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With the increased number of scammers, why don't we insist on authenticity verifications?

RavenCT comments on Nov 7, 2018:

I don't know if you were here when we mentioned verification before (a few months back). It would require a credit card and it would cost the site money to do so. (Which is why there is none). I like your idea - but the smart scammers would get around that quickly. Just like they come back ...

Amisja replies on Nov 7, 2018:

Some sites require real members either to post pics of themself with a poster with the site's name. Alternatively just post pics of the poster.

With the increased number of scammers, why don't we insist on authenticity verifications?

Anonbene comments on Nov 7, 2018:

Ha! As if there's a real place called Oswaldtwistle

Amisja replies on Nov 7, 2018:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oswaldtwistle How bloody dare you!!!! My beautiful town. It is well known and a historical district.

With the increased number of scammers, why don't we insist on authenticity verifications?

SleeplessInTexas comments on Nov 7, 2018:

Did you get scammed? If so, how?

Amisja replies on Nov 7, 2018:

No

With the increased number of scammers, why don't we insist on authenticity verifications?

DoctoralZombie comments on Nov 7, 2018:

Are you a member of the scammers group? If yes, do you find it helpful?

Amisja replies on Nov 7, 2018:

What?

I've seen these same pics on several profiles. [agnostic.com]

RavenCT comments on Nov 5, 2018:

The building is the Plaza Hotel in NY - ...

Amisja replies on Nov 7, 2018:

They buy stock photos of people online. There are actually websites that sell them. You could fir instance search 'pics of 52 year old English women in domestic situtations' get a group of pics and then make up a profile. We did a session looking at online presence for our students (future health care professionals). Two girls found pics of themselves posted with other names and details. Both probably used by scammers. It really upset them.

Oh its soooo annoying when someone replies to a post that has now been deleted...grrr

blumandolin comments on Nov 6, 2018:

I don't think I'll feel bad if you delete this post so go ahead delete away and enjoy your moment of anger. ?

Amisja replies on Nov 6, 2018:

I haven't deleted or blocked anyone.

[businessinsider.] Steve Bannon Warns that Oprah Women Will Take Charge of Society

Amisja comments on Nov 4, 2018:

I read the article, I am not sure what exactly he is worried about.

Amisja replies on Nov 6, 2018:

@PalacinkyPDX Eeeuuuw

Its Guy Fawlkes night here in UK.

Jolanta comments on Nov 5, 2018:

I don't know the history of Guy Fawlkes night but I bet my bottom dollar that the fireworks are nothing like being in a war zone.

Amisja replies on Nov 6, 2018:

Oh I am sure...it just sounds like. Its about two weeks of a constant barage of them. Very scary for domestic animals

Its Guy Fawlkes night here in UK.

WrenVett comments on Nov 5, 2018:

A friend of mine who lives in England explained to me that Guy Fawkes wanted to kill the king and plotted with another person to blow up parliament, but the police were tipped off when he was setting up the gun powder kegs in the basement and he was caught red handed. The celebration is actually ...

Amisja replies on Nov 5, 2018:

@Jnei exactly correct.

I find our DNA connection to Neanderthals fascinating [geneticliteracyproject.org]

Cadelyn comments on Nov 5, 2018:

My percentage is abnormally high. I think it said 4% or something. Of course that’s my go to joke, now, whenever I say something stupid (a daily occurrence). It’s my 4% Neanderthal coming out ;)

Amisja replies on Nov 5, 2018:

4% is fairly average, oh and remember Neanderthals had bigger brains than homeo sapien sapiens.

How is it that over a billion people have come to call Islam a religion of peace?

WilliamFleming comments on Nov 5, 2018:

Do nothing, except extend respect and love to all people. They are us and we are them.

Amisja replies on Nov 5, 2018:

Perfect answer William xx

What's your "Atheist Public Persona"?

Amisja comments on Nov 4, 2018:

I'm British. British people in general don't care. I personally know very few religious people. Most people attend church only on three occasions (hatched, matched, dispatched as they say here). I went to church schools until I was 16 (most junior schools are church led) but it was so low key that I...

Amisja replies on Nov 5, 2018:

@Geektheist Thats quite alright, I won't be marrying another American soon...as in this life time

What's your "Atheist Public Persona"?

