Melody Posted June 22, 2017 Share Posted June 22, 2017 (edited) Getting more than a little fed up with people on Facebook posting photos of their (usually elderly) terminally ill relatives who they've been visiting in hospital. For some reason there's quite a lot of them at the moment. OK, I understand "look at me, aren't I the angel of mercy to mum or dad or Auntie Nellie" but do they really have to include mum or dad or Auntie Nellie in the picture, lying in their hospital beds with tubes coming out of everywhere? And do we need blow-by-blow accounts of how much dad ate and how many times he visited the loo and what his blood counts were and what meds he's on? Seems like such an invasion of privacy. Edited June 22, 2017 by Melody 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MAB Posted June 22, 2017 Share Posted June 22, 2017 I imagine most people's Facebook friends are actually relatives, so news about a sick relation would resonate all round. If you don't like an image it takes a second to remove it from your timeline. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yaffa Posted June 22, 2017 Share Posted June 22, 2017 (edited) 59 minutes ago, MAB said: I imagine most people's Facebook friends are actually relatives, so news about a sick relation would resonate all round. If you don't like an image it takes a second to remove it from your timeline. I think most people's Facebook friends actually include many more people than relatives. Yes, pics can be pulled from a timeline but if you are hooked up to machine, with huge medical concerns and grateful for the support, it is often not easy to request from someone to do this. I've found it can often be helpful to have family discussions now (or at least early on in the course of an illness) about how the person would like social media and updating family to be handled e.g. Some people like Facebook's broad reach but request that a closed group be used for more detailed updates and pics, with more limited info available to the public. It's not just a privacy issue. Many people are concerned about burglars hearing that they are frail and/or away from their home. Edited June 22, 2017 by Yaffa added sentence about burglary concerns 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anon2 Posted June 22, 2017 Share Posted June 22, 2017 A lot of people using social media have lost what most of us would consider normal filters though. I work in a specialist unit where we have a Facebook group for peer support. Recently a grieving relative posted inappropriate photos and by the time the site was policed it was too late for a lot of other families who had seen the photos. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melody Posted June 22, 2017 Share Posted June 22, 2017 (edited) 12 hours ago, MAB said: I imagine most people's Facebook friends are actually relatives, so news about a sick relation would resonate all round. If you don't like an image it takes a second to remove it from your timeline. On FB these days that isn't necessarily the case. A lot of people (including me) have significant numbers of friends just because they're neighbours in FB games. Just about all the people I've seen recently, dying in their hospital beds, are relatives of people's I've friended (I know that isn't a word, but it's a FB word...) for games and don't know in real life. All FB users have the option of sifting their friends into categories so that personal posts and photos can be sent to just relations and close friends, but a lot of them are choosing to send them out to everyone. Edited June 22, 2017 by Melody Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alison Posted June 24, 2017 Share Posted June 24, 2017 Retailers who insist on selling furry bedroom slippers in the middle of summer! Even the padded jersey ones which seem to be pretty popular at the moment can be pretty hot - and some other people sell fleece-based ones, which are no better. If anyone knows a source of open-toed, machine-washable towelling mules, please do tell! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quintus Posted June 28, 2017 Share Posted June 28, 2017 Supermarket staff rummaging in the baked goods with bare hands. I had just bagged a couple of pains au chocolat in my local mini-Sainsbury, using the tongs, when a bakery staff member wandered over to the racks and started rearranging all the croissants etc with his bare hands. Subsequent customers would of course be oblivious of this. I pointed out to him that this was not very hygienic, and asked whether he should not be wearing gloves. This took some explanation as he did not speak much English, but the gist of his response was that it was Ok as he'd washed his hands. Is that really the standard? Isn't the expectation nowadays that unwrapped goods are all handled using plastic gloves, or implements? 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jan McNulty Posted June 28, 2017 Share Posted June 28, 2017 I thought so Quintus. Interesting in view of the BBC Watchdog investigation into Coffee Shops! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melody Posted June 30, 2017 Share Posted June 30, 2017 Hopefully they understand that plastic gloves need to be changed each time they're handling food, or freshly washed bare hands might actually be better. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LinMM Posted June 30, 2017 Share Posted June 30, 2017 I've often thought this Melody ......that gloves in themselves are not necessarily that hygienic unless changed quite a lot!! 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anon2 Posted July 1, 2017 Share Posted July 1, 2017 And you need to wash your hands as soon as you take gloves off. The hot, sweaty conditions they creat are a breeding ground for bugs. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alison Posted July 8, 2017 Share Posted July 8, 2017 Take my advice: never bother going onto any of the property websites to see how developers have changed your former, reasonably character-ful, home into an anonymous, soulless, monochrome non-entity. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
