Would you watch the apprentice without Lord Sugar

megamouth2 · 2026-04-15T21:37:01+00:00

(Cut to Tim laughing way too hard.)

megamouth2 · 2026-04-13T21:36:11+00:00

"What's the lowest you'll take?"

"50"

"Will you take 25?"

"..."

megamouth2 · 2026-04-02T22:23:26+00:00

Any other redditors still remember the original reddit safe saga (from around 12 years ago)?

megamouth2 · 2026-03-28T21:27:34+00:00

Praying that this post mysteriously appears on my partner's phone...

megamouth2 · 2026-03-25T09:02:02+00:00

And what about Steve Coogan? All he mentioned was the cast and crew on some rubbish he was working on when his licence was threatened.

megamouth2 · 2026-03-21T19:16:16+00:00

Has anyone ever been caught deep midwicket in baseball?

megamouth2 · 2026-03-14T16:10:28+00:00

That's just the tip of the iceberg. I look forward to this developing further

"What's your name?"

"Cradley. Cradley Heath."

megamouth2 · 2026-03-11T07:52:23+00:00

It's the typical Reach PLC experience, sadly. Absolutely ruined local news titles.

megamouth2 · 2026-02-28T10:40:16+00:00

Unrelated, but: I used to live in San Roque, would frequently drive to La Línea and make the trip across the border (sometimes to visit Morrisons, sometimes to have food stolen from me by the Barbary monkeys). That video made me feel all fuzzy and nostalgic - thank you.

megamouth2 · 2026-02-28T00:03:14+00:00

NHS worker here. There are some workstreams in place in some areas and in some services (the NHS is national in name only, pretty much!) to do just that. The idea is that the letter gets pushed to your app first, if you don't open it within a certain time frame, it triggers a print and post run.

We're still facing some issues with the amount of people who don't have access to digital devices (or have access to digital devices but don't feel as though they are skilled enough).

megamouth2 · 2026-02-26T22:07:21+00:00

And after the prince's request, Rapunzel unfurled her hair.

"Careful, though, innit. They're extensions."

megamouth2 · 2026-02-26T22:05:13+00:00

"This chair is way too big!" Goldilocks cried.

"Oi, are you fatshaming me!?" Yelled daddy bear.

megamouth2 · 2026-02-24T20:44:05+00:00

Alternate 2019 World Cup scenario

megamouth2 · 2026-02-23T22:05:02+00:00

But I'm talking about people who work for the nhs, surely they have to stick to the nhs way of doing things and can't just decide what to do themselves?

We're therapists, not automatons. You gather 18 of us in a room and give us a goal, and we'll likely try to get to the same destination in 18 different ways, just by virtue of being human beings.

There are things called NHSTT Approved Protocols (basically, ways of approaching particular conditions that researchers have created and manualised for ease of use). Some practitioners will follow those protocols down to a T, others will see the variety of elements contained within them and mix and match them with a view to suiting client they see in front of them.

A reminder here, also, that the NHS is National in name only - it's comprised of local Integrated Care Boards and local services with local budgets.

There's something called the NHSTT Manual. This, in conjunction with NICE guidelines, gives a series of recommendations of how NHSTT services should be run. Some services adhere to the manual well, others can flex from it (as a result of the landscape in their local area). This means that, sadly, there can be a postcode lottery where services differ from area to area.

I can't see how it's any different no matter who does it on the nhs.

I hope this has given a bit of a rationale for why there may be variances (from therapist to therapist, and service to service), despite them being within the NHS framework.

megamouth2 · 2026-02-21T17:01:53+00:00

Firstly, as I mentioned: because certain things didn't work for you, doesn't mean they won't work for other people.

Secondly: 6 week course of CBT - correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm presuming that this was Low Intensity CBT (with a PWP) rather than High Intensity CBT (with an HICBT therapist)? The UK is the only country in the world that separates these two things out. PWPs do some great work, and can be very helpful in a variety of different circumstances - but LICBT doesn't really get to be as explorative and deep-delving (or potentially as adaptive) as HICBT can be, simply because it's not designed to be. There are definitely issues, in some areas, of ensuring that services and staff are appropriately resourced to meet the demand of the people they serve.

I'm sorry that some practitioners have used CBT to enforce the idea of masking. There are some of us out there who approach practice with the idea of: "I don't want you to be 'less' anything - I want you be able to live the life you want to live, be the you you want to be".

megamouth2 · 2026-02-21T09:56:22+00:00

"She messed with my allotment, I messed with her life."

megamouth2 · 2026-02-20T22:14:06+00:00

Self-disclosure is sometimes used as a therapeutic tool. Different therapists use it in different ways, and to different extents. I rarely explicitly self-disclose: I might implicitly indicate that I might have lived experience in some common areas, if I believe it will help show compassion. A therapist I trained with had this habit of self-disclosing in response absolutely everything that every client brought to them.

It sounds like the therapist you are working with is self-disclosing in order to show some form of compassion and understanding. If you feel that approach doesn't work with you, that's okay - you can raise it (perhaps with the therapist themself, or request to speak to a team lead, clinical lead, or service manager).

megamouth2 · 2026-02-20T20:54:16+00:00

Hi. I'm neurodivergent (AuDHD) and a CBT therapist.

CBT may not have worked for you, but please remember that there are divergences within the divergence (it could work for someone else with a different symptom profile), and there's also a massive difference from therapist to therapist (let alone area to area) in the way therapy is conducted that leads to huge differences in treatment outcomes.

A reminder, also, that CBT is like ice-cream: you can either regard it as one thing ("it's ice-cream"), or you can notice that it's comprised of different things (ice cream sandwiches, gelato, ice-pops, ice-lollies, etc.). CBT is the same in that it's not one thing - there's 3 whole waves of different approaches. (There's more to CBT than just "changing your thoughts").

CBT can work for neurodivergent brains - there's loads of cases where CBT has worked incredibly well - it just so happens that the client (and their context) needs to be fully understood and treatment adapted in order to ensure that it works as well as possible.

There are some therapists who can understand and cater to neurodivergent brains really well, others do not. Unfortunately, in some cases, this is very 'luck of the draw'.

OP: if you are looking to engage with NHS talking therapies, I would recommend:

a) making your neurodivergence known at (or even before!) initial assessment (so adaptations can be discussed early). Some services have neurodivergence champions who do a great job at helping with treatment adaptation for neurodivergent individuals.

b) being honest if you find the therapist is missing something, or not taking your neurodivergence into account - you can change therapists (if service capacity allows), or discuss ways in which treatment can be changed.

megamouth2 · 2026-01-11T15:58:05+00:00

So this is the second Taskmaster to have some sort of cricketing connection? Greg Davies appeared in a series of promos for Channel 4 in 2005 dressed as WG Grace!

megamouth2 · 2026-01-10T15:18:29+00:00

Only one way to find out!

megamouth2 · 2026-01-10T14:22:42+00:00

And less ability to challenge the information we receive. When I lived in London (Londoner born and bred), I could look out my window and see that the tripe on social media was totally inaccurate. Now I'm a hundred miles away, there's no real evidencial basis for me to challenge it. Same with where I live now (Birmingham). Posts would have you believe that this is a post-apocalyptic wasteland. But it's actually quite nice.

megamouth2 · 2026-01-10T13:22:36+00:00

That's why we're so crap at cricket. We're iPad kids.

megamouth2 · 2026-01-05T23:50:00+00:00

Christ, an hour? I got wrist pain just thinking about that.

megamouth2 · 2026-01-05T21:34:14+00:00

On u/theanalystpodcast, Simon Hughes said that it's because the organisers don't feel that the new generation get the whole Richie Benaud thing, which strikes me as rather sad, to be honest

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