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ECCOnoob

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  1. What are the missing 7% I wonder. Either way, interesting there are technically more people who dont identify as Christian than those who do. What a surprise Nigel Farage talking balls just to draw attention to himself. This paragraph in the article sums it up for me. Typical fuss over nothing that rolls around every year. “....Throughout the year, messaging at the station also celebrates festivals from other religions including Easter, Christmas, Passover, and Diwali to mark the beliefs of our colleagues and passengers"
  2. Ah yes. overlooked that line. So again a perfect example of waste. Use the Priory rather than send her to the £5m Mental Health Care Department that the Mid and South Essex Trust had at their disposal.
  3. I am not denying that. If you read my post, I made it clear that the NHS should be providing core clinical treatments and emergency services. Looking after the disabled, natural cause illness, elderly fragility and palliative care is part of that core clinical treatment. What I am not agreeing with is propping up the serial abusers, self harmers, malingerers, timewasters, dangerous activities, lifestyle choices.... Anna, SOME patients are a nuisance. SOME patients deserve to be blamed for their own conditions (even more so why they ignore the previous advice/treatment/refuse services offered). SOME patients should be made to pay when they overuse and abuse the service. SOME patients are more than capable and should be taking responsibility for nursing and caring for themselves instead of sitting on their backsides expecting the state to pick up the tab.
  4. If true (because Daily Mail). A perfect example of waste, incompetence and mismanagement from the NHS I describe. Putting aside the obvious self infliction from the family and the patient herself, how the hell did things get that far. How on earth did they 'sneak in' Fish and Chips and Buckets of Fried Chicken to a clearly critically obese patient on a hospital ward. Nobody noticed? Nobody actually monitored and checked when they ran their tests? Did none of the clinicians involved up to and during the peeing away of £10k on a gastric band stop to think that this patient clearly has a mental health problem and may need to be referred for either detention or psychological treatment to top her self harming via overeating? Did none of the services check on the wider family, about her lifestyle and who was providing this bed bound woman with all this food which may have been bordering abuse? Madness.
  5. Lots of things there that people should be taking self responsibility for - not expecting the state to nurse them. THAT is the problem. The NHS is overused, taken for granted, overburdened by far too many who should and can be taking care of themselves. It has far too many departments, divisions, side projects and auxiliary services that shouldn't be funded by taxpayers. Its ego is far too big and its always too overprotected because god forbid any Politician would dare to suggest even the slightest reform - they all know it would be election suicide and within seconds all the unions would be kicking off. I long for the day when someone will have the balls to openly admit it might be a little bit of incompetent, flabby, wasteful, expensive and mismanaged. It needs to be completely stripped back to is functions of core clinical treatments and emergency services. Lifestyle choices, malingerers, self inflicted damage, serial abusers and timewasters clogging up the service need to be severely tackled even directly made to pay if necessary. ......You choose to go base jumping off cheddar gorge >> better get that health insurance policy. You choose to eat 2 buckets of fried chicken and a gallon of coke a day, despite the widely publicised public health warnings >> be prepared to be paying for your weight loss and diabetes treatment You choose to blatantly ignore repeated advice of your Clinician to cut out smoking >> fine, but the next time your visit with worsened emphysema will be chargeable. You choose to get blind drunk on Saturday night and start brawling >> your choice. But expect to be left waiting at the back of the A&E queue followed by an invoice on Monday. You choose to repeatedly fail to attend arranged GP appointments without cancelling >> next time its £25 each missed appointment..... However, never going to happen.
  6. Very true. Far too many blindly following a colour or picking who their dad picked or their granddad did or their great granddad did. .
  7. It is, but I am more surprised that such falls under a local authority's remit and more importantly out of their budget. Seems quite bizarre that at a time when some local authorities are going completely bankrupt and others sre barely able to provide the minimal of services, money is being spent in such way.
