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JP : 7 year old lad lost in forest finds safe shelter after Asian parenting mistake..
Would have thought Dad would know better being my age - TBH if I'd been abandoned in bear infested woods by "hippy" parents searching for vegetables in rough weather when Japan is well supplied with open markets and shops I'd join the Army as soon as I was old enough; and/or give my parents a pet bear (some Asian bears are only as large as a bull terrier) as an anniversary present :laugh_at:
Yamato Tanooka: Japanese boy found alive after six nights missing in forest | World news | The Guardian
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June 3, 2016 at 5:25 pm
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UK : Where the kids letters to Santa Clause were sent in early 1990s.
Today I think kids can write to postcode XM4 5HQ (previously SAN TA1) and they are dealt with by Royal Mail somewhere between England and Scotland (or possibly two adjacent sorting offices across the border), but kids have always written these letters for years.
In 1991 I worked as a temp post sorter at a Royal Mail office in SE England dealing with "foreign mail". At that time Santa didn't have a postcode; so the letters were just addressed to "NORTH POLE".
We asked the head postman (a clever but chilled out black dude) "where do these ones go"? (in front of us were about 200 pigeon holes for every country in the world).
He replied "well, anywhere you think Santa could be and is cold; (and keeping a relatively straight face) the elves will get them to him anyway". (in those days you could still send "telegrams and letters to follow the recipient" even on ships and aircraft as the PTT often controlled the radio networks for these and thus knew where important people might be...
This of course meant the routing depended on your own knowledge of North European geography; he sussed out I knew a fair bit about this and encouraged me to help others who didn't know as many countries (some had only just arrived in England!) The bulk of the letters went to DK, NO, FI, SE and some to AT. Others went to PL, LV, LT and EE (SU/RU didn't get any as we thought "they are communists and don't believe in Santa :laugh_at:)
So the kiddies letters did indeed get sent to Santa; what the foreign PTTs did with them I have no idea. I expect by the time the EU was properly set up in the 21st century some of the smaller countries kicked up a fuss and said "we have plenty enough domestic post at this time without Britain dumping all these extra letters based on a misinterpreted image of a Christian saint (who in many depictions is black!) on us anyway" so we British had to set up our own handling process :laugh_at:
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December 21, 2015 at 12:15 pm
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PIERS MORGAN: Don’t shut your eyes
to this picture because WE did this. Now we have to make it right
Amazing isn’t it?
We can all stomach endless grainy video images of boatloads of people drowning in the sea.
Yes, we’ll huff and puff a bit about how awful it is, but then we quickly get back to our own comparatively comfortable, non-drowning lives.
Yet one pin-sharp image of a three-year-old boy washed up on the shoreline and we stop and shudder in collective horror.
A horror that lingers, that cuts deep into our consciousness, that is far harder to casually etch from the mind.
I can’t stop thinking about Aylan Kurdi and I’m damn sure you can’t either if you’ve seen the photo.
Not the one of him being carried away by the Turkish police officer, because that conveys an air of humanity and kindness.
No, the photo I can’t stop thinking about it is the one of Aylan lying face down on the edge of the water.
His small dead body being lapped by the cold surf.
His soaking red T-shirt pulled half way up.
His pants crunched.
His tiny shoes baring their sodden soles to the sky.
Further down the beach lay his brother Galip, aged just five.
Their mother is also believed to have perished.
In total, 12 Syrian refugees lost their lives in this tragedy.
They’d been packed onto a tiny boat that set off from Bodrum in Turkey for Kos in Greece, a hazardous 5km journey that represented their best chance of reaching Europe.
Aylan’s family fled Kobane in Syria last year to escape the Islamic State, a group that delights in beheading, torturing, shooting and setting fire to anyone that displeases them.
And a group that wouldn’t now have such an iron grip in Syria were it not for the appalling, shockingly misguided decision by the United States and its chief ally Britain to invade Iraq in 2003 – the war that started the region’s slide into barbarity.
The barbarity Aylan and his family were trying to flee.
They, and millions like them in Syria, aren’t ‘migrants’, as so many ill-informed people on social media seem to think, and as some in mainstream media disingenuously encourage us to think.
They’re not trying to pursue a better economic life for themselves, something which is perfectly acceptable but which should be liable to strict immigration checks and balances.
No, they’re trying to save their lives.
They’re fleeing a country so ravaged by five years of war that it now resembles an inferno of hell.
Sixty per cent of all the refugees met by the International Rescue Committee on the Greek Islands are from Syria.
They are refugees in the purest sense of that word.
