Mammoth catch up in The Inn!
Originally Posted by 21stCenturyBoy:
“I've never seen this kind of thing happen before where I work- I'm tempted just to leave a month early but the extra bit of money will come in handy.
They had the cheek last week to text me saying they probably wouldn't need me at all until September, and now I'm being called in on days off?
There is no work related feeling worse than planning your day off and then being made to work through half of it!”
I'd take it for time and a half - I've been getting texts every day from work asking to come in for overtime - am very tempted to take them up on their kind offer sometime this week, for 6 hours short notice I'd get double time plus my day off back ... tempting....
Originally Posted by NightFox_Dancer:
“I have a question and I dare say the general answer will be 'no'.
Would you take out a loan from a bank to pay for cosmetic surgery even though you knew it would take a long time for you to repay it? Bearing in mind the surgery left you feeling happy and confident?”
Yes! God wouldn't have invented credit if he didn't want you to take it when you wanted/needed it. I've always fancied laser surgery on my eyes, but I can't justify it with a family and a mortgage, plus the idea of what they actually do creeps me out a bit
Originally Posted by big bro geek:
“How good is the new Taylor Swift song? Definitely a future fantasy idea”
Step away from it big bro! You've got a win in your back pocket now, no need to go back to your old ways
Originally Posted by steeleuro_wolf:
“Is Harvey the one who shagged Javine behind Alesha's back? I thought I recognised the name from somewhere.”
There's a Eurovision connection there, and that will forever make me happy! Would love it if it were reported as such though: "Harvey, who cheated on Alesha Dixon with Eurovision 2005 hopeful Javine ...."
Originally Posted by
NightFox_Dancer:
“This is a bit of a deep area to dwell into but does anyone else on here suffer from depression? I have bipolar disorder myself but this is the first time I've been open about it to you guys, only I've felt like rubbish practically all evening and have no idea how long it's going to last. Just have a lot of things on my mind right now and have no desire to sort things out because I feel so drained of energy and enthusiasm. 
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Originally Posted by phill363:
“I know how you feel kinda I've never been diagnosed or been the doctors over it but often feel depressed but it comes and goes. I feel like my life has stalled, sometimes it gets too much and I don't even want to get out of bed in the mornings specially on days I have to be at the job centre (they really are soulless places where everyone is a number and a product and no one cares about feelings its all about facts and figures and finding new ways to sanction you). I'm still unemployed after countless interviews, applications and stuff and I just feel like giving up trying most of the time because I feel its going no where anyway. Being unemployed sucks and should be avoided at all costs, I'm thinking of volunteering somewhere would love to do something with animals but there's not a lot round here so will probably end up stacking shelves in a charity shop or something but will be better than nothing.”
Originally Posted by cherubmattd:
“I personally don't have bipolar, but know a fair bit about it and unipolar depression (I had unipolar for about 3 years a little while ago, which was just awful). It seemed, at least for me, like I had no prospects, no life and no support, when in fact, I had all three and just didn't grasp it - I really did lose contact with reality for a while. The worst thing though was how drained of enthusiasm and energy I felt, I didn't go to college for some days because I just couldn't find the gusto to do anything.
Saying that, I have come out of it a better person - by a combination of counselling, talking with friends, finding new friends, doing things I enjoyed instead of being slightly embarrassed by them (hello Eurovision!) and putting everything into perspective. And I know it seems really useless to say that, because I rolled my eyes at people who said 'just put things into perspective!', but when I talked to people it (very) slowly started to fit in with my thoughts, and in the end, I changed them. I wasn't overnight, it was hard and slow, but it happened.
What my advice to you would be what a female nurse says at the beginning of every episode of 24 Hours in A&E, which I have up in my bedroom wall, to ground me, and to think that life could be so much worse - "the moment that you're in resus, and you're really sick, and all you can think about is 'am I going to live, am I going to die', silly things go out of the window, and ultimately what's important is realised, that you're loved, and you're not alone".”
Interesting posts, and I love Matt's coping mechanism. I've never been clinically depressed, but deal a lot with people who suffer through my work. It's thoroughly all encompassing when it strikes by all accounts, the lack of enthusiasm for life in general must be the worst bit. I've heard that talking about it really does help though, so enlist the help of family and friends where you can.
Originally Posted by
gottago:
“So day one in Copenhagen and I got half-robbed in a train station. Some turd asked me the time whilst helping an American lady figure out the stupidly confusing train info, I told him, he then said "are you English?" I said yes, he then shook my hand and suddenly pulled me in for a hug and then sort of wrapped his leg round mine or something and I tried to push away. When he moved away I immediately checked my pocket knowing that something was wrong and sure enough my iPod was gone. But for whatever reason he gave it back to me. 
Shook me right up though. I'm usually very careful when it comes to stuff like this but for some reason it happened and it totally ruined my night.
I'm now sat in te hotel room watching Undercover Boss UK on SVT and trying to forget the sorry situation with a cider. ”
Originally Posted by phill363:
“Oh dear, the S hit the fan today, my friend is fuming and her friends are all her green day fan friends have ganged up”
Did I miss what this was about? Green Day Dramaz??
Originally Posted by
gottago:
“I am still in Copenhagen but I'm off to Malmo tomorrow! I thought it was last week that you were here?!
I had another disaster today. I wanted to go to the Little mermaid thing and somehow managed to get the wrong train. I can only imagine what my face looked like when he announced Hamburg as the final destination. 
I got off at the next stop, had a look round but it was just residential. Tried to figure out if I was still in zones 1-3 but sadly I was in zone 66 so naturally my ticket was invalid. I then had to pay approx £5 for a ticket back! The stupid awful ticket machines don't accept notes so I had to buy a load of overpriced snacks from a shop to get the change.
Thankfully I had an amazing Danish lunch so the day hasn't been all bad. Just trying to guess what awful thing will happen tomorrow. Probably the train flying off the bridge.”
You are officially having the worst holiday out of the lot of us gotterz! How could you get zone 1-3 mixed up with zone 66???
Originally Posted by NightFox_Dancer:
“My old Media studies tutor who I used to fancy is on Pointless.
Ok, was on Pointless he just got kicked off.”
I would have loved to have seen that!
Originally Posted by
big bro geek:
“A big shock in BB
Glad the prince stayed. What on earth has he done to deserve those boos?He's a lovely chap. The crowd are morons”
The crowd and the voting crowd are all morons, how could Cheryl be gone?
Originally Posted by 21stCenturyBoy:
“I can't stand drink drivers- it's the one and only thing my parents have openly stated they'd never forgive me for.
The whole street was judging him- even the man who is known to go cottaging behind his wife's (who has MS) back.
In other news, only 3 weeks til I'm back in Sheffield!”
Drink driving is abhorent, and I'm all for a bit of mob mentality when one of them is caught