Amisja comments on Nov 4, 2018:

I'm British. British people in general don't care. I personally know very few religious people. Most people attend church only on three occasions (hatched, matched, dispatched as they say here). I went to church schools until I was 16 (most junior schools are church led) but it was so low key that I...

Amisja replies on Nov 5, 2018:

@Geektheist All of the afore mentioned are in the south..yuck

The bible says that God rested on the seventh day.

genessa comments on Nov 4, 2018:

ah christians. the seventh day was a saturday, if you ask a jew! technically a friday night to saturday night, since all days (not just holidays) on the jewish calendar begin and end at sundown. now, i am an atheist, like many here, but i know a really good chassidic story that deals with ...

Amisja replies on Nov 5, 2018:

@genessa Depends where you start ;)

What's your "Atheist Public Persona"?

Amisja comments on Nov 4, 2018:

I'm British. British people in general don't care. I personally know very few religious people. Most people attend church only on three occasions (hatched, matched, dispatched as they say here). I went to church schools until I was 16 (most junior schools are church led) but it was so low key that I...

Amisja replies on Nov 5, 2018:

@Geektheist Immigration to UK (even for Americans) is not easy....best way is to marry a Brit.

What's your "Atheist Public Persona"?

Amisja comments on Nov 4, 2018:

I'm British. British people in general don't care. I personally know very few religious people. Most people attend church only on three occasions (hatched, matched, dispatched as they say here). I went to church schools until I was 16 (most junior schools are church led) but it was so low key that I...

Amisja replies on Nov 5, 2018:

@Geektheist I am 400 miles from London, I am not fond of any of southern England (I am a country bumpkin). The enclosed is why! I live in the north of England.

The bible says that God rested on the seventh day.

genessa comments on Nov 4, 2018:

ah christians. the seventh day was a saturday, if you ask a jew! technically a friday night to saturday night, since all days (not just holidays) on the jewish calendar begin and end at sundown. now, i am an atheist, like many here, but i know a really good chassidic story that deals with ...

Amisja replies on Nov 4, 2018:

Why does it have to be sat or sun? I think wednesday would be a better day then its half way through.

Is the boy with the hood ok?

JimG comments on Nov 4, 2018:

He posted an apology, and seemed to explain his post in the context of having just lost his father. I'm blocked too. If he blocked everyone who commented, on that post he won't get much out of this site.

Amisja replies on Nov 4, 2018:

Its very sad.

Anyone in East Lancashire fancy a shindig this after, booze n food provided?

Tilia comments on Nov 3, 2018:

Me! Aw tits! I don't live anywhere near you. ??

Amisja replies on Nov 4, 2018:

@Tilia The party was quiet but we managed to have fun

Anyone in East Lancashire fancy a shindig this after, booze n food provided?

Flettie comments on Nov 3, 2018:

Blatant swingers invitation!! ?

Amisja replies on Nov 4, 2018:

@Flettie That was particularly weird

Anyone in East Lancashire fancy a shindig this after, booze n food provided?

Flettie comments on Nov 3, 2018:

Blatant swingers invitation!! ?

Amisja replies on Nov 3, 2018:

Don't be weird

Anyone in East Lancashire fancy a shindig this after, booze n food provided?

bingst comments on Nov 3, 2018:

I wish

Amisja replies on Nov 3, 2018:

You are welcome

Anyone in East Lancashire fancy a shindig this after, booze n food provided?

patchoullijulie comments on Nov 3, 2018:

I wish. ?

Amisja replies on Nov 3, 2018:

You are absolutely welcome

Anyone in East Lancashire fancy a shindig this after, booze n food provided?

Tilia comments on Nov 3, 2018:

Me! Aw tits! I don't live anywhere near you. ??

Amisja replies on Nov 3, 2018:

We'll do this Tillia, you are too amazing not to meet. How about next year?

Anyone in East Lancashire fancy a shindig this after, booze n food provided?

Uncorrugated comments on Nov 3, 2018:

Damn. It's a bit late to set out now. Maybe next time. ;-)

Amisja replies on Nov 3, 2018:

Absolutely

This site is calling me a MAN... I'm only 35. What the hell happened?

gsiamne comments on Nov 3, 2018:

The Flying Spaghetti Monster caused the Big Boil less than ten thousand years ago. It then communicated with the great Norse people, AKA Vikings, and they some how didn't listen to him/it. So, he/it spoke to a U of Oregon State physics student to have its Gospel and Canon written. There are some ...

