Preparedness for when

greenbee

GreyQueen wrote: »

See your GP. You should get this checked out pronto.

Having had a cast-iron digestion most of my life, I am finding that I have to be a wee bit more careful what I eat these days, which I attribute to middle-age. Seems to be a common thing esp with rich foodstuffs.

Agreed. You need to get any changes checked out. Particularly if they are worrying you as sometimes the worry can make the problem worse. Especially with digestion :cool:

Butterfly_Brain

In the 70's and 80's we had loads of really bad attacks by the IRA but we just got on with life.
I worked at Tosco then and it seemed like every week we had a bomb scare and us stupid mugs were the ones who had to get all of the customers out of the shop and then search for anything suspicious :eek:
We came through it and we will come through this.

Like many others I do not trust this government as far as I could throw them and wouldn't put anything past them.

moneyistooshorttomention

Butterfly_Brain wrote: »

In the 70's and 80's we had loads of really bad attacks by the IRA but we just got on with life.
I worked at Tosco then and it seemed like every week we had a bomb scare and us stupid mugs were the ones who had to get all of the customers out of the shop and then search for anything suspicious :eek:
We came through it and we will come through this.

Like many others I do not trust this government as far as I could throw them and wouldn't put anything past them.

Personally, I'd say "There will always be the babies and young kids of the human race" threatening/doing all sorts of mayhem on the one hand. There will always be governments regarding that behaviour as a good excuse for a crackdown on the other hand.

But...there are the rest of us who have to try and ignore the "youngsters" and our own Government and try and Get On With Life the best we can whilst both "parties" are up to their shenanigans.

Not that I'm in Gold Star Cynical Mode this evening of course.....:cool: and very very weary of always being expected to "be on the lookout" for troublemakers of whatever description is currently "fashionable" (be it IRA, etc, etc). Personally, I'm too weary of all this "having to look out for" stuff to even be angry about it any more...and just want to put nappies on the lot of them.

Ooh...so wonders if I could put in a bulk order for dummies for the lot of them...

By now...whichever brand headed in my direction would just get the same treatment of me standing there yelling "Babies!" at them...

COOLTRIKERCHICK

moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »

Some people seem to enjoy being scared. Some people seem to want to hark back to "I lived through the 2nd World War and therefore should be treated as Special for the rest of my life and be treated better than other people" (bit of a bugbear of mine at present, because I've never heard of that one before...but am encountering it now).

I honestly think this remark is disrespectful to people who lived through the hardship of the war... and YES they should be treated as special, as they are our elders, and ALL people should be treated with respect, including youngsters that you also slated in your other post...


are you a troll??? as you were like this over on the daydream thread...

GreyQueen

My Mum's folks lived in London's East End from the nineteenth century until now and the oldest generation went thru WW2 without breaking sweat. And in some cases without going into shelters, either; too much work to do. The pensioner friend and neighbour I refer to online as SuperGran (SG) has seen all sorts in her lifelong NHS career and nursed overseas in war zones as a Red Cross volunteer. To say she doesn't sweat the small stuff is to understate it, frankly..........the little scr*tes around here have no idea of how much Real Life some of us have seen and how little their antics impress.

I get a little tired of being played for a fool by TPTB. In fact, if I owned a telly I'd've probably gone full rockstar and thrown it in the river by now in frustration at the sheer unbridled stupidity which they ply us with by the hour.

If you want to stay safe, don't be around the pubs and clubs at chucking-out time, watch how you cross the road, floss, eat your green and walk a bit every day, if you can.

[Deleted User]

My father went through WW2 in the army in Europe and in North Africa and far from wanting to be 'feted' and the focus of attention he resolutely refused to say a word about his experiences and would say it's all in the past and we live in the here and now. My father in law was exactly the same, never would talk about his war years as he was too traumatised by his experiences. Not all of that generation are to be dismissed as attention seekers.

charlies-aunt

Something is going on behind the scenes that we are not being told about . . . . I work for a housing association in a very rural area out in the Lincolnshire flatlands. But every staff member has had to attend a two hour anti-terrorist training session run by the police in recent weeks.


The focus was how to pick up the clues that tenants may have involvement in, or sympathies with extremists/terrorism and how to report this to TPTB and any tenant espousing radical or racist views should be reported - whether anti or pro extremism - so that they can be "investigated"


Quite worrying to think that even in the heart of countryside that evil may be lurking . . . but also that how much Big Brother is getting involved in everyday life

daz378

my sisters in spain at the moment .... so if cowabunga can hold off ... that would be good..... looking forward to a week off work.....treat myself as well .... been saving up in coffee jars.... used 3 of 6 at the coinstar 90 odd quid.... might have a day in blackpool on monday.... just for change of scenery .....Ukraine wants to join N.A.T.O ... now theres a can of worms and maybe more of a risk to global stability than the middle east

take care enjoy your weekend

boddy

Just delurking to raise a point about the terror threat. It's not above TPTB to do this just before a general election or to distract us from something else. Also to bring in measures to control us even more. I also believe they are capable of creating a terrorist action themselves and blaming others. It's happened before.

I avidly read this thread and only prep in a small way but I'm getting there.

GQ. Enjoy reading your posts. Find them interesting.

moneyistooshorttomention

charlies-aunt wrote: »

Something is going on behind the scenes that we are not being told about . . . . I work for a housing association in a very rural area out in the Lincolnshire flatlands. But every staff member has had to attend a two hour anti-terrorist training session run by the police in recent weeks.


The focus was how to pick up the clues that tenants may have involvement in, or sympathies with extremists/terrorism and how to report this to TPTB and any tenant espousing radical or racist views should be reported - whether anti or pro extremism - so that they can be "investigated"


Quite worrying to think that even in the heart of countryside that evil may be lurking . . . but also that how much Big Brother is getting involved in everyday life

Crikey!

...and the first thought crossing my mind being that if a little rural type housing association is being told to (not to put too fine a point upon it) spy on its tenants, then what other public bodies are also being told to do the same?

Are library assistants told to monitor the books we borrow for instance?

Are banks being told to monitor how we spend our money?

Where do you draw the line between our right to security and our right to privacy? Facebook and the like have a lot to answer for that it would appear many people now no longer see the point of our right to privacy. It has made it rather easier for authorities to turn around and go "If you've got nothing to hide, why worry about your privacy?" and carefully gloss over our right to have our privacy "just because" even if we don't have anything to hide.