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@bt_uk genuine question, do you enjoy ripping elderly customers for broadband and tv?
£93 a month for unlimited broadband for speeds of guaranteed 51 mbps.
Feel free to contact me to discuss.
Friends please feel free to share
Suicide.
I'm choosing to be deliberately blunt and provocative in this post because it's necessary. Government, charities, football clubs are all pushing water up a hill in highlighting what is undoubtedly a major health crisis.
You take a rope.
You put it up in a garage or a tree nearby or far away.
You're thinking about every loved one you'll leave behind as you put that rope around your neck.
Then you drop.
Some are decapitated.
Some aren't.
All are found by someone who has a lifetime of trauma that will never leave them.
A son.
A daughter.
A brother.
A sister.
A mother.
A father.
I know 2 men who hung themselves.
One was found by his Mom.
One was found by his brother.
Neither have recovered fully. 20 and 30 years on.
A life sentence for people who were already worrying, terrified their loved one may do something.
So just visualise the above and ask, "is there another way"?
A segway for a moment.
I do a few Q&A's every year. Tales of yesterday with a 99% male audience of my age group.
After the stories and fun, my last question back to the audience is..
"Hands up if you struggle with a mental health issue".
Nobody ever puts a hand up. Despite 1 in every 3 of 500 attendees statistically struggling.
"Ah, nobody, that's fucking brilliant! Well I do! ". I then graphically tell people, stunned into silence about how a rope around my neck in the middle of nowhere jolted me to go home and cry like a baby to my Mom.
After the Q&A has finished, something always happens. I'll be chatting to a few guys, saying bye and one by one, men will come over and whisper " I struggle".
Or my mailbox the next day will have 30 emails from guys, their partners or kids saying " Dad/Uncle /Brother was there last night and what you said hit them hard".
And that's how some people realise that it's time to speak to a pal or family member or even rant to me in an email. It works, I often get a follow up email a year or 6 later saying that they took responsibility for their suicidal feelings and are now flying.
Humans are programmed to want to live, to have families and to keep the species growing and thriving. So for a human to want to short circuit that desire isn't normal, and it should never be spoken of as normal. It's the ultimate red flag.
If you suspect your mate, Dad, Brother, Uncle is struggling mentally, they deserve your intervention.
They deserve a " are you OK, please tell me what's up".
They deserve an opportunity to get past wanting to hang a rope over a tree or in a garage and slowly struggle until they die and you find them.
If you've been there and trust me I have plenty, then you'll know that text out of the blue, or a footie mate or one of your kids asking jow you are can open the curtains to some sunshine.
Because when suicide is your only answer, the room is already dark, and you can't see a way out.
So please, fucking pretty please, ask that husband, Dad, Uncle, Cousin, footie pal TODAY how they are.
You may be shocked what comes back but extremely glad that you asked.
For those who struggle, you're not alone.
@MartinSLewis@bt_uk 2. No review of the contract they have or how they aren’t using any of it.
Was told I could complain (which I did)
Then was told I may not get a response as they didnt have to give me one. Then asked for a ref and was told there wasn’t one. Then one was found.
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Update
Made the phone call @MartinSLewis to @bt_uk. Their response touch luck the contract was signed is what it is.
Asked what options I had to cancel was either pay the £564.39 or make a complaint.
Still couldn’t tell me the following
1. How much data used
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@bt_uk Thanks for this. But I have already put a complaint in.
You have told me to wait 53 days after over charging an elderly couple for broadband.
So while I wait that’s another £93 a month you are charging. So I make that £186 while still being told I have to pay £564 to cancel
@bt_uk genuine question, do you enjoy ripping elderly customers for broadband and tv?
£93 a month for unlimited broadband for speeds of guaranteed 51 mbps.
Feel free to contact me to discuss.
Friends please feel free to share
@MartinSLewis@bt_uk 2. No review of the contract they have or how they aren’t using any of it.
Was told I could complain (which I did)
Then was told I may not get a response as they didnt have to give me one. Then asked for a ref and was told there wasn’t one. Then one was found.
2/3
@bt_uk genuine question, do you enjoy ripping elderly customers for broadband and tv?
£93 a month for unlimited broadband for speeds of guaranteed 51 mbps.
Feel free to contact me to discuss.
Friends please feel free to share
Hey lovely peeps have a listen to this podcast from these two lovely ladies @MollieKmita & @rosiekmita and their @the_phproject.
Their story is moving, but their desire to make change is even bigger. Give the first episode a listen.
https://t.co/bGtd3w2HTq
@becky_bridges Thus is brilliant and something I am working on at my school. Would love to have a chat about how you put it together snd the things you started with, and where it has morphed to now.
Sooooo let’s talk on this Sunday evening.
Question
Students with SEN needs and attendance and punctuality issues. What are people’s initial go to’s or plans of actions?
Just trying to see ideas from different contexts.
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A Level maths electronic book. 170 graded worksheets to use as a pdf, on the board or in paper form.
Feel free to use as you wish. Written for students by a teacher!
https://t.co/xCPyoTFezf
@TeachLeadAAli And am still looking forward to your school cpd training at my place. If they are calling you those things it’s cos you doing good things.