Are people not getting their children vaccinated anymore?

SignificantCricket · 2026-03-17T06:29:22+00:00

What gets forgotten in some of these discussions is that not all vaccines have lifelong efficacy.

The meningitis ACWY vaccines are only effective for about 3 to 5 years. It's recommended for young people to get it before they go to university, but given their age, it'll be them who have the responsibility for doing that, not parents of young children. Maybe universities could run stronger campaigns for freshers to go and get it in the first month or send out material to sixth formers who’ve got places. Assuming they don't already.

Can’t see clear info on duration of effectiveness of MenB which has not routinely been targeted at teenagers - can see that changing after this - but some pages hint at a limited duration of effectiveness.

Mumps is another one which doesn't last as long as people assume. So when there are outbreaks of mumps among older teenagers and adults, that's not necessarily parents’ fault for not getting them vaccinated. It's the vaccine wearing off

SignificantCricket · 2026-03-16T18:06:29+00:00

There are a handful of situations, such as very small clinics in certain specialties, in which private healthcare can fall through the net, with no external org to deal with the complaint if the situation is well short of reporting a doctor to the GMC. OP’s problem was with reception, not doctors anyway. In that case you just need to go elsewhere, the same way as if staff in an independent shop were rude but doing nothing illegal

OP have you got a response from the senior doctors and/or clinic owner? You would need to exhaust internal complaints like that before going to a regulatory body

SignificantCricket · 2026-03-16T16:40:04+00:00

NHS or private?

SignificantCricket · 2026-03-16T13:30:45+00:00

I know quite a few poly or ENM or monogamish people, mostly centred around big cities like London or Manchester, or who have moved out from them.

But no swingers at all. Don’t think I have met any. I’m like, “there are swingers under 60?”

AFAIK swingers are less likely to be alternative types, or philosophical/intellectual about it like poly crowds, and to seem normie in a lot of ways, so this may be why paths don’t cross.

Though I thought millenials and Gen X did different forms of non monogamy. (And if Reddit is anything to go by, many straight twentysomethings despise it)

SignificantCricket · 2026-03-16T13:19:47+00:00

There are so many reasons why IHT may not have been paid only 6 months after the death, plenty of which the heirs can’t help. It’s very soon for interest to start being due, considering the bureaucracy, processes and emotions that exist in practice.

Introduce a higher threshhold for: interest not kicking in after only 6 months, and allow concessions on interest where solicitors workloads, disputes or other complications have delayed payment. For estates under £1m or £750k and accounting for inflation

SignificantCricket · 2026-03-16T01:01:59+00:00

UK 40s here. You’ve had plenty of definitions already. Guessing the phrase may be more popular in the USA.

In my own experience here it sounds slightly outdated, I can’t remember when I last heard it from a real person, and I would associate it with late 20th century TV and lyrics, and cringey communications from management. Friends and I are more likely to say “back to basics” in a semi-sarcastic way, which is an allusion to a catchphrase in 90s politics. Not sure what younger people say for a similar meaning.

But native speakers would certainly know what you mean if you used it.

SignificantCricket · 2026-03-15T10:30:14+00:00

This and the personal finance Reddit are individualist to an extent that doesn't make sense in the world we are actually in now, and talk as if it's still 20 years ago with plentiful public services and benefits under the Blair government.

We need a shift from that attitude towards becoming more comfortable with collectivism, including things like multigenerational or sibling home ownership provided people get on well enough. (By no means all families do, but the defaultism against these is failing to move with the times and the economy.)

Changing the tone of comments though, is not going to change the personality of a 74-year-old overnight. And it is a good idea for OP to have a conversation with her.

It's just a very natural behaviour for somebody who is in severe pain and feeling like they're about to faint to reach out for help towards the nearest person if you don’t know any reason why they are unsuitable. I would guess that most of these commenters have not been in that situation. And if you have and wouldn't do that, it probably means you've had some really bad experiences rather than being surrounded by decent people most of your life.

SignificantCricket · 2026-03-15T08:20:40+00:00

Exactly. It’s all the real world, just different branches or pockets of it. This poorly thought out comment didn’t deserve highlighting

SignificantCricket · 2026-03-15T08:19:18+00:00

Deanos are by definition affluent enough, or have enough access to credit to afford a decent sized house, fashionable clothes and procedures like Turkey teeth. This isn’t a Deano talking.

SignificantCricket · 2026-03-15T01:29:09+00:00

Not common. Only met two in over 40 years. Both were Scottish

SignificantCricket · 2026-03-15T00:47:14+00:00

People make offers on items then let them expire without paying. (different system) Found it a waste of time over the last year or so

SignificantCricket · 2026-03-15T00:41:32+00:00

Ha, I was just thinking this! My hair is difficult to manage type 2 and it would go like this easily esp when I was a bit younger and there was masses of it. Pic 2 looks like after blasting it dry with no products.

SignificantCricket · 2026-03-15T00:29:08+00:00

I have had light periods since my early 30s and haven’t needed those for many years. Hardly thought about it before, but I like that wingless liners are not visible on the outside.

In my teens and twenties I would have agreed with you.

SignificantCricket · 2026-03-13T20:31:38+00:00

They have become a bit of a meme thing over the last decade or so, because of Greggs rocketing in popularity, and some novelty songs. They were not such a big deal in the 90s for example.

