have been asked to go in twice for bad behaviour. The first time he had behaved badly and he received a complete and utter bollocking from me in front of his teacher. The second time it was far more complex. Some kid had been giving my son a mouthful and my son said "bet you wouldn't come over here and say that". The kid then squared up to my son and punched him, my son stood up for himself and punched the kid back and split his lip. The other kid received no punishment, my child was put in isolation for the day and missed a day's worth of education. On hearing what had gone on, my response was: "Sorry, you expect me to support you in punishing my child when the other child has started all of this verbally by mocking my child's disability and then the other child has been the first to lash out physically at my son, but you are not punishing him but you have punished my son for acting in self-defence by making him miss out on a day's schooling. Actually, I think it is disgusting that this kid was not corrected for the vile taunts he issued to my child in the first place, I also think it is disgusting that no teacher de-escalated this situation before this child assaulted my son, but you see fit to deprive my son of a days education for acting lawfully and proportionately in defending himself. You need to review your discipline policies in this area." The next time my son was picked on by a kid with some serious anger issues. The kid shoulder barged my son aggressively and my son ignored it, the kid then punched my son and my son really laid into him. Fortunately, the whole thing was caught on CCTV and the kid had a final warning and the fact that my son stood up for himself means that this kid has not picked on him since. You see, I have never used physical punishment on my child. Yes, he has been sent to bed without dinner a few times and yes he has missed out on doing things he likes as a punishment when he was younger. My son has been taught by me never to be the first to threaten physical violence, but he has been taught that if anyone hits him on purpose to hit them back HARD and multiple times. I have shadowboxed with him and shown him how to guard his face and look for weak defence and attack. It is fine to be the nice guy in life, it is not fine to be someone else's punchbag.
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  501. Two of these had prior convictions, when the police arrest these sorts they give 'no comment' interviews and do not implicate themselves whatsoever and then when they are faced with incontrovertible evidence then the excuses come tumbling out.
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  502. The reasoning behind the exemption for kids under 11 is as follows: 1] Weirdly kids seem less likely to contract the virus in the first place, odd given their propensity to catch colds, but maybe they have less ACE 2 receptors or something? 2] When kids do get it, generally they are less badly affected and they are apparently not really coughing with it, which is the main way in which it is spread. 3] Generally kids are shorter than adults, so as long as you are standing, the main droplet spread would be down ward anyway. Some of the other exemptions are crazy, I am asthmatic and personally I wear a mask, glasses and gloves and I am taking vitamin D and I use Boots Dual Defence, which the pack insert says is proven active at trapping and deactivating coronaviruses [don't know if that has been tested in vivo or in vitro]. But you still see some idiots. Last week I was out grocery shopping in a nigh on deserted supermarket and this elderly couple kept on coming up well within 2 metres of me and I kept moving away, the fourth time that they did it I feigned a coughing fit and then they weren't too happy, so I reminded them that I had already moved away from the 3 times and that they should be more wary of getting close because no one knows who has got this and who it could kill.
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  503.  Saad Bin Masud  Well they were paid jointly and I paid for the house.
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  504.  Saad Bin Masud  Most guys don't share that much of the chores. Women are lucky if they can get a guy to do the garden and wash the windows at most and most women do not have parity of pay to be able to pay half of the bills.
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  505. OK, that statement is simply untrue. This is a class of drugs called monoclonal antibodies. It was well known at that stage that they can cause cytokine storms and to mitigate this they are usually added to saline and infused slowly so that the infusion can be stopped if there is a reaction. In the case of a reaction then it is imperative to administer the steroid prednisolone, immediately, because the situation can escalate extremely quickly into respiratory failure. The trial company or the manufacturer were at fault as they did not follow existing protocols for the administration of that class of drugs.
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  506. No nutmeg will do this and used to be smoked, it also used to be used as a sedative in very small amounts, not the sort of amount this guy took.
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  507. She will live with the guilt for the rest of her life for merely a moment's inattention.
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  508. Possibly had an out of court settlement that was in return for signing a non-disclosure agreement or he simply does not want people begging for his money.
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  509. This happens with any virus, they naturally mutate this is why we can never get rid of colds or flu. The more frequently something is passed on the more opportunities the virus has to mutate. If this was a man made virus then wouldn't China or wherever made the cure before releasing it?
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  510. Exactly
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  511. Minx ROFL, I think you mean minks.
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  512. No square wheel on the Allegro I drove, but the steering was off centre and it was like driving a bloody tank, a very rusty tank.
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  513. Sorry, but while pharmaceuticals can kill, homeopathy pretty much does nothing other than have a placebo effect. In other words the patient believes that they are better because they have been told 'take this it will work'. There was believed to be such a thing as the memory of water, in so much as it was believed that homeopathy worked by imprinting a shadow on the water. this theory was debunked. One of my colleagues at Cambridge University, Polly Matzinger was interested in this.
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  514. It was a monoclonal antibody class of drug.
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  515. He's brown bread now!
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  516. This was just a deformity that was bad luck, the chances of it happening again are very low.
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  517. Because it has been preserved in formaldehyde
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  518. Used to be more frequently the case, but sadly, changes in the benefits system have meant that far more people are on the street for much less than addiction issues. 1] People have to wait for 5 weeks for their benefits, many people live hand to mouth on their weekly pay cheque, so once their job dries up they are in trouble. 2] The bedroom tax has meant that people MUST live in accommodation with only one bedroom per occupant and while no one wants to pay for anyone to live in a mansion, the majority of properties in this country are 3 bedded. This means that there is a shortfall on the rent and these people are at risk of eviction. 3] I agree that people who take the piss should be sanctioned to some degree, but people are being sanctioned for stuff that is outside of their control and those sanctions are really harsh. Many of the sanctions ought to be more of a slap on the wrist with no opportunity to appeal them. So for instance, late to sign on because the bus is late, that should mean the loss of 10% of that week's benefits, rather than issuing sanctions that mean the person is made homeless
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  519. I believe that she is a lecturer at Cambridge University and a writer too.
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  520. They are travellers, so it will probably be more like a family reunion.
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  521. It was not rape, apparently, the guy was sending the woman up to 50 texts a day, many containing sexual innuendo. If she has texted him back and has proof that she has made clear that his attentions were unwanted, then the University should act in an appropriate manner to resolve the matter.
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  522.  @samrowbotham8914  Unfortunately, the university is simply not supportive towards victims and are probably more likely to view them as bringing the university into disrepute by taking such a matter to the police then they are the perpetrator. To be fair it can be very difficult to prosecute such cases where victim and perpetrator are known to one another before the attack, in normal cases, but where you have the possibility of wrecking your education too, it becomes unlikely that such victims would press ahead with such a case.
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  523.  @samrowbotham8914  OK I see what you are saying, but when you are talking about students that are the best of the best and have worked extremely hard to get there or their parents have paid exorbitant public school fees, you can see the imperative not to rock the boat with the university.
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  524.  @samrowbotham8914  I don't, the problem is the way the institute behaves towards the victim. As seen here, even where the victim has absolute proof, it is the victim that suffered and could not go to certain lectures. Can you imagine how bad it would have got if she had involved the police, I can not imagine that they would be at all sympathetic to any time lost to a trial, can you?
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  525.  @samrowbotham8914  Completely agree, but where it is an institute, there are ways of applying implicit pressure. So for instance, a tutor might say that the victim should carefully consider the negative effects of stress and time off attending court upon final grades or assessments and they are likely to point out that such claims where it is one person's word against another's are difficult to prove and they will question whether in that light that such a course of action is worth sacrificing grades for. To gain a conviction for perverting the course of justice, then the police would have to have very good evidence that there was a direct threat against the victim, rather than simply saying that the stress of a court case together with time off could negatively affect grades.
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  526.  @samrowbotham8914  I assume that you must be in the USA as sedition as a criminal charge has not existed here since 2009.
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  527. History would have been a good one too.
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  528. The salary guys work all hours God sends and probably simply do not have enough time or energy to devote to a relationship. Sad really
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  529. They had them when times were good.
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  530.  @angellapoff6136  Caterpillars get eaten all of the time by birds.
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  531. They frequently do. Also, fledgling biotechs often twist their employee's arms into participating
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  532. They do not accept women of child bearing years because ova are formed at birth and can, therefore, be damaged, whereas sperm production is continuous.
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  533.  @redberries8039  Not much use if you have not got the money for bus or train fare to get to job interviews or the money for electric for a shower or deodorant. Mmmmm smelly employee anyone?
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  534. Corona is a virus, not a bacterium, so a bacteriophage wouldn't be much good.
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  535.  @mythicalguy1236  The Russians tend to use bacteriophages and they source them from the sewage system.
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  536. If the bottom 80% of men are competing for the top 22% of women, then logically nearly 3 out of 4 are going to be unsuccessful in their attempts. Isn't the logical conclusion to this is to go a little down market and temper your expectations? If you are saying that those men are hard done by, aren't the 78% of women that they are ignoring also being hard done by? If you can not afford the Ferrari's insurance, isn't it the logical thing to do to go get a Jaguar or even a mini instead?
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  537. She probably would have some luck with 63+, but not much chance with any younger than 58. She does sound like she thinks a lot of herself calling herself glamourous.
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  538. Braised onions: take your onions, take the tops off and peel, but leave the root intact. Brown all over, as much as possible, in a frying pan with about an inch of beef dripping in it. Put the onions one by one into an ovenproof dish with about an inch of water. Seal tightly with foil and cook for around 1 hour at 180-200 celsius. Enjoy!
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  539. But lie detectors are notoriously unreliable that is why they are not used in British courts. So there is every chance that the test produced a false positive and the guy faced not only losing his girlfriend, but also being unjustly branded a liar and a cheat where he lived
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  540.  @clareparfittwinchester5244  Completely agree with you. I can only think of 3 women that have killed without good reason.
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  541.  @clareparfittwinchester5244  I guess the other crims in there will see him off.
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  542.  @NoNoNoMeansNo  I had a planned pregnancy, within marriage. Pregnancy is not exactly compatible with that sort of work, we had, had a number of miscarriages at my workplace so I am assuming that they thought that it is easier to get rid of the employee. My husband walked out before our son was a year old. I hold a degree in biology and an HNC in engineering. They keep on about trying to get more girls doing science, what they forget to mention is that while it is interesting, you do not have a standard day. It is not a case of go in at 9am and leave at 5pm, it was more like arrive at work 7:30am and leave at 5:30-6:30pm. If your equipment went desperately wrong and you could not get it going again, you could go home at 4pm, but you would be stuck at work till 9-10pm the next day. On top of these hours, I used to be on call one week in every four. It was OK at first as we were allowed up to 12 flexi days a year that we could take as half days, but these were negotiated away in exchange for fewer redundancies. So originally if I got called in at say 2am then I would do what I had been called out to do and continue working until noon and then go home and go to bed. The problem was that they changed all that, so for instance if you got a call out at 3:30 am and got to work at 4am and the work took about an hour then you were expected to go home and come back in for 7:30am again and do a full days work, exhausting. The working time directive does not apply to a lot of these workplaces. A few years after I left they changed the working patterns to shift work, they have been fined by health and safety for a number of breaches, so this together with staff retention problems probably prompted the changes. Unfotunately, these sorts of working patterns are not family friendly.
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  543.  @NoNoNoMeansNo  Yeah, I have had a few science based jobs, all have been longish hours, some bosses are OK, some not so. A tangible store is a great idea, because it is difficult to buy clothes on line as you have no idea of the quality of the fabric, workmanship, fit or drape. I enjoy being a mother, even though my son has autism, he certainly his own skill set.
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  544. Exactly and even where there is support it leaves the dads with so much that they are able to go out and do the same all over again.
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  545. Some of these things are simple rubbish: 1] I ask people what they do for work to ensure that I am not the only one in the relationship that works and to establish common ground. I am likely to assume that as a guy you're into sports and I have NO interest in sports, so asking that is a non starter. 2] People have tight schedules. You never met a female criminal law solicitor, doctor, surgeon or scientist, our schedules can be tight. When you are ill or in trouble with the law you need someone NOW not in 12 hours time when a standard working day starts. We might work shifts or frequently, as in my case, I used to work long hours and had to do on call work 1 week in 4. 3] Lots of women do not have sex with guys on a first date. Women like some emotional content in the relationship before it moves there and just a few hours is not going to cut it for most women. This also forgets that women menstruate and are often shy about it. 4] Reschedule likewise is not a negative sign, it can just be that something comes up at work that you are expected to pull the rabbit out of the hat. In one job I had the drinking water inspectorate used to come in and the boss would simply say that tomorrow you are all going to be working late and we would be there from 7am to 9pm at least and the following days inspection would be gruelling too. Really you would not have wanted to date me that week. Likewise, ill relatives, my uncle had lung cancer and visiting him each weekend was a 300 mile round trip, now if you really want to drive me there, but I might not be the greatest of company. Sometimes an excuse is valid and true and sometimes it is not, just try to be decent with people.
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  546. Should be referred to IPCC.
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  547. People have paid for their benefits with their NI payments
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  548. Sadly, some of them are their own worst enemy. Today I was reading about a homeless guy who was being put up at a hotel and was given £50 per week on top of that. He has no rent or gas, electricity or water bills to find, but he is complaining that he is not receiving enough money.
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  549. To get animals other than humans to react to any vaccine, scientists have to make it "dirty". They use a solution called Freund's Adjuvunct.
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  550. The only years that actually need to go back are years 10-13, the years where GCSE and A level study takes place. Then when the others go back simply give exams to year 9 and have them pick their GCSE options right away, so that they catch up on those subjects and don't waste any time pursuing studies in other subjects. The rest will catch up. This approach would mean that years 10-13 can socially distance until the risk is negligible and the year 9 teachers would have some more free time to help those in the year below that to catch up.
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  551. That is the idea, if you slow it down then there may be enough capacity created by the spread.
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  552. The problem is that a huge number of children would be dumped on the system if this was to happen.
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  553. I am so sick of seeing people without masks that I now wear a FFP3 respirator mask.
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  554. Yeah, but it is likely to have been preserved with formaldehyde.
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  555. Maybe it does with the right client
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  556. He got burnt as a young child and that is keloid scarring.
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  557. Only allow cousin marriage on condition of sterilisation.
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  558. In Britain, you used to need special permission to marry a cousin.
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  559. I think part of the problems with mother-daughter relationships become more acute at puberty, probably because as the daughter is blossoming, the mother is starting to age. I remember my own mother saying stuff like you have no style and you're no oil painting and you won't find anyone and I found it incredibly hurtful and felt that I had little or no value to a potential partner and it led me to seek validation from men. A time that should have been happy and joyful, was a time when I felt trapped with someone who thought me not quite good enough and a burden. I became desperate to find someone and the guy I married was fine until our son came along, when our marriage imploded in his violence and cheating, he could not handle the change in dynamic. I always suspect that he was aware of what my mother was like and thought that he too could behave badly and I tolerated it because I did not want my mother to blame me for a breakdown, which she did when he walked out. Think what you say to your daughters, the results of our words and actions can have consequences years down the line.
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  560. Clean it as you would any other part of your body
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  561. Don't know about Jon Venables because he has offended twice more since coming out, but Robert Thompson is.
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  562. Completely wrong to expect that employers will give a job to someone who is not able to do the full job as specified or whose condition might mean added burden in terms of sick leave. Many small companies can not afford the added cost. This is what we pay our taxes and National Insurance for, to support those who do not have the capability to work. Idiot government got rid of Remploy, who specialised in supported employment.
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  563. Problem is the family are not ready until their relative is really suffering, sometimes it is better to be forewarned. In the one case here, the man and woman got married, he had one last bit of happiness as a result.
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  564. At least he killed himself
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  565.  @nonamehumandaughterofmosth9808  The funny thing is my cousin's husband was due to test his hearing when West was on remand in Winson Green prison. Anyone on remand gets better healthcare than those convicted, although people are so rarely remanded unless there is evidence that they have committed the crime. West hung himself and saved the guy a job!
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  566. But she had them before she got ill
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  567.  Ken MacDonald  Not that easy to plan, something can always come along that fells you. In my case, my husband walked out on me and our 10 month old child. I had to pay the ex £80, 000 and a massive legal bill. We had no choice but to move to the back of beyond and my child was then diagnosed with Deficits in: Attention; Motor co-ordination and Perception with Pragmatic Disorder and later with autism. So no despite owning my own place by the age of 40, I am not sitting too pretty.
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  568. Didn't know that one, so thanks for putting it on here.
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  569. Coffin birth
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  570. I completely agree. The rules would make more sense if they said: people must stand/sit in household bubbles at funerals. Each bubble must remain 2 metres apart and everyone is to wear masks or visors at the very least. A funeral like the one featured, the burial ground is hardly full of people.
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  571.  @EmYu03  Much, much cheaper.
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  572. During the first lockdown, I was stopped on my way to do a food shop at my local co op in a rural area. Made police wait whilst I put on a surgical face mask and wound car window down just a crack and told them to stand away from my vehicle. They did not seem too pleased, so I told them that their employer should be providing them with personal protective equipment, as they had no masks on at that stage, both to protect themselves from being infected and to prevent the passage of the infection from themselves to members of the public and their own colleagues. Thing is that police operate with huge double standards. Here it is on display. No crack down on the BLM protests, but crack down on women protesting about women's safety when a woman has been killed by one of their own.
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  573.  Jason Lane  Well perhaps I should have balled him out the first time he ever said that he was late because he was caught in traffic or when he was working late or maybe I should have bugged his computer from the off. But you know I loved him and trusted him and we always hope that the people that we love and trust respect the freedom that they have, rather than abuse it.
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  574. @Eli M I didn't want to appear to be a nag. No he was no great shakes in the looks department, so I am not sure what counts as a fuck boy.
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  575.  @beardy3005  Well unfortunately my son was diagnosed with autism, so that would be kind of off putting for most men and to be fair if he had not done a runner before he would have done so for sure on discovering our son's list of disabilities, so to be fair it is probably easier on our son that he left early on. My ex is really the one that has missed out, last year when my son was 14 he was invited to speak at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology European programming conference at Cambridge University, my ex being a programmer would have loved the bragging rights on that one, but he can not claim any credit as he has had no part in his son's life and does not even know that he was a speaker.
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  576.  @zozma38  He was a covert narcissist. Put it this way, he attacked wife number 2 and his employer and neighbours were incredulous according to the police. People do not always show their true colours until things are not going their way.
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  577. He received the placebo, the saline, drug free injection.
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  578. For the most part being captured would have saved your life, the best that you could really hope for was to be captured. Lots of civilians took them into their own homes and gave them a wonderful Christmas.
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  579. Coffin birth
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  580.  @vectorm1615  The more that any virus is passed around the more opportunity it has to mutate. Now that mutation could make it weaker and then that strain would act as a natural vaccine in its own right. OR. It could become more deadly, what if instead of killing 1 in 100 who caught it, it killed 1 in 10 or 1 in 5, the fact that it has the potential to do this is what has to be what is factored into the equation.
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  581.  @sailaway8244  Mutations are random, so it could become a more deadly strain that simply takes longer to kill, that way it can infect more people, no way to predict what is going to happen. With regard to kill rate there will always be members of any population that have a genetic resistance to certain infections. People with a mutation in gene CCR5 are completely immune to HIV, the gene itself became more common because it is also associated with resistance to plague, so repeated plagues meant that more people with that mutation lived to breed increasing its prevalence. Just as viruses have random mutations so do humans and this results in random immunity amongst individuals and that is why more and more people lived through subsequent plagues.
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  582.  @sailaway8244  How does anyone know whether HIV or ebola have had much less dangerous predecessors? They could have been relatively harmless in an animal population before either getting into humans or having an antigen shift. No one is going to take much notice of a virus that is harmless. What we do know is that the more frequently a virus is passed around the more mutations that will occur and since those are random the virus could become less fatal or more fatal. HPV has probably had a time when no subtype caused cancer, but that is not the case now.
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  583. I'll do it for half the cost!
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  584. Chemically, they both look very different, so I find this a little surprising, especially given the risk of contamination from any unreacted thalidomide. Thalidomide has a piperidine ring in it, so it is likely to be more akin to PCP, that is angel dust to you bikers out there, as that is on the pathway to making that drug.
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  585. Wanted to be anonymous so that either more victims would not come forward or so that he could continue his criminal career on release.
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  586. Well actually, you can expect that: 1] The drug has been trialled on animals and that the dose is correct 2] That the drug has been made to cGMP standards. 3] That any protocol for that class of drugs is followed.
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  587.  @nunomiguel555  The reality of that trial was not that the drug was totally unsafe. The reality was that there are existing protocols for the administration of monoclonal antibodies and none of them were followed. Monoclonal antibodies are well known for causing cytokine storms, so to mitigate this, the usual procedure would be to take the drug [usual volume not more than 10ml] and not inject it directly into the patient, but to inject it through the port of an intravenous saline bag of at least 500ml and infuse it slowly into the test subject. This way if the subject starts to exhibit signs of a bad reaction, then the flow of the drug can be stopped before they have reached the full dose and so less damage is done. Also administering this way seems to lessen bad reactions in itself. Secondly, as cytokine storm is a recognised side effect of monoclonal antibodies, it could be anticipated and the facility should have had prednisolone injections on standby and resus facilities for the number of participants that received the drug. Despite signing any contract the people running the trial still have a duty of care to the participants and that extends to ameliorating any foreseeable consequences of the drug. Because there existed protocols for the administration of monoclonals and these were not followed, it could be argued that the trial company or the manufacturer if they had not revealed the class of drug or given such instruction were negligent.
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  588. They were travellers, so there you go a race comment for you.
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  589. It is still £500 per week tax free, I'd like to bet none of those people has to maintain their own home either.
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  590.  @greatleader4841  Well actually my son has autism, but my husband left before he was diagnosed. I had to pay him £80,000, but I still own my own house, but I do not work because of my son's disability, so I get income support. However, the problem is that you can not have savings over £6,000, so it makes it difficult to save for things that could potentially go wrong with the house.
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  591. She could try pre implantation genetics.
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  592. There are gay surrogates out there who do this sort of work.
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  593. It is a pretty dry country, in fact the few items of fabric that I have seen that are a 1,000+ years old nearly all come from this sort of region.
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  594. The poor sods that will be left trying to make a claim for outstanding wages whilst they wait for Universal Credit payments only to discover that this slime ball has also raided their pension pots. That's who
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  595. Exactly, people coming in should have been limited to hauliers of food and essential goods. and people coming to visit DYING relatives and outside of those visits they should be subject to strict quarantine.
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  596. Very dry country?
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  597. It is entirely wrong
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  598.  @bennathan7353  But the level of aftercare they give is cursory, this is part of the problem. Ordinarily, rehab costs in excess of £30K, a figure that most people could not afford. I applaud the attempts to get anyone off drugs, but the problem is that a lot of these folks do not want to come off drugs and this leads to a high rate of recidivism, which somewhat defeats the object of the exercise. The other part of the story is the fact that it is televised and all and sundry know who this person is. If you owned a business and were looking to employ people would you want to employ an ex drug addict who could easily relapse and cost your company money? Where as anyone whose recovery is not televised is not obliged to reveal their status as an ex addict and can easily fob off any questions about career breaks with a bit of pony.
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  599.  @WoodysOpinion101  People are either tempted because they want to be in the limelight or because they genuinely want to resolve their problems but do not have the financial means to pay for: legal redress; counselling; DNA testing; rehab etc and think that this will provide a resolution. The problem is that the show has not poured enough funds into clearing up the aftermath.
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  600.  @jenisbetzke6228  If that is true that is horrible, but maybe it counts as reportage of troubles in another land where the laws and regimen are VERY different to our own.
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  601.  @BetterBachelor  Really, you think that women can't do maths. There are only so many doctors and CEOS and there is no way that there are going to be enough to go around. Women do not look down on plumbers or anyone else that is showing responsibilty and buying property, if a guy is buying a property he will be viewed as a half decent catch. Suitable is a guy who you would be happy to bring home to meet your dad. I am a lone parent in a small community and if my 15 year old son wants to date a girl he has been told by me to ask the girl's father's permission, it works. He has been told that as an adult if he knows the father then to take him for a good whiskey. Getting married is worth it for many men because in the early years it provides a double income, latter you have a heir and then you have someone to look after you in your old age for free. Women have to get degrees to be able to get a decent paying job so that they have a job to help buy a property with her guy ready for their family. Once a woman has kids the value of her work outside the home is massively decreased unless she has parents nearby that are providing the day care. Hence why the guy's responsible attitude becomes important. This is why your average woman is not going to be interested in a guy who does not have much of an income, because she knows that he is going to struggle to provide for their children.
