Unthoughtful people!

[sarah_lou1981]

Horses don't go on pavements, and children shouldn't be walking in the road? Just a thought??

I have no objection to people on horses and would quite like to have a go myself but in response to all the horse on road commens what about motorbikes? All it takes is a tyre to slip on a bit of horse mess and theyre off and could be seriously hurt.

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[jamjar15]

I have no objection to people on horses and would quite like to have a go myself but in response to all the horse on road commens what about motorbikes? All it takes is a tyre to slip on a bit of horse mess and theyre off and could be seriously hurt.

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I agree

 

[dudette2001uk]

Dear previously mentioned barman who makes my tummy go a bit funny,

I now feel really stupid for liking you as you have a girlfriend. At least I ddin't go so far as to ask you out...if I had I'd now probably be dying of embarrassment

It takes me back to my original feeling that the way he was behaving was just his way of being nice

Oh well, never mind. a bit of harmless banter helps to pass the time!

 

[Mummy2Bslim]

Dear assistant manager,

I'm pretty sure the attitude you've taken towards me, my contract and my hours since I fell pregnant is illegal. If you can't provide my full hours or a safe risk free place to work you have to suspend me on full pay due to health and safety, I do not take kindly to being threatened with "you either cut you contracted hours, use holidays to cover it or we will sack you" just because it worked on another pregnant girl and she cut her contract doesn't mean it will work on me - play nice or I will sue the company my best friend is a solicitor who specialised in employment law!

Also no I will not work 24 hour shifts and do sleep ins when I am 7 and 8 months pregnant its obscene for you to expect that from me. As my employer you have to risk assess my hours and night shifts at the moment your not looking after the health of me or my unborn child!

I could already take you to court after I had a slipped disk from doing manual handling and you hadn't given me manual handling training ... I wonder who would win!

 

[Shivlar]

Dear lovely work people,

I know the desk next to me is empty, and in the middle of the office, but please remember I can smell those chocolate covered treats and that cake. do please if it's your birthday, or it's Friday, or it's payday, or it's a bank holiday weekend, please think of me sat there sniffing the air.

Sad faced Shivvy

 

[phaeona]

Dear assistant manager,

I'm pretty sure the attitude you've taken towards me, my contract and my hours since I fell pregnant is illegal. If you can't provide my full hours or a safe risk free place to work you have to suspend me on full pay due to health and safety, I do not take kindly to being threatened with "you either cut you contracted hours, use holidays to cover it or we will sack you" just because it worked on another pregnant girl and she cut her contract doesn't mean it will work on me - play nice or I will sue the company my best friend is a solicitor who specialised in employment law!

Also no I will not work 24 hour shifts and do sleep ins when I am 7 and 8 months pregnant its obscene for you to expect that from me. As my employer you have to risk assess my hours and night shifts at the moment your not looking after the health of me or my unborn child!

I could already take you to court after I had a slipped disk from doing manual handling and you hadn't given me manual handling training ... I wonder who would win!

Good for you - don't let them bully you in to doing anything unsafe and as you say they can't sack you etc etc

xx

 

[Mummy2Bslim]

Good for you - don't let them bully you in to doing anything unsafe and as you say they can't sack you etc etc

xx

I've started a note book and doing call recordings with them just in case I need to build a case!

They picked on the wrong woman with me lol my sisters fiancé is a barrister as well so I've got loads of people to get advice from

X x x

 

[Rach*B]

Dear previously mentioned barman who makes my tummy go a bit funny,

I now feel really stupid for liking you as you have a girlfriend. At least I ddin't go so far as to ask you out...if I had I'd now probably be dying of embarrassment

It takes me back to my original feeling that the way he was behaving was just his way of being nice

Oh well, never mind. a bit of harmless banter helps to pass the time!

I was only thinking about you the other day, the super cute guy from work also has a gf....pfffft. Chin up hun x

 

[solo12]

Dear lady on the bus...

While I was signing with my 2 year old on the bus today, was there any need to say in a very loud voice 'oh my god that little girl is deaf' while pointing straight at her! I know it probably wasn't meant to come out that loud, but it did! Then the next 20 minutes on the bus was a chorus of awkward smiles & 'int she cute, it's such a shame!' errr no it's OK! really! She's is a very happy, confident little girl who has no issue with being Deaf, neither does her mummy so please do not give sympathy, there really is no need

 

[Mummy2Bslim]

Dear lady on the bus...

While I was signing with my 2 year old on the bus today, was there any need to say in a very loud voice 'oh my god that little girl is deaf' while pointing straight at her! I know it probably wasn't meant to come out that loud, but it did! Then the next 20 minutes on the bus was a chorus of awkward smiles & 'int she cute, it's such a shame!' errr no it's OK! really! She's is a very happy, confident little girl who has no issue with it, neither does her mummy so please do not give sympathy, there really is no need

Some people just don't think before they speak do they! I work with a little boy who has severe drop seizures and has to wear an American footballer style helmet, it doesn't bother him until people point at him! People think it makes him strange but it's there to stop him cracking open his head if he goes down on a pavement, I turned to a woman once and said " so would you rather see a little boy quite happily wearing a helmet he decorated or a little boy bleeding to death outside tesco? " she soon shut up and Ryan gave me a high five and said I was awesome lol!

I love seeing kids doing sign language it's a sign that they are well loved and well educated and at 2 years old that's super impressive

X x x

 

[ColJack]

I'm trying to think how to phrase this so I don't offend.

