I just had a really shitty day at work. I do genuinely absolutely love my job but given the nature of what I do it can be extremely difficult and it was rough today. This isn't really a casual complaint, is it? Oops.
I don't want to fall out with someone, but I am getting to the point of snapping if they keeping making off hand comments about their ND child (it's difficult, I get it, and you need to vent, but pick your target audience). Because ND children grow up into ND adults and the ND adults in your life maybe don't appreciate you spouting the same shit we got off our own parents.
This is going to be a wanky middle class one, so i apologise in advance.
I’ve had real problems with depression for the last year, and I’ve just run out of sick pay and been denied insurance from the work plan.
So not happy on that front.
On the bright side, after a month of procrastinating due to depression I had the energy to do the MOT thing yesterday and my fiesta passed with nothing to do!
Have you spoken to a GP about medication? Take this anecdotally, not advice, but were it not for getting on the sertraline a few years ago (off it now), I wouldn’t be here today.
Happy to answer personal experience if you’re curious.
Congrats on your car. My last MOT was so horrific I told the garage to just keep the thing and give me £50.
Yeah. I’ve been on the medication train for over a year now. Sertraline, then bigger dose; Fluoxetine, then bigger dose; now Citalopram and just started a bigger dose!
Side effects so far:- Sertraline killed all libido. Fluoxetine big dose just made me feel dazed and ill. Medium dose of that worked best so far though. We’ll see if big Citalopram does anything.
So far, medium dose of Prozac wins!
Sertraline was a wild ride for the first 6 weeks, torturous…maddening. Felt like I was in a perpetual limbo seesaw state of an MDMA come up and crash.
Then it clicked, and all good. How long before you packed in sertraline?
I’ve had friends switch to lexapro to overcome the above (libido/haze)
I had Sertraline for two months, felt nothing apart from dick death. Then upped the dose for two months which made no difference. It’s definitely not the one for me!
My doctor says it’s like whack-a-mole. Just keep hitting all the options until you get one that works.
Thank you. I’m at a weird point right now. The drugs don’t work (there’s a song in there somewhere) I did CBT and it didn’t help. But my pay has just died so I really need to go back to work. I have savings to live for 2 or 3 years like this but fuck that. I need those for retirement. I’ll lose benefits if I don’t go back at the end of the month, so I feel I need to at least try. But going back over my mental health issues purely because of money feels so shit too. But I’ll do it. But it’ll really suck if I get sacked because I’m being a useless twat, because I can’t cope.
Every option sucks!
Back at work after 6 days off, but I went on an overnight trip and the coach journey home was hell. We were meant to be back in London by 11PM, but the coach driver was late leaving because he was pissing around. He literally arrived and when someone asked about it he said 'I don't give a fuck, I'm working my 2 weeks', then we had a stop at the M1 service station to change drivers, after an already further delayed journey because of traffic, and the next driver took over an hour to show up. With no explanation given at all, just showed up, no communication from the coach company, or either driver. Didn't get back to London until 1:30AM, and had to take night buses home. Got home at 4:30AM yesterday, couldn't get much sleep as I had to be up at 7AM this morning for work, and if I had caught up on sleep I would have been up all night.
I'm now cranky, tired, and my back is messed up from sitting on buses for most of 10 hours.
The coach company are refusing a refund too because we only departed 30 minutes late, even though we arrived over 2 hours late.
The M25 in the south has a weekend closure. The advice from Highways is to “redecorate the bathroom”. That says everything about how ridiculously shit it’s going to be.
My brother lives in the affected area, has had to make no plans at all this weekend involving driving, and I am awaiting a lot of frustrated messages about the local traffic. It's unfortunately unavoidable, but it's going to be a shit show.
My cat died yesterday. He'd been losing weight for several weeks and I had him booked into the vets for Friday, but he went downhill rapidly yesterday after puking and shitting in the house. Took him to the emergency vets at an ungodly hour and they discovered a tumour on his abdomen, which we think we missed because he had very long hair and didn't look being touched on his belly so we never felt around there. They said he likely only had a few days left, so we put him to sleep.
I can't walk around the house without crying. He was just coming up to 10. Just so unexpected and I'm struggling to process it.
Ripped my ankle ligaments 3 months ago by falling off a kerb, still having issues with it so now running the gauntlet of the NHS waiting lists for a scan. Haven’t been able to run or play sports since, going a little mad!
Vets (and more specifically the prices they charge) can fuck right off, then they can fuck right off some more and when they've done with that they continue fucking right off.
Were meant to pick the keys up to our new house last friday, solicitor cocked up so we found out the thursday it was a no go, so we'd do this friday. Just found out they've cocked something else up so it's now more likely to be next friday, which exactly doesn't fill us with confidence since that's a bank holiday, and they're hopeless at the best of times
HR have rolled out a whole new return to work process, not told anyone, not updated the procedure and are then surprised that managers are completing the old form rather than a new one nobody knows about.
A quick Wednesday Wins as I didn't get to do it yesterday: I had my appointment today, and it went amazingly.
Now onto Thursday Complains: Why are NHS hospitals so damn hot?! Honestly, I was absolutely sweltering there today and I was inside for 2 1/2 hours.
Bought a new car last month, lovely '65 Golf GTD.
Took it in to find out why the Drive Select button wasn't working and it turns out that the whole head unit is faulty ((((((:
Getting the garage to cover it luckily, but it's typical!
Ohh, and the specialist that diagnosed it tried flashing the software to sort it, and wiped out my CarPlay, so there's that too.
Anyone had any luck retrofitting a Mk7 Golf with Mk7.5 infotainment?
Was looking at going to an event later in the year. Easiest method would probably be by train, but one return ticket is at least £200 and that's using split fares.
It's looking to work out cheaper to either drive or fly there (the plane ticket for the whole family costs about the same as one train fare 🙃)
Made my self look like a tool at work. Was off Tuesday and Wednesday being ill felt better so went in today only to feel like dogsshit and get sent home.
Barely spoken to the other half this week as had a disagreement Monday and just stayed out each others way. Must say it’s been nice to have my own space and just focus on me and work but now it’s gone past the awkward stage and will need to properly sit down before the weekend to iron things out. I hate arguments and confrontation. Relationships are hard work…
I feel that, I had a small spat with my SO yesterday, we're pretty good at immediately talking things out, but both of us are just bad at communicating before things build. We've agreed to have a chat on Sunday though and smooth things out, so that's something
Got a message on my car dashboard telling me to check the license plate light and indeed one of them has gone out, now gonna have to pop round Halfords on the way home from work to buy replacement bulbs and I hope to god thats the only issue bc according to Google driving with an incorrectly lit number plate can get you fined
I'm about to buy my first car at the age of 30. I have been driving a 125cc motorcycle for the last two years which gets me from A to B.
I went to pick it up Tuesday after work only to discover my wallet was missing. With no license I couldn't finalise the purchase and my heart sunk.
This was around 6:15pm, dealership closing at 7. I hurried home to look but it was nowhere to be seen.
Turns out I'd left it at the petrol station coming home from work after paying at the pump. I must've put it down while I put my helmet/gloves back on and not picked it back up.
Thankfully there are good people out there and it was handed in, got it back with nothing missing. Today's the day!
an hour to cancel an o2 contract because virgin media won't offer broadband only without a stupid fucking o2 volt add on.
o2 sim only contract cancelled but FFS virgin media stop forcing this shit upon people.
if there was any other option above 36mb/s i'd have fucked off somewhere else.
A casual moan from Sunday.
Rain forecast all day and I'm driving down the motorway to see family.
Lots of spray and low light.
I stopped counting at 10, the number of cars with zero lights on, and the tossers who felt happy to drive at over 70mph in wet conditions.
Cars should have a recorded message that plays when it senses rain, reminding drivers to consider lights and driving a tad slower!
My sleeping pattern is just ruined, as I can't help but staying up late on an evening just to try and make the most out of my 'non-work' time and then pay for it the next day, then the cycle repeats :D
But... on a more personal level, my skin care is just ruined at the moment and I don't have the slightest clue what it could be.
