Room 101

[GSV Ethics Gradient]

Who ever it was (can you believe?) that stole the defibrillator off the outside wall of my local library!

That's dreadful. It's not as though they'd have done so because they 'needed' it...

 

[DougK1]

Who ever it was (can you believe?) that stole the defibrillator off the outside wall of my local library!

Cretins and custards!

 

[GSV Ethics Gradient]

Well-to-do looking bloke in the Co-op in my dad's village. Every few weeks there's a Big Issue seller there - very quiet and friendly, scarcely audible if truth be told. I know BI sellers make a lot of people uncomfortable, self included - I think with me it's the knowledge that I have less need for what I am usually buying than they do for a few quid. But hey ho - like I say she's quiet and friendly.

This chap follows me into the Co-op, and I move my trolley out of the way so I can seek to satisfy my father's seemingly insatiable appetite for bananas, and he collars a member of staff to insist that they tell the BI seller to get lost. All the time blocking the aisle so I can't get by, so I end up giving him a gentle nudge in the end.

Gave the seller a few quid and told her that not everyone is like that.

 

[SohoAudiophile]

Well-to-do looking bloke in the Co-op in my dad's village. Every few weeks there's a Big Issue seller there - very quiet and friendly, scarcely audible if truth be told. I know BI sellers make a lot of people uncomfortable, self included - I think with me it's the knowledge that I have less need for what I am usually buying than they do for a few quid. But hey ho - like I say she's quiet and friendly.

This chap follows me into the Co-op, and I move my trolley out of the way so I can seek to satisfy my father's seemingly insatiable appetite for bananas, and he collars a member of staff to insist that they tell the BI seller to get lost. All the time blocking the aisle so I can't get by, so I end up giving him a gentle nudge in the end.

Gave the seller a few quid and told her that not everyone is like that.

Obviously he has probably never experienced any genuine adversity in his life to the point he has been helpless and had to rely on the kindness of others. He'll find out eventually.

 

[GSV Ethics Gradient]

He'll find out eventually.

I want to hope that he doesn't...

 

[A-Line]

Intelligence/intellect, language, architecture, and music all seems to be headed south.

It's certainly interesting how architectural design has become bland over the past centuries. What happened to those intricate designs from old?

Language is full of so much slang it's difficult to converse intelligently these days.

Rap and hip hop is not music... it's noise.
There's even a new music genre category now called: noise...🤡

Just my thoughts and opinions..

 

[GSV Ethics Gradient]

Intelligence/intellect

I've always found this interesting:

Flynn effect - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[JDl]

Twitter or X as it's now called.
I re-installed it after a year.
It's winding me up already after one day.
Time to get rid of it again.

 

[Angle Poise-Lamp]

I've always found this interesting:

Flynn effect - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Which does make you wonder why, there seem to be more stupid people about these days.

Perhaps there are just more ways for them to demonstrate that stupidity, especially on (anti)social media.

 

[GSV Ethics Gradient]

Which does make you wonder why, there seem to be more stupid people about these days.

Perhaps there are just more ways for them to demonstrate that stupidity, especially on (anti)social media.

'He who knows least knows it loudest', maybe?

 

[Romulus]

I ordered a Zero In Bed Bug & Dust Mite Killer from Green Essentials (It seems a shop in Hertfordshire) last Saturday and to date I have not anything from them. Website states any thing to do with order use their chat line. So I did and it states someone in a few hours will answer. So what am I expected to do keep chat line open and wait..? I tried email and automatic response came to me ( as valued customer) saying I must go on chat line. I found a phone number rang them and automatic response saying messages are full...? Is it me or is this Green Essentials and eloborate scam...?

 

[jjbomber]

'He who knows least knows it loudest', maybe?

In a similar vein, those with the worst taste in music play their car stereo the loudest!

 

[A-Line]

Content deleted by moderation. Apologies, but if you refer to forum rules, politics is not permitted - and that's generally viewed as including (but not exclusively) GRAPES (Guns, Religion, Abortion, Politics, Economics & Sexuality).

