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Post by theatrelegofan87 on Nov 12, 2021 22:16:00 GMT
Signed of work today
Nearly took my life last night so not feeling great 😪 . Depression getting worse and last night i wasnt actually scared to go through with it.
Sorry to be such a debbiedowner everybody
Christmas is my favourite time of the year and i feel so low and isolated i have a few friends . Last night i went to see steps and i loved it. But my anxiety was so bad i kept checking the setlist 😪 desperate for when i could go home. I even left before the last song “TRAGEDY”
Sincerely, A
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Post by stevemar on Nov 12, 2021 22:49:38 GMT
Hi A, Thank you for positing here. I am no expert, but you are amongst online friends and won’t be judged for reaching out, which is the first step you’ve taken. Do consider contacting the Samaritans www.samaritans.org/how-we-can-help/contact-samaritan/ Or, if you prefer text giveusashout.org/Finally, this charity is excellent too for ongoing support. www.listeningplace.org.uk/Of course, there is your GP too. My experience is that they will be able to help you also. Please do speak to someone who will be able to listen to you and they are trained so you can talk freely with them. I wish you well. S
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Post by The Matthew on Nov 15, 2021 13:43:46 GMT
I've just seen a story about how robot bartenders could replace human bar staff,
The CEO of one company manufacturing them claims that people talking to the bar staff is a cliche from the movies and doesn't happen in real life. That's not true of any place I've ever been; in fact, the friendliness of the staff is one of the make-or-break factors for me in whether I'll go back to somewhere. (To be fair, there may be a use for these robots in places such as airports where there's not really any such thing as a regular.) Partially contradicting himself, he also says that his robots will use AI to be able to engage punters in conversation. I'm guessing that he's new to the Internet, because the experience of the past couple of decades suggests that when people encounter a conversational AI they'll invariably attempt to turn it into as extreme a bigot as they can. I reckon it'll be swearing at customers within a couple of hours and advocating genocide in under a week.
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Post by Jon on Nov 15, 2021 13:58:46 GMT
I've just seen a story about how robot bartenders could replace human bar staff,
The CEO of one company manufacturing them claims that people talking to the bar staff is a cliche from the movies and doesn't happen in real life. That's not true of any place I've ever been; in fact, the friendliness of the staff is one of the make-or-break factors for me in whether I'll go back to somewhere. (To be fair, there may be a use for these robots in places such as airports where there's not really any such thing as a regular.) Partially contradicting himself, he also says that his robots will use AI to be able to engage punters in conversation. I'm guessing that he's new to the Internet, because the experience of the past couple of decades suggests that when people encounter a conversational AI they'll invariably attempt to turn it into as extreme a bigot as they can. I reckon it'll be swearing at customers within a couple of hours and advocating genocide in under a week.
I sometimes wonder if CEOs advocating robots for replacing humans in certain roles have ever seen Terminator or Westworld.
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Post by ruby on Nov 18, 2021 17:07:44 GMT
Got myself to London for a short break. Now enjoying a Kir Royale and dinner before Dear Evan Hansen. It's nice being by myself and people-watching!
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Post by Forrest on Nov 19, 2021 19:37:23 GMT
OMG, The Matthew, I've laughed way too hard at that last sentence of your post, although it is sadly true. (The popular science articles on that never fail to amaze and shock me.) I agree, though: a friendly face often makes up for bad coffee, and just about everything else. I hate the idea of buying coffee from an AI.
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Post by The Matthew on Nov 27, 2021 9:49:04 GMT
I'm getting a flu vaccination today. There's a huge belt of rain sweeping across the country. It's due to reach me just as I have to start walking to the doctor and it'll have passed just about the time I get home again.
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Post by Dawnstar on Nov 27, 2021 10:28:17 GMT
I'm on a train to London (heaving & hardly anyone masked) & the nearer it gets the more threating the sky looks. Please let the rain hold off until I get to the ROH. I don't mind if I get soaked walking back to Kings Cross afterwards but I don't want to spend 2 hours of ballet feeling like I'm getting hypothermia & trench foot!
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Post by The Matthew on Nov 27, 2021 10:51:11 GMT
Looking at the rainfall radar it seems it'll be passing over London from around 11:00 to 11:45, and it seems to be getting lighter.
(Rainfall radar is cool.)
