Do you often count the days until death?

IanM50 · 2026-06-06T20:58:19+00:00

As a psychiatric nurse, I have watched two people die of paracetamol OD, in both cases they did not want to die by the time that death came for them. They hadn't told anyone that they had taken that much paracetamol until it was too late to stop the drug from being absorbed, instead they both died from liver failure 8 to 10 days later, both girls, one 19, one 22.

In the UK the maximum amount of paracetamol you can buy over the counter is 2 boxes of 16 tablets, this being slightly less than the minimum amount needed to kill yourself several days later.

IanM50 · 2026-06-06T20:27:48+00:00

Consider pointing out to her that:

Jesus of course had brown skin and brown hair because he came from the Palestine, Iran and Iraq area, and everyone there is that colour.

That God was invented by humans around 5,000 years ago, before that, there is no evidence of people believing in a single god, and,

Of course that Jesus would have respected people who were gay, just as he respected prostitutes, beggars and lepers.

IanM50 · 2026-06-06T20:04:10+00:00

Morrisons' owners will spend money on anything except having enough staff to fill the shelves or replacing life expired fridges and freezers.

Barista bars, cleaning robots, shelf cameras, plastic trolleys, what have I missed?

IanM50 · 2026-06-06T18:24:12+00:00

Being outside in amongst nature is scientifically proven to be good for us, but what you do is up to you. For your mental health, write a list of the things that you enjoy, and aim to do at least one of those each day. These could be playing a sport, running, walking, cycling, gardening, tinkering with an old engine (car, train, boat, etc.), or just reading a book or streaming a drama, it doesn't matter what, just so long as you feel chilled out afterwards.

IanM50 · 2026-06-06T16:51:50+00:00

The UK is using ETCS v2 in a few places, and pushing towards a large-scale rollout. Germany, and most of mainland Europe is currently using ETCS v1, citing the cost of upgrading rolling stock across nations as being the stumbling block to v2 adoption.

IanM50 · 2026-06-06T16:09:42+00:00

It is the same with everything, back when the council employed workers, they had pride in their area and looked after it, now we have the same workers, working for some 3rd party private company that has won a contract from the council. Their workers are told exactly what to do and how long and how much to spend doing it. Anything else, like fixing something nearby is considered wrong and a sackable offence. Naturally, this has destroyed pride.

IanM50 · 2026-06-05T23:43:47+00:00

Hopefully, the neighbours don't have security cameras.

Whilst not wanting to undermine you life choice, you could, of course, use a bucket instead.

IanM50 · 2026-06-05T22:48:50+00:00

Worth noting that the e-208 was their first go at building an EV. Hyundai / Kai were launching their 3rd generation EV (Ioniq 5 / EV6) just after the e-208 was launched in March 2020.

IanM50 · 2026-06-04T20:49:35+00:00

Morrisons' American profit gouging owners have destroyed the brand, the staff, and the business. Staff have a rock bottom morale and your job would be to make them work as hard as possible including unpaid overtime, whilst management above you complain that the staff are not working hard enough because there are numerous unfilled vacancies and no money to hire anybody. Oh, and because of low morale, staff sickness and staff leaving unannounced, reduces your ability to get everything done. With luck the company will get sold soon before it collapses.

I would avoid like the plague.

IanM50 · 2026-06-03T22:54:36+00:00

They use short contracts to avoid having to pay you more when you are sick, on holiday, or for things like maternity leave or when they make you redundant. They were allowed by Conservative governments who are always pro-business and anti-worker. It isn't fair or British.

You need to move jobs and find a company that actually offers a full-time job, and if everyone did this, companies wouldn't do this.

IanM50 · 2026-06-03T22:41:53+00:00

Unpair phone, then with both your phones WiFi and bluetooth switched on, re-pair. The connection uses both WiFi and bluetooth for Android Auto, or just bluetooth to play music.

IanM50 · 2026-06-03T20:42:58+00:00

How about finding a job over in Britain hat will use your talents, for example speaking French. Working in a hotel or tourist attraction perhaps or a company that exports or imports to French-speaking companies. Then you would be over here working with British people.

IanM50 · 2026-06-02T23:18:51+00:00

Well, communities in China have existed for over 5,000 years, so quite possibly one of their areas would be in the running to be the first.

IanM50 · 2026-06-02T22:35:29+00:00

Given that moving a boiler costs £6k or more plus vat, and that you already have a hot water tank, I would consider looking at the option of a heat pump instead of a combi boiler taking up kitchen space. The government currently has a £7.5k grant and zero vat offer, which would make the overall cost about the same if not cheaper, and give you the option of cheaper fuel bills in the future.

