Max the Cat

If I genuinely knew that someone I knew was an illegal immigrant I would like to think I'd warn them indirectly I knew then grass them up.

In practice (and this has happened) I wouldn't actually say anything and hope somebody else would cath them but feel years feeling cross abotu them driving down the wages for legal workers. In all honesty I would never have the guts to do anything about it.

Fair enough I do not eat meat but do eat fish. I don't describe myself as a veggie but other people do.

It ****** me off when meat eaters say 'ah you're a veggie but you eat fish?'

What the hell's it got to do with them? I'm not tellling other's what to eat and what not to. Why do they take it so personally that some people eat fish but not meat?

I've found from my partner it's easier just to say veggie. Even if you say that they will ask you if you eat chicken or fish so pescetarian just .would.not.compute.

My Mum has a floor lamp with about 6/7 halogen lights on it - when its on the room is floodlit and its way too bright for her room. I thought she could put a dimmer switch on it.

 

Does anybody out there know if you can fit a dimmer switch for a lamp to a lamp which does not have one fitted already and if so, where do I get one from. When I have googled for dimmer switches all my results are those which are fixed to the wall which, of course, are not what I am looking for.

 

Any advice gratefully received.

Has she tried getting the same type of wattage bulb but energy saving? I had a bulb in my bedroom and it was very bright but when I replaced it with an energy saving one it was much, much dimmer.

You shouldn't call yourself a veg if you're not. My husband is a true veg (but cooks the best steak ever), I don't eat Pork, Lamb or non-free range Meat. And I eat meat sparingly and like to know what I eat is realy good meat.

That said, I do support cheap meat. Much as people might whinge on cheap meat provided a cheap source of protein and eradicated cholera so nobody should complain about that till they've found a way to replace that type of meat.

Max the Cat trufax

It involved the Fridge in Brixton, a large bag of speed, somebody developing psychosis, and the police and the Royal Air Force Museum in Hendon. And that was only

my 18th birthday.

Thanks for the Advice Max the Cat,ive had the tattoo 25yrs,i think ive left it long enough

If you've had this awful tat 25 years you can wait 3 to get it covered up with for something you can live with for the rest of your life can't you?

Thanks for the Advice Max the Cat,ive had the tattoo 25yrs,i think ive left it long enough

Yes, but you can cover it up for a few more years until you can afford a decent tattoo cover up rather than getting a crap one done now no?

What is the point of covering up one crap tattoo with another one? Save up a little and wait until you can cover up your crap tattooo with one that looks really good.

I want to share a little secret with you.

Dispite my online 'persona' im actualy a rather decent bloke. I work hard for crap money, do my best for my babies, pay the rent on time, pay the bills wen due and all in all im a pretty good husband. Ive been working almost 2 years now after a long bought of ill health and ive secured a promotion after i was set on after my stint as a job centre freebie. Im also a caring fella who would do anything for anyone. Im regualy called on by workmates and others for advice, help and guidance. I always do my best to give the best most impartial advice and people do ask if ive trained as a therapist of some sort.

I havent. Well thats enough of blowing my own trumpet. Im in danger of falling off the sofa,,,,,hahaha,,guffor,, and so on.

The thing i wanted to say is this.

Where do i turn, who do i speak to when i feel so incredibly depressed i could easily bugger off from this mortal coil and not look back.

Right, thats it.

thanks for listening.

Please don't feel crap honey, you sound like a lovely bloke and you have family and friends who obviously think the world of you and would feel devastated if anything happened to you.

Have you tried the Samaritans if you're feeling very down? If you feel unable to talk face to face you can email them via the following

http://www.samaritans.org/talk_to_someone/email.aspx

Hope it all works out okay for you but maybe this isn't the right place to talk about this. Currently I'm being told to FOAND because I suggested it isn't okay to return goods without a receipt. But there you go...

Take care

xx

Live with it for a bit and wear long sleeves to cover up. What is the point in buying a cover up if you buy one that is no good? You're going to have to live with it just as much as you'll have to live with the tattoo you have now so leave it a little longer and get a decent cover up so you don't have to get it done again and pay again!

My BIL had a cover up done in Orchard Square, it was v good, a couple of years back, don't know if they're there anymore.

Do wait till you've saved up though, it will be an investment so you don't have to do it again.

So. Who do you think you are kidding Mr Hitler?

Nice tache.

So you feel that you would be traduced into insanity by Hitler? You must be very easily beguiled or very young is all I can say.

 

You think that if someone with a Hitleresque ability in public speaking came along, the British people would follow slavishly the representation of a religious and cultural minority as being Untermenschen and collude in a Final Solution? I really doubt that, there may be a lot of talk from certain quarters, but when push comes to shove, the British have always turned up trumps in support of the 'victim'. (I would say 'underdog' but fear your pedantry and gift for turning the most innocent comment)

A lot of people who might say now that they would stand up against Hitler wouldn't if they had the SA or Gestapo against them?

If you think you would I suggest you read 'Alone in Berlin' by Hans Fallada or anything by Primo Levi and then think if you would have stood against Hitler. Or look at Sophie Scholl. She was a teenager and printed pamphlets against the Nazi's and was guillotined.

