You know what, I think you might be on to something here.
But no, “Big Nige” would rather stoke the bogeyman and have the people with everything in common with one another, fight each other. Don’t for god’s sake look at what else is going on, just keep fighting the fucking nonsense culture war.
Nigel, you’re a fucking twat, you’re not a man of the people, you’re a cunt. Now fuck off and bank with your foreign investors.
Bell-end.
Being a Celt and living in the south has been…interesting. Time for everyone to wake up and realise what these cunts are really about.
I’ll join in a chorus!
It’s funny, people keep spelling cunt the old English way with like this “tory”
In the age old tradition of my friends from Liverpool; Fuck the tories.
The only thing a Tory cares about is lining theirs and there rich friends pockets.
No, it’s not at all legal for the company to do this. Reply and remind them they have one calendar month to comply from the date of your original request, otherwise you will make a complaint to which ever information regulator is correct for the juridiction they’re operating in.
I’m a lawyer specialising in Data Privacy, reply here if you need more help on this one.
Also feel free to name the company.
Okay, hear me out here. Maybe we should stop treating housing as a commodity and allowing companies and individuals to accumulate large property “portfolios”?
Because this is the fucking problem; homes are not commodities to hold in a portfolio, they’re homes for people to live in.
The UK seems to have this as a recurring problem, we are the only modern economy that has a fully privatised water supply, something which is essential for human existence. Housing is a basic right, yet we allow massive profit to take priority over that.
You spelt “bellend” wrong there mate
Sounds like you’re doing all the right things. Look after yourself and take time to make decisions.
Honestly, how the fuck did they retain a seat.
I’m sorry I missed this comment when you posted it, but your second cent is an absolute gem, truly a series of thoughts I’d not considered. I’m not the same person I was 30 years, so why would she be.
Thank you from the bottom of my heart for this. I’ve put an update above on my plans and it follows what you’ve advised, I really appreciate the advice my friend.
I think I said them didn’t I, after terrorists?
I agreed that they should definitely fuck off, but this will be pushed y the security services. A change of government won’t change the drive for this sort of bollocks.
“Oh but what about the criminals, terrorists and pedos?”
What about all the people that aren’t that who loose their privacy?
Thank you, and remember you got this.
Let me rewrite that for you;
“Twat gets cross at bank used by richer twats”
Thank you friend, appreciate it and no sir or ma’am, I am definitely a long way from high school. I like the phrasing of “nostalgia doing the heavy lifting”, you’re speaking the truth and I hear you.
Just write it from the heart, tell him what you're feeling and know that a man that flew halfway across the US to support you will be bowled over by the gesture. There's literally nothing you can say in your message to him that will be wrong if it comes from your heart.
I find poems are nice, but I appreciate it isn't for everyone, but just start with a few lines, 6-8 words in each that describe the picture in your head of how you feel about your dad. Don't worry about rhyming, and punctuate as you'd speak it.
I’m sorry for your loss my friend, and I appreciate what you’re saying. My thing is poetry and verse, I’ve been trying to get back to it but everything I seem to write isn’t good. I did however sleep for a solid six hours last night and wrote something this morning about letting first love go which I’m actually proud of. I find it very cathartic. I also struggle to speak out loud what I’m feeling, but writing it is somehow easier for me.
Sending you the very best vibes.
As the title says, my first love whom I've missed dearly has just contacted me and it's thrown my world upside down. We met when we were both 14 and spent a little under 4 years together. It was a wildly inappropriate relationship from the start by the standards today, but we both suffered abusive and absent parents, so found each other. We spent all the time we could together, at the cost of our studies, friends, what little family there was and all else. We were absolutely codependent, physically living as adults and were each other's worlds.
I'm now marred to my wife of 20 years and we have a home together, no children but a successful life by any measure. I love my wife dearly and tell her almost everything, she knows about the contact and encouraged me to start a conversation with my first love. I've avoided difficult things in the past, employing avoidance rather than facing things head on, and this is why she encouraged me.
It's been wonderful to speak to my first love again, and it's brought up emotions I thought long gone. I'm not sleeping, eating little and completely preoccupied by thoughts of what we once had; I feel love sick, but for a squandered past, not a realistic present. I'm bipolar so this is particularly dangerous for me and for anyone else out there like me, I'm working to try and stay grounded, away from the mania and get some rest, but it's hard.
I broke off the relationship back then, because I was afraid of what we were committing to and because I was being manipulated by a very toxic group of people who in hindsight, only wanted to sow chaos and take pleasure in my humiliation. I was not diagnosed back then and so was particularly vulnerable when experience the extremes. If I knew now what I knew then, I would not have been so reckless with her emotions, as it caused her immense pain and led her on a path of self destruction for a number of years.
She's has moved back to near where I live after being on the other side of the country for the past nearly 3 decades. I desperately want to meet her for coffee and look at her eyes again, but I'm also supremely cautious because I don't want to upset my wife and am also afraid of what I might be feeling.
Any advice gratefully received on how I navigate this. I should also mention that whereas I don't have children, my first love does and two of them are quite young, one is an adult.
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Thank you all of you for your advice and guidance, and for your kindness in share it with me. I ate some food last night and have slept, which has brought the mania back down to a more manageable level, and with that I've taken on board and heard all that you've collectively said.
My plan is to talk to my wife this weekend about what I've been going through and ask how she would feel about having a coffee with my first love. I really thought through what matters most to me and it's the present, the future and that is with my wife. She's a wonderful woman who has helped me through so much and my life now wouldn't even be recognisable to 18 year old me. Through her I found the strength to recover from addiction, face my mental health demons, go to University and become the successful privacy lawyer I am today. All of this would not have happened without her strength and support.
If you're reading this you probably wonder why the voice above the edit, and the voice below it, are so different in tone; the answer is my bipolar disorder and it's sometimes extremely hard for me to see that change happening.
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