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Post by Dawnstar on Nov 28, 2021 13:26:43 GMT
I got to London fine yesterday but the journey home was awful. Almost 4 hours for what should have taken 50 minutes, including an hour and a half standing in the cold at Stevenage & another half an hour or more standing in the cold at Royston. I was masked so my glasses were too fogged up for me to see properly most of the time. I ended up crammed in a taxi alongside 3 unmasked fellow passengers, by which point I was so cold I would have taken a taxi with the Devil himself, masked or unmasked. Aching all over today from all the standing & if I haven't caught covid it'll be a miracle!
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Post by theglenbucklaird on Nov 28, 2021 13:49:21 GMT
I got to London fine yesterday but the journey home was awful. Almost 4 hours for what should have taken 50 minutes, including an hour and a half standing in the cold at Stevenage & another half an hour or more standing in the cold at Royston. I was masked so my glasses were too fogged up for me to see properly most of the time. I ended up crammed in a taxi alongside 3 unmasked fellow passengers, by which point I was so cold I would have taken a taxi with the Devil himself, masked or unmasked. Aching all over today from all the standing & if I haven't caught covid it'll be a miracle! Oh, Dawnstar. That sounds horrific. Even more so since you have told us your personal circumstances. Hoping everything works out ok in the end
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Post by david on Dec 6, 2021 16:04:12 GMT
A trip to the Marble Arch Mound this morning. It didn’t look as bad as I thought it would walking up to it. Despite the bad weather the view at the top isn’t bad. The most impressive part of the visit was the Light exhibition pieces by Anthony James. Walking back into Oxford Street and Regent St to have a quick look at the Christmas window displays of the big departmental stores which are always impressive. Though no trip to that neck of the city is complete without a browse around Hamleys just to have chance to a play with some of those toys. Yes I’m over 40 but a big kid at heart!
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Post by TallPaul on Dec 6, 2021 17:53:07 GMT
Well you know what George Bernard Shaw used to say, our david, when he wasn't writing the plays wot he wrote. "We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing."
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Post by david on Dec 6, 2021 18:02:45 GMT
Well you know what George Bernard Shaw used to say, our david , when he wasn't writing the plays wot he wrote. "We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing." TallPaul - so true. I could of move in there to be honest. The Hornby model train stuff on display brought back so many memories.
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Post by The Matthew on Dec 6, 2021 19:50:59 GMT
"We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing." Obligatory xkcd
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Post by londonpostie on Dec 7, 2021 15:00:52 GMT
Not saying the Tories are throwing money at the NHS but 350 office personal have now moved in down the road, into a former factory now office space. Those roles had been in random porta-cabins and whatnot around the Kings Hospital site for years. Now more staff, a proper place with canteen, central heating and meeting rooms.
Plus the GP surgery just called unexpectedly asking if I wanted (a) a health and wellbeing coach (b) a flu shot or (c) a Covid booster. Assuming a pre-Christmas push on the shots .. sadly, couldn't offer a writing coach. Still, very impressed.
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Post by anita on Dec 16, 2021 14:23:29 GMT
Just back from hospital after having a procedure done under local anaesthetic. - They put a needle into my eye. Got to have it done again in a month & again in another month. Everything looks rather blurry right now.
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Post by The Matthew on Dec 16, 2021 15:29:05 GMT
They put a needle into my eye. (Screams)
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Post by londonpostie on Dec 16, 2021 16:23:07 GMT
I walked along Horseguards on the way home last night and the lights were on upstairs, at the back of No 11 Downing Street. Iirc, PM Johnson and his family took that flat because its bigger than No 10 and anyway Rishi is happier living the billionaire lifestyle elswhere.
It was curious to imagine Boris cleaning his teeth and scratching his nuts just out of view while I listened to Radiohead on bluetooth and pondered the existential merits of Julian Clary.
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Post by anthony40 on Dec 16, 2021 16:32:27 GMT
I had a friggin' awesome day!
I work for a Local Authority and today found out that I was successful in an interview that I had on Monday for an internal position.
Whilst it's not so much a promotion, it's different from the ole that I am currently performing and a sideways move into a similar role that I performed at another Local Authority.
Yay me!
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Post by TallPaul on Dec 16, 2021 17:04:13 GMT
Everything looks rather blurry right now. Welcome to the club, anita. That's how most of my nights out end. 🤪 Seriously though, I hope everything is okay, now and in the future.
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Post by Dawnstar on Dec 16, 2021 19:14:18 GMT
Just back from hospital after having a procedure done under local anaesthetic. - They put a needle into my eye. Got to have it done again in a month & again in another month. Everything looks rather blurry right now.
