Defenition of Society

Turn it Off, I dare you?

As I sit here looking out of my first floor window At Derek The smaller of the two idiots I live with, Bouncing around in the tall grass. Battering the Mouse he Just caught. Eduardo Stretched out on the pavement, waiting for the next train to arrive, so that his many friends who know him well, will stop and give him a stroke Rolling round on his back like a beached Walrus. (Who ever is feeding him please stop.) I can look back on a great day. I cannot tell you how liberating it is to switch off your internet and phone Say f'#k you Facebook for the day and get out with friends and enjoy yourselves.

I am quite lucky I live in a nice Neighbourhood not too far from the south bank in london town. That’s darn Sarf if your T Northerner's. He he sorry I digest.

 The ITV Studios are a bus ride away and from mine you can be there in just over 40 minutes on T bus. Stop it now. I am allowed I was born up there.

Today I went with three mates to watch QI being recorded Todays guest's Bill Baily, Alan Davis, Phil Jupitus , Claudia Wikleman and of course Sandy. They are flat out recording two shows a day Later on today, its Rod Gilbert and Bills back again. There is an audience of six hundred people for each show and although bloody hot it was amazing. Sat there front row for two hours of constant laughter all edited down to half an hour before you see it on TV. At A cost of £3.00 for bus fare I would say that was a bloody good day and all four of us left laughing and is a memory I will have for a very long time. It’s a hard thing to do to stay away from social media for a day but I would highly recommend it to everyone I know. And those I don’t. Oh Crap its Raining!

Now don’t get me wrong it’s been a great day and then I stopped and saw an email. Or was it an emu? I asked the question “Is it OK to record the assessment you have with ATOS?” Here is the response I got:
·    You can request to audio record your consultation by calling our Customer Service Centre, but you will need to provide your own equipment.
·    Inform us beforehand that you wish to record your consultation, which can be done by calling our Customer Service Centre. Please let us know as soon as possible, as we may not be able to accept requests made on the day of your consultation.
·    Your recording equipment must be able to produce two identical copies of the recording at the end of the consultation, either in audio cassette or CD format. You will need to give one copy of the recording to the Health Professional undertaking your consultation, at the end of the consultation. Devices like PCs, laptops, tablets, smartphones or MP3 players are not acceptable recording devices.
· You will need to sign an agreement that sets out what you are and are not allowed to do with the recording.
Now forgive me, but what recording device does anyone reading this think I should use? Please comment me an answer. A wax cylinder perhaps - do you think that will get me anywhere? Maybe the Police will lend me one of their cassette players.
Do you see where I'm going with this? I have said many times the system is designed to screw everyone over. The reason they make such ludicrous requests is to make you give up. I consider myself quite tech literate but this one stumps me. Tech literate see they invented a new word! You have to laugh at this, don’t you? It’s funny that as quite an intelligent man (or though some would beg to differ) I’m having to go through sh@t like this every day.
They move the goal posts and don’t tell anyone, write lies about people and cause so much pain and heartache around the country. The more I read the more ashamed I feel at the way ATOS and the DWP treat disabled people. We all watched the Paralympics and The Last Leg. And all the top brass were there proudly supporting our... oh hang on a minute... no they weren't. There are two sides to disability I am seeing: there's the media version where we are wrapped in union jacks and paraded around showing medals to make us proud to be British.  And the “oh it’s ok to laugh” studio audience because Adams only has one leg.
Don’t get me wrong I love The Last Leg. But when I look at what's above there is the other side which was brought to everyone's front rooms last night. Cathy, a young lady with learning difficulties, challenged Theresa May in front of the TV cameras. If you’re not disabled and you saw the news, you were given a one minute twenty second snapshot of what we, the invisible disabled, have to put up with.
Fast forward to today. All trace of Cathy was wiped from the internet in the morning to make way for the news that Emma Willis had been taken into hospital and how the Middleton's make and spend their fortune. But this time it’s not going away. People are starting to wake up and stop staring at their iPhone and doing something about it.
I am on the Scope website every night now, helping others deal with the way they are treated. Not all bad, there are a few cases that fly through. But the majority are not. Targets set from way up high have to be met after all.
I have noticed one other thing which I do find disturbing, not many people are really interested. I started this blog to make me feel better and have yet to get one comment on anything I have written. You must have an opinion even if it’s to say I'm barking mad.
There must be questions you want answered or something you didn’t understand. Helping people is so important, passing on skills you have to others today. For instance I was tasked with unlocking an iPad. Easy? Not so easy if your so-called ‘broadband’ is what we called ‘dial-up’ back in the day.
Two hours 19 minutes to download I store or whatever it’s called. I am a pc man always have been. So I took it downstairs to Fred’s. It went from 3Mb to 37Mb and I downloaded it in 1 minute 20. Pass on knowledge you have to others and make someone happy, preferably me.  It’s a bloody hard world but we need to be heard. Not the invisible few, the Government would like you to believe