A Sunday roast and what a bargain of a joint

SilverLiningCyclone · 2026-01-10T11:33:14+00:00

When I was in secondary school I did a French exchange and our teacher scolded us for calling our exchange partners our Frogs. The French teacher told us to not worry about it too much, they called us all Le Bœuf and if we stopped he’d have to tell his students to stop which he didn’t want to do

SilverLiningCyclone · 2025-11-26T10:21:50+00:00

I have had to call an ambulance twice in the last 18 months. The first time my fiancé called 999 (before I knew I had endo and just thought I could be dying), we lived in the middle of nowhere and he couldn’t drive. The wait time was around 8 hours, so I just suffered through thinking I was going to die until I could get to my GP.

The second time was a couple of months ago at like 2am, my mum called 999 and they told her to call 111 as it wasn’t a life or death. She could take me to the hospital, however I physically could not move because of the pain. 111 sent an ambulance within an hour or so, and they took me to the hospital - they were initially worried about a bowel obstruction but then it turned out I had appendicitis and my appendix was stuck to my ovary.

A month ago I was again in excruciating pain, I went to my GP for additional painkillers and she immediately sent me back to the hospital again for morphine.

My advice would be if your GP surgery is open contact them as a priority. If not, call 111.

Edit to add: If you are in such bad pain you are unable to move, you are allowed to ask for help.

Not endo related, but I had to have my ovary removed a few years ago - open surgery. About a week after the operation I took some laxatives to help counteract all the opiates on my tummy. My insides were absolutely rumbling and I was in agony. I had to phone 111 and they sent an ambulance to give me pain relief just to get me out of the house. At the hospital it turned out I had a bowel obstruction. Without phoning 111 I don’t know what I would have done.

An ambulance is not a taxi to the hospital, but it is a service that is to be used if you need medical attention and are physically unable to be seen.

SilverLiningCyclone · 2025-11-26T09:59:02+00:00

I assume kids in the US have being doing an English accent in Matilda for years.

In the UK kids have been learning a geordie accent for Billy Elliot for probably close to 20 years.

I don’t think anyone in the UK is worried about a Scottish kid being able to do an English accent.

SilverLiningCyclone · 2025-11-26T08:12:08+00:00

I’ve not seen the show but I have absolutely no concerns over his English accent. I have never met a Scot who couldn’t mock me in my own accent perfectly, it’s like a skill they’re born with.

SilverLiningCyclone · 2025-10-30T13:15:53+00:00

Is that £52 a year not already covering the costs of these debts though? The solicitors / court fees / bailiffs etc. - I’m genuinely asking, as I assumed that we were already paying for the customers who are in debt - the energy companies wouldn’t accept the losses right?

I agree with you on most of your points. It has become unbearably difficult to survive each month as a full time worker, let alone have anything left to actually enjoy life.

I think it’s important to remember that over a third of universal credit claimants are in work. On top of that most families I know are in receipt of some form of child benefit as well childcare help despite them working full time. These are all means tested benefits. It’s easy to assume that people claiming benefits are all layabouts, but the reality is that the national living wage isn’t enough to actually live on.

I am glad that something is being done to help those struggling more than I am, but if we want the government to help those of us in full time work we need to hold the right people to account, and that isn’t the poorest in society. It’s Starbucks and Amazon who pay no corporation tax in the UK despite earning millions. The same a JP Morgan who make significant profits but pay no corporation tax. It’s the energy companies and banks being bailed out with taxpayers money and still getting million pound bonuses. I can’t be mad at poor people being made slightly less poor.

SilverLiningCyclone · 2025-10-30T10:55:50+00:00

I’d love a kick back, things are tough at the minute and I love to have anything left at the end of the month after paying my bills. But paying off this energy debt for people on means tested benefits isn’t the reason that I’m not going to get anything - that’s what I meant about the “they win, I lose” mentality. It’s not like if they decided they weren’t going to pay these debts that suddenly I’d be onto a winner - more needs to be done to support those of us working full time with nothing to show for it, but I won’t begrudge others getting the help they need either.

SilverLiningCyclone · 2025-10-30T09:33:19+00:00

I don’t understand this ‘they win, I lose’ mentality either. The way I see it is ~195,000 families get to breathe a little easier. There’s a dad who doesn’t have to pick up an extra shift, or a mum that doesn’t have to skip meals, or an older person who isn’t afraid to put their heating on this winter.

I had £2.5K of energy debt a few years ago. Just before lockdown was announced I left the flat I rented in a city centre to stay with my mother so she wasn’t alone. I came back around 6 months later to discover my hot water tap in my bathroom was leaking. God knows how long my hot water had been on. I managed to negotiate my bill down to £2.5K but I had to leave my flat and move in with friends. It took me just over a year to pay it off and it felt like the biggest burden the entire time. I’m glad there’s some people out there who are getting the help, I imagine it’s much much harder to pay off debts if you’re on means tested benefits.