 

[Revolutions]

erm, nope?

 

[A-Line]

Content deleted by moderation. Apologies, but if you refer to forum rules, politics is not permitted - and that's generally viewed as including (but not exclusively) GRAPES (Guns, Religion, Abortion, Politics, Economics & Sexuality).

😉

 

[Revolutions]

Post-Covid fatigue.

I had no idea this was a thing. But now apparently I have it. The last three weeks have been pretty crap. Stopped training to try and conserve energy. That hasn’t helped with focus at work. Ended up taking over a week off. So now I feel stressed, out of shape, behind with work, losing money & totally listless with no motivation to resolve it. Strange.

 

[Gray]

Post-Covid fatigue.

I had no idea this was a thing.

But Long Covid is well known, hopefully not what you've got.
Get well soon.

I saw this article in today's BBC web news:

Covid: Is there a summer wave and what are FLiRT variants?

Lots of people seem to have Covid at the moment but what is behind it and is it serious?

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[A-Line]

But Long Covid is well known, hopefully not what you've got.
Get well soon.

I saw this article in today's BBC web news:

Covid: Is there a summer wave and what are FLiRT variants?

Lots of people seem to have Covid at the moment but what is behind it and is it serious?

www.bbc.co.uk

No such thing as "COVID" or "Post COVID Fatigue".
I could explain however I would violate "GRAPES" policies here on the forum in doing so.💡
I can say that I'm a retired orthopedic healthcare provider...

 

[Gray]

Amazon.
I searched and bought a (Ramsey Lewis) CD.
Below, I was told that I 'might also like':
A Love Honey, Rabbit Ears Clitoral Stimulator.

(Maybe their way of calling me a rude word 🤔)

 

[Gray]

No such thing as "COVID" or "Post COVID Fatigue".
I could explain however I would violate "GRAPES" policies here on the forum in doing so.💡
I can say that I'm a retired orthopedic healthcare provider...

Shame you retired then - as you have more knowledge 👍

 

[A-Line]

Shame you retired then - as you have more knowledge 👍

😉

 

[Revolutions]

But Long Covid is well known, hopefully not what you've got.
Get well soon.

I saw this article in today's BBC web news:

Covid: Is there a summer wave and what are FLiRT variants?

Lots of people seem to have Covid at the moment but what is behind it and is it serious?

www.bbc.co.uk

Thanks, it does seem that lots of people are coming down recently with [unspecified illness, which is officially attributed to as an airborne pathogen, but could also possibly be* a worldwide conspiracy to change human genes by creating panic & spreading false symptoms to enable a global social contagion, fed with deliberately vague testing apparatus to knowing decisive doctors into misdiagnosing & mistreating millions before secretly offering a “vaccine” which really injects 5G signals into our hip joints ready for the singularity when computers will use us like radio controlled donkeys to carry stuff around for them]

*very, very, very, very unlikely

 

[Revolutions]

Amazon.
I searched and bought a (Ramsey Lewis) CD.
Below, I was told that I 'might also like':
A Love Honey, Rabbit Ears Clitoral Stimulator.

(Maybe their way of calling me a rude word 🤔)

I wish I would get recommendations like that.

Mine are all dog treats, grunge vinyl & books about psychology

P.s. did you buy one?

 

[GSV Ethics Gradient]

Post-Covid fatigue.

I had no idea this was a thing. But now apparently I have it. The last three weeks have been pretty crap. Stopped training to try and conserve energy. That hasn’t helped with focus at work. Ended up taking over a week off. So now I feel stressed, out of shape, behind with work, losing money & totally listless with no motivation to resolve it. Strange.

Sorry to hear that - hope you feel back to normal soon.

 

[Gray]

P.s. did you buy one?

😆
I was sort of hoping it wouldn't be necessary to say that, no, I didn't. 🙂