Amisja replies on Nov 3, 2018:

13.4 billion...JS

Why are people are so unkind? What are the biological benefits to being horrible to other humans?

Quarm comments on Nov 2, 2018:

My theory is simple. People have lost a connection to something positive and meaningful in their lives. We need myth, magic, stories, something outside ourselves to believe in. For many Americans that has become people like Trump and others who embody selfishness and the idea that value is ...

Amisja replies on Nov 3, 2018:

This is interesting, except I'm not American.

Why are people are so unkind? What are the biological benefits to being horrible to other humans?

rob2691 comments on Nov 2, 2018:

I am reading the book The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins. In it he argues that all organisms are simply vehicles for the genes they contain. The objective of the genes/set of genes that coexist (in one body), is to survive and multiply (by having children). This process of survival is often faced ...

Amisja replies on Nov 3, 2018:

I understand that and do agree to some extent. However humans are pack animals, we simply need other humans (and animals) surely its in our best interest to care for each other

Alot of people hate me. i hate alot of people. seems fair to me then again i have a heart of stone

Amisja comments on Nov 3, 2018:

Hate is a strong word. I don't hate you.

Amisja replies on Nov 3, 2018:

@maturin1919 I am an older woman, I have never hated anyone in my life.

I think this dude got confused with pornhub.

nikkir comments on Nov 2, 2018:

You mean this isn't pornhub? I was trying to figure out why everyone had their clothes on ??

Amisja replies on Nov 2, 2018:

Hahaha

Aren't young people amazing?

Gwendolyn2018 comments on Nov 1, 2018:

Come to the US and teach at a community college in Missouri--their views are not so liberal!

Amisja replies on Nov 2, 2018:

No thank you

There are posts here about the recent shooting at the synagogue in pittsburgh.

Amisja comments on Nov 1, 2018:

I support Palestine, I am not American but spent 22 years of my life married to a Jewish American man. Everyone needs a home and because it is special to all three Abrahamic religions, they all want to live there. The solution is enlightenment but we won't see that in my life time but it will ...

Amisja replies on Nov 1, 2018:

@genessa I agree completely. Perhaps I didn't explain that well.

Me? A new van.. And you?

Spinliesel comments on Nov 1, 2018:

A new pancreas

Amisja replies on Nov 1, 2018:

Hugs

LuciaWinskill "followed" me, and I sent, "Thanks for following.

Cutiebeauty comments on Nov 1, 2018:

Lol you gonna text her?

Amisja replies on Nov 1, 2018:

@EdEarl Ed its unlikely to be a woman.

Happy Scary Day. We are going out for tea.

Donotbelieve comments on Oct 31, 2018:

Have a lovely time.

Amisja replies on Oct 31, 2018:

We did. (Love the new pic btw)

Happy Scary Day. We are going out for tea.

chalupacabre comments on Oct 31, 2018:

Every day of this presidency is a scary day. Maybe I should adopt your go-out-for-tea strategy

Amisja replies on Oct 31, 2018:

Well you would be welcome

Happy Scary Day. We are going out for tea.

PalacinkyPDX comments on Oct 31, 2018:

Clotted cream, lemon curd and scones... just to add to the horror? Save a lovely pot of Darjeeling for me. ;)

Amisja replies on Oct 31, 2018:

Oh the boys had a beer. I had pop xxx

Happy Scary Day. We are going out for tea.

PalacinkyPDX comments on Oct 31, 2018:

Clotted cream, lemon curd and scones... just to add to the horror? Save a lovely pot of Darjeeling for me. ;)

Amisja replies on Oct 31, 2018:

Actually we had all you can eat carvery. My son's plate was filled to the brim

Happy Scary Day. We are going out for tea.

brentan comments on Oct 31, 2018:

That's a very English response to terror, like playing bowls as the Spanish Armada approaches.

Amisja replies on Oct 31, 2018:

Haha

I want to quit smoking cigarettes!

