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[biscuits]

^ I've just been. The salmon still does the silent service where they don't chat to you and it is glorious.

[Percy]

Do you pay extra for this silent service?

[Existential Jam]

^ And if they do, how do they tell you?

[Percy]

^That made me laugh.

[anxiouslondoner]

Originally Posted by biscuits

^ I've just been. The salmon still does the silent service where they don't chat to you and it is glorious.

I don't mind that, because I obviously give off "don't talk to me" vibes by being incapable of conversation.
I'd quite like a not having to look at my own reflection for the next fifteen minutes service. Or a no buyer's remorse service.

Originally Posted by percy

Do you pay extra for this silent service?

It's 50p for each word they don't say. They count them up with a little pocket meter.

[anxiouslondoner]

I'm so glad we get an extra hour this weekend.

Wasn't there a way on here to change the colour scheme? I can't find it. Maybe I'm completely misremembering.

[Ronnie_Pickering]

seaside towns are bad designs.

[biscuits]

^^ I really need an extra hour, marvellous!

Originally Posted by Percy

Do you pay extra for this silent service?

paying people to shut up. No, it's just something you request when booking

[biscuits]

I just chopped up the strongest onion and my eyes were streaming. I thought I’d perfected onion chopping without crying. What a stinger.

[Percy]

Originally Posted by biscuits

^^ I really need an extra hour, marvellous!



paying people to shut up. No, it's just something you request when booking

That's good, not a service i need, i actually like talking to my barber.

[biscuits]

^ I think my hairdresser likes having a moment of quiet time too! It's fantastic because so many people are put off by going to the hairdressers because of the forced chatter. It's great if people find that sort of things come naturally to them. It's nice to have the choice and to feel included.

[Percy]

^Couldn't agree more, having the choice makes all the difference.

[choirgirl]

Jobs and careers. I bombed an interview last week and I've got to go to a careers fair. I'm so fed up of them. I've never got the hang of them. At the interview, I realised that some employers call what I would call jobs careers if there's some long term development of staff. I find this quite confusing, and I'm a bit suspicious of it. It's like calling dating marriage. Nothing wrong with a job, but it seems a bit daft to call it a career.

Also I'm annoyed I never sorted this stuff out before and I still have to sort it and pretend to care about 'careers' when I don't. And I have to pretend I don't care about having children ever when I'm struggling with this trapped energy that has nowhere to go and I have to work out how to manage it. And I'm being bratty because I'm so tired of raising energy to care about things, and repress energy elsewhere, and I don't seem to have ever worked out how to do those things well enough. I just have no intrinsic interest in careers for their own sake, let alone, laughably, jobs calling themselves careers. I want to do my duty, preferably without it taking too much out of me, but other than that the main point to me is to fund building a life of your own. Anyway, if I'd sorted out the career thing I might have been able to pivot in my mid to late 30s, but I didn't. I suppose I've always had a bad attitude.

The moderate improvement of the social anxiety and the rise of the don't give a ****ness, I'm old, I'm a loser and I don't get to have the life I'd want and I have to live with that until I die has at least made me less anxious, but unfortunately I have to balance this without conveying any I don't give a ****ness in a work situation. This is new for me, I always very much gave a ****, so I haven't learnt it yet.

[Alone.]

Social anxiety is a real problem that usually isn’t taken seriously enough

[Dougella]

^ You're right there.

[Ronnie_Pickering]

Originally Posted by choirgirl

Jobs and careers. I bombed an interview last week and I've got to go to a careers fair. I'm so fed up of them. I've never got the hang of them. At the interview, I realised that some employers call what I would call jobs careers if there's some long term development of staff. I find this quite confusing, and I'm a bit suspicious of it. It's like calling dating marriage. Nothing wrong with a job, but it seems a bit daft to call it a career.

Also I'm annoyed I never sorted this stuff out before and I still have to sort it and pretend to care about 'careers' when I don't. And I have to pretend I don't care about having children ever when I'm struggling with this trapped energy that has nowhere to go and I have to work out how to manage it. And I'm being bratty because I'm so tired of raising energy to care about things, and repress energy elsewhere, and I don't seem to have ever worked out how to do those things well enough. I just have no intrinsic interest in careers for their own sake, let alone, laughably, jobs calling themselves careers. I want to do my duty, preferably without it taking too much out of me, but other than that the main point to me is to fund building a life of your own. Anyway, if I'd sorted out the career thing I might have been able to pivot in my mid to late 30s, but I didn't. I suppose I've always had a bad attitude.

The moderate improvement of the social anxiety and the rise of the don't give a ****ness, I'm old, I'm a loser and I don't get to have the life I'd want and I have to live with that until I die has at least made me less anxious, but unfortunately I have to balance this without conveying any I don't give a ****ness in a work situation. This is new for me, I always very much gave a ****, so I haven't learnt it yet.

Same here to be honest. Careers fairs, I've always seen them as silly, companies are there for a presence and a day out rather than it actually being anything.

[biscuits]

I just do not know what to make for dinner.

[anxiouslondoner]

^ pie

[Existential Jam]

^^ Make a nice pasta dish with a homemade tomato based sauce. If you haven't got any tomatoes, get some from under your nan's table.

[biscuits]

^

[Clumsy*]

It's a bit late, brain. Go to sleep please.

[Ronnie_Pickering]

the most exciting news of the day:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/202...itish-classic/
Doctor Who is getting a Disney rendition.

[I Love My Cats]

How to stop thinking and give myself and my brain a rest.

[Professor Willow]

I have more tools in my anxiety toolbox now than I have ever had in my life, so why do I find myself being completely overwhelmed by anxiety and despair?

[cymruambyth26]

The Barry Island Fireworks display is tonight instead of next Saturday. It's weird that it's a week early.

I was looking to go to a fireworks display next Saturday (on the actual day). This change is throwing me a little.

It's interesting that even with an anxiety disorder, I enjoy watching fireworks. I think because mentally I do the ground work and mentally prepare myself for fireworks and that they are going to be loud, which then means that I can still experience them.

[cymruambyth26]

It's raining heavy where I am... that's good...it means we might be able to keep more sweets for ourselves tonight

[biscuits]

^^ That's good that you're able to prepare yourself for fireworks. I've always hated fireworks and balloons popping! I used to go to Bonfire night with friends and... oh, my heart! It made me so jumpy! Sparklers terrified me too! Couldn't wait to get home!

[biscuits]

Originally Posted by I Love My Cats

How to stop thinking and give myself and my brain a rest.

same! I'm finding listening to podcasts helps for a little bit because I concentrate.

[Ronnie_Pickering]

it's always funny when you get a response or a 'like' from a celebrity on Twitter.

[Clumsy*]

Did you get a like from Elon?