spookwoman wrote: » Occasional migraines and sporadic back pain, well that's nice for you but some of us get them more than occasionally. Some of us get them frequently even a few times a week and it's not just pain confined to back it's can be all over. Having that level of pain and illness takes its toll in other ways as well. I know it's hard to grasp the concept but people can be sicker than you. Whoopy f*ching doo you commuted 4 hours a day, many people commute more than that daily and plenty of people worked over 9 hours a day as well when ill. I also see you own your own business so that's how you can work around your illness. Most of us can't start up our own businesses, we don't have that type of money, the energy, the health, the skill set to do that. Also businesses are not going to take someone on who is too unreliable due to illness. Would you employ someone who could call in any day and say they can't come in because they have a cluster migraine or their pain is so bad they are on meds that give so much brain fog they cannot function. Would you take on someone who has severe brain fog every day where they forget stuff etc? And the rest of us haven't worked, paid our taxes for years etc, we don't take strong medication either...... yep.... :rolleyes: Welcome to our world we find it very frustrating dealing with people like you. Many of us with invisible illnesses deal with ignorance like yours every day but thankfully when being assessed by Medical Professionals they don't measure us against the Shoesdayschild scale of "well if she can work everyone else can" measurement. But in the end you still don't seem to get it, "as it affects ME" seem to be the only thing that you understand, Me as in Shoesdayschild. How do you know what it's like for these people, are you a medical professional, do you have access to their medical records, private life, their bodies etc to know what they can and cannot do. And again you are measuring a persons illness etc against your own, just because you have your own business that allows you to work around you illness does not mean everyone else has that type of access to work and to even think that is incredibly ignorant and selfish. So someone said you did a great job, I still stand by my previous statement that I pity any family member that may need you help or sympathy, in fact I pity anyone who would work for you if they got sick. Reading you on here I'm thinking god help them, I can already hear you go on about how bad your hands are and how you can work blah blah blah, guilt tripping them into not going home early or calling in sick. You seem to believe anyone with a debilitating illness is workshy without even knowing their history, you also seem to think that a lot of us on disability have a great life. We don't, we deal the the daily pain, the brain fog the other side effects, the isolation and many suffer with depression. We count pennies, most of the time go without because we have bills to pay. I'm leaving it at that but if you every stop working for yourself think about applying for a government job you'd fit in great with your attitude.
blanch152 wrote: » Of course, there are people who are on social welfare for genuine reasons, nobody is disputing that. Will a day ever go by when somebody questioning national statistics relating to thousands of people not be accused of attacking a particular individual? The statistics are clear. Ireland has one of the highest rates of disability social welfare in the world. At the systemic level there are only three possible reasons: (1) The system is too generous in what is considered a disability (2) There is significant fraud within the system (3) Irish people are inbred leading to higher rates of disability I am agnostic on the three reasons, because there is little research as to which is true. However, saying all of the above is not an attack on any individual, because even if all three reasons are true, and you corrected for them, you would still have individuals fully entitled to social welfare disability payments.
tretorn wrote: » I am still waiting for Pavee Point to show leadership on this issue, arent they entirely funded by the taxpayer. They had a lot to say when Peter Casey spoke the truth about the traveller lifestyle but they have nothing to say about Mouth Cash having child after child, conviction after conviction. Not to mention the tramp convicted yesterday of pretending to be a Garda so he could steal seven hundred euros off a ninety nine year old man. There is no depths to the depravity and cowardly behaviour of these adult men. Nothing they wont do to avoid taking responsibility for their families by getting up and going to work. I dont know how any solicitor can defend these scum, I dont care what they are paid, you have to live with a good conscience and be able to sleep at night and any decent human being would refuse to defend this behaviour. The free legal aid is a huge part of the problem too as is the do gooders employed in the travellers rights field.The problem will never be resolved while there are so many vested interests feeding off it.
PlaneSpeeking wrote: » I note yesterday that IT Tralee has TWO dedicated Traveller Welfare Officers. Looking after the Traveller Access Programme was one of my jobs once, aside from telling the one applicant that for the Hardship Fund we'd need receipts not tags clearly torn from garments in shops, it barely impacted on my workload. A full time job must leave a lot of time for Solitaire and online shopping.
Deleted User wrote: » They should try Candy Crush. Very addictive. Easily fill in their time.
Boom_Bap wrote: » She only commutes to protests where she can shout and rant and shout and rant.