Actually into the eyeball? If so that sounds ghastly! I found it quite bad enough when I once had a canula inserted into the tear duct by my eye. The thought of anything into the eye itself...*shudders*
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Post by anthony40 on Dec 16, 2021 22:17:19 GMT
I had a friggin' awesome day! I work for a Local Authority and today found out that I was successful in an interview that I had on Monday for an internal position. Whilst it's not so much a promotion, it's different from the ole that I am currently performing and a sideways move into a similar role that I performed at another Local Authority. Yay me! The night gets better. I went down to the British Film Institute (BFI) after work to catch a screening of the 20th Anniversary of Bridget Jones's Diary with a Q & A with the director and afterwards and I guessed the closest number of times the cast appear to be holding a cigarette through the film and won myself a bottle of champagne!
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Post by marob on Dec 16, 2021 23:03:17 GMT
A week ago today I spent hours and hours on trains to and from Leicester so I could see A Chorus Line. Today I couldn’t face going to the local cinema to watch the new Spider-Man film.
Feeling a bit sorry for myself I guess, as I’m supposed to be going on a short London trip in January and I’m growing increasingly resigned to the fact it won’t be happening. I was never naive enough to think that a global pandemic could be resolved in a few months, but still, it’s frustrating how every time I start to feel a little optimistic we seem to end up back on the cusp of a lockdown.
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Post by anita on Dec 17, 2021 10:54:36 GMT
Just back from hospital after having a procedure done under local anaesthetic. - They put a needle into my eye. Got to have it done again in a month & again in another month. Everything looks rather blurry right now.
Actually into the eyeball? If so that sounds ghastly! I found it quite bad enough when I once had a canula inserted into the tear duct by my eye. The thought of anything into the eye itself...*shudders*
Yes. It felt like a bee sting. - Nowhere near as bad as I thought.
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Post by Latecomer on Dec 21, 2021 21:20:09 GMT
I had a nice day, in amongst all the madness that is life at the moment. I work at library headquarters and there aren’t many of us in the office, with all the windows open, heating on and big jumpers. I miss the other people but old books in the stack are surprisingly good company ….my first job of the day is always to find books that readers have requested, and today was lots of Arthur Ransome books that were the same age as those my mother read me when I was small! After sending out all the requested old books I unpack and receipt all the new books for our 40+ libraries and satisfyingly print out any requests and send out to imaginary readers (they are real people!) who have asked for them! Add in some fulfilling of random stationery orders from libraries (punched pockets anyone?) and putting sets of reading groups back in the stack (sets of 12 books that we loan out to our over 150 reading groups in the county for free) and you have a pretty prefect day. Radio on…..there were even Christmas chocolates to be had, left by the boss! I have worries, like everyone else, and I’m sure it won’t always be so perfect, but today it was lovely! Plus I saw a lovely book….The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein ….about a tree that gives its all…..has anyone else read it?
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Post by The Matthew on Dec 22, 2021 10:33:10 GMT
Plus I saw a lovely book….The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein ….about a tree that gives its all…..has anyone else read it? I've never read this book, but I feel I know more about it than I do about some of the books I have read because so many Americans seem to keep throwing references to it into everything.
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Post by Latecomer on Dec 22, 2021 13:06:24 GMT
Plus I saw a lovely book….The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein ….about a tree that gives its all…..has anyone else read it? I've never read this book, but I feel I know more about it than I do about some of the books I have read because so many Americans seem to keep throwing references to it into everything. It’s very simple, with lovely line illustrations, about the passage of time, and in the end the tree has been chopped down (with its consent to use the wood) and the boy who loves the tree is now an old man….and it is all ok as actually all he wants then is somewhere to rest, so he can sit on the tree stump. So very few words but touching. Our stack is full of treasures! I also sent out “Beyer, Peacock, locomotive builders to the world” Also a lovely book!
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Post by The Matthew on Dec 23, 2021 14:44:06 GMT
Went to Sainsbury's at 07:00 this morning to avoid the crowds. So did everybody else.
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Post by FrontroverPaul on Dec 24, 2021 1:18:10 GMT
Watched a game show on C4 which I think will live forever as featuring the most hopeless contestants in the history of television.
Jimmy Carr's I Literally Just Told You is well worth a look on catch up to see four people in a state of total confusion give answers so stupid Jimmy Carr almost lost it.
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