AutieAB

IT'S ALIVE!!!!

I was able to afford a share of a house with my student loan back in my student days and still live reasonably (well, as well as your average student lives ) and yes, if I was careful, there was enough left over to buy diapers. And that was without taking a job. If you want to live outside the family home during full time university student, there are ways and means. In fact, I'd heartily recommend it - it forces you to grow up a lot when you're responsible for paying all the bills and whatnot... Get some like-minded mates together and share a house or stay in halls.

That's not the only piece of racist language in this thread either.

You're mistaken, again. With respect, you obviously don't understand the UK's firearms laws and the public attitudes to them. If you can show a use for your weapon, for instance recreational shooting, hunting, you're a farmer, etc, you'll probably be given a license. If you can't show a reason to own it, you'll probably be denied. Most automatic/self-loading weapons and virtually all handguns are outlawed: http://www.durham.police.uk/info/firearms/firearms_info/prohibited_weapons.php

I sympathise - I had the same test done to me when I was about 10 years old. Suffice to say, it fucking traumatised me. I had one bona-fide blacked out, twitching limbs seizure with an obvious trigger and that was followed by all sorts of poking and prodding of my brain. A CT, an MRI, an EEG and a sleep-EEG and probably some other stuff I don't remember. I have no idea how long I was there for, I was doped on barbiturates (which made me violently sick) the whole time. It was supposed to be a sleep test so I assume it was at least a full night. I don't think I was there for more than a full day but honestly, I can't be sure. The room was blacked out and I was doped out of my head. Being the stubborn bugger that I am, and being way off my routine which messed me up to start with, I fought the sedatives for as long as possible so they re-dosed me to make me sleep which I guess is why I was so out of it. After it was done and while I was 'coming down' from the drugs, I suppose, they used acetone (nail polish remover) to get the electrodes off my scalp. A couple of people pinned me to the chair while the nurse scrubbed my head while somebody else held a kidney bowl in front of me for the aforementioned barfing. I had long hair and the glue got all tangled in it. It hurt like hell & apparently my screams could be heard down the corridor. I'm told that I "wasn't quite right" for several days afterwards. To this day, I cannot be around anybody when they're removing nail polish. Even the slightest whiff of acetone makes me feel violently sick and brings back unpleasant memories. The result of it all? Abnormal waves seen in the temporal lobe but otherwise "inconclusive". I was never diagnosed with epilepsy or anything related and I never had any more episodes like the one that triggered the tests. Nowadays all I get is what is probably a simple-partial seizure once in a blue moon - a weird feeling of deja-vu (and people who have never experienced it really don't know what that term means - it's an almost indescribable feeling, like a fight is going on between the eyes and the memory and they can't agree about whether what you're seeing is 'live' or a memory). It lasts a few seconds and then goes away for another year or so. I avoid strobing because that can make me feel very strange indeed. Like you, I'm NEVER doing a long-duration EEG again!

I always buy stuff for my wife (and my diapers for that matter) in private browsing mode so no amount of sneaky looking can spoil the surprise

Mass riots are pretty rare everywhere (including the UK) but the USA's history of violent disorder is by no means a short one. Check your facts. All countries, all peoples have their riots. There's always a disenfranchised group, there's always a small number of knobheads who think violence is the answer. And FYI, the "government [taking] away citizens' rights to arm and protect themselves" in the Britain (England, Scotland and Wales) happened as a result of broad public demand, most notably in the years following the Dunblane massacre. Read it.

Sky News' Mark Stone deserves a bloody medal for having the testicular fortitude to go out and get this while all the other journalists were hiding indoors and "reporting" nothing more than regurgitated twitter posts:

That's pretty much how I'm feeling. I'm ashamed to share my citizenship with them

So what they are selling is still the 'old' style Dry24/7 from before XPMedical and CDTMS got their 'new' style diapers? They need to decide what is what, place a simple description of the sizes they're selling on the website (not the complicated blurb that's there now) and get some stickers made up to relabel any bags they have that are mislabeled according to the new scheme. If they've got old stock that doesn't match their current lines as sold else where, they need to mark it down, get rid of it and get some stability going. Their current situation is an exercise in brand and customer confusion.

Fucking yobs. I mean, seriously. WTF?! Most don't as has been said but the spark that started this whole thing was a police-involved fatal shooting in London. As far as I can tell, it was a case of what would be termed "suicide by cop" in America in that he fired at armed police officers who were trying to arrest him (on a firearms investigation). Officers who, with considerably more training (they were from CO19 - an elite firearms unit, basically SWAT) and more powerful weapons (MP5s vs an unspecified handgun) than their assailant, returned fire with predictable results. Police shootings in the UK are incredibly rare (compared to the United States), are always contentious and there are always protests and large scale independent investigations afterwards but if the way it's being portrayed in the press is correct, their actions seemed to be justified in this case. He was clearly placing the officer's lives in immediate danger. So it kinda leads to the conclusion that, as sarah_ab said, the hooligans who started all this shit infiltrated the protestors with the intent of rioting for their own reasons. They should be thrown behind bars and left there for a very long time. Their true motivations beyond sheer malice don't seem to really be known. At least, after all my digging through the press coverage today, they aren't saying very much about motive.

You're surprised?