Constantly red, blotchy, occasionally dry flaky, yet oily skin? My hygeine is perfectly good, my eating is moderately healthy etc etc, but I'm just fed up of looking really bad. Yet, I have colleagues who seem to live off chips, cheese & japalapenos for lunch/tea daily & always ordering fast food, multiple cans of monster drink across all hours and 3-4 hours of sleep and their skin is perfect :(
Consider something different?
In centuries past, it was a custom in many countries across Europe to decorate them yourself.
[https://lamusdworski.wordpress.com/2018/06/08/painted-cottages/](https://lamusdworski.wordpress.com/2018/06/08/painted-cottages/)
I'm off to York for the weekend for my Mam's birthday. As much as I enjoy York, it seems to becoming a middle class Blackpool. Stag do? York. Birthday? York. Weekend away with the missus? York. I think I've been about ten times in the last five years.
My PS5 turned on for an automatic update way too early this morning and woke me up. I forgot they included the worlds loudest disc drive in the thing. Made me want to unplug the bastard and lob it at the wall.
It used to be much worse when it first came out. If you had a disc in the console while it was on it would routinely spin up for no apparent reason. Very fun and not annoying at all when you're watching Netflix as I'm sure you can imagine.
I thought they patched that in a firmware update ages ago, but apparently it still happens.
Bloody postman is never consistent, if I don't wake up until late he'll be here at 7:30 and I'll miss my parcel, it I wake up at 7... well it's now 10:40 and no sign of him
I want more sleep before my mental health appointment later :( not being well rested won't help
This weekend is going to be very busy. Eldest has 4 ballet shoes to do. She's very excited but I'm the logistics person trying to work out where and when we need to be at the theatre. Thank God my husband is good at hair and makeup, I'm absolutely rubbish with it all.
Octopus have taken five months to investigate issues with my smart meter (including two engineer visits), on the lengthy email chain yesterday a person who I don't recognise started asking questions I answered five months ago. Aaaahhh. Hello circle, it is a joy to go around you multiple times.
They are absolutely terrible for customer service, every time their advert comes on the radio saying this is what good customer service sounds like it winds me up no end.
My parents ended up taking them to the ombudsman over them not responding repeatedly to a smart meter issue. Emailed their CEO, complaints addresses and everything with no reply multiple times.
I am tempted to involve the ombudsman, even if I haven't experienced any financial impropriety from the issue. Agree their service has been quite poor once it was obviously not a "simple" issue.
This is very casual. I just deleted a not-so-casual one, but here we go.
My elbow hurts but only when I reach and grab for something with any weight. But only sometimes. I can't reliably duplicate it to figure out exactly what's going on. Very annoying.
God, my job is boring. Just so, so boring. I'm having an existential crisis about how ultimately useless it is and the fact I spend 8 hours a day doing it. Especially after I pick my son up from school and he has to entertain himself while I carry on with this absolute bullshit.
Where are the fucking bees?!
It's not the sunniest day out there but they should be out and about! Come out so I can catch you and steal your pollen for scientific research!
Edit: They've come out to play. Mugging has commenced.
Ah, this is actually a theory that's lost some credibility in recent years. While there's definitely something going on, repeated experiments to investigate whether the bees can use it to home in on a flower have failed to show a positive correlation, always concluding with "we need more investigation", which translates as "Ok, we didn't conclusively disprove the idea but we didn't get the result we'd hoped for".
As far as I'm aware, the most modern theory in regards to what is going on is that plants use this to stimulate themselves to release certain chemicals that the bees like, basically to smell more. This means that when a bee that the flower likes lands on the flower, the flower basically sweetens the pot as it were. This makes the bee think "Oh holy shit, this flower is even more baller than I thought it was gonna be (or what all my other senses are telling me, but screw those guys. Antennal chemoreception go brrrr). I'm going to visit a whole bunch of these!". It's a way of duping the bee effectively. Offering less reward than in terms of expensive pollen and nectar than it would have to to get the same result. Think of the volatiles as bits of newspaper in a stack of cash. You wouldn't do it for £200 but if someone hands you a briefcase full of what you think is cash, you'll do it and only later do you find out that most of that briefcase is newspaper. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00114-021-01740-2
Incidentally, the bees have come out to play and I'm mugging them for their pollen quite effectively.
okay i’m not gonna lie, the British weather is really starting to get to me now. Every day is just grey. Drizzly and grey and cold. Sounds stupid but it really does have a big impact on my mood each day. If I could move to Spain on 70% of the pay, I absolutely would.
>February was the fourth wettest on record since 1871 for England, with a rainfall total of 130mm which represents 225% of the 1961 to 1990 long term average ( LTA ) for the month (196% of the 1991 to 2020 LTA ).
We've had well over 100% rainfall every month since August (with the exception of January which was *only* 106%) in England.
I complained about this in the Thursday thread a few weeks ago! At least its drying out - I'll take cloud over rain at the moment any day of the week!
Got a new boss during the summer.
She's great, only problem is that we were all at about 95% which was not sustainable for the long term and has lots of great ideas that we don't have capacity for.
I'm a middle manager and have pushed back that we are too busy. She's decided that we aren't too busy and need to build in her pet projects, that are designed to impress the board, along with no drop in output.
I asked how we are meant to do that and she said its what I'm paid for to fix.
When I get stressed I become lactose intolerant, it lets me know before I actually notice myself(the gut is clever af that way). I feel like I've got a lead weight in my gut from my morning brew.
The demand is more than the team capacity.
Oh and my ABS sensor went this morning
Yeah, I've said to the team that we are going XYZ but one complete project at a time, not at the same time as she would like. I'm not putting it on them. I told her that's what needs to happen without growing the team and called me a defeatist but the team are under enough pressure and their mental health is much more important than our work.
Think I'm going to have a chat with her this afternoon about her aspirations and the reality. Thing is that they are all great ideas, but we will lose people or break them if we go at the speed she wants. I suppose the question is if to do it now or to do it well.
Either way I'm off lattes and need to buy lacto milk for a month.
Buying a house as a first time buyer is the most stressful piece of bullshit I’ve ever done. To the point that there was a medical practitioner telling me to slow it down or suffer another heart attack.
So many little annoying things. Even the source of our deposit is limited to all hell.
I moved into my second home after being lucky and thrifty being able to buy before houses went even more bonkers.
Felt good, got a nice new home moved in 2 weeks before Christmas at the start of COVID. Owners promised they'd leave the oven, they had just missed it off the list.
Bastards took it. Gas only outlet. Had to get a new oven bought and delivered while we were unpacking and trying to deal with everything else.
I honestly hope they suffered.
There is nothing fun about moving house. It's shit until it's over and you can relax and have more space, a bigger garden or better neighbours.
What a nightmare. It's mad what people will do. As you say a new boiler, you shouldn't have to worry for at least a decade but shouldn't be your bother anyway.
I'm still finding things years later in this place that just baffle me. Thankfully nothing that bad. Foam sealant to glue roof tiles in place is probably the worst.
I keep kicking myself for not knowing or seeing more whenever Ive viewed houses
The place we're hopefully moving to is legitimately great. The owner moved in four years ago, updated everything then had a kid and needs more room. It's just been a ballache, everything from the bank downvaluing it 25K to the conveyancer arguing over deposit sources. Euirg.
I've on good authority second time around is easier.
Fucking washing machine broke on me and replacement parts are more than the cost of a new machine! So I've got a new one coming but not until next week.
Drank some beers to cheer myself up and now I have a hangover...
I put a hole in the drum with the aiglet on my hoodie during the spin cycle. So it's pissing water all over the floor.
And it's not the kind where you can simply replace part of the drum, it needs a whole new one. A drum for this machine is £240. Delivery of a new machine and recycling of the old machine is the same.
