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  1. First thing, go to the dole office and get signed back on immediately.

     

    Next, write to this idiot at his work address (do not phone) and tell him that you hold him personally responsible for your loss of income, that you want it paid to you in full within 7 days, if he does not you will take legal action to recover it plus costs, and that your claim will include an application for compensation.

     

    See what happens from there.

  2. I won't go into in depth stuff at the moment, as it's late here I've just got in from work so I'm knadgered, and I have a dose of the squits !

     

    BUT....

     

    There's lots and lots of paperwork that MUST be in order for anyone to legally chase an "alleged" debt of ANY sort.

     

    FMOTL, there's a lot of stuff there on all sorts of things, some of it you have to decide for yourself how far you want to believe it or even rely on it, but don't even think of dismissing it out of hand, most of the stuff there has been used to upset the apple cart in many places, one of the most recent (only last week IIRC), being the whole public gallery storming a court and arresting the judge :Scull:

    Another similar site is www.tpuc.org

     

    Mr D . . . YOU BAD BOY ! you should have contacted me first, might not be too late though if you need a good laugh :Scull: just send me some details.

     

    All1 . . . The debts were probably statute barred, anything that has been in dispute for more than 6 years with no admission of the debt or any payments towards it from the debtor, or any judgement legally obtained against it by the creditor (quite a lot aren't) . . . IS, and is totally unenforceable.

     

    Squits . . . Now, I'm off to the china dragon for a nice comfortable cheek clencher, catch you all later :Teeth:

  3. Just be certain to put it in the envelope once they've finished it, and post it back.

     

    We wouldn't want you to be "in the shit" for non compliance :Scull:

  4. Most people travel at about 75 to 80 on a motorway anyway so it shouldnt make that much of a difference in travel times.

     

    Could cut down the number of people caught speeding though and perhaps the traffic plods will be redeployed elsewhere.

     

    Yeah, catching the people who will then up their speed to 85 to 90 :Scull:

  5. Not quite sure where to post this but I thought I would share here.

     

    I have never seen such a high spec for the money; most laptops of this size are nearer the £700 mark. The reviews are all glowing and I have never had a bad experience with Samsung IT kit (or anything else for that matter).

     

    Samsung Q330 for under £400

     

    http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/samsung-q330-core-i3-13-3-laptop-for-399-saveonlaptops-4gb-ddr3-bt-3-0-w7-hp-500/880324

  6. Thank you for signing our petition and I am so sorry to hear about your daughter.

     

    Welcome to JamersPad too :Thumbs_Up1:

     

    Old Grumps has been around a while mate, but just lurking in the shadows :Laugh: I know him from elsewhere as well.

     

    I signed a few days back, I think I was second or third on there.

     

    Keep it up Jamer.

  7. Ive tried & tried & tried again to NOT fill that ruddy crap in

    The ruddy council send some woman who bangs on the door like some ruddy bailiff!

    I soooo want that track you keep a knocking but you cant come in!

    I would put it on my hifi and ignore the ruddy woman!

    I don't vote

    Ive never voted

    I'll never vote

    So why waste my pen filling some crap form like that in and then have junk male shoved through my door to vote for tom dick or harry!

    NO THANK YOU!

     

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  8. You could all just opt to worship the one true sky pixie that there is . . . .

     

    Remember the Psalm of the Faithless, "God Is A DJ"

     

    Well here I am, waiting for all your adulations and of course, your monetary donations to keep you from burning in the fires of Hell (it's a small town in Norway . . . true I swear !! )

     

    All together now;

     

    This is my church

    This is where I heal my hurt

    It's a natural grace

    Of watching young life shape

    It's in minor keys

    Solutions and remedies

    Enemies becoming friends

    When bitterness ends

    This is my church [3x]

     

    This is my church

    This is where I heal my hurt

    It's in the world I become

    Content in the hum

    Between voice and drum

    It's in change

    The poetic justice of cause and effect

    Respect, love, compassion

    This is my church

    This is where I heal my hurt

    For tonight

    God is a DJ [3x]

    This is my church [3x]

  9. He grasped me firmly but gently just above my elbow and guided me into a room, his room. Then he quietly shut the door and we were alone.

     

    He approached me soundlessly, from behind, and spoke in a low, reassuring voice close to my ear.

     

    "Just relax."

     

    Without warning, he reached down and I felt his strong, calloused hands start at my ankles, gently probing, and moving upward along my calves slowly but steadily. My breath caught in my throat. I knew I should be afraid, but somehow I didn't care. His touch was so

    experienced, so sure.

     

    When his hands moved up onto my thighs, I gave a slight shudder, and partly closed my eyes. My pulse was pounding. I felt his knowing fingers caress my abdomen, my ribcage. And then, as he cupped my firm, full breasts in his hands, I inhaled sharply. Probing, searching, knowing what he wanted, he brought his hands to my shoulders, slid them down my tingling spine and into my panties.