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  602. Sounds like he had a narcissistic personality disorder.
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  603. Sorry, but it sounds like you have a hormonal problem and need to see a doctor.
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  604. I thought that there was little going on for what was being charged too, it looks exploitative.
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  605. Sorry, I do not know what on earth she is supposed to have done that is supposed to be obnoxious, a bit nosey, a bit of a busy body, maybe, but obnoxious? As the girls faces are obscured we can not see their expressions, may be she felt that they were being harassed and therefore her questions are reasonable. She has not sworn at him or said anything nasty, her intention is not to make him feel bad, but to protect the women. IT IS SIMPLY MISGUIDED. She has not gone in guns blazing as the guy claims, she has simply been assertive and if a guy had done this no one would be saying this.
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  606. Thy advise the next of kin that the body is in too bad a state to see and they double bag it.
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  607. Maybe she had the child locks on or central locking?
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  608.  @juliaarnold1078  Time to get that test kit!
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  609.  @yixhing  If they don't accept our laws, they should stay where they are.
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  610.  @emmanuelleRF  Thank you.
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  611. Or possibly ectrodactyly.
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  612.  @pillbobaggins2766  Sometimes genotypic and phenotypic sex do not match up this is one such case
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  613. @Avigail Marcus Where is it then, my first thought was john's college, but the street you can see is not bridge street and there are hills in the distance?
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  614.  @tamaracarter1836  Thank you, I regularly go to Gloucester Quays, but haven't got as far as the cathedral. Love Cheltenham too.
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  615. Problem is it is difficult to stop a guy walking out and not paying for his kid, even if you are married to them.
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  616. Good point, it is rather expensive these days.
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  617. She has chosen to be provocative and probably feels that she has the right to choose and you are challenging her right to do so. The reality is that the media bombards men with such images and women feel obliged to compete or we are rendered invisible. When my son first started primary school in a new area, I went to see the acting head, who seemed somewhat graceless and abrupt. He was like this over a number of encounters, at that time he was most decidedly single. He went on to marry another teacher, who seems to have no practical skills whatsoever. He moved schools about a year later, but we regularly bump into one another. Well I bumped into him on Saturday night at an evening event, this is 9 years on from the first time I ever met the guy, so it is an evening event and I am dressed up suddenly it is all "oo you look glamorous" and solicitous praise. Amazing how he can barely deign to speak to me when he sees me doing my garden or I am doing any DIY.
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  618. This is it, all they do is force people to apply for jobs that they are not even suitable for. Thankfully I am on legacy benefits and I am hoping that they don't end for me. But I have heard some appalling stories. I live in a very rural area, with limited transport links, just signing on is a £5 odd round trip on a bus. People who have elderly parents in the area can not just up and leave them.
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  619. Not everyone has the choice, some drug companies enlist their own employees.
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  620. Most of the problems in marriage come from a lack of communication, taking one another for granted and allowing things to become routine.
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  621.  @AncientEchoesOfHistory  She has chosen to have a life where she is supporting an ISIS fighter. It is not even like she has married and then discovered that her husband is radical, she knew this before she went out there.
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  622.  @AncientEchoesOfHistory  How about treason? Has she not joined a proscribed organisation at the very least
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  623.  @AncientEchoesOfHistory  Well Lord Haw Haw did not try to overthrow the monarchy or government and he was still convicted and hung.
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  624. Probably because she has kids with him and trust me if she divorces him, he will cheat her and his own children out of money. Young girl should KNOW that breaking up a family is a horrible thing to do, but husband is as bad. My ex had an affair and walked out on me and his 9 month old son. He hid £250K and I had to pay him £80K, the mistress did not want him. He behaved appallingly and we had to move and leave behind friends and career. Ex went on to marry a foreign woman and stopped paying child maintenance, because he would rather pay for 4 step kids and a woman that has not put any money into their marriage, then pay for an ex wife who used to work. Marriage number 2 fell apart too, with him spending Christmas in prison. Karma.
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  625. Sure they are out protesting for a valid reason, it is just the wrong time, just as it is absolutely the wrong time to go to the beach with thousands of other people. The difference is that they have more reason to do what they are doing then the brainless day-trippers. We would all like to go for a nice day out, but at the moment a day out consists of shopping for essentials and maybe a picnic in your car, or time in your garden. The more that people congregate regardless of the cause, the more that this thing will spread, it has been going on for long enough without anyone making it any worse.
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  626. If some guy is really tight fisted to the point of being miserly, are you really going to be happy with them anyway. They are not going to change it is just an aspect of their personality. My next door neighbour, her aunt dies and leaves 7 houses between 14 beneficiaries, yet she still goes into the greengrocers and begs the nasty leaves from around the outside of the lettuces and cabbages and end of day throwaways. She is in her 80s how much longer does she think she will live. I am not saying that it is good to be profligate with money, but being miserable is a different matter. If this guy was mean and she was not that way inclined, they were not suited, there is no point in looking back. He has not done anything unkind to her and what she did is totally uncalled for. I have had to start over because my ex turned into a violent nutcase. We tried counselling, there was no way that he was going to behave, he walked out, I started divorce proceedings, his misbehaviour continued, I moved and cut contact with everyone that we had known in common. Generally, I would not do that, but there was just too much risk to me and our son not to.
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  627. I have severe asthma, for which I take 3 different medications and I am in my 50s. I wear a mask and back in September I had to go to hospital, where they needed to test my oxygen saturation levels. Even with a mask on my saturation levels were 98%. This woman does not sound like she has breathing difficulties from the way that she is shouting, she is just being selfish to the people around her. Unfortunately, she is not quite selfish enough to realise that if she does not like wearing a mask then she will hate wearing a ventilator.
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  628. Mate they are fromm the travelling community, they are pretty much reviled here.
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  629.  @jimd2101  Respiridone at a guess?
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  630.  @jimd2101  Thanks, never been offered anything for my own son.
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  631. Probably put the g*n under his chin and got the angle wrong, thereby taking off the lower jaw, part of the upper jaw and his nose. I wonder about the jaw, did they rebuild it with his own rib material or did they transplant that material from the donor as well.
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  632. I completely agree with you, this video is making out that being gay is a major cause of homelessness. The major cause of homelessness is the affordability of housing. As far as people being homeless due to being gay is concerned, if you live under someone else's roof, you live under their rules, if you don't like it you are at liberty to move out We have all been there it is part of being an adult and taking responsibility for our lives. When I lived at home, my parents [I am straight] objected to my boyfriend, it was either him or the roof over my head, my boyfriend never even so much as stayed at my parents' house. I was a studying A levels at the time and either I wanted to continue studying and living under their roof, the price of which was to pack the boyfriend in or I was going to have to go and get a job. My parents wanted me to study to be a teacher, but after a year on the course, I knew it was not for me and wanted to change course, my parents did not support me in that change and as a result, I started my own business, so that I could afford to do as I wanted in life. What I would say to anyone gay in this situation is: if you are old enough to not be celibate, then you are old enough not to inflict YOUR choice of partner on your parents, you are also old enough to go out and get a job and support yourself. The real root of homelessness is poverty and welfare changes and the gay rights thing is a totally needless distraction from that. As I said, if you live under someone else's roof you live by their rules, most people seem to have forgotten this.
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  633. The court can not prove an intent to kill, because the guys foot just got caught in the tow rope.
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  634.  @BushCampingTools  Honestly, the only thing I have ever towed was a rigid inflatable boat from a station wagon. It had kind of a rigid link and I was too scared of hitting something to notice if it changed the handling. So I have no idea if it would change handling. Regardless they probably will not get anywhere near the sort of sentence that they deserve.
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  635. Clinical trials happen for a reason, this was a clinical trial and therefore adverse reactions are more likely to occur. The COVID vaccine will have been through clinical trials to ensure that it is safe before administration.
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  636.  @paultrebor2910  Not so sure about that, I thought it was a criminal offence to carry a weapon, although it can be difficult to prove intent.
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  637.  @markotik75  Like you say I think it depends if you have a reasonable excuse for carrying a knife. I am sure if you have a knife in a carrier bag in packaging and said you have just bought a new kitchen knife for filleting fish, it is pretty unlikely that you could really make any charge stick.
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  638.  @deraufallesscheisser7759  I was in Cambridge going to an open-air free jazz event in a public park, I had taken a picnic with a sharpish knife for the pork pie. Think the police were looking for drugs, found knife, just said it was for the pork pie, no problem.
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  639. The problem is that we do not know how long immunity lasts and may be somewhat transient.
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  640. I think it is very complex as he was abused by his own parents and had drug and mental issues as a consequence of that. The reality is that he should have never had a child until he had resolved his own issues, but you get the impression that there was not enough help out there for him.
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  641.  guernseypc  Precisely and the Duke of Edinburgh is actually born of royal blood, whereas Camilla........
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  642.  @cmr2754  And some Buddhists too.
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  643. Why do you think that these women are going to be representative of what all women like or dislike? It kind of assumes that women are homogenous and have the same likes and dislikes. It does not take into account that there are often trade offs in a relationship, it does not take into account the fact that sometimes attraction is not immediate but can and does grow over time.
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  644.  @jeice13  Even then you might not find any correlation as we all like different things. I am not keen on tattoos, but I am sure that there are some women out there that love them.
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  645.  @jeice13  It could potentially work especially if it gave rise to some form of algorithm that might triangulate what pay offs might offset any particular negative. So for instance, most girls are into taller guys, so what sort of attribute would offset that for a shorter guy. Perhaps developing a good sense of humour combined with impeccable manners and thoughtfulness, might be a good trade off in enough womens' minds to make it worthwhile cultivating those traits.
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  646.  @jeice13  The thing is it is going to be so difficult to find anything to agree on. So let's take something that should be a really common deal breaker: personal hygiene. For most women they are going to want a guy who showers at LEAST every other day, but there will be women out there who have dodgy personal hygiene themselves for whom this would not be a deal breaker. The question then has to be who are these women and would they be a good match with a fellow slob, would the guy because he has questionable hygiene be OK with a woman of similar quality. And that is the thing. Online dating has removed our connections to ourselves and other people. Men and women look at profile pictures of people online and everyone has the idea that there is an endless supply of drop dead gorgeous singletons out there, when the reality is somewhat different. The thing is in online dating people are simply being bombarded with lots of visuals and that has become the only metric that people use to choose a date. It must mean that the most attractive people are scoring all of the dates and everyone else is being left out despite having perfectly good redeeming features. It is almost as if people are consumable items and it makes people seem almost disposable.
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  647. As a woman I am indifferent to guys who want to wear dresses, I don't have a problem with them, but I am not attracted to them either, it is highly unlikely that I would wind up with someone that wears dresses as a result. A lot of problems in relationships come from poor personal boundaries and knowing when it is good to compromise and when it is not.
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  648. It is one thing to be stupid about your own health, quite another when you are stupid about your child's. They rely upon you for a good start in life and to not give them the best start you can afford for them is a gross betrayal.
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  649.  @rebecazumbado7565  or not
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  650. I would agree that women's lib has not bought the benefits to all that it should have done. Principally because of wage inequality and the fact that women still do the bulk of domestic work, but now in addition to working outside of the home. Guys have never been exclusively with one woman, it is just that contraception has allowed us to catch up in that regard.
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  651. TLC trust in the UK would not agree. Apparently the disabled make better clients, because they are less likely to be abusive.
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  652.  Susie X  People with disabilities do not necessarily lose desire or indeed not want romantic relationships. We are able-bodied and able to fulfil our own desires, many disabled also want to form relationships, but most able-bodied people do not want to take on the role of not only partner, but carer too at the outset of a relationship. As for prostitution, it has always existed and always will. The best that any country can do is regulate it to ensure that prostitutes are not subject to abuse, are free of STDs and taxed to provide revenue to pay for these protections.
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  653. Jesus, I should have got divorced in the USA if child maintenance is so generous there.
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  654.  @0muskett0  Exactly, around 3 weeks between catching the virus and dying with it
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  655. They are supposed to have disabled access to all their buildings, for their employees, let alone the claimants. For goodness sake, it just shows what idiotic numbskulls these people really are that they can not organise a simple ramp; just a wedge of wood to the height of the step with a couple of coats of decking paint, it is not rocket science.
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  656. And I would add, send it by recorded delivery, or it will mysteriously get lost >/
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  657. It would be bad enough in a first world country.
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  658. Frequently, it is difficult to find an employer to take you on after a serious illness like cancer, because they do not want people who might have time off for check-ups or treatments or who you might train up for only for the employee to relapse.
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  659.  @brucewillis4604  Sorry, I did not realise that you have been ill, hope you are better soon. When I worked as a scientist, my employers were quite strict on pre-employment screening, to such an extent that they would store a sample of your blood from when you started your working for them. It was made quite clear that covering up any illness prior to employment would result in dismissal. At one stage I worked for Cambridge University. The old Cavendish labs were notorious for the fact that Rutherford's lab had been locked and sealed for 40 years and when they got round to decontaminating it, significant quantities of radium were found outside the sealed off room, including radioactive handprints.There was also problems with asbestos and a kilo of mercury was found under floorboards. That was just in that building. Other labs dating from the 1800''s and early 1900's might not have been decontaminated yet. I saw some pretty ancient labs and although by the time I was working there we did our work our radioisotope work in deep enamel trays, none of us would like to think of what practices may have been like in earlier years. I am guessing that the blood sample thing was all about employers covering their backsides in case you become ill during your course of employment with them.
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  660. No, but many medical schools have a ceremony that invites the relatives and the student doctors to a memorial service and there is nothing stopping your loved ones dedicating a bench in a public park to your memory.
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  661. Alpacas look so timid, but apparently, they can kick a fox to death and that poor dog looks like it might have been kicked in the face already.
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  662. Not to mention the invasion of coffin fly that would have followed.
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  663. Try approved foods
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  664. So it is not as if hospitals do not have enough on their plates without people doing crap like this?
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  665.  @iancavon7125  Women want guys that have a balance. It is fine to work long hours and it is fine to spend some time with friends or on a hobby, but if a guy is pretty much only available like once a fortnight then the woman is going to lose interest because she is too far down the list of priorities for the relationship to be meaningful.
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  666.  @iancavon7125  AS a woman I have similar complaints. Women have been on the receiving end of guys expecting us to conform looks wise for many, many years before it became normal for women to go out to work. Now it is normal for women to work, yet the woman is still in most households expected to do most of the household chores on top of their working hours and women are catching up with the ways that men think and have become more demanding as a result.
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  667.  @paulcarruthers2431  Yeah, it is even worse now.
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  668. But she had these kids before her troubles and could probably afford them at that time.
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  669. Exactly what I am thinking. My son is disabled and my husband did a bunk when he was 10 months old. But when I did work I had savings.
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  670. Just take the rubber window seal off and slip the coat hanger hook down the gap and unlatch, thought this was relatively common knowledge.
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  671.  @fij01i94  Manna from heaven?
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  672. Not really. There are protocols for making and administering vaccines that are followed.
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  673.  @aussiegaming8156  You think that there are not protocols?
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  674.  @remoove7231  Exactly, monoclonal antibodies and vaccines are 2 different things. But both are made to well known protocols and both go through considerable clinical trials.
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  675. Very sad story, both sides let down in different ways. Firstly, the cop should have had training as to how to de-escalate the situation. Secondly, USA owed this army veteran appropriate care and treatment for his PTSD and bipolar condition, which he did not receive. The third point is that USA gun laws are way too relaxed to allow someone with a diagnosed mental disorder to be armed with any type of gun let alone one this powerful. This added up to a perfect storm that resulted in a totally needless death and I do not think a death sentence is a just remedy or reflection of the degree of culpability in this case. Shame on the authorities that such a sentence was passed and enacted.
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  676. The guy's redundancy money would have been capped at around 20 weeks pay, which would equate to around 7 months pay because it is unlikely that he breached the tax threshold. How long that lasted in reality depends upon what he did with his money. He may well have not had savings to rely on, in which case he probably would have found it difficult to stretch it beyond a year and then he will have found himself on the draconian universal credit. Sad to say at his age, he probably has very little chance of a job.
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  677. I am surprised that they did not retort with and I bet you're frigid too.
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  678. Sometimes you can be better off on benefits, especially if you have big travel costs or childcare costs. Many people forget the extras that the unemployed get like: no council tax; free prescriptions; free dentistry; free school meals; often pupil premium covers the cost of trips too
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  679. PLease make an elderberry sauce called Pontack, it is historic
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  680. TARGET
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  681. They have these sorts of laws to protect animals that have just been left whilst the mother has gone off hunting, because the best individual to bring up an animal is its own kind.
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  682. The type of reaction that was seen is an immune cascade, that you see when the body encounters a substance that provokes an immune response, in this case a foreign antibody. So, no your placebo control idea, although good would not have yielded the result that you expect.
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  683. and the poor dude does this while also struggling with the after effects of laser eye surgery
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  684. I don't think that the jury decides the charge, they merely decide whether the defendants are guilty or innocent of the individual charges that are laid. For a murder charge to bring a successful conviction it has to be proved to the jury beyond reasonable doubt that the killing was premeditated and intentional. The police guy's foot got caught in the tow rope and that was accidental and it would be very difficult to prove that they were aware that they were dragging a body and just not merely so intent on getting away from the police car as to be oblivious as to what they were dragging. The case simply does not meet the criteria for being tried as murder, let alone getting a conviction on that charge. That is why it is being tried as manslaughter, but the judge can use his discretion to apply a tougher sentence because of previous and lack of remorse.
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  685. the more this dude releases comments, the more he digs a deeper hole. being in shock and never hearing anything about the allegations is absolute bollocks. the comment he made in reply to someone who wasn't happy about the lttstore joke dug him deeper. this dude seriously needs to stfu
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  686. Must have been either something to do with a lower dosage or the stage at which it was taken.
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  687. You can not just give a blood transfusion without tissue matching, even between people that are biologically related, your statement is untrue.
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  688. His foot got caught in the tow rope.
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  689.  @valeriemacfair2205  The thing is your and my version of good behaviour is not the same thing as what the prison will regard as good behaviour. The punch up or drug taking that you or I see as bad behaviour is run of the mill in prison. When I say bad behaviour I mean serious assaults on staff, stealing or making knives and using them, setting fires, stirring sugar into hot drinks so that they burn people badly and throwing them over people, making deadly ballistic using little more than paper, pencil and matches. People who are locked up and bored are surprisingly inventive when they have a mind to cause trouble. Part of the problem is that these guys have killed a cop so they will be heroes in prison. They will have an easy time from the other prisoners and people will buy favour and protection from them. Sorry, unfortunately that is the way that it is.
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  690.  @valeriemacfair2205  Given that they are travellers it is pretty much a given that firstly they know how to fight off most blokes and secondly they are likely to have kith or kin already inside that will ensure that they are protected. Honestly, I am friendly with a Romany, he is settled and thoroughly respectable and volunteers doing the flower displays around our town. But you talk to him and suddenly you realise that they come from big families and they are all related to one another in some way. It seems that they all meet up whenever there is a funeral and do their deals and they all seem to show up to the Appleby horse fair where they make deals and find wives. I am not saying that they don't fight amongst themselves, but if they have a fight with outsiders, they soon gang together.
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  691.  @valeriemacfair2205  Let's hope so.
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  692. Problem is it is proving that they knew he was being dragged. The moment the prosecution tries the defence will say it was dark and the driver was inexperienced or high on drink or drugs and did not know.
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  693.  @williamhealy6381  Well the guy had a very serious head injury that would have knocked him unconscious and they believe that this injury was caused when he was whipped off his feet and hit the road. So it is unlikely that there were any screams. IDK if the body trailing behind would affect how the car handled or not; personally I have only towed a rigid inflatable boat behind a station wagon and the fixings for that were rigid. I couldn't really say whether the trailing the boat affected the steering or not as a] I never drove the vehicle without the boat and b] given that the equipment belonged to my employer and I was paranoid about accidents as a result, I never really noticed the handling, but the steering seemed heavy compared to my own car.
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  694. Especially with so many job losses due to Covid
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  695. But some of these people live in areas that are so dense with people from their own culture that they have very little exposure to anything else. In the UK if parents want absolute control over their kids they either send them to religious schools or they home school them so they have no chance of knowing anyone non muslim.
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  696. He was grafting on branches so it was probably some sort of plant growth hormone.
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  697.  @leilaniz5909  This video is from Britain, if you go to the doctors here they do not have ultrasound equipment on site, the most you will get is a pregnancy test. It came back negative and so the doctor probably thought that her condition would perhaps be a cyst or something like trophoblastic syndrome, so he would have written a referral to a hospital and the tests would have been carried out in around a fortnight's time; but she gave birth in the meantime.
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  698.  @leilaniz5909  Well, when I was pregnant I went to the doctors, the doctor simply asked when was my last period, handed me a long booklet to fill out and said that the antenatal clinic would be in touch with an appointment. The clinic itself has an ultrasound just for checking the babies heartbeat that is all. At 12 weeks and 20 weeks you are given an IMAGING ultrasound scan, I had to pay extra for the nuchal fold measuring. Outside of that, scans are only performed if there is actually a problem with the pregnancy. A few years ago I started to have some unusual bleeding and went straight to the doctors. The doctor referred me for a transvaginal ultrasound, that was done in hospital two weeks later.
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  699.  @leilaniz5909  I was far more fortunate, I was trying for a baby and using ovulation test kits to boot. So it was no surprise when I had the nausea first and then the missed period, used a pregnancy test kit once a week overdue. So at least I was able to take care of my baby from the get go.
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  700. This is exactly why these people are in quarantine for 14 days. They will likely be tested for the virus using a technique called polymerase chain reaction, this amplifies the number of any virus present to detectable levels, it is a technique that is used in forensics to look at low copy number traces of DNA. So they are going to be pretty sure that these people are OK by the time that they go back into the general population.
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  701. I doubt that he planned for the congregation not singing or for a choir consisting of 4 singers.
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  702. The man making the 999 call is probably exasperated that his property is about to be stolen, he probably pays taxes that pay police wages, so he is going to expect the police to turn out and deal with these scum.
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  703. Exactly, they ask her to phone the police and instead of letting her get on with that he is haranguing her.
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  704. @Tigerman writer He should let her get on with 'phoning the police and simply film what she is doing for evidence. It seems to me both the cyclist and the mother bear some responsibility. The cyclist for not seeing the child and not stopping to check that she was OK and the mother for not having a 16 month old on child reins. At that age unless my child was in his own back garden or in the very small nearby enclosed play area in the park, I kept him on reins to ensure that he did not run into cyclists and being bigger than a child the cyclist has a bit more of a chance of seeing me. I lived in Cambridge and I know only too well how reckless cyclists can be.
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  705. @Tigerman writer Well the guy is clearly filming her and so it is unlikely that she would do a fast one and ride off, although that was probably her original intention. The fact that the footage is on youtube is a good thing, at least her friends, neighbours and work colleagues are likely to find out that not only is she not a very careful rider but that she doesn't really care for the welfare of the small child that she knocked over.
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  706. Not always the case. The benefit system and tax system have screwed over landlords too. So many of them just sell up and leave the business.
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  707. Given that there are slightly more females than males, then unless having more than one wife is legal where you are, then there are not going to be enough genetically superior men to go round. It is not that women are not smart enough to choose genetically superior guys it is just the limitation of choice.
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  708.  @caketakes89  Not all men or women for that matter are going to be genetically superior, just because a woman is not with such a guy does not mean that they are not smart, it probably just means that they are not great looking themselves
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  709. I am not a prepper. But I live in the UK and when corona hit Italy, I knew that we would not be far behind, so I got facemasks and gloves and stocked up a few of weeks worth of food and seeds to grow food. I used to shop for my neighbour and I told her that fairly soon I would not be able to go into the city where I had been shopping, she likes Waitrose food, so she pretty much threw a fit and we have not spoken since. The thing is, the only thing that I said that have not come to be is that the pandemic has not been as bad as I expected. I said that it could be bad enough to need mass graves, that hasn't happened. That bin collections could be affected, not happened. But other things that I have said have happened. There has been disruption to the postal services, some food production has been affected, NHS has come close to being overwhelmed, school has had to be suspended and it is hitting the economy. The stupid thing is that my neighbour's grand daughter is a medical doctor, you would have thought that she would have been able to figure the pattern that a pandemic would be likely to take. Yet she still goes talking to people up close and personal without a mask. Just the other day, I was cleaning up my car and a volunteer driver went around to remind her of her appointment for her jab, happily stood at the door no mask, driver tells her that she will need to wear a mask in his car, her response:- 'Do I have to?'
