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Tesseraction posted:The pandemic and overworked parents are leading to a massive decline in young development. A friend of mine who volunteers at a local primary school helps teach children how to grip a pen and draw as they are starting school only able to use touch screen devices.
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Tesseraction posted:The pandemic and overworked parents are leading to a massive decline in young development. As my wife is a nurse, throughout the pandemic our daughter was still able to use the nursery on-site at the hospital. In 2020 they raised a concern that her communication skills weren't developing as expected, and recommended a Speech and Language Therapy (SALT) referral. It took months to finally see someone from SALT in person, who said that they were being inundated with similar cases of young kids being stuck at home during the pandemic and they had a huge backlog to deal with. By the time we finally got a second appointment lockdown restrictions were basically gone, we were regularly seeing friends & family again, and our daughter suddenly made back a lot of the missing progress in the space of 3-4 months. She started reception in January. Thankfully the last few months have gone way better than expected; she's enjoying school and has made lots of friends. So much so that we now get to spend our wedding anniversary at a five-year-old's birthday party...
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bessantj posted:What the gently caress is going on!? Actually the main reason is you can't get cosmetic work on the NHS so you have to go private to get pearly whites, & who has the money for that but cunts? So just remember the Yank is being a classist prick & pay them no heed
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holy loving poo poo I’m speechless, this has stunned me into a stupor, what the gently caress
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SixFigureSandwich posted:Sturgeon's gonna try for indyref 2: electric boogaloo And has in essence said that she'll run a wildcat referendum if permission is not granted.
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Jedit posted:a wildcat referendum I'm going to guess that this sounds a lot more exciting than it really is.
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Umbra Dubium posted:I'm going to guess that this sounds a lot more exciting than it really is. The Scottish Parliament has the power to call consultative referendums as a sort of mass opinion poll. They can theoretically call one, which will then enivetably be boycotted by all of the  weirdos.
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forkboy84 posted:Actually the main reason is you can't get cosmetic work on the NHS so you have to go private to get pearly whites, & who has the money for that but cunts? So just remember the Yank is being a classist prick & pay them no heed Frankly I always thought that "pearly white" teeth look a bit unnatural. I was more thinking about people that can barely afford fuel and food. What are they supposed to do in a dental emergency?
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bessantj posted:Frankly I always thought that "pearly white" teeth look a bit unnatural. I was more thinking about people that can barely afford fuel and food. What are they supposed to do in a dental emergency? Have they no pliers? No access to a length of string and a slamming door?
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The prospect of an independence referendum is the only thing giving me any sort of hope about the possibility of a change in course away from complete poo poo. The UK seems utterly hosed on every issue right now, and although things aren't 'that bad' yet, they've consistently gotten worse in every way people have warned about, and more. Labour has responded to this by allowing an authoritarian turd to cleanse the party of any actual leftists. I can't see any reason at all to hope things will improve. So I still have this glimmer that maybe the referendum will be allowed to happen through some lucky circumstance like the UK parties being desperate enough to offer it in exchange for power or some kind of deal, but they all seem pretty resolute on this whole 'allowing democracy to take place might cause change in this instance, so no loving way''.
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Umbra Dubium posted:I'm going to guess that this sounds a lot more exciting than it really is. It just means that it has no official backing, same as a wildcat strike is where the workers engage in industrial action without the explicit support of their union. Westminster would be under no obligation to respect the result.
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Jedit posted:It just means that it has no official backing, same as a wildcat strike is where the workers engage in industrial action without the explicit support of their union. Westminster would be under no obligation to respect the result. Not that westminster has any history of following referundums with no obligations.
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I don't know about attempting a non-binding referendum. The entire media will be against independence as it is, and giving them the talking point of 'illegitimate' would probably just drown the entire thing, along with the idea that if you don't boycott it, you're pro-independence anyway, so if the result turns out heavily in favour they'll just say only yes voters took part anyway so who cares. It might get to the point where there is no other option than that, but I think it's right not to even approach the idea right now since there's a good chance there will be a change in government by next year and it's worth at least trying to get the referendum on the agenda through that first. If it fails, then maybe consider it as a protest, if there is really no prospect of allowing it to take place. It's so bad that having the vote at all is this difficult.
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I don't see how a wildcat referendum is going to end well at all. If they hold it, the unionists will boycott it, and Westminster will refuse to recognise it. What then? A UDI will be, at best, ignored, at worst, just make Sturgeon the next Puigdemont. Certainly nobody in the independence movement is willing to pick up a gun and shoot people to get independence. And the SNP seem completely unwilling to actually turn to Sinn Fein-style abstentionism, which is the only thing I can see that has any chance at all of forcing westminster to respond in some way. Unless this is step 1 of turning that boat towards abstentionism it all seems like it's going to just fizzle out with the SNP unwilling to pursue any non-decorous solution.
