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TIGERSCAVE said:
Just to show how ****ed this country is..... to stop losing the World Championships to China or Dubai..... THIS

Prime Minister Keir Starmer has expressed his “delight” at a £45 million upgrade and expansion for Sheffield Theatres. The organisation's Grade II-listed Crucible Theatre has received £35m from the government and £10m from a mix of private sector and philanthropic partners to increase auditorium capacity by up to 50%.

So an auditorium that was minuscule has been increased to just above minuscule at a cost of £45 million... they could have flattened it and re built it 5 times the size for the same money or less.... BUNG CENTRAL.... some building giant is laughing their cocks off... you can build a football stadium for that!@!@!@!@

As we've paid for it, can we just rack up, excuse the pun...
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Pots of money
 
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balkan tiger said:
Bastards.

Apparently this is the footpath up to Malham cove.


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One of the downsides of the UK - many beautiful countryside walks and views, but too many walkers.

Not a nice sight. But the bins should have been emptied and at least the rubbish is left in one area around the bin and not chucked along the trail, hopefully.

It's like the middle class, gentile version of the Everest climb - instead of empty oxygen cylinders and dead frozen climbers, there's empty latte cups, bagged dog **** and san Pellegrino...
 
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Heimdallr said:
One of the downsides of the UK - many beautiful countryside walks and views, but too many walkers.

Not a nice sight. But the bins should have been emptied and at least the rubbish is left in one area around the bin and not chucked along the trail, hopefully.

It's like the middle class, gentile version of the Everest climb - instead of empty oxygen cylinders and dead frozen climbers, there's empty latte cups, bagged dog **** and san Pellegrino...
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But the bin isn't a rubbish bin, it's for dogshit so it won't need emptying that often. The rubbish is just ****s who are too ****ish to carry it home with them.
 
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Chazz Rheinhold said:
Milou (17) is no longer with us. After her euthanasia, a heated debate erupted.

Two years ago, euthanasia ended years of suffering for Milou, who was only 17 years old.

The once lively girl was, in her teens, a shadow of the cheerful child she used to be.

After her euthanasia, a debate erupted about this sensitive subject, even reaching the political arena in The Hague.

You can now watch a documentary about this – and especially about Milou.

Milou’s struggle continues is the apt title of the documentary that NTR is broadcasting tonight. It is a struggle to draw attention to young people with psychological trauma and to gain understanding for the desire to die of these, often still, children.

But not everyone agrees with the latter.

Metro saw Milou’s struggle continues for the television programme Blik op de Buis.

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Last year, we did the same with Medialogica Ontleedt: Attention to euthanasia as a result of psychological suffering on the same subject.

Tonight’s documentary is long, an hour and a half, but absolutely thorough (and interesting and sad).

Euthanasia was Milou’s salvation

Euthanasia brought Milou her much-desired salvation. For years, she struggled with psychological trauma and failed therapies from many practitioners, resulting in several failed suicide attempts.

Towards the end of her life, Milou was convinced that she ‘did not want her parents to find her’.

By choosing euthanasia, the teenager wanted to say goodbye with dignity to her parents Mireille and Louis, her two brothers and her friends.

When Mireille once dared to ask her daughter if she ever thought about death, she said: ‘All the time, Mum.’

Her mother plays a prominent role in this documentary. Mireille is a woman with a lot of grief, but she tells her story in a calm manner. “Yes, how do you prepare for the death of your child?

As a parent, you can’t imagine that, and we knew it was going to happen.

That our child would just walk up the stairs that day, towards death. When I opened the fridge, I saw cartons of milk that had a longer shelf life than my child.

Because it was going to happen on that day and at that time. But at the last moment, when we were upstairs, we said: Milou, it’s okay.”

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Is euthanasia allowed at a young age?

Under Dutch law, it is possible to receive euthanasia from the age of 12 under very strict conditions. It is possible in cases of unbearable suffering due to illness, but also in cases of hopeless psychological suffering.

In the Netherlands, the number of euthanasia procedures performed on young people under the age of 30 has been rising in recent years. This involves several dozen cases.

In total, 10,000 Dutch people received this end-of-life treatment last year.

Milou wanted to help everyone

Milou was the kind of child you always saw doing handstands, and her dream was to become a (musical) singer.

Her father Louis called her Mother Theresa because she cared about the suffering of others and always wanted to help. Whether it was a poor dog on Curaçao or the boy who was being bullied in her school class.

When her little brother, who has Down syndrome, falls into a coma after suffering from double pneumonia, Milou sits by his bedside in the hospital for days on end.

From that moment on, things really went wrong for the girl. Later, sexual abuse was added to the mix, during a film night at someone’s home and several times by a client of a mental health institution where Milou was also being treated.

A teenager who wanted to help everyone, but couldn’t help herself. Milou was ultimately exhausted and very grateful to psychiatrist Menno Oosterhoff for supporting her wish for euthanasia (as were her parents and two friends in the documentary, incidentally).

