Thoughts that make you laugh.
I would like to start a title above that anyone can add to, which maybe you had thought of but dismissed, or now you mentioned it, you're so right.
So here goes:
Are you sure that the price of the carrier bag goes to charity?
How do you know? Who told you or where have you seen it?
Do you know about the rules that cover carrier bags and Logo's advertising the store you just purchased goods at?
Let me know what you think…..➡️↩️🔄🔃🔙
Like most things, plastic is not bad for the environment its the way people use it that is the problem.
Just like steel. It's OK to close down a Blast Furnace but have you ever thought what about all the Bi-products that come from the process including Furterliser, Benzene, Tar, Coke, (this is used in water filtration) gas, heat? And so much more, can you list the Bi-products using an Electric Furnace?
Comments
-
Why bother with pollution and climate change when all this warfare is going on, sending plumes of smoke and dust into the atmosphere.
5 -
Why bother?
Because we have less than 5 years because before things get really serious. And it's the sick, disabled, elderly and displaced that get hit first & worst.
**Bring your own bag?**
Pollution & climate change shortens life - all life, it causes infrastructure to break down.
We've known about it for over 160 years, been proven over 50 years. Just like the idea of AI has been around since the 15th century.
I could share the climate clock but I'd probably get thrown off this forum.
Yes there's a MASSIVE amount of greenwashing from supermarkets, the BIG 6 (All the companies that own the brands we buy).
And yes, I've thought of all the products you mentioned. That have 1 use or can be reused.
You can only burn oil, gas, coal once. Ever thought about that.
Don't get me started on water.
You can reuse & recycle solar panels, wind turbines, and they cost far less to make/install than an oil rig, gas extraction etc etc etc.
Defiantly don't look up Proff Hugh Montgomery or the Our Health, Our Planet website put together by the NHS & Doctors Association.
If you want something funny Listen to The Frantics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZkWChXUSMk
Oh and here are 6 things we CAN bother with, and yes SOME of these are even harder as a disabled person. Again we are targeted if there ISN'T change.
Thehighest impact actions
that an individual can do are:
1.
Switch bank accounts
to one that doesn't invest in fossil fuels. This is likely the highest impact action any of us can do.*
2.
Switch to a Renewable Energy Supplier/Tariff
and make your homes more energy efficient*
3. Eat less meat and dairy, and adopt a plant based diet
4.
More Active and Green Travel
. Walk, cycle and use public transport where possible
5.
More pre-loved
local and low carbon products
6.
Speak out.
Talk to your local MP about the need for urgent climate action and, when the time comes, consider environmental policy as a key factor in your voting decisions.
7.
Start conversations and spread the word
, we can make the world move if we all jump together!
Love, Rage & Hope…3 -
Did you know the best thing to raise your spirits is a good belly laugh? Oh, and after that - chocolate. Just a thought🤪
3 -
Amen to that:)
2 -
Do you think I should start a new thread?
It can be a sensitive topic for some. We,SCOPE as a community SHOULD be shouting this stuff from the rooftops as well as the other great work that Scope & similar charities do.4 -
Here's something humourous
Cos we've ALL spent time waiting.. Waiting Waiting Sitting In The Waiting Room..
https://youtu.be/q3t7KwUY-qk?si=yGlgn1gyluDGKjMO
I love a bit of Carla Ulbrich1 -
Actually the 'recently launched'
Integrated Healthcare — I was at a local event where they were promoting it last year I think.
I was almost on the floor dying of laughter 😀🤣😁
what integrated healthcare ???2 -
I've just put my post up under the 'People Power ' topic/section
:)1 -
my whole idea of setting up this thread was to purely share some joy and laughter which I’m glad to say happened. I watched an episode of Harry Worth with my grandson this morning. It gave us a good laugh together (my grandson is the one who does the stuff I can’t do now) and set us up for the day. Yes the thread has been hijacked by people from the thread I was trying to get away from. I’m glad Scope have intervened on the other thread and that the people who have hijacked this thread are taking responsibility. We are a great community and we are part of the wider world - not just about disability. Being joyful in adversity is one of our great strengths. Always being hopeful is another. The world needs us to show those excellent qualities. I for one want to lead the way in infecting people with joy and hope. Will you join me?
1 -
I will say, since bags cost 10p and stores mostly stopped doing those thin plastic bags I see far less of them littering the paths, roads and countryside. Getting blown about or stuck up in trees.
I think it's worth it just for that. It isn't just the oil used to create the bag, it's the litter they left behind. Such a nice improvement from 10 years ago.
