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I agree that shabby spelling can irritate BUT Perhaps change the subject of your post so that it reflects that it is about poor spelling and grammar. Then use an example that doesn't include children and young people (many of whom have indeed received little education for various reasons)who are bravely and gallantly protesting about the loss of an organisation that provided them with the care and support they need to thrive despite poverty, trauma, neglect, deprivation, violence etc. An organisation that, for many of them, provided the very education and schooling that you suggest is missing!

ratty Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > "The Evening Standard had a pretty good article > about this today. Sam Leith was the name of the > columnist I think > " > > What was the jist of it? Most professionals I know > are glad to see the back of this dangerously self > publicising charity. As am I! Dangerously self publicising? Isn't that what charities do? I'm not sure which professionals are pleased to see Kids Company go. Certainly not the many, many professionals that I work directly with and encounter daily in my job working with exactly the same vulnerable young people that KC supported. I am not sure whether this post is about the terribly sad and worrying closure of a children's charity or about poor spelling/ grammar. Either way, I also find it very frustrating that the public still believe the sensational rubbish and punchy headlines that they read in newspapers and don't get to learn the facts or hear from the people who either worked for KC, alongside them or from the families supported by them. As I said, these kids are my job. I am genuinely shocked and saddened that poor grammar is considered to be the important thing to discuss here

I wouldn't speculate as to who is guilty and who isn't but whether there has been cover ups around Westminster is under little doubt....it would be naive to think that Westminster is not able to shift things under the rug. I have been watching these events unfold for some weeks on the internet. The reason I have used the internet to read up about it was because very little has been put out by the media. An Australian current affairs programme recently aired a 60 min reporting/ exposing the scandal. In the UK, however, the media was bizarrely quiet considering the potential enormity of the situation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRObgttIyeg Up until now, when Edward Heath accusations have suddenly made big news. I personally don't find it confusing that it is only people who are already deceased who are making it into the press...... if the sh*t could potentially hit the fan then best to try and confine the damage to people who are already gone? Judge Lowell Goddard (from New Zealand) has reportedly been commisioned to investigate Westminster because she "has no links to British Establishment"

I'd love to rent your Weymouth flat, you sound so warm, welcoming and non pushy

Not sure how those desperate migrants entered the discussion about East Dulwich being basically a nice place to live. I guess if the conversation is going that way though I'd suggest that people who are in a desperate place would feel blessed to have a roof over their head in a nice place with amenities etc. Not that I am suggesting (before I get jumped on)they would be fortunate to be able to afford it.... The main point being (as I believe the OP is saying )is that we complain a lot......and should count ourselves lucky that we have any honey available to us at all!

If you give an item away, it is hardly reasonable to dictate what happens to it once in someone else's possession. Unless you give away a puppy or a goldfish. Maybe those sneaky sellers were making money to provide for their family. Anyway, commenting on my height seems a bit sizest

Yeah, there must be baby walkers being abused all over the place, not to mention the morally incomprehensible trafficking of teddies and bath time duckies. This entrepreneurial "racket" should be reported. Maybe do a full background check next time?

All nations have a staple carb Too much scoffing, not enough moving = fat bodies Obviously if a person has a particular condition then diet may need to be altered but, in general, cutting out major food groups are fads that people want to believe in order to avoid accepting they eat more than they burn Give us this day our daily bread

Why is bread a treat? What is too much? I scoff delicious bread up to 3 x daily.......and why the h*ll not?!

Oh dear, you really are being done! I agree it would be wise to get a new cleaner (there are loads around and recommended on here) rather than try to gain any faith in someone who has already taken you for a mug

The approach taken by the Dolphin sums it up perfectly. Nice one!

Pussey Liquor thread is a gem and has the potential to heat up!

I can see both sides of the story but I personally find it difficult that pubs are no longer a space for adults. In a pub (or outside a pub), adults are quite within their right to drink until drunk (within limits obviously), smoke, talk about adult things and swear and cuss! I try to behave appropriately when there are children around but don't want to have to worry about that when I am going to the pub. I'm not an inconsiderate buffoon, I just think that adults should be allowed to be adults in an adult environment. I imagine there would be ED forum uproar if I sat in a playground getting tipsy, using adult language and smoking.....and then complained that the children were behaving like children!

Must be quite upsetting to have someone demanding their phone back when you don't have it. Gloves1980 seems insistent despite it being quite obvious that phone trackers are not that accurate. Also, not that it matters for this thread, but Gloves1980 seems to sign off both Janet or James in different threads.