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Sky Blue Pete

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  • Oct 16, 2024
  • #44,661
shmmeee said:
The pro fatties are not sending their best…

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He’s so wrong because it would be like using a nicotine patch for smokers
 

fernandopartridge

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  • Oct 16, 2024
  • #44,662
Sky Blue Pete said:
He’s so wrong because it would be like using a nicotine patch for smokers
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I'm not sure that's correct

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Sky Blue Pete

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  • Oct 16, 2024
  • #44,663
fernandopartridge said:
I'm not sure that's correct

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Really?
I recognise grendels comments about we don’t know the knock of appetite suppression but if after trials it’s ok then how is it different
We’ll see
I love food so I have to make sure I walk the dog 7k a day swim 1-2km a day and then I just about keep the bmi in check
 

shmmeee

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  • Oct 16, 2024
  • #44,664
fernandopartridge said:
I'm not sure that's correct

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The equivalent is Champix. It acts on the want for smoking like Ozempic acts on the want for eating (and drugs).
 
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MalcSB

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  • Oct 16, 2024
  • #44,665
fernandopartridge said:
Interesting that inflation is now down to below target, with underlying raw materials actually deflating. The interest rate rises will be credited for addressing inflation but it is highly debatable what impact they've had if any, they have purely served to make most people worse off and reduce the amount of disposable income available to spend in the real economy.
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Let’s see what it is in October and November when benefit and public sector pension increases aren’t based on it.
 
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torchomatic

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  • Oct 16, 2024
  • #44,666
rob9872 said:
Fuel the biggest impact I think
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Yep, below 1.30 now at Morrisons in Leam. Can't remember last time I saw petrol that cheap.
 
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duffer

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  • Oct 16, 2024
  • #44,667
I'm sharing this again, because it's ominous. Anyone who's had any recent experience of mental health provision in this country will know it's on its knees.

Instead of pressuring seriously ill people (and trust me, if you've been admitted into a hospital with a mental health issue these days, you're *seriously* ill) into discussions with 'job advisers', Labour should focus immediately on resolving the underlying issues.

The service is in crisis, right now, and all you're getting from a supposedly centre left government is... well fuck all, really. Reform blah, blah, blah, and this from a Health Secretary who took £175,000 in donations from private health providers.

Let's be honest, it's not a surprise. Kendall and Reeves et al voted with the Tories on their welfare bill way back when, and they're still singing the same song now they're in power. Punish the poorest, spare the richest.

"Labour" my arse, the leadership of this party is anything but.

Mental health patients could get job coach visits, says minister

Pensions Secretary Liz Kendall says trials of the idea have produced "dramatic results".
www.bbc.co.uk
 
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shmmeee

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  • Oct 16, 2024
  • #44,668
duffer said:
I'm sharing this again, because it's ominous. Anyone who's had any recent experience of mental health provision in this country will know it's on its knees.

Instead of pressuring seriously ill people (and trust me, if you've been admitted into a hospital with a mental health issue these days, you're *seriously* ill) into discussions with 'job advisers', Labour should focus immediately on resolving the underlying issues.

The service is in crisis, right now, and all you're getting from a supposedly centre left government is... well fuck all, really. Reform blah, blah, blah, and this from a Health Secretary who took £175,000 in donations from private health providers.

Let's be honest, it's not a surprise. Kendall and Reeves et al voted with the Tories on their welfare bill way back when, and they're still singing the same song now they're in power. Punish the poorest, spare the richest.

"Labour" my arse, the leadership of this party is anything but.

Mental health patients could get job coach visits, says minister

Pensions Secretary Liz Kendall says trials of the idea have produced "dramatic results".
www.bbc.co.uk
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If the trials show improvements in mental health, what’s the issue?

The people I know with serious MH related problems need all the support they can get not to be left to rot TBH.
 
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wingy

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  • Oct 16, 2024
  • #44,669
rob9872 said:
Fuel the biggest impact I think
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But not gas electric, strange don't you think or they take it too far trying to wring everything out Which I think we're seeing the first signs of?
 