If you were caught acting against the Nazi's they would hurt and kill the people closest to you. Fact.

I have a book about the Mitford sisters which include Unity Mitford's (the biggest Hitler cheerleader in Britain pre 1939) written accounts of meeting him before 1939. What is chilling about him is that he is so normal. This is despite the fact Unity (a very young woman) knew how he was treating the Jew's and publicly endorsed it.

He liked dogs and appeared to be a kind personable man at that time.

I've visited Berlin and seen the Topograhpie of Terror exibition where you stand in front of the gestapo torture chambers and listen to the shouted Nazi rhetoric of speeches that were given from balconies on the gestapo and state buildings above the same site.

They are totally chilling.

But when you hear about somebody who could have pleasant conversation about other peoples, children, wives, friends, dog and behave normally doing what they did... well that's worse..

Are you completely certain it's not a green subaru?

Thanks MaxtheCat, what is OH?

It is the Dog and Partridge, but I think they're owned by the same people.

The OH is from the People's Republic of Caaaaaark

I am 22 next Friday Lol I am female I have a level 2 nvq in food, drink and hospitality and I have work in 4 different pubs/ restaurant doing everything from cleaning to pot washing, barmaid all the way up to assistant chef. I have done babysitting, handing out leaflets, Ann summers, Avon, and a cashier at a newsagents these I have done all in hull.

Coming from Hull shouldn't prevent you from claiming benefits in Sheffield. Did they say why you can't claim?

Are cats classed as 'vermin' under UK law? (Serious question; they're classed as vermin - though people do have them as pets - where I grew up.)

 

When I lived in Lincolnshire, a local farmer used to get annoyed because I ate the pheasants (pheasants he had reared) which came onto my land.

 

He said: "YOU CAN'T DO THAT RUPERT! - I PAID GOOD MONEY TO REAR THOSE PHEASANTS! YOU CAN'T KILL MY BIRDS!"

 

I said : "**** off, Jim. - I paid good money for the plants which your pheasants ate ... Are you going to compensate me for the damage they did?"

 

"Ah, well, they're wild animals. - I can't stop them from eating your plants."

 

"Precisely, Jim. They're wild animals. - And if they come in my garden, you can't stop me from eating them, either."

 

Were I your next-door neighbour (on the other side) I wouldn't eat your neighbour's cat ... but I might sell it to a take-away if I caught it in my garden.

Way to enjoy destroying someone's livliehood. If you live in the country where people will rear animals of that type don't be upset if it happens to you. You shouldn't have bought a house next to a pheasant farm if you didn't want pheasants on your land.

Oh, the grapes has Trad music too if you like that sort of thing. It's quite good actually, the few gigs I've seen there.

Yeah. OH is Irish and the Grapes is good and they show all the Ireland football matches. Nice pub and the family who run it are lovely friendly people.

Also there's an Irish club down near the Hilton. Hope you like Sheffield!!

So you want to keep your benefits even though you want a fairly well paid job? Good luck with that. In the meantime I suggest you go to the jobcentreplus site and look up cleaners as that's usually the kind of job with flexible hours you can do when you're not working - it will probably be minimum wage though.

Bet you all stop doing your diets by March.

 

And then pile all your weight back on plus a little extra

 

The classic yo yo diet

Do you have a personality disorder or something? You really seem to have something wrong with you, you should get that checked out.

Like I said on the Weightwatchers thread. You sound like a stuck up, stick thin misery. You need to spend an afternoon on the sofa with a chocolate bar and a good film - might loosen you up a bit.

Ha, ha, ha. Best post ever!

I dislike the style of reporting, but the fact that in the 'Jo' case her body has been found might have something to do with it? A murder enquiry will usually get much more publicity than a missing person.

 

Walking on Loxley common yesterday, we were talking to police who are still looking for Sally Webster. They were asking people if anyone had seen anything unusual etc. So, locally, the search is still going on.

There was wall to wall coverage of Jo's case before she died though. Regardless, hope she's found soon.

Perfume, calendar, money. And I got a book called 'Nothing to Envy' about peoples' lives in North Korea. It's a brilliant book I can't put it down.

That's total hogwash and rubbish Harley, as well you know... There are drug addicts and beggars who have come from the Mormon church just like there are drug addicts and beggars who have come from the Baptist church, the Episcopal Church, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, Sikhism, paganism, or whatever faith. Drug addiction can affect anyone, of any faith, of any gender, or any class.

But Plain Talker you have not said once where in the world there is a Christian state that actively legislate to persecute people of other religions. You're just avoiding the question. Name one.

depends what you mean by christian and other religions, the troubles in ireland is the last, apart from that its still not without its problems, doesnt matter if its the past or not.....it happened.

most muslims DONT go round bombing people but constantly take the flak

That was secteriansism not religion. Throughout the troubles there remained an active protestant church of Ireland where protestant's were free to worship. Similarly Jews, Muslims, Hindus etc have never been prevented from practicing their religion in the Republic of Ireland.

If you want to go back to the point where Catholics weren't allowed to hold public office or property you have to go right back to the seventies or early eighties so as I said it's in the past.