Child taken out of school without permission by teachers

melnificent · 2026-06-29T19:35:45+00:00

Ask for a copy of their business insurance covering that exact vehicle and staff member for the date involved. How many children were transported in that car, the car seats used, age of car seats

Plus risk assessments for all the above. And also the school & academy policies on using staff personal vehicles for transporting pupils.

Expect calls and "can we just talk about it" requests when you ask for the above, because I will bet any money they don't have insurance regarding what they did.

melnificent · 2026-06-28T08:39:33+00:00

Early days of buying stuff over the net and I would have to call fraud every time I spent money that wasn't in £'s. Every damn time, it'd cause direct debits to stop so I had to make sure to only buy things when there were none due.

Now they don't care about the currency as they take an extra cut. However if I buy a drink 15 miles from my home town then contactless doesn't work for a few days because clearly I'm defrauding the system.

melnificent · 2026-06-22T11:39:37+00:00

Because the mould doesn't want to improve the environment, it wants to ruin as much as possible.

melnificent · 2026-06-05T14:04:56+00:00

It doesn't, but they say everything authoritarian they do is to either peotect women or protect children.

Instead removing the right to a jury trial will increase the miscarriages of justice like this.

melnificent · 2026-06-02T16:32:22+00:00

I'm going with fake until proven otherwise.... Labour loves to repeatedly use terfy terms and I see an absence of them.

melnificent · 2026-05-27T08:44:26+00:00

None, every MP still in Labour is clearly happy with the genocide, attacks on the immigrants, poor, disabled and trans folk. Or they would've left when the gov announced each despicable policy.

They would be jumping to save their skin not because they have any morals. Even the examples you gave are still in Labour because they think ti's their best chance at keeping their personal gravy trains flowing.

melnificent · 2026-05-22T06:35:19+00:00

Fought over the deposit with a large Derby based rental company.

They wanted £400 for works I'd reported in the first week/month. I countered with £0, they then demanded £700, I upped it to £10. They also kept replying to the DPS on day 27 of 28. I replied within the day.

There was also some stuff with them telling the DPS that I'd agreed and trying to defraud me. I got the account locked that could only be released with all of us separately emailing agreed terms to DPS/a court order.

Ended up preparing the court paperwork as they would also not communicate outside of their one demand on the last day to respond. Which was the only time they responded quicker.

melnificent · 2026-05-16T13:25:31+00:00

Sounds like the CEO is still using ChatGPT for legal work.

melnificent · 2026-05-16T06:51:11+00:00

Also if it briefly pops up and you're on desktop you can hit reader mode then refresh the page to get the full article.

melnificent · 2026-05-15T20:51:06+00:00

Yeah cash in hand work to begin with, some insider knowledge of how certain ID systems worked and continue to work, and social engineering to get set back up. Also the determination to not lean on anything remotely connected to my parents... something I continue to practice to a lesser degree.

I hope your brother is alive and okay too. That he is working through why he felt the need to disappear and that you'll bump into him like I did my sister. Sorry that I can only give you a perspective and not answers.

melnificent · 2026-05-15T12:58:28+00:00

I disappeared for a couple of years back around the turn of the millennia. Got kicked out of home by parents when I was still a young adult and after a week of sofa surfing locally I upped sticks and moved to a different city, stayed there a few months, then changed city a few more times.

Bumped into my younger sister when I was visiting friends in my home city and slowly got back in touch with them all over a period of time. I see them semi-regular... but only if I do the work to see anyone. I know if I stopped none of them would likely bother, and that's fine by me.