     

    Although I knew nothing about this man, I felt oddly trusting and expectant. This is a man, I thought. A man used to taking charge. A man not used to taking `no' for an answer. A man who would tell me what he wanted. A man who would look into my soul and say ...

     

    "Okay, ma'am, all done."

     

    My eyes snapped open and he was standing in front of me, smiling, holding out my purse. "You can board your flight now."

  10. It's September 1990. Princess Di and Dodi have just arrived at the Pearly Gates, where they are met by St.Peter. “Name and religion, please", says St.Peter.

     

    “Diana, Princess of Wales. Christian - well, sort of ” replies Diana.

     

    “Dodi al-Fayed, Muslim - well, sort of ” replies Dodi.

     

    “Er, Dodi, I’m sorry to have to tell you this, but you’ll have to say goodbye to Di”.

     

    “But why?” says Dodi. “Don't you know we are lovers, planning to get married? We were intending to have lots of children together”.

     

    “Well, that's no longer possible, I’m afraid”, replies St.Peter. "You see, the Muslims here decided last year they wish to have a separate Paradise. Theirs is now enclosed within a high wall, allowing no contact with Christians and Jews. We tried to reason with them, naturally, but they were adamant.“

     

    “But you can't be serious!” the lovers reply in unison.

     

    “Deadly serious, I’m afraid” says St.Peter. “Now, if you wouldn't mind, Dodi, kindly say goodbye to Di, then walk along to the archway on the left. My opposite number will attend to you. Just ask for Big Mo.”

     

    “But this is outrageous” says Di. “Listen, I renounce my Christianity right here and now. Consider me a Muslim. Come on, Dodi, let's go and talk to this Mo chappie.”

     

    “Er, kindly stay where you are, Diana my dear ”, says St.Peter. “Did you not get the message God sent you, the one telling you that he no longer wanted you to marry a Muslim”?

     

    “What message?” replies Diana. “I didn't get any message.”

     

    “Oh dear” replies St.Peter, shaking his head in disbelief. “You seem to be having another of your blonde moments Diana. Don’t tell me you failed to get the message….

     

    “Where? When? By whom?” asks Diana.

     

    “Well, we tried several ways of getting the message across to you – but none of them worked. With you, it's a case of in one ear, out the other.

     

    So we had to resort to Plan B. We sent it by special courier. You may have got a brief glimpse of him, late last night. Man driving erratically in a white Fiat.

     

    Not the kind of person you want overtaking you in a Parisian tunnel…”

  11. Cheers people, I don't feel it though !!

     

    Edge, YUP, still in Norway, but not snowing at the moment and none forecast for the next week or two :Cool:

     

    It's only minus 4 at the moment, but it's a wee bit windy, so the chill factor makes yer nuts shrivel up :Laugh:

     

    Anyway, it might be my birthday, but I've still had to work 14 hours today ! I'm knackered and off to bed soon, but have to get up again in 6 hours for another 12 hour day :Weep:

     

    BTW Edge, I was down your neck of the woods a couple of weeks back, visited Jane's English Shop for a freezer load of good old handmade British bangers :Thumbs_Up1:

  12. Irish flee as economic collapse looms

     

    Ireland's young flee abroad as economic meltdown looms

     

    Many young people are seeking to emigrate rather than face a life of hardship as the republic lurches towards financial collapse

     

    Share895 David Sharrock in Dublin The Observer, Sunday 14 November 2010

     

    A homeless Irish teenager begs on Merrion row, just around the corner from government bulidings in Dublin, Ireland. Photograph: Kim Haughton for the guardian

     

    Student Niamh Buffini works hard and plays hard. As Ireland's No 1 taekwondo martial arts practitioner – she is rated 12th in the world – her ambitions include winning Olympic gold for Ireland.

     

    But by the end of this month her future will have been decided by forces not just beyond her control but seemingly those of her government also. Ireland is on the cusp of insolvency. Some economists argue that it already is.

     

    Buffini will soon learn if her fees at the Institute of Technology in Tallaght, south Dublin, have climbed beyond her means. Her father is a self-employed builder, which has recently become a euphemism for "unemployed".

     

    "My class size will have dropped by 50% by next year," Buffini said. "Even lecturers took part in the recent student protests over fees because society here is going to be left with very few educated people. My best friends have already left – they're doing bar work in Spain and Australia."

     

    Last week was not a good week for Ireland. Speculation about a European Union-backed bailout pushed its borrowing costs to unprecedented heights.

     

    At Buffini's college on Friday, the day began with a protest by construction workers who were supposed to have been working on a new wing. Their paymaster Michael McNamara – the country's premier construction firm – had been put into receivership under the weight of debts of €1.5bn (£1.27bn), leaving them jobless and out of pocket for work they had already completed.