Amisja comments on Oct 30, 2018:

Stop it!

Amisja replies on Oct 30, 2018:

@paul1967 Neuro linguistic programming. Google it

I want to quit smoking cigarettes!

Renickulous comments on Oct 30, 2018:

Chantix is very effective, stops the ability to absorb nicotine. I quit for 14 months on it(relapsed, starting again in january)

Amisja replies on Oct 30, 2018:

@paul1967 I am sorry to hear that. Champix (strange the name difference) has to be administered under close supervision here from 'quit squads' (ick right?) Anyway these are teams of nurses who support people whilst they give up. Honestly though, most Drs are advising vapes these days. No actual emperical evidence but enough ancedotal to make valuable observations. Got my son a vape, one machine cost less than a weekly pouch of tobacco.

I want to quit smoking cigarettes!

Renickulous comments on Oct 30, 2018:

Chantix is very effective, stops the ability to absorb nicotine. I quit for 14 months on it(relapsed, starting again in january)

Amisja replies on Oct 30, 2018:

Champix here, one side effect...psychosis

I want to quit smoking cigarettes!

Amisja comments on Oct 30, 2018:

Stop it!

Amisja replies on Oct 30, 2018:

@paul1967 Try NLP. I could give it a go with you.

Things not to do 1:1 If there is a light on your office printer that tells you that the waste toner...

Jnei comments on Oct 30, 2018:

I have done this on numerous occasions - usually, of course, whilst wearing white. I'm generally pretty good with anything mechanical thanks to all the time I spent sitting on the tool chest in my dad's workshop watching him build engines, but printers, photocopiers and fax machines just don't like ...

Amisja replies on Oct 30, 2018:

I am just over-confident when it comes to this stuff. I think if I fiddle hard enough, I'll fix it! No no no

Just re'ignited my FB account to try and find a local painter for my sister's rental property.

Tilia comments on Oct 29, 2018:

Necessary evil. I use it to chat to my daughters when they are not around as messenger is more often used then texts?

Amisja replies on Oct 30, 2018:

@Tilia wow...such fun. My girl is 27! Makes me feel old

Gab.

TheMiddleWay comments on Oct 30, 2018:

Quick note: please keep in mind that while threats of imminent violence against a group or individual are NOT protected by the first amendment, hate speech IS still protected speech as per the Supreme Court Matal v. Tam case. As such, shutting down a site based on the claim of hate speech seems ...

Amisja replies on Oct 30, 2018:

But but but I am not American, do I have to care about this stuff too? We haven't even had freedom of speech for all that long and all bets are off after Brexit :(

Budget? Brits what do you think?

jacpod comments on Oct 29, 2018:

Sorry, Just saw you were from Oswaldtwistle, I loved that place did you get the doctor coming through all the houses with his bike to get to his patients more easily

Amisja replies on Oct 30, 2018:

It was out budget. I concur with the above messages

Gab.

Cast1es comments on Oct 30, 2018:

Same things we're doing to off scammers , attempting to defraud members of money , through the lonely hearts scams ?

Amisja replies on Oct 30, 2018:

Poor scammers, I can see them now ticking us all off their list!

Just re'ignited my FB account to try and find a local painter for my sister's rental property.

Tilia comments on Oct 29, 2018:

Necessary evil. I use it to chat to my daughters when they are not around as messenger is more often used then texts?

Amisja replies on Oct 30, 2018:

I didn't know you had girls too? How lovely, how old?

Just re'ignited my FB account to try and find a local painter for my sister's rental property.

pmar044 comments on Oct 30, 2018:

Use Checkatrade. I have never been disappointed. ?

Amisja replies on Oct 30, 2018:

Its for my sister's rental property which I manage.

Just had to share.

pmar044 comments on Oct 30, 2018:

University department? Athena SWAN?

Amisja replies on Oct 30, 2018:

Yep

Just had to share.

Cutiebeauty comments on Oct 29, 2018:

Really? What did he expect? Sounds strange ...

Amisja replies on Oct 29, 2018:

I agree

Just had to share.

davyjones comments on Oct 29, 2018:

You're not describing anything guys don't deal with. Getting a foot in the door, so to speak, is about 10% what you know & 90% who you know. That's why an idiot with the gift of gab will always move up while the quiet, educated people who are hoping to get noticed get passed by. If you made a good ...