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  710. Because it is mandated by the Geneva Convention.
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  711. Great for Christmas and very good done with duck, pheasant or rabbit.
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  712. as much as i hate the naming system that the usb implementers forum has imposed, i would like to clarify that this is NOT their fault. this is a problem with the device manufacturers forcing you to buy a specific charger for the job. the eu, along with their plans to force all devices to switch to usb c, is also forcing manufacturers to use one specific charging speed and standard within usb c so that chargers will work universally again with devices. it's a shame that this is a problem but this is the real world
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  713. They have to elucidate the effects of the drug distinctly from the effects of the disease, that is what is part of what is required for a drug to be licensed for use.
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  714. It is more what you put with it. They are quite good in a bacon or chicken sandwich, sliced thin instead of butter. Also in a prawn cocktail as a cheap way of padding out the more expensive prawns, where it gives a nice creamy mouthfeel.
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  715.  @Zalley  Exactly the sort I was thinking of, they are a bit more comfortable than swimming goggles.
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  716. Did Trump grease or rub soap on the steps?
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  717. He is having a cytokine storm that would feel very much like a bad dose of the flu, when your lymph nodes swell and cause pain by pressing against nerves and you have a massive fever.
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  718.  @spork4267  I used to work for Cambridge University making monoclonal antibodies for clinical trials.
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  719. The problem may well be either lack of nearby employment or cost of childcare compared to wages
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  720.  @ObjectiveAnalysis  That's the best bit, free speech thrives here.
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  721. Not sure about there being 4 types of narcissist. I just think that they use different strategies according to the situation. So the overt discovers that his behaviour does not get him what he wants, he learns to be covert, because it is a better strategy. Merely being covert does not get him what he wants, time to turn on the seductive and if that fails it is time to turn on the vindictive.
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  722.  @globalcitizen1138  But we do not know the truth either. There are paedophiles out there that would use the disguise of doing good for others as a cover, but so too are there poor people who might resort to fabricating such allegations as a form of blackmail.
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  723.  @theyoutubeuser6797  Because you don't find flat chested women attractive?
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  724.  @spacecowboy7755  My pleasure, I will say though that big boobies don't half make your back and shoulders ache!
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  725. Perhaps these guys would have more luck if they were not so disparaging about women and just went for the more ordinary amongst us.
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  726. LOL, a complete diversion from the fact that housing costs are the root cause of the problem.
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  727. No one has died from homeopathy because it is just water, but they may have died because they used homeopathy instead of effective treatments.
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  728. My thoughts exactly. Add in the fact that the water in most western countries is fluoridated/chlorinated plus the fact that the level of water use is going to be high and so there is not going to be time for it to stagnate.
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  729. No he didn't
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  730. 6:45 RIP server.
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  731. The walls don't even look up to much.
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  732. Thanks for a sensible reply, too many people on here are out of touch
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  733. Because you have to differentiate the effects of the drug from the effects of the disease.
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  734. Also people with relatively mild genetic conditions were probably either shunned or there was not the medical help available to help them reach reproductive age.
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  735. If you put clothes on a clothes horse in a cold damp house, they do not dry they just get ruined through mildew.
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  736.  @alftupper9359 Most people who are badly off rent, a lot of rented properties are old, the landlords spend as little as possible on them. They do not necessarily have central heating and coal is expensive, if you do not live in the countryside with readily available wood you are stuffed. Back in the 90s, I lived in a bedsit in Cambridge, no central heating, no double glazing and no open fire. There was a coin meter and an electric fire that ate money=plenty of black mold. The chimney needed repointing it was leaning in. I knew the owner would do nothing and I knew how dangerous it was. So I told the landlord that a neighbour had told me about the state of the chimney. He did nothing. So I phoned the council and pretended to be a concerned neighbour. The council sent around an inspection team and the landlord had to do all sorts of remedial work in addition to sorting out the chimney.
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  737.  @alftupper9359  The point is that you are making comments when you have no idea about people's personal circumstances, which are frequently way more complex than you might first realise. The fat lady rough guess, she probably eats the sort of crap that I eat when short of money, dripping bought from the butcher on bread or (if you can afford the electric) toast
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  738.  @alftupper9359  Not quite starving, but it is not so uncommon to come across children whose only meal in the day is their free school meal. Malnutrition is not that uncommon either, there has been a rise in rickets. It can not be good for people if they are living on not much more than carbohydrates and fats, because that is all that they can afford after paying for rent and utilities.
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  739.  @alftupper9359  Don't know where you shop, but potatoes 50p per kilo; oil £1:09 per litre. Oil lasts a long time in a fryer, potatoes last well with no fridge, veg in local shop yellow broccoli and mouldy cauliflower and some limp aubergine, you want to feast on that be my guest.
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  740. Got to appear that you have renounced your extremist ways.
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  741. Uses a modified RPI? Interesting...
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  742. Didn't realise Americans deployed sarcasm, only one elected head of state there.
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  743. Not in those days.
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  744. Given that they know which groups have a high mortality rate, would it not have made more sense to administer this early doors, only to those most at risk and below the average lifespan age of people in this country? And wouldn't it also make sense to try oral tolerisation by using human milk from infected mothers?
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  745. All the people who keep agreeing with these cuts do not realise that cuts do not create jobs or jobs in the right places in Britain. All that happens is that the cuts cause problems elsewhere and cause much more expense to the criminal justice system, NHS and care system
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  746. Yeah. even if you just support his body too stop him choking it is better than doing nothing.
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  747.  @wendyjane6634  Try Disabled Information Advice Line, they are very good.
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  748. @Fred Smith It was being processed for muck spreading and it has been speculated that caustic had been added to it as part of the process. If that is the case, I am assuming that the caustic was anhydrous and the waste would have been slurry rather than cake. When you had anhydrous sodium hydroxide to water, it heats up considerably, and the slurry itself would have produced methane as it fermented away. I am speculating that if enough heat was produced that it could have ignited a pocket of gas and then boom.
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  749. @Fred Smith The reaction of calcium oxide and calcium hydroxide are both exothermic. Don't remember seeing that the sludge was sterile, although that is not to say that it might not have been due to be sterilised, if the sterilisation happened in the tank then there is the possibility that the container had not been thoroughly vented and a possible build up of methane that had been boiled off?
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  750. There is treatment, existing protocols at the time should have been used, the correct treatment for this would have been immediate administration of a high dose of an anti-inflammatory steroid called prednisolone.
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  751. Someone has to report this stuff, as long as the coverage is truthful.
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  752.  @montywormald7089  It is difficult with situations like this, but as long as the faces of the dead are obscured, as well as any nudity, then I would have no problem with any such report. Sometimes people need to know the full atrocity of what has happened, because that forms public opinion.
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  753. It does have a purpose: lunch.
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  754. A bit worrying that some guys regard women as property rather than people. It takes the will of both parties to make a relationship work.
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  755. Or administer intravenous prednisolone to calm down the cytokine storm and then call 911.
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  756.  @mannmctrash  Intravenous prednisolone is the recognised way to arrest such a rampant cytokine storm and the quicker it is administered, the better.
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  757.  @mannmctrash  That's OK, what this video does not say is that by the time of this clinical trial that it was known that monoclonals could cause these problems and there were well established protocols for their administration that clearly were not followed by the trials company.
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  758. And are in fact mandated by the Geneva Convention.
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  759. It appears to mean alternative to missionary, but to be honest who the hell thinks that alternative sex positions are kinky?
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  760. You can not create jobs just by having qualifications. People have to have money to spend on goods and services. What gets me about these stories are the people that claim they were earning £50,000 and £80,000 per year and yet they do not appear to have the savings to see them through 9 months.
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  761. 3:12 WHAT DID I JUST WATCH ._.
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  762.  @eyesofnight  Well that is up to you!
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  763. The DWP has wrecked Vivaldi's Four Seasons for me, who else cannot now stand that music?
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  764. When a guy that you barely know starts to be overly nice, women become suspicious that if they accept then the guy will turn around and say I bought you dinner and therefore you are obliged to have sex whether you actually want this or not, the guy is likely to turn around and say you owe me this.The worst one is when the guy turns around and says you owe them, just because they have shown up for a date. These guys are several pages ahead of the woman and when told no, can easily turn violent, because they believe that they are entitled to sex. It is OK to hold doors open for women and to be polite, build the relationship slowly and do not try to pile the pressure on or you will come across as a creep. It is not OK to pester a woman into a date and then when she is not ready to sleep with you to start accusing her of being a prick tease, she has given you the opportunity to impress, be grateful that she showed up for your date.
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  765. The date of the video is 2017, so before pandemic
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  766. Don't know where you live, but I see British cleaners
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  767. They were already filming what had happened to the first tower and so there is footage of the second plane hitting the second tower.
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  768.  @vickvique3859  I have nothing to do with him now and so he can't try to make me feel bad, I just think to myself that it was just a bad experience and that is all.
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  769. A condition called anencephaly where most of the brain and overlying skull have failed to form.
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  770. Exactly.
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  771.  James Smith  Ever heard of fake it to make it.
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  772. With compensation too.
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  773.  @littlewarriorchurch  The thing is we ALL see things from our own subjective viewpoints and often we do not know the full story as to what is going on, so it often makes it really difficult to judge. I have noticed that sometimes the guy makes judgements that seem really off. One video a random one had gone up to the interviewer because she believed that the interviewees rights or privacy were being infringed, the woman merely asked some pertenant questions and the guy labelled her an obnoxious woman. I can not help, but think that he projects some negativity from his own ast on to some of his advice.
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  774. LOL, that is so funny.
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  775. Abortion law really should be science based. Up to 12 weeks there is around a 25% chance of miscarriage, so if society is going to have abortion, then it makes sense to allow it pretty freely up to this point, but after that point it should be nigh on impossible to abort a fetus. There should be very strict laws around it and it should only be allowed where the mother's life is at risk or the baby has some sort of deformity, just because a child is an inconvenience is not a good enough excuse.
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  776. That is why people in the UK pay National Insurance to the state, it is supposed to cover you in times of need.
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  777. Try and save up some money from your current benefits and move to an area where the legacy benefits still operate.
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  778.  @dragonfly6908  But that is people on Universal Credit, how about people on legacy benefits?
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  779. Should have infused the drug SLOWLY in a drip, staggered the tests and had Prednisolone on standby to treat this with.
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  780. Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda are probably not too friendly either and Bhutan is difficult to visit too.
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  781.  @AaronP108  The people that are able to do that are few and far between. At the time that Lord Sugar started out there was more of a meritocracy. If you worked hard at school you could go on to grammar school and make the right connections and get there in life. Those institutions have now been largely swept away and a huge swathe of opportunity for working class offspring have lost the opportunities that it afforded those people. I worked for Cambridge University, so I saw how this worked from the inside.
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  782. It is going to be difficult if the dad is around and she is likely to be invested in keeping the dad happy to some extent if he is paying child maintenance. Some exs can be pretty demanding and he is likely to be pretty sore if she has found someone and he has not. My ex walked out on me for another woman and it did not work out for him, but he used to keep boasting about all the other women he had supposedly had when he came to collect our son and he thought that because I said 'good for you' that it meant that I was jealous. Nothing was further from the truth, I just wanted him to be a good dad and stop jerking us around and let us know when he was planning to collect his child and not. In the end I got so fed up with it that I started to give off subtle signs that I might have someone of my own, I put flowers in the window and would be dressed up when he came to pick up his son. He got amazingly upset when he thought that I had someone, you wouldn't have thought that he supposedly had the pick of all these willing hotties!
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  783. Yes it is wrong that the woman hit the child and intended to cycle off. The woman should have been more careful and not cycled off, but children of that age are better on child reins, it is safer. Instead of letting the woman get on with phoning the police this idiot is just antagonising her.
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  784. Sorry, but people should have the right to privacy, UNLESS there is a very strong suspicion of cheating, snooping is not acceptable. If you have snooped and found nothing, then do not admit to snooping, it will wreck your relationship if you do. If you admit to snooping when there is nothing going on then a woman will wonder if you are snooping to find evidence of cheating because either you are cheating yourself or are thinking of cheating or you are merely thinking of dumping her and looking for an excuse to do so. If you are married and she has strict parents, she MAY tolerate that you have done this because she would not embarress her parents with divorce, but your relationship will now be unhappy and marred by the fact that you have disrespected her privacy and she will no longer trust your motives. If she is not married to you, if she has ANY sense she will dump you, if she is married but her parents are not that strict, she will be gone.
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  785. But, she probably isn't, this is the UK, we don't have burger joints every few metres and they are not that cheap either. The really poor live on cheap stuff like fried bread and the like, that's how they are fat.
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  786. People who are in receipt of Universal credit have to have a compatible smartphone to receive the benefits and run their claim.
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  787. I completely agree, the white hair makes him look a lot older and he has marked cachexia as well.
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  788. There is something even worse than simply dying at home that the poor could do. If they are poor and dependent on very low wages, they may well continue to work despite the symptoms of the condition until they are simply too ill to work, during which time they will have infected lots more people. When folk are poor, even staying at home can be a risk. Many people who are poor live in overcrowded places, they live in shared houses, it only takes one infected person in a shared house and before you know it they are all infected and taking it into their respective workplaces for other people to catch.
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  789. Well pickled liver.
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  790. He joined a sugar daddy site. The premise of that is that you can have a much younger partner as long as you keep paying for them, there is nothing hidden about that, if he did not want that arrangement then he should not have entered in to it.
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  791. "If this is an ejector seat, I'm gonna kill him"
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  792. lately i've been really lazy to watch your videos but this video really is worth the watch! also slave labour is a problem, this is yet another reason i actively avoid apple
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  793. The jury does not decide what the offendents are charged with the Crown Prosecution Service does that. And even if they were charged with both murder and manslaughter they can only receive a sentence for one or other charge. For it to be murder, the prosecution has to prove beyond reasonable doubt that the death was both premeditated and that there was intent to kill. As the poor bloke accidentally got caught up in the tow rope and it was dark and the kids driving were inexperienced drivers they would be likely to say that they were unaware that they were dragging a body. Now whether they knew or not is a different matter, but proving that would be nigh on impossible. If the jury had gone for murder then they would simply appeal at taxpayer expense and some appeal court judge would doubtless reduce their sentence.
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  794. I lived there for a year in '92. Even then there were people whose work was extremely seasonal, who would spend 6 months of the year unemployed. God only knows what it is like now, especially with the Universal credit waiting times and zero-hour contracts.
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  795. Cocaine does not come from poppies. Opium and its constituent parts come from the latex exuded by the scratched seed heads of poppies, cocaine comes from the leaves of a different plant.
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  796. Because they buy the cheapest filling foods, which is generally potatoes, oil, bread and dripping and live on toast and dripping for breakfast and cook up chips for other meals, you just keep reusing the oil, makes it cheap.
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  797. Despite the fact that they were paid volunteers, the clinical trials company had a duty of care to them. At the time this work was done there existed protocols for the administration of monoclonal antibodies, that the trials company did not follow therefore they were negligent.
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  798.  @davidhanson7630  Because most people want cheap eggs and meat, but don't want battery farming.
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  799. Must be a McDonalds and a Dunkin Doughnuts in the neighbourhood.
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  800.  @Ellie333jmtqkl  Foxes get in whatever you do, you want free range eggs at a reasonable price, well fox populations have to be controlled.
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  801. seriously if this pushes change it may give me one less reason to hate apple and that's a good thing
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  802. Thing is the testing company did not follow the existing protocols for the administration of monoclonals, just because they got people to sign a waiver it does not mean that they do not have a legal duty of care to follow safe and established procedures.
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  803. It is unexpectedly tame as well.
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  804. In one branch of my family, back in the 1800's, 2 brothers from one family married 2 sisters from another family and then a child from each of the partnerships married. That bloodline unsurprisingly ended there. They would have been way more related than cousins, worry, but at least they were unaware of the science we now know.
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  805. It still does not absolve the investigators from taking reasonable steps to safeguard their guinea pigs, in UK law they still have a duty of care. The company responsible for this fiasco gave generous out of court settlements. If this had come to court, it would have been made clear that protocols for existing clinical trials monoclonals are that the drug should be diluted in about a litre IV and infused slowly over an hour. Furthermore, prednisolone and adrenaline should be on standby in case of adverse reactions. Also when giving a drug for the first time, a staggered administration means that any problems can be anticipated and addressed. It would have been extremely likely that if this was put before a court, they would have been found guilty of gross negligence.
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  806. Sorry, I don't think that, that is true, unless it is some sort of pyre cremation. Normally all that is left are long bones and artificial hips and dental crowns, gold is retrieved and the bones are crushed to dust in a special machine.
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  807. The first tests are done on healthy volunteers to establish toxicity, in the absence of symptoms that might be caused by the disease rather than the drug.
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  808. They killed a cop so the other crims will think them heroes
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  809.  @boomboommancini6415  They are travellers, so half their kith and kin will be prisoners, so that is likely to afford them some sort of protection. As travellers they are generally into bare knuckle boxing and doubtless their group will have taught them how to make weapons from stuff that they find. So for instance if you want to scald someone then you stir lots of sugar into tea before throwing it at someone, they make rudimentary knives by taking the blade out of a razor and setting it into the back of a plastic toothbrush by getting the plastic hot with a lighter. Trust me lads like this, can barely read and write, but they are likely to know this stuff and if they can laugh about killing someone like they did they will have no fear to make and use weapons.
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  810.  Thomast Tham  Must be why Rees-Mogg misspelt sextus as sixtus
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  811.  @OMundoSegundoUmaSagitariana  So Cambridge and Oxford are not stuffed with intelligent, white folk then?
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  812.  @eedragonr1576  You know those phone masts, well when your phone is switched on, it continually communicates with the phone masts around it. To find out where your phone was and when, all the government needs to do is look into those records. It can be pinpointed to within a few metres by the sort of triangulation technique that was pioneered during the early years of RADAR. When people have denied murders, etc they have used such evidence to prove people's whereabouts, hence destroying alibi stories.
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  813.  @eedragonr1576  Too late, they will have already figured that one.
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  814.  @eedragonr1576  Thankfully they probably do not have easy access to other methods, but I have always had doubts about who we share our tech information with.
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  815. Certainly identify with the last one. My next-door neighbour is elderly and when her husband started to get feeble, I started to do more and more for her. It started off with me getting shopping in for her and putting her bins out for her. When her husband got worse, I gave her the forms to claim Attendance Allowance and taxied her to the hospital on a number of occasions and when I am using weedkiller on my own front garden I used to do hers too and when I was planting up containers twice a year I would always do one for her. The problem was with doing her shopping on a regular Saturday spot meant that if I needed to drop the shopping early for any reason, I'd have to let her know in advance. Over the years I noticed that she became sarcastic about stuff that we were doing on a Saturday. So we got invited to the Freemason's Christmas do, her response was that it is charity and that they must feel sorry for us and that she wouldn't go if it was her. My 15 year old son has autism and does the sound for a choir, ditto and when he was invited to speak at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology programming she had something critical to say. Well, she has recently crossed the Rubicon. Before the lockdown hit, I told her that, that particular Saturday and the following one were going to be the last weekends that I intended to go to Waitrose, because it is 25 miles away and it is in a more populated area and presented more of a coronavirus risk than shopping locally. She knows that I am severely asthmatic, but still chose to ridicule my decision and she ridiculed my decision to wear facemask and gloves when shopping. Not only that but once the virus did hit, she told 2 other elderly neighbours off for going shopping together, which is something that they have always done and went on to say that if it wasn't for them disobeying lockdown orders, then there was me being ridiculous by wearing PPE and depriving the NHS of it. I will make it clear at this stage, I bought one box of 50 surgical masks back in February which are shared between myself, my son and my parents, they were bought well before there was any mention of PPE shortages. Where we live is very open plan and the neighbours could not be off knowing that I do stuff for her and so they criticised her being nasty about me and she then made out that I don't have any other friends. That could not be further from the truth, but put it this way, I will not be counting her as a friend from now on.
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  816. Why would he worry if she was pregnant, he is doing a disappearing act, she cheated, whether any putative child is his or not WHY would he want to have anything to do with her?
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  817. The way in which it works now is that the benefit is paid retrospectively, but many child care providers expect to be paid up front. It often is not the case of giving up willingly, many employers simply do not want the truck of employing mothers with young children.
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  818. Exactly, the more frequently that they do this, the more that these genetic mutations will affect successive generations. It is a time bomb for our healthcare systems and our welfare state, because of course despite having one child that has a genetic disability they choose to have more.
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  819. Problem is their parents are probably just as bad.
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  820. Because Eton has lots of overseas students and if they have it you can not have them in dorms spreading it or put them on a plane home.
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  821.  @ianclarke3627  They also tend to come from wealthy families and mummy and daddy can afford computers and internet and the school is broadcasting its lessons. The school itself has made these broadcasts available to state schools if they sign up, although this to an extent will be a manipulation no doubt to justify their charitable status. Whereas kids from poorer backgrounds will fall behind, although I only really see this as a problem in the 14 -18 age group.
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  822. If you were captured by the British it saved you from death. Many stayed and became a productive part of our society. In Bedfordshire they had the Italian prisoners of war making bricks and many of them stayed after the war and started their own businesses.
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  823. People who are altruistic, people who have lost loved ones to cancer etc, people who are desperate for money
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  824. Lots of people take these risks including a good number of scientists, to improve the lives of the many.
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  825. Drugs start off being tested chemically, they then move on to testing in tissue cultures, the law says that you then have to test in animals and usually they try to establish a dose per kilogram measure using rats or mice before moving on to primates.
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  826. At the moment I am selling a car because I unexpectedly acquired a second car. The problem is the car I want to be rid of is near its MOT date. The guys at my local garage know that it is being sold for a genuine reason and they know just how much work has been done and its service history. An old guy that runs a funeral business, went to them because his own car needed work and they advised him that his needed some pretty expensive work and told him that mine was for sale at a reasonable price, for its condition. The guy 'phoned me and decided to drop by to see it. He liked the car, but only offered half the asking price based on the fact that it is near its MOT date. He then said he would only buy it if I had it MOTed, at this point, I told him to be on his way. He then 'phoned me on the evening and said that he had booked the car in at my local garage for its MOT, I made it quite clear that I would not be paying for that. This morning at 8am he 'phoned me and said that the car situation was on hold because he was having to go to hospital for a cancer check up. Now whether this is true or not I have no idea. But he asked me to keep the car for him, I think he is playing some sort of game with me and you can bet that he is trying to edge it so close to the MOT date that he can buy it for little or nothing. So straight away, I phoned the garage and told them what had gone on. It turned out that I am not the only person who he gets on the wrong side of. The garage guys are hacked off with him so they are going to do a condition report on my car and rather than charge him directly, they will ramp up the labour charges next time he brings in a funeral hearse. To give you an idea 4 months ago I had a new clutch, dual flywheel mass and 2 new Michelin tyres at a cost of £1,300. I have seen my sort of car, same mileage and age for sale in the £1,400- £1,900 range and mine is for sale for £700, this guy has offered £300 and I accepted and then he started saying he wanted me to pay for an MOT which is £50. The galling thing is, he knows that I am a single parent with a disabled son and he stood there and boasted that it was not about the money because he has £50, 000 in the bank, it was about the value of the car and that he was doing me a favour. Good God if this is this guy's idea of a favour God help us. I have told him that I will keep the car for him till he is able to sort it out, but the reality is that I have no intention of doing that because I think that he is simply trying to take advantage of the situation.
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  827. Exactly, I had a cousin with 2 children first child healthy second child had a recessive gene disorder, they did not burden themselves or the state with more kids.