People so desperate that they will risk death to seek sanctuary.
Imagine being Aylan’s parents as they paid their last savings over to some cut-throat mercenary in a final effort to make their kids safe again.
I have four children and if I had been in that situation, I’d have done exactly the same. Hoping and praying that if I made it to Greece, then somebody with a heart would help us.
Where is our heart now?What have we become if we can’t deal with this tidal wave of despair?
Let’s be clear: we have a moral, ethical and legal duty to help them.
Syria is not one country’s nor one continent’s problem.
It’s everyone’s problem.
The repercussions of that conflict have had a direct impact on the security and finances of everywhere else in the world.
So what are we all doing about it?
Britain has taken in just a few hundred Syrian refugees so far, and Prime Minister David Cameron seems shamefully reluctant to increase that commitment.
This from a nation that went to war in Iraq on the spurious trumped up pretext of Saddam Hussein having WMDs. A totally unnecessary war that stirred up the hornet’s nest out of which ISIS and its barbaric ilk have emerged and thrived.
WE are thus largely to blame for this fiasco, and WE must take responsibility for the innocent victims of it.
America is just as culpable.
Since the Syrian conflict started, the United States has taken precisely 1,234 refugees.
Think about that for a moment. In fact, think about it for several long moments.
Because it’s an absolute bloody disgrace.
These people are fleeing the very mayhem which America and Britain helped create.
Yet neither the UK nor U.S. governments seem to give a damn about them.
The US State Department announced last week a new target of taking in up to 8,000 Syrian refugees in 2016.
To which my response is: PATHETIC.
Compare and contrast to Germany, the most powerful country in Europe.
It has pledged to take in 800,000.
That’s 100 times as many as the world’s most powerful country.
And that’s called proper leadership in the face of one of the biggest humanitarian crises of our times.
Cameron and Obama love to act the big brave boys on the global stage when it comes to standing up to terrorism.
They’ll order fighter jets and drones to rain down bombs on people’s heads.
Yet when it comes to stopping little children dying as they try and escape both the same terrorism and the military efforts to combat it, the same two men have shown themselves to be little more than timid, callous cowards.
Today, there is as much fevered debate about whether news organisations should have published the image of Aylan as there is as to what caused him to be dead in the first place.
We saw the same argument last week when a young female TV journalist and her cameraman were shot dead live on air.
‘We can’t publish the pictures because they are too horrendous!’ came the cry.
Yet that’s exactly why we should publish them.
As with that diabolical ISIS video of them setting on fire and killing a Jordanian pilot trapped in a cage, sometimes we need to SEE the full horror to fully understand it and be shocked enough to act on it.
The civil rights movement changed irrevocably in the ‘50s when a young black boy named Emmet Till was brutally mutilated and murdered by the Ku Klux Klan and his mother insisted on a public funeral with an open casket, allowing the world to see exactly what these evil bastards had done to her son.
I believe that if Americans had been allowed to see images from inside Sandy Hook school after the massacre of 20 young children in 2012, then new draconian gun laws would have been implemented within months.
(One family member told me each child was shot three to 11 times and each bullet wound was the size of a golf ball. Think the NRA could spin their way out of those pictures?)
Dramatic pictures have always told a thousand words, sometimes a million.
And this one of Aylan Kurdi is no different.
Look at it, digest it, recoil from it, get angered by it, shed a tear over it, and demand action from your politicians across the globe.
We owe it to Aylan to stop this cruel madness, and to stop it fast.
Because if we don’t, many more young kids will be washed up on the shores.
And their fresh young blood will be on all our hands.
Or should I say, even more of it.
R.I.P
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September 4, 2015 at 2:10 pm
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Family
How important is family to you? Do you have close ties with them at all, or are you not too involved in each others' business?
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May 21, 2015 at 7:43 am
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Why mums and dads get nothing done
Mums/Dads work their buns off all day and yet somehow nothing is done at the end of the day...this is why.:laugh_at:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bP0Uf3Shd0
Sooooooooo true :hopeless:
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April 8, 2015 at 7:25 pm
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Trip for family?
I'm in looking of some nice place where i can spend some time with my family members and chill out for while.
My kids are free from study, and they enforced me to take them on holiday tours.
I think Asia's is the best place for family trip due to natural beauty and lots of things for visiting.
Are you agree with that?
