It went so far up they decided to let it dissolve (it was only a small one)
but i'm up for some MASSIVE COURT-ACTION if you are.
( Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Wed 4 Aug 2010, 12:03, 1 reply, 16 years ago)

well i am not a personal injury lawyer
but i am always up for MASSIVE ACTION. can we say you have suffered from any or all of the following as a consequence:

blindness, paralysis, amputation, cancer, parkinsons, AIDS, impetigo, impotence, deafness? these are the big ticket items that will buy us that island in the sun at the NHS's expense, my friend.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Wed 4 Aug 2010, 12:06, Reply)

Impetigo?
Really?
(Zoz prayed for twink on, Wed 4 Aug 2010, 12:11, Reply)

i don't actually know what it is
skin complaint maybe?
( rachelswipe with a fork, Wed 4 Aug 2010, 12:20, Reply)

isn't it a really infectious skin thing that looks like coldsores?
I remember someone at school got it and everyone acted like she had leprosy.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Wed 4 Aug 2010, 12:21, Reply)

kid in our street had it
One day when I was out playing he got into my room and emptied my toybox.
I got home, saw him, and ran into the living room screaming "MUM, THE IMPETIGO BABY'S IN MY ROOM!"
Then I was packed off to Nana's for the weekend while my mum Dettol-ed everything.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Wed 4 Aug 2010, 12:23, Reply)

Replace the word
"impetigo" with "black", and your family becomes horrible.
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Wed 4 Aug 2010, 12:24, Reply)

Hahah
It was still a bit mean of me, but she'd instilled me with such fear.
She used to say "Don't touch James. He's infectious" and I'd say "You mean Bumpy? He only plays with the naughty kids anyway." And she'd say "They're naughty for calling him that. Don't call him that. And don't play with him."
His parents used to leave him in the street then go out to shoplift.
The men from the mobile shop used to let him sit in there and get warm.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Wed 4 Aug 2010, 12:30, Reply)

Classic Liverpool

(PenguinOfDeath is Scottish, and most likely angry, Wed 4 Aug 2010, 12:31, Reply)

aww it's like you lived during the blitz or something
but I guess it's just Liverpool.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Wed 4 Aug 2010, 12:33, Reply)

To be fair, even the miscreants on our estate saw the Bumpy situation as extreme
and they called Social Services all the time. Nothing seemed to happen.
Then they won 50 grand on the bingo and moved to Blackpool.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Wed 4 Aug 2010, 12:35, Reply)

And I'd have LOVED the Blitz.

( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Wed 4 Aug 2010, 12:36, Reply)

I don't think it's EXACTLY like Goodnight Sweetheart

( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Wed 4 Aug 2010, 12:50, Reply)

:(

( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Wed 4 Aug 2010, 13:19, Reply)

But then ...
if one kid gets chicken pox, all the parents want their child to play with them. Swings and roundabouts.
(Zoz prayed for twink on, Wed 4 Aug 2010, 12:34, Reply)

*dons scrubs and surgical mask*
Impetigo is a highly contagious bacterial skin infection most common among pre-school children.
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Wed 4 Aug 2010, 12:22, Reply)

That's what condoms are for!

( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Wed 4 Aug 2010, 12:24, Reply)

Yes it is
Kids get it often, some antibiotics usually takes care of it. Just wondering why it would be a big payout.
(Zoz prayed for twink on, Wed 4 Aug 2010, 12:24, Reply)

i was being totally flippant
and thereby showing my ignorance of both personal injury law and diseases!
( rachelswipe with a fork, Wed 4 Aug 2010, 12:26, Reply)

I dunno, the psychological trauma that school children can cause
could be quite a high payout!
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Wed 4 Aug 2010, 12:33, Reply)

Awesome, i'll take all of those medical complaints as a starter for 10
lets throw in "Hysterical Pregnancy" for good measure.
( Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Wed 4 Aug 2010, 12:13, Reply)

your witness statement is going to be great fun
tell me again how the doctor impregnated you with an aniseed ball, mr dracula...
( rachelswipe with a fork, Wed 4 Aug 2010, 12:18, Reply)

Our civil guy was telling us how much you get for losing certain body parts
did you know a penis is only worth £15k?!

I asked my male friends what they thought their manhood was worth and one of them offered to sell me his for £8k.

He is pretty small though.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Wed 4 Aug 2010, 12:14, Reply)

Some are worth more than others.

(PsychoChomp, Wed 4 Aug 2010, 12:16, Reply)

it is horrendous how little they are worth
a thumb is about £7k and an eye, which is the most expensive, is only about £60k.

however, you then get additional damages for pain and suffering, and then on top of that you claim for your loss of earnings etc. so if you were a porn star, you could expect considerably more than £15k...
( rachelswipe with a fork, Wed 4 Aug 2010, 12:18, Reply)

haha that's true
I couldn't believe that a leg was only worth something like £8k, considering these people who get fake whiplash receive £2k.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Wed 4 Aug 2010, 12:22, Reply)

or psychological trauma and get tens of thousands
i worked on the ladbroke grove rail disaster, in a tiny gimplike capacity. the number of people who died and were seriously injured... then you had loads of people who were perfectly healthy claiming tens of thousands of pounds because they were traumatised and couldn't bear to look a train in the face again.

yeah yeah. now take your four fully functioning limbs and sod off, there's people whose lives have been truly devastated here.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Wed 4 Aug 2010, 12:25, Reply)