Oosterhoff also performed the euthanasia and now says about young people who are “struggling”: “They don’t want to end their lives, but their suffering.”

Milou herself explains this in the film. AI has been able to mimic her voice using old conversations, which is a nice addition.

A bomb under euthanasia policy

After her death, there is of course mourning, but something completely unexpected also happens. Fourteen psychiatrists and doctors send an urgent letter to the Public Prosecution Service urging a preliminary criminal investigation into euthanasia among young people.

They refer specifically to the death of a 17-year-old girl. It soon becomes clear that they are talking about Milou. Half of the writers are anonymous, the other half have never met Milou.

Mother Mireille and father Louis do not know what is happening to them. They feel that doctors want to use their daughter, whom they do not know, to undermine the euthanasia policy.

In the documentary, they say that they are being accused of “just shopping around for euthanasia”.

In the Dutch Parliament, political party NSC, through Rosanne Hertzberger, presents an initiative memorandum that sides with the letter writers: as far as the NSC is concerned, the euthanasia law should be put on hold for three years to “think about it calmly”.

Doctors who have difficulty with euthanasia for young people

It’s not just people who were on Milou’s side who are featured in Milou’s struggle continues.

Psychiatrists and doctors who have great difficulty with the possibility of euthanasia for young people also share their thoughts.

That’s fine in a documentary, of course. However, this documentary is mainly about Milou and aims to give a face to mental suffering among young people and make it discussable. Milou is now that face, and wherever she is, she will be a little proud of that.

In the end, no one could stop her from fulfilling her wish. Her mother Mireille says: “I thought a lot about what it would be like if I said: no, sorry darling, we’re really not going to do that.

I love you too much and I can’t live without you.

Would I then be able to expect her to wake up every day with a monster in her head telling her she shouldn’t be alive anymore? Would she then have to suffer like that every day for my sake?

I would find that incredibly selfish of myself.”
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This is sickening, to be honest.

We live in a time period where European states consider capital punishment immoral and barbaric but putting down young, traumatised women like sick dogs whilst the men who raped and abused them still breathe air is considered acceptable or even encouraged. It’s the inversion of values that would have Nietzsche rolling in his grave.
 
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People who pull up in between the self service pumps at Morrisons Anlaby and go for a meal in Greggs , can’t get to the pump at the front not the back !!! Silly cow could park ten yards away to do it . And the dizzy get in the big van in front of her walking around. The pump and filling his van up eventually with fuel like he’s got all weekend - bollocks to everyone else - then wife walks out the shop and wanders into the van too - fu**** deserve each other boring pointless , people with zero go in them !
I got a little irritated .
 
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Kalman II said:
This is sickening, to be honest.

We live in a time period where European states consider capital punishment immoral and barbaric but putting down young, traumatised women like sick dogs whilst the men who raped and abused them still breathe air is considered acceptable or even encouraged. It’s the inversion of values that would have Nietzsche rolling in his grave.
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I don't think anyone is encouraging anything. If someone wants to end their own life, better that it's done in such a way that a) it doesnt cause significant shock and trauma for those that find the body, and b) loved ones aren't put under scrutiny for "helping" those who don't want to suffer any more.

Thanks to dementia I've seen family members go from healthy and active to constantly confused, barely alive husks of humans who exist without living. If I get like that, I'd definitely want to end it.

The girls in the example aren't like that, but clearly aren't doing well, and ultimately if they decide they don't want to live, then I'd rather they do it in a controlled manner as opposed to jumping in front of a train, or bleeding out alone at home.
 
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Humber Bridge... x 2 crossing penalties which I mentioned earlier... I called to pay at 8:00 (bang on opening time) as im away from a PC and had 30 to kill... didn't recognise the INV number despite entering 5 times... then I exceeded the attempts... customer services... experiencing high call volumes.... at 8:02....!!@@!@!
 
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Some depressions are a chemical imbalance , late father in laws was and once right meds decided on he was fine . Prior to that he had several two years bouts of depression . Maybe a bit more effort on that score would help for those where talking isn’t enough .
 
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Kalman II said:
This is sickening, to be honest.

We live in a time period where European states consider capital punishment immoral and barbaric but putting down young, traumatised women like sick dogs whilst the men who raped and abused them still breathe air is considered acceptable or even encouraged. It’s the inversion of values that would have Nietzsche rolling in his grave.
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After reading the article it genuinely made me saddened. Surely it can’t be right?
 
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It was on this day 63 years ago that as a 7 year old I suffered child abuse.

Bricknell Infants.
April 1st
12.00
Legging up day begins. (I was proficient at this if nothing else)

Headmaster (Lofthouse) did not approve.

Marched me off to his headquarters and cained. Both hands. Front and Back.

very few memories of primary but some things you never forget.

A small revenge 8 years later. I had a job as "Granville " delivering groceries on a bike for "Deakins" on Chanterlands Ave.
Lofthouse was a customer.
Not quite sure how all his eggs ended up being broken and milk leaked into all his weekly shop..
 
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