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ToughDiamond
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Yesterday, 2:34 pm

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Because Wednesday Addams works around death and she said there's always loads on a Monday when she goes into work

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Yesterday, 2:36 pm

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If only! I've had four bills in the last three weeks, and am now on my fourth contract since May.

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Yeah I'd be doing my nut as well mate

I hate these companies I do


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Yesterday, 2:39 pm

The thing about BT is that their actual product (broadband) is pretty good, it's their systems and customer service that let them down.


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Yesterday, 2:43 pm

It's the staff turnover mate
They don't even hardly get any training before they stick a headset on them and let them loose

I'd trust pilot them but that's just me


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Yesterday, 2:49 pm

I have a 60-year-old co-worker who is dyslexic, but he went to mainstream school. He's quite impacted by his dyslexia. How come a person from that generation manage to go to mainstream school with dyslexia? Didn't schools back in them days send all kids with a learning disability off to special schools? :scratch:


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Yesterday, 2:53 pm

A lot of people from the older generations had a lot harder of a time with their disabilities than kids of the current generation. Often, support was lacking for various disabilities or was entirely absent, leading individuals to experience a more miserable existence than if they would have received support or sometimes they would find themselves traumatized by bullies without the extra layer of protection of being labelled as 'special' in some way.

Of course, as you know yourself, being labelled has its downsides, also. But there are definitely downsides to not being labelled in many cases, as well.



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Yesterday, 2:56 pm

We had a special educational school attached to my children's home

It was for people who had been excluded from school probably because of learning difficulties or behaviour problems etc
But you had to be kicked out of school to get in
But no one was tested for conditions

One of the lads from our home burned it down in the end

He was a pyromaniac


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Yesterday, 3:07 pm

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A lot of people from the older generations had a lot harder of a time with their disabilities than kids of the current generation. Often, support was lacking for various disabilities or was entirely absent, leading individuals to experience a more miserable existence than if they would have received support or sometimes they would find themselves traumatized by bullies without the extra layer of protection of being labelled as 'special' in some way.

Of course, as you know yourself, being labelled has its downsides, also. But there are definitely downsides to not being labelled in many cases, as well.


I know what you mean.

But for someone with dyslexia like my coworker has (it also affects his communication to an extent) I thought the school he went to would have sent him to a special school, as he probably went through school without being able to read or write.


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Yesterday, 3:11 pm

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A lot of people from the older generations had a lot harder of a time with their disabilities than kids of the current generation. Often, support was lacking for various disabilities or was entirely absent, leading individuals to experience a more miserable existence than if they would have received support or sometimes they would find themselves traumatized by bullies without the extra layer of protection of being labelled as 'special' in some way.

Of course, as you know yourself, being labelled has its downsides, also. But there are definitely downsides to not being labelled in many cases, as well.


Back in the good ol' days they had a word for all sorts of learning disabilities. That word was stupid.

Makes me think the good ol' days weren't so good, just romanticized.


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Yesterday, 3:18 pm

Yeah, there were definitely some things about the 'good ol' days' that were not so good, or just plain bad.



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It never rained you know


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Yesterday, 3:26 pm

You could smoke anywhere when I was a lad, as long as you were old enough and it was only tobacco.



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Yesterday, 3:30 pm

They didn't have an age limit on buying cigarettes when I was a lad

I used to run to the news agent with a pound note and get 10 Number 6 and 2 ounces of cop cops


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Yesterday, 3:35 pm

Whenever someone says "guess how much this cost?" I always answer with "10 shillings". :lol:


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Yesterday, 3:36 pm

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We used to have a hairdressers in our town called 50 Bob Barbers
The put the prices up and changed it to the 60 bob barbers

Still cheap


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Yesterday, 3:46 pm

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It never rained you know


It never rained, but there was never a drought either. :nerdy:


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