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  828.  @youare5907  If you are speaking about my cousin, they had no idea that the family had a recessive gene disorder until the younger child started to repeatedly get broken bones and neither did social services. Their younger child was taken into care, where she continued to get broken bones and so was returned to them, this was back in the late 80s and the child then had genetic analysis. The older child was not ill, but could have been a carrier. With recessive disorders, the children have a 25% chance of being affected by the condition, a 50% chance of being a carrier of the defective gene and a 25% chance of being neither affected or a carrier. So you can see that if a carrier of such a condition marries back into their own family, the chances of having an affected child are massively multiplied. My cousin, it turned out, was distantly related to her spouse, they did not know this at the time of their marriage and they must have both been carriers of the defective gene to have an affected child, but as I said they had the sense not to have any more children, unlike the folk in this video.
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  829. There has been such an expansion in higher education that we now have tons of people with degrees with no decent job to follow up on. Put it this way I have 2 musicians within my family one is very successful the other despite getting a scholarship to some specialist music school, has wound up being a teacher because there are more musicians than openings. I find it really frustrating that we need more doctors and nurses, but instead we offer nigh on useless degrees.
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  830.  @ShaneHummus  I am UK based and my relatives and I got our degrees before the introduction of tuition fees. My successful relative is Jonathan Freeman-Attwood he is the head of the Royal College of Music, he is also a recording artist in his own right and does some broadcasting work. My own degree is in biology and I have an HNC in engineering, prior to having my child I did various lab-based jobs. In Britain, we have a shortage of homegrown doctors and nurses, most of our medical staff are from overseas, which begs the question why are we not training our own people for these roles and also by poaching staff from other countries are we not causing health staff shortages in their countries of origin? Half of the population here go on to do degrees, the problem is that many of those with degrees exit with large debts, but without the 'graduate career' to justify the expense. Let's face it you do not need a gender studies degree to go flip burgers in Mcdonalds.
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  831.  @NotFoxUK  Standard of proof there at that time was 'beyond reasonable doubt', same as a criminal law court, it is due to be changed to 'on the balance of probability'
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  832.  @NotFoxUK  "innocent until proven guilty" for crimes that could result in a custodial sentence, with other courts than there is a lower standard of evidence of "on the balance of probability", this is for cases that would not result in a criminal record, such as wrongful dismissal or disability discrimination and the like. Cambridge University applies the higher standard of evidence and this is why they upheld the complaint made by this lady, because her harasser had sent her up to 50 texts a day containing sexual innuendo, most harassers at Cambridge are a little more savvy then this and make sure there is not an evidence trail and therefore get away with their behaviour.
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  833.  @NotFoxUK  Not very frequently, unless there is a long history of this sort of thing the courts generally give a suspended sentence or community service and community service in Cambridge seems to consist of blokes standing around on Midsummer Common in high vis wear with the words Community reparation on the back, all just smoking, drinking tea and shooting the breeze, they never appear to be doing much work.
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  834.  @NotFoxUK  This is why a charge of rape or sexual assault has to be proven beyond reasonable doubt in the UK and this is part of the reason why there have been guys who have raped multiple women and got away with it time and time again, because any previous is not made known to the judge. All the guy says is 'she liked it rough'. The situation of the university dealing with it should have been that they effectively separated both parties without detrimenting the victim. The guys guilt was established to the standards of criminal law, he should have been punished by either having to take a sabbatical and return after the victim had completed her degree or provision should have been made for him to study elsewhere.
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  835. This is a drug trial, which is mandatory, to bring a product to market, not something contagious.
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  836. To get any novel drug ie not a herbal product to market in the UK, USA and Europe it is mandatory to have drug trials not just in animals, but also in humans too.
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  837. For a charge to be murder there has to be both premeditation and intent to kill and in this case that can not be demonstrated.
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  838.  @monicakelloway3953  The problem is that they are not going to admit anything like that are they. Their defence will be: 'we just wanted to get away from the police and we were totally unaware that we were dragging a body behind the car'. Their defence solicitors will point out that it was dark and it all happened in a flash. No one can prove or disprove that why they were driving that they were aware or not aware that they were dragging a body. So it makes murder too difficult to prove.
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  839.  @monicakelloway3953  Sorry to hear that, that is horrible. I completely agree that the murderers get treated better than their victims. I worked for Anglian Water and was in the tearoom watching the traffic on the A14/A1, When past came 2 prison vans with a convoy of police cars and outriders. Turned out it was the multiple murderer Donald Neilson being moved from HMP Whitemoor to Little Hey. From what he had done I knew that he was meant to serve a whole life tarrif in a class A prison, so was surprised to hear of the move. Turns out it was so that they could redecorate his cell. It cost in excess of £40,000 to decorate his cell and move him for a few nights. At the time I was earning £17,400 per year and you can only imagine how hard working people feel about their taxes going to pay for such a thing when we have innocent people die in this country for the lack of NHS funding. Sorry, but if I ran the prison system, it would have been a case of: You want your cell redecorated, well we will wait till their is a free cell and then you will be able to decorate your own cell. There you go ladders, rollers, paint, masking tape; get on with it. Costs about £40. Oh and the 2 prison vans, one was a decoy in case the heavily guarded convoy was attacked. The authorities did a darn sight better job of protecting him than they did his 17 year old hostage. I used to know an ex criminal law barrister, he gave up because he was sick of having to represent the same scum over and over again. Sad that there is so little in the way of years inside to deter some of these people.
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  840. With a side of fried brain for a zombie apocalypse for real
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  841. You pay for your own funeral, if not you are pt in an unmarked grave.
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  842. A plane did hit the Pentagon, but they did not make very much of it.
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  843. Really! Sex workers do not charge that much. If a guy is not creepy and pestering women for s3x then he can have any number of female friends. Social security in Britain is not that great, so women here don't have choice not to do this once their money runs out.
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  844. honestly, the arrogance of louis is the best arrogance ive ever seen, for apple we need it. we love you, keep it up.
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  845. What in a country that is beyond rich from oil where people run around in Italian supercars and cars with gold hubcaps?
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  846. To differentiate the effects of the drug on the human body from the effects of the disease that you are hoping to treat. Later in clinical trials, it would have been to treat sufferers.
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  847. Not always, a sinus can remain, although this is abnormal.
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  848.  @DeRien8  Fair point.
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  849. Yeah, especially given that I used to work in the same building as her. Let's put it this way, she sure has been sexed up for her TV appearance.
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  850. So is he such a good guy that he is giving away all the money he earns from this to rape charities?
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  851. Take too long to act and might enrage the animal, which would be dangerous for the child.
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  852. This is the UK where it is nigh on impossible to get handguns and difficult to get shotguns even. To be licensed the police interview you and want to know what you want a gun for and whether you have a proper locked gun cabinet and your doctor is also contacted to ensure that you are sane.
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  853. Let me put it simply, if you are a young guy then you might have better options then a single mum. If you are 35+ and do not own your own property or you have children yourself elsewhere then your options might not be so great, so at that point you are probably going to have to decide to be alone or be with someone who is a single parent.
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  854.  charlie cheeseface  The blockage problem was fixed by a bloke with what looks like a spring that shoots out of a drill. It scoured the inside of the pipe of limescale.
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  855.  charlie cheeseface  Tried that one, no chance, the only thing available is a disabled facilities grant and that does not cover repairs. My son has autism and Deficits in: Attention; Motor co-ordination and Perception with Pragmatic Disorder. His condition means that he is very clumsy, he has broken or damaged God only knows how much stuff.
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  856.  @ThereIsOnlyOneStuart  It is extremely scary, as of course I already know what it is like to need emergency treatment through not being able to breath and obviously I assume that if I was to contract it that I would not survive. In many ways though, I am lucky that I live in a rural town, I am able to go out in my garden and in the first wave we were not so badly affected here. Problem is that this has left people complacent. I am guessing that if you know people that have either been very bad or passed away as a result then everyone around them is more careful afterwards, here you do see many people in the street and shops that do not wear masks, People have such a poor understanding of epidemics. They nearly always hit cities and ports first and spread outwards from there. Places like London, which were badly hit during the first wave are now likely to have a much greater population of people that are immune to it and so it is likely to transmit more poorly there than in communities that do not have many immune individuals. People forget that side of the story, so people that you talk to will say it is fine here, it is all in London, Birmingham, Manchester, Cardiff, it is only now that it is starting to spread here and even so people are, 'once the jab is here, we will be fine'. Even my own parents don't really understand that they need 2 doses of that jab for a decent level of protection and that you need a decent percentage of the population to be innoculated to offer protection, because there will be members of the population for which the vaccine is not 100% effective. Today I read that 72% of the BAME population are unlikely to have the jab. So I suspect that a reservoir of the disease will continue to do the rounds in areas with big BAME populations. After innoculations in the rest of the population, then new mutations will emerge from areas of low vaccine uptake and eventually there will be a mutation that will beat the vaccine and we could be back to square one again. How long that would take to happen is anyone's guess.
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  857.  @bitsbobs5509  You and I and the jury knowing that these scumbags knew that they were dragging the guy is one thing, proving it beyond reasonable doubt is quite another. If the jury had the option of saying it was murder then all that would have happened is that these shameless vermin would have taken it to the appeal court to get the sentence overturned. Their defence will happily present that the PC got his foot accidentally caught, unbeknowst to them in the tow rope, it was dark and they are too inexperienced as drivers to realise what had happened or that they were too drunk or too high.
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  858. Coronavirus is spread by droplet infection, the same as 'flu and the common cold. Common route for infection is through the eyes, so swimming goggles are not as daft as they sound.
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  859.  @matthewlipton2998  Not much use getting your eyes covered without mouth and nose, so I take your point.
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  860. OK, they have to check that the drug does not cause side effects, if you gave the drug straight to cancer patients then it might be difficult to differentiate the side effects of the drug from natural disease progression that would have occurred without the administration of the drug.
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  861.  @R3cuzican  You think that because the people have cancer and are already weakened, that the drug may cause a problem in those patients that it would not cause in a healthy patient? That is a valid point and of course it is entirely the case that, that could happen. This is the reason that we have clinical trials. The next stage in clinical trials is that the drug is often tested in a population that has the disease, but are having problems with the standard treatment. Either the normal treatment is no longer effective against the disease OR the normal treatment is giving potentially life threatening side effects in itself. So the experimental drug has a real potential benefit over and above the standard regime. Or the other circumstance is where the person has been determined to be terminally ill and is drinking in last chance saloon. If the drug is judged to be efficacious in those groups it then passes to a double blind test. In this the patients are randomly assigned the standard treatment or the trial drug. At the half way point in the trial they change drugs to the other drug and at the end of the trial the results are analysed. During the whole period, death rates between the groups are continuously monitored and if there was a problem then the trial would be stopped early and the groups unmasked so that the best treatment could be administered. It typically takes between 8 and 12 years to get a drug from the lab bench and into general use.
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  862. It beggars belief that they made it so much about homophobia. Frankly, when I was younger, I had the sense to realise that to live under my parents' roof I needed to toe the line. I am 49 and as a 18-23 year old living in my parents' home it was made clear that short skirts, piercings, makeup and boyfriends stopping over would be unacceptable. When you want to have a partner you simply move out and be an adult. After all as long as you are paying the rent, the average non live in landlord could not give a toss about your choice of partner.
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  863. Wooden boxes are prohibitively expensive.
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  864. That's right, but don't forget that Japanese would rather kill themselves than face dishonour. Their pilots used to fly into battleships and the Samurai used to commit ritual suicide by stabbing themselves in the abdomen.
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  865. And what makes you think that things have improved much?
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  866. A way simpler one would have been : a package within a package and inside the inner package place some harmless powder and a BROKEN glass vial together with a label stating biohazard anthrax. Would probably be difficult to do you for anything as it is not anthrax and even if it was, it would be them that had taken it. No need for cameras, you just know they will not be sleeping that night and they will worry themselves silly for a good time to come. Even just putrescine on the cardboard package and then the package sealed in a plastic bag.
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  867. To the first question would you continue to date a man if you found out he was married, most decent women would say no, quite simply because they know that the only future they are likely to have in that relationship is as a mistress, unless of course that is all they aspire to be or are deluded. To the second question if a relationship has problems then the correct thing to do is to seek expert therapy and try to make it work, if you really cannot work the problems out then divorce is really the only answer. The reality is that lots of guys say that their woman is treating them horribly, but quite frequently the woman just wants the guy to take some responsibility in the relationship. If a woman knows that the guy is married, then she has equal responsibility in breaking the marriage up because she is enabling his bad behaviour.
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  868. Wow I cloned the cell line that makes that drug from a b7g2b genetic switch back. Hope your arthritis/crohn's disease is responding well?
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  869. People here do not always have a great choice. If you are unemployed and debts build up, you'd most probably do anything. At least it is legal.
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  870. Because usually your friends know the guy and so he is less inclined to nuisance call you.
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  871. The people where the plane hit would have been obliterated instantly and in many ways they were the lucky ones. There would have been burning airplane fuel. The people who were above the hit zone were worse off, because damage to the building cut off their escape routes down. People were so desperate to escape the overwhelming heat and choking smoke that they threw themselves out of the windows, truly terrible.
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  872.  Ken MacDonald  How the hell do you know if it is weatherproof? Last time I had a roof repair it cost £1,600 because of the cost of the tower scaffold that was needed and not everyone in Britain lives on mains sewers or has on demand hot water. If you live in the countryside the chances are you do not have mains gas, we had a solid fuel Rayburn and open fires and water was heated that way and we had a cesspit that um was shared between three houses and regularly overflowed. So, no not everyone lives to your supposed standards in the UK.
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  873. Rather than bringing people back from China to spread it in other countries, surely it is a better idea to send the country supplies to tackle it there and refund the cost of any care for expats and have an agreement to extend the visas of any Chinese abroad to keep them safe.
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  874. You are better off without her
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  875. But in the UK when we work we are paid less and pay much more in taxes and National Insurance. This is supposed to act as a safety net for everyone.
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  876.  @sherrymiller2302  Definitely better paid at your end. I used to date Dr. Huw Kruger-Gray. He emigrated to the USA and although he would like to return to England, he can not find a job that will match his salary there, plus food and stuff seems to be much cheaper.
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  877. The thing is they have been raised in households that have no idea about budgeting. One of the more useful items they can actually buy is a freezer, a freezer means that you can go around the supermarket and pick up large amounts of food that is about to hit its use-by date. If you eat meat or any ready meals you can save a large amount of money this way. There are even places that sell freezers that are new, but have cosmetic faults like scratches or dents and let's face it if that fault is on the side of the appliance then you are quids in.
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  878.  @69butternut.  Well, precisely. To be fair many people who work do not receive £26K per annum, either before tax or after tax and they may not be entitled to many of the extra benefits that unemployed people are entitled to like: free prescriptions; free dental care; free eye tests; free school meals; council tax; housing benefit; legal aid etc. Unfortunately, my son has autism and my husband walked out. I had to pay him £80K as part of the divorce. I own my own house, but because of my son's disability it has been impossible to work, so I am in receipt of income support. Even before life threw me a curveball or two I had to budget. As a student, I ran my own business. When I worked I was always careful with money, very few of my clothes were not bought in sales at big reductions and everything I had, I made do and mended with until the item was truly past using in some form. The problem is that some people come from backgrounds where worklessness is culturally ingrained. Many have poor planning skills, so, for instance, the guy who wants an exotic animal menagerie, sounds nice, but has he done his homework? How much is the equipment, heating and food going to cost? How much are vets bills for such animals? How much is the insurance going to be in case one of these animals bites a child? Is there a demand for such a service in his area and how much is each animal experience going to yield? Whilst I admire the fact that he is actually doing something, personally, I don't think that he has factored into the equation his own living costs.
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  879. Positive reinforcement for good behaviour, locked in cell and ignored for bad behaviour.
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  880. Sorry, but it is extremely difficult to leave someone who is abusive, not because you love them, but because you are terrified what they will do if you leave.
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  881. Hope that was a joke? The drug is a monoclonal antibody not a virus.
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  882. How about just being thankful that you and your loved ones are not disabled
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  883. It makes me wonder if it was correctly ventilated because she could have died from lack of oxygen.
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  884. Yes, and the style of wig denotes seniority. They are made of horsehair and are periodically sent away for washing and restyling. Family court judges, no longer tend to wear them unless it is a big case in case a child is called as a witness.
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  885.  @pippipster6767  I thought that those acting as a 'normal barrister' wear a short style wig, whereas Queen's Counsel wear the full bottomed style.
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  886. The guy was knocked unconscious when he was pulled off his feet, so they would not have heard him.
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  887. Go back and ask what you were given, if they refuse, start to quote informed consent laws.
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  888.  @magunra3k  I am sure people do look for better paid employment. But it is getting it. There is a big problem with doing more than 1 job in that it cocks up your tax and National Insurance something chronic. The system was not set up to cope with the realities of life now. As for tax well, I paid £75,000 up to the age of 34, when I had my son. My son is disabled and my ex-husband pays only the minimum and he even stopped paying that at one stage. The system should make absent parents pay more, but until that day I won't feel too guilty about claiming from a system that I have contributed towards
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  889. I am a woman and apart from lifting a tyre, I can actually change one and when the boiler goes wrong, I do not need any guy to do the basic stuff like checking the boiler pressure, bleeding radiators, repressurising the system or creating a temporary expansion expansion tank out of a proximal radiator when the diaphragm fails. If I can fix it myself, happy days
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  890. Yes, but she may have hit the guy first and she is likely to be trespassing herself on someone else's land, which while not a criminal act of itself, the land owner might claim that she has damaged his land. So these cases do not come to court unless the sabs have good evidence and are in the clear.
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  891. Jaywick in Essex is as bad.
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  892. Essentially an apple curd, would add primroses to improve.
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  893. I think that your social situation can have a lot to do with developing crushes. Years ago, I worked for a company where there had been multiple restructurings, people regularly got fired and the bosses were bullies. I was married and so was the guy that I had a crush on. We never took it any further, but we regularly flirted. We were both doing jobs where our skills were underutilised, we worked long hours, we were both on the receiving end of unjust bullying and disciplinaries. The guy was drop dead gorgeous, he was cultured, he spoke a couple of foreign languages, his name was James and his extension number was 007. The first time I had a legitimate reason to speak to him, was when my terminal threw a wobbly. After fixing it, his response was you must call me if you have a problem again, you know my number, don't you..... Er, no? ......Its 007.....hey and I'm Miss Moneypenny......No, more like Pussy Galore....... Really, wasn't she er lesbian, nevermind I am sure you could turn her, phew its hot in here. The reality was that we simply had quite a lot in common. I held an HNC in engineering, he held a degree in engineering, he had studied at Cambridge University, I had worked as a researcher at Cambridge University. We had similar values and a similar sense of humour. We worked in a stressful workplace, for many hours a week and fancying the pants off one another was just a way of making the week a lot more bearable. One day, I came into work to be told that he had, had a road accident and had been cut out of his car and was in hospital, I don't know how I held it together. He recovered and returned to work with pretty much a permanent limp. One day, one of my bullying bosses caught us flirting with one another and he thought that this made me fair game. I tried to explain to him that whilst I cared very deeply about my colleague, that I also loved my husband and would not do anything to break up my marriage or my co-worker's marriage, he tried to blackmail me and I told him whatever he chose to do was between him and his conscious. So he waited till I was at my lab bench in front of everyone in the lab and announced that I was having some sort of relationship with this guy. I blushed and everyone went oo we didn't see that one, so to parry it I started singing Kylie Minogue's I should be so lucky. Of course, I then had everyone going oo-er you fancy James, to which the only response could be well he is drop dead gorgeous and I do not need a trip to Specsavers and to that I added that I was married as is he and the fact that I like him very much is exactly why I would not break his marriage up by having an affair. This did me no harm with my workmates, as they just seemed to think that i was far more honest and decent then some of the bosses. The boss, however, was a different matter. He was angry that he had been knocked back, he was angry that his blackmail had not been effective and he was angry that the result of what he had said in the lab was that we just all had a good laugh about it and in actual fact, it seemed to have made me more popular. He got his own back eventually, by telling a pack of lies about me to get me dismissed. About 6 years later, my James was dismissed too, I know that he must have signed a nondisclosure agreement, because he suddenly no longer wanted to talk to a mutual friend and I. The vile boss, we have reason to believe, that he behaved towards other people similarly and that he eventually got his comeuppance. With regard to crushes, I think if we are honest we are all attracted to a wide range of people and as long as we keep this in proportion it can even be healthy.
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  894. Hippo the playground bully that gets outsmarted by the rhino. Such a bright idea to pick a fight with something with a ruddy great sharp horn on the front of its head.
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  895. These sound absolutely ideal for small gardens and maybe even public spaces.
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  896. With these drugs they are targetted to a particular epitope associated with the disease, the purpose of what they were doing was to elucidate any side effects of the drug.
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  897. They won't get a job, but they are travellers and will just move off elsewhere where people don't know them
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  898. but it wasn't intended to kill anyone
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  899. Unfortunately, a lot of unpleasant people make it up the greasy pole, because they know who to treat right or the people at the top are that way and they are such egotists that they promote those that they see as being like themselves. Ultimately, it is not the greatest strategy. It is better to have your workforce to work hard because they buy into the aims of the company and respect their bosses rather than from a point of fear. Unhappy workers are always on the lookout for a way out and this leads to a demoralised work force.
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  900.  @alanwilson2073  Yeah, I had a bullying lying bastard of a boss too. His wife had left him and their daughter, must have been bad for a mother to abandon their child. His mother was the unpaid childminder. That child is now an adult. An adult that has been done for drink driving. She was reported by a witness who saw her car all over the place and saw it park up outside their home. The police called, psycho boss then tried to make out that his daughter had been drinking since she got home. Do I believe him, do I hell after all the lies that he told about me and other people. Neither did the judge and she was banned from driving. Let me put it this way, the darling daughter, whom he described as being the top of the class at everything at 14, left school with very little in the way of qualifications (ain't Linkedin a bitch). The only kind description of her is alternative. She is covered in piercings and tatoos and her hair has been just about every shade of the rainbow, she has had her child out of wedlock, she does not work, she claimed to have borderline personality disorder and she is into all this satanic shit. Lovely! The ex-boss himself, left the workplace a couple of years after me, in mysterious circumstances. I was told by an ex work colleague that the workforce was gathered together and told that there would be a leaving party for him that Friday. Well the final year that I was there he was bemoaning that he would like to leave, but that his pension pot was not big enough to allow him to do this for at least another 10 years, my guess is that he somehow was facing dismissal and chose to jump rather than be pushed, he was not popular with the union, who knew exactly what he was capable of. He went on to do a part-time job at a Costa coffee shop, I am betting that cleaning tables, loading dishwashers and serving coffee are a big come down from being the boss of your own department. It makes me laugh, because when I see reviews of this coffee shop online some people have said how rude and abrupt he is, so he is obviously none too happy in his new job, I just hope Karma comes full circle and he has to work for the sort of boss that he himself was.
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  901. When anyone reaches 100 years of age, you can not really blame death on anything other than old age.
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  902. I think that you can protect anything with a metal cage, it is called the Skinner effect.
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  903. I used to work making clinical trials drugs. The reality is that a lot of things that would have happened in series in a normal drug trial have happened in parallel in this trial. So usually, there are chemical tests in a lab, then a round of meetings with investors and ethics committees and if all is well, then there are tests in tissue culture on isolated cells. If a drug passes this there will be more rounds of meetings with ethics and investors and then the drug goes into rats or mice. These stage have just been run at the same time and the usual round of endless meetings and funding problems have been circumvented. Nothing is 100% safe, that is a fact, there are just degrees of safety with anything.
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  904.  @MsTinkerbelle87  This is the thing, most people understand how vaccines work and will go and have the vaccine because they realise that having the vaccine will produce less side effects than catching COVID. The problem is that vaccines are not 100% effective, some people do not mount a sufficient immune response to the vaccine due to a poor immune system. If you add that to the number of people that are refusing the vaccine, then there is the potential for this to rumble on for a number of years; the problem with that being that the more it is passed around the more opportunity there is for a mutant strain to arise that is so different from the original strain that the vaccine is ineffective against it.
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  905. Probably because if there is a problem, then the rent coming out could leave them with prohibitive bank charges for an unauthorised overdraft
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  906. My dad worked for Rover and he had a Rover 75 which he passed on to me when he could no longer get down into it. I LOVED it, the problem was that I am now taking him to hospital more now and obviously he still struggled to get into it so I had to change it for a Nissan Juke that I definitely don't love. It handled impeccably, the engine ran as smooth as can be and together with the low slung suspension gave a great ride. The clutch failed at 120K and as a result the slave cylinder and dual weight fly wheel had to be replaced, it was an expensive job as the gear box had to be removed to do the work. One of the guys at my local garage bought it as they were aware of its history, originally just as a run around until he could get the parts to repair his Jeep, but he fell in love with it too. They used to call it the silver beast and so when I sold it to him I wished him many happy adventures making the silver beast purr, he said 'nah, I'm going to make the beast ROAR'. So I told him that I could easily get 85mph out of it and he looked really surprised, next time I saw him he had done just that and said that he thought that my claim was BS and was absolutely delighted with its performance. If I win the lottery, I will be buying one again.