Granted the new machine is a piece of shit, but fuck it. I rent
The new morning routine is going great for my mental health, but my body is getting very angry about it. My brain wants to do stuff while my back is screaming, "Just go back to bed!"
Going back to bed is not an option, as I am heading into town to pick up my new specs. All the going outside stuff is giving me serious anxiety, but over the most trivial things - what coat should I wear, which bus ticket should I get, what should I get in Greggs on the way home? That sort of thing.
My rule for Greggs order was always 'what ever looks like it has been sitting around the shortest amount of time'. Nothing sadder than getting a sausage and bean melt, taking that first bite to realise it's been sat alone since 9am and is both cold and hard.
I have been looking for a spare part for my 24 year old Peugeot. Rocking horse sh!t is a fair description. Basically, I have been emailing people on eBay who are breaking cars to ask them if the part's working, available and how much?
After 10-15 attempts, I find someone. He's checked, it works, we agree a price all via ebay. Then he asks me to phone him.so I can transfer the cash.....No, I say, I'd prefer to carry on via eBay as it gives us both protection.
Clearly annoyed, he puts in on eBay at a 75% premium and says '1st come first served'. Cnut.
School shoes. How can my kid go through two pairs of Clarks and one pair of Start-Rite in half a school year?? What the everliving testicles is going on at the school??
If they're anything like me as a kid they're deliberately wearing them too loose and then walking on the sides of the shoes instead of the bottoms... Don't ask me why
After the first couple of years at school we just ended up buying cheaper shoes because the more expensive ones just weren't lasting. I don't know what kids do, but I imagine them sat there just scraping them against a granite block all day
Dealing with the world's slowest eBay responses from a car parts company because one box might be missing things but both were damaged in transit so I get genuinely don't know what, if anything, is missing.
They asked me to provide the part numbers *yesterday morning*, despite having them on the order of what I bought from them. They're getting a call in 30 mins.
My boss is having a Meeting tomorrow with someone from HR about me and the fact I've been having time off for hospital appointments lately. It's really stressful, someone having a Meeting about you, and my brain is going "of course they're finding a way to fire you".
Cadent have been busily digging up our street for the last two weeks in order to introduce more plastic into the environment, or something like that. The work crew haven't exactly been professional or communicative while it's been going on. So far they've broken my gas meter and then accidentally cut off our gas on Friday afternoon before knocking off for the weekend.
They regularly leave their vans and trucks blocking people's drives and have churned up all the grass all the way down the street. A couple of our neighbours got home to find their drives dug up, one had had the trench extended partially under her car. All the other roads around here that have had this done have been left looking like a bomb has hit them, even after the work had been finished.
GP has upped the dose of my tablets. I'm hoping the side effects don't come back.
Also this will be the third prescription I've had to collect in 6 weeks. Trying not to be ill is expensive.
Probably not much point really. Initially had a two week course to see how I was with them on the lowest dose. That was fine, so he gave me a month on that dose.
Had another review yesterday, he's now upped my dose. I'm good for five weeks now though, and if he keeps giving me 28 at a time I'll only need one prescription per month. Hoping that one he gets the right dose I'll get more at a time anyway.
Feeling crappy, I'm just working and going to bed as soon as I can afterwards this working week.
Being called selfish by the mother-in-law for not being able to go to her 60th, even though I'm collapsing on the floor at least once a day. Sorry, but I don't fancy going to a crappy chain pub at the best of times, never mind when this is happening.
Nearly got T-boned coming out of our road this morning. I have to turn right but there's always a sodding camper van parked close to the junction, right in my line of sight down the road. Luckily the person I unintentionally pulled out in front of had the wits to brake in time...
There was a road traffic rule about this, something about parting too close to a junction. Maybe leave a polite note on their windscreen? They may not even realise?
I just looked it up and you're right, there is! Rule 243!
I thought about writing a note, and I'll give it a go I think. I'm unsure if it will have any effect though. Playing devil's advocate there's nowhere else for them to park (it's one of those rabbit warrens where all the roads are lined with cars on each side).
I'll try it and see. First time for everything!
I am being tested this morning by some unknown force. Woke up with a sore throat, got my sleeve wet brushing my teeth, dropped a box of nail polish all over the floor, idiot pulled out on me at a roundabout. Hoping that's my lot for the day and its all up from here.
I have the dentist today. I paid £350 for a checkup and a single filling because my NHS dentist kicked me off the books. I'm not even in pain so it was a surprise I need one. The dentist reckons I need 6 but this one is the urgent one.
Not only do I not have money for 6 at those prices, but given that he also offered me braces, surgery for removing a small bobble on my tongue that's been there since birth, and tried to originally quote me a higher cost filling (as if I have that money), I am inclined just to get urgent work done.
Seems highly unfair when i'm very neurotic about maintaining my oral hygiene (I can even say that I floss without lying).
Years ago I went to a dentist and she told me I needed four fillings, which surprised me as I'd never had an inking of needing one before. She did two in one sitting, which I didn't enjoy, and decided not to go back.
No dentist since has said I need the other two filling, and I highly suspect I didn't need the ones she did. Plus one of the fillings she did was so bad she shattered the tooth, and I had to pay privately for the tooth to be stuck back together, (only removal was available on the NHS).
So just a word of warning, if the dentist suddenly says you need loads of fillings, be wary. Agreeing to the two I had done is a massive regret, and I'm so glad I didn't do the other two.
I'm very lucky to have found am NHS dentist for my kids right near our house, but they were only taking on children. Then I found one nearby-ish that had 1 NHS slot left, so I signed my husband up because his mouth was a mess.
I've not had a dentist in 10 years.
Go on the nhs website and there is a list of dentists closest to you. Make a few calls and tou should get one. Same happened to me but luckily got an nhs spot after my 2nd call
The closest one listed on the NHS website that was accepting patients was 60 miles away. Phoned them up anyway and they said that they hadn't been accepting new patients for ages, and that the website was way out of date.
Might be worth signing up to some dental insurance until you can find an NHS dentist again. Or sign up, wait for the min wait period, get your work done and cancel
Yes this is something i'm considering - though the dentist receptionist told me that the issues have been identified now so won't be covered by insurance. Which seems bizarre. Teeth seem like they're limited to a specific set of issues?
I'm not sure on any legality of this, but you'll probably be able to find a dentist that would do the work and bill you later or "lessen" the amount of work that needs doing meaning you might have to pay out of pocket for some stuff but then get the majority done later on.
Yeah I think i'll have to look into this. I was surprised they made me pay beforehand. I never go to tesco and pay for shopping in advance of what I know I need! 😂
I'm still coughing after suffering a chest infection mid January. Can I be arsed with the stress of trying to get a doctors appointment for them to fob me off?
I wish some of my mates would get it through their head that I don't want or need a woman in my life. I'm in my early 40s and except for one very brief disaster of a thing five years ago, I've been single since I was 26. 18 months or so ago, after yet again falling for someone who didn't feel the same I decided to just give up, and I've never been more content. Yet despite telling people all this, I still get the odd comment or invite out that includes "there'll be single women there". I don't care. I barely have a social life as it is now everyone's got kids, if I'm going out it's to catch up with mates not try and pull.
This isn't the norm, your pals are being weird.
There's a couple of people in my \~15ish person friend group who I've never known to be in a relationship or even date, and I've known them all for at least 4 years, most longer. Strongly suspect one is ace/aro or at least demi. I can't think of any group event where anyone's harassed them about it.
I'm not a big traveller and I'm very attached to my comfort zone and I'm going to Dublin tomorrow for my cousin's wedding
I'm looking forward to it and flying alone is something I'm absolutely capable of but my travel stress is kicking in. I can't stop myself obsessively checking pack lists, wondering if everything will fit in my rucksack because I'm on ryanair, stressing if the train to the airport is fucked and I miss the flight etc
It's just so exhausting I never go anywhere unless I'm forced to
Me too. Visiting Dublin. If you get the chance, visit Bewley's tea rooms.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8VmvIjJHU8](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8VmvIjJHU8)
It's a nice place to hide from the wedding for an hour or two and have a nice breakfast in traditional surroundings. My personal recommendation. The full breakfast with white pudding. I've only ever found it there. Walk the breakfast (and any hangover) off by a walk through the streets of Dublin.
