Elite 11+ shopping and chat thread

Savvybuyer

Oh, so someone on Twitter in the "home of free speech", America (actually it's not as they have greater restrictions on some of their television than we have), is complaining that they've suffered abuse and had tears in their eyes, at which point people were thinking 'this isn't right' (just been on the BBC News Channel). Well, I think I've suffered the same kind of abuse, repeatedly, from our broadcasting in public places in this country and that's not right either. (At one point, after about four years of it, I had tears in my eyes too. Literally. So, guess what: I don't think it's right!)

This is what gets me about it all - people seek to defend their own conduct (causing me further infuriation and offence ending up utterly inflaming me more) when they are part of organisations but for me it makes no odds at all and is the same wrong. Of course, nothing ever changes it and organisations never see the need to change their conduct. Presumably because they are completely and intentionally disrespectful to me (they must intend it otherwise they would cease), do not care a jot about an individual who may come into contact with their activities, care only about making money (as they are commercial operations) and their concern is solely about their customers, namely their advertisers.

Sorry folks, it just almost wrankles me (but fortunately it's not currently doing so) and other people's objections on other things only in my view provide further justification for me. It's not right. In fact, somehow, it reminds of me of this song now and I'll post a link to the remix as of course I don't like the original:rotfl::

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrte29L5aXc

Sorry, if there's something I don't like, I can't pretend that I do:o. I don't do pretending. Maybe unfortunately, to some respects - but I don't. So there.:rotfl::rotfl:

Not right but okay. Except it's not.:rotfl:

And I don't like Youtube either because they annoy me sometimes on other counts so I shouldn't even be linking or referring to there:p:rotfl:. (Or have annoyed me on one period in the past.) Unfortunately, with such a big site and the benefits outweighing my dislikes, sometimes it's a compromise and you can't totally shun or refuse to deal with an organisation if you don't like something they do, or allow, much as my utter sticking to my principles and being consistent with that would tend me to want to do.

Organisations are of course run by people, and people carry on the organisation's activities, so they (the directors and employees of them) should take responsibility. Anyway...:rotfl::rotfl:

I actually wrote, many years ago now, to a particular commercial broadcaster and told them their previous letter had inflamed me. And then they didn't seek to apologise at all for that. In fact, I think they failed to reply completely and further caused me yet more offence by their doing that. I was, in the end, actually caused offence three times over by it. And do they care? No, do they care a jot? Really horrible people running and being employed at that organisation I think. Certainly they have no concern or common humanity or decency in how they deal with me at all. They just don't know how to deal with me, that's the trouble:rotfl:.

I know - I shouldn't have got myself bothered. But I did.

It's a bit like a complete breakdown in a relationship really (not that I have any experience of that). But it's a bit silly to say that in respect of an organisation. And once you (I) get that bothered by them/their activities, you don't want to see sight or anything about them in your life ever again. But what do I do? I already completely avoid going to certain places now because of it. And it affects my life as I'm unable to continue on the activities that I used to (that got disrupted and terminated completely and regularly by their offensive content/content that caused me serious offence). "If it gets you that bothered [which it does/did], then you'll have to stop going" was someone's advice. It did. So I did. I now get (periodically and occasionally, roughly every six months or so nowadays) bothered about not being able to go at all, now seven years after I ceased doing so as I was forced by it to have to do that. No-one should have to deal with this and it's contrary to all decency. I even lost my mother in the midst of it all and, whilst that didn't help, quite wrongly it affected me much less. No, I can cope with my mother's death, just not with something much less:rotfl: - or which should be much less but, quite wrongly, isn't and my mother's death didn't give me any PTSD (I certainly cried about it, more so before it happened as I knew she was ill). Anyway, RIP my mum, lovely woman. Anyway, why I am bringing this back now?:idea: Don't worry about it, I'm alright it was years ago. Although then so were these other things and they (but not my mother's death, wrongly I know) continue to affect me on periodic and fortunately not regular nowadays occasions.