Amisja replies on Oct 29, 2018:

Why should I? I want my credentials to stand on their own. I presume he was 'taken with me' because of how I look. He had nothing else to judge me on. I have no intention of ever speaking to him again. I am so far down the ladder it is unlikely we'll ever meet. I am a professional nurse educator.

Long parenting post: I often say that not teaching a child to get ready for life as an adult can be ...

Amisja comments on Oct 28, 2018:

I was a sh*t Mum.

Amisja replies on Oct 28, 2018:

I think these little balls of flesh turn up and you love em and keep loving them, they get to two and want to assert their independance and generally turn into little shits so the most common word out of your mouth is "no". But you still love em. Then they become teenagers and turn into big shits and you are still saying "no". Except now they are huge (lads). Then they turn into adults, dye their hair, get piercings and tats and you say, "Oh I give up"...doesn't matter you still love em. No psychology Don needed to tell me that. Kids spend their childhood trying to get away from you. They learn eventually...I would give anything to have 5 mins with my Mum and she was a tyrant at times xxx

Interesting client that I diagnosed with Antisocial Personality Disorder yesterday.

Amisja comments on Oct 27, 2018:

I am in UK so the law may be different. We have a 'dare to share' protocol so we maintain absolute confidentiality within the boundaries of safety. If other people are potentially at risk we permitted to share. This came on the back of a SUI were a man had voiced wishing to kill his wife, the ...

Amisja replies on Oct 28, 2018:

@Keith_J Unusual, you should write a paper. Not going to nag you about supervision as I am sure you know. The last time I worked with someone with psychopathy was this 44 year old gentleman who had attempted to blow up a hospital (He reckoned it would be an easy target). He was a cold, but an utterly superficially charming man, very good looking. In the secure forensic hospital where he was detained he had sold pictures of his own naked children to the paedophiles then took great pleasure in physically assaulting them. In the end he had lots of nurses, psychiatrists, psychologists falling for his 'poor hard done to' story. I saw right through him, he threatened to have me removed from his direct care and lo and behold...I was. Very manipulative. Ultimately, I was able to move on. Unfortunately, probably due to inadequate supervision this one man destroyed lot of careers. What was also interesting was he'd had a very comfortable, wealthy loving childhood...very strange

Another shooting? Oh please be safe.

Tilia comments on Oct 28, 2018:

My brother lives there. All safe with them, but the community is shaken.

Amisja replies on Oct 28, 2018:

I can imagine...actually I can't. These things seem so alien to me. How can anyone feel safe when there people around mad set on destruction?

10 of Shakespeare's Best Dirty Jokes | Mental Floss

Amisja comments on Oct 25, 2018:

And to think they made us study this at school!

Amisja replies on Oct 28, 2018:

@DeeTee I think both writers were of their time as in it is likely they spoke to their intended audience. It was probably more conservative language was a much later invention.

Just saying... Connecting the Dots for those who name themselves nationalists in ameriKKKa.

kozmic comments on Oct 27, 2018:

Just as the frog gets used to gradually heated water, we've come come to accept as normal, things that would have brought citizens to real revolution 40 or 50 years ago. Remember when being asked for your papers was just a scene in a movie about communists or nazis?

Amisja replies on Oct 27, 2018:

Shudders

Interesting client that I diagnosed with Antisocial Personality Disorder yesterday.

Amisja comments on Oct 27, 2018:

I am in UK so the law may be different. We have a 'dare to share' protocol so we maintain absolute confidentiality within the boundaries of safety. If other people are potentially at risk we permitted to share. This came on the back of a SUI were a man had voiced wishing to kill his wife, the ...

Amisja replies on Oct 27, 2018:

@Keith_J 21 is also rather young. Have you considered EUPD? My area of interest and current research is EUPD and the co-morbidity of type 1 diabetes. So far there appears to be a significant occurence. It probably has something to do with childhood diagnosis/trauma.

Interesting client that I diagnosed with Antisocial Personality Disorder yesterday.

Amisja comments on Oct 27, 2018:

I am in UK so the law may be different. We have a 'dare to share' protocol so we maintain absolute confidentiality within the boundaries of safety. If other people are potentially at risk we permitted to share. This came on the back of a SUI were a man had voiced wishing to kill his wife, the ...