  8. Let's all remember the local elections for SCC and the City Regional Mayor are coming up on 2 May. So if one wants to get rid of the tools who brought in all the decisions that people have been whining about on here about for months - now's the chance. Use it or lose it.
  9. Bull. You wouldn't remember jack all until at least into 2000. Nearly all stores took debit cards without additional charges, You could even use them to buy tickets onboard the train or at the cinema , in many pubs and even in my local corner shop. I certainly remember getting my slips to sign from all sorts of places day-to-day. By the time you claim you emerged onto this world, the switch debit card had been in existence for nearly a decade, contactless payments started before you even became a teenager. Some of us were actually there love. I don't care what your family did. Just because you didn't see it doesn't mean it didn't happen. When are you going to get into your head, cashless society is not a new thing. It is just the tools that have changed.
  10. You make it sound as if there's no other human being on the planet who I will interact with during my day. I have my own social network of people to talk to. I don't need shop staff for it. See what I have said above. People these days have there entire communications and support network be it verbal, written, visual all in their pocket. We have never had more engaged society.
  11. 1967 love. Barclays Enfield. Well prepare to be disappointed because there's only one direction it's going. What if you get mugged and lose all your cash? What if you drop your wallet on the bus? Why if the store safe gets broken into? What if the till got jammed? We can all play those games You have never had 'change' love. By the time you were popped out into this world, cashless transactions were well established, ordinary consumers had been using cheque books for decades and debit cards were commonplace.
  12. Even cash transactions require digital dependency. Do you think a bank just throws cash into a big vault and writes it all down on big dusty handwritten ledgers. How do you think the ATM you use every day conducts its transactions. Your comparisons were the theatre are misguided, considering most of the venues these days have increasing use of digital ticketing where the ushers just scan a barcode from someone's device. It's sod all to do with laziness. Cashless transactions have been around since the 18th century. Before the advent of the digital revolution the vast majority of the world's financials was conducted by cheques and bankers drafts and orders. People were not wandering around which huge sacks of coins. The first plastic payment card was created in the 1950s. The first EPOS invented in the '70s. More talking out of your backside Mrs "28 years old"
  13. Its so coincidental that you just happened to have chaos and technical problems. I've flown lots of times using self-check in and never had any of the stresses that you describe. In fact on my last trip through Heathrow I got from the start of departures to the security point within about 5 minutes. I checked in online the night before in my hotel room, I got the boarding pass emailed straight to my phone, when I arrived at the terminal I went straight to the bag drop which was no more difficult than using a parking metre and then off it went. You really must be an unfortunate magnet to this type of fault and difficulty stuff.
  14. No. All it proves is exactly what I said in my earlier posts. If people want personal hands on service, it's still available - they just need to be prepared to pay for it. Those business class passengers will be paying thousands of pounds more for their tickets than your lot in economy so expect something in return. You still haven't explain why the minimal human interaction Amazon is so popular and absolutely decimating the in-person bricks and mortar retail. Like I said, where are all these 'normal people' you claim are so desperate for human service. Why are they not shopping in store anymore?
  15. You do realise that the physical cash itself is just a piece of paper. It is technically worthless. Its worth, power and means is only as good as the projection value of currency or commodity fix to it. Something that could all dramatically change at the stroke of a pen. The Bank of England is still the government. The Bank of England is the issuer and authority of a cash notes free to make any changes they want. If they decided tomorrow that £5 notes were totally worthless and remove from circulation they can. That's before we get onto the effects of things like hyper-inflation which has happened with real world examples of how even having a trolley full of bank notes gets you nothing. They already have total control. We don't make our own personal currency. I don't write bank notes on the bank of me. We're not bartering in beads and trinkets any more.
  16. Yep that I do agree with. Especially if there is a group of you. Much more civilised than all trying to cram around the bar or annoy other patrons by someone going up and ordering 8 meals and 16 drinks.
  17. If and when the entire internet goes down there will be much bigger problems to worry about than just changing a fuse.
