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5ft 10" and over 16 Stone Fiddaman - is a victim of his own mouth !!

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Newsgroups: alt.support.diet.weightwatchersFrom: "BOB FIDDAMAN" Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2000 16:37:24 -0000Local: Wed 1 Nov 2000 16:37Subject: Diet for Arthritis suffererReply to author | Forward | Print | Individual message | Show original | Report this message | Find messages by this author
I am a 36 year old male and suffer with Osteoarthritis of the hips and more
recently wear & tear on the spine.

I am 5ft 10" and over 16 Stone. Obviously this weight gain cannot continue.


Because of lack of mobility I am unable to do any form of strenuous
excercise. I have therefore decided to go on some sort of diet.


Can anyone here recommend a good diet.


Are there any OA sufferers on this NG that plan their food out weekly?


I've heard that fish is good as it is full of the essential oils to help
lubricate the joints


Your help would be greatly appreciated


Bob



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Fiddaman recently posting he got over the zaps, sweating & temptation to go back on Seroxat in 3 months !!

Article Discussion: Discontinuing antidepressant can't be ru
by Fiddy on June 2nd, 2008, 1:17 am


http://neighbors.denverpost.com/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=9437847&p=221585


"The term "withdrawal" implies that you're addicted to a drug. But addiction is a complex pattern of behavior that involves craving, drug seeking, and needing more and more drug to achieve a desired effect. In that sense, antidepressants are not addicting"

I disagree. When I tapered off Paxil I used an oral syringe. I 'came down' by half a mg per week and it took me 18 months to taper down from 40mg per day to 22mg per day. That is NOT a discontinuation, that IS a withdrawal. Paxil IS addictive, there are thousands of stories of people suffering because they cannot taper off this drug.

After 18 months I went cold turkey. It took me 3 months to get passed the zaps, profuse sweating, anger outbursts, suicidal thoughts, craving (temptation to go back on Paxil) plus a whole host of other side effects.There are over 10,000 stories online from patients who have suffered withdrawal symptoms at the hands of Paxil. To suggest that antidepressants are not addictive is basically sticking your middle finger up to those that have... and still are suffering trying to taper off this drug.



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What has Fiddaman to hide - why did he keep the "Haringey Police report" confidential ?

Let us know the expulsion details in your own good time... you have my email address if you'd prefer to keep it "confidential", like that Haringey Police report!!!

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Tom Hunter - Tuesday, 18 November 2008, at 2:01 am


Oh yea Bob, you didnt deny that you were expelled for bullying did you??!!! I know your type!!
Nah Nah, I'm sure there was a perfectly innocent explanation. There's no way you'd have been a disruptive influence preventing progressive minded students from getting on with their studies!!
I was being ironic about "poor" Mister Blackburn. I dont know the ins and outs of the cervical cancer case, not having your Glaxo obsession (the ins and outs of a cervix is more my thing!!) but you must have a teensy weensy bit of sympathy for the professional reputation dent the fella suffered after your campaigning got him deposed from his prestigious position.
Having said that it's amazing how these conflicts of interest arise time and again until some whistleblower steps in... just shows the incestous relationship between big business and those charged with responsibility for public contract outsourcing!!
We're gone off-topic again... Plus ca change!!!

Let us know the expulsion details in your own good time... you have my email address if you'd prefer to keep it "confidential", like that Haringey Police report!!!

Couple claim £50,000 in benefits while spending two years sailing the world - Telegraph

Couple claim £50,000 in benefits while spending two years sailing the world - Telegraph: "Couple claim £50,000 in benefits while spending two years sailing the world
Shashi Bacheta and Jeffrey Coles, a couple from Swansea, sailed the world for two years while claiming £50,000 in benefits."

15 years old Bob Fiddaman cast himself in the role of "victim" - a role he was to lead for the rest of his life !

Bob Fiddaman - Tuesday, 18 November 2008, at 2:44 am


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I was expelled because the Catholic school I went to wanted to punish me for something I didn't do. I was 15, if I remember correctly they wanted to give me six of the best for removing a lad from another school off my best mate. The lad in question had his hands around my friends throat and pinned to the floor. Desperate times - desperate measures. For that I was expelled, as was my friend. The lad from the other school went on to finish his educayshun [sp]

I remember it very well. The governer of the school, [a priest] smelling of stale cigarettes, the Headmaster, whiskey on his breath and a look of the Devil in his eye. And my mother, my beautiful mother, asking the priest if he would walk by and do nothing if the Headmaster was on the floor, pinned down with someones hands around his throat.