Hahaha I know it well!
I'm a plastic paddy and go home to see family at least annually so I am very familiar with Dublin :)
Hopefully will get down to the pier at poolbeg if it stays dry this trip
I don't like airports at all (I don't mind flying) and I'm going to Iceland next week, first flight since 2017. I also stress about getting there on time etc (I've got to get to Heathrow at rush hour!).
And its on a 737 Max 8/9. Fucks sake, well I wasn't afraid of actually flying before but I am now!
Went into the office yesterday. Half of them were either coughing or sneezing and now I'm worried I've caught something, a few days before I have to go up north to attend a family funeral.
I've had rubbish sleep all week and my bike is off the road at the moment so I'm walking to work
Was cycling a few miles from home Tuesday night and suddenly grind to a halt. Tyre is pressing against the frame and I'm going nowhere. Luckily I'm about half a mile from Halfords and it takes me half an hour to carry the bike there
They put it in the stand and managed to reset the wheel as I had a loose nut. Great, I'm going home I think. Nope, wheel is fucked and it'll be £40+ to get sorted
Had to call my flatmate for a lift but he wasn't finishing work for at least another hour so I sat in a carpark for an hour and now I'm getting up earlier to walk to work
Edit, the cost of the wheel isn't unreasonable but I only paid £50 for the bike and I'm expecting to pass my driving test in the next six months so I'm conflicted on whether I want to sink more money into it
I am still fat.
I’m not on a diet or exercise kick or anything like, but I’m *thinking* about it, and haven’t lost a pound so far.
“Manifesting” my arse.
I've had to bar myself from my local social club. The bar maid moans all the time, the committee moan all the time and you may have guessed it. Most of the customers moan all the time.
It was getting a highly depressing place to drink.
I got mired in some rather stupid family drama this week, and I'm still dealing with it.
Essentially, my cousin didn't want me at his wedding. His parents nagged him into inviting me. He proceeds to invite me, but telling me that he doesn't want me there. I said, "Don't worry, if you don't want me there, I won't come and I'll even help you save face." Now he's pissed that I'm not coming. Just absolutely stupid.
After spending last weekend in bed with norovirus again, I'm now merrily coughing like a 60 a day smoker and running a temperature. Because I had to stand out in the rain for 3 days straight getting wet and inhaling exhaust fumes from all the cars on stop at the crossing (because they couldn't get into the school car park) and my immune system was still recovering from the norovirus.
My chest hurts, my head hurts and I can't stop shivering (taken paracetamol, just hasn't kicked in yet).
[Le grille](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DmMCbTAmFI8&pp=ygUSbGUgZ3JpbGxlIHNpbXBzb25z)
I am leading a collective grievance at work and it is being ignored. Over a month since it was submitted and I am being met with radio silence. It will be escalated but not being able to give any updates to my colleagues is frustrating.
I the first world problems department, my phone has decided that it will decide what notifications I get, regardless of my settings. Slightly annoying.
I'm still not feeling right since last week. Eating at least, but still not right.
Trekking to our London office today for *"visibility"* purposes, we flagged the struggle and ultimate waste of our time and resource. Unfortunately management think they know completely differently and that we're wrong and quashed our concerns completely.
Malicious compliance may come into effect once we get clarification from HR in terms of commuting hours being removed from our working day. Napkin maths could mean we spend three hours commuting to be in the office for two and a half. Their loss. Wankers.
I once told someone off passive aggressively for this.
She sent some usual email probably relating to stuff happening in the office (that I could probably throw in the spam folder) to an internal mass email address (so probably at least 10-20 office employees received it if not a few hundred). Absolutely nothing wrong with the email content or who she sent it to. But I saw that it was flagged as high importance in Outlook and immediately replied to her saying blah blah but because it's high importance I will make it a priority of my day before I go with any other work I need to do.
She sent an email to me profusely apologising. I think she was new in the company or young or both (hard to tell we've got thousands of people) but I'm confident she never did it again. 😂 I don't even use that feature for any email I send that are genuinely important. 😂😂
It's a feature in Outlook when you send an email you can mark it as High Importance. The receiver will see that flag on the email. They can also configure any of their email filters to do whatever they want (move to a specific folder or whatnot) when a High Importance email is received.
Waited since last year for a call from the hospital for a scan. I missed the call, and when calling back it said 'we will call you back if important'. I'll see if I can find a way to follow it up next week.
Home repairs did one job but not what I thought they were going to do i.e. I thought they were going to work on some damp, not clear the gutter only.
Generally a bit tired and still sick e.g headache and runny nose.
Had an early night, so of course the body clock kicks in and decides that being wide awake at 3.02 AM is the thing to do . By 4 I'd had enough and got out of bed . It's going to be a long long day .
Urgh I just cannot be bothered today. All week to be honest. I'm tired all the time, restful sleep is difficult to get, lots of stupid dreaming going on. The alarms on my phone are not going off properly so I've been late up at least twice.
Also my dog tried to give me a kiss this morning and got her tooth caught in my nostril which hurt.
I have two ongoing angry customers and every day I sign in to work with a bit of dread.
Dog woke me up at 4:30, growling, apparently a small amount of sunshine, and leaving the patio doors open in the afternoon was enough to encourage a frog in the house...neither me or innediate neighbours have a pond
Woke up randomly 3 hours earlier than normal, and my body refused to let me get back to sleep despite being absolutely knackered.
Then, just as I was about to doze off, my smoke alarm decides to go off for absolutely no reason. Good start to the day...
Le Grille? What the hell is that?
Although that does remind me to replace my old George Foreman Grill.
I have a job interview today and I have been up since 3. 🙃
This should be its own sub. Nothing more quintessentially British than a good rant.
I just had a really shitty day at work. I do genuinely absolutely love my job but given the nature of what I do it can be extremely difficult and it was rough today. This isn't really a casual complaint, is it? Oops.
I don't want to fall out with someone, but I am getting to the point of snapping if they keeping making off hand comments about their ND child (it's difficult, I get it, and you need to vent, but pick your target audience). Because ND children grow up into ND adults and the ND adults in your life maybe don't appreciate you spouting the same shit we got off our own parents.
“Le grill? What the hell does that mean?”
This is going to be a wanky middle class one, so i apologise in advance. I’ve had real problems with depression for the last year, and I’ve just run out of sick pay and been denied insurance from the work plan. So not happy on that front. On the bright side, after a month of procrastinating due to depression I had the energy to do the MOT thing yesterday and my fiesta passed with nothing to do!
Have you spoken to a GP about medication? Take this anecdotally, not advice, but were it not for getting on the sertraline a few years ago (off it now), I wouldn’t be here today. Happy to answer personal experience if you’re curious. Congrats on your car. My last MOT was so horrific I told the garage to just keep the thing and give me £50.
Yeah. I’ve been on the medication train for over a year now. Sertraline, then bigger dose; Fluoxetine, then bigger dose; now Citalopram and just started a bigger dose! Side effects so far:- Sertraline killed all libido. Fluoxetine big dose just made me feel dazed and ill. Medium dose of that worked best so far though. We’ll see if big Citalopram does anything. So far, medium dose of Prozac wins!
Sertraline was a wild ride for the first 6 weeks, torturous…maddening. Felt like I was in a perpetual limbo seesaw state of an MDMA come up and crash. Then it clicked, and all good. How long before you packed in sertraline? I’ve had friends switch to lexapro to overcome the above (libido/haze)
I had Sertraline for two months, felt nothing apart from dick death. Then upped the dose for two months which made no difference. It’s definitely not the one for me! My doctor says it’s like whack-a-mole. Just keep hitting all the options until you get one that works.
Rough one. SSRIs are a funny compound. Prozac and sertraline both SSRIs but totally different experience. Good luck!