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  907. The Quran does not say anything either way about cousin marriages, what seems to happen frequently is that it is about keeping wealth within the marriage or sometimes it can be about getting other families to live in this country.
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  908. Unfortunately, house prices have risen with demand and this has impacted rents. This has forced people to live in cheaper areas that are cheaper because there is less work in the area.This then means that travel to work costs become an issue. I own my home and I am entitled to benefits because I am a carer to a disabled child and I have paid into the system. The problem has been caused by a perfect storm of housing shortage, rising house price and zero hours contracts. Going to work makes some people only marginally better off, if that.
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  909. I completely agree. I live in the UK and have a BSc in biology and a HNC in mechanical engineering and used to work in biotech. £24K would be about what I would earn for a FULLTIME job, it is salaried and the hours are very long 50-60 hours per week is normal and some weeks will be longer than that, leaving no time for a second job. The pay is so much better in the USA, she would be better just trying to find a second job or a full time job.
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  910.  @Frument4rius  probs not browser tbf
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  911. Why the hell would any man want to trade places with a woman, fancy: periods, childbirth and less pay, doubt it somehow. As a single mother am I interested in you if you are not interested in me because I am a single mother, hell no, why would I want to hook up with someone that would treat my child as a burden and that is all that many guys do anyway. When it comes to child support, if you have made a child as the mother the chances are you will have day to day responsibility and the chances are this gives the father the freedom not only to date freely, but also to make more money than the mother. The mother has a child to consider and can not stay at work till 7,8,9pm, why would you promote or give overtime to a woman, when there is a guy who does not have a childcare problem. The woman is not the only person who has made a child, the man has too and if the woman is facilitating a guy's career by having the responsibility for childcare, then frankly it is only fair that the guy contributes his FAIR share of child maintenance. What decent father would want their child to be raised in poverty whilst they get drunk? You wonder why women wind up shaming guys it is because they do some stuff that they really should be ashamed of.
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  912. Wouldn't really want it in your dawn chorus!
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  913.  @nialldevine1156  Yes, the DWP will pay income support and you will get DLA to cover the costs of incontinence pads and the extra costs of laundry and the sort of specialised equipment that your child will need, but it will not stretch to respite care. I did not condone what she has done. But don't you think that for someone to kill their child that they must be at the end of their tether? She had paid for a professional carer and that carer found the child too difficult to deal with and only did it 3 or 4 times. If a trained professional is finding it difficult to deal with her child doesn't it say that it is going to be extraordinarily difficult for an untrained parent with no back up to cope 24/7? The state needs to provide respite, but in many areas this is not possible and the father should not have abdicated his responsibility.
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  914. You frequently find that there is a mismatch in communication. The guy has not picked up on subtle cues like the woman has not responded, because he has picked the impossibly attractive one who has tons of attention from more attractive guys than him. Catfishing is a bit sad and it is a sad enditement that some people can not see beyond a person's physical appearance. If a woman grabs the bill, then frankly you should at the very least offer to go Dutch and really if you have invited her out, then she is your guest and you should pay, this is simple etiquette and as they say manners maketh the man.
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  915. Good luck with those Bernoulli equations!
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  916. It is private property and they have the right to set what conditions they like for entrance. In the UK there are clubs that don't allow women to be members and they probably don't allow black people either, their club, their rules and yet we have idiots like this who can not comply with a completely reasonable request.
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  917. Britain has got into this mess because of the taxpayer bailout of the banks that made unwise investments in the subprime sector. I do not see many bankers paying in a comparable way to the poor of this country. You should remember that Universal Credit is also an in work benefit that allows employers to pay low wages in comparison to rent/mortgage and it has also allowed zero hour contracts to thrive. Back in the late 80's I never saw any homeless people in Worcester and the only ones in Cambridge were the drug addicts and alcoholics who had put themselves in that position. Now there are plenty of homeless, are you seriously telling me that this is just down to laziness?
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  918. Exactly, the people who pay for the poor are those that are only one rung up the ladder from them, because the rich all have tax efficient vehicles to ensure that they do not pay out a fair proportion of their wealth.
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  919.  @johnwoodward8741  Exactly.
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  920. No one knows what is going to hit them in life. Your stable job could go down the swanny or you might need to buy expensive life saving drugs that the NHS just will not provide. A lot of people will now unexpectedly have to rely on benefits.
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  921. Totally and utterly arbitrary! You can go in a pub or restaurant where there might not be social distancing, but you can't be in a group that is socially distanced in the park. Is there some magic shield around the pub that stops corona virus?
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  922. It takes two to create a kid and once they are here they need care, whichever parent does not have residency should go out to work.
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  923. Usually, blood samples would be taken as part of the investigation of the drug.
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  924. Animal tests before human tests are mandated by the Geneva convention
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  925. Sadly, the courts do not seem to enforce maintenance orders once they are 12 months old. Disgusting really
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  926. You know how we have a shortage of fruit pickers at the moment, they want to be fed whilst in prison... out on the chain gang picking.
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  927. Not really the sort of things that you learn at Cambridge. You learn who is who and how to network and improve your career prospects that way. In Cambridge, there are a lot of small group and one to one supervisions and lots of opportunities to harass people in these circumstances. It is simply the structure of learning there that has existed for centuries and is part of what makes it one of the World's leading universities.
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  928. How can you be sure that the mummy is not partly Nubian and therefore mixed race? Secondly, regardless of the ethnicity of the mummy, part of the embalming process was the use of plant resins and things like beeswax, such substances could be dark to start with or could darken with the action of oxidation over a thousand plus years, plus you never really know what other conditions upon discovery that the mummy has been exposed to.
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  929.  @lissaal15  Yes, but they had tons of concubines, hence the several hundred children of some pharaohs. Now children that were in line for the royal throne were first and foremost products of incest. But there would have been plenty of other children and who nows whether concubines were Egyptian or Nubian slaves and how their children would be treated upon death.
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  930. @Dave Littlewood Only in Glasgow.
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  931. Or get recovered lactating mothers provide milk to the ill.
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  932. No, even in this scenario the experimenters have a duty of care to the volunteers that is enshrined in UK law. If a case like this came to court, because the drug testers did not follow well established protocols for administering monoclonal antibodies, it would be likely that they would be found guilty of gross negligence. I was involved in the development of CAMPATH.
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  933. Permission was not denied for the BLM protests though, police took a softly, softly approach there.
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  934.  @liamward4618  Can't have one rule for BLM and another for women, just because BLM are stronger. And I completely agree with you, lots of people failed to follow common sense and lockdown rules, caught Covid and happily passed it on to completely innocent people. The not wearing a mask thing was so bad where I live that I bought and use a FFP3 class respirator. I understand the risks and take appropriate action to protect myself and others. Part of the problem has been the government not quite understanding and putting across those risks to the population, hence they let Cheltenham Gold Cup and football matches go ahead despite the fact that they knew that it was going to be only human nature for those who had bought the tickets to show up and risk catching it. I wore a mask and so did my parents from day 1 of the first lockdown.
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  935. Clinical trials drugs are initially given to healthy people so that its actions can be differentiated from the disease it is being used to treat.
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  936. Horrible though what she did is, it sounds like she lived under unbearable pressure from her parents. She had a considerable level of extra curricula activities including playing the flute and the piano and high level figure skating and was expected to get high grades too. She just never had a hope in hell's chance of meeting her parents' overly high expectations and their love was very conditional on that. This just seems like someone that has had enough, she would have been better off just doing a disappearing act and I can not imagine that she copes too well in prison.
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  937.  @robschaller9061  This is not the case in the UK. The only men with much younger women here are rich or the women are from other countries. I live in a small rural market town and there are 4 men married to much younger women, 2 of them are on their second marriages to Thai women, their first marriages to Thai women failed and the women walked off leaving their kids here. There is another bloke who is married to a much younger woman whose face was badly disfigured in a fire. The last bloke married a woman who did not work and she already had 2 kids that were not his, they went on to have 3 more kids, then he cheated on her and walked out to be with an even younger woman that also already has kids, again not his, he has just kicked her out because she has cheated on him. The only bloke that I actually know that has had significantly younger women like you are talking about is a 72 year old rock star who is worth an estimated $200 million and even then the relationship did not last. He is genuinely a really nice guy.
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  938. That human has been pickled in formaldehyde and that has both preserved the tissues and to some extent changed their appearance, although fat is yellow.
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  939. Soon dropped that daft idea.
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  940. He seems to be making out that this woman is in someway an example of regular women when in fact not only is her condition fairly rare, but 3 times the number of men suffer from it. There is even some debate as to whether it should actually be defined as an abnormality, how exactly can you really define someone's libido as being abnormal, it is really only abnormal to them at the end of the day.
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  941.  @amyteeling2141  No I don't think that you are joking and I am only sorry that the criminal justice system is not much tougher on men that commit violence against women. If the guy had, had a serious sentence for one of his 171 prior convictions then maybe either he would have changed his ways or he might have been inside instead of inflicting pain on your family. My condolences.
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  942. Most likely of formaldehyde.
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  943. I think that they can fit in a shunt that drains the cerebral spinal fluid harmlessly into the stomach which relieves the pressure on the skull and the brain.
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  944. But blinking noisy, wouldn't want one in your back garden unless you need to annoy the neighbours.
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  945.  @Bringon-dw8dx  Any help that is given to the families helps the non neurodivergent person by extension
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  946. I am a single parent, not by choice, but because my husband di a bunk when our son was only 10 months old. If he had not done a bunk we would not be living in our current impoverished situation.
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  947. Because the Geneva convention forbids it, remember the Nazis?
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  948. Part of the problem is that there is a difference between dying of something and dying with something. Someone could have the common cold and be knocked over by a bus, in which case how much has the cold contributed to that death? Once someone is older than the average life span, how much of their death is as much due to the body's systems simply wearing out?
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  949. There was an out of court settlement for in excess of £2 million, as the testing company still had a duty of care to its guinea pigs. There were established protocols for administering monoclonal antibodies. I was involved with the development of CAMPATH, this drug came in a 5-10ml format which was diluted into a litre of isotonic intravenous drip. It was infused at a fairly slow rate, so if problems arose, you could stop infusing the drug and by extension limit the damage. It was also wise to have prednisolone and adrenaline on standby , in case of serious reactions. Where you are trying out a drug for the first time, it also would have made sense to leave at least 30 minutes between administering doses to individual volunteers. None of these precautions were taken in the trial. Therefore had the matter come before a court of law the victims would have had a good case for negligence.
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  950.  @shielamariehankinson3824  Well to be quiet honest if there are no approved drugs left then all anyone is left with are the experimental ones. There was one young patient called Nicola Coles that we treated, she had extreme vasculitis and she was on the brink of death, the doctors did not think that she would survive. This was '92 or '93, her parents were offered the opportunity of taking one of our experimental drugs, they agreed and the drug kept her alive. It did eventually stop working for her, but it bought her condition under control and bought her time. As a result, she had an extra 25+ years of life. If you put Prof John Isaacs in the youtube search box you will be able to hear some of the story of her treatment from her doctor's viewpoint.
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  951. Actually, I have a BSc in biology and an HNC in engineering. I worked for Cambridge University, but my marriage broke up and I had to move because of abusive ex and no longer able to afford the house that I lived in. My son has been diagnosed with ASD and I do not work, so I am not sitting too pretty.
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  952. @Dave Most people do not have the luxury of that option.
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  953. Thankfully they think that he was knocked unconscious when he was pulled off his feet, let's hope so and then at least he will have not known any pain.
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  954. Exactly. Looks a bit bad when the accused is one of their own into the bargain.
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  955. Just be thankful that you and your loved ones are able bodied
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  956. People who are abusive are incredibly manipulative. To escape my ex, I had to give up my career, move 126 miles away and cut contact with all my friends. I am not on the electoral roll and even my doctor does not have my correct address. When my ex was arrested for attacking wife number 2, the police were so worried that they could not locate me, they contacted my parents. My ex was on remand in prison for 3 weeks, when wife 2 rescinded her statement and we believe that she fled the country.
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  957. Or go dig up Copernicus.
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  958. A number of those people will have been on minimum wage and or zero hour contracts, which means that the nest egg that you take for granted is absent.
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  959. 10:10 USE GROUP POLICY!!!
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  960. God your mother must be so proud of you!
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  961. No one would have known who received the placebo/saline injection until the others showed an adverse reaction, but the black guy didn't because he got the placebo.
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  962. It is a big thing because fox populations need to be controlled somehow. If you have young animals or chickens foxes will maim or kill them. People want free range chickens and eggs, but a fox comes along and does not just kill the chicken it wants to eat, which would be a fair enough loss; NO you will come out to discover that it has bitten off the heads of every last chicken. Farmers can not repeatedly take losses like that and fulfill supply contracts with supermarkets or even just sustain the losses.
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  963.  @egooooooooo  Other countries use factory farming way more extensively then we do and that is cruel not just to the odd fox, but to lots of animals. Given the choice between chickens that have had their wings clipped so they can not stretch them, their beaks trimmed so that they can not peck at their neighbours that are so crammed in to cages that they can not move away from their aggressor and are in cages that are stacked on top of one another, so that they crap on one another and have to be fed a diet that includes antibiotics to combat the inevitable infections from such overcrowding. I think the pay off of the odd fox dying is a fair price for the relative freedom of thousands of birds.
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  964.  @egooooooooo  And lots of countries where foxes and other predators are routinely trapped, gassed and shot. Sadly, shooting foxes is not the greatest option, you have to be a pretty good shot to get a head shot every time and a fair few would wind up just being shot in the jaw and dying worse deaths days later. When a fox gets with chickens it kills them all.
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  965. Maybe there is a lack of work in the area in which he lives.
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  966. No, but you do get corpse sick when you turn them over!
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  967. Is sublimation or compensation actually unhealthy, I would have thought that they are rational ways to deal with adverse situations
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  968.  @stuartireland5974  Thank you for saying that
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  969. He always looks like he has been pulled through a hedge backwards.
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  970. Many Muslims are because many vaccines are not Halal.
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  971. Half the problem is that these incel guys for some reason feel that they are entitled to a really attractive woman, when they are not that attractive themselves. They call the less attractive women landwhales and the attractive ones that are uninterested sluts and whores
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  972.  @aidata0007  yep!
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  973.  Ya Caesareen  The poor, injured passenger in the car that has been hit has got a broken wrist. She has only recently started a job as a care worker and it seems likely that she is going to be absent from work for 8 weeks. This has the potential to result in her losing her job and if this is a zero hours or temporary contract, she may not receive sick pay. Look at the relative disparity between the wealth of a head of state and the sort of wealth accumulated by the average worker. Prince Philip, by all accounts, is in the wrong. He pulled out of a side road onto a 60mph main road, where he did not have the right of way, without being able to see the oncoming traffic, because he claimed he was blinded by the sun. It seems to be pretty cut and dried, that he is at fault and rather then fannying around with his new Range Rover toy that he was lucky enough to receive toute suite, perhaps he should be decent enough to tell his insurer that he was entirely at fault and that he wants all the injured parties to be compensated as quickly as possible, so that their lives are not inconvenienced beyond what is necessary. Many years ago, I lost control of my car as I rounded a corner on a road and hit a patch of ice, I hit a parked vehicle. Fortunately, no one was injured. I went to find the vehicle owner and mortified I explained what had happened, I gave him my insurance details immediately and contacted the insurer myself and was honest with my insurer as to what had happened and asked that they make sure that the matter was dealt with quickly. It was, the other driver got a courtesy car within 24 hours. The insurance was not a cheap brand and yes my premiums went up, but it was a small price to pay for the fact that 1) no one was injured 2) no police were involved as the person whose car I had damaged realised that I was mortified by what was a genuine accident and the fact that I did all that I could to mitigate the effects of the accident went a long way towards them not feeling aggrieved and contacting the police. My accident was one that could have happened to anyone, but had the police been involved then they could have taken the view that I was not driving to the road conditions and I could have been prosecuted. The insurance company did not do too badly out of it either, the other party was so impressed by their service that they changed their insurance to them as well.
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  974. Others may be too traumatised to speak or may have signed non-disclosure agreements in return for out of court settlements. This is what big business does in response to such worries that nefarious practices might be revealed
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  975. Venables has clearly not changed and should be locked up for life. The other sounds rehabilitated. Should have been given a life sentence and parole should mean that if they are in any more serious trouble like Venables, then the rest of the sentence should be imposed.
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  976.  @LewisC0298  Fox populations need controlling, foxes attack farmers young animals and if they get amongst chickens, they don't just kill one to eat they bite the heads off the whole lot. Farmers can not afford those sorts of losses.
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  977. Out of court settlements in excess of £2 million
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  978. USER
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  979. @Adam White LOL, nice one ;}
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  980.  @DSan-kl2yc  This is what half the people who try shaming single mothers seem to forget. That it takes two to tango and the father has helped to create that child and his responsibility should be state enforced. No one forces these men to have sex or not use contraception, half of them trick women into bed by making them believe that they have a shot at a relationship and then leave when their partner gets pregnant or gives birth. So if they cannot be responsible enough to not pump and dump or at least use contraception, then they should be made financially responsible for the offspring that these fathers do not want.
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  981.  @DSan-kl2yc  The problem is that there are a lot of people that simply do not shoulder the responsibility of parenthood, here in the UK there are now an awful lot of children that are in the care of the state and most of them are there because the parents are irresponsible. I was with my husband for over 8 years when I had our son, he wanted a child and then when that was fact and he needed to man up, he started to have an affair, he was gone before his own son's first birthday. He hid £250K in a trust fund and I had to pay him £80K in the divorce. He tried to run me over and the courts still granted him unsupervised contact. Which was eventually revoked because of his behaviour. He stopped paying maintenance and because our son is disabled I had to get it re-established by the courts, his excuse for not paying was that he had remarried and was now paying for 4 step-children that did not even live in the country. Skip forward to December 2015 and the cops showed up on my parent's doorstep asking about my welfare, they could not find me because I have functionally disappeared because my ex had become violent. It turned out that my ex's new wife had bought 2 of her children into the marital home and this had spelt a downturn in their relationship, he had assaulted her and he had been arrested and bailed and they needed to establish my safety. Bail was rescinded because new evidence came to light and he spent Christmas 2015 in jail, she came out of hospital and rescinded her statements and the prosecution was dropped. He is back out there now. I know that he does not pay me what he is supposed to do in child maintenance, because he has had pay raises and promotions, the only times he has ever put the maintenance up was when it went to court and it was not his decision and when he was arrested and he obviously would not want the police to know that he was cheating his disabled child out of money. In the UK you have to pay for family court hearings yourself, even if the judge says the guy is wrong and should be paying more, so unless you know that you stand to gain at least £4K that year it is not worth taking to court because your gains are outweighed by the costs, let alone the stress that it entails. The bastard knows full well that this is the case and he knows that his son's disability means that I cannot work, but he simply is not decent enough to do the right thing. Because of my son's disability, he is good with computers. He is 14 and has been invited to speak at Cambridge University this summer. He also wanted to go on a school trip, but because I had to have a new boiler, I am not able to afford for him to be able to do both, it breaks my heart that he winds up suffering this way, but you can bet that his father never gives a second thought as to how his dishonesty negatively impacts his own son. I would like my son to be able to study until 18, but as yet we do not know if financially this will be a possibility.
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  982.  @DSan-kl2yc  Well I am going to try to get a pro bono lawyer to take the case on for continued maintenance for both myself and our son, as when our divorce went through our son's condition was undiagnosed at that time. My ex was kept completely up to date with our son's condition by me sending on the reports until he was 7 years old, when my ex stopped paying maintenance. The school continued to send reports till he was 11 and the High school have not done so because they are aware of what he is like. If you can't do for your own child in life, all I can say is God help him, it just goes to show exactly how selfish he actually is. His own parents paid for him to be privately educated, but he quite clearly has no intention of ensuring his own son has the same level of privilege. I don't really understand someone who willing goes in for having a child and then does this sort of thing.
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  983. And once they get past a certain point they become tricky to feed because of refeeding syndrome.
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  984. an unrelated note: apple also has had a tendancy to prevent a user from using a used device (at least if it's been sold on by two different users in a year). my friend had an iphone, and he had attached two different apple IDs to the device (he had it less than a year) because the first apple ID was playing up. when i purchased the device from him (and as a reminder, i would not ever go out of my way to purchase an apple product), he factory reset it and i created an apple id ans tried to sign into it on my newly possessed iphone. this is the error that i got: Too many Apple IDs have been activated on this device. while i did contact support and they raised the limit, and it doesn't technically stop me from using the device, it stopped me from using the device to its full potential, especially since i could not install apps from the app store. if i have to contact support to be able to properly use a device that i purchased, and support may not have agreed to allow me to add my apple id to this device, then is it really my device? am i really able to purchase used apple devices or sell them on as many times as i like? i don't think i own this device, i never did.
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  985. Exactly, the people at the top do not follow the science and they do not lead by example.
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  986. That is irony for you isn't it.
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  987. Actually, contraception is no longer free form the doctor. It is not just kids that should suffer, it is the absent parent, they should be made to work and at least be paying taxes and child maintenance, if not they should be forced to work in the fields for a pittance, with the rest of the money going to their kids.
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  988. But street attraction actually filmed private sexual acts without the women's consent, which is illegal, so a bit of a difference. I have no problem with anyone teaching anyone else how to flirt, but that comes with a responsibility to teach them when that spills over into harassment. So the Spanish woman that they tried to chat up says that she has a boyfriend. Maybe she does or maybe it is an excuse because she is not interested in the guy, that was his cue to back off. If he really wanted to be a bit cheeky then a more productive reply would be: "Phew, lucky man! You don't happen to have any single friends that perhaps, you know, we could double date with?" The other thing that I thought was really worrying was the concept of overcoming LMR. They told the guys to continue to escalate an encounter by brushing off any obstacle the woman puts in the guy's way, so if the woman says this is all happening too fast then the guy's reply would be something along the lines of 'because you are so hot' and they were told to carry on whatever they were physically doing to the woman at the time. That sounds pretty rapey to me. Surely if you are groping a woman and she asks you to stop, you go back a step to kissing or hand-holding? Instead of teaching respect and authentic communication they seem to be teaching that you invest x amount of attention and then you can expect the woman to dispense sex like some sort of vending machine with no feelings.
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  989. For monoclonal antibodies which is the class of drugs that this fell into, there are established protocols that the clinic failed to follow. So they should have diluted the drug in 500ml of IV fluid and infused it slowly over an hour or so. That way if a problem starts to show then you can stop the infusion and treat the symptoms and the person has not received the whole dose. Cytokine storms, such as the ones described here are a known risk for this category of drug and for this reason, you really need to have an anti-inflammatory steroid called Prednisolone on standby to treat this sort of reaction.
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  990. Well the guys in Egypt couldn't or maybe they were just happy to have sex with anyone, who knows
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  991. TBH, I don't think that he will survive much past his 100th birthday, I think that he will hang on tenaciously until then, but will just fade away afterwards. He has had a long life and there is only so much that medicine can do.
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  992. My son has autism, a friend invited me to an alternative health fair for carers. This was the first time that I heard the term indigo child and I thought that some of the things that they espoused had the potential to be damaging. I see my child as having a brain that is simply wired differently. He has a problem seeing the bigger picture, which can have some very definite disadvantages and is very good at seeing details, which in some situations and jobs can be advantageous. He is brilliant with computers and I absolutely support him in that, but just because he has some sort of gift does not mean that I think that this exempts him or me from working on some of the weaknesses in his life, which seems to be what some of these alternative therapists advocate. We are all unique and special in our own particular ways and to say that someone is indigo and for that reason alone is somehow superior to others is setting that person up for narcissism.
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  993. This is what worries me about men they seem to lack that sense of connection to their partners.