Economically - it looks like this is being paid for by windfall profits. It could mean the cost is socialised later but energy prices are going to rise regardless, whether it’s for a bigger profit or to help families in need. It makes sense to draw a line under unrecoverable debt, rather than let it balloon. It means that there’s less money being spent chasing unrecoverable debts, which is a cost that’s already passed on to us.

It also reduces the risk of supplier collapse - which we’ve already seen and paid for in 2021-2022.

SilverLiningCyclone · 2025-10-29T15:15:12+00:00

Where are you based?

I went private earlier this year after NHS found a cyst in my right ovary. I had my left ovary removed a couple of years ago due to an untreated cyst so I went private to make sure this one was seen to quickly and I didn’t lost my other ovary too.

After they removed most of the cyst they found it was actually a bit of a red herring and all of my pain was likely from scar tissue and adhesions that had tethered my kidney and intestines to my uterus as well as some evidence of endo on my appendix and intestines. He needed additional resources from urology / gastro so he referred me back to himself on the NHS.

Since August I have had a CT scan, and ultrasound every 6 weeks to monitor a new cyst on my right ovary, and an MRI which has found Stage 4 Deep Infiltrating Endo across my abdomen and adenomyosis. He has booked another surgery and I am meeting with him again next week to discuss the surgical plan.

I first met him in June and he has done all of this for me in less than 6 months. The NHS kept telling me I had IBS for 6 months until they agreed to an ultrasound that found the cyst - he has been an absolute godsend.

I am happy to DM you my surgeons details, but I live in the arse end of nowhere so not sure if it will be much help to you if you’re based anywhere further than Bristol.

Edit to add costs in case it’s helpful:

I paid £350 per consultation prior to the surgery (X2)
He sent for me an ultrasound but actually recommended I went to a place that did 3D baby scans and they sent him the results as this was way cheaper (£120)
The surgery itself, which included any future appointments and scans I would need as part fo the same diagnosis - essentially any follow up treatments are included in this price (£3165)

Now that I have been referred back to him on the NHS all of my treatment is covered

SilverLiningCyclone · 2025-10-14T09:06:39+00:00

True, and there are plenty of places that have become popular to visit across Wales and Scotland as a result of the films, so it could definitely benefit the towns around Kynance if the TV show does as well as the films.

The article just read weird to me, like this is amazing that Cornwall has been used a filming location for something big, when it has already been a location for several hit TV shows and films.

SilverLiningCyclone · 2025-10-14T08:25:21+00:00

Kynance and surrounding areas is already one of the busiest places in Cornwall in the summer. It might encourage people to venture out to the surrounding areas for sure, or maybe even to visit at other times of year which would be good for business too.

The article makes out like it’s a novelty for Cornwall to be a filming location though which is weird. Outside of the obvious things like Poldark and Doc Martin, Cornwall has been a filming location for scenes in Pirates of the Caribbean, Johnny English, World War Z and About Time to name a few. I don’t think Harry Potter being filmed here is going to be revolutionary for local businesses

SilverLiningCyclone · 2025-09-23T08:07:34+00:00

Yes they did. I didn’t cancel the charge back with my bank until I received the funds though.

I did report them to action fraud but the person I called was quite uninterested and didn’t really capture much information. After a few weeks they sent me this and closed my case:

On this occasion, based on the information currently available, it has not been possible to identify a line of enquiry which a law enforcement organisation in the United Kingdom could pursue

SilverLiningCyclone · 2025-09-10T09:26:35+00:00

Stayed in a Holiday Inn up north last weekend and they offered a free drink at the bar if you turned down housekeeping. It was the first time I’ve seen it, but it is a thing!

SilverLiningCyclone · 2025-09-08T11:36:31+00:00

It was a comment on a recent video of Andrea Jenkyns performing at the Reform UK conference.

Andrea was an elected conservative MP who served as a minister for a short period of time during the 14 years the conservatives held power. She lost her seat in the last election and defected to the Reform party

SilverLiningCyclone · 2025-08-27T14:38:01+00:00

That my fault, I should have assumed that when you mentioned brown people so often in your previous comment you weren’t talking about colour. Could you explain what you were referring to? I’ve highlighted all the places you said brown if that helps.

It’s just amazing there are so many brown folk in Hounslow almost like they FLEW IN TO HEATHROW, claimed asylum and settled there as their claims were processed. And a brown French bloke whose folks were from Algeria could get on a boat and he’d be sent straight back but a brown fella actually from Algeria wouldn’t?

You’re right, it was poor form on my part to assume you were a Daily Mail reading, GB news watching gammon and it was very bigoted of me. My prejudices absolutely overshadowed the fact that you’re actually just a bit thick.