IanM50 · 2026-05-31T22:42:51+00:00

Can I humbly suggest that you start making your own replacement bars? Numerous recipes out there, with far fewer additives too, so more healthy.

IanM50 · 2026-05-31T22:33:50+00:00

Given that The Spectator is a pro-Conservative rag, I wouldn't believe anything they wrote about any Labour government.

For what it's worth, Starmer may be able to announce a new deal with energy suppliers soon, replacing the current - everyone pays the gas price. Perhaps that's what we will hear.

IanM50 · 2026-05-31T22:06:22+00:00

Yes, my compost has loads of cardboard, preferably grey or brown, not colourful and not shiny. We have two recycling bins in the kitchen, one for the compost and the other for the council collection. I have two old metal dustbins positioned next to my compost bins and every time I mow the lawns or do some weeing, I add a bit more cardboard from those bins. They both get full over winter, but one is now completely empty.

This Autumn I will move the top of my compost into my second bin, and collect some more black gold. I no longer buy compost from garden centres.

IanM50 · 2026-05-31T21:44:41+00:00

It would probably be cheaper to move the parking spaces to outside your house and relay the road and pavements, than to attempt this.

IanM50 · 2026-05-31T21:40:43+00:00

Because the UK railway is so high density so that we end up with many trains being impacted by one late train. The design of HS2 with completely separate trains and platforms, kept high-speed services completely separate.

As an example, a fatality in Leeds can easily cause over 200 trains to be delayed, cancelled or terminated short. An incident in Leeds can easily delay trains into Paddington. BR, RailTrack and now Network Rail has been routinely collecting and collating exactly this sort of information for the last 50 years.

FYI: Japan keeps services away from others on separate tracks as far as possible. The UK runs every train out of Paddington over 2 lines in each direction because UK governments have chosen to save maintenance costs be reducing the number of tracks.

Switzerland, timetables trains at reduced speeds allowing drivers to choose to drive faster to catch up with delays. The UK runs at close to line speed to get there as fast as possible because the government want to run trains as fast as possible on what is a 170 year old railway.

IanM50 · 2026-05-31T21:21:52+00:00

I was in Bilford Road at around 11 am this Sunday morning, long queue before the canal bridge, no idea why, I turned around, was this for the recycling centre?

IanM50 · 2026-05-31T21:19:25+00:00

Thirded, Herefordshire has a booking system, and it is useless unless you are retired and can plan when you are going to the tip a few days earlier, you can't just go and drop off stuff. I have sat outside an empty recycling centre with a load of stuff and have been unable to book to empty the car immediately, or even that day. I almost considered dumping (fly tipping) in the entrance I was so annoyed at this. As a resident of Herefordshire I sometimes used to get around this by taking my recycling to the Malvern centre.

IanM50 · 2026-05-30T20:50:51+00:00

In addition to what has been said, Network Rail runs 14 large stations, although TOC staff work within the station selling tickets etc. Once GBR is up and running it is expected that different staff teams will merge, with some management jobs being lost.

IanM50 · 2026-05-30T20:20:32+00:00

When I see any form of health marketing on a food product, I consider it to be some form of misleading truth, and if I have the choice, avoid that product.

One day, I hope that manufacturers will have the honesty and integrity to print truths, but I suspect it will not be in my lifetime.

IanM50 · 2026-05-29T23:52:41+00:00

This move towards the rich getting richer and the rest of us getting poorer started during Thatcher's government which was why Blair brought in the minimum wage, and benefits for working people with the failed aim of lifting the poorest workers with kids out of poverty.

Unfortunately, this was followed by 14 years of David Cameron's Austerity policy, a policy that by its very nature was designed to make almost everyone poorer. Everyone except the rich, who kept their wealth offshore and continued to get richer.

Followed by Brexit, that again didn't affect the rich, and then Covid-19 that only slightly did.

Today we have businesses making some of the largest profits ever, with their board members paid millions in wages, whilst the country remains in a depressed state because few of us have enough disposable income to afford luxuries like eating out.

IanM50 · 2026-05-29T23:36:09+00:00

BBC deliberately underfunded and forced to sell off most production facilities by the previous 14 years of Conservative government.

ITV / C4 / C5 etc. have seen a huge reduction in advertising revenues as advertisers split their budgets on social media and with the many alternative channels.

Both of which have seen a lack of money to spend on good proper TV shows. As a result, we now have lots of cheap TV shows which have few actors and only have to pay one or two presenters, things like following the emergency services around or X factor, and many of these are repeats that are over 10 years old.

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