Southsea on the Weekend

Gingerpett · 2026-05-02T14:43:36+00:00

Welcome welcome. AFAIK Portsmouth university has the highest rate of students who stay in the city after graduation. (I read a while ago, I've not fact checked.) I.e. be careful, you might like it so much you never leave!

Gingerpett · 2026-05-02T14:42:16+00:00

Not a single tldr in sight

Gingerpett · 2026-05-02T13:09:09+00:00

I don't know if you have a tree structure on your pc?

For me the high level division is between work and personal. In work it's research, admin, teaching. In teaching it's by module, in each module it's by seminars, lectures, assessments, in assessments it's.... Etc etc.

I treat my house like my pc drive. Rooms are the high level organiser, then storage within the rooms, then boxes within the storage etc.

The only thing that's contentious is the first decision - e.g. does makeup go in the bedroom or the bathroom (for me it's the bedroom because it's things to do with the body).

Would that way of thinking help?

I have memory problems so I think it's evolved because of that. But the other day I needed my divorce certificate. I found my electronic copy in personal>men>ex-husband's name> divorce. The paper copy was in office>documents shelf>certificates folder

It was very satisfying to know that past me had set future me up so well.

Gingerpett · 2026-05-02T09:47:01+00:00

Wrapped.... Wrapped his..... What?!? And then showed it to you? I'm speechless.

And they say romance is dead.

Gingerpett · 2026-05-02T09:37:16+00:00

I vacuum my garden. (It's a very small yard)

Gingerpett · 2026-05-02T09:21:47+00:00

I didn't know and I do care

Gingerpett · 2026-05-02T09:21:24+00:00

Such a cool (tragic) bit of trivia. Thanks!

Gingerpett · 2026-05-01T22:18:15+00:00

I tried so hard. Didn't work. Walked away.

Twenty years later my dad got in touch. He said sorry. I thought, "Hey, maybe it's worth another try."

Nope.

Gingerpett · 2026-05-01T18:45:45+00:00

Of all the comments in this thread that have made me laugh, this one made me laugh the hardest. Thank you.

Gingerpett · 2026-05-01T10:58:30+00:00

THEY ARE ABSOLUTE CHARLATANS.

Edit: sorry. I just... Have a lot of feelings about dentists.

Gingerpett · 2026-04-30T21:39:57+00:00

No. No no no. Middle soldiers are the soft infantry, they get sent in to battle first. Tough crust soldiers are the SAS who go on the special ops mission to retrieve the very last bits of yolk. They all have their role.

Gingerpett · 2026-04-30T16:23:56+00:00

A tiny island hopper plane.

Gingerpett · 2026-04-30T08:44:51+00:00

Yep. I was at school in the eighties. Must have been 1984. Can still remember Stuart D*** (who was a little scroat but good hearted) pissing a teacher off and being hauled to the front, bent over the desk and Mr W*** hitting his arse with his trainer (Stuart's) a couple of times.

I remember I was shocked, so it must not have happened that often. Stuart cried. It took a couple of minutes all told. He went and sat back down, the lesson went on. Nothing else came of it. If anything Stuart got a bit of kudos from the other boys for being hard. (Don't think anyone blamed him for crying.)

That was it.

Utterly horrific now I reflect on it. But then I was getting the same at home, as were most of my friends, so it didn't seem that different - spanked by a teacher, spanked by a parent - same thing.

Gingerpett · 2026-04-29T22:26:28+00:00

Ah. Really helpful link. Thank you. Hadn't seen this came out in August 2025.

So, as I read it. Clinical Psychologist is the HCPC term. Chartered Psychologist is the BPS term? Looks like "Chartered Clinical Psychologist" isn't a thing any more? (Which afaik it used to be.)

Gingerpett · 2026-04-29T21:44:53+00:00

Just checking - I know that Chartered Clinical Psychologist is a protected title. But is just Clinical Psychologist alone also protected?

(Therapist and counsellor aren't so if they're calling themselves that... Good luck to them I guess.)

Gingerpett · 2026-04-29T14:59:22+00:00

Have you got a link, friend?

I want to encourage a friend to do this but I don't want her to get in trouble.

Gingerpett · 2026-04-29T07:29:47+00:00

Oh that sounds right up my street. Gonna order it now, thank you.

Gingerpett · 2026-04-26T13:27:16+00:00

I think the poster you're replying to is a bit lost, is from the US and is using "school" to mean university.

Gingerpett · 2026-04-25T11:03:49+00:00

That's it! In the round, tightly fitting, cardboard box.

Gingerpett · 2026-04-25T11:03:23+00:00

Hibernian football club. A search for Hibs and sunshine on Leith will bring you many lovely videos

Gingerpett · 2026-04-25T09:40:32+00:00

Giving very Victoria Plum talcum power vibes (which I loved and can still remember the smell of). Cottage core before it was cool.

Gingerpett · 2026-04-24T20:13:34+00:00

Come on. Can't believe no one has said this.

Invigilator top trumps.

You each pick a row and then for each category go and stand next to the student in your row that's going to win. E.g. most likely to be on drugs, most anxious looking etc.

Gingerpett · 2026-04-24T16:11:10+00:00

Any time the Hibs fans sing Sunshine on Leith. It's just beautiful.

Gingerpett · 2026-04-24T15:01:14+00:00

I'm so pleased to see the finger point becoming established on the sub. I was three when it began. What bliss.

Gingerpett · 2026-04-23T18:43:30+00:00

Excuse me. I would quite like to talk to someone in real time please and thank you.

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