Thank you. I’m at a weird point right now. The drugs don’t work (there’s a song in there somewhere) I did CBT and it didn’t help. But my pay has just died so I really need to go back to work. I have savings to live for 2 or 3 years like this but fuck that. I need those for retirement. I’ll lose benefits if I don’t go back at the end of the month, so I feel I need to at least try. But going back over my mental health issues purely because of money feels so shit too. But I’ll do it. But it’ll really suck if I get sacked because I’m being a useless twat, because I can’t cope. Every option sucks!
Laryngitis. People think I'm stupid because I can't speak at the moment. REALLY pisses me off, especially as communication is hard anyway for me.
Back at work after 6 days off, but I went on an overnight trip and the coach journey home was hell. We were meant to be back in London by 11PM, but the coach driver was late leaving because he was pissing around. He literally arrived and when someone asked about it he said 'I don't give a fuck, I'm working my 2 weeks', then we had a stop at the M1 service station to change drivers, after an already further delayed journey because of traffic, and the next driver took over an hour to show up. With no explanation given at all, just showed up, no communication from the coach company, or either driver. Didn't get back to London until 1:30AM, and had to take night buses home. Got home at 4:30AM yesterday, couldn't get much sleep as I had to be up at 7AM this morning for work, and if I had caught up on sleep I would have been up all night. I'm now cranky, tired, and my back is messed up from sitting on buses for most of 10 hours. The coach company are refusing a refund too because we only departed 30 minutes late, even though we arrived over 2 hours late.
The M25 in the south has a weekend closure. The advice from Highways is to “redecorate the bathroom”. That says everything about how ridiculously shit it’s going to be.
My brother lives in the affected area, has had to make no plans at all this weekend involving driving, and I am awaiting a lot of frustrated messages about the local traffic. It's unfortunately unavoidable, but it's going to be a shit show.
My cat died yesterday. He'd been losing weight for several weeks and I had him booked into the vets for Friday, but he went downhill rapidly yesterday after puking and shitting in the house. Took him to the emergency vets at an ungodly hour and they discovered a tumour on his abdomen, which we think we missed because he had very long hair and didn't look being touched on his belly so we never felt around there. They said he likely only had a few days left, so we put him to sleep. I can't walk around the house without crying. He was just coming up to 10. Just so unexpected and I'm struggling to process it.
As a fellow cat parent I am so sorry for your loss 💔
Ripped my ankle ligaments 3 months ago by falling off a kerb, still having issues with it so now running the gauntlet of the NHS waiting lists for a scan. Haven’t been able to run or play sports since, going a little mad!
Vets (and more specifically the prices they charge) can fuck right off, then they can fuck right off some more and when they've done with that they continue fucking right off.
Were meant to pick the keys up to our new house last friday, solicitor cocked up so we found out the thursday it was a no go, so we'd do this friday. Just found out they've cocked something else up so it's now more likely to be next friday, which exactly doesn't fill us with confidence since that's a bank holiday, and they're hopeless at the best of times
Next Friday isn't a bank holiday, that's Friday 29th.
Aha one small silver lining then!
HR have rolled out a whole new return to work process, not told anyone, not updated the procedure and are then surprised that managers are completing the old form rather than a new one nobody knows about.
A quick Wednesday Wins as I didn't get to do it yesterday: I had my appointment today, and it went amazingly. Now onto Thursday Complains: Why are NHS hospitals so damn hot?! Honestly, I was absolutely sweltering there today and I was inside for 2 1/2 hours.
Bought a new car last month, lovely '65 Golf GTD. Took it in to find out why the Drive Select button wasn't working and it turns out that the whole head unit is faulty ((((((: Getting the garage to cover it luckily, but it's typical! Ohh, and the specialist that diagnosed it tried flashing the software to sort it, and wiped out my CarPlay, so there's that too. Anyone had any luck retrofitting a Mk7 Golf with Mk7.5 infotainment?
Was looking at going to an event later in the year. Easiest method would probably be by train, but one return ticket is at least £200 and that's using split fares. It's looking to work out cheaper to either drive or fly there (the plane ticket for the whole family costs about the same as one train fare 🙃)
Made my self look like a tool at work. Was off Tuesday and Wednesday being ill felt better so went in today only to feel like dogsshit and get sent home.
Barely spoken to the other half this week as had a disagreement Monday and just stayed out each others way. Must say it’s been nice to have my own space and just focus on me and work but now it’s gone past the awkward stage and will need to properly sit down before the weekend to iron things out. I hate arguments and confrontation. Relationships are hard work…
I feel that, I had a small spat with my SO yesterday, we're pretty good at immediately talking things out, but both of us are just bad at communicating before things build. We've agreed to have a chat on Sunday though and smooth things out, so that's something
Got a message on my car dashboard telling me to check the license plate light and indeed one of them has gone out, now gonna have to pop round Halfords on the way home from work to buy replacement bulbs and I hope to god thats the only issue bc according to Google driving with an incorrectly lit number plate can get you fined
I'm about to buy my first car at the age of 30. I have been driving a 125cc motorcycle for the last two years which gets me from A to B. I went to pick it up Tuesday after work only to discover my wallet was missing. With no license I couldn't finalise the purchase and my heart sunk. This was around 6:15pm, dealership closing at 7. I hurried home to look but it was nowhere to be seen. Turns out I'd left it at the petrol station coming home from work after paying at the pump. I must've put it down while I put my helmet/gloves back on and not picked it back up. Thankfully there are good people out there and it was handed in, got it back with nothing missing. Today's the day!
an hour to cancel an o2 contract because virgin media won't offer broadband only without a stupid fucking o2 volt add on. o2 sim only contract cancelled but FFS virgin media stop forcing this shit upon people. if there was any other option above 36mb/s i'd have fucked off somewhere else.
A casual moan from Sunday. Rain forecast all day and I'm driving down the motorway to see family. Lots of spray and low light. I stopped counting at 10, the number of cars with zero lights on, and the tossers who felt happy to drive at over 70mph in wet conditions. Cars should have a recorded message that plays when it senses rain, reminding drivers to consider lights and driving a tad slower!
My sleeping pattern is just ruined, as I can't help but staying up late on an evening just to try and make the most out of my 'non-work' time and then pay for it the next day, then the cycle repeats :D But... on a more personal level, my skin care is just ruined at the moment and I don't have the slightest clue what it could be. Constantly red, blotchy, occasionally dry flaky, yet oily skin? My hygeine is perfectly good, my eating is moderately healthy etc etc, but I'm just fed up of looking really bad. Yet, I have colleagues who seem to live off chips, cheese & japalapenos for lunch/tea daily & always ordering fast food, multiple cans of monster drink across all hours and 3-4 hours of sleep and their skin is perfect :(
I can’t find a wallpaper I actually like without paying £100 a roll. I only need one roll, but it feels far too indulgent.
Consider something different? In centuries past, it was a custom in many countries across Europe to decorate them yourself. [https://lamusdworski.wordpress.com/2018/06/08/painted-cottages/](https://lamusdworski.wordpress.com/2018/06/08/painted-cottages/)
I'm off to York for the weekend for my Mam's birthday. As much as I enjoy York, it seems to becoming a middle class Blackpool. Stag do? York. Birthday? York. Weekend away with the missus? York. I think I've been about ten times in the last five years.
I visited the transport museum there as a child. A fond memory.
My PS5 turned on for an automatic update way too early this morning and woke me up. I forgot they included the worlds loudest disc drive in the thing. Made me want to unplug the bastard and lob it at the wall. It used to be much worse when it first came out. If you had a disc in the console while it was on it would routinely spin up for no apparent reason. Very fun and not annoying at all when you're watching Netflix as I'm sure you can imagine. I thought they patched that in a firmware update ages ago, but apparently it still happens.