Anyway, something on BBC News, that lasted barely a minute probably, now setting all this off:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:. I've not yet had serious heart racing for hours though, so I'm okay folks! Fortunately not actually gone into trigger stage just yet.

I think I can live with my mother's death (in any event I've been doing so for many years, as was always inevitable in the end as I'd be expected to outlive her, and I have no choice but to live with it anyway) - I can live with that because, you know, people are born and they die. It's resolved (in that sense). But something else, which periodically I keep revisiting, affects me even more. It's worse. I have real serious physical feelings inside at times, that are aching feelings (like perhaps a bit now) or are in all events bad. I think I need a deep breath:rotfl:! But, even having to do that, it is wrong as it has affected me. And is, by having to do something differently (namely take a breath) that I would not have otherwise have been doing now, therefore wrong and affecting me over seven years later. It's still wrong seven years later. But my mother's death, bizarrely, was not. I know - how can I say such a thing?:eek: It's just... emotion, it's irrational. I guess because my mother's death was natural, in that it was disease which is natural (sadly) but the other things were not and did not have to occur. There was therefore no need or justification for them (which infuriates me:rotfl: - but, also, as you see, sometimes I end up laughing a little at my own objective ridiculousness. But that's the point - emotion is not objective, but subjective).

lookinforabargain

izzy65 wrote: »

Has everyone collapsed with the heat 😊

Hope you've got your wellies and brolly looked out for tomorrow :rotfl:

I was in work 'til 4 today. But by half past 5 the bbq was on and a beer was in hand :beer: Only came in because I had to get DD to bed otherwise I'd have been there until the sun went down!

MKS

bubbs wrote: »

MKS :wave:
Hope you are ok?

I'm good, thanks, hope that you are too.

It's still about 39 c here.:) Tomorrow is supposed to be much hotter. Beach day, I think.

TrulyMadly

MKS wrote: »

I'm good, thanks, hope that you are too.

It's still about 39 c here.:) Tomorrow is supposed to be much hotter. Beach day, I think.

So pleased to see you've finally made it here.....i had almost given up on you:rotfl:

TrulyMadly

lookinforabargain wrote: »

Hope you've got your wellies and brolly looked out for tomorrow :rotfl:

I need to inform you all that the weather is definitely set to change.....we've just dragged the BBQ out of the garage:D

Been on ages cleaning it;)

TrulyMadly

In order for us to have a good nights sleep tonight, we need to strip our bed of those sexy silk sheets and replace them with freshly laundered cotton, have iced water at our bedside and fill a cold water bottle.....oh yes....we should have opened our bedroom windows a couple of hours ago

It must be right, I've just read it

savvy_sal

izzy65 wrote: »

Has everyone collapsed with the heat 😊

Yep.
Far to hot for me.:rotfl:

Best time was about an hour ago when I put the hosepipe on my runner beans.

Because it's on a slope I can attach the hosepipe to a water butt and still get quite a good spray.

Beautiful garden of naebbiracs.Got to see it loads when people quote.

bubbs

MKS wrote: »

I'm good, thanks, hope that you are too.

It's still about 39 c here.:) Tomorrow is supposed to be much hotter. Beach day, I think.

Not much cooler here but not a beech day:(:rotfl::rotfl:

Snap-ant

TrulyMadly wrote: »

In order for us to have a good nights sleep tonight, we need to strip our bed of those sexy silk sheets and replace them with freshly laundered cotton, have iced water at our bedside and fill a cold water bottle.....oh yes....we should have opened our bedroom windows a couple of hours ago

It must be right, I've just read it

I'd left windows wide open this morning, all day, but curtains almost closed .... prep prep prep
Went upstairs just now & 'Someone' has opened the fffing curtains
:mad::mad::mad:

The room is like an oven

and I cut his hair - gggrrrr.

Snap-ant

Awaiting the storm