MalcSB

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  • Oct 16, 2024
  • #44,670
shmmeee said:
Like a puppet on a string isn’t he? No idea what he’s actually mad about but read he must be mad so mad he is. Starmer has broken so many brains.
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Well, the borderline between genius and insanity is a very narrow one.

However, if you think it is acceptable for government ministers and a police force to bow to the will of a jumped up singer’s jumped up mother and provide an unprecedented level of security despite their own risk assessment deeming it unnecessary, then it is your sanity that should be questioned. If there HAD been any risk, it would more likely to have impacted those attending the concerts than the performer.
 
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MalcSB

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  • Oct 16, 2024
  • #44,671
shmmeee said:
The equivalent is Champix. It acts on the want for smoking like Ozempic acts on the want for eating (and drugs).
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That is good stuff. Blocks the nicotine receptors so you can smoke like a chimney but get no effect. Worked for me many years ago.
 
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shmmeee

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  • Oct 16, 2024
  • #44,672
MalcSB said:
Well, the borderline between genius and insanity is a very narrow one.

However, if you think it is acceptable for government ministers and a police force to bow to the will of a jumped up singer’s jumped up mother and provide an unprecedented level of security despite their own risk assessment deeming it unnecessary, then it is your sanity that should be questioned. If there HAD been any risk, it would more likely to have impacted those attending the concerts than the performer.
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Yes. It’s acceptable to spend £500k to get the biggest artist in the world to play a concert worth an estimated £1bn to the economy. It’s literally ministers jobs to do this sort of thing. If you think they should have cancelled the concert instead then you’re loopy and would have been on here banging on about Labour denying growth or whatever instead.

come on man you’re better than this. It’s a total nonsense story and a bellwether for whether you should be allowed to read media on your own quite frankly.
 

shmmeee

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  • Oct 16, 2024
  • #44,673
MalcSB said:
That is good stuff. Blocks the nicotine receptors so you can smoke like a chimney but get no effect. Worked for me many years ago.
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My understanding of Ozempic is similar. It’s why the complaints are mental. You’re literally helping people eat less. Fast food companies are worried for their profits if this takes off. It’s not “eat what you like and stay thin” it’s “fatty food makes me feel ill and I get full quicker”. I suspect the drive for drug use is a similar sense of “satisfaction” that’s missing chemically and that’s why it works well there too.
 
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Brighton Sky Blue

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  • Oct 16, 2024
  • #44,674
shmmeee said:
My understanding of Ozempic is similar. It’s why the complaints are mental. You’re literally helping people eat less. Fast food companies are worried for their profits if this takes off. It’s not “eat what you like and stay thin” it’s “fatty food makes me feel ill and I get full quicker”. I suspect the drive for drug use is a similar sense of “satisfaction” that’s missing chemically and that’s why it works well there too.
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It promotes satiety in a similar way to protein and certain fats.
 

MalcSB

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  • Oct 16, 2024
  • #44,675
shmmeee said:
Yes. It’s acceptable to spend £500k to get the biggest artist in the world to play a concert worth an estimated £1bn to the economy. It’s literally ministers jobs to do this sort of thing. If you think they should have cancelled the concert instead then you’re loopy and would have been on here banging on about Labour denying growth or whatever instead.

come on man you’re better than this. It’s a total nonsense story and a bellwether for whether you should be allowed to read media on your own quite frankly.
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That’s some precedent that’s been set. Is Harry still pursuing the withdrawal of his protection through the courts?

It would have been Swift who cancelled the concerts and she would have suffered a significant monetary and reputational loss in doing so, They were bluffing. If the concerts had been cancelled it wouldn’t have bothered me in the slightest.

