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Thankyou all so VERY much for listening.   In the meantime, I feel for you. I mainly feel, thank God it's not me. I rather feel the same, which probably makes me a very bad Auntie  But my niece and nephew have their own children now, so maybe I don`t have to feel so guilty  |
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Mart, that's clearly exploitation! Your brother owes you big time (that's how they phrase it nowadays, is it not?) I find that a firm but gentle warning growl in the direction of the juniors as soon as things even begin to look as if they're getting out of hand works wonders: for some reason they've never wanted to explore what might befall were they to persist....  |
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« Reply #4862 on: 09:27:28, 19-02-2008 » |
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Mart, your brother is taking the p**s, mate. You need to do something!! This is infringing on one's own lib erties. Thank God my families not like that. We hardly talk to each actually. Piece and Quiet!
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« Reply #4863 on: 09:33:48, 19-02-2008 » |
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Piece and Quiet!
In my case, the piece of music I should be writing, on top of the rest!  Thanks folks, but I can't really complain. I did agree to do it weeks ago (hmm, I think a whiskey bottle was involved in that conversation come to think of it), and my bro is having a hard enough time of it. And they weren't all that bad yesterday... I'm known as 'funky unky martle', by the way.  |
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« Reply #4864 on: 09:49:45, 19-02-2008 » |
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If their parents are splitting up, they're bound to be a bit difficult. Poor kids. Sorry, I feel sorrier for them than I do for you!
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« Reply #4865 on: 10:11:07, 19-02-2008 » |
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Quite right, Mary. They're ok now, but they've had a rough time. Very messy.
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« Reply #4866 on: 18:15:22, 19-02-2008 » |
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My sister and her husband never visit so the chances of us having to look after our niece are zero.
Mind you, my sister appears to have forgotten how to use the telephone.
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« Reply #4867 on: 18:42:34, 19-02-2008 » |
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Mind you, my sister appears to have forgotten how to use the telephone.
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« Reply #4868 on: 19:17:34, 19-02-2008 » |
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Yes Ron, so it would seem!
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« Reply #4869 on: 07:34:00, 21-02-2008 » |
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Actually people, if we do have any problems at all, eg la famille etc, and we seem to be a pretty good bunch of people have an ear for our friends here, maybe it might be a good idea for a seperate thread. What you guys think?
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« Reply #4870 on: 07:57:25, 21-02-2008 » |
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What would you call that thread then? The "Domestic" thread?  When I worked for the police (in a secretarial capacity of course) they always called family problems "domestics", i.e. "Off to sort out a domestic"..... Incidentally the police hate those - not unsurprisingly I suppose - but very often they're called out and sometimes there's domestic violence etc. Then a week or so later, no charges are made and all is forgiven and forgotten. A complete waste of police time and resources, because usually it happens repeatedly within the same family till one of them gets fed up. Then they split up, move on and shack up with someone else exactly the same usually and so the problem grows and grows into another couple and another couple......  |
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« Reply #4871 on: 08:58:06, 21-02-2008 » |
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Incidentally the police hate those - not unsurprisingly I suppose - but very often they're called out and sometimes there's domestic violence etc. Then a week or so later, no charges are made and all is forgiven and forgotten. A complete waste of police time and resources, because usually it happens repeatedly within the same family till one of them gets fed up.
Of course, quite frequently they refuse to get involved at all even where there is violence and property damage, and a sincere desire for police action on the part of the accuser :/ (at least such is the case in one such case that springs to mind, and it sounds pretty typical). |
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Incidentally the police hate those - not unsurprisingly I suppose - but very often they're called out and sometimes there's domestic violence etc. Then a week or so later, no charges are made and all is forgiven and forgotten. A complete waste of police time and resources, because usually it happens repeatedly within the same family till one of them gets fed up.
Of course, quite frequently they refuse to get involved at all even where there is violence and property damage, and a sincere desire for police action on the part of the accuser :/ (at least such is the case in one such case that springs to mind, and it sounds pretty typical). It's true that sometimes they're very reluctant to interfere, but as you say, there might just be that one time when they are desperately needed. There are so many false alarms though - it's a bit like them being reluctant to turn up every time someone's burglar alarm goes off. There are so many alarms that go off for no apparent reason or are faulty - they'd spend all their time just fruitlessly going about. But then of course there's the case of the genuine burglary.....very difficult. They don't really have enough staff or resources to turn up to absolutely everything, every time, or so it would appear. |
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« Reply #4873 on: 09:24:27, 21-02-2008 » |
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Proliferating threads aren't always the best way to go, bbm: the one-stop grump shop seems to have worked perfectly well for both the assailed and their sympathisers up to now. Were we to follow your suggestion, we'd soon have requests for a work grump room, then one for society and then who knows what else? Surely it's not the cause of the grump so much as the grumps themselves and the various commiserations, suggestions and solutions they engender which are the real focus of this thread.
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« Reply #4874 on: 09:37:38, 21-02-2008 » |
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My brother and I made arrangements to look after each other's children should anything happen to us. I must say I'm extremely relieved that the children are now grown up, and we won't have to. I expect he's just as relieved as I am.
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