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May 28, 2013 at 11:34 pm
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Family Law
Attorneys and lawyers practicing family law take up cases relating to all kinds of family related issues. These can be adoption, prenuptial agreements, marriage, divorce, separation, legal separation, annulment, alimony, division of the property accumulated during the marriage, domestic violence, negotiation, adjudication, child custody and support, child abduction, kidnapping or child seizure, emancipation, abuse in the marriage, parental rights, paternity, juvenile, felonies etc., and many such cases related to family. Other than this they also deal with regular cases relating to criminal laws, property related laws, probation law, trusts etc. However, the majority of the cases that come to family lawyers are the divorce, separation, abuse or child custody cases. A number of details need to be considered when it comes to these cases and family lawyers are specialized in all the legalities involved in such cases.
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October 6, 2012 at 3:04 pm
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r i p dad
errr so 1 year ago today my dad died... why am i sharing this here, fuck knows, but i do know a few of you now so......... a year ago god ripped my heart out with a wooden spoon (sorry for the drama but you know, thats taxed drugs for you and i've had a few of them)... i thought at this point i would continue the feeling that a year feels like an eternity and feels like yesterday but actually in the last few months i've realised thats not true, memories are fading and its almost like this person that did everything for me, worked like a dog for us... he may well have never existed pretty soon with the memory i have except bad painful ones. this is partly cos i was stuck out of the country with some semi psychotic girl... and i knew in my mind somehow, some telepathy thta something was wrong and it was time to leave but i couldn't and when i got back it was already in process... blood cancer is quick and brutal... you leave and all is well, you come back and ones almost dead and the other's on a journey to becoming a cripple cos the nhs dont actually treat people they just make them wait... there's nothing quite like the feeling of holding your dads cold dead hands and looking at his shell of a body having been talking to him (in lots of pain) minutes before, having bought him a chinese take away the night before cos hospital food has the nutritional value of a shit in your hand. death is easier to accept when its someone that is old and their life is pretty much over other than waiting for the hammer to fall but when its someone healthy, working, really alive, its ummmm a bit difficult, especially when he was the 'healthy' one of the family... so we're going to go to some forest later to a place he used to go a lot and where we dumped his ashes... hav a meal and chat shit... i know this is something that in some way happens to everyone, but if it hasn't, enjoy your family's health and your own while it lasts, say and do what you've got to while you have the chance, appreciate every moment, it is finite...
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July 8, 2012 at 3:28 pm
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Suffolk and Family Values…
since moving here I've noticed that families are still really close compared to London/SE England....
Of course I don't mean the obvious "inbreeding" jokes but I've noticed its almost like an Asian country , you get whole extended families socialising together from little kids to grandparents - and this is amongst the English community as well as the new immigrant communities.. raaa
I've noticed that amongst both young and old that even when people move "out of the parental home" they still end up with their parents/older relatives still living a few doors away, and people often still share houses with other generations of their family right up to their old age (not always in a "dependent" way either, but with everyone who can working and contributing to the household).
OK some of this is due to house prices and scarcity of affordable housing, and families still have disputes and disagreements but there definitely seems to be more cohesiveness round here.
Is this an EA thing or just something I've noticed because I don't live in such an urban area any more?
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October 1, 2011 at 4:28 pm
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UK : East : Essex ASBO swan and family relocated to Mid Suffolk
SUFFOLK: Protected by the queen and regarded as one of the most graceful of creatures, the majestic swan has long been held in high regard on these shores.
But one troublesome cob is doing its best to wreck the species’ enduring reputation by creating a regime of fear for river-users.
So bad has the swan’s behaviour been that he has been moved from the Essex waterway he had been terrorising to a new more secluded spot - in Suffolk.
Christened the ‘Asbo Swan’ by those he targeted on the River Chelmer in Chelmsford, the cob has been re-homed, along with his mate and six cygnets, at the Gallows Hill Quarry near Needham Market.
The swan would regularly scare members of the public and hit people with his wings, often bruising them, and enjoyed attacking the frightened ducks living on the lake
Beware of the cob - News - Evening Star
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August 18, 2010 at 2:22 pm
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Sibling Rivalry
My brother moved out of my parents house about four months ago to start up his own business telecommunication company in Toronto. About a month ago I moved in with him to start working with him to build up his business. When I first arrived to his apartment, never seeing it before I just could not believe the mess that had taken place in those three months of him finally living alone. The place was disgusting and most of all is his work area is covered in tangled cords. I offered to clean around his area, but he always yells at me.
How can I come across this sibling rivalry? Any suggestions?
On my break yesterday I was surfing through Google and I evidently came across this picture that reminded me exactly how his work area looks.
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July 12, 2010 at 3:52 pm