Do you think she was more at risk than her fans?
 

chiefdave

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  • Oct 16, 2024
  • #44,676
MalcSB said:
It would have been Swift who cancelled the concerts and she would have suffered a significant monetary and reputational loss in doing so, They were bluffing.
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Not certain it was a bluff tbh seeing as the London shows started less than a week after this

Taylor Swift Vienna concerts cancelled after attack threat

The cancellations follow the arrest of two people suspected of planning attacks.
www.bbc.co.uk
 

MalcSB

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  • Oct 16, 2024
  • #44,677
chiefdave said:
Not certain it was a bluff tbh seeing as the London shows started less than a week after this

Taylor Swift Vienna concerts cancelled after attack threat

The cancellations follow the arrest of two people suspected of planning attacks.
www.bbc.co.uk
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I am well aware of the completely different situation in Vienna

The key bit is this -

“A statement from the organisers said: "Due to confirmation by government officials of a planned terrorist attack at the Ernst Happel Stadium, we have no choice but to cancel the three planned shows for everyone's safety."

The Vienna concerts were cancelled due to identified risks to the safety of attendees and almost certainly on the advice of the authorities.

There was NO evidence of a planned terrorist attack on the concerts in London so there would have been no justification for cancellation.

If a risk had been identified and the London concerts allowed to go ahead with pampered pop princess Swift having the VVIP security but an attack had happened and attendees killed, can you imagine the uproar?

Simply put - if there is an identified risk, cancellation is the right thing to do, no VVIP treatment is necessary.
If there isn’t an identified risk, proceeding as normal is the right thing to do, no VVIP treatment is necessary.
 

fernandopartridge

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  • Oct 16, 2024
  • #44,678
It's 5D chess actually


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fernandopartridge

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  • Oct 16, 2024
  • #44,679
shmmeee said:
If the trials show improvements in mental health, what’s the issue?

The people I know with serious MH related problems need all the support they can get not to be left to rot TBH.
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I'm sure somebody from A4E are whoever gets the gig will sort them out

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Marty

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  • Oct 16, 2024
  • #44,680
Fatties will try everything apart from a healthy diet and exercise.
 

shmmeee

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  • Oct 16, 2024
  • #44,681
fernandopartridge said:
I'm sure somebody from A4E are whoever gets the gig will sort them out

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What do you think this policy is? Or do you just fundamentally not believe in supporting people out if work on principle?
 
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StrettoBoy

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  • Oct 16, 2024
  • #44,682
fernandopartridge said:
Why is the obesity rate in France nearly a third of that in the UK?
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Not many calories in a snail.

 
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wingy

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  • Oct 16, 2024
  • #44,683
StrettoBoy said:
Not many calories in a snail.

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Or a frog I'd wager?
 

fernandopartridge

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  • Oct 16, 2024
  • #44,684
shmmeee said:
What do you think this policy is? Or do you just fundamentally not believe in supporting people out if work on principle?
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Fuck knows what the policy is? Sounds a bit like stigmatising the severely mentally ill for not working. Usually these sorts of interventions are for the long term unemployed where there is potentially an employability issue. Are A4E going to cure the person's mental illness?

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Mucca Mad Boys

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  • Oct 16, 2024
  • #44,685
shmmeee said:
If the trials show improvements in mental health, what’s the issue?

The people I know with serious MH related problems need all the support they can get not to be left to rot TBH.
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Agreed. One thing everyone needs is a reason to get out of bed in the morning (i.e. a purpose) and it is often the case that those who have MH issues are having everything compounded by being reliant on the welfare state.

It’s one of those policy ideas that looks bad but if the data shows outcomes have improved - that’s all that actually matters.
 
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shmmeee

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  • Oct 16, 2024
  • #44,686
fernandopartridge said:
Fuck knows what the policy is? Sounds a bit like stigmatising the severely mentally ill for not working. Usually these sorts of interventions are for the long term unemployed where there is potentially an employability issue. Are A4E going to cure the person's mental illness?

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It’s not though is it? You’ve just heard “work coach” and got triggered and gone off the deep end. It is the result of a successful trial that showed improved mental health for those that went through it. That’s good policy. It’s tested and works. You’re just doing what you’ve done since 2019 and gone straight to some weird Blair/Cameron cross you’ve got in your head. FFS let’s see what happens but it’s clearly nothing like the A4E scandal.
 