I think that all children should be taught to sign at a young age. And any other languages they might find useful too.
It is after all the best time to learn that kind of stuff, they are learning one language already.
Kids with one English and one French speaking parent grow up bi-lingual etc.

If they were all taught to sign then it would just become second nature.
I wish I knew sign language.
I think I'm going to sign up to a class ( no pun intended. )
The only problem I can see is that I don't know anyone who signs so I wouldn't get much practice at it.

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[Mummy2Bslim]

I agree, I've done a macaton course in work and I think learning sign language is the same as learning welsh for example when people ask me how many languages I speak I say English, welsh, French and maceton because it's a langue through your hands I will teach my children welsh and sign language welsh because I'm welsh and it's my heritage and sign language because I think it is important for my children to be able to communicate effectively in as many ways possible!

X x x

 

[solo12]

I'm trying to think how to phrase this so I don't offend.

I think that all children should be taught to sign at a young age. And any other languages they might find useful too.
It is after all the best time to learn that kind of stuff, they are learning one language already.
Kids with one English and one French speaking parent grow up bi-lingual etc.

If they were all taught to sign then it would just become second nature.
I wish I knew sign language.
I think I'm going to sign up to a class ( no pun intended. )
The only problem I can see is that I don't know anyone who signs so I wouldn't get much practice at it.

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I agree, I do find that signing with little one all the time it does become second nature but the more advanced stuff I learnt at class is a lot more rusty because I don't know anyone who is Deaf except little one. My middle child (she's 6) is fantastic at signing and picking it up so much easier than me & OH, I would love BSL to be taught in school from a young age but that's probably just selfishness due to my situation. I don't tend to be bothered by people asking questions about little one it's just the pity but that bothers me

 

[Rach*B]

I'm trying to think how to phrase this so I don't offend.

I think that all children should be taught to sign at a young age. And any other languages they might find useful too.
It is after all the best time to learn that kind of stuff, they are learning one language already.
Kids with one English and one French speaking parent grow up bi-lingual etc.

If they were all taught to sign then it would just become second nature.
I wish I knew sign language.
I think I'm going to sign up to a class ( no pun intended. )
The only problem I can see is that I don't know anyone who signs so I wouldn't get much practice at it.

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I did my degree in Deaf Studies and rarely get to sign

 

[solo12]

I did my degree in Deaf Studies and rarely get to sign

Really! What do you learn? Since having little one I'm desperate to know as much as possible so I can teach her all about her culture and stuff. Have been learning BSL & basic Deaf awareness but apart from that...

 

[Shirleen]

I use some Makaton in my work and really it is easy to learn as it needs to be for LD people. You could learn from a book.
I too wish I could sign properly. There was a deaf lady at one of my SW groups and another lady would sign for her, I found that fascinating.

As I've been partially deaf most of my life I think the best and easiest thing for everyone to do to help deaf people or indeed people who use English as a second language is to learn to look up, look into the eyes of the person you are speaking to, and speak clearly (not shouting), and to be prepared to use different words if the listener doesn't understand you first time. When I worked at the Post Office I had a dozen customers who would only come to my till because they could understand what I said to them.
Really wish Doctors and Opticians understood this, I always tell them, I'm partially deaf, so they OVER E.N.U.N.C.I.A.T.E the first three words and then disappear into their collars! tsk!

 

[solo12]

I love seeing kids doing sign language it's a sign that they are well loved and well educated and at 2 years old that's super impressive

X x x

She is an awesome little signer! Am so proud of how she has taken to it... For example I put her coat on this morning (Tuesday is nursery day) she signed 'going bus shopping' and when I shook my head she signed 'going bus nursery play!' & when I nodded she signed 'ok' & climbed in pram

She will probably be BSL only as she is profoundly deaf in both ears due to no auditory nerves or cochleas developing when I was pregnant with her so the fact she is taking to it so well gives me hope shes going to be fine in the future x

 

[solo12]

I use some Makaton in my work and really it is easy to learn as it needs to be for LD people. You could learn from a book.
I too wish I could sign properly. There was a deaf lady at one of my SW groups and another lady would sign for her, I found that fascinating.

As I've been partially deaf most of my life I think the best and easiest thing for everyone to do to help deaf people or indeed people who use English as a second language is to learn to look up, look into the eyes of the person you are speaking to, and speak clearly (not shouting), and to be prepared to use different words if the listener doesn't understand you first time. When I worked at the Post Office I had a dozen customers who would only come to my till because they could understand what I said to them.
Really wish Doctors and Opticians understood this, I always tell them, I'm partially deaf, so they OVER E.N.U.N.C.I.A.T.E the first three words and then disappear into their collars! tsk!

I took little one for her new glasses & bloke asked her if she could see ok, I told him she was Deaf & he opened his mouth really wide and was just about to shout it at her when I informed if he did what I though he was going to do he would be wearing his nuts as earrings!

 

[big bear]

At my son's nursery they teach them sign language. I was only aware of this when he started doing it when singing Old McDonald....there are no deaf children there so must be just part of their curriculum. I think its fantastic xxx

 

[ColJack]

She's like any other 2 year old. They learn to communicate in whatever language they have available to them.
If you only spoke to a two year old in Latin then that's what they'd learn to speak back to you.
You can also teach kids to read before they can speak if you show flash cards with the words on as you say the word and point to the object.
It's all just creating connections in the brain.

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