What makes you happy ?

The Facebook default for an image is just so appropriate.

(and do I care that I’m using a blanket term? No. Why? Well if they won’t put their own house in order they can all live in it together. Do I care if no-one else joins? No – it’s still somewhere for me to vent. And do I care if they hold it against me? I didn’t get to this point of view without reason did I?)

Is there a point to social workers? Do they ever do anything when they aren’t off the sick? Do they actually agree to take tasks instead of directing them to others? Do they possess spines? Do they ever agree to get anything done by any time? Are we better off without them? Has one ever done anything good? If so did the others ostracise them because a precedent could be set? Why don’t people slap into reality those that want to train to “help people” and choose the most slovenly career? Is managing social workers akin to managing sleeping people? How do they justify whatever they are paid because whatever it is it will be too much.

Social workers are a complete waste of time, energy and oxygen.

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Two social workers were walking through a rough part of the city in the evening. They heard moans and muted cries for help from a back alley. Upon investigation, they found a semi-conscious man in a pool of blood.

“Help me, I’ve been mugged and viciously beaten.” he pleaded.

The two social workers turned and walked away.

One remarked to her colleague, “You know the person that did this really needs help.”

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There isn’t a facebook group “Social workers are f*cking useless”.
Maybe I should create it.

I want to play music and I don’t want to use iTunes.

Windows:
Right-click folder, open in music player. It doesn’t give a damn what’s in it, it doesn’t care if it’s never seen it before, it doesn’t want to tag / sort / organise / move or otherwise screw with it. It just plays.

Mac.
……….

So that’s that then.
Time to move things around.

Update:
The PC is now back where it was. I have the PC for music, for video, for games. The Mac can’t cut it there at all. It needs some sorting out as any ‘family’ machine would, and it needs 3 USB sockets replacing (no need to send it anywhere for that unlike anything Apple make).

Maybe I should have fired up Parallels and Ubuntu …

The top taskbar (or whatever it’s called) on the right. I have Quicksilver, menumeters info, Bluetooth, Airport, Sound, Battery, Clock, Quicksilver. Put the cursor over anything except Airport, tap the pad and the appropriate information appears instantly. But not Airport. It takes a leisurely 2 or 3 seconds to display it’s menu and list of networks. It’s as slow on the other mac. Why? Windows does it faster. I know it’s a tiny detail but sitting here hopping networks that delay is driving me nuts. Is it really stressing the mac to have it scan and update any list faster?

BBC – Poverty campaigner Bob Geldof has called the G8 summit “a farce” and used strong language to describe the leaders of the nations attending it.

That’s the usual rhetoric from someone who seemed okay at Live Aid but who has sunk since. Everyone knows that these things are nothing but an ego-fest. Expecting anything to actually get done is beyond foolish.

He praised Tony Blair, who he said had “gone out all guns blazing” in an effort to get the eight nations to deliver on previous aid commitments.

Get a grip Bob – of course he can say what the hell he wants. He is no longer in power – he is powerless, his words are empty and the other leaders don’t give a flying one for him. He’s not in the game. But is Sir Bob examining Blair’s record? Fact is that Tony Blair’s record isn’t so hot either so maybe if he had played the game and played it properly his performance now would mean something. But he didn’t.

So Bob, gear up for the next summit where you can go confident in the knowledge that no matter what is done you will find some excuse to jump on the soapbox and look to be a hero. Excuse me while I yawn. Again.

Four Plymouth women who goaded toddlers into fighting and filmed it have been given 12-month suspended sentences. ….. [He said] they posed no risk to the public

Those nasty scheming vile excuses for humanity should have been locked up.
A man would have been.

That makes Judge Francis Gilbert sexist. Pathetic, clueless, deserving of every piece of criticism he gets, entirely at fault should ANY of those children have harm come to them, sexist and a complete moron.

We were going to have chicken fajitas tonight. We’d bought the chicken, got the ‘yellow box’ of ‘ingredients’ and I was quite looking forward to it. But for what may seem an arbitrary reason we decided not to have the chicken tonight. We thought instead we would have it tomorrow. Possibly the next day. I thought it was just putting it back some time, or delaying it. But no.
It is much more serious than that.
It’s censorship.

The BBC has postponed the broadcast of a story about western hostages being executed in Iraq as concern grows for missing BBC journalist Alan Johnston.

The author, Hanif Kureishi, criticised the decision as censorship, saying: “It all seems rather arbitrary”.

“It seems to me that as a journalist, he would be against censorship,” he told the Guardian newspaper.

So postponed=censorship. I’m sure the journalist concerned would be against censorship – after all, he was in a war zone – but to equate the delaying of a piece of fiction to the real life dangers of a man and then to pretend it’s “censorship” is ludicrous.

Mr Kuresihi – get a grip and stop being an complete idiot. And apologise.

The house, the party, the £20,000 bill.

“Mrs Bell ….. “I haven’t forgiven her as yet because she shouldn’t have had an unauthorised party in the first place.
“”Rachael has broken my trust and I don’t think I want her back in the house.” Journal

Mr Bell – as just heard on the radio “I hope she has some remorse”

Do they sound like parents you would like to have?
“Remorse” – wtf are you expecting? Doesn’t this idiot realise that the girl must be feeling terrible about this already? Don’t they know that it is in their hands to make her feel better or worse and they ARE making it worse? How is he going to measure this “remorse”?

Isn’t remorse a term you use about someone you don’t know? It’s a distant term. It’s not one you use for someone as close as a daughter should be.

They trusted her enough to leave her – maybe they are to blame in some part.

And the girl that won’t come home – she’s scared. Why should she be scared? Maybe her parents have something planned for her?

The mother of a 17-year-old girl whose party guests caused £20,000 of damage to her parents’ home says the family may have to permanently move out

Oh FFS. Get lost you dramatic piece of junk. It’s a house. It’s mendable. You just want to milk this for all the sympathy YOU want.

Neither of you give a damn about your daughter.

What you should have done? Freaked out, ranted, raved, talked to the police. And then asked your daughter to get some friends around to help clear the junk. Oh yes – and you should have told her that you loved her.

Thanks

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Has anyone anywhere ever said “Hey, you know what, that search I just did for information can take a back seat for a while because after all, my search for information to fix my problem just cannot be important”.

I think not.

That is THE most infuriating forum message EVER.

You know what I think it means? “We need time to get our act together. Speedy we are not. You just get older while you gaze at the stupid message”.

Just show me the information!

6,891 CAUGHT USING PHONE AT WHEEL (the Daily Express do like their CAPITALS) (are they the british aol of the print world?) and the idiot drivers get a £60 fine and 3 penalty points. Well whoop-de-bloody-do. Don’t fine them. That’s pointless. Just take their license off them and tell them they can’t have it back until they have re-taken and passed the full driving test – that’s theory as well.
I don’t expect a single driver to agree but then every driver is safe – it’s the other clowns who are the unsafe ones isn’t it? Points and fines don’t matter. They might accrue but for plain idiocy they don’t work. Pull the driver over, tell them to get out and tell them to phone a friend to come get them because you just revoked their license with immediate effect. Do that to a few people and then things might be listened to. All or Nothing. There is no middle ground – not when people are killing others because they were on the damn phone.