"That's not the point Mrs Fiddaman"

Hmmm, I actually thought it was rather a good point mom.

You see Tom, even the Catholics chose hypocrisy that day.

No doubt this will end up on my stalker's webpage, he will edit it in such a way that will make me the teacher and Tom Hunter the victim.

Anyway, I fear we may be going down the religious road in this thread and the last thing I need right now is quotes from the Bible.

Fid

Bob, you didnt deny that you were expelled for bullying did you??!!!

Tom Hunter - Tuesday, 18 November 2008, at 2:01 am


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Oh yea Bob, you didnt deny that you were expelled for bullying did you??!!! I know your type!!Nah Nah, I'm sure there was a perfectly innocent explanation. There's no way you'd have been a disruptive influence preventing progressive minded students from getting on with their studies!!
I was being ironic about "poor" Mister Blackburn. I dont know the ins and outs of the cervical cancer case, not having your Glaxo obsession (the ins and outs of a cervix is more my thing!!) but you must have a teensy weensy bit of sympathy for the professional reputation dent the fella suffered after your campaigning got him deposed from his prestigious position.
Having said that it's amazing how these conflicts of interest arise time and again until some whistleblower steps in... just shows the incestous relationship between big business and those charged with responsibility for public contract outsourcing!!
We're gone off-topic again... Plus ca change!!!

Let us know the expulsion details in your own good time... you have my email address if you'd prefer to keep it "confidential", like that Haringey Police report!!!

Tom Hunter - " Bob Fiddaman was expelled from school for bullying "

Tom Hunter - Monday, 17 November 2008, at 9:20 pm

http://www.bigcountry.co.uk/forums/viewmessage/index.php?o=540&t=5001

"You can either beat the drum or bang it Tom. Banging got me my meeting with the MHRA, it also ousted Paul Blackburn from Ofsted, not bad for a Brummie who was expelled in his last year at school"

I take you got expelled for bullying!! And you havent lost any bad habits considering the way you hounded poor Mister Blackburn. He must have felt like I've done so many times on here when the tornado force that is Fidd McCool turns his ire on another lamb for the slaughter!!!HaHaHa
That "Ban Hunter" poem you wrote did the trick the last time!! You must feel that the buttons
on your keyboard are as laser-guided missiles to exterminate your foes wherever they are on the globe!!!

Dont know why you said "for a Brummie"?? Do you feel that the rest of us cast aspersions on the IQ of the average Second City citizen?? Although I seem to remember there was some survey done a couple of years ago suggesting there was some lagging in the intellectual stakes there but it was hardly scientific or conclusive!!! :-)
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Poetry moment - here's one wot I wrote earlier

Scales Of Justice

http://www.birminghampoetry.bravepages.com/fiddaman4.htm

Locked in a cell
Six feet by eight.
Only an hours recreation
Allowed by the state.
They call themselves welfare,
They'll attend to our needs.
All forgotten souls
With our unheard pleads.

Warder's knocking on my door
Waking me from my sleep.
Time to put my brave face on
Trying not to weep.
Time for communal breakfast
With the vast walks of life.
Cutting up the bacon & eggs
With the plastic prison knife.

Lights out at ten thirty
As another day goes by.
Peace in my cell at last
As I begin to cry.
There's frustration & anger
Building up inside
As I think about the plastic knife
And a place for it to hide.

Twenty years added
In the High Court today.
I used the knife on one of the screws
Now it's time to make me pay.
I took the beatings and the kicks
When I got back to my cell.
If this is what life is
Then I'd rather be in Hell.

Fiddaman "New business venture - personalised poems" in the google cache !!

Fiddaman "New business venture - personalised poems" in the google cache !!
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For that unique gift try a personalised poem for that special person.

New
business venture.

http://fiddy64.tripod.com/

Sorry for spamming your newsgroup


Bob

Football coach fit enough to jump off the stage in 2001

fit enough to jump off the stage in 2001


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Jul 2 2001, 5:07 pm


Dave wrote in message


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> > Say you're out at a wedding function, presentation night, birthday etc,
> and
> > the DJ flips on DC -D'you get up and do the duckwalk?