It's a fantastic compliment to it, though

I've had numerous posts where I've expressed my opinion deleted from this forum without notice in the past few weeks and I'm not the only one. At least one post (not one of mine) has been deleted in this very thread. Every time somebody questions the legitimacy of Quality Diapers on this forum, the post is deleted by a moderator, normally very quickly. If you want to see *every* post that gets made here, switch on immediate email notification for the thread(s). In your opinion. In my opinion, it IS a big deal and absolutely bloody well is of concern. Especially now that.... ...the situation has changed for the worse. With QD's previous website, the community seemed split pretty much down the middle when the QD site had a few photos on it about whether it was acceptable or not. Now there are many, many, more photos. Just how many photos do they have to publish before people get it into their heads that something is not right here and we should be asking very serious questions.

Not directly ABU related but here's a post I made about QD in another thread. http://www.dailydiapers.com/board/index.php?showtopic=29023&view=findpost&p=425778

Right there in the posts, it shows who liked them. Look back up this thread - every post that has been +1'd or liked has "XXXXXXX likes this post" next to the Like button

OK. I'm doubtless going to get some crap for this but I'm posting it anyway. I was just browsing /r/ABDL (reddit) and their take on the whole Quality Diapers situation. I got to this post which didn't match up with what I saw on the QD site when this first blew up a week or two ago. So I looked again. It's changed. For the love of god, there's no doubt now. It's a pedo site, end of fucking conversation. Before there was just a few slightly dodgy photos. Now it has dozens of photos of a young boy in diapers in different poses and states of dress and is clearly a sham excuse to slap a load of inappropriate images of minors on the internet. Writing "it's just a model and his parents were there" at the bottom DOES NOT make it okay. Apparently they plan to offer a printed catalogue soon. I wonder what type of person that is aimed at, huh?! Yes, I'm swearing, yes, I'm angry, yes, this post will be rapidly deleted because QD are being protected on this site for reasons I simply cannot understand or fathom. But ban me for all I care - the community has a right to know what is really going on at a website that is being portrayed here as 'just a site for parents of disabled kids to get decent diapers'. It's not on.

I've been messing around with it tonight. As far as I can tell, all that's changed is that the - button has been removed, the + button has been relabelled 'Like This' and you can see who clicked it. Previous +'s have become Likes (revealing who added them in the process ) and new Likes still seem to increase the person's rep counter in their profile. I guess the practical upshot is that reputation can only change upwards now. It's been fun revisiting a few choice threads and seeing who agreed with me on certain topics and confirming what I always thought about who upvotes themselves

What's the odds that they're hot?....

Is it "Like" as in Facebook public "Like"? <tests it on post above me > Ooh, it is public... That's interesting and we can see who +1'd all our previous posts now too - that's gonna make some drama

It's used all over the place. From Wiki: This design is used not only in the United Kingdom, but also in Pakistan, Ireland, Sri Lanka, Maldives, Bahrain, UAE, Qatar, Yemen, Oman, Jordan, Cyprus, Malta, Gibraltar, Botswana, Ghana, Hong Kong, Macau, Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Bangladesh, Kenya, Uganda, Malawi, Nigeria, Mauritius, Iraq, Kuwait, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe. BS 1363 is also standard in several of the former British Caribbean colonies such as Belize, Dominica, St. Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines and Grenada. It is also used in Saudi Arabia in 220 V installations although 110 V installations using the NEMA connector are more common. More than you ever realised you wanted to know about plugs

I've read that twice and I still don't think I understand it.

Not so much. The older Attends (including the '85 model, looking at the pics) have that weird but nice top sheet that has a quite plasticky feel to it and is all over the diaper's inner surfaces, not just the padded areas. It's strange - not very easy to describe and not at all like today's non-woven top sheets...

Somebody here (I forget who ) once described ADISC as "the kiddie pool" and I think that's about right. It's a good place to go if you're 15 and trying to get to grips with being an ABDL (because it's just about the only place that won't kick you out for being a minor) and it's possibly good for adults in the same process but other after that, you need to graduate to the big kids pool.... Whenever I find myself reading an ADISC thread, I always feel like the adults are being careful about what they say because the little ones are around...

With regard to people noticing a diaper under clothes, I'm not sure they actually do to be honest. Most people don't actually go around checking out other people's butts and unless you were wearing something skintight that left a really obvious diaper bulge, people probably don't notice. Remember that most people aren't adept at spotting adult diaper butts . Even if they do, as was said, the vast, vast majority wouldn't say a word too you. I saw a mind-30s-ish woman in Walmart about a week ago who appeared to have had a full on <ahem> bathroom malfunction </ahem> whilst in a seated position. Either that or she'd sat in a rather large puddle... and it hadn't rained for days Despite the fact that it was one the best and most exciting things I've seen in Walmart since.... ever and I couldn't resist a second glance to confirm what I saw, of course I didn't say a word and neither would virtually everybody else because they assume that it's something that she'd be mortified about and wouldn't want to humiliate her out of basic human decency. It takes a fairly indecent person to make fun of somebody in public who they believe to be incontinent or wearing a diaper. There's something nice about being out in public diapered (with it well covered, of course). I certainly enjoyed standing and filling more than just my car's gas tank at Kroger just this afternoon and I remember the excited feeling of doing it for the first time and the constant nervous wondering if people can tell but honestly, you'll soon realise that they can't or if they do, won't say anything to you...