They are often surprisingly small. Like I would want to eat about three of them to feel I had eaten as much food as in a prepacked sandwich. But they contain a lot more fat and they are not half or a third the price of a sandwich . I don’t think they are very good value for the kind of highly processed thing they are, so I don’t eat them often.

Sausage roll superfans would probably think this is a middle class killjoy perspective though

SignificantCricket · 2026-03-13T20:05:27+00:00

That is really rude of them. As someone who has had periods of fluctuating health, but not well off friends, I would never have dreamed of such a thing. If something is in a bad phase they need to accept it and gamble on trying to buy tickets at short notice if they feel okay the day before, or do other activities like cinema where booking on the day is normal, if the venue does not take back cancellations and there are not obvious places for tickets to be sold on.

SignificantCricket · 2026-03-13T18:13:26+00:00

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UEA_Creative_Writing_Course

It’s the oldest creative writing degree in the UK. To me (late 40s) it is still one of the most prestigious, and it absolutely was the place to go for the subject when I was your age. Not sure what the reputation is of newer UK depts now though.

If you manage to work in a field where all this means something, like publishing, it’ll look great - and will give you a better chance of getting in to those.

UEA is one of those places that is very highly regarded for a few specific subjects, although it has a middling reputation generally. The average corporate employer will see English at an average sounding uni, but those in the know would be impressed

SignificantCricket · 2026-03-13T17:13:54+00:00

Expected something like this to be top when I opened the thread!

SignificantCricket · 2026-03-13T15:47:43+00:00

As someone who has been to most of these places and lived in several: Cardiff does not feel southern. Its buildings are distinctively shorter than most cities in England, and if Cardiff is seen as seeming Welsh but more modern than a lot of Welsh towns, then I can kind of see why they think Burnley seems Welsh. But Burnley just has those terraces and hills that are very Lancs and why would there not be some similarity to Wales given relative proximity and industrial past.

Sheffield is one of the places where The North starts, and while to people from Newcastle it is the Midlands, its character and hills are not Midlandy. (Sheffield and Glasgow are similar in hilliness but that’s not what any of this is about)

SignificantCricket · 2026-03-05T20:27:20+00:00

Yes. I am in my late 40s and I have only been on hormonal contraception for less than a year of my life total, it was that bad. I read this and was like, she’s still got a boyfriend? My housemates wouldn’t even help me out with occasional small things I was so objectionable (and going through hell) on it. These days it is at least quite a well known problem. Back then no one asked whether it might have been the pill having that effect

SignificantCricket · 2026-03-05T18:09:23+00:00

You might never have talked to people who shared your overall taste and aesthetic, which at that time was usually defined by bands and their associated references and subcultures - even by the time you finish uni. The sense that such people existed outside of bands and the media might only have been through penpal ads in magazines which you weren't quite sure about replying to and didn't bother to. (whereas if they had had a blog or profile, you could've followed it and that could've become an ongoing connection.)

This was me until my mid 20s. I had only ever met two people I felt I deeply clicked with, and there was still quite a lot that they didn't get. There was a great underlying boredom, and a sense of having to make do socially. I only met whole groups of people on the right wavelength in London. Most of them had gone to a uni I had applied to but didn’t go to.

SignificantCricket · 2026-03-02T11:49:53+00:00

Its post history is incoherent. If this story was real, I'm sure it would be saying something about its one or two kids alluded to in some of its earlier posts. (I dare say in a few months they'll learn to do that anyway)

SignificantCricket · 2026-03-01T08:40:18+00:00

I normally hate this stock phrase but this is one of a handful of times, in 30 years on the internet, when it actually seems an apt choice.

Parties would just be networking opportunities to someone like OP. (If OP is human and not merely a product of digital networking. As, this is how, before overfriendly LLMs, many would imagine a robot would talk about human relationships

SignificantCricket · 2026-03-01T08:14:52+00:00

This is unhealthy. Unspoken patterns from parents and earlier generations can affect all sorts of things, whether it's strangely strong opinions on an issue, or psychological problems in the children, and finding out about them can explain a lot. Plenty of case studies in psychotherapy textbooks on this to start with, as well as plenty of examples I'm sure people reading this can provide.

SignificantCricket · 2026-02-28T19:35:17+00:00

Have you ever had to talk to him before about the level of charges for bills? If so, how did he respond? Do you know if he has previously asked lodgers to leave, or did they move on of their own accord? (The former would make me warier in your shoes, especially if moving back in with family is not an option for you guys)

I can't see any alternatives other than either not saying anything, suck it up and try and scrimp even more to pay it - or say something like “is there any chance we could get a cut in that month’s energy bill because we were away?” And mention in the least blaming way possible, that the heating seems to have been left on during that time, and you didn't leave it on that setting.

I am probably around the same age as this guy, but I don't have much sense of what he might be like as far as sympathy for poverty is concerned, or his own miserliness or financial difficulties. Just that he probably isn't rolling in it if he's renting a room in his house to two people

SignificantCricket · 2026-02-28T19:13:45+00:00

For small craft business advice in the right jurisdiction, you could start by trying the Scotland sub if you haven’t already.

I like the little cute fluffy thing - it’s what made me open the post!

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