     

    So far the workers' demonstrations have remained largely peaceful. Indeed, many Tallaght students seemed shocked by the violence they witnessed in TV reports from London involving their British counterparts. But that may change.

     

    Economists are sought-after celebrities in Ireland at the moment and none is more famous than Morgan Kelly. His doom-laden words are lapped up by a nation addicted to Celtic melancholy.

     

    Kelly, of University College Dublin, was laughed at, scorned and even threatened when he correctly predicted, as long ago as 2007, that Ireland's property bubble was heading for a spectacular explosion.

     

    Now he is forecasting mass mortgage defaults and an ugly popular uprising. The first stirrings are already visible, he says, with "anxiety giving way to the first upwellings of an inchoate rage and despair that will transform Irish politics along the lines of the Tea Party in America", giving rise to a new "hard-right, anti-Europe, anti-traveller party".

     

    The fact that Kelly got it right last time means that his dire warnings are now being given serious consideration this time around, but so far there is no evidence that the Irish are turning into racist extremists.

     

    Polish immigrants, whose arrival in Ireland less than a decade ago increased the workforce by an astonishing 20%, have left in orderly fashion and with no complaints about their treatment. More worrying is the trend for the young Irish to follow them abroad.

     

    Mark Ward, president of Tallaght's student union, says that 1,250 students are leaving Ireland every month. One in five graduates is seeking work outside the country. The Union of Students in Ireland believes that 150,000 students will emigrate in the next five years.

     

    Ward, a 26-year-old marketing graduate, said: "The government's to blame for bankrolling the banks who were lending to their property developer friends. They all thought the party would never end.

     

    "Students shouldn't have to pay for the mistakes of the government and their developer pals. It's going to take years to sort this mess out and it won't be just my generation which will be blighted big time."

     

    Is the social fabric of Ireland beginning to unravel? The Kingdom, one of the country's much-loved local papers, recently reported that nearly 200 Gaelic footballers and hurlers have left Kerry to play in Britain, Australia and the US in the first seven months of this year. The true figure is probably double that.

     

    The charity Barnardo's said that children were asking it for food because there was not enough for them to eat at home. "Some of our services are being asked by children if they can take food home for later because there just isn't enough," said Carmel O'Donovan, a project co-ordinator with Barnardo's.

     

    And it's not just the most vulnerable who are feeling the pinch. Greystones is a wealthy Wicklow seaside town whose most famous resident is Sean FitzPatrick, the former chairman of nationalised Anglo Irish Bank. Emer O'Brien, an interior designer, and her architect husband Killian are struggling to repay their mortgage.

     

    "It is awful, a bit like waiting for a bomb to explode but simply not knowing when," she said. "I don't think anybody has any faith in any of the politicians to fix this problem. Over 70% of education and health spending goes on pay and pensions, so all the cuts in those departments are coming from front-line services.

     

    "I hope I don't get sick in the coming months because there'll be nobody to tend to you in the hospitals. Of course, a lot of people would be heading across the Irish Sea or the Atlantic if only they could sell their houses, but we can't do that either. So basically we're stuck on the Titanic as it goes down."

     

    Next month the government will deliver its latest austerity budget with the aim of slashing a further €15bn from public spending on top of the €14.5bn it has already been forced to cut. But Kelly has argued that the public sector cuts are "an exercise in futility" when compared with the €70bn bill for Ireland's bad banks. "What is the point of rearranging the spending deckchairs, when the iceberg of bank losses is going to sink us anyway?" he asked in the Irish Times last week.

     

    Put at its starkest, for the next six to seven years, every cent of income tax paid by Irish citizens will go to cover the banks' losses.

     

    At the Capuchin Friary in Smithfield sausage breakfasts are being served to Dublin's growing band of homeless and needy people. "There's new faces arriving every day. At first they're embarrassed to be here but we put them at their ease," one of the volunteers said.

     

    Gerry Larkin, the drop-in centre's security manager, has noticed that occupants of the many neighbouring apartment blocks which were supposed to regenerate the city's down-at-heel north side are now taking their places in the queue for food parcels.

     

    He said: "Some of them have got into trouble with their mortgages and they're asking me at the door: 'Any chance of coming in, can you give me even a bit of food for the kids?'

     

    "We've gone from 150 breakfasts during the boom years to 450 now and another 700 coming in for lunch."

     

    Five nights a week Niamh Buffini trains in her local martial arts club, nurturing her dream of winning gold for Ireland. "I'm always upbeat, but with my friends the chat about how bad things are is never ending.

     

    "I'm an optimist by nature and I hope we can get out of this. The best I could say is I couldn't see it getting any worse."

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