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shmmeee

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  • Oct 16, 2024
  • #44,687
Mucca Mad Boys said:
Agreed. One thing everyone needs is a reason to get out of bed in the morning (i.e. a purpose) and it is often the case that those who have MH issues are having everything compounded by being reliant on the welfare state.

It’s one of those policy ideas that looks bad but if the data shows outcomes have improved - that’s all that actually matters.
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It’s also that these people often need basic help in things like how to explain their condition to employers or what kind of work they could do with their condition.

Knowing people who have severe mental health issues the ones that have been helped into work or just helped full stop do a lot better than the student bollocks being spouted here of “just leave them alone maaaan”
 
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fernandopartridge

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  • Oct 16, 2024
  • #44,688
shmmeee said:
It’s also that these people often need basic help in things like how to explain their condition to employers or what kind of work they could do with their condition.

Knowing people who have severe mental health issues the ones that have been helped into work or just helped full stop do a lot better than the student bollocks being spouted here of “just leave them alone maaaan”
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Have you got Malc's login today?

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MalcSB

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  • Oct 16, 2024
  • #44,689
fernandopartridge said:
Have you got Malc's login today?

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I do like arguing with myself, but on this topic I agree with @shmmeee.

People with physical conditions are helped back to work, if those with mental health issues aren’t then that seems wrong.
 

fernandopartridge

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  • Oct 16, 2024
  • #44,690
MalcSB said:
I do like arguing with myself, but on this topic I agree with @shmmeee.

People with physical conditions are helped back to work, if those with mental health issues aren’t then that seems wrong.
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If it's about health improvement then why is it the work and pensions secretary announcing it?

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Brighton Sky Blue

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  • Oct 16, 2024
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shmmeee said:
It’s also that these people often need basic help in things like how to explain their condition to employers or what kind of work they could do with their condition.

Knowing people who have severe mental health issues the ones that have been helped into work or just helped full stop do a lot better than the student bollocks being spouted here of “just leave them alone maaaan”
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In my case my insomnia has gotten so bad it’s not safe to be doing the work I need to do while the medication does what it does. Long term if that doesn’t work I’ll be out of a job for MH reasons so some extra help in explaining that to other employers is something I might need to take up.
 

shmmeee

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  • Oct 16, 2024
  • #44,692
fernandopartridge said:
If it's about health improvement then why is it the work and pensions secretary announcing it?

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It’s about work support for people with MH issues. If we had housing policy I’d expect the Housing Minister to announce it. You’re scrabbling around here. I think everyone agrees that if this was some Crapita goon coming in to seriously ill people and telling them to stop moping everyone would be against it. But it’s a trialled policy specifically around interviewing and CV techniques, that has been shown to work so is being rolled out.

I’m neurodivergent and have suffered from two mental health conditions my entire adulthood. There are techniques to know in how to present (and frankly whether to present) and how to handle questions in interviews around for example hospital stays or losing jobs because of your condition that help you find work.

There’s no penalty here afaict, no punishment for not working, just support.
 
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Sky_Blue_Dreamer

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  • Oct 16, 2024
  • #44,693
shmmeee said:
Not sure if this sick burn is aimed at me or the UK economy
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Just in general.

Wouldn't matter what plan you had from whichever side of the political/economic spectrum, people would hate you and something/someone would result in it failing in some way.
 
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fernandopartridge

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  • Oct 16, 2024
  • #44,694
shmmeee said:
It’s about work support for people with MH issues. If we had housing policy I’d expect the Housing Minister to announce it. You’re scrabbling around here. I think everyone agrees that if this was some Crapita goon coming in to seriously ill people and telling them to stop moping everyone would be against it. But it’s a trialled policy specifically around interviewing and CV techniques, that has been shown to work so is being rolled out.

I’m neurodivergent and have suffered from two mental health conditions my entire adulthood. There are techniques to know in how to present (and frankly whether to present) and how to handle questions in interviews around for example hospital stays or losing jobs because of your condition that help you find work.

There’s no penalty here afaict, no punishment for not working, just support.
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Let's see what happens in practice, the department implementing it is not famed for an incentive based approach to the programmes that they commission.

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Como

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  • Oct 17, 2024
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