taxi4ballet Posted July 8, 2017 Author Share Posted July 8, 2017 People who start a sentence with the word "So..." Not sure why it bugs me so much, but it does! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pixiewoo Posted July 25, 2017 Share Posted July 25, 2017 Very tall and/or big people who stand at the very front at a music concert blocking the view of alot of other people. Sometimes wearing a hat as well! And can I add the same people who then put a child on their shoulders! I'm aware that they have paid to be at concert and have every right to stand where they want, but why they can't stand to the side I don't know! (Been at a festival all weekend and it happened SO often!) Oh and while I'm at it ... people who won't let children move to the front/in front of them at concerts (I'm not talking huge events just small concerts/ festivals where the parents are usually standing a few rows back while children get to where they can see!) I was at a concert with DD and her friend recently (some X factor finalists thing) and they got close to the front, along with the other children that we were all encouraging to move so they could see and one group of adults wouldn't let them get past. .... then a security type chap told them to let the children see! Rant over! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vonrothbart Posted July 25, 2017 Share Posted July 25, 2017 People who think they are speaking really cool, when they don't sound the 'T' in words such as formality eg. There's that many who speak like that nowadays, it will more than likely become part of the dictionary. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnneMarriott Posted July 25, 2017 Share Posted July 25, 2017 17 minutes ago, Vonrothbart said: People who think they are speaking really cool, when they don't sound the 'T' in words such as formality eg. There's that many who speak like that nowadays, it will more than likely become part of the dictionary. And there's the use of "f" for "th" which seems to be getting more common. Fanks for the memory... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alison Posted July 25, 2017 Share Posted July 25, 2017 That's SarfLondonese. Been around for decades - certainly since I was at secondary school. People round here come from ForntonEath (aka Thornton Heath) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zxDaveM Posted July 25, 2017 Share Posted July 25, 2017 15 minutes ago, alison said: That's SarfLondonese. Been around for decades - certainly since I was at secondary school. People round here come from ForntonEath (aka Thornton Heath) you mean Forntun Eef, doncha! 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnneMarriott Posted July 25, 2017 Share Posted July 25, 2017 (edited) 33 minutes ago, alison said: That's SarfLondonese. Been around for decades - certainly since I was at secondary school. People round here come from ForntonEath (aka Thornton Heath) I remember something from my childhood, mocking Londonese in general: "How many feavers on a frush's froat?" "Firty farsand feavers on a frush's froat". And it's reached Windsor! Edited July 25, 2017 by AnneMarriott To add afterthought. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zxDaveM Posted July 25, 2017 Share Posted July 25, 2017 only firty grand? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnneMarriott Posted July 25, 2017 Share Posted July 25, 2017 1 minute ago, zxDaveM said: only firty grand? I fink so. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melody Posted July 25, 2017 Share Posted July 25, 2017 36 minutes ago, AnneMarriott said: I remember something from my childhood, mocking Londonese in general: "How many feavers on a frush's froat?" "Firty farsand feavers on a frush's froat". And it's reached Windsor! Windsor? The Queen's speaking Estuary English now? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnneMarriott Posted July 25, 2017 Share Posted July 25, 2017 21 minutes ago, Melody said: Windsor? The Queen's speaking Estuary English now? Not as far as I know, but her loyal subjects seem to be and of course I can't answer for the younger Royals! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fiz Posted July 26, 2017 Share Posted July 26, 2017 Donald Trump - please! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zxDaveM Posted July 28, 2017 Share Posted July 28, 2017 people picking my blackberries from my hedge - as I'm standing there watching them! 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnneMarriott Posted July 28, 2017 Share Posted July 28, 2017 11 hours ago, zxDaveM said: people picking my blackberries from my hedge - as I'm standing there watching them! Have you got a garden sprayer? Next time, fill it with water and go out and ostentatiously spray the brambles. With any luck the scrumpers will assume it's pesticide and stop scrumping. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
taxi4ballet Posted July 29, 2017 Author Share Posted July 29, 2017 Hardly anyone picks blackberries hereabouts apart from us (free range ones Dave, don't worry!!), DH and DD went for a walk last week and came home with about three pounds of them, they said there is a fantastic crop this year. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anon2 Posted July 29, 2017 Share Posted July 29, 2017 2 hours ago, taxi4ballet said: Hardly anyone picks blackberries hereabouts apart from us (free range ones Dave, don't worry!!), DH and DD went for a walk last week and came home with about three pounds of them, they said there is a fantastic crop this year. Don't they seem early this year? Although weather here is definitely autumnal. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
taxi4ballet Posted July 29, 2017 Author Share Posted July 29, 2017 Autumnal as in cold and wet? Here too! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anon2 Posted July 30, 2017 Share Posted July 30, 2017 10 hours ago, taxi4ballet said: Autumnal as in cold and wet? Here too! And even when it isn't raining it seems very dull. Harvest is just about over here too and it's only end of first week of summer holidays. End of harvest used to mean time to go back to school. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zxDaveM Posted July 30, 2017 Share Posted July 30, 2017 10 hours ago, Jane said: Don't they seem early this year? Although weather here is definitely autumnal. Mine always ripen in the last week of July, and last into mid-August (thievery allowing!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vonrothbart Posted July 30, 2017 Share Posted July 30, 2017 After reading this post, I went down the end of the garden to have a look at mine, what a nice surprise, there are masses of them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MAB Posted July 30, 2017 Share Posted July 30, 2017 I always thought they ripen late August, early September. I always pick wild ones on country walks for my porridge, Sounds like I'll miss out this year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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