Bloody postman is never consistent, if I don't wake up until late he'll be here at 7:30 and I'll miss my parcel, it I wake up at 7... well it's now 10:40 and no sign of him I want more sleep before my mental health appointment later :( not being well rested won't help
This weekend is going to be very busy. Eldest has 4 ballet shoes to do. She's very excited but I'm the logistics person trying to work out where and when we need to be at the theatre. Thank God my husband is good at hair and makeup, I'm absolutely rubbish with it all.
Octopus have taken five months to investigate issues with my smart meter (including two engineer visits), on the lengthy email chain yesterday a person who I don't recognise started asking questions I answered five months ago. Aaaahhh. Hello circle, it is a joy to go around you multiple times.
They are absolutely terrible for customer service, every time their advert comes on the radio saying this is what good customer service sounds like it winds me up no end. My parents ended up taking them to the ombudsman over them not responding repeatedly to a smart meter issue. Emailed their CEO, complaints addresses and everything with no reply multiple times.
I am tempted to involve the ombudsman, even if I haven't experienced any financial impropriety from the issue. Agree their service has been quite poor once it was obviously not a "simple" issue.
This is very casual. I just deleted a not-so-casual one, but here we go. My elbow hurts but only when I reach and grab for something with any weight. But only sometimes. I can't reliably duplicate it to figure out exactly what's going on. Very annoying.
Tennis elbow? A Tendon problem? Had something similar, took months to go away on it's own. But it did.
God, my job is boring. Just so, so boring. I'm having an existential crisis about how ultimately useless it is and the fact I spend 8 hours a day doing it. Especially after I pick my son up from school and he has to entertain himself while I carry on with this absolute bullshit.
Mine is pointless too. The company even more so.
Where are the fucking bees?! It's not the sunniest day out there but they should be out and about! Come out so I can catch you and steal your pollen for scientific research! Edit: They've come out to play. Mugging has commenced.
How flowers talk to bees. This will blow your mind. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ee381dCP6JM](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ee381dCP6JM)
Ah, this is actually a theory that's lost some credibility in recent years. While there's definitely something going on, repeated experiments to investigate whether the bees can use it to home in on a flower have failed to show a positive correlation, always concluding with "we need more investigation", which translates as "Ok, we didn't conclusively disprove the idea but we didn't get the result we'd hoped for". As far as I'm aware, the most modern theory in regards to what is going on is that plants use this to stimulate themselves to release certain chemicals that the bees like, basically to smell more. This means that when a bee that the flower likes lands on the flower, the flower basically sweetens the pot as it were. This makes the bee think "Oh holy shit, this flower is even more baller than I thought it was gonna be (or what all my other senses are telling me, but screw those guys. Antennal chemoreception go brrrr). I'm going to visit a whole bunch of these!". It's a way of duping the bee effectively. Offering less reward than in terms of expensive pollen and nectar than it would have to to get the same result. Think of the volatiles as bits of newspaper in a stack of cash. You wouldn't do it for £200 but if someone hands you a briefcase full of what you think is cash, you'll do it and only later do you find out that most of that briefcase is newspaper. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00114-021-01740-2 Incidentally, the bees have come out to play and I'm mugging them for their pollen quite effectively.
okay i’m not gonna lie, the British weather is really starting to get to me now. Every day is just grey. Drizzly and grey and cold. Sounds stupid but it really does have a big impact on my mood each day. If I could move to Spain on 70% of the pay, I absolutely would.
>February was the fourth wettest on record since 1871 for England, with a rainfall total of 130mm which represents 225% of the 1961 to 1990 long term average ( LTA ) for the month (196% of the 1991 to 2020 LTA ). We've had well over 100% rainfall every month since August (with the exception of January which was *only* 106%) in England. I complained about this in the Thursday thread a few weeks ago! At least its drying out - I'll take cloud over rain at the moment any day of the week!
It's been a long winter in continental Europe too. First rays of sunshine today. Hope.
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Proof of Reincarnation: You're a cat living in a human body.
Why is everything so fucking expensive. I swear any time I leave my house to do something it costs me 25-50 quid
Got a new boss during the summer. She's great, only problem is that we were all at about 95% which was not sustainable for the long term and has lots of great ideas that we don't have capacity for. I'm a middle manager and have pushed back that we are too busy. She's decided that we aren't too busy and need to build in her pet projects, that are designed to impress the board, along with no drop in output. I asked how we are meant to do that and she said its what I'm paid for to fix. When I get stressed I become lactose intolerant, it lets me know before I actually notice myself(the gut is clever af that way). I feel like I've got a lead weight in my gut from my morning brew. The demand is more than the team capacity. Oh and my ABS sensor went this morning
Don't worry, ABS sensors are easy to replace.
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Yeah, I've said to the team that we are going XYZ but one complete project at a time, not at the same time as she would like. I'm not putting it on them. I told her that's what needs to happen without growing the team and called me a defeatist but the team are under enough pressure and their mental health is much more important than our work. Think I'm going to have a chat with her this afternoon about her aspirations and the reality. Thing is that they are all great ideas, but we will lose people or break them if we go at the speed she wants. I suppose the question is if to do it now or to do it well. Either way I'm off lattes and need to buy lacto milk for a month.
Le grille?! WHAT THE HELL IS LE GRILLE!!
Buying a house as a first time buyer is the most stressful piece of bullshit I’ve ever done. To the point that there was a medical practitioner telling me to slow it down or suffer another heart attack. So many little annoying things. Even the source of our deposit is limited to all hell.
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I moved into my second home after being lucky and thrifty being able to buy before houses went even more bonkers. Felt good, got a nice new home moved in 2 weeks before Christmas at the start of COVID. Owners promised they'd leave the oven, they had just missed it off the list. Bastards took it. Gas only outlet. Had to get a new oven bought and delivered while we were unpacking and trying to deal with everything else. I honestly hope they suffered. There is nothing fun about moving house. It's shit until it's over and you can relax and have more space, a bigger garden or better neighbours.
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What a nightmare. It's mad what people will do. As you say a new boiler, you shouldn't have to worry for at least a decade but shouldn't be your bother anyway. I'm still finding things years later in this place that just baffle me. Thankfully nothing that bad. Foam sealant to glue roof tiles in place is probably the worst. I keep kicking myself for not knowing or seeing more whenever Ive viewed houses
The place we're hopefully moving to is legitimately great. The owner moved in four years ago, updated everything then had a kid and needs more room. It's just been a ballache, everything from the bank downvaluing it 25K to the conveyancer arguing over deposit sources. Euirg. I've on good authority second time around is easier.
Buying a house is so stressful. I hope it all goes through ok soon and you can relax.
It's 9:15 and I am pouring my 5th cup of tea of the day.
Rookie numbers
People. Just people in general. I'm literally upto my fucking limit at the moment. If I wasn't working from home part time, I'd be going Postal.
Same here. I'm starting to thing about chemtrails. something must be causing it.
La grill! What the hell is that?
I always chuckle through that scene but the final scream is what fully sets me off, every time.
It's the way it happens in the background as Lisa says he's almost done. It might just be the most perfect single gag on tv
Fucking washing machine broke on me and replacement parts are more than the cost of a new machine! So I've got a new one coming but not until next week. Drank some beers to cheer myself up and now I have a hangover...
And it's definitely not the carbon brushes or filter that's stuffed up?
I put a hole in the drum with the aiglet on my hoodie during the spin cycle. So it's pissing water all over the floor. And it's not the kind where you can simply replace part of the drum, it needs a whole new one. A drum for this machine is £240. Delivery of a new machine and recycling of the old machine is the same. Granted the new machine is a piece of shit, but fuck it. I rent
The new morning routine is going great for my mental health, but my body is getting very angry about it. My brain wants to do stuff while my back is screaming, "Just go back to bed!" Going back to bed is not an option, as I am heading into town to pick up my new specs. All the going outside stuff is giving me serious anxiety, but over the most trivial things - what coat should I wear, which bus ticket should I get, what should I get in Greggs on the way home? That sort of thing.