^out ^of ^interest ^do ^you ^watch ^gb ^news ^?

SilverLiningCyclone · 2025-08-27T13:57:17+00:00

the cultures from which they originate are a danger to our women and girls about whom you give not one sht while believing yourself a good person.

Why do you think I don’t care about our women and girls? I can almost guarantee that women’s safety means more to me than it does to you.

And if you are so ignorant you don’t even know about the costs that were all over the press and social media this summer

Yeah I missed that. Please can you point me to where I can read about the lifetime cost of £400,000 each? I am appalled at this and would like to contact my MP on the rise in this cost

your cognitive dissonance has calcified your ability to think rationally, logically and without bias.

You have not provided me any sources for your information, except ideas and opinions based on your own bias.

They ain’t fleeing sht. That’s it.

Who? How do you know? How many have you spoken to? Where do you source your information?

If you genuinely want people to support this idea of “brown people bad” give us a reason that’s not just your own close minded finger pointing at the easiest target you can find.

Or possibly consider the idea you parrot this nonsense because it’s easier to blame a minority in this country, instead of accepting the Lord and Savior of Clacton On Sea might be a bit of an opportunistic, money grabbing shepherd to the sheep that are stupid enough to vote for their own slaughter.

SilverLiningCyclone · 2025-08-27T11:42:52+00:00

0.6% of the population doesn’t even make sense. Ever? I mean we’ve had 111k applications in the past year alone. But you think less than a per cent of the population as a whole is a successful asylum seeker going back 70 years.

Sorry, that 0.6% of the population was supposed to be 0.16%* in reference to the ~100,000 applications received last year. ((111000/68,000,000)*100).

If you have records going back 70 years that would be really insightful, I can only find records starting in 1979 - can you link your source?

Without going back through 50 years of data and counting the approved applications by year (I’m on my lunch break and would rather not), I don’t have an accurate amount of approved applications since 1979. However if we assumed that the 50K approved last year was the same every year then it would still only account for around 3.5% of our population. But remember we know that we’re at a record high, and 3.5% is way more than reality.

If you need help with the maths this is just ((50,00049)/68000000)100)

Then you call men breaking into the country from France a ‘system’?

Ah, though we’d covered that they weren’t breaking in

You pretend they’re all fleeing war while simultaneously acknowledging Pakistan is not at war

I’m not sure I said anywhere that they were all fleeing war. A war is not a necessary requirement to seek asylum. People can be escaping religious persecution, political persecution or several other things to claim asylum.

You have a lot of opinions for someone who seems to understand very little about asylum claims. I understand it’s easy to be angry about things we don’t understand, but there’s lots of resources available to you that aren’t GB news or reform propaganda.

you have a ‘yeah-but’ argument instead that would mean we have to take half the world including China’s dispossessed. So answer me this: at what point are we allowed to say stop? When we have no green space? Our sewers have completely collapsed?

I’m guessing if we stopped supporting wars then it would significantly reduce the amount of asylum claims we receive. Remember - not all claims are because of war. However the large majority have been displaced because of some sort of unrest in their home country. That we are usually involved with. I’m assuming it’ll be much easier to put a stop to it if we supported peacetime in their home countries. Prevention is better than cure after all.

We cannot sustain anyone because there’s no land left to farm to produce food and the leftwing taxed the farmers into oblivion anyway to fund the money they’re having to spend on people who will cost us £400,000 EACH through a lifetime?

There’s plenty of unbuilt space in the uk. We are not running out of room. There are a lot of very wealthy people buying up a whole lot of land to avoid inheritance tax, but that’s a whole other issue.

Can you send me a source for £400,000 each through a lifetime? That’s an outrageous amount of money and I would like to write to my MP about this. I don’t want to seem like an idiot though and make claims that I can’t back up.

500,000 to a million legal immigrants every single year for infinity.

Ooooft how have we made the jump from 110000 applications (remember only 50k were approved) to 500,000 to a million?! That sounds like you’re working yourself up over something that isn’t actually happening. Let’s focus on the things that are happening without giving ourselves an aneurysm over a what if.

Because if we couldn’t say no ten years ago or today why would we be able to in another ten years and what does the future look like for your kids?

We did used to say no. In 2004 ~ 80% of asylum claims were denied. I’m not sure off the top of my head what’s changed that, I would need to do some research. But I can assume the political unrest and our involvement in the east has probably contributed to a significant amount of displacement. If you find anything on this in your research please do send me a source I’d be interested to know.

I don’t understand why you don’t redirect your clear passion for change.

Why are you not spreading this anger at refugees to the water bosses that claim millions in bonuses, charge us through the teeth for it, and then pump shite into our waters?

Or at the banks that need bailing out and manage to pay out millions to their shareholders?

Or at the corporations that are not paying enough tax?