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  994. Yes, but you look young enough to have parents to pick up the pieces if it all goes wrong. Some of these people have been sanctioned for circumstances outside of their control and to be fair if you are late for work because an accident blocked the road, your employer does not dock you a week's pay, they may dock you for the amount of time that you were absent or more likely that they will expect you to make up the time at the end of the day. I appreciate that the system allowed you to take a job with lower hours and build up to a full-time job and can see that, that is a good feature, but there are too many problems with it to continue in its present form.
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  995. The passenger said that they were doing 90 and at that stage told the driver to slow down multiple times
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  996. Should have replied that he has no problem with her buying: b0g rolls, tamp0ns, s3x lub3 or c0ndoms, none of that would be too unusual, it is all just profit as far as the company is concerned.
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  997.  @JamesCraigWhoop  Nice one
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  998. For a murder charge to result in a guilty verdict then premeditation and intent have to be proved beyond reasonable doubt. I am not saying that these are not truly reprehensible characters for their complete lack of remorse, just that the charges have to accurately reflect the crime to secure a conviction.
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  999. But we pay a much higher rate of tax and we have something called National Insurance that employees HAVE to pay. This is supposed to act as a safety net so it is not free money.
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  1000.  @F1Tom2005  Depends if there is any spray, yuck.
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  1001. 1:00 reminds me very much of the catchphrase "and by country, i mean a sovereign state, which is a member of the un in its own right"
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  1002. In the UK donors are not paid and a proportion of the blood is fractionated and sold, just the same.
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  1003. Universal credit is also an in work benefit. Many of the jobs out there are zero hour contracts. Housing costs and utilities are eating huge amount of wages/benefits.
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  1004. Do you never think that women wind up acting that way as a response to guys not being straight? You know the guy that makes out he wants a relationship and fools the woman into believing that is what he is giving in return for sex
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  1005. Not less incentive, more like less empowerment to divorce; there is a difference.
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  1006. They don't use women because our lifetime supply of ova is preformed at birth and it would be unethical to damage them, men, however, make sperm continuously, so not such an issue
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  1007.  @aftaflash  To elucidate that any side effects are caused by the drug and not disease progression.
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  1008. Frankly, I might well have dumped the guy simply for being miserly. I can understand being a little careful and not profligate with money, but to be mean and tight fisted when you have no need to be, well they don't put pockets in shrouds.
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  1009. Power corrupts and absolute power absolutely corrupts. The crony club is totally self-serving and are so Machiavellian that they will even stab each other in the back, but you know what they say, those that live by the sword, die by the sword
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  1010. Gonna ping you - Pis do have MicroSD cards included
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  1011.  @liamward4618  It is your mate Mark here that is raising questions about trans and non binary people. For the record, I'd like to bet that a good 98% of the population is non trans and half of them are women and while for the most part I am more than happy for trans people to have their rights, their rights should not be eclipsing the rights of 98% of the population.
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  1012. How about giving sentences that more closely fit the crime that has been committed, so that men that do this are locked away for longer and women are safe for longer from such perpetrators.
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  1013. I could not quite work out whether he was trying court Attenborough or whether he was saying 'bugger off out of my territory', but it was either very friendly or very brave.
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  1014. Completely agree, ordinary people, without tons of money themselves, selflessly helping out complete strangers.
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  1015. My ex-husband had an affair when our son was 5 months old. I found out when he was 9 months old and we were in relationship counselling. He initially said he wanted to go and by that stage, whilst I wanted him to work on the relationship, I was too worn out to argue. He blamed me for his affair and only stayed because his father persuaded him. He knelt in front of me and begged: 'Please forgive me, I've been a selfish bastard and nothing like this will ever happen again, but I need my space' Well, he wasn't impressed by my lacklustre 'Yeah you're forgiven' reply. He was disappointed that I did not fall over myself over him and started to say how lucky I was that he was giving ME a second chance. At which point I exploded with 'Stay or go. I have got to the stage of really not caring, because you will do what you want, because that is simply what you do. Whatever I try to do or achieve in the home, you are not behind me and you pull in the opposite direction. Just the same as you are turning this around on me now and saying I am lucky that you are giving me a second chance. Right now I do not feel very lucky that I am married to a cheat, so please excuse me if I do not fall over myself to please you. In fact, the person here who has the work to do is you, because you did not respect our marriage enough not to cheat and you totally fail to see that you have a lot of making up to do to regain my trust. You can have your space, because I am going to my parents of Christmas and New Year, it should give you time to work out what you are going to do to repair this relationship' What he did not know, was that I had a keystroke logger installed and found that far from doing anything to try and save our marriage, he was online to the other woman and on dating websites and in chat rooms for people looking to have affairs. I said nothing, but I was not my normal self. Instead of taking his dinner, I would just shout dinner and that was it. He pestered me for sex, but I said no, so he forced matters and then wondered why I just lay there as stiff as a board with my eyes shut. I told him it was just another example of him using me for what he wanted, without any consideration for my feelings. When he complained about what he got for dinner instead of cooking him something else, I just shrugged. He complained that I did not do things that made him happy anymore and I told him that from now on I would reflect the amount of effort that he put into our relationship. I told him that I would love him to do nice things for me like: putting the bins out or doing the washing up, I am not interested in cheap flowers from a roadside garage, practical help would show me that he appreciated my efforts and wanted to make my life easier by taking an active part in our lives. These were all things that he was told in counselling, but he had ignored then and now. He said that I should stop controlling him and I simply said that I was not controlling him, that I had cooked him dinner, that he should think himself lucky that I had made that amount of effort and that he could eat it or not, I was simply indifferent, I had done my duty and it went above and beyond what he ever did. He threw it up the wall. Thankfully he finally left, but he made the divorce hell and his bad behaviour during contact meant that eventually, the courts put a stop to child contact. He remarried and wound up spending time on remand for domestic abuse.
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  1016. How about when the silent treatment is given because the other person repeatedly transgresses personal boundaries and despite being told that this is unacceptable, they continue to do this. You know the sort of person where you could explain calmly and logically how their bad behaviour affects you, but they will still repeat it the next day and secretly you no longer want to have any more to do with them because they have broken your trust many times, but they will not just go.
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  1017. It is believed to be genetic and that people with autistic traits work in industries where autistic traits are common they meet and marry and double up on the autistic genes. I used to work as a scientist in Cambridge and my ex was a software engineer our son is autistic. A friend of mine, both him and his wife are Cambridge doctorates there daughter has it too.
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  1018. Even disabled people have needs.
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  1019. Rubbish. I am a woman trying to sell a car. I am only selling because my car is too low down for my 80 year old father, the car is advertised at a car workshop, where the guys told everyone that in the past 8 weeks I had replaced the clutch and had 2 brand new Michelin tyres, the cost of this was £1,100. I have priced the car to go at £700, because I already have car number 2 and it is now in my way. A guy who is 25 miles away 'phones up because his mate has been told how reasonably priced the car is, I have seen the same make model and mileage up for £1,400-£1,900. The guy rings up to organise a test drive and I take the car out to meet him. He says he wants the car, but needs to organise with his mate to help him collect the car. He says that he will ring Sunday night and arrange payment and collection. Sunday night has come and gone, it is now Tuesday and nothing. If he did not want the car or has found something that suited him better, it might be polite to let me know rather than keep me hanging. I suspect that as the MOT is up in 3 weeks he thinks that he is going to force the price down further. The reality is that he will get a 'phone call from me tomorrow asking if he still wants the car or not as I need to renew the adverts if not. I have already told him that I have a friend who deals in classic cars on the other side of the country and so if he then tries to drive the price down further, I will tell him that is where it will be going if I do not get a sale in the next 2 weeks, the only reason not to do that is the inconvenience factor. Maybe if he thinks that I have got other options to sell it, he will be more reasonable, it is after all already being sold at lower than its market value and he shook on the deal. Had 2 blokes who tried to rip me off. Bloke 1 says his mate bloke 2 knows all about cars and will test drive it on his behalf. Ok, so bloke 2 has my car in too high a gear for the number of revs he is feeding the engine and is purposely making my engine sound ropey. Now I know there is nothing wrong with the engine and what they have not figured is that not only am I not going to swallow their attempts to swindle me but to drop them at the meet point I have to drive past my garage. So I call their bluff and pull on to the garage and ask the mechanics to give their professional opinion to these blokes. The blokes respond by saying they think the mechanic's opinion is bullshit and that they are prepared to offer £100, because that is all it is worth. I say "my car, your money and if that's all you are offering, I am not selling for that sum". Bloke 2 gets angry and says "You want a reality check love, that's all its worth" To which I tell him that he needs driving lessons to teach him how to drive a shift stick. His face was a picture and the mechanics, who have probably never heard me be quite as assertive had a good laugh. So it is not just women who play retarded games men do to, put it this way, I'd rather take my car to the scrapyard then be ripped off, but it will wind up at a car auction if there are no takers.
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  1020.  @shredd5705  You said treat others as you would like to be treated yourself. The point that I was making is: that it is not always the case that guys act in this way with regards to women. I am sure that the 2 rip off guys would not like to be ripped off themselves and would not be too pleased if they had a daughter or wife that was treated in this way. They were quite adamant and nasty about making out my car was worth less then it really is. The garage guys said that they were going to step in and put a stop to them if I had not defended myself. As for the first bloke he is also getting enough of a bargain to make game playing a dangerous option, if he is as keen to buy as he made out.
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  1021. It is an odd breed called a shar pei, I am not keen on them either.
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  1022. Perhaps childcare for 3 kids outweighs wages for stacking supermarket shelves, cleaning floors etc
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  1023.  @leew1598  Well she does say that she has had a heart attack and a mastectomy, so she has had cancer too, so she might not be well enough to work and a lot of employers want to know about your health before they will take you on. Large gaps on your CV does not always go down well. I am on my own looking after my son who has autism, he is 15 and brilliant with computers, but he can not manage the everyday things that most people take for advantage. He can not shave himself, tie a tie or shoe laces and his perceptual abilities are so bad that he can not cross the road alone. He probably will be able to work, but he will be heavily reliant on me transporting him their and continued support at home, this means that any job I take will have to fit around him, that is if I can find a job after all these years not working.
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  1024.  @glisteningsnow6627  I can not help but be cynical. Part of me at the time of this announcement wondered if it is a covert attempt to clear out society's 'deadwood' by exposing the economically inactive folk who are either elderly or disabled to a dreadful disease that will inevitably cut their numbers and thereby prune the welfare budget. But he seems to be reacting now to criticism with a better approach.
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  1025. RIP 8K RED Weapon.
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  1026. They're travellers, they'll just move off to cause havoc in another community.
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  1027. In the UK a protocol is agreed with an ethics committee to keep people safe, I suspect that this was not followed.
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  1028.  @ytkaci  Fortunately, bipolar disorder is treatable. My friend's son is profoundly autistic, he is absolutely non verbal and I am sorry to say I do not know how she coped for so many years.
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  1029.  @ytkaci  Well I hope that she is better from it. Some seem to manage better than others.
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  1030.  @tomaszsosnowski9279  Completely agree, it would be so much easier if folks didn't play these BS games and simply communicated with one another better.
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  1031. First off, this guy has a daughter and his ex is now a single parent to that daughter, you can bet your bottom dollar that he would expect his ex to put their daughter before any boyfriend. The stuff that he puts on here is therefore completely hypocritical from that viewpoint alone. If an accident were to, unfortunately, befall his daughter. What would he do: go on that dinner date and put his latest squeeze first OR dash to support his daughter in hospital? If the answer is he would go on the dinner date, as a woman, would you really want to go out with him? Let me put it this way, as a woman, when I was single and childless and in my 20s. I had no attraction for single dads, because I knew that if I wanted children, then those children would have to share their dad with another family. Now if I had reached my mid 30s and was still single and wanted children, then that would have been a different matter, it then becomes a numbers game and to be realistic there are going to be a dwindling number of single guys out there who are without children. There is roughly the same number of men out there as there are women and although guys can and do date younger women, because there are roughly equal numbers of men and women the competition is going to be greater. If you are a man that is somewhat past his prime and you have a child somewhere from a previous relationship, then unless you are rich, you are going to be somewhere down the pecking order when it comes to scoring a 20 odd year old hottie with no kids. Why do you think this guy has pheromone soap stacked on the shelves to the right of him? That's right, just like all the women that he berates as past their prime, he is in the same boat and needs all the help he can get LOL. What I will say is that if you are a single guy in his 20s or 30s and you do not have children yourself, I would not advise going out with a single mother. It is difficult when you are not a parent yourself to cope with living in a household with a child that is not biologically yours, at your time of life you still have plenty of options. If however, you are single in your 40s, then your options are closing down, yes you may pull a childless woman in her 30s with a ticking biological clock, but it is probably time to start considering those single mums as dating material. This guy goes on about women not being logical, but the idea that your typical 40 odd year old single father is going to be catnip to 20 year olds is simply delusional.
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  1032. Because female incels usually have very different problems to male incels.
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  1033. Back in the 90s there were no disability rights, couldn't do the job or had too much time off through illness you were shown the door.
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  1034. You also have the problem of people coughing and aerosolised particles can land directly in the eyes
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  1035. Thanks, but no thanks, we have enough problems of our own.
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  1036. The effect of giving a supposed medicine has to be discounted so that the results can be confirmed as a real effect.
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  1037.  @TBOTSS  Yeah always wear sunscreen, prevents trolls from getting freckles!
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  1038.  @davelong9055  They have no little choice over what they eat. So they eat what is cheap and filling, not necessarily what is nutritious. Chips and dripping on toast being my favourites, not that my waistline likes them too much
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  1039. Unlocking the door is not that difficult, just flip off the rubber window seal between the glass and the door and slip the hook end of a wire coat hanger down the gap near the lock and try to unlatch it.
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  1040. This is not quite right. If SHE asks 'do you like me?' it is probably because she likes you and is figuring out whether this is reciprocal. Because if it is not that serious she can then recast her net and keep her options open. So if you want an exclusive relationship, then you are going to need to respond with a little enthusiasm at that juncture. Of course if you are not sure then it is better to leave things open ended so that you both make good use of your time meeting your most ideal match.
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  1041. The problem is that until recently, the courts allowed perpetrators to have unsupervised access to their children and then the abuser would use that as a pretext to continue the abuse. That is what happened in my divorce ten years ago. My ex had been abusive and I called the police after he tried to run me over, I was only slightly injured and the police did not record it as domestic violence, but as a road traffic accident. During a fact-finding hearing, the Judge described my evidence as an exercise in hyperbole and granted my ex unsupervised access. I told my solicitor about what was going on during the handovers and said that I intended to go to the police about it. He told me not to, as he said that the particular judge would take a dim view and see it as trying to frustrate his orders and as such I could be held in contempt of court and lose residency. He told me just to try to sell up and move as quickly as possible. I had no choice but to take the first offer on my house and go. My ex took it back to court, saying that I was frustrating contact by moving. This time I represented myself, as I knew if needs be I could plead ignorance on the finer points of the law and not being a lawyer, I stood a good chance of getting away with it. The defence that I used was that my ex was being abusive at handovers in front of my son and that moving meant that my parents could handle the handovers thereby lessening the chance of our son seeing this sort of conflict and being distressed by it. The opposition claimed that I was lying, so I proffered video evidence, they immediately tried to stop this being shown by saying that my ex had not consented to the handovers being filmed. I came back with the fact that it was filmed on property that solely belonged to me and that they would show whether or not my evidence was true or fictitious. They came back with some legal argument and I managed to counter that in cases involving children that the overriding concern should be the safety and the welfare of the child. That did it, the footage was viewed and contact was bought to an end. Given the amount of damage this relationship has done to my own life, it does not take much imagination to see that when children are bought up with this as their relationship model this is what they take into life as what a relationship should look like.
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  1042. Should add ex went on to marry again and was violent in that relationship too. The police contacted me and told me. He spent 3 weeks on remand in prison over one Christmas KARMA
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  1043.  @russellbiggs9622  At least you had 8 years without seeing violence. The problem is that it is so difficult to get away from these types. In the end, I moved 126 miles away, gave up my career and cut all contact with all my friends. I am not on the electoral roll and cannot vote or have a credit card and I am not identifiable on social media either, even my own doctor does not know my real address. When my ex attacked wife number 2, the police could not locate me and had to contact my parents, because they thought that something worse had happened to me. The police were not too surprised at the disappearing act and said that they thought he was really dangerous. The problem with a disappearing act is that it takes time and guts to arrange and you have to be prepared to break the law to disappear ie not on the electoral roll and not your real address on driving license etc. Most women are so downtrodden that they lack any sort of plan, whereas I was determined to get away.
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  1044.  @emersonsimmo90  Damn right they will, 'cause it is damned difficult to do
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  1045.  @stackered  I heard that he is polyamorous too.
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  1046. What complete heroes these guys are. Their compassion and respectful ways are an inspiration from which we could all learn. Proud to call them British.
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  1047. Everyone in the comments section is thanking God that it is not their loved one that did not come home from work that day
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  1048. Vaccines don't cure anything they prevent and even then they are not foolproof, there will always be members of the population that they are not effective in.
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  1049. No acronym is going to cover people's preferences overall, because everyone is an individual. It is just healthier if you teach people that as long as no one is getting hurt [unless they want to be, in which case make free with that flogger] or it is not involving minors, them what other people get up to is none of your business.
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  1050. Sadly, there are many predators out there, that make a woman's life a misery. It starts with you passing this course, geting a decent grade, getting grant funding, keeping your job, not being bullied is dependent on you playing ball and being my sexual plaything and ends with the institute doing as little as it can get away with to resolve the problem in exchange for a non disclosure agreement or a bunch of threats. All to protect their reputation.
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  1051. Monoclonal antibodies provoke an immune response which can go nuts and become a cytokine storm. The drug should have been diluted in a litre of buffered saline and infused slowly over an hour with prednisolone on standby to deal with any adverse reaction.
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  1052.  @lindipearson9633  Well, it is set to get worse with the coronavirus lay offs. I agree that immigrants should not be entitled to dole money and ideally no one under 25 should be on the dole, but employment is now going to be genuinely scarce and one of the problems if you don't pay a reasonable level of benefits is that it starts to cost other areas such as health and judiciary and those costs are greater than simply paying benefits in the first place. I am in a difficult position myself because I am 50 and have no job and have not worked for the last 15 years because I have been looking after my disabled son. My husband left when he was a baby and the cost of care massively outweighs what I could make in wages. The problem is that the state is probably going to expect me to find work at some stage, but employers are not too interested in people with complex backgrounds like this. Besides which the nature of my son's disabilities will most probably mean that he needs enhanced support to get him into work. He has autism, but is brilliant with computers, but his problems mean that he would be unable to drive or cope with public transport, this means for him to work I need to find a job that would fit around his working hours within a few miles of his workplace.
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  1053. The problem appears to revolve around 'informed consent'. To give this, a patient should be free of any mental condition that could adversely affect their choices. So, in this case, the guy's state of mind may have been in a state of turmoil due to bereavement and a sensible therapist would have explored this possibility and if they had found this they would have then instituted a suitable regime of therapy to thoroughly address his adverse state of mind BEFORE forging ahead with therapies to progress transitioning beyond anything that was entirely reversible. As far as the drugs that he took having unexpected effects: any licensed drugs ALWAYS have a pack insert that spells out any KNOWN side effects of a drug. It is the patient's responsibility to read it and make a decision as to whether the side effects are outweighed by the desired effects, this is also part of the informed consent and is a duty of care of the manufacturer to the consumer. So I am sorry, but I do find that aspect of the story difficult to believe. Not too long ago I was prescribed a drug by my doctor that in conjunction with another drug, prescribed by the same doctor and dispensed by the same pharmacy, could have been fatal. That was a massive oversight on the part of the doctor and to a lesser extent the pharmacy too. The only reason I did not take it was because I always check out any drugs that I take very thoroughly. It will probably come as no surprise that I used to work in a unit manufacturing clinical trials drugs and even those drugs have inserts outlining any known reactions. One of our drugs was pioneered for rheumatoid arthritis, it was no better than drugs that were already on the market so it was then trialled with patients with leukaemia, who had already had a failed bone marrow transplant with the standard drugs. We had 2 patients die in trials, one of which the relatives started to raise concerns with regard to informed consent. The reality was that the patient having failed the standard treatment, was really drinking in last chance saloon. He made a rational decision to try an experimental treatment because it was his only chance of survival, it was just sad that his bid for life failed, but as a researcher, myself and the team took heart from the number of people that survived due to our treatment, which I can only say that the benefits massively outweighed the risks in those scenarios. With transitioning, there are MASSIVE ethical dilemmas to consider, mainly because you are not treating a physical illness and in aiding someone to transition the risk of doing more harm then good is huge and not completely reversible. Therefore ANY good doctor should be absolutely sure that his patients wishes to do this are not the result of some transient desire or an aspect of some mental illness. I am not in this area of work, but even as an outsider looking in, I would consider it essential to discuss what could go wrong with hormone therapy and what could go wrong with surgery. I would be looking to outlining the whole process in very fine detail and I would also be looking at the availability of figures with regards to the transitioned genitalia's functioning, can erections be produced and maintained, how about sensitivity and arousal. How does the patient feel about their loss of fertility, will they want to be putting sperm or ova on ice so they have the potential to have their own biological children. What does this mean for relationships? For someone who is trans maybe you think that such thoughts are transphobic, but the reality is that most people will see these issues from a cis standpoint, quite simply because the majority of people out there are cis. So for example, I now live in a small community, there is a born woman who is in a lesbian relationship and he is currently in the process of transitioning to male. He is still in a relationship with his partner who he had a lesbian relationship. I don't mean to be unkind, but how the hell does that work; if his partner is lesbian and only attracted to women, how is that same person still going to be attracted to a partner that is now a man? I know that some women are attracted to butch women and I know that some lesbian women are into dildos, but an awful lot are not into anything remotely male. It is of course absolutely none of my business, but it is the business of the 2 people involved and it should be the business of any psychotherapist that is treating this person.
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  1054.  @andrewboote5726  It is a shame that the reports of the number of people regretting/not regretting transitioning are not made public. There needs to be more open and honest discussion around such issues to increase understanding and hopefully decrease aggravation between trans and non-trans people. As far as saying an individual is transphobic for not sleeping with a transgender individual, that is frankly nuts. Human attraction by its very nature is discriminatory. It makes as much sense as me saying that a gay man refusing to sleep with me {I am a straight female} is heterophobic. No one can help who they are and are not attracted to, that is just the way that we are ALL made. Unfortunately, there are some individuals within the trans community that are their own worst enemy. Surely the goal of being trans should be total transition and acceptance as an individual of your chosen gender, the trouble is that there are always going to be some areas where full transition is not going to be easy. I am specifically thinking of male to female transitions who go on to compete in sporting contests as female. Now in other situations I have no problem with accepting someone who is fully transitioned, but within sport, that is a different matter when a lifetime of male genes and hormones have given a massive advantage over their fellow women competitors. Why on earth do they not campaign for a separate sports classification and compete against each other? The trouble is that these guys greatest allies should be other women and sadly they are sabotaging this with a lack of common sense.
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  1055.  @andrewboote5726  Completely agree, the extremists within the community are not using their common sense and it makes it far more difficult for individuals who simply wish to integrate into their community as a member of their chosen sex. Personally, I think that transgender individuals have probably been through quite enough mental and physical pain in their lives without extremists stoking up resentment in the cis population, the problem is that the loudest members are becoming what the cis population see transgenderism to be. After all, unless you are having an intimate relationship with someone, that goes beyond a 'hook-up', then really a person's transgender status should be of no consequence.
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  1056. Whether it is flattering or annoying depends on how the guy behaves and what he says and whether he is gracious if the answer is no. Not all guys are able to hit on a girl without getting handsy or absolutely demanding a snog and sorry guys, but if you don't know me then that is a little too much.
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  1057. UK
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  1058. Doctors put nfn on the notes of patients that are mad as a box of frogs with no identifiable disorder, I stands for: Normal For Norfolk
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  1059. Reality check: the guy had a great time for a while, but got old and lonely. The woman had kids on her own, because despite the guy not wanting to grow up and join the real world of responsibility, he still wanted to get laid. It did not stop the woman getting old, but she certainly did not get lonely, because the kids she had nurtured, had their own kids and everyone loves grandma! The moral of the story, fairy tales are just that!
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  1060. 28:26 That notification sound though.