2 -
First of all, apologies to the person who did set up this thread - onebigvoice. My thread is Thinks to make you laugh (which was a spelling mistake). I think we both set them up at the same time. But the sentiment of my post remains the same (although I thought I'd deleted it when recognising that I had posted it on your thread and not mine onebigvoice - apologies again.) I sound a bit like Miranda Hart there (which is the subject of my latest post and how my thread all began. I don't think we can combine the two but I hope your thread goes well and gives everyone a huge lift. Well done for setting it up.😃
1 -
vikki66, I just wanted to say how much I stand with you in what you've been through. Many of us, like you, have had such difficult lives that we too have forgotten at times how to laugh. During Covid we all became a bit more aware, I think, of how loneliness is the greatest bad thing we can possibly suffer because we were made for relationships. I'm so glad that you found your laughter muscles again. Just like physical exercise we need positive emotional exercises to change the way our minds think. If we can contribute in a positive way to making you feel happier, that will make us all happy too, I'm sure.
1 -
How about this? (to make you laugh?) (and re-branding Scope) (you can move it if you like.)
Poem – Virtual reality.
The sun sets on a sunny day
A fiery ball of orange and red
As the day comes to an end.
You might think that it’s time for bed
But as time goes on, the moon peeps out, here I come.
It casts a glow of pale moonlight
My garden now covered in a pale moonlight
as creatures awake to that eerie light
For them, it’s the start of what we call day,
where midges and bats come out to play.
For me, it’s time to go inside
as my computer heralds, there’s a new game,
The Forum has a new lounge,
that they need a name to be found?
It’s about Virtual Reality, those games all in one place,
so anyone can post and enjoy what’s on at SCOPE.
There is no limit to what you see since it’s still in its infancy
If you want to train your brain or see a puzzle, its all in here,
A question or riddle you would like to know,
that in the normal lounge, it may not go?
I need to know what will be in here,
that won’t cause other posts, just to disappear
So before you have a name, insert a seed into my brain
Tell me what you want to see, because I’ve seen some good posts, YES, already in here.
A symphony of sound and thought in my brain is deafening
as my brain won’t stop thinking,
as I mull around what I have seen.
NOW, I’m waiting on an abyss
Hang on a minute! when all and done, what’s wrong with ABYSS
Is that the one?
But then I thought its about Scope and what they do
They help others in the scope community.
But for those that do not know, admin work for others not on here,
They fight the cause of Disabled rights
They help fill out forms day and night,
I believe they don’t go to bed
And like me have set up in a shed,
Out in a garden where it all began,
Scope looks at the greener life
While everyone is in trouble and strife,
So I believe that SCOPE is good enough
To say we care, and will help you cope.
So when you see the SCOPE LOGO
Remember, I like you belong in here.
This was written by me late last year and have tweaked it a little.
OBV. 06/12/2023.
5 -
Great use of words to paint a picture. @onebigvoice
0 -
And why is it always up to us (UK) to change our use of resources ?
What about China and India (population, both over 21 times the UK)
China is STILL building and commissioning, new, coal fired power stations !!
and if Trump gets re-elected - the US too !
Trump thinks that climate change is a myth.
The tiny difference that the UK can make on our own is totally insignificant in the greater world.
Not until China and India (and several other countries such as Brazil) change will there be any significant improvement.
People think that CO2/ pollution that is produced by a country, stays associated with that country - but it doesn't - it wraps itself around the whole world !
2 -
I was in a reflective, pyjama wearing day today. I was “thinking” about things that really make me laugh these days and I realised it’s mostly my cat and my grandson who share a flat together. I’ve recently bought some equipment, being newly disabled, and my cat has immediately claimed them as his own. See picture of him in my “riser/recliner chair”. (Anyone brave enough to move him?). He’s also set up home under my blanket riser in my bed. I have to shove him out with a pillow to get into bed at night. A wheelchair has just arrived - I don’t know what he’ll make of that😂
1 -
And my grandson gives me my highlight of the day when he tells me stories about the special needs children he works with. I can’t say much because of confidentiality but suffice it to say having a cardboard mobile phone presented to you by a pupil was a classic. My grandson immediately placed a call to the child who ran back to the classroom to get his “mobile phone” and have a conversation was hilarious. But what also brought a smile to my face was the child saying to my grandson “now I can talk to you wherever you are all the time”. So proud.
1 -
clarification-me, cat and grandson all live together
0
Categories
- All Categories
- 14.5K Start here and say hello!
- 7K Coffee lounge
- 77 Games den
- 1.6K People power
- 65 Announcements and information
- 22.7K Talk about life
- 5.2K Everyday life
- 117 Current affairs
- 2.3K Families and carers
- 844 Education and skills
- 1.8K Work
- 472 Money and bills
- 3.5K Housing and independent living
- 959 Transport and travel
- 676 Relationships
- 69 Sex and intimacy
- 1.4K Mental health and wellbeing
- 2.4K Talk about your impairment
- 854 Rare, invisible, and undiagnosed conditions
- 907 Neurological impairments and pain
- 2K Cerebral Palsy Network
- 1.2K Autism and neurodiversity
- 37.1K Talk about your benefits
- 5.7K Employment and Support Allowance (ESA)
- 18.9K PIP, DLA, ADP and AA
- 7.2K Universal Credit (UC)
- 5.3K Benefits and income