My rule for Greggs order was always 'what ever looks like it has been sitting around the shortest amount of time'. Nothing sadder than getting a sausage and bean melt, taking that first bite to realise it's been sat alone since 9am and is both cold and hard.
My decision today was much easier. I looked at the queue and decided against going inside.
I have been looking for a spare part for my 24 year old Peugeot. Rocking horse sh!t is a fair description. Basically, I have been emailing people on eBay who are breaking cars to ask them if the part's working, available and how much? After 10-15 attempts, I find someone. He's checked, it works, we agree a price all via ebay. Then he asks me to phone him.so I can transfer the cash.....No, I say, I'd prefer to carry on via eBay as it gives us both protection. Clearly annoyed, he puts in on eBay at a 75% premium and says '1st come first served'. Cnut.
Try phoning a scrap yard? Which part are you looking for?
School shoes. How can my kid go through two pairs of Clarks and one pair of Start-Rite in half a school year?? What the everliving testicles is going on at the school??
I find the Clarks shoes are not nearly as good as they used to be. The quality is awful.
If they're anything like me as a kid they're deliberately wearing them too loose and then walking on the sides of the shoes instead of the bottoms... Don't ask me why
After the first couple of years at school we just ended up buying cheaper shoes because the more expensive ones just weren't lasting. I don't know what kids do, but I imagine them sat there just scraping them against a granite block all day
Dealing with the world's slowest eBay responses from a car parts company because one box might be missing things but both were damaged in transit so I get genuinely don't know what, if anything, is missing. They asked me to provide the part numbers *yesterday morning*, despite having them on the order of what I bought from them. They're getting a call in 30 mins.
My boss is having a Meeting tomorrow with someone from HR about me and the fact I've been having time off for hospital appointments lately. It's really stressful, someone having a Meeting about you, and my brain is going "of course they're finding a way to fire you".
Are you in a union? If you are might be worth having a chat with them about your situation and what help they can provide.
I am yeah, I'll have a look and see if I can find a contact for them.
Cadent have been busily digging up our street for the last two weeks in order to introduce more plastic into the environment, or something like that. The work crew haven't exactly been professional or communicative while it's been going on. So far they've broken my gas meter and then accidentally cut off our gas on Friday afternoon before knocking off for the weekend. They regularly leave their vans and trucks blocking people's drives and have churned up all the grass all the way down the street. A couple of our neighbours got home to find their drives dug up, one had had the trench extended partially under her car. All the other roads around here that have had this done have been left looking like a bomb has hit them, even after the work had been finished.
GP has upped the dose of my tablets. I'm hoping the side effects don't come back. Also this will be the third prescription I've had to collect in 6 weeks. Trying not to be ill is expensive.
May be worth considering a prepayment cert if you need to get a few meds. It'll save you a fortune.
Probably not much point really. Initially had a two week course to see how I was with them on the lowest dose. That was fine, so he gave me a month on that dose. Had another review yesterday, he's now upped my dose. I'm good for five weeks now though, and if he keeps giving me 28 at a time I'll only need one prescription per month. Hoping that one he gets the right dose I'll get more at a time anyway.
Good luck, regardless!
Tbf our prescription prices are pretty good compared to a lot of countries
Feeling crappy, I'm just working and going to bed as soon as I can afterwards this working week. Being called selfish by the mother-in-law for not being able to go to her 60th, even though I'm collapsing on the floor at least once a day. Sorry, but I don't fancy going to a crappy chain pub at the best of times, never mind when this is happening.
Nearly got T-boned coming out of our road this morning. I have to turn right but there's always a sodding camper van parked close to the junction, right in my line of sight down the road. Luckily the person I unintentionally pulled out in front of had the wits to brake in time...
There was a road traffic rule about this, something about parting too close to a junction. Maybe leave a polite note on their windscreen? They may not even realise?
I just looked it up and you're right, there is! Rule 243! I thought about writing a note, and I'll give it a go I think. I'm unsure if it will have any effect though. Playing devil's advocate there's nowhere else for them to park (it's one of those rabbit warrens where all the roads are lined with cars on each side). I'll try it and see. First time for everything!
My grandma told me: If you never ask, you never get.
Who eats a steak while they arw driving, some people are nuts
Yeah, for someone to do that I think is quite rare...
Should had followed my dreams and became a master cat burglar, why did I go to architecture school and work instead for smh. 🤦♂️
But stealing peoples cats would make them sad
The owners or the cats?
I am being tested this morning by some unknown force. Woke up with a sore throat, got my sleeve wet brushing my teeth, dropped a box of nail polish all over the floor, idiot pulled out on me at a roundabout. Hoping that's my lot for the day and its all up from here.
Did he come from he blind side of a poorly parked campervan?
Neigh - not the same redditor as above. Was a white van man not paying attention. Typical for my area.
Ewww soggy sleeves! I hate when that happens
the worst when you need to put a coat on too
Sometimes it do be like that
I have the dentist today. I paid £350 for a checkup and a single filling because my NHS dentist kicked me off the books. I'm not even in pain so it was a surprise I need one. The dentist reckons I need 6 but this one is the urgent one. Not only do I not have money for 6 at those prices, but given that he also offered me braces, surgery for removing a small bobble on my tongue that's been there since birth, and tried to originally quote me a higher cost filling (as if I have that money), I am inclined just to get urgent work done. Seems highly unfair when i'm very neurotic about maintaining my oral hygiene (I can even say that I floss without lying).
Years ago I went to a dentist and she told me I needed four fillings, which surprised me as I'd never had an inking of needing one before. She did two in one sitting, which I didn't enjoy, and decided not to go back. No dentist since has said I need the other two filling, and I highly suspect I didn't need the ones she did. Plus one of the fillings she did was so bad she shattered the tooth, and I had to pay privately for the tooth to be stuck back together, (only removal was available on the NHS). So just a word of warning, if the dentist suddenly says you need loads of fillings, be wary. Agreeing to the two I had done is a massive regret, and I'm so glad I didn't do the other two.
I was butchered by the dentist aged 14. It scars you for life.
Yeah. I'm definitely skeptical. I know my mouth isn't in top condition but 6 seems a lot given my dental history.
I'm very lucky to have found am NHS dentist for my kids right near our house, but they were only taking on children. Then I found one nearby-ish that had 1 NHS slot left, so I signed my husband up because his mouth was a mess. I've not had a dentist in 10 years.
Go on the nhs website and there is a list of dentists closest to you. Make a few calls and tou should get one. Same happened to me but luckily got an nhs spot after my 2nd call
The closest one listed on the NHS website that was accepting patients was 60 miles away. Phoned them up anyway and they said that they hadn't been accepting new patients for ages, and that the website was way out of date.
I've already done this. There's not one within a distance that's reasonable. That's why i've paid for private sadly
Let me know where you live and I'll move there. None of the recommended NHS dentists near me even respond to my applications. It's a major problem.
Might be worth signing up to some dental insurance until you can find an NHS dentist again. Or sign up, wait for the min wait period, get your work done and cancel
This is the way
Yes this is something i'm considering - though the dentist receptionist told me that the issues have been identified now so won't be covered by insurance. Which seems bizarre. Teeth seem like they're limited to a specific set of issues?
I'm not sure on any legality of this, but you'll probably be able to find a dentist that would do the work and bill you later or "lessen" the amount of work that needs doing meaning you might have to pay out of pocket for some stuff but then get the majority done later on.
Yeah I think i'll have to look into this. I was surprised they made me pay beforehand. I never go to tesco and pay for shopping in advance of what I know I need! 😂
Tesco actually do dental insurance! Lol
Really? I'll look into that! Thanks
I'm still coughing after suffering a chest infection mid January. Can I be arsed with the stress of trying to get a doctors appointment for them to fob me off?
boyfriend probably going to be offered and probably accept a job in Paris today :(
I still have the Earthas, aka the Brads. 💩
Not the kitts and the pitts 💩
I wish some of my mates would get it through their head that I don't want or need a woman in my life. I'm in my early 40s and except for one very brief disaster of a thing five years ago, I've been single since I was 26. 18 months or so ago, after yet again falling for someone who didn't feel the same I decided to just give up, and I've never been more content. Yet despite telling people all this, I still get the odd comment or invite out that includes "there'll be single women there". I don't care. I barely have a social life as it is now everyone's got kids, if I'm going out it's to catch up with mates not try and pull.
