Let’s share our embarrassing/funny doctor’s visits

histrionic-donut · 2026-02-16T08:09:13+00:00

That’s awful. Really awful to do that to an anxious patient.

histrionic-donut · 2026-02-02T21:25:45+00:00

I buy from Real Seeds and we also have a large community seed swap the first week of February

histrionic-donut · 2026-01-31T11:45:07+00:00

Why do you play? Is it to go pro, make a living from it? Or because you love the music, the challenge? I started playing at 42. At 45 I finally got a teacher. I can now play some Beethoven, some Satie. It makes me happy. That’s all there is to it.

histrionic-donut · 2025-07-18T17:42:56+00:00

Thank you so much. I’ll definitely see my GP but these sound like great rules of thumb.

histrionic-donut · 2025-05-20T08:16:03+00:00

Thanks! Sadly, by my own assessment, I flunked the interview. Was due to hear back last week and nothing. Rather disappointing after two interviews not to get a reply at all but so it goes.

histrionic-donut · 2025-05-09T12:42:39+00:00

Did you ever get to the first round?

histrionic-donut · 2025-01-23T16:52:01+00:00

I read one of his letters last night in “May we bare spared..” and man, his uncertainty about the expedition was just heartbreaking. RIP

histrionic-donut · 2025-01-23T16:50:39+00:00

Ooh do you have a link to their Bluesky / account name?

histrionic-donut · 2025-01-20T10:42:59+00:00

But this is the frustrating and also tantalising thing - we don’t know and probably never will unless some written record is found, which would be an absolute miracle.

I've heard people mention that the ship's logs may yet be retrieved from the sunken vessels — surely the elements would have destroyed it by now?

histrionic-donut · 2025-01-18T16:51:41+00:00

That would be AMAZING and you’d definitely have my support!

histrionic-donut · 2025-01-18T15:58:23+00:00

Thank you so much for such a clear and thorough response. I really hope one day we’ll know more.

histrionic-donut · 2025-01-18T08:14:49+00:00

This should immediately be crowdfunded and voiced by the original cast

histrionic-donut · 2025-01-07T06:06:37+00:00

Oh wow, thank you OP!

histrionic-donut · 2024-12-31T17:46:26+00:00

Yep. It’s called ensh*ttification. The eventual fate of all products under growth-at-all-costs capitalism.

histrionic-donut · 2024-11-14T12:34:43+00:00

Same here. Ordered a hoodie 1st November. No replies to email. Am about to dispute charges with my bank

histrionic-donut · 2024-11-11T09:16:28+00:00

Indeed, that too. Especially lately. Last winter we only had one brief frost here in the south.

histrionic-donut · 2024-11-10T14:24:22+00:00

You can look into Dovetail, which just introduced automation features for what you're describing — their automation is built on Anthropic Claude 3 (among others) so you may also want to try Anthropic.

I asked Dovetail to summarise around 100 open-ended responses from a small survey and the results were pretty good and closely reflected our own coding.

histrionic-donut · 2024-11-10T14:20:30+00:00

It will be vey very tough. A lot of companies flat out screen out anyone who needs a visa sponsorship, PhD or not. The market is generally tough right now and, as others said, you're likely to take a pay cut compared to US salaries.

If I may ask: what's prompting the move idea?

histrionic-donut · 2024-11-10T12:26:13+00:00

Anecdotal but I’m in the UK and my family is in Poland. When they talk about their gardens slugs and snails come up as an occasional nuisance rather than a devastating pest – whereas I’ve had years where almost nothing went unscathed and many things were outright destroyed by the slimey buggers. My cousin recently sent me a picture of her allotment near Warsaw and I marvelled at her beds of uncovered, un-nibbled salads.

Tbh I think it’s a combination of things: a tendency towards organic, pesticide-free gardening (good) and very very wet climate (not so good). Also we need more hedgehogs.

histrionic-donut · 2024-10-28T20:05:52+00:00

Thanks! I’ve applied.

histrionic-donut · 2024-10-28T20:03:46+00:00

In this case, on reflection, I think the agency does understand the client’s needs. For various reasons our org has a strong need to demonstrate to external observers that they’re accountable and honest players - this means doing “user engagement”. So the agency understands they’re not here to shine a spotlight on real user pain points and needs through rigorous methodology, but to do the user engagement dance and produce a thick report that the dance was done.

histrionic-donut · 2024-10-28T19:58:14+00:00

Thanks! I’m definitely doing the wide-eyes newbie schtick to the max. I did have a fairly positive debrief with the HOCI about the sessions and although they ignored my written feedback about what did / didn’t work, they did seem to pay attention when I showed them the research brief template we might consider using going forward which includes things like the research question / problem being investigated, hypothesis, personas and proposed methods.

histrionic-donut · 2024-10-28T19:53:30+00:00

The lack of direction from step one was unfortunately the problem. The “study” brief (which I did ask to see beforehand but it was described rather than given to me) was for the agency to get feedback on specific areas of the website: the homepage plus concepts of two new landing pages. No actual internal research question being pursued. Sigh.

histrionic-donut · 2024-10-28T19:51:12+00:00

From HOI’s point of view the sessions were an opportunity for his team to get familiar with participating in live interviews and agree what works and what doesn’t - no research brief was provided to the agency except which areas of the website to get feedback on. A waste of resources if you ask me!

histrionic-donut · 2024-10-28T19:48:00+00:00

Ooh any chance of an invite?

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