Hello there TTBN...

I'm really sorry that our little discussion(s) have distressed and agitated you? I'd be careful not to allow a simple difference of opinion, to grow into some pathological saga, that eats at you day and night until you blow a metaphoric fuse! I understand you've not slept too well, and you're off your food? No doubt you're slowly simmering with rage and longing for revenge, to 'get at' that miserable maggot 'Sung Wu' - The Asian kitchen hand! Well, as long as it occupies a little of your time, I'm always prepared to help out a young fella!

Interestingly you claim inter alia, that I like to 'challenge and harass' people. Sonny boy, if only it were true? Believe it or not, I'm closer to eighty years of age than you'd think; and if only I had the energy and verve to harass & challenge people, as you've contended, I'd be a very happy little puppy indeed, believe me. As you are so fond of reading through others contributions, have a peek at my earlier efforts of about six+ years previously - You'll note they're full of piss and bad manners? Reason.... I was an undiagnosed sufferer of war caused PTSD, of which I receive a 100% Pension from DVA. Since then I've tried to clean up my act, and I reckon I've done OK. And if you reckon I'm aggressive now TTBN, well....?

Something that does strike me as being quite odd about your personality. The contemptuous way in which you address other contributors on this Site, indicates to me, you're unafraid of being impertinent to them. As is your ability to become hostile and belligerent, in order to cower others into thinking or accepting what you say. Sonny boy, if you pulled any of these little stunts in the military or with your peer group in the coppers, you'd be flat on your face sucking up concrete by now. No 'siree', you've never worn khaki or blue TTBN, that's unabashedly evident! My advice...cool it! Before it becomes bigger than 'Ben Hur' in your mind?

Yes Philip, but not others.
Since I wtoe the above I read an article.
The cost in the National Health UK was L12 Billion pounds in 2004
just for Pakistanis and no more recent figures available.
Some horrific family stories being told.
More later

Hi there PHILIP S...

Pardon my ignorance, there are instances of Buddhists uprisings for sure, I was trying, but failing, to juxtapose other religions on those of the militant Muslim terrorists. Sorry PHILIP S.

Dear FOXY...

Your kind words know no bounds, and I thank you so much for them, believe me. Please remember in my earlier days on this Site,I was both aggressive and very unkind with many of those contributors who opposed my views. Visiting upon many of your Contributions, FOXY; POIROT'S; and DAVID F (I think, a very educated American born gentleman), as well as many other terrific contributors. All have taught me that aggression and rudeness gets you nothing. I realised I was no longer dealing with the human detritus that was my paid occupation for the past 32 years, but with educated, thoughtful, and very decent individuals. Chief among them was you; FOXY, albeit our politics are diametrically opposite, my respect for you has no bounds!

I'd like to wish everyone on the FORUM a very happy, healthy and safe 2018. Especially you FOXY and your dear Mum currently comfortably in care. I also now have to confront this scourge of Dementia as it slowly creeps into my brain?

And you too TTBN - Have a really great 2018, and we'll all see each other in the New Year. Til then 'be kind to each other' - The staple remark from, John LAWS, formerly King of Sydney Talk Back Radio.

O Sung Wu, you mentioned Altzheimers,
Just in case you were serious in your comment.
I went to a talk on it by a Professor from UNSW and she told us about
a product by Blackmoores called Brain Active. She is part of a
worldwide group studying Altzheiners and they found this area in India
that did not have it in their population. It seems they eat a root
vegetable called Cummarim.
They have had positive results with it, not a cure of course but a preventative.

It is a terrible disease and my wife's brother's wife has it and two
of her sisters and a brother have died with it.
That is the genetic version of the disease.

OSW,

There is no point trying to project your madness on to me. I am not distressed, and I sleep like a baby, eat like a horse. I'm not 'sonny' to anyone; I am 75 years old. You have no idea what my experiences are, as I don't share your need to talk about myself or try to impress anyone. Your suggestion that I would seek “revenge” on somebody like you is laughable; it would be inhumane of me. You are too unimportant for me to seek “revenge” on. You are clearly entering your second childhood and acting accordingly. I will take that on board in future and try to do nothing to cause you to make a fool of yourself as you have been doing. You, in turn, might like to express your opinions and not bother about the different opinions of others. Had you not read the post that started all this, or just read it and decided whatever you wanted to decide about me, this totally unhelpful - and probably boring to other posters – exchange would never had happened. I do not resile from the opinions you objected to, and you still object to them. What a waste of time! I'm moving on.

Bazz,

Good point. However, as far as Australia is concerned, I still think that what passes for authorities here are just using the mental thing to cover up their stupidity in bringing terrorists here. Most, if not all, terrorists are Muslim, and it must make our politicians feel like real jerks for having brought these Muslims her in the first place – where terrorism was totally unknown before they arrived. They would prefer to blame mental impairment (over which they have no control) than inappropriate immigration over which they do have control.

The first one is the women who refused to marry her cousin and started
a movement to change the practise.

http://tinyurl.com/mk59awt

http://tinyurl.com/nskd7dp

This link is the first one I have seen that connects the cousin
marriage to terrorism. I had thought it my own proposition.

http://tinyurl.com/zf8ytqa

The Physiologist Nicolai Sennells is mentioned in this one and he
appears to be the only professional who publically takes it seriously.
Just read the statistics, it is frightening.
Child deformity,mental and physical seven times the rate of others.
The overloading of special schools in the UK is a major problem.

Yet all this is too sensitive to mention. It is the cruelest thing
anyone could do to a child. The parents should be charged.
But then there would be no one to look after them for the rest of their lives.

Sennells said elsewhere that if they stop the practise now it will
take hundreds of years and many generations to repair their genome.