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November 30, 2017 at 11:03 am #335
No surprises.
We drink too much, we eat too much cheap processed rubbish, too much meat in huge portions, we don’t exercise enough, people in poverty can’t afford fresh veg/fruit. Food is seen as a casual thing to stuff in your face rather than something to think about. It’s a sorry situation all round.
Compared to other countries, we are absolute gluttons
I have friends in Tokyo so am lucky enough to visit a lot and the difference in how food is approached there is incredible. Japan has a gazillion more cafes/restaurants/foodstalls in one road than we do in this entire country (slight exaggeration but not that much!) and people eat out a LOT