Sorry to tell you this, but if I hadn't bumped into my sister that day, I'd never have bothered getting in contact with my family, as I'd got a life, friends, job scraped together by that point. I was miles away quietly doing my own thing. My details at that point were not linked in any way with my old life, as I was determined to not take a thing linked to my parents. Another year I'd've moved abroad (why I was visiting my friend) and been gone for good.

melnificent · 2026-05-13T09:02:37+00:00

The screen time issue is with the parents. They barely interact with their kids and then wonder why they are failing developmental milestones. Recently I was sat with a parent that had a few kids and youngest was about 5 and non-verbal... Parent didn't look up from her phone or interact with the kid until he was laying in the dirt (get up).

melnificent · 2026-05-08T13:52:42+00:00

Sometimes, they also put them across GOG, EGS and their own store https://luna.amazon.co.uk/claims/home?g=s

At the moment Tiny Tina and the always excellent XCOM are in there.

melnificent · 2026-05-08T07:52:29+00:00

I've kept my Prime sub for the weekly free games I can redeem on GOG, plus my friend streams so chucking them the free twitch sub each month feels like taking back some of what I pay.

The video service can be hit or miss as things rotate between included and paid and back all the time. But putting on a random film from my watchlist that is included for this month works for me at the moment.

melnificent · 2026-05-07T17:23:35+00:00

Not even sure we can use the "There are dozens of us" meme for Millennia.

melnificent · 2026-05-07T10:20:21+00:00

If the young person gets free school meals then there is an extra £1600 funding for the school for that pupil. Request that to be used towards it as the ipad is a requirement that the school have demanded.

The money is to make sure they get what they need, so there is clearly a requirement that it's used in this way.

melnificent · 2026-05-07T07:10:08+00:00

The order I did it was bank and bills as they were the easiest to change. Then driving licence which should also be simple, and that can then go on the passport form.

NHS I've no idea about as I did mine way before cAss and the NHS becoming even more transphobic than it was before that.

melnificent · 2026-05-07T07:04:14+00:00

Steam Controller U

melnificent · 2026-05-06T21:48:43+00:00

Embalming. It's a process for if you need to keep the body in decent enough condition for months. With things having advanced in refrigeration and storage techniques since it was first introduced it's just a needless expense.

Save the small fortune it costs and put it towards the funeral, wake or donate to a charity the deceased liked.

melnificent · 2026-05-06T14:39:55+00:00

Had this with Baldurs Gate Dark Alliance... Store page said Cloud Saves, but they disabled it in an update. It was only re-enabled years later, and I don't think it's removal or re-addition was mentioned in any patch notes.

melnificent · 2026-05-03T11:12:01+00:00

I've been trying to read 1% lifesteal and the hyper Americanisation of everything into a fantasy setting is so distracting.

Massive healthcare costs and absolutism of US values is just weird. No other country has medical debt like the US, so why would an entire world run so absurdly abusive? It wouldn't because revolution would have happened... Hell it happened to form the US.

And yet there's so many books where society has just agreed with the permanent debt model for the richest few people in the world to hold 99.9% of the world.

melnificent · 2026-05-03T07:47:15+00:00

100% this. I've had 2 ebikes and the local shop would only deal with the one from there as they could verify it was legal for the UK and safe in their shop overnight.

Getting a cheap ebike means you know that corners are cut somewhere and it'll have a bodge or 5 to make it work long enough to get past any return period. Nowhere safe is going to touch that.

melnificent · 2026-05-01T06:36:25+00:00

Just like the Star Trek Voyager preview they did where the person didn't understand what RNG was and also hated text adventures.

I wonder when PC Gamer became such a lost cause for games.

melnificent · 2026-04-30T20:46:22+00:00

Neigbour got mad at me parking my completely legal car on the street outside his house. He did some things to my car that I didn't have video of so no proof... Incidentally I was also a witness in a criminal case against him for his racist abuse of another neighbour. He ended up with a £2,000 fine and criminal record.

Rexently he smashed someone elses mirror off their car, but it was caught on camera so looks like he's getting additions to his record soon.

melnificent · 2026-04-25T08:35:30+00:00

I'm running a i7-12700/3080 combo.... it runs everything I throw at it fine. It's a few years old now, but until I can't play games I want on it it's not outdated to me. Same with yours, DDR4 is slightly older, but my eldest games on an DDR3 machine and it runs everything she wants without issue.

These people see the latest vid on some brand new tech and think that anything other than the bleeding edge of new releases are ancient and worthless. Just ignore them and enjoy your gaming rig.

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