Awesome?? Awesome doesnāt go anywhere near it.
Iām trying to write something to express how shit life is and I canāt really find the words.
Iām giving up, I canāt find the words, Iām slightly drunk, 2 of my pool team mates are arguing over shit and you want to grab them and tell them that thereās more to life than they knowā¦
You have to hang in there BT. The world culture may have become obsessive with āselfā and ālook at meā and all the shit storm politic of the self obsessed cunts, but stories like the ones above show that there are still times when people show their better side and that they do actually care. Hang on to that when the world being shit depression kicks inā¦
Fuck sake @goatboy , just seen this!
Good job my eyes are streaming from my cold otherwise people in my office would think Iām softā¦
Not only that, just been reading an article that says that highly processed foods, like chocolate, can cause cancer!
Well done centreparcsā¦
I got a hug and a kiss on the cheek from a gran for helping sort some accommodation for her daughter fleeing DV with her little baby today.
Donāt know if this is cheerful but it appealed to meā¦
I done a little cry.
Iād of got rip grandadās old phone and text back. āJust been chatting with Jesus and he says to make your dad a cheese sandwich.ā
Not only an amazing (& humble) story, but probably going to become a cracking feel good movie
Once a month Ā£10 a hand Poker player from Bridlington takes his bucket list dream a step further than expected then goes back to his old life
I think this belongs here.
I have had the real privilege of working with a couple of these wonderful examples of the richness of the human species.
And, just as in Iceland, pre-birth testing will soon ensure that these mistakes of nature are extinct in the UK.
The world will be slightly more āperfectā and yet slightly more flawed.
Over the years MS sufferers have come to expect little in the way of relief.
So many false dawns over the years butā¦
Are they āimprovingā the testing then @saintbletch ?
When we were told that the girls had larger then normal nuchal folds we were offered the choice of 2 tests, amniocentesis or chorionic villus sampling, both had a chance of causing miscarriage so we declined. Our neo-natal doctor kept pushing for us to have the tests. We werenāt given any advice on top of that!
The girls are 8 at the end of this month and Iām glad we decided not to have any tests, theyāre hard work but theyāre worth it.
Yes, @btripz , DNA profiling will now give a 99% accurate, non-invasive screen at 12 weeks.
Currently in the UK, 90% of people given a Downās Syndrome diagnosis chose to terminate.
In Iceland over the last 5 years 100% of diagnoses result in termination. Put another way, Downās Syndrome births no longer happen there.
There is now a very real possibility that the UK will head that way too.
If you havenāt seen it, this itās a great documentary made by Sally Philips (who I have a huge crush on anyway) who has a Downās Syndrome boy.
A statistic that shocked me from the film was that there are only 40,000 people with Downās Syndrome in the UK.
If you didnāt already know it, your girls are very, very special - and they are beautiful too BTW, but thatās obviously down to Mrs B.
Aye @saintbletch I have seen that documentary, I must have missed the bit about the DNA screening though.
Apparently twins with Downs is a 1 in 2,000,000 occurence, so yes they are indeed very special 
Their beauty without is certainly not down to me, however their internal beauty is all mine 
So I get home this evening from a day working in Chippenham (actually Iāve been there all week, but only stayed over last night - in a Premier Inn (yes, I know), but thatās neither here nor there). Anyway, my ever-loving wife is in something of a flap, because sheād been to West Quay with her younger daughter and realised just before I got home that sheād left her debit card in the parking ticket machine at Ikea.
She phoned Ikea, to see if her card had been found and handed in - seemed like a fair bet before phoning the bank to cancel the card. And it turns out that somebody had found the card in the ticket machine and handed it in. And who among us wouldnāt have done the exact same thing?
Do you know what, probably a high majority of us on here(edit: handed the card in)
Though to be fair, weāre not representative of the population- or anything else tbf