> Nope....cuz it's usaully YSM that's playing. Everyone then looks at me
cuz
> they know I'm the DC freak...at which point I shake my head as a firm
> believer in Murphy's Law.



Yeah know what ya mean. This year we had a presentation night for our youth
footy team - so half cut I asked (ahem!) demanded that the DJ play some
AC/DC. To my astonishment he plucked out the Who Made Who 12" - I said "Fuck
me - you've got play GFH on the B Side. He promised he'd play it. So I was
mentally figuring out what part of the stage I should jump from etc. About a
pint or so later I heard the dreaded tones of YSMANL. AGGGGH!!!!!!!!!!!!
None the less I still gave it my best shot - much to the bemusement of the
kids and the parents that had turned out for the Presentation that night!

don't forget to tell them about the time you jumped off the stage !

SEROXAT SUFFERERS - STAND UP AND BE COUNTED: "Anyway, the form has been filled and I have told the Benefits Agency that I have no intention of parading around in front of them, bending over to touch my toes or stretching my arms in the air so one of their doctors can make an assessment of whether or not I suffer with pain."

SEROXAT SUFFERERS - STAND UP AND BE COUNTED

SEROXAT SUFFERERS - STAND UP AND BE COUNTED: "I was actually laying down whilst filling the form in, incidentally I had to send the original form back and request one with a much bigger typeface - unfortunately my left eye is shot and I need reading glasses - I cannot afford them."

how many pairs of reading glasses can you buy for the cost of 2 AC/DC tickets Bob ?

Big Country Forum


http://www.bigcountry.co.uk/forums/viewmessage/index.php?o=0&t=4785

AC/DC BIRMINGHAM

Bob Fiddaman - Friday, 17 October 2008, at 11:15 am
yesssssssssssssssssssssssssss

Got 2 tickets :)
There is a God

Fid
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Targeting Benefit Thieves "We're closing in"

You learn to live with pain - my arthritis is controlled by painkillers and at best it is only mild

You learn to live with pain - my arthritis is controlled by painkillers and at best it is only mild




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Bob Fiddaman by: Deborah Russell @ Post Poems who learnt (his) "arthritis is controlled by painkillers and at best it is only mild" PostPoems - Bob Fiddaman by: Deborah Russell


D: But isn't that difficult for you to have your fingers crossed? Legs too, for that matter...isn't osteoarthritis very difficult to live with? Making everyday tasks difficult and sometimes impossible to accomplish?

Bob: You learn to live with pain - my arthritis is controlled by painkillers and at best it is only mild.

http://www.postpoems.com/cgi-bin/displaypoem.cgi?pid=18979

Bob Fiddaman - "Person Of The Year Award"

Person Of The Year Award


http://www.bigcountry.co.uk/forums/viewmessage/index.php?o=0&t=5170

Tom Hunter - Wednesday, 10 December 2008, at 6:24 pm
Well, it's the time of the year to reminisce about the last 12 months. The BBC will be giving the Sports Personality Of The Year Award for which I hope that Becky Adlington collects as her last gasp win in the 400 metres and her dominant world record performance in the 800 metres were awesome and all that for a girl on 12 grand a year!!

I suppose Barack Obama winning the Presidency is the most eye-catching and puts some sort of closure on African-Americans fight for equality. Let's hope that he is equal to the task of dealing with the challenging times ahead for America and the world at large.

My vote though goes to a regular contributor to this board: Bob Fiddaman.

This Birmingham based lad is a tour de force, a one man battering-ram pacifist. With just a keyboard and internet connection, a sense of injustice (and indeed a sense of justice) and a persistence that is truly superhuman this "one voice" blogging sensation has made the arrogant multibillion dollar pharmaceutical industry sit up and take notice.

A visit now and again to his blogspot http://fiddaman.blogspot.com/ will reveal the relentless, tigerish zeal with which this David is bringing Goliath to book for past misdeeds.

I didnt particularly like the guy ( maybe that's an understatement) and when I heard about him starting this blog a couple of years ago I said to myself that there's no way he'll persevere with this for any worthwhile length of time but lo and behold as events have unfolded this fella has not alone kept to the battle but has increased the intensity!!!
All this despite some personal setbacks which have included the passing away of his Mum. Adversity tests a man's mettle but this man's mettle has been found to be super-strong!!!

