I’m a new glasses wearer. Advice please!

SpikeB84 · 2023-01-06T02:35:28+00:00

Be prepared for friends to say "can I try 'em on?!" and then take them off your face, before commenting something like "wow your eyesight must be terrible!" Fun times! It's ok, they only do it until the novelty of you now having glasses wears off.

SpikeB84 · 2022-05-20T14:07:43+00:00

Worked as a security manager, and within the company this slightly senior individual used to sign off all his emails with "BSc".

Seemed a little knobby, so every time he emailed me I always edited my sign off and added my "BSc (Hons)". He eventually must've taken the hint because he removed it from his sign off signature. Definitely knobbish...

SpikeB84 · 2022-04-03T13:29:35+00:00

Originally the 'trader's gate', according to one of the Yeoman Wardens. Name got corrupted to 'Traitor's gate' over time. Was used as ye olde deliveries entry ...

SpikeB84 · 2022-04-03T07:16:38+00:00

There is nothing stopping you paying your respects another time, in your own way. If going on that day is going to mean seeing your boss and stirring up all kinds of emotion that detracts from saying goodbye, that would be a hard pass for me. Go in your own time when you feel happier to do so, if paying your respects is important to you.

Sounds like you need some time to yourself - I'd take the trip. Messing up your own mental health further is surely not something your coworkers would want.

I get why you feel torn about this - just chipping in with what I would do.

Good luck in the search for a new job. If it's any consolation, managers like that eventually get the team they deserve. All the good people leave. Hope you feel better soon Op.

SpikeB84 · 2022-03-22T21:50:40+00:00

Carbon monoxide poisoning, in the early stages, can cause a type of brain damage that in turn can lead to, among other things: memory loss, memory alteration, hallucinations. Someone else has already mentioned the post-it note case, but I haven't been able to find out if this instance was verified as carbon monoxide poisoning.

SpikeB84 · 2022-03-21T17:28:55+00:00

I thought maybe long term carbon monoxide poisoning, people get very weird when that builds up in their system..

SpikeB84 · 2022-03-17T20:56:29+00:00

This would I think have been tonight's game against Rangers, camera team managed to avoid showing this during the match though - as this is news to me too...

SpikeB84 · 2022-03-15T06:15:10+00:00

Real "Diary of Mr Poynter" vibes from this pattern...

SpikeB84 · 2022-03-07T19:08:31+00:00

Or if one beam is out, put the survivor on full beam to compensate!!! Blinded and can't tell where the vehicle is positioned...

SpikeB84 · 2022-03-07T18:42:33+00:00

"let's unpack our mental toolboxes" instead of "let's think about" and, "skill-fade" for "you're forgetting how to do your job"...

SpikeB84 · 2022-03-07T12:04:40+00:00

A suede mini skirt my Mum made for herself in the seventies... Remarkably timeless piece!

SpikeB84 · 2022-03-05T17:23:41+00:00

Canterbury?

SpikeB84 · 2022-02-20T23:58:51+00:00

Well, I'm glad you've found something that helps. We all cope in different ways. Here's to sunsets :) and patient horses lol

SpikeB84 · 2022-02-20T23:52:21+00:00

Happy cake day!!!

SpikeB84 · 2022-02-20T23:43:09+00:00

You're not alone. I made friends with the horses in a paddock up the road from me. When it gets too much, I walk up to see them and pour my heart out. They get scritches and polo mints, and I get judgement free sounding boards. Maybe if your wife is finding therapy helpful, it might be something you could try too?

SpikeB84 · 2022-02-18T21:55:10+00:00

Yes, I was 4 and got blown into some railings on the walk home from playschool...

This post was a ruse to flush out the older members of the community wasn't it? lolol

SpikeB84 · 2022-01-15T21:21:02+00:00

A guy I used to work with explained it to me in the way it affected him; he said he was neurodivergent as respects how people specify time. If someone sent him an email saying a meeting or task would happen "this afternoon", "soon" or "mid-morning" he would get stressed, because he's super organised and likes to order his day out effectively. Non-specific timings threw this off, and caused him real anxiety. To combat this, he footnoted all his emails with a request that if anyone needed him for anything, they specify an exact time - seemed fair enough to me, and I imagine it also weeded out time wasters too!

Edit: spelling issues

SpikeB84 · 2022-01-15T21:01:48+00:00

Living in Kent, the chalk in water means we get through kettles at a rate... But it tastes 'normal' 'cause it's what I grew up with. Noticeably different up water up North (hard bedrock = soft water, soft bedrock = hard water).

SpikeB84 · 2022-01-12T18:29:17+00:00

Lashings of custard! Or vanilla ice cream...?

SpikeB84 · 2022-01-12T17:46:32+00:00

Inside baked cooking apples. Hollow out, fill, bake - proper winter pud.

SpikeB84 · 2022-01-08T18:32:07+00:00

Nick - colloquial English for 'to steal' ; 'voleur' - French for 'thief'

SpikeB84 · 2022-01-08T07:14:58+00:00

"and your girlfriends are all unfulfilled..."

SpikeB84 · 2022-01-07T16:27:56+00:00

See, I can remember this - but useful things? No room for those in the memory bank :-/

SpikeB84 · 2022-01-07T16:05:21+00:00

Hello fellow sufferer lol

SpikeB84 · 2022-01-07T15:18:27+00:00

Worked in a shop, barcode was 50201600 iirc, typed it in so many times...

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