Ambulance chasers on telly now!

rudekid48

JPS29 wrote: »

Hang on rude kid.

Dacouch has a point and makes some very helpful posts on here, and has indeed helped me in the past. I dont think s/he was having a dig merely stating a fact. I did actually wonder myself why the "clients" from London couldn't have got a solicitor closer to them. Probably because their cases were laughable and the firm in Liverpool was the only one that wanted to take it on.....

Don't worry, I'm sure he'll still help you.

I reckon he's from Staines.

rudekid48

dacouch wrote: »

I pop up to visit my hub caps every year

If you've got hub caps, you're safe. Alloys only up here.:p

soolin

I watched the programme as well, the thing that surprised me was that people were prepared to go on TV and make themselves look so foolish.

So, a razor breaks (it looked quite well used) and you continue using it to shave with and hurt yourself and sue, the world has gone mad.

If I had used that sort of solicitor for all my childrens falls and scrapes at their various activites I would be a millionaire now. I wonder what the football lad has learnt about his parents when they encouraged the claim for a hurt toe?

roddydogs

How many people are now buying a Razor, tread on it and give themselves a "Scar" with the damaged Razor to get £6G? Ludicrous as was the "Its not about the money" bit

JPS29

The solicitors in question are livid about the documentary which hasn't portrayed them in the best light. The local paper last night, liverpool echo had a story on page 2 with them claiming the doc was unfair and not a balanced view. I thought the producers reply was first class. Along the lines of ...... the law firm signed an agreement giving us full editorial control and also confirmed that the 95% finished article was factually correct. Basically showing that they may be good at ambulance chasing but for a firm of sols to have relinquished all legal rights in a tv doc about them is definitely an own goal:rotfl:

dunstonh

rudekid48 wrote: »

Yeah, come on Dacouch - where are you from, I'm sure that I can come up with a good (sic) stereotype of your area?

With love from The Peoples Republic of Liverpool

Scousers dont have a very good reputation in our area. We, unfortunately, suffer with stereotype scouser thanks to an agreement a few years back which saw a load of scousers on benefits get relocated to Norfolk and Suffolk. The areas that saw the big increases also saw crime increase.

There was a rumour, although unconfirmed, that when looking for Liverpudlians to relocate, they promoted it as "collect your benefits by the sea". I guess now that Liverpool is probably a very nice place thanks to sending all your dross to other parts of the country

rudekid48

dunstonh wrote: »

Scousers dont have a very good reputation in our area. We, unfortunately, suffer with stereotype scouser thanks to an agreement a few years back which saw a load of scousers on benefits get relocated to Norfolk and Suffolk. The areas that saw the big increases also saw crime increase.

There was a rumour, although unconfirmed, that when looking for Liverpudlians to relocate, they promoted it as "collect your benefits by the sea". I guess now that Liverpool is probably a very nice place thanks to sending all your dross to other parts of the country

I understand your frustration. A sudden increase in turnip theft probably severely damaged the local economy.

It was also probably extremely difficult for the scousers to adapt to the local culture. For example, fitting alloys and a spoiler onto a tractor must be incredibly difficult. I also imagine that they experienced a lot of confusion with the use of straws. Traditionally they will have regarded a straw as something to drink with rather than something that is slowly chewed from the side of ones mouth.

They would also have had to get used to randomly falling conkers apparently http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/3022416/Radio-4s-conker-joke-raises-hackles-in-Norfolk.html.

I would also imagine that the 6th finger on each hand amongst the local population may also have caused some angst.

Having said all of that, it would be incredibly unfair of me to stereotype the carrot crunchers of Norfolk and Suffolk.

ooh arr.

JPS29

dunstonh wrote: »

I guess now that Liverpool is probably a very nice place thanks to sending all your dross to other parts of the country

TBH, parts of liverpool are a very nice place to live in and then there are parts that are rough and you wouldn't choose to live in. BUT, isn't this the case in all areas of the country??

There are still enough undesirables, and benefit scroungers in Liverpool, but no more than in the rest of the country. I stand by my statement that I am proud to be a scouser and the majority of "Liverpudlians" are decent hardworking people, IMO

CliffWalker_2

They're already waiting for you at the hospital!

A few years ago I had a major accident that put me in hospital for months (then in a wheelchair when I came out, crutches for a year, skin grafts, physio, learning how to walk again, more operations, etc, etc. great fun)

Anyway,
When I came round after the accident (about four or five days later) I was pleased to see I had a TV at my bedside that also doubled as a radio.
I wasn't so pleased to see each bedside TV was sponsored by...



A firm of solicitors specialising in accident claims...

Their ads looped round on the screen as you listened to the radio, no way to turn it off!

They don't need to chase the ambulance...

dacouch

CliffWalker wrote: »

They're already waiting for you at the hospital!

I had a TV at my bedside that also doubled as a radio.
I wasn't so pleased to see each bedside TV was sponsored by...

A firm of solicitors specialising in accident claims...

Their ads looped round on the screen as you listened to the radio, no way to turn it off!

That sounds like normal daytime tv...

What amuses me is the adverts they have on during Trisha and Jeremy Vile are all for Amubulance chasers and cash for gold type companies