What is hacking you off today?

[Uncle Leo]

You can't stop at a Little Chef though.

I see the one on the A127 (Halfway House) has closed, to be replaced by a Starbucks.

Doesn't hack me off but thought I'd mention it. Carry on.

 

[Billy Bests boot laces]

Phoning to make a docs' appt and being #44 in the call queue.....

Your lucky, my Dr's in Leigh aren't making any appointments at all at the moment, despite the fact there's 7 of them there!. Keep saying 'pop in end of week, we may have a cancellation then, for a couple of weeks time'!. Usually it's a 3 week wait anyway!.
If I needed to be seen urgently, i'd tell them i'm sitting in the waiting Room, & not moving till i'm seen.
Fast forward a couple of weeks, and probably still be there, only as a skeleton??.

 

[mattitouk]

The dartford crossing is knackered on all approaches. Avoid it at all costs.

Grrrr!....Tell me about it!!.. I was also stuck in it!.. only did a half day, as me and the other half planned in advance to do our Christmas shop for family & friends.

It obviously all went to pot.

That stretch of the M25 was a nightmare yesterday, it took nearly 3 hours to cross from just before Swanley to Lakeside!... I could have got to Malaga or Faro quicker!!.. and all because of a faulty traffic light?!?

That crossing is a joke. The sooner they build many more new bridges or tunnell's across the Thames the better.

 

[Jai]

Visiting a "local" news website this morning I see Spurs are opening a new shop in Chelmsford and some company is also running coaches to west ham games from all over South Essex including Southend.

:angry::angry::angry::angry::angry:

 

[Mad Cyril]

I ruptured the yolk cooking a fried egg this morning.

 

[Uncle Leo]

No hot water in the gym showers this morning.

 

[RHB]

Visiting a "local" news website this morning I see Spurs are opening a new shop in Chelmsford and some company is also running coaches to west ham games from all over South Essex including Southend.

:angry::angry::angry::angry::angry:

Will that be on the same site as their previous shop which closed through lack of business Jai?

 

[Mad Cyril]

Visiting a "local" news website this morning I see Spurs are opening a new shop in Chelmsford and some company is also running coaches to west ham games from all over South Essex including Southend.

:angry::angry::angry::angry::angry:

The Spurs shop in Southend has the biggest selection of mugs in town.

They also sell coffee cups.

 

[RHB]

Netflix's 'Suits'. Mrs RHB had just started watching it when the 'Royal' news was announced. She now wants to plough through all 7 series.:facepalm:

 

[Firestorm]

Netflix's 'Suits'. Mrs RHB had just started watching it when the 'Royal' news was announced. She now wants to plough through all 7 series.:facepalm:

Series 7 is only half way through , the remaining 9 shows are being shown from January .....

 

[RHB]

Series 7 is only half way through , the remaining 9 shows are being shown from January .....

Yeah, thanks for that, it makes me feel so much better.

 

[GBJ]

Re-offending is an interesting discussion. The headline number isn't really the whole story is it? You really need to look at the reasons for re-offending. It doesn't mean all re-offenders are beyond hope. It also means that they need more help than they currently get.

In a lot of cases, I'd wholeheartedly agree. Not in Venables case though.

Society as a whole would obviously benefit in many ways if no-one re-offended, but this isn't a utopia, and that isn't going to ever be the case. The best we can hope for is to reduce re-offending to a minimum (whatever that is). Either way, one way we would benefit from lower re-offending rates would be the amount of cash we would save in various ways. So the question really is are we prepared to spend money to save it in the long run?

Or create a better deterrent, such as making sentences tougher in the first place? So for example, if you're caught downloading & sharing indecent images of children, that should be life in prison. Not a 2-year term.

[Someone with access to the data would need to investigate this, but simply saying that "re-offending statistics are ridiculous" is extremely simplistic.

Also, making a statement that "re-offending statistics are ridiculous" implies to me that you know the detail. So, please put this in context for the less informed. Can you let us know what the re-offending rates are, and how they have changed over the years? If possible it would also be interesting to look at that in line with funding for things like the probation service over the same period.

http://open.justice.gov.uk/reoffending/prisons/

Not aware that Venables had actually murdered any children since the original offence.

You are fully aware however, that I was referring to his crime of paedophilia. And I am fully aware that as you had no sensible response to his inability to be reformed or rehabilitated, you twisted my comment into something completely different, thus swerving the point.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

You are fully aware however, that I was referring to his crime of paedophilia. And I am fully aware that as you had no sensible response to his inability to be reformed or rehabilitated, you twisted my comment into something completely different, thus swerving the point.

The point to me at least, would seem to be, that all his offences since the murder of Jamie Bulger ,while reprehensible, are of a much lesser nature ,thankfully.

A PO, who used to write for New Society -TailGunner Parkinson-used to encourage his "clients" to go in for white collar crime rather than physical assault,etc.Always thought that was a rather enlightened view.

Perhaps Nile Ranger is a disciple? :winking:

 

[GBJ]

The point to me at least, would seem to be, that all his offences since the murder of Jamie Bulger ,while reprehensible, are of a much lesser nature ,thankfully.

Oh well since you put it that way, allow me to shower Venables & the reform service, with kudos.

Thanks Jon, thanks for not torturing, mutilating & murdering anymore toddlers. What a shining example of the excellent work the reform service does. Thankfully, as you put it, he's downgraded his crimes and now settles for downloading & sharing images of children being raped & exploited. What a guy.

Hey, hopefully, this next stint in prison/rehabilitation, will make him even better. Maybe he'll downgrade his crimes even further, and he'll Only be interested in armed robbery, or arson?

Jon Venables should be executed, to do the world a favour. He deserves nothing less. He is, and always will be a danger to children.

 

[Benfleet A1]

A13 knackered again and Scania have managed to lose my keys to the truck. Great start to the day.

 

[MK Shrimper]

I've a Christmas meal tonight, so the Mrs said "Do you want a lift to work".

Took an hour when I can cycle it in 10 mins. :angry:

 

[Mad Cyril]

Waiting for a takeaway to be delivered has to be the worst wait in the world.

 

[MK Shrimper]

Christmas drinks in a pub that cost £6 a pint. Really? :stunned:

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Jon Venables should be executed, to do the world a favour. He deserves nothing less. He is, and always will be a danger to children.

Merry Xmas to you too.:winking:

 

[MK Shrimper]

I had 1 1/2 pints of over-priced beer, a glass of red and I feel a bit ropey. :stunned:

Dear Jeebus, in my early 20s I used to lay under trains (not when they were moving) after a lot more and clubbing it 'til 3am. :sad: