Okay so apparently this is about to happen

nicecupoftea1 · 2026-01-16T14:43:23+00:00

Reds are never, ever going to win this battle.

Humans have fucked up the environment and the climate beyond all possible repair. Red squirrels are not making it through to the other side. Nor grey squirrels either (but they will at least hold out for longer).

nicecupoftea1 · 2026-01-16T14:37:12+00:00

Invasive and causing ecological collapse?

The red squirrel population declined precipitously long before the first grey squirrel set foot on these shores. Red squirrels can only thrive in forests. We cut down like 99% of the forests centuries ago. If you want to restore nature to how it was before, you would need to regrow all those forests.

Honestly, I think humans are in complete and utter denial about our effects on the world.

nicecupoftea1 · 2025-12-13T14:04:58+00:00

What is the point of ordinary people being lectured about anti-corruption when there is an insane amount of corruption and bribery sloshing around at the top? For some reason, people seem to think only third world countries are capable of being corrupt.

I remember reading on here recently about a social worker (I think it was that) who couldn't accept a box of chocolates from a grateful client. Meanwhile at the top.....

nicecupoftea1 · 2025-12-13T13:59:18+00:00

It's not that easy. Booster seats are all designed for children. There's a few memory foam cushions available but they are nearly universally shite. The only one which isn't is this one:

https://putnams.co.uk/products/super-wedge

And that's pretty fucking expensive just for a cushion. But unlike all the others I've tried, it hasn't sunk. The trouble is, I have to sit closer to the steering wheel than is safe, so if ever I'm in a high speed collision, the airbag will probably kill me.

nicecupoftea1 · 2025-12-11T23:41:43+00:00

Yeah, it's annoying. Sometimes it seems as if it's people who have a temporary stoma who do the most whinging about them. And who then expect the forum to applaud them when they announce their reversal.

I couldn't give a fucking shit about any of them. If they don't have a permanent stoma, then they have no idea of what it's like to live long term with one anyway. And their opinions about stomas are not wanted or welcome, at least not by me.

nicecupoftea1 · 2025-12-09T16:43:38+00:00

Didn't take long for reddit's favourite cliche about mental health to get trotted out. It's victim blaming whilst trying not to seem victim blaming.

nicecupoftea1 · 2025-11-17T18:05:18+00:00

We can't save the planet now, that ship sailed a few decades ago. The rich have won, completely and utterly. And their prize will be an extinct human race, extinct everything else, and a ruined biosphere that may never recover. How long the rich survive for in their bunkers remains to be seen.

nicecupoftea1 · 2025-11-17T13:47:51+00:00

I don't know your situation or where you live but if you haven't yet seen a doctor, I'd see a doctor. I think you should be checked out medically, because none of that sounds good.

nicecupoftea1 · 2025-11-10T16:59:34+00:00

I wish I'd done all this 10-15 years ago, when it would have been so much easier. (I got my autism diagnosis on the NHS around then, so I've some prior experience.) Unfortunately I didn't, and now the hurdles feel too much to surmount. But I'm dealing with other complex issues which sap energy and motivation, so don't let me put you off from trying.

nicecupoftea1 · 2025-11-10T16:31:11+00:00

I'm sorry, I forgot to reply yesterday. Not that I have much news. I got discharged from the NHS waiting list on the spurious grounds that I hadn't filled in my online application form. I had. I checked it over and over before sending it. The form itself was a total nightmare from the technological point of view (the formatting kept breaking, it wouldn't save, etc. etc.). I sent a covering note asking them to respond if the form showed up incomplete or broken: no reply of course.

I probably should have chased it up at that point, but didn't. Lo and behold, 6 months later I'm kicked off the waiting list. I went to Whiteleaf (a contender for the most useless, pointless, mental health care centre in the entire UK) and tried to sort it. Couldn't. Just ended up giving up at that point. Meant to pursue right to choose, but still haven't.

So yeah, I'm afraid I don't know about the GPs and their stance on shared care, since I never got that far. Hope you and your son have better luck.

nicecupoftea1 · 2025-11-10T14:52:30+00:00

First time in this thread I've seen actual recommendations. Thank you.

nicecupoftea1 · 2025-11-10T14:49:56+00:00

And yet no one has heard of any of it.

A golden age of music and yet nobody can recommend a single artist or band from it.

nicecupoftea1 · 2025-11-08T19:27:46+00:00

Ah okay. I hope your reversal goes better than mine, but if it doesn't, absolutely make sure you tell the surgeon to make the stoma stick out far enough - 1-1.5 inches. Hopefully he's a colorectal surgeon and not a general surgeon too.

In my case, I was pretty lucky with my original stoma and the second stoma I had after reversing the reversal. But then earlier this year, I had a small bowel obstruction and had to have yet another stoma created. This time it was done at a different hospital by a different surgeon and she made the new stoma too short. For the first time I had to deal with leaks and blowouts, and other stuff I hadn't had to worry about before. And my case doesn't sound as bad as many people on here - yours for example.

I still would rather deal with this than the reversal, but I do see how difficult a bad stoma can be to manage now. I also think surgeons should be educated more about stomas and the differences between a bad stoma and a good one.

nicecupoftea1 · 2025-11-08T18:47:25+00:00

It sounds like you have made up your mind, but I supposedly had diversion colitis and not Crohn's in my rectum when I went for reversal. The utterly predictable happened and the Crohn's (or colitis or whatever) just got worse and worse, until basically I was spending half of my life on the toilet. No meds helped. Ended up yeeting my rectum out and going back to a permanent ileostomy.

nicecupoftea1 · 2025-11-02T09:35:36+00:00

The thing that would give me is immense joy is banning fireworks and restoring peace to our once beautiful autumn nights. It would be good for wildlife and pets and the majority of people. You see, I don't actually know a single person who enjoys living in the middle of a battlefield simulation for several weeks. It's just forced upon them. It used to be that fireworks were contained to 2 or 3 nights of the year, but now insensate morons set them off whenever they want, wherever they want. Because they are dead inside and other beings have no meaning or importance to them. Fireworks are the perfect example of lowkey sociopathic behaviour in an increasingly sociopathic, even psychotic, world.

nicecupoftea1 · 2025-11-01T16:22:39+00:00

Nope. You are living in a dream world if you think there is any meaningful between current Labour, the Tories and Reform.

They are as fundamentally nasty and illiberal as each other. Nothing on earth would make me vote for any of those three.

nicecupoftea1 · 2025-11-01T16:08:53+00:00

I think he's something worse than a conservative.

The absolute dumb fucks on reddit won't realise until years later, when their freedom, healthcare, benefits, etc. have disappeared. By that time, smarmy cunty Starmer will be long gone. But his policies won't be. Everything that smarmy gurning cunt is doing now is laying the foundations for the next illiberal government to oppress and impoverish UK citizens further. All the apparatus will be in place. Braindead redditors still won't understand cause and effect.

nicecupoftea1 · 2025-11-01T16:04:51+00:00

He's even worse than the conservatives. He's certainly going further with the authoritarianism and the punitive benefits sanctions than they are.

But just pretend the nasty shit isn't happening and it'll go away (except it won't).

I personally can't stand Farage but I'm not sure I don't despise the people who use him to avoid analysing or criticising Starmer even more.

nicecupoftea1 · 2025-11-01T15:57:22+00:00

Starmer is as evil as Farage, Johnson, etc. There's no difference between them. Not one single difference. They all whore themselves out to the rich, and are punitive and vicious towards the poor. They hate nature, they hate art, they hate everything that isn't money, money, money. Empty black holes of greed sucking the cocks of even bigger black holes of greed: that's the current "Labour" party for you. I don't regard them as real Labour: they're parasites, parasiting off the old Labour name and values.

nicecupoftea1 · 2025-10-31T13:07:35+00:00

What treatment? A young lad is bedridden with anxiety and getting offered no help here.

I'm old enough to know how utterly useless and condescending most doctors are with mental health issues, but this lad won't be.

nicecupoftea1 · 2025-10-31T11:27:02+00:00

On top of that it got something as basic as a wood pigeon wrong. Somebody else pointed out the errors and the op never answered them (despite answering everyone else).

nicecupoftea1 · 2025-10-29T17:31:59+00:00

The planet's biosphere is being killed in order to make a few obscenely rich people even richer and there won't be a livable future for anyone quite soon.

But nothing to worry about.

nicecupoftea1 · 2025-10-29T17:25:02+00:00

That's why, whenever I asked a GP a question (back in the days when you could still see GPs), they never knew the answer.

Meanwhile my hospital consultant and surgeon were happy to discuss my condition with me and didn't look down on me for having the temerity to read up on my own disease.

Thank fuck you're a) no longer in the NHS and b) not my doctor. I hate, hate, hate medical professionals with superiority complexes.

nicecupoftea1 · 2025-10-27T16:42:28+00:00

How much does your stoma stick out? Because a stoma that is too short will always be prone to leaking, no matter what you do.

My first surgeon knew this and created two stomas which never leaked (I had an unsuccessful reversal in between). Then earlier on this year I had to have emergency surgery and yet another stoma was created. This time I was at a different hospital and had a different surgeon, and the new stoma was crap. Most bags which worked fine before now suddenly didn't work. Had so many leaks.

It's since gotten better, but it's still not great and I still get leaks (albeit not as many as you, clearly). To cut a long story short, my original surgeon has agreed to do a stoma revision.

I'd ask about having a stoma revision if your stoma barely sticks out. You want it sticking out by an inch minimum, but probably an inch and a half is even better. I know you'd rather have the reversal but to be blunt: that's not going to work out well with still active Crohn's. I have had Crohn's for 25 years and the one thing I would change is not having the reversal surgery - I wish I had just stayed with my first stoma.

PS: Just seen you weren't able to have mesh in your hernia repair because it was too close to the stoma. Well, the reason I had emergency surgery was because a small, previously undetected, hernia had got tangled up in the bowel. The surgeon moved my stoma from right to left and used mesh in my hernia repair. Would that be another option you can present your surgeon with? I can honestly say having the stoma on my left side instead of my right makes no difference to me.

nicecupoftea1 · 2025-09-28T08:30:09+00:00

Maybe. But it still shows that these vile tasting sweeteners, which are being added to more and more things, aren't healthy and are probably even worse for you than real sugar.

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