Silent Running wrote: » Ah here, that's not fair and I won't stand for it. She also commutes to the post office, Penneys and the various courts.
PlaneSpeeking wrote: » The last two are linked tbf!
tretorn wrote: » I was waiting patiently in the Rotunda one day and our wait was even longer because an ambulance pulled up and a huge black pregnant woman was wheeled in on a stretcher. I said to one of the overworked nurses that I hoped the woman was okay. She said, oh, thats Belinda, she doesnt want to queue to see the doctors so she pretends she has had an epileptic fit and calls an ambulance, she does this for all her ante natal appointments. Us Irish are total mugs. I think the subserviance is to do with our peasant background.
Jasiah Hot Talker wrote: » To be honest, I don’t see the relevance of her colour, and your posts are starting to make me feel a little uncomfortable
van_beano wrote: » The Niall Boylan interviews was my favouritehttps://twitter.com/niallboylan4fm/status/1047526900242022401?s=21
Paddy Cow wrote: » Of course this happened. Nurses always disclose patient information to other patients. It reminds me of something that happened last week. I was on the bus and there was a black woman with her pram at a stop. The driver told he she couldn't come on as there was already someone with a pram on board. He thought she'd wait for the next bus but she took the child out of the pram and left it there. She told the driver it was grand, she'd simply get another from the social.
RaichuMGS wrote: » So click on the ignore button. Problem solved
Paddy Cow wrote: » tretorn wrote: » I was waiting patiently in the Rotunda one day and our wait was even longer because an ambulance pulled up and a huge black pregnant woman was wheeled in on a stretcher. I said to one of the overworked nurses that I hoped the woman was okay. She said, oh, thats Belinda, she doesnt want to queue to see the doctors so she pretends she has had an epileptic fit and calls an ambulance, she does this for all her ante natal appointments. Us Irish are total mugs. I think the subserviance is to do with our peasant background. Of course this happened. Nurses always disclose patient information to other patients. It reminds me of something that happened last week. I was on the bus and there was a black woman with her pram at a stop. The driver told he she couldn't come on as there was already someone with a pram on board. He thought she'd wait for the next bus but she took the child out of the pram and left it there. She told the driver it was grand, she'd simply get another from the social.
Jasiah Hot Talker wrote: » Sorry Raichu, didn’t realize you were made mod.
PlaneSpeeking wrote: » However, there is a massive issue with non-nationals of both here and UK using valuable NHS/HSE resources and a solution has to be found.
tretorn wrote: » The PC nurses probably wouldnt but this one did. The black woman was moaning away on the stretcher so naturally enough you would be concerned, this is par for the course. Nigerian dont queue for anything, thats their culture. A friend delivered her baby in the maternity hospital in Drogheda. The proud traveller Daddy tried to conceive his next child the night the new one was delivered. He got into the hospital bed with his wife and tried to have sex with her. Those traveller women must be all incontinent by the time they are thirty, they are hardly back from the welfare office with the new buggy when they are pregnant again. I wish some journalist or Radio host would ask them why they cant use contraceptives, is it a religious thing. Its not as if the general taxpayer would mind paying a few more euro if it meant contraceptives were delivered by the truckload to the travellers. The non PC staff threw him out.
PlaneSpeeking wrote: » I doubt the voracity of the hospital story alright, patient confidentiality of course. However, there is a massive issue with non-nationals of both here and UK using valuable NHS/HSE resources and a solution has to be found.
wexie wrote: » Like what? Not allow them access to hospitals? Send them home? And would that go for all non nationals? Or just the ones that don't work or pay taxes? Or do you just assume that's the case for non nationals?
RaichuMGS wrote: » Don’t wanna see someone’s post and get smart when a resolution is offered. :pac: gonna take my advice and use it on you I think
PlaneSpeeking wrote: » No, I know for a fact. I had an accident abroad and no doctor would look at me till I showed my travel insurance policy. When my non-EU students register with GNIB they can only do so by showing health insurance. The policy is in place. I'm asking for it to be extended to all not covered by PRSI/HSE etc treatment.
tretorn wrote: » Its absolutely true planespeaking, nurses are only human and imagine the frustration of seeing an ambulance being called every time an ante natal appointment was due. The moaning Nigerian was transported past us idiots waiting in a queue, there werent even chairs to sit on and she was seen before us, she probably called another ambulance to take her home.
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