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  1061.  @gillenzfluff8380  In the UK my father had a similar experience. He does have piles, but all the same, a sigmoidoscopy was arranged post haste. He had to be on a special diet for a week beforehand and then starve for 24 hours in conjunction with a massive dose of vitamin C to act as a laxative. They found one polyp that was treated with diathermy and he has been OK since. His mother died of colon cancer, so he was on top of the situation.
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  1062.  @gillenzfluff8380  Sorry to hear that. I used to work in immunology. The one thing that doctors shy away from telling patients is: not to ejaculate during the 7 days before a Prostate Specific Antigen (PSA) test (the blood test that they do). This is because it causes a false positive to occur. The only good news is that they can do a lot more for prostate cancer now, then they could a decade or more ago. The hormone treatments and brachytherapy, where they implant small radioactive seeds in the prostate, are reckoned to be very effective. My parents have a friend who has prostate cancer that was only discovered after it had spread to the spine. Frankly, I thought that he was a goner, but he has survived 4 years, although he started to go downhill about 3 months ago and he is now receiving chemotherapy. Hope your dad's and brother's are false alerts or if not then caught early. Good Luck
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  1063.  @gillenzfluff8380  Yeah it was in the Lancet or BMA journal about 1993 or 1994. Cannabis is just too contentious and they would not be keen to experiment unless the person had exhausted all mainstream options, then you might be able to convince a sympathetic doctor to prescribe it off license. To have it as a clinical trial, would mean that it would have to go through a rigorous process of ethics committees and would probably require some sort of ddx license that would probably be difficult to obtain.
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  1064.  @gillenzfluff8380  Well I frankly can not understand the pricing structure on medical cannabis. I believe that there is a company that makes medical grade in the UK, it is a licensed facility as you can imagine. It is really only a matter of growing, harvesting when in flower and extracting the drug, in fact, it was available on the NHS as hemp tincture until 1972. As for the mega expensive drugs, they are frequently monoclonal antibodies, there are 2 ways to make them, either through hybridoma lines I know this to be an expensive and time consuming method or phage display, I have no idea about this method. They are posited to work by searching out tumour cells by locking onto surface molecules that are unique to that cancer. However, one of the problems is penetration into the centre of the tumour is often not good. When tumours get big they grow their own network of blood vessels, but the problem is that when they get big, chunks of the cancer split off and set up in other parts of the body (metastasis). I personally think that the best approach might be to develop a multistage treatment. So start out with a suitable monoclonal whilst surgical excision is being arranged. Remove the tumour and as soon as the patient is well enough start administering the monoclonal again and then zap any remaining tumour with radiotherapy. Zapping it right away seems to make tumours impervious to monoclonals.
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  1065. Must be awful having to work there
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  1066. It is now, but wasn't then.
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  1067. You have to test new drugs on patients not suffering from the disease to differentiate between symptoms caused by the disease and side effects of the drug.
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  1068. OK some of what this guy is saying is untrue and anyone that plays games male or female is a narcissist. 1] When a woman is saying you are moving too fast, she is saying 'please value me as something above merely being an object for your pleasure'. Society says that if a woman jumps into bed right away with a man then she is a slut, a slag or a whore. If you are a gentleman would you want your woman's reputation to be damaged, if you could not care less then do women that do not want every one saying this a favour and move on to the type of slut you want. 2] Let's be friends, that is fine it means that you can have as many women as you like, because all you are is friends. I am female and I have had loads of male friends in the past and I do things for them, made birthday cakes and outfits for their kids and got flowers and presents for their girlfriends and partners and they do stuff back for me, tyre changes and that sort of thing. 3] Sarcasm,well sometimes it can be well deserved when there is no other way of communicating with a guy who is not respecting our personal boundaries. 4] If we are saying that a guy has got back in touch it is so that you do not hear it from anyone else and think that we are having some sort of affair. 5] Women wear make up because that is what is expected of us, perfectly happy not to wear make up, unless going to work where it is going to be expected. 6] A relationship is about 2 people and if she does not have kids then she can work just as well as you can, but in many instances women earn less than men so in that case you may need to pay a little more than your fair share. He says take care of her children they are his children too, if not then their biological father should be paying for them. If they are your children man up and pay for them and she can get on with the feeding and nappy changing. 7] With regard to texting my rules are simple don't text me when I am work unless it is urgent: you are ill and have been admitted to hospital or a parent, child or sibling is critical or dead, anything else tell me when I get home and as long as I have not gone to bed then I will reply promptly. 8] If someone is saying that you are not spending enough time then a compromise needs to be made. Your or her job, education etc, should never suffer, but you should and she should expect to make reasonable sacrifices. So the weekly guys or girls night out might have to move to being a monthly event. Relationships need work to work and if the person is not there for mutual fun and support, what sort of relationship have you really got at the end of the day? Nothing can go all in one direction there has to be reasonable compromise or one person or the other IS going to get pissed off and dump the other. 9] You need to know whether you have an exclusive relationship with someone or whether this is something far more casual. If you are saying that someone does not want to hang out with you, that is your cue that they are not that into you, they have better options than you and you should be looking out for better options than her is the simple advice, but if you have been refusing to devote any time to her [8] then she is just mirroring your behaviour back to you and it serves you right. 10] If she switches the plans and wants you to spend more money, simple answer, " I'm a bit short this month, so we we'll have to go Dutch on that one, I can just about manage Starbucks". She may genuinely have been busy that day and not had any lunch, if that is the case she won't have a problem with this approach.
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  1069.  @paleindian10  Part of the problem is that these guys have missed out on learning how to have an emotional connection with women and instead of concentrating on that as being a more successful predictor of relationship success they have got some completely shallow checklist of requirements for the woman, whilst expecting the woman to have zero expectations of her own.
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  1070. Just remember to take your Prince Albert out!
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  1071. This is bollocks if someone has cheated on you and you are sure of it either dump them or have a conversation about having an open relationship [because you want to shag other people, no other reason]. If someone gave me the silent treatment I would assume that they had, had a bad day at work and would probably try to talk to them but if they continued to be silent, I would just get on with the housework or watch TV or go get the shopping in. If you are having problems in a relationship then if you wish that relationship to continue then you will have to talk to the person. My ex behaved badly towards me and then tried to give me the silent treatment, so I stopped making so much effort with his meals. I put the meal in front of him, he did not eat it so I removed the plate to wash it up. He complained and so I said 'eat it or not until you start talking, I don't care'. He then complained that his meal only contained 2 varieties of veg and made a big deal about it, so I picked up the plate and smashed it against the wall and said that 'resolves it doesn't it' And just got on with clearing it up like it was nothing. He was not impressed so I told him that I was just mirroring his destructive way of communication.
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  1072. Nevermind the pillow only having its cover changed. Look at the headrests in the video, they look positively manky.
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  1073. But it is their job to deal with human body parts on a daily basis. At least she is frozen so the smell is not so bad
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  1074. By this stage protocols existed for the administration of monoclonal antibodies that were a long way past the stage in trials that this drug was. First mistake, when you first give the drug it needs to be diluted in a drip of half to a litre and you SLOWLY infuse this into the patient. If something goes wrong you can stop the infusion, so the patient receives a minimal dose. Second mistake, they should have had an anti inflammatory steroid called Prednisolone on standby in case of this sort of reaction.
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  1075. Yeah, maybe her horse is the odds-on favourite in the 2:30
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  1076. I doubt that they would even tell him about any of it because they would have been aware how ill he was. He looked very much like he was in end stage heart failure, but then again what can any of us expect at such a great age. The big question is will Harry show up for the funeral?
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  1077.  @TASIAawful1  To be honest it looks like a simple case of heart failure. He had, had a heart procedure about a month ago and he had a serious heart operation some years ago, but there is only so much time that can be bought, he was 99 so he was way over average life span.
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  1078. Sexwork is legal here, but a lot of activities around it are not. So if your money is being shared with anyone, then the person you share the money with could be charged with 'living off immoral earnings', a woman can also be charged with soliciting if she is in the street talking to a guy and guys can get done for kerb crawling and there are a whole raft of other charges that can be made.
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  1079. She has got him over to the USA to remove him from the influence of family and friends. If he breaks up with her there any judge will give her custody and he will be toast.
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  1080. I can understand your concern, but as a class of drugs there will be a standard technique of producing them that will have been used on many other vaccines.
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  1081. I have always said that poor countries are poor because of the way that they are run by their own governments and even so called rich countries have homeless people, we should all sort out the poor of our own countries first.
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  1082.  @solarfreak1107  Well, I guess they might score with a guy whilst they are in there, but I'd call that one a home goal!
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  1083. OK, here ia woman's perspective. If you leave your relationship and you have a child. Behave. Pay child support fairly and on time. Show up for contact on time and whenever it is scheduled. If there is a problem then let your ex know as soon as possible and be apologetic for upsetting your ex's plans, you may find that she is happy enough to rearrange for some time elsewhere. Don't stand up your kid for your latest squeeze and don't try boasting about her to your ex and sorry but do expect that your ex will move on, you are no longer together, you are just going to have to swallow it. If you play games then everyone suffers, it is not worth it. If you love your kids, do the right thing.
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  1084.  @PistonAvatarGuy  I was married for a number of years when I had my son and my ex started an affair when he was 5 months old, finally walking out when our son was 10 months old. His behaviour leading up to the divorce was very bad and during the divorce he hid £250,000 and I had to pay him £80,000. He did rather nicely and I was the one left holding the baby. He was eventually awarded unsupervised contact and used the handovers to be abusive. In addition to that he would frequently just not show up for his son. He would then show up for next contact and boast about what he made out to be some sort of beauty queen that he had supposedly bedded and how much better that she was then me. When the reply was: 'I don't regard it as any of my business what you do with whom', his attitude was that I was jealous. 'Sorry, jealous of what, a woman that has a relationship with a guy that is unfaithful. I say good luck to her, 'cause she is going to need it' He showed up repeatedly and said this sort of crap. We then had: 'You are jealous because you don't have anyone'. To which the reply was: 'How do you know whether or not I choose to have any one and I am no longer your wife, so it is none of your business'. Still does not take the hint that I am not bothered and still we have the random no shows for contact. The next time that he is a no show we get into an argument, he thinks that child contact is for him, whereas I believe child contact is primarily for the benefit of the child and I feel that dicking his son around like this is wrong. Eventually, I lose my rag and tell him that 12 days every fortnight he has no child caring responsibilities and that he can do what he likes then, but the 2 days when he has contact, he could at least put his son before some random slut. Which of course, rather than pulling him up sharp starts him off. I tell my solicitor who fires a shot across his bows by informing him that if he continues to fail to show up that I can return it to court and get the contact order changed. He still plays up and my solicitor suggests taking it back to court, but by this stage I have had enough and I am moving away to be close to my parents so that they can handle the handovers. Of course he takes it all back to court, only by then I had solid proof of his behaviour and the court put a stop to contact. He then messed about even more with child support. Women don't force men to have children either. If you don't want kids YOU HAVE AS MUCH CHOICE AS THE WOMAN to not have sex, to use a condom or to have a vasectomy.
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  1085.  @PistonAvatarGuy  I am aware that condoms break, but I do not feel that birth control pills are any more effective, they too have a failure rate. Taking antibiotics interferes with their absorption, as does all too common stomach upsets. The pill was reformulated in the 80s because of concerns about its links to cancer and it now contains much less of the active hormones that prevent pregnancy, this means that just taking the pill as little as an hour late at the start of a pack can massively reduce its effectiveness. With regards to condoms in the UK, they have to meet a certain standard. Every single one of them here is applied to a metal phallus shape and run through a bath and electrical conductivity is tested. Being rubber this is an insulator so if current is detected the affected condom is rejected, additionally there are random pressure control tests run on every batch. The selected condoms from a batch are filled with air to a certain pressure and if they burst then the whole batch is rejected. One of my mates [excuse the pun!] used to work in quality control at Durex and they used to test condoms that had failed in use too! He said that most of the condoms that had failed had no discernible defect in their materials and that they had either been torn by snagging on rings or fingernails or had not been stored in the correct manner or the guy had neglected to expel the air from the tip before putting it on. It is a valid point that it is the woman that chooses to keep a child and that is all the more reason to take care of contraception from the male point of view and it is quite easy to couch it in terms of simply being protective in your relationship; because to be fair whilst men and women do pay a price for unwanted children, the ones that pay the biggest price are the children themselves.
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  1086.  @PistonAvatarGuy  Women are held accountable in the sense that they are often the ones left holding the baby. Most normal women are absolutely besotted with their baby and would do anything to hold on to their child. Women that give up their children are generally looked down upon. Yes there are some women who simply do not have any better options in life then to have kids and there are other women, like me that give up their career to have kids, that have worked hard to finance having a child. If my ex had been decent our son would have had a wonderful quality of life, but he was not, even when his son was diagnosed with developmental difficulties, it has been me that has shown up to all the appointments and assessments and carried out all of the therapeutic regimes. It has been me that has got him what he has needed in life. My ex might as well be 6 foot under because the only help we receive from him is what he is legally obliged to pay and I am sure that he is not paying the right amount either. Don't be too quick to assume that looking after a kid full time is always easy, it is not. My son was diagnosed with autism at age 7 and I have looked after him single handedly since he was 10 months old, he is now 15, all the work started to pay off last year when he was invited to speak at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's European programming conference at Cambridge University. My ex knew all about his son's diagnosis, but he still saw fit to stop paying child support, which forced us to spend money using the courts to get it re-established, he seemed to think that it was possible to have a disabled kid and be able to work, it isn't because care costs outweigh income. If a woman is the one looking after her child then she is accountable, she is spending time that she could be earning money bringing up a man's child. This allows the man to work and if he is paying for his child then he is being accountable too. Better still if he is taking an active part in his child's life by showing up for child contact reliably and attending things like school sports day, parent's evenings etc. But sadly not everyone wants to do that and worse still there are women that disrupt that relationship with no good reason.
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  1087. Completely agree, no one seems to have thought about G force or about the turbulence effects behind the lead carriages affecting the following carriages or the degree to which the kinetic energy may translate into heat and what effect that would have on the rails or the loop itself.
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  1088. @bro ha It is off British TV
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  1089.  @leilaniz5909  Wouldn't fancy having to clear that one up, but couldn't be helped.
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  1090. Years ago in Cambridgeshire, a prison van overturned whilst carrying the prisoners from court to prison. One of the prisoners managed to free himself and used a guards mobile 'phone to call for help and he aided the injured until help arrived. His sentence was reviewed by a judge in light of his heroic actions and his sentence for theft was reduced to a fraction of what it originally was.
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  1091. Frankly, if I am not that interested in a guy and he is being pushy, I am grateful if he finds someone else, because he stops bothering me.
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  1092. He lives off the backs of those that are struggling to survive and his riches are an oscenity.
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  1093. Everyone has a right to do what they want with their body, but they have to remember that they have done that to themselves and that there are people that will not accept that as being er normal. It is not discrimination to want someone that is a presentable face for your business.
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  1094. Women do not get free representation unless they do not own property. It costs in the region of £12K to get a non molestation order. When my ex tried to run me over the police did not record it as the domestic violence that it was, they recorded it as a road traffic accident. The marriage guidance therapist we went to would not act as a witness either, despite the fact that he had admitted being violent to me. When it came to child contact apart from records of my ex viewing violent porn it was my word against his, that he was violent and volatile. The judge said that my evidence was an exercise in hyperbole. My ex used child contact handovers to continue his abuse. I recorded it with a hidden camera and showed my solicitor and told him that I intended to contact the police with regards to it. My solicitor told me that if I did so, then the judge would see it as trying to frustrate the contact order and that I could be held in contempt of court. He advised that I should sell my house as soon as possible and move to my parents so that they could handle the handovers and then he really would have no excuse for his behaviour. Not that he had any real excuse in the first place, it was he who left me for his mistress and I was grateful for that and only too happy to divorce him (it did not work out with her, either) I moved and he dragged me back through the courts saying that the move was designed to frustrate contact. This time I had run out of money, so I represented myself. I told the assembled magistrates that I had moved as he was violent and abusive to me when he picked up our son and that I hoped my parents doing the handovers might take the heat out of the situation. His solicitors claimed that my assertions of violence were false, so I offered up the covertly filmed evidence, they tried to claim that the evidence was inadmissible, so I used the law to argue that regardless of how it was obtained, he had come on to property that was solely mine, that he had been violent against me and that this was being witnessed by and adversely affecting our son. The evidence was seen and the comment made by one of the magistrates was that it was disgusting. They could not overturn the original contact order, but they issued a section 7 order, which means he cannot have contact without a full social services assessment, which we knew he would not pass. That was back in 2010. The ex apparently married a foreign lady in 2012, she had 4 children, none of them his they continued to live with their maternal grandmother. In June 2015 two of them came to live with my ex and their mother. Things started to unravel. The police turned up on my parent's doorstep in December 2015, enquiring about my welfare. My parents 'phoned me and I was told to contact the police force where my ex lived. He had been arrested and remanded in prison for attacking wife number 2. He only got away with it because she came out of hospital three weeks later and rescinded her statement and being foreign she fled. If anyone is accused of a criminal offence they get free representation anyway. So as DV is a criminal offence men are represented and whilst the man himself cannot cross-examine, their solicitor is pretty expert at doing that job, trust me. Even in the divorce courts, there is cross-examination and there seems to be a pretty high level of proof required. Anyone who simply lives with someone who is controlling would probably find it very difficult to prove that, because controlling people do not allow their partners the sort of technology to record their abuse.
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  1095. Not enough testing done? It takes between 8 and 12 years for a new drug to go from lab bench, through all the clinical trials to your doctor's prescribing pad and the vast majority of them do not make it that far.
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  1096. Had no problem with my Rover 75.
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  1097. Well actually as she and her partner worked and paid taxes and National Insurance we do have an obligation. NI is part of a social contract to provide a safety net.
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  1098. I know, I simply do not believe that people who are earning £50,000 and £80,000 per year do not save any of that for a rainy day.
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  1099.  @globalmuffin2  I think when you are earning that sort of money though, you can still manage a reasonable life and have savings. Don't eat out so often, have supermarket curries instead of takeaways, TK Maxx, just one modest holiday per year, keep an eye on what you need second hand from CEX and decent second hand shops. If I could have savings on earnings of £17,400 per year 15 years ago, so can someone on £50,000 today.
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  1100.  @globalmuffin2  I am a single parent, my son is disabled and my husband walked out when he was 10 months old, so I am dependent upon state benefits, which are a little more generous because of my son's disabilities. So far we have always been able to manage. How long that will be so, we don't know. But when I did work, I was careful with my money, and I have little choice now. Back 16 years ago, my work mate used to spend £90 per month getting her hair coloured, I only pay £20 even now to cover my greys, it was all being done on credit cards and then people used to moan that they were unable to afford their own home. Most people earning less than median earnings would struggle to save much, but £50,000 is a reasonable wage.
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  1101. First of all, when the heart is no longer beating the blood coagulates really quickly and so it is no good by the time it is removed during embalming. When you take blood for other purposes then either heparin is added to keep it from clotting or the collection is made into a sterile container with sterile glass beads in it, you then swirl the container until a clot forms around the beads.
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  1102.  @61shirley  The show has not always offered the best service money can buy, in fact many people are saying that the sort of aftercare that many of the participants require is sadly lacking. Some of those participants undoubtedly require prolonged psychotherapy to deal with their issues and to open up private areas of their life to public scrutiny without back up aftercare is irresponsible.
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  1103.  @61shirley  The problem is not only did he hear something he did not like, but that something was going to be heard very publically on TV and would have spelt him out as a liar and a cheat whether or not he was one.
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  1104. Bliddy hell, how many parts?
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  1105. Even where people are married, marriages break up
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  1106. Desperation and the lack of money drives this.
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  1107. Unions need to have subscription rates for zero hours jobs like these, so that bad working practices can be stamped out.
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  1108.  @richardduplessis1090  Bet you are not a member of the police or any other emergency services, you'd have to be hard to the point of psychopathy not to be upset.
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  1109.  @richardduplessis1090  Well it certainly takes a strong stomach to work in the fire service and really unless you have been in the situation of seeing mangled remains yourself it is difficult to judge how anyone is going to react.
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  1110. Drugs have to be tested on people without the disease first to differentiate the drug's effects from the effects of the disease.
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  1111. Sadly the Geneva convention means that all medicines must be tested in animals prior to human trials. It is not the intention to hurt anyone, merely to prove safety as one of the hurdles in getting a new drug to market
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  1112. What about Libras, do tell!
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  1113. Not the way that monoclonal antibodies work. They only latch on to certain epitopes that are unique to cancer. The problem was caused by the bodies immune reaction to the drug as an unrecognised protein.
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  1114. For goodness sake leave him. It will not get better and could get a whole heap worse, you deserve better than some pig who would hurt a woman
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  1115. But most guys do not like it if the woman wants to be polyamorous too
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  1116. I doubt whether they actually told him about it, they would have known how ill he was during his hospital stay. Prince Charles hot footed it up there and left looking like he had been crying.
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  1117. Because you want to elucidate the effects of the drug as opposed to disease progression.
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  1118. Hancock's little red room looks like it could be a toilet from its dimensions
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  1119. Completely agree, would have assumed that this sort of material was potential forensic evidence and that it should be handled in a completely clean area with officers in special suits with long gloves and hair covers to prevent contamination of DNA evidence.
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  1120.  @littleboots9800  Likewise, wonder what we will get from BSM for Christmas. I won't be around for a couple of days, so have a good one.
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  1121. Even the common cold regularly uses the eyes as a point of entry.
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  1122. Many of these people rent and a standard clause in many rental agreements is that you will not run a business from the premises. I own my own home and having paid for the survey and started to buy it I discovered that there was a restrictive covenant which means I can not run a business from my home. With renters it can be restrictive covenants or the landlord's insurance that can be the problem.
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  1123. These drugs are not illegal, they are clinical trials drugs
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  1124. Really? I can not imagine Kate being that worried about Megs, after all it is Kate that is set to occupy the throne, unlike Megs.
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  1125. My ex husband turned violent once I had, had our son. He hid £250, 000 during our divorce and I had to pay him £80,000, he tried to run me over and got away with that, he used child contact to pursue his abuse of me until I was able to sell up and move to my parents. He then took it back to court claiming that I had moved to frustrate the contact order. I was able to show proof to CAFCASS of what was going on and the contact order was overturned. He went on to attack wife number 2 and spent time on remand before she went in and withdrew her statements. Would advise that you install CCTV so that you have PROOF of abuse.
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  1126. Anyone remember the Nokia Communicator, it was both a mobile phone and a mobile FAX machine. It was a turkey because it came out as emails became the business communication de jour. It was also very big and clunky. The Finns used to call it the COMMUNISTicator, because they don't like Russians and they thought it looked like something that might have been made in the USSR.
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  1127. The idea was to try and make the unemployed responsible for budgeting, which is fine in principle, but the problem is that they have cut benefits to the bone, so faced with a choice of buying food or paying the rent you can guess the rest.
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  1128. The Geneva Convention mandates that experimental drugs are tested in animals before humans, this is not down to the scientists but down to the law. Regardless of the fact that the guys were paid, the clinical trials company had a duty of care to them. They failed in that they failed to follow pre-existing protocols for the administration of monoclonal antibodies. The correct procedure is to dilute the drug in a litre of buffered saline and infuse the dose intravenously over the period of an hour. If someone becomes ill the infusion can be stopped and hopefully the adverse effects are dose dependent. They should also have had prednisolone on standby, as this mitigates the predictable cytokine storm.
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  1129.  @deydraniadiancecht8298  Goodness, I wish I had divorced wherever you divorced. Had to pay my ex husband £80,000, as I had worked prior to having our child. Our son is disabled and my ex tried to get out of paying child maintenance. Oh and he was the one that did the cheating.
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  1130.  @triciaannenewbury1122  Sorry, are you speaking to me. Frankly, I don't know what you regard as high IQ, but I used to work as a researcher in a unit making clinical trials drugs at Cambridge University. Many women fall into prostituti0n because of need not greed. Especially where women have children and they have been abandoned by the childrens' father and they have no cheap childcare to help them into work. With the benefit changes to Universal Credit this is becoming increasingly likely as there is a 5 week wait for benefits to be paid and then on top of that if the woman finds work then she has to pay the childcare costs out first and then be reimbursed later. Many of these women borrow money on high interest loans to tide this period over and are stuck in debt afterwards. Women turn to this because they can make a days pay in the matter of one hour. That time can fit around their kids and the work can be done from home.