Amisja replies on Oct 27, 2018:

@Keith_J, @ejbman Good idea. It is however to very interesting to share ideas.

Interesting client that I diagnosed with Antisocial Personality Disorder yesterday.

Amisja comments on Oct 27, 2018:

I am in UK so the law may be different. We have a 'dare to share' protocol so we maintain absolute confidentiality within the boundaries of safety. If other people are potentially at risk we permitted to share. This came on the back of a SUI were a man had voiced wishing to kill his wife, the ...

Amisja replies on Oct 27, 2018:

@Keith_J Interesting anti-social psychopathic PD is pretty rare in women but strangely one woman I encountered did exaggerate offences. Her opening gambit when she met me was, ' I'd kill myself if I looked like you'. She'd disclosed killing her own children. It was all fabricated. Fascinating but rather terrifying. She was eventually detained in a forensic psychiatric hospital.

Who's a person who inspires you?

Amisja comments on Oct 27, 2018:

My son, Isaac

Amisja replies on Oct 27, 2018:

@linxminx Wonderful

The Ongoing Enigma of the Crop Circles: Part One One, just one, of numerous bits of suggestive ...

Amisja comments on Oct 23, 2018:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/ufo/10130031/Farmers-to-reap-profit-from-crop-circles.html https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/10217151/Crop-circles-demystified-how-the-patterns-are-created.html

Amisja replies on Oct 27, 2018:

@johnprytz Right you are on!

Who's a person who inspires you?

Amisja comments on Oct 27, 2018:

My son, Isaac

Amisja replies on Oct 27, 2018:

@linxminx The night he was born, I was told he wouldn't make it through the night. He and I had a terrible time during his birth and we went through a very traumatic emergency C-section. 6 hours later, I was told I had to leave the hospital. Well he survived, we came back to UK (From AZ). And he grew stronger. At first he struggled with school and we were advised he should go to a 'special school' we ignored them. (This was the child who translated Japanese at 9 years old!) He carried on. At 10 he was diagnosed with Asbergers. We asked him if he wanted us to get extra help, he said no so we carried on. At 11 he corrected his teacher and she admitted he was right! In secondary school they said contrary to needing special education, he is exceptionally bright. He went onto university and this year he graduated with a 2:1 in politics. He is funny, tall, handsome, kind and thoughtful. He has a way of seeing through all the political BS and get right to the point. He writes like a dream and he's going to ok. I have two other children who are just as inspirational, I'll tell you about them another time.

? marysalt ?

Amisja comments on Oct 26, 2018:

This is what happens.... First they steal a profile with 3 or 4 stock photos. Sometimes not even of the same person. The girls are unbelieveably attractive, The men are rich and sucessful They will be recently widowed or heartbroken. Single Mums or Dads to one beautiful child (scarily pics of ...

Amisja replies on Oct 27, 2018:

@LucyLoohoo My pleasure

? marysalt ?

Amisja comments on Oct 26, 2018:

This is what happens.... First they steal a profile with 3 or 4 stock photos. Sometimes not even of the same person. The girls are unbelieveably attractive, The men are rich and sucessful They will be recently widowed or heartbroken. Single Mums or Dads to one beautiful child (scarily pics of ...

Amisja replies on Oct 27, 2018:

@LucyLoohoo There are a couple here in UK. Check out Joe Lycett. He's hilarious

What are three things on your bucket list?

Amisja comments on Oct 25, 2018:

Anyone wanting to visit UK, you are welcome. I live in the north west. Tons of industrial heritage. Lots of the LDS came from here. They were groomed by the church elders with stories of lands of milk and honey during the worst cotton family in history.

Amisja replies on Oct 27, 2018:

@Zackalberto No there are 61, 999 999 other Brits here too

It is now illegal to say that Mohammed was a paedophile in Europe.

Amisja comments on Oct 26, 2018:

This doesn't sound accurate. Paedophillia is a primary sexual attraction to pre-pubescent children. Of his wives only Alisha was young and only one source refers to her being underage. The marriage (like most marriages of that era) was a political union. Britain and France's Eleanor of Aquitaine, ...