Berttheduck

It’s a great book but I dunno about boy meets girl. It’s more civilisation dies and is reborn a few thousand years later with the weird leftovers of the previous one.

Or did it have a romance I am forgetting?

First off depression is a removed and will have made this whole thing harder on both of you. It sounds like you were moving forward and he felt like he was being left behind.

Could you have done more? Maybe. I think people can pretty much always do more but doing more isn’t always the right thing to do.

Generally relationships should have some give and take, not always equally split though that depends on the individuals. I’ve been in a position several times where I’m the only one making any effort to keep in touch with friends and it gets harder and harder to keep making the effort when you don’t get anything back. Eventually I stopped trying to maintain those friendships and now I just have them on social media and we never interact.

People grow and change and sometimes, with distance especially, that can be enough to end a friendship.

Try to remember the good times if nothing else.

I know we’re talking audiophiles here but the budget option is £350!

You probably need to do some self reflection and examine your feelings towards women as to why you have those views. Have you considered therapy to help you with these feelings?

Regarding coping without sex, for me it was always more the physical and emotional contact than sex itself. Hugs with friends and family help. Maybe something like a massage (not necessarily a happy ending) could help, having someone else pay attention to you and the physical touch with another human might help.

I loved Soma, so much existential angst.

I love the big revelations and how they are done. It’s definitely a game which makes you think.

I also love that they put in the no deaths mode so you can ignore the monsters which whilst cool I don’t think added much to the experience for me other than frustration trying to sneak past them.

I really enjoyed Stray the world is gorgeous (in it’s dingy apocalyptic way) and I enjoyed how they used the mechanics with a couple change ups to keep it interesting but not out-staying there welcome.

The ending I thought was really good.

TLDR: Tomatoes got brought out by the company that owns Warner Brothers in 2016 and the average review score has been going up since then.

You could install a little hook by the door and use that. The effort to put the hook up might encourage you to use it.

Rhythm helps your two hips move. I have to say it to myself every time.

My dog. He’s such a doofus but he’s beautiful and very funny, always getting distracted by bugs or plant seeds floating about.

For me realising that I care for people (as a job) and if I don’t get it right my patients could get hurt means I’m much more likely to ask for help for anything from little simple things to bigger my mental health is suffering and I need more support from all aspects of my life.

Asking for help isn’t easy, everyone wants to be strong and self sufficient, remember we are a social species and evolved to work in groups and help each other. Think how you feel when you can help someone or if you’ve been asked to help and remember that when you seek help.

Oh definitely it’s terrifying how good the algorithm is at sucking people in and dumping them in an echo chamber where only those awful views are normalised.

I mean that’s kinda fair enough. Gotta be a boundary somewhere right.

Not anymore. I dunno exactly when it happened but after I left for uni I no longer see eye to eye with my folks.

They raised me and I feel they did a good job: respect others, be kind, help people, everyone is equal. All the good stuff.

Nowadays though my dad has gone hard into conspiracy theories proper tinfoil hat stuff, moon landings fake, vaccines cause autism and have microchips, fluorinated water causes something, COVID was a Chinese plot or fake or just flu (despite half his kids working in healthcare and telling him first hand experiences). He’s gone proper racist Britain for the British bullshit, hates immigrants and anyone not white. He’s dragging my mum into it as well but she’s not exactly innocent in her views either. I’m glad they live at the other end of the country now so I can choose how much I see them, holidays used to involve staying with my parents but now we camp kinda close and just have a meal out together a couple times.

I struggled a lot with coming to terms with the huge change, our relationship used to be fantastic especially with my mum, could talk for hours about anything. Now we have a very very narrow range of safe topics and I have to say no I’m not talking about that with you quite regularly.

I even debated cutting contact because of some of the horrible stuff my dad was posting online, fortunately he’s stopped that and now just consumes the hate instead of tagging me in it. I decided that I wanted to keep my parents in my life but set some firm boundaries and just don’t engage with any of the delusions.

Taking your idea a bit further you could Schrödingers cat yourself, buy a bunch of lottery tickets and set up a radioisotope decay triggered death machine with the escape being you select a winning lottery ticket. In theory this means you’re getting out of the box with a winning ticket.

You could also do the same with basically anything you want to happen, go into the box with the escape condition of “the world becomes a better place” probably need some more defined variables but maybe not.

Hot Fuzz. Hands down.

Everyone’s got guns round here. Like who? Farmers, Farmers mums.

Thanks, I came up with it in secondary school and have been using it since.

I work in healthcare in the UK. I don’t even drink on week nights let alone over lunch. I agree over here drinking at lunch would probably be seen as a problem.

I think a big part of that is the UK binge drink culture. Most people over here drink a lot in one go to get drunk as the goal.

It disturbs most people unless they are also in healthcare. The other thing is really inappropriate meal conversations.

Ooo You’ve got good veins, I could get a huge cannula into that one.