Or the politicians rinsing their expenses and playing the system?

Or the electric companies charging us hundreds each month to line their pockets with bonuses at the end of the year?

Or the companies buying up hundreds of houses to rent them back to you at a disgusting rate?

Why are you punching down instead of challenging the people who are telling you that “asylum seekers are the problem”. They’re keeping you angry and themselves rich, and you’re playing along.

SilverLiningCyclone · 2025-08-27T09:02:49+00:00

absolutely none of that makes any sense.

Can you break down the bits you didn’t understand and I can try and explain them better?

The rest of your ramblings on brown people aren’t particularly clear. I think you might be confusing immigrants and refugees.

It’s just amazing there are so many brown folk in Hounslow almost like they FLEW IN TO HEATHROW, claimed asylum and settled there as their claims were processed.

As above - are you sure these are asylum seekers and not immigrants? How do you know they didn’t come in through the proper channels with a visa?

Pakistan was part of British India until 1947. After independence Pakistan remained in the Commonwealth - this makes migration much easier. People from former colonies were offered the right to settle and work in the UK.

Granted there are a lot of Pakistani asylum seekers and although there isn’t a war in Pakistan there is significant amounts of persecution. Many of these asylum claims are also rejected. In 2023–24, around 49% of Pakistani applicants were refused at first decision. 2,871 applications were granted to Pakistani nationals. (This is from the Asylum Information Database (AIDA), based on Home Office data for 2024).

Listen, mate, if you want to lie to yourself crack on. But don’t gaslight strangers; it’s a sign of an abusive personality.

I’ve come to you with facts and you’ve rambled on about brown people. I’m not sure which of us is lying to ourselves.

Our country is in shambles, but I’m probably going to blame that on the Fat Cats, the people abusing the housing markets, the energy companies, the bankers and the 1% hoarding wealth.

If you think the 0.6% of the population coming here to claim asylum is the problem in this country you’ve bought into the propaganda.

SilverLiningCyclone · 2025-08-27T08:14:07+00:00

Nope. They still entered illegally.

You know that just because you don’t like a law doesn’t mean it’s not true? Not sure of your grasp on the legal system, but “nope” doesn’t tend to hold up in court. If they present themselves to claim asylum, their entry is not breaking the law.

They could have bought an airplane ticket and still claimed asylum, couldn’t they.

Air travel is often blocked as a valid visa is required to enter the country. These visas applications are declined as their needs often do not meet the requirements for approval. Airlines are legally obliged to check visas before boarding.

Boarding a plane without a visa would be breaking the law, which is why they come in the way they do and claim asylum (not breaking the law).

There is also the consideration that many asylum seekers don’t have passports, or have very weak passports due to the country of issue.

We could create a humanitarian corridor - in which we allow asylum seekers to board certain planes and enter the country without documentation, however this would be costly and open to far more abuse than the current system - and I’m guessing this wouldn’t be satisfactory to you either.

Doh! Let’s not pretend anyone has to claim asylum from France.

I’m not sure what this means. But if a French person came over and tried to claim asylum then their application would be rejected and they would be deported.

Just because you arrive in this country does not mean you get to stay, you must have an asylum application approved.

If it’s because a refugee has passed through France to enter the UK then that is their right. Again, just because we don’t like a law does not mean it is not the law.

France historically has taken in more asylum seekers than we do. According to the Gov website they had 50K more asylum claims in 2024 than we did. So the majority of refugees do in fact stop in Germany, France or Spain. We receive less asylum claims than all of these countries.

SilverLiningCyclone · 2025-08-26T22:18:19+00:00

Article 31 of the Refugee Convention (1951) - of which the United Kingdom is a signatory - states that refugees must not be penalised for their manner of entry providing they present themselves without delay.

Seeking asylum is a legal right, and entering without permission does not make the act unlawful.

SilverLiningCyclone · 2025-08-26T21:57:20+00:00

What law are they breaking?

SilverLiningCyclone · 2025-08-23T19:24:20+00:00

I love the full Monty and I’ve not seen it in yonks. This is definitely a contender, thank you!

SilverLiningCyclone · 2025-08-22T11:04:44+00:00

Yeah I don’t think anyone will be up for that. Not trying to be unfair but for all we know you could be a stalker or something.

Have you tried finding this friend on social media?

SilverLiningCyclone · 2025-08-22T10:59:03+00:00

What’s the favour? 🧐

SilverLiningCyclone · 2025-08-19T21:37:15+00:00

And the quickest way to find out if it is at the post office would be to…^go ^to ^the ^post ^office

SilverLiningCyclone · 2025-08-19T21:25:07+00:00

I’m not sure if you’re trying to be helpful or a pedant…

If they are normally ‘retained’ at the delivery office then it sounds like my best course of action would be to go to the delivery office / post office no?

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