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It buys Sturgeon headlines that don’t mention auditors, ferries, education…
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The only referendum I am interested in (although I'm not sure what it would be asking).
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Do you think Scotland should be: [ ] Run by Westminster [ ] Run by Holyrood [X] Run by a pack of wildcats
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I think it's safe to assume that the Scottish independence movement will undergo a gradual shift towards becoming more radical and militant in the coming decades, though, if only because they want to go and Westminster isn't going to say yes unless they force them. A rogue referendum may not accomplish anything, per se, but it and the corresponding Westminster backlash feel like inevitable and necessary parts of that process as the independence movement builds support and legitimacy for more radical action.
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Jun 14, 2022 15:08
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A referendum on reintroducing Britain's megafauna. Farmers and gamekeepers about to lose their poo poo.
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Jippa posted:The only referendum I am interested in (although I'm not sure what it would be asking). David Cameron will also be appearing as part of the 'in' campaign for this referendum.
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Total Meatlove posted:It buys Sturgeon headlines that don’t mention auditors, ferries, education… Also the news that former SNP chief whip Patrick Grady has been suspended from the Commons for touching them wimmin. But mostly, this is about forcing the Tories to refuse. Then the SNP run the wildcat, pointing out that Johnson trying to rip up the Northern Ireland Protocol makes it likely that reversing Scottish devolution is next.
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bessantj posted:Frankly I always thought that "pearly white" teeth look a bit unnatural. I was more thinking about people that can barely afford fuel and food. What are they supposed to do in a dental emergency? Get a pack of over-the-counter codeine & wait it out, eventually the tooth will wither & the nerves will die & it'll stop hurting. It rules. I am not overly exciting about the forthcoming referendum, not because I don't want it but because the last one was psychologically exhausting to go through, last one turned my mother quite insufferable (swear to god, I have to bite my tongue so hard every time she goes on about having to make compromises with loving cunts like Joanna Cherry & John Mason & Fergus Ewing & that Wee Free Kate Forbes who has been tipped to replace Sturgeon in order to get a referendum to succeed so we can then have socialism, I get she's old & wants to see independence before she dies but there's compromise & then there's selling out), the only parties who don't see completely loving consumed with independence are the Lib Dems & Greens (they have positions, but it's not the thing they care about the most. I could be wrong about the Liberals though, there's just not many of them at this point) I'll vote yes again because the death of the United Kingdom is something good, ideally the breakup of England would come next to properly limit the damage this island can do going forward, but I have no illusions that anything good will come of it. It'll just be exhausting, it'll split what passes for the left even further, & even if they win who'd recognise it? Abkhazia, Lukhansk, Donetsk & Transnistria? Total Meatlove posted:It buys Sturgeon headlines that don’t mention auditors, ferries, education… Plus, y'know, living up to a manifesto commitment.
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Jedit posted:Johnson trying to rip up the Northern Ireland Protocol makes it likely that reversing Scottish devolution is next.
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Guavanaut posted:He'd have to be a loving idiot to... oh I see There's always been an element of the Tories who sincerely support that. Including bootlicking Scottish Tories. Not so many up here mind.
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Sure, but there's an element that wants to scrap the NHS and roll back voting to property owning males only, but they usually have the base animal instinct to realize that it's about as popular as iain duncan smith's onlyfans so they talk about extending the vote to expats and taking it away from working migrants and poo poo instead.
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forkboy84 posted:I am not overly exciting about the forthcoming referendum, not because I don't want it but because the last one was psychologically exhausting to go through... I'm not excited about the campaign itself either, but just ignore it if you've already made up your mind. I'll probably get involved in a way I didn't the first time, but I don't mean following media coverage. Not because it sounds fun, but because I think it really should happen. If it wasn't independence, people would just be endlessly rambing about whatever poo poo was on the news that month anyway, so it might as well be about something that matters rather than beers for kier. I don't see how it could leave the left in Scotland any worse off than they currently are in the UK. If it happened and was sanctioned by the UK government, didn't it work out that the real issue was Spain anyway? I know that's big for any potential EU membership, but you're making it sound like the world would just treat it like a joke, and I don't know why.
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bessantj posted:What the gently caress is going on!? I literally had my first ever filling today after a routine checkup yesterday. The Bad Tooth has been sealed a couple of times already but it eventually the plastic just wears away or falls out so I opted for the filling. Total including the checkup was £147.50. Are those manky black fillings a thing of the past? I joked about using gold and they would have done it, but the fillings they do now are white ones. #notaracist
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forkboy84 posted:Get a pack of over-the-counter codeine Are these some super weak special versions or something? I feel bad for someone suffering from pain that a dose of oral Morphine + Tramadol capsule would barely touch, and then having to take some kind of Boots own brand Codeine with 1mg per tablet instead.
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Biggus Dickus posted:
Yeah, amalgam fillings have fallen by the wayside now there are cheaper, better alternatives that look like enamel.
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Biggus Dickus posted:I literally had my first ever filling today after a routine checkup yesterday. The Bad Tooth has been sealed a couple of times already but it eventually the plastic just wears away or falls out so I opted for the filling. Total including the checkup was £147.50. Yeah I'm pretty sure the NHS have been doing white fillings as standard since like... 1995? Earlier maybe? Brendan Rodgers posted:Are these some super weak special versions or something? I feel bad for someone suffering from pain that a dose of oral Morphine + Tramadol capsule would barely touch, and then having to take some kind of Boots own brand Codeine with 1mg per tablet instead. They're not as strong as you can get on prescription, no. I think the standard ones are Cocodamol (so codeine plus paracetamol) with 8mg of codeine and 500mg of paracetamol. They do work quite well - I've had them a few times for things like earache and they do relieve pain significantly more effectively than just paracetamol or paracetamol+ibuprofen (yes, you can mix those). They say on the packet you're not supposed to take them for more than 3 days though or you can get addicted.
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Brendan Rodgers posted:Are these some super weak special versions or something? I feel bad for someone suffering from pain that a dose of oral Morphine + Tramadol capsule would barely touch, and then having to take some kind of Boots own brand Codeine with 1mg per tablet instead. It's really not helpful but if you sleep the right way you can just about get to sleep. Kids, look after your teeth. Getting horrendously depressed in your late teens and losing the will to actually look after yourself has bad circumstances in later life
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Biggus Dickus posted:I literally had my first ever filling today after a routine checkup yesterday. The Bad Tooth has been sealed a couple of times already but it eventually the plastic just wears away or falls out so I opted for the filling. Total including the checkup was £147.50. Her: "This root canal wasn't done very well, you might have a bacterial infection." Me: "It was done here. Maybe I should ask for a refund." She wasn't amused. (And I didn't get a refund.)
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Lmao GB news making big strides into the staunch and angry about it community. https://twitter.com/BelTel/status/1536729860193779713?t=f9EkSge6CQfdPHpDs2ZeYw
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Just on my way home from three days of Prospect Trade Union Conference. Amazing experience. Should probably have drunk less and slept more but what can you do?
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keep punching joe posted:Have they no pliers? No access to a length of string and a slamming door? forkboy84 posted:Get a pack of over-the-counter codeine & wait it out, eventually the tooth will wither & the nerves will die & it'll stop hurting. I know you joke but skipping the dentist because of cost will cause people to end up in hospital with nasty mouth infections. Payndz posted:I had a root canal in one of my canines a while back, but have had occasional discomfort with it all the same. Recently went for my first checkup since covid started and told the new dentist about this, so she took an x-ray and found a lesion inside my gums. That's the problem with dentists, no sense of humour. They're always looking down the mouth 
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keep punching joe posted:Lmao GB news making big strides into the staunch and angry about it community. Who would even watch this? Anyone who cares will attend and everyone who doesn't care or despises it will ignore it. I can only imagine edge cases like those in hospital or stuck abroad? Maybe? The core tenant of the Culture War is to own the X at any cost but this is a huge stretch.
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"Skipping the dentist" makes it sound like a choice. I have a broken tooth but, and I quote, "tooth pain, no matter how bad, is not classed as an emergency". Every dentist within 15 miles of me is either not accepting new NHS patients or is willing to put me on a waiting list of "about two years". Literally every one of them happily offered to see me as a private patient though.
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Skull Servant posted:Who would even watch this? Anyone who cares will attend and everyone who doesn't care or despises it will ignore it. I can only imagine edge cases like those in hospital or stuck abroad? Maybe? Marchers mums will be setting the recorder for a reviewing that will be continued for a decade every Boxing Day; "And there's our Willie holding one of the banner support ropes! Doesn't he look grand with his little sash!!"
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sebzilla posted:Just on my way home from three days of Prospect Trade Union Conference. Amazing experience. Should probably have drunk less and slept more but what can you do? You did exactly tge right thing.
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