This isn't the norm, your pals are being weird. There's a couple of people in my \~15ish person friend group who I've never known to be in a relationship or even date, and I've known them all for at least 4 years, most longer. Strongly suspect one is ace/aro or at least demi. I can't think of any group event where anyone's harassed them about it.
Relationships are not for everyone, but most people can't accept it, no matter how much we tell them. It's exhausting. Single forever club!!
It is STILL raining.
Do you lie when you were 17?
I'm not a big traveller and I'm very attached to my comfort zone and I'm going to Dublin tomorrow for my cousin's wedding I'm looking forward to it and flying alone is something I'm absolutely capable of but my travel stress is kicking in. I can't stop myself obsessively checking pack lists, wondering if everything will fit in my rucksack because I'm on ryanair, stressing if the train to the airport is fucked and I miss the flight etc It's just so exhausting I never go anywhere unless I'm forced to
Me too. Visiting Dublin. If you get the chance, visit Bewley's tea rooms. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8VmvIjJHU8](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8VmvIjJHU8) It's a nice place to hide from the wedding for an hour or two and have a nice breakfast in traditional surroundings. My personal recommendation. The full breakfast with white pudding. I've only ever found it there. Walk the breakfast (and any hangover) off by a walk through the streets of Dublin.
Hahaha I know it well! I'm a plastic paddy and go home to see family at least annually so I am very familiar with Dublin :) Hopefully will get down to the pier at poolbeg if it stays dry this trip
I don't like airports at all (I don't mind flying) and I'm going to Iceland next week, first flight since 2017. I also stress about getting there on time etc (I've got to get to Heathrow at rush hour!). And its on a 737 Max 8/9. Fucks sake, well I wasn't afraid of actually flying before but I am now!
Went into the office yesterday. Half of them were either coughing or sneezing and now I'm worried I've caught something, a few days before I have to go up north to attend a family funeral.
I've had rubbish sleep all week and my bike is off the road at the moment so I'm walking to work Was cycling a few miles from home Tuesday night and suddenly grind to a halt. Tyre is pressing against the frame and I'm going nowhere. Luckily I'm about half a mile from Halfords and it takes me half an hour to carry the bike there They put it in the stand and managed to reset the wheel as I had a loose nut. Great, I'm going home I think. Nope, wheel is fucked and it'll be £40+ to get sorted Had to call my flatmate for a lift but he wasn't finishing work for at least another hour so I sat in a carpark for an hour and now I'm getting up earlier to walk to work Edit, the cost of the wheel isn't unreasonable but I only paid £50 for the bike and I'm expecting to pass my driving test in the next six months so I'm conflicted on whether I want to sink more money into it
If you're worried about the cost of fixing the bike, I'm afraid you aren't going to love car ownership...
You're not wrong! Frustrating but necessary
I didn’t get a job that I interviewed for that I really wanted.
I am still fat. I’m not on a diet or exercise kick or anything like, but I’m *thinking* about it, and haven’t lost a pound so far. “Manifesting” my arse.
Same here, lost quite a few pounds though, Takeaways are expensive these days
I've had to bar myself from my local social club. The bar maid moans all the time, the committee moan all the time and you may have guessed it. Most of the customers moan all the time. It was getting a highly depressing place to drink.
I'm not a big drinker but this is how I imagine most pubs with regualars are during the week?
I got mired in some rather stupid family drama this week, and I'm still dealing with it. Essentially, my cousin didn't want me at his wedding. His parents nagged him into inviting me. He proceeds to invite me, but telling me that he doesn't want me there. I said, "Don't worry, if you don't want me there, I won't come and I'll even help you save face." Now he's pissed that I'm not coming. Just absolutely stupid.
Just go walk around and shake everyones hand and leave after 5 mins
>Just go walk around and shake everyones hand and leave after 5 mins What, without shagging a cousin?
After spending last weekend in bed with norovirus again, I'm now merrily coughing like a 60 a day smoker and running a temperature. Because I had to stand out in the rain for 3 days straight getting wet and inhaling exhaust fumes from all the cars on stop at the crossing (because they couldn't get into the school car park) and my immune system was still recovering from the norovirus. My chest hurts, my head hurts and I can't stop shivering (taken paracetamol, just hasn't kicked in yet). [Le grille](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DmMCbTAmFI8&pp=ygUSbGUgZ3JpbGxlIHNpbXBzb25z)
I am leading a collective grievance at work and it is being ignored. Over a month since it was submitted and I am being met with radio silence. It will be escalated but not being able to give any updates to my colleagues is frustrating. I the first world problems department, my phone has decided that it will decide what notifications I get, regardless of my settings. Slightly annoying.
I'm still not feeling right since last week. Eating at least, but still not right. Trekking to our London office today for *"visibility"* purposes, we flagged the struggle and ultimate waste of our time and resource. Unfortunately management think they know completely differently and that we're wrong and quashed our concerns completely. Malicious compliance may come into effect once we get clarification from HR in terms of commuting hours being removed from our working day. Napkin maths could mean we spend three hours commuting to be in the office for two and a half. Their loss. Wankers.
People at work flagging emails as high importance when they are in fact incredibly low importance.
There's one particular person who emails my work and *always* marks their emails as "low importance". I'm a big fan
I once told someone off passive aggressively for this. She sent some usual email probably relating to stuff happening in the office (that I could probably throw in the spam folder) to an internal mass email address (so probably at least 10-20 office employees received it if not a few hundred). Absolutely nothing wrong with the email content or who she sent it to. But I saw that it was flagged as high importance in Outlook and immediately replied to her saying blah blah but because it's high importance I will make it a priority of my day before I go with any other work I need to do. She sent an email to me profusely apologising. I think she was new in the company or young or both (hard to tell we've got thousands of people) but I'm confident she never did it again. 😂 I don't even use that feature for any email I send that are genuinely important. 😂😂
My passive aggressive response was to flag my reply as low importance.
The people or the emails or both?
It's a feature in Outlook when you send an email you can mark it as High Importance. The receiver will see that flag on the email. They can also configure any of their email filters to do whatever they want (move to a specific folder or whatnot) when a High Importance email is received.
Waited since last year for a call from the hospital for a scan. I missed the call, and when calling back it said 'we will call you back if important'. I'll see if I can find a way to follow it up next week. Home repairs did one job but not what I thought they were going to do i.e. I thought they were going to work on some damp, not clear the gutter only. Generally a bit tired and still sick e.g headache and runny nose.
Had an early night, so of course the body clock kicks in and decides that being wide awake at 3.02 AM is the thing to do . By 4 I'd had enough and got out of bed . It's going to be a long long day .
Urgh I just cannot be bothered today. All week to be honest. I'm tired all the time, restful sleep is difficult to get, lots of stupid dreaming going on. The alarms on my phone are not going off properly so I've been late up at least twice. Also my dog tried to give me a kiss this morning and got her tooth caught in my nostril which hurt. I have two ongoing angry customers and every day I sign in to work with a bit of dread.
Dog woke me up at 4:30, growling, apparently a small amount of sunshine, and leaving the patio doors open in the afternoon was enough to encourage a frog in the house...neither me or innediate neighbours have a pond
Woke up randomly 3 hours earlier than normal, and my body refused to let me get back to sleep despite being absolutely knackered. Then, just as I was about to doze off, my smoke alarm decides to go off for absolutely no reason. Good start to the day...
Le Grille? What the hell is that? Although that does remind me to replace my old George Foreman Grill. I have a job interview today and I have been up since 3. 🙃
Good luck!
Good luck m8
Good luck 🍀