  18. Well they wouldn't, they don't have the pound sterling. However what France did spend was about 4.5 billion euros on their immigration and asylum bill with over 1 billion euros alone just paying migrant medical assistance. This is not simply a British issue
  19. Hence why I used the word "most" not "all" What's the point you're trying to prove? Yes, so they store you went to had become cash only along with a handful of others. However, the fault was not entirely universal. From the sky news article: All stores remained open during the technical blunder, the supermarket said, and the "majority" of chip and pin transactions were working. Regardless, it was a temporary fault that was resolved. Hardly a great life changing drama. Nobody is suggesting that computers are completely infallible but then nobody can say that manual systems worked guaranteed 100% of the time either.
  20. You do realise that people have been willingly allowing computers 'take over their lives' for the past 70 years. You know that payroll you receive, that bank account you use, those planes in the sky, that power that goes to your house, that water that flows through your tap, that military that protects us from harm, those shop shelves that keep being filled, that television and radio that keeps being broadcast, even that health and medical treatment you receive is all touched by the power of computers. This nonsense people have to think that rebelling against technology and digital banking takes them off grid and somehow sticks it up to 'the man'. This complete naivety they have that somehow computer dependance is a millennial thing and became prominent in the past couple of decades.
  21. No it wasn't. Most of the stores were still able to accept chip and pin card payments - it was just contactless affected. In some others, all checkouts were working fine with just the handheld self scan devices and online ordering offline. It was only a small number of shops that had complete failure and had to go cash only.
  22. I found this very strange. Surely can't have been that many. Contactless hasn't made PIN go away. People still need to put their number in after so many contactless transaction for security. People still need to use it any time a transaction goes over £100. People still need to use it anytime they go to an ATM. People still need to use it every time they do a transaction in branch.
  23. Or one of those 20 years olds would just use their smartphone to look up how to change a fuse on the internet or watch one of the 1001 YouTube videos giving them a step by step demonstration.
  24. I really don't think it's the magic wand you expect it to be. Organisations have already worked out what could have happened if say the 2019 general election was calculated by PR. Guess what, the Tories would have still had the largest share and be nearly 100 seats ahead of Labour. The only real impact would have been for the SNP who in that model would have been massively lagging behind Lib Dem. As for everyone else, it would be business as usual - minority parties with negligible seat numbers and nobody caring. Hardly a dramatic shift from status quo.
  25. I'm not there to 'socialise' with the staff. They are there to do a job. They're not counsellors or surrogate friends. We will continue to socialise with our own support groups, families and friendships as we always have done. Tech has not stopped that, just changed how we do it. You are also overlooking that, unlike the black and white days, in this modern world, my entire support network is available to me at the press of a button from a shiny device in my pocket. In an instant I can communicate with someone or a group of people verbally, visually, or by written word. I can see at the glance what my friends and acquaintances are doing. I can see their profiles and pictures and comments and thoughts whatever they choose to broadcast either privately or publicly. I'm merely a click away from a call, video chat, messenger or even group invite to to meet with them. It's all there whenever and most importantly wherever I need it. Having Susie on the till rather than some self scan system is hardly going to dramatically change that. One could even argue that this evolution into automating and expediting the the mundane chores, life admin, household goods purchasing and quicker service gives more freedom and time to engage in that so vital socialising. I hear lots of arguement that the world of automation and technology increases mental health issues but would say it can equally be argued its brought us much closer together, Another issue frequently overlooked is that mental health issues have always been there. Stress and anxiety and depression are not some new concept. The only difference these days is that finally people are prepared to be more open and honest about it. People are increasingly prepared to talk about it instead of feeling compelled to maintain some mythical British stowism or fear ridicule or backlash from others who'd dismiss it as a weakness. Is there a dramatic increase in mental health issues or is the reality an increase in awareness and openness about it. Regardless, I think it's too tenuous link to be arguing replacing counter staff with touch screens is a major catalyst.
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