This heroic endeavour is deserving of something tangible so if he emails me privately his posting address I'll forward forthwith:

WESTERNS The Classic Collection

The Good, The Bad & The Ugly

The Big Country

Both DVDs detail triumph over adversity, so Fidd McCool would be a most deserving recipient to enjoy a few hours entertainment (I'm sure he has seen these films before but maybe not on DVD??)!

PS. Sorry Barack, you just picked the wrong year to make your breakthrough!!! I'm sure you understand having visited the fiddaman blogspot!

Mother Sues Scientologists Over Son's 2007 Death

TAMPA - A mother is blaming Scientologists for her disabled son's death, which police ruled a suicide.


http://suncoastpinellas.tbo.com/content/2009/feb/17/mother-sues-scientologists-over-sons-2007-death/


Victoria L. Britton has filed a federal lawsuit accusing Scientologists, including her son's father, of taking his antidepressant prescription from him and giving him access to a loaded gun.

A police investigation, however, concluded that Kyle Brennan, exhibiting symptoms of schizophrenia, willingly stopped taking medication before he visited his father and that there was "no evidence they were purposely kept from" him.

Brennan, 20, was not a member of the Clearwater church, but his father, Thomas, was, according to the lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court by Britton, who lives in Virginia.

The lawsuit names the church, Thomas Brennan and Scientologists Gerard Gentile and his wife, Denise Miscavige Gentile, whose brother, David Miscavige, is the church's ecclesiastic leader.

Scientology spokesman Tommy Davis said, "There is no validity to the complaint regarding the Church of Scientology."

The Gentiles could not be reached for comment.

Kyle Brennan visited his father in Clearwater in February 2007 after driving around the country for more than two months, according to the state attorney's investigation report. Along the way, he stopped at an FBI office in Iowa where he told an agent people were following him and that he had large sums of money.

When he arrived in Clearwater, he stayed in his father's apartment complex, which was occupied by other Scientologists, according to the lawsuit.

Davis said the apartment complex is not owned by the church.

According to the lawsuit, Kyle Brennan had Lexapro, a drug prescribed to treat depression and social anxiety. The Gentiles told Thomas Brennan to take the Lexapro away from his son, and Thomas Brennan locked the drug in his truck.

The Gentiles and Thomas Brennan tried to talk Britton into putting her son into a Scientology Narconon treatment facility so that he wouldn't need Lexapro, the lawsuit states. Britton and her son, who were not Scientologists, refused the treatment, and Britton told the callers to make sure her son took his medication.

Thomas Brennan said he and his son mutually agreed that Kyle would stop taking Lexapro and start using better nutrition habits and vitamins, according to a Clearwater police investigation summary.

Davis said Narconon, which follows the principles of church founder L. Ron Hubbard, is not officially part of the church, although it is supported and endorsed by Scientologists.

The lawsuit states that "one or more of the defendants" put Thomas Brennan's loaded .357 Magnum pistol next to his son's bed.

Then, "in a mentally deteriorated state caused by the abrupt denial of his prescription to Lexapro, and with ready access to the loaded .357 Magnum, Kyle Brennan was found dead from a gunshot to his head from the .357 Magnum pistol with neither the pistol nor the bullets having any identifiable fingerprints," the lawsuit states.

Thomas Brennan found his son dead Feb. 16, 2007, reports state.

The investigation report said Thomas Brennan had an unsecured handgun and ammunition in his apartment, but that the law doesn't require firearms to be secured unless there is someone younger than 16 living there.

Britton is represented by Ken Dandar, who also represented the relatives of Scientologist Lisa McPherson in their wrongful death lawsuit against the church.

McPherson died in 1995 after 17 days of care by Scientology staffers in Clearwater.

The lawsuit was settled in 2004.

Reporter Stephen Thompson contributed to this report. Elaine Silvestrini can be reached at (813) 259-7837 or esilvestrini@tampatrib.com.

SEROXAT SUFFERERS - STAND UP AND BE COUNTED: VILE MENTAL HEALTH CAMPAIGNER Bob Fiddaman targets the wrong person

SEROXAT SUFFERERS - STAND UP AND BE COUNTED: VILE MENTAL HEALTH CAMPAIGNER JEREMY BRYCE

Highcroft Hospital 2002 (The Erdington Workhouse Birmingham U.K.)

Northern Birmingham Mental Health Trust has launched an internal investigation into allegations that two female patients were raped at Highcroft Hospital, a psychiatric hospital, in Erdington. A male patient has been charged with one rape, but no charges were brought in relation to the other rape allegation after the woman refused to press charges.

www.communitycare.co.uk/Articles/2000/04/.../News-in-Brief.htm

Fear stalks the mixed wards of psychiatric units.