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  1131. In my case, it would be "Big brother is watching you and he is bored"
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  1132. But it does lead people to understand what happens when anaesthesia affects memory and disinhibition. He very clearly does not remember his wife and he is disinhibited enough to swear something that the newscaster says he does not normally do. This is a very honest and disinhibited response straight from the brain parts that are still functioning without the filtering mechanism of the prefrontal cortex. Imagine how happy he is to wake up and think that he has hit the jackpot.
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  1133.  @juhpeq  No the reality is that monoclonal antibodies are developed to latch on to a molecular combination on the exterior of the cancer cell, the combination that is chosen is UNIQUE to that cancer cell so it provides a targeted response. The problem comes because the drug itself is quite a big protein and the body 'sees' it as being foreign to the body and not 'belonging', this means the body launches its immune system into action, the result is the sort of cytokine storm that was seen in this instance. This is a known side effect of this class of drugs and existing protocols say that you should have an anti-inflammatory steroid called Prednisolone on standby to knock back any reaction to a safe level.
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  1134.  Ken MacDonald  Well if you are in rented accommodation it is not too bad, but if you own you have the costs of: stamp duty; agency fees; conveyancing; survey fees and in my case chancel tax insurance.
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  1135.  @preacherjohn  Depends how back of beyond it is. The places where you can not get sewage or gas and there is little in the way of mobile/broadband reception are cheap, but then again there is little in the way of work and no public transport either
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  1136. Completely agree with you, these townie types happy to go on about free range eggs and free range chickens, but they don't deal with the fact that the fox does not just kill the one chicken that it wants to eat, but kills the whole lot. They don't deal with headless chickens or the loss of revenue from that.
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  1137.  @dewniper  Thing is trapping or gassing them is regarded as cruel and to shoot them you have to be a pretty good shot otherwise the fox survives and dies in agony days later. A competent master would not take dogs on a fast road and would choose an area away from such roads. The real risks tend to be to the horses, form barbed wire and the like and rabbit holes.
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  1138. My mate Jim Brown sells British Leyland cars in Cambridgeshire. The Princess is a shade called Sunglow.
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  1139. I am not convinced by radiocarbon dating either, so the only thing they have to go on is developments in embalming, which fail to take into account individual idiosyncracies.
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  1140. That it was effective at a lower dosage or that the reaction could be controlled with anti inflammatories?
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  1141. There were existing protocols. I worked on CAMPATH and that was diluted in isotonic PBS and infused slowly with prednisolone and adrenaline on stand by in case of serious reactions. The trials were run negligently.
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  1142. Perhaps they quarantined people?
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  1143. Half the folk are not complying.
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  1144.  @kevinflidge6623  Because there has been a massive drive to get people to take up the 'flu shot. In my town the whole town was blocked up for hours as cars queued all through the main street. Two of my neighbours who NEVER take up the offer of the 'flu shot were there. The people that were most susceptible to 'flu would be the people most susceptible to coronavirus, so many that did not have the flu shot would be more likely to have been killed off or be ill with corona when 'flu would be likely to do its rounds. I have the 'flu shot every year and I have never seen chaos of the type that there was this year. Yep, logic is a beautiful thing.
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  1145. I doubt that one somehow. Maybe the day of the funeral will be a national day of mourning, but there will be no shops open, so it'ill be a day doing the housework or gardening.
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  1146. Farming is what has changed human behaviour. Before that loose tribes of people would have roamed around with the guys hunting animals and the women foraging plants and looking after kids. Their might have been some people with more specialised jobs within the group, but they would have all been capable of doing one another's jobs. Who was who's sexual partner and who was who's child probably mattered very little, there would have doubtless been more dominant males who sired more of the children, but the issue would have been survival of the group as a whole. When farming came in this was swiftly followed by the idea of property. It then became important to know that your offspring was yours and that you were farming the land and passing it on to YOUR offspring, not that of some other man. The only real solution would be to simply tax men heavily and allow them to do whatever they want because the community's kids are then paid for by the communities men.
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  1147.  @whozaskin3639  He is within his rights to expect to have a good meal on the table, his laundry done, the marital home kept clean and his children cared for. Sex should be about nurturing and maintaining a relationship and it is the responsibility of BOTH parties to make sure that, that happens. What often happens when a child comes along, is that the mother is physically overwhelmed and stressed and the guy fails to recognise this and pitch in a little. Sex is not great for a woman soon after childbirth and so when you add in disturbed nights, leaky boobs, stretch marks and not feeling that sexy because of the hormonal disruption a woman's body is going through, you find that sex changes from being a fun activity to being yet another chore and so it drops off the menu. The problem is the longer it goes the more entrenched that it can become. If you try and force matters your partner will resent you. This is a problem that has to be approached with a level of care. For God's sake do not criticise your partners: weight gain or stretch marks, she will already be self-conscious of them and this will affect her confidence. Reassure your partner that you still find her attractive. Pitch in with a few jobs. Organise a date night at home tell her when it will be and that you will be sorting out dinner. Leave work early that night, pick up a takeaway, don't overstuff her with food or she is less likely to fancy any action. If she looks frazzled when you have eaten offer to run her a bath. If not then skip straight to the massage, tell her that you want her to relax and enjoy and that there is no expectation on her. Massage her ALL over BUT go easy on the breasts and nipples, these might be sensitised and go easy on the genitals too, especially if she has had any tears or stitches or if there is any swelling. Monitor to see that she is enjoying what you are doing and if she asks you to stop, then move on to another area right away. Do not do this with an expectation of sex, do it because it maintains intimacy, you might find that you arouse her and that your luck is in. Make it a regular weekly date night and you will find that sex will come back on the agenda. This is a recognised sex therapy technique based upon sensate focusing. You are bringing her focus back to her body and the pleasure that it can potentially give her and your treatment of her will reassure her that you still love her and find her attractive. As for loyalty, well I am sure you have a pair of hands and a bit of self-pleasuring really does not count as cheating and if it makes you feel better, just remember that as guys age they frequently get erectile dysfunction, wouldn't you want your partner to be sympathetic if you failed to rise to the occasion sometimes?
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  1148.  @whozaskin3639  OK firstly I don't know where you live, but in the UK circumcision is not done routinely on little boys. Outside of Jews and Muslims the only other cases where it is done is where the foreskin is too tight. ED is usually either psychosexual or a complication of diabetes or poor veins. The idea that I talked about here is to reconnect the woman with her own body and to reassure her that you still love her and find her attractive. The sensate focusing method does work and part of that is also taking your foot off the gas when it comes to sex. I have no idea if you have ever been present whilst a partner gives birth, but it is pretty dramatic and so are the changes wrought upon that woman's body. Your woman probably does not even feel particularly confident about being naked after going through that, she may even be frightened about falling pregnant again or frightened that sex will hurt, particularly if she has torn or had to have the perianal area cut. By feeling loved and not pressured then she will become more relaxed and confident, which is a good precursor to being turned on and therefore to sex. Good sex is infinitely better than bad sex, the last thing you really want is a situation where your woman simply endures sex as a duty to you. Duty quickly conflates with chore and really sex is an arena where the last thing you want your partner to think of it as is a chore. The reality is that sex is way better and way more rewarding for everyone if everyone is into it. With regard to jacking off, all I am saying is that sure I realise that you have needs and in the short term till your partner is back up to speed it is a perfectly valid form of sexual expression. I don't know how much you know about childbirth, but generally, penetrative sex is unusual for the first 4-6 weeks postpartum, partly because the woman is usually still bleeding during this time and partly due to exhaustion from giving birth and night feeds, newborns feed every 2 hours. Your previous sexual frequency will probably not re-establish for 6-12 months. You might fin tantra a good resource.
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  1149.  @whozaskin3639  Should also add that having sex within one month of birth can cause haemorrhage and serious intrauterine infections. It is best to wait until the 6 week pelvic exam to be sure that your partner is safe to resume sexual intercourse, during this time she can be doing Kegels exercises to retone her bits so that she does not urinate during sex.
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  1150. I like being fine.
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  1151. Yes, it most definitely is.
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  1152. Many clinical trials drugs are tried on tissue cell cultures before being tested on first animals and then humans. But you can not replicate the effects on whole organ systems in that way.
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  1153.  @misschief4283  People do not go to the police because it would destroy their own career, no one employs a trouble maker.
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  1154.  @misschief4283  When you say you have studied at Oxford or Cambridge, your first real employer will want to take a reference from your tutor, it is just the way it is. When anyone does not want to spell someone out as a trouble maker they simply give a neutral reference of Miss X studied natural science tripos at this institute between 1988 and 1991 and achieved a 2:1. The lack of substance raises questions in the employer's minds and any follow up may result in the candidate being spelt out far more explicitly as trouble. Add in the fact that many students go on to be employed in research within the university in which they have studied or go into academia at another university, it is transparent to see why they do not take matters to the police.
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  1155.  @misschief4283  Quite clearly, you have never studied or worked for Cambridge University. You absolutely do not stab them in the back by bringing the university into disrepute. Going to the police would be deemed just that. University has proctors that uphold the university's laws as determined by the university equivalent of parliament, the Senate House. The standard of proof is the criminal standard of proof ie 'beyond reasonable doubt' rather than the civil law standard of proof 'on the balance of probability' Both students and employees are permitted representation through recognised unions. As for trained, they have no shortage of law experts themselves. As I am sure you are aware many incidents of bad behaviour happen in private and as such that can make them very difficult to prove, either as an in-house case or within the law courts. In this incident, the university upheld the complaint as there were texts sent from the perpetrator's 'phone to the complanent's 'phone. Despite upholding the complaint the university failed to impliment a suitable solution that would keep the two apart without detrimenting the victim. I am not excusing the university, but the vast majority of complaints that it deals with would not meet the evidential threshold that is set by the Crown Prosecution Service and in those sorts of cases the most that the police can do is issue a caution, most people are aware that you can refuse to accept a caution and so if the person does this, they walk off without any criminal record whatsoever. Unfortunately, that is the way that it is, the law sadly, does not always punish those that do wrong and to be fair, if you ever are involved in a criminal trial, it is a very draining and long process.
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  1156.  @misschief4283  Actually, I did work for them and I am not sure how you think I have contradicted myself. A lot of what goes on there is not ideal. Your question asks, why are they handling these issues internally. The reality is that it is about reputation and damage limitation , as far as they are concerned. It is not great for them if you students or staff involve the police and matters come out in open court, because whilst the victim of sexual assaults and rapes would be anonymous, the perpetrator would be revealed as a member of the university. In this case as it is harassment, she probably would not be anonymous. You perhaps think that there is a conflict when I said beyond reasonable doubt and then said about the evidential standards of the CPS. Well sorry, but the CPS can be a law unto themselves too. They are at least partially funded by the taxpayer, so they are obliged to only take forward cases that they feel confident in getting a conviction in. It constantly remains a mystery as to why they drop many of the cases. Sometimes I wonder if it is simple overload. The police are frequently frustrated as to the number of cases that get dropped. The reality in this case is that whilst the perpetrators texts and attention were unwelcome, if they simply consisted of nothing more than sexual innuendo, then the CPS may take the view that this is too low down the criminal scale to bother. I have personally had experience of this as my ex tried to run me over and nothing came of the police investigations, he did not get so much as a caution. He went on to attack wife number 2 and he was charged with the offence and initially bailed, when new evidence came to light and he was remanded in custody. Wife number 2 then rescinded her statement and the CPS did not carry it forward, despite the fact that they are supposed to do that in cases of domestic violence. I can only assume that she was frightened into taking this course of action.
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  1157. I bet Prednisolone would have done the job.
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  1158. How do you know that she is not looking for a standard job as well as writing?
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  1159. The moment she told you that she was unhappy with how far it went on New Year's Eve, was the moment that you should have really quit this situation. It takes two to tango and if she was not objecting and actively participating in your making out whatever, then she has as much responsibility as you for how far it went. To see her kissing another guy suggests that she is not that into you and she has pretty much told you this. Her saying that she wants to stay friends, well fine as long as it does not interfere with you dating other women. If she is calling you or texting you too much, then you need to set some healthy boundaries and make it quite clear that you WERE interested in a romantic relationship and that as all that she is interested in is a platonic relationship, that the amount of contact needs to be reflective of a friendship rather than a relationship. If she really has your welfare at heart then she will respect that you have a right to seek happiness in a relationship, but for your part you need to realise that this is not going to be with her, some stop wasting your time and energy on her.
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  1160. The other week I nearly hit a buzzard that was in flight. Amazing how they can see an iddy biddy little field mouse that is nigh on the same colour as the field they are in but fail to see a bloody great red car against a black road surface. I have also had a sparrowhawk fly straight into the window pane at my home, thankfully it was just stunned.
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  1161. It does not matter what religion you are, to beat someone who is weaker than yourself is wrong. If you are unhappy with your spouse then it is time to either get counselling or leave.
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  1162. Very little support for parents dealing with this.
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  1163. Boris is a tool, just not the sharpest tool in the box! Encourages people who can work remotely back into offices... NO that will spread it. Encourages people to eat out...NO that will spread it, would have been wiser to put the offer on takeaway meals only! Has children back to school in an ill thought out way. Would be OK to have primary back, but secondary needed additional measures. The children at secondary school need to be spaced out better and so for years 7, 8 & 9 community spaces like church halls and community rooms should have been pressed into action. Practical elements of science etc should have been reduced to demos and videos only for these years. Years 10 and 11 should be in school and where possible doing their practical work with gloves and masks on and extra daytime cleaners to clean used equipment and handrails etc. Year 9s should be tested after half term and choose their GCSE options and start those courses as soon as possible to cope with the expected disruption. Year 11s could easily have an extra half hour of lessons at the end of the day and the GCSEs could be delayed by one month. Year 13 at this rate could probably do with an extra years tuition because of the demands of A levels. Universities could rearrange their terms accordingly and emergency grants issued to cover extra costs.
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  1164. Possibly, the overhead plane is spooking the horse.
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  1165.  @moniquesmith7138  Yeah, wouldn't fancy a polo mallet being swung anywhere near me either!
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  1166.  @Liz-vd4lj  Probably a darn sight more sensitive.
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  1167.  @RaysRena  That is lucky!
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  1168. 2:34 He's wrong.
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  1169. OOPS
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  1170. Most countries you have to donate your body for this to happen to it.
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  1171. Yes, but you have to have a realistic figure to budget with. One of the things that really costs is the conditionality thing. With UC you have to check in daily, online with your job coach, this means that you either need an internet connection or a fancy 'phone, as libraries (if you can find one in your locality) are not open on Sundays. Broadband and fancy 'phones are the last saps on your money that you actually need.
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  1172. Unlikely that anyone will be jailed, volunteers probably paid off by insurance in exchange for signing a non disclosure agreement.
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  1173. They can no longer cut off water, but they used to.
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  1174. These people had a case because the company still has a duty of care to carry out the trial with a degree of care to the participants. In this case, there existed the knowledge that monoclonal antibody drugs can provoke cytokine storms and that to avoid that there were well established procedures, that the clinical trials company failed to follow. For this reason, they could potentially be found negligent in a court of law.
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  1175. The jury does not decide the charges, the judge and Crown Prosecution Service do that and there are strict guidelines. For someone to be tried on a count of murder there has to be evidence that the killing was both premeditated and the intended outcome, without being able to prove that beyond reasonable doubt then a jury would be instructed to prove innocent. That is why the charge is manslaughter.
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  1176.  @nothingtoseehere2168  His injuries were so bad that one of the first on the scene thought that the body was that of a deer. Part of the problem is the fact that they can say that they had no idea that it was a person that they were dragging and it is probably difficult to prove otherwise. They deserve a long prison sentence, but they probably won't get anything near what they deserve.
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  1177. If I was Bear, I think I'd keep my name secret it does kind of scream eat me doesn't it.
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  1178. the ice cream machine always works in the uk
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  1179. This is the UK and food is much more expensive here compared to our incomes, than in the USA.
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  1180. The outfits identify the hunt's Masters. They lead the pack and direct the hunt and are responsible for the financial management and knowing which farmers are happy to allow them on their land, which is nearly every one. If you go hunting then you hunt behind the guys in red [although they are called pinks], unless the Master does you the honour of calling you to ride along side, NEVER go ahead. You pay your cap to the Master and upon departing company from the hunt you say " Good evening Master" no matter what the time of day.
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  1181. At least he was doing something good for humanity.
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  1182.  @JC-mb3cq  How can you be sure that him being unmasked as a cheat and a liar in public [using a dodgy polygraph, I may add] , did not contribute to him taking his own life. You can not separate that factor out from the story. In other words if it was not about to be publically aired with or without cheating allegations, we do not know if the outcome would have been the same.
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  1183. Wish that Japanese that come to our country could give a clear no, I realize that they are simply trying to be polite, but it can make teaching difficult. Otherwise, admire work ethic.
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  1184. They can and they do both to women and other men
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  1185. Anyone of a number of disasters could happen. Most people would be pretty screwed without infrastructure.
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  1186. Many people have children when times are good and then, as in this case, either an event or frequently events take a turn for the worse. No one can foresee what misfortunes might lie ahead of them.
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  1187. It is perfectly OK to enforce healthy boundaries with someone. I am sure you would not have behaved in that way unless he initiated it and it is not necessarily bad news, as if he does reappear in your life he knows not to treat you that way again.
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  1188. At the moment the number of confirmed cases in the UK stands at zero and obviously it may only be at the end of the incubation period that we actually start to see people being diagnosed, but obviously, it can be assumed that the moment that you have people being diagnosed it means that there will already be a vast pool of infected, but asymptomatic folk out there who are then infecting others. In light of this is it a good idea to upregulate the cytokine production in people by administering elderberry syrup? If this turns into an epidemic, it is unlikely that the NHS could cope, in that instance would taking asthma preventers and inhalers help with hypoxaemia? Perhaps a low tech way of dealing with people who are ill might be to locate lactating mothers who have recovered from the condition and have them donate 90% of their expressed milk to sufferers as this would contain antibodies to the virus and to make their children's milk supply up with milk from a milk bank.
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  1189. Robert Thompson appears to have been successfully rehabilitated, but Jon Venables has been in trouble twice more since release.
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  1190.  @Turtletoise  I am sorry if your disability, prevents you from the physical expression, I didn't mean to offend you, that's why I simply said most and not all.
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  1191.  @Turtletoise  nice one!
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  1192.  @tammyhuennerkopf9065  Drugs are tested chemically and if they pass, they go on to be tested in human cell cultures, but that is not the same thing as a whole-body system. They are then tested in animals to try and get an indication of toxicity, side effects and effective dose range, this is to try and make it as safe as possible before it goes into humans. To be fair the test company was negligent, they failed to follow existing protocols for the administration of monoclonal antibodies, which would have negated many of the problems that arose with this trial. The reality is: how many times do you hear of a trial going wrong? Almost never, because usually, we have a good idea as to the drugs safety and likely effects due to prior experimentation in animals.
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  1193. Funny how he says that male sexuality is beautiful, but men find it yucky if a woman has had a lot of partners. Why would a guy be jealous of a woman's access to sex unless he simply is not getting any? And does he and the rest of the male population think that just because a woman is having sex means that she is actually enjoying that sex or that the sex is the main point and not the relationship itself, which may be sadly lacking.? Men find women that have had many sexual partners yucky, how about men that have had loads of sexual partners? Isn't it yucky that they might have an STI/STD? Isn't it yucky that they might be the sort that is promises that they love the woman just to manipulate them into giving sex like some human sex vending machine? Isn't it yucky that they may have left a trail of baby mothers?
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  1194.  @visancosmin8991  Actually, I would prefer that a guy was truthful and then I know what I am getting myself into, is it simply something that is going to lead nowhere so I should not invest any feelings in it?
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  1195. Most of them are not like Rufus, most male kangaroos are in continuous fight mode and those claws are lethal, so they probably dare not let them back in to the wild for fear of them being habituated and attacking us.
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  1196. Because the parliament is a magical place like schools and sporting venues and workplaces, where the rules of virus transmission simply do not apply. But should it be a nice day and more than 6 of you are sat in the park on your own rug 2 metres way from one another, well that is illegal apparently.
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  1197. Or maybe the government is too chicken to do anything about it for fear of being branded racist. Anyone that wants to protect their precious white children, wants to protect the NHS from overuse by reducing preventable disabilities.
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  1198. 2:35 It does, actually.
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  1199. Not unusual to find that drug researchers do exactly that. This drug was passed from the manufacturer to a contract company that tests drugs. At this time there were established protocols for testing monoclonal antibodies. The usual way to administer this class of drugs is to dilute it into a drip of phosphate buffered saline and to infuse slowly over a period of around an hour. If the patient shows an adverse reaction the infusion can be paused so that the dose that they receive is less. Cytokine storms are a known side effect of this class of drugs and for that reason, the researchers should have had an anti-inflammatory steroid called Prednisolone on standby and resus facilities on hand.
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  1200. Sadly, that frequently does not work out. Unless the break up was mutual, then you tend to either get the situation where one person is either trying to get back together with the other person or they try and get back at the other person. My marriage broke up after my ex was violent and left me for another woman, when it came to child contact he was nothing but a pain in the backside until the courts put an end to child contact.
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  1201. Coffin birth
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  1202. There are many people walking around that do wrong and never get caught or have good lawyers that get them off. No one is with out sin, but the biggest sins are those committed out of greed rather than need.
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  1203.  @Ammar777s  In the UK we have taxes that pay for hospitals and schools. It is alleged that the politician Jacob Rees-Mogg has avoided paying tax on £103 million of profit by putting that income through an off shore shell company. When I worked I never objected to paying my fair share of taxes, even though my wage was not huge. At the end of the day I think it is a bigger sin that those who have plenty of money use tax loopholes to deprive the working classes of properly funded education and healthcare, but are perfectly happy to take their labour in exchange for a pittance. People who steal through absolute need, I can empathise with, those that do it for greed at everyone else's expense, I abhor.
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  1204. So much cheaper.
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  1205. Maybe just for the disruption factor.
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  1206. An older man only has value to a younger woman if he has money and is generous with it. Do you not think that a woman who is dating a guy who is 3 decades older than her knows that in a few years time she is going to be spoon feeding him pureed food and wiping his arse, so the compensation for that has to be pretty high.
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  1207.  @alexparise2321  Not all older guys have money, just as not all younger women are beautiful and not all women are going to want to sell themselves so this is always going to be subject to market pressures.
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  1208.  @alexparise2321  That is the thing that most guys do not realise. They have far more options than women. Women are tied more to biological aging than men and have a very finite time to achieve stuff in. If a woman in the UK studies for a degree then she is going to be 21/22 by the time her education is finished and she is going to graduate with a bunch of debts hanging over her head. She then has to balance that debt and her career and having kids. This is why many, many young women are resorting to hooking up with sugar daddies. It is essentially a form of prostitution the girl is offering companionship, dates, sex a girlfriend experience in exchange for her tuition fees or rent being paid or expensive gifts: a car; jewellery; designer handbags that she can sell. If the gifts dry up so does the 'relationship'. I am not saying that this transaction might not result in a genuine relationship eventually, but that is not the premise that it has started out on and I would say that it is a risky strategy for a guy to follow this path in the expectation that it is going to result in a relationship. If a guy joins a sugar daddy site as this guy did, they know what they are letting themselves in for. They are buying someone's services with gifts. The first woman that he mentioned was decent and up front about it, she had told him that if there was sexual chemistry between them, it would happen, but that he would be paying for it. He does not have clear objectives, he wants a relationship, but only when it suits him, so yeah he is going to find it difficult to get someone that will go weeks or months without seeing the person that they are supposed to love, unless there is some sort of big pay off that makes that sort of trade off acceptable.
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  1209. Cost of hair, manicure, clothes and shoes. A woman is looking good mainly for the guy, because what guy wants to take out an unattractive woman because he will feel that it reflects badly on him. You're getting a good looking dinner date and want to see her again, then pay, at least the first time, if she is not what you want then don't pay. Simple.
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  1210.  @hugosugg4350  The reason why people give food or a cup of something hot is because they know that many homeless people spend money that is given to them on alcohol, drugs or fags. Many of the people who give, can not afford the luxury of such habits themselves, so why should they support other people in those habits? I think that poverty is mainly to blame for homelessness and we all know that homelessness can be a route to addiction, but addiction is never going to help these people out of poverty. We need more available affordable housing and better mental health services.
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