Teachers get it handy!

[Puckoon]

Every A&E should have security and if you lay a finger on staff you get lifted by the peelers without treatment.

Absolutely. Yet there was social uproar earlier this year when the peelers were discussing carrying Tazers, they were deemed to be too dangerous to be deployed by the cops FFS!

Somewhere between the heavily armed US police approach, where you may get shot in the wrong - and this softly softly cater to the dregs of society approach in the UK lies the key. However the social fabrics in each society prevent them from moving away from the status quo to something that more adequately addresses the challenges faced by those in public service (health care, retail etc...). Listened to a man from Limerick today discussing the rampant shoplifting and abuse of small business owners, its brutal what's happening there, and even in Dublin with those scumbags after the stabbing attack.

If someone intent on destroying your livlihood came face to face with a shotgun, they may think twice.

[JoG2]

Every A&E should have security and if you lay a finger on staff you get lifted by the peelers without treatment.

Automatic custodial sentence.
Fines starting at £1000 for verbal abuse and upwards
If you're on any sort of benefits you automatically lose them.

Should carry a very high punishment. Absolutely no call for it.

Force them to go out and get a job, that will fairly put the frighteners on them.

Really worry for society at times, for every pair of scum bags that get together and have wains they are raising  people with the same morals and sense of entitlement when it comes to benefits, housing and relationship with work or lack of.

This attitude is one of the major reasons society is in the state it's in. The hard right and extremely wealthy have convinced lots of ordinary working people that the relatively small number of people on benefits are costing everyone else. The simple fact is the vast majority of people on benefits are there legitimately and are living on the breadline. We all may know the odd exception but it's the exception that proves the rule. A much bigger issue in society is the big number of extremely wealthy people who find all sorts of ways of avoiding paying their taxes. I've read recently that this costs the exchequer around 5 times as much as all the benefits paid out. Those are the real cheats who cost the public the necessary funds to provide good public services and the nhs.

The law needs changing to ensure that the proper tax is paid.. if there is methods to claim back tax or get tax benefits then they ain't doing anything wrong?

If they have been fraudulent in filling in a tax return then it's on HMRC to investigate.

Drove through Skeoge in Derry the other week on the way to Letterkenny.  All social (free) housing around that area but not a bad car around the place.  Plus guarantee you the majority of them people would have a foreign holiday every year.

An Audi and Mercedes parked along side the towing caravan or campervan outside these houses, but all inhabited by single mothers. I'm not sure if there's folk on this planet as good as playing the system as Derry folk 

[Jim Bob]

Not be long now ...

[Milltown Row2]

I dare say the fat cats Lenny mentions above would have something to say about that.

We are a society that begrudges the poor man a fiver but happily accepts the rich man taking millions.

Dare I ask, do you envy these people? Do you wish it was you?

Sure people begrudge lads earning some coin while taking teams!

The worlds fucked

[ONeill]

Not be long now ...

Hard to fill the days.

[theticklemister]

Not be long now ...

Hard to fill the days.

Thursday 21st for me until Monday the  8th.  Just enough time to get rid of the hangover around New Years.

Anyone have any Christmas films they could recommend to watch with about 30 9 year olds? Ones which they might not have seen?

[ONeill]

Bad Santa is a fun-filled 2 hrs for all the family.

[theticklemister]

Bad Santa is a fun-filled 2 hrs for all the family.

Watched that last Christmas. A big pile of balls.

Sorry got that confused with the Santa film where he kills everyone

[theticklemister]

Violent night!

[JimStynes]

Every A&E should have security and if you lay a finger on staff you get lifted by the peelers without treatment.

Automatic custodial sentence.
Fines starting at £1000 for verbal abuse and upwards
If you're on any sort of benefits you automatically lose them.

Should carry a very high punishment. Absolutely no call for it.

Force them to go out and get a job, that will fairly put the frighteners on them.

Really worry for society at times, for every pair of scum bags that get together and have wains they are raising  people with the same morals and sense of entitlement when it comes to benefits, housing and relationship with work or lack of.

This is so true. Monkey see, monkey do and all that. You can write the future of a lot of children by looking at the parents bringing them up. 

[Milltown Row2]

Every A&E should have security and if you lay a finger on staff you get lifted by the peelers without treatment.

Automatic custodial sentence.
Fines starting at £1000 for verbal abuse and upwards
If you're on any sort of benefits you automatically lose them.

Should carry a very high punishment. Absolutely no call for it.

Force them to go out and get a job, that will fairly put the frighteners on them.

Really worry for society at times, for every pair of scum bags that get together and have wains they are raising  people with the same morals and sense of entitlement when it comes to benefits, housing and relationship with work or lack of.

This is so true. Monkey see, monkey do and all that. You can write the future of a lot of children by looking at the parents bringing them up. 

But it must be rewarding when you break the cycle?

I taught engineering to 16 year olds up to 19 year olds..

The greatest pleasure was seeing some bad ass kids who left schools like Mount Gilbert on the Shankill and turning them into engineers.

Christ it wasn't easy, I remember one time a lad had missed classes and work, me and the admin girl (who's local) called to the house, the front door open parents lying full drunk in battered sofas and him upstairs playing on a PlayStation.

Got him back on track and he finished up with a level three qualification, an apprenticeship, with a works van and moved into his own accommodation.

There were numerous occasions of those stories but unfortunately there were so many that didn't finish the same.

I think it's an impossible job at times but what's the answer?

I'd say in ten or twenty years you'll have a massive problem with recruiting teachers, and then retention.

I'd never encourage my kids to go into education

[theticklemister]

Every A&E should have security and if you lay a finger on staff you get lifted by the peelers without treatment.

Your correct. I used to think going into edication

Every A&E should have security and if you lay a finger on staff you get lifted by the peelers without treatment.

Automatic custodial sentence.
Fines starting at £1000 for verbal abuse and upwards
If you're on any sort of benefits you automatically lose them.

Should carry a very high punishment. Absolutely no call for it.

Force them to go out and get a job, that will fairly put the frighteners on them.

Really worry for society at times, for every pair of scum bags that get together and have wains they are raising  people with the same morals and sense of entitlement when it comes to benefits, housing and relationship with work or lack of.

This is so true. Monkey see, monkey do and all that. You can write the future of a lot of children by looking at the parents bringing them up. 

Automatic custodial sentence.
Fines starting at £1000 for verbal abuse and upwards
If you're on any sort of benefits you automatically lose them.

Should carry a very high punishment. Absolutely no call for it.

Force them to go out and get a job, that will fairly put the frighteners on them.

Really worry for society at times, for every pair of scum bags that get together and have wains they are raising  people with the same morals and sense of entitlement when it comes to benefits, housing and relationship with work or lack of.

This is so true. Monkey see, monkey do and all that. You can write the future of a lot of children by looking at the parents bringing them up. 

Your correct.

I used to think going to become a teacher I could change kids lives. Nearly impossible.

[seafoid]

Rich social welfare recipients is a trope. Derry city is the poorest region in the North for political reasons, cut off from its Donegal hinterland and ignored by Belfast.The real enemy is the rich. As ever.

[gallsman]

Your correct

I used to think going to become a teacher I could change kids lives. Nearly impossible.

Maybe if you could spell, you'd have a better chance of impacting their lives?

[trailer]

P7 teacher put Pretty Woman on for us back in the day.