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Fear stalks the mixed wards of psychiatric units.



THEY are desperately trying to rebuild lives shattered shat·ter

v. shat·tered, shat·ter·ing, shat·ters



v.tr.

1. To cause to break or burst suddenly into pieces, as with a violent blow.



2.

a. by mental illness... but the threat of sexual abuse in psychiatric psy·chi·at·ric

adj.

Of or relating to psychiatry.





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psychiatric adjective Pertaining to psychiatry, mental disorders units means many women are living in terror.



Taken from the safety of their homes, women patients are left in an environment where unstable and unpredictable men roam unchecked.



These men can be fellow patients or even outsiders who have been allowed to wander in because of poor security.



Staffing levels are often so bad that attacks take place before they can be stopped. And until single-sex wards replace all mixed wards, female patients will be exposed to the risk of abuse.



For the women recovering from mental illness life on a psychiatric unit can be a daily struggle with lack of privacy, constant disturbance DISTURBANCE, torts. A wrong done to an incorporeal hereditament, by hindering or disquieting the owner in the enjoyment of it. Finch. L. 187; 3 Bl. Com. 235; 1 Swift's Dig. 522; Com. Dig. Action upon the case for a disturbance, Pleader, 3 I 6; 1 Serg. & Rawle, 298. and the threat of being attacked. Three female patients were raped at Highcroft Hospital, Erdington, Birmingham, between October, 1997, and August, 1998. In the first incident a man was jailed for raping a female patient after walking through unlocked doors.





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A 42-year-old male patient was charged with raping a 16-year-old girl the following July.



And a third police investigation was launched into an attack on a 43-year-old woman in August. She refused to be examined, and no charges were brought.



Highcroft Hospital treats mentally ill patients in single-sex and mixed wards and charge nurse Pat Warr said: "We take steps on the wards to ensure there is adequate segregation segregation: see apartheid; integration. .



"If we feel someone is particularly vulnerable, or their illness makes them sexually uninhibited uninhibited /un·in·hib·it·ed/ (un?in-hib´i-ted) free from usual constraints; not subject to normal inhibitory mechanisms. , we would not put them in a mixed ward."



At the Reaside secure unit, a 92-bed psychiatric unit for mentally disordered offenders at Rubery Hospital, Birmingham, incidents occur before nurses can stop them, according to according to

prep.

1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians.



2. In keeping with: according to instructions.



3. Pat Hetherton, staff secretary for Unison unison, in music, tones identical in pitch produced by two or more parts or voices. In popular usage a vocal composition is said to be sung in unison even though some of the voices are separated from others by the interval of an octave. at South Birmingham Mental Health NHS Trust National Health Service Trusts (NHS Trusts) provide many services of the National Health Service in England and Wales. They are not trusts in the legal sense but are in effect public sector corporations. .



She said: "We do hear of sexual assaults, but unfortunately these women don't always report incidents to us because they think it is the norm."



At a psychiatric unit based in Coventry's Walsgrave Hospital, a member of staff admitted: "Working in a psychiatric hospital psychiatric hospital

n.

A hospital for the care and treatment of patients affected with acute or chronic mental illness. Also called mental hospital. , you do get female patients making allegations against male patients. Sexual dysfunction sexual dysfunction



Inability to experience arousal or achieve sexual satisfaction under ordinary circumstances, as a result of psychological or physiological problems. is common in the mentally ill, and these men and women are basically not responsible for their actions.



Sue Hunt, chief executive of Coventry Healthcare NHS Trust said: "Our current building does not allow for the privacy and dignity of patients required.



"All our wards are in six-bed bays and it is difficult separating males and females.



"We are making alterations to allow more separation, and eventually will be building a new unit where every patient has their own room."



Ian McKivett, regional officer for the public service union Unison believes poor staffing and security increase the threat to women patients in psychiatric units.



He said: "We are still very concerned about the lack of security at Highcroft."



A spokeswoman for North Birmingham Mental Health Trust, which is responsible for Highcroft Hospital, said: "We are committed to providing first class care within a safe environment and have therefore created a 'women only' ward for female patients.



"The trust is also in the process of building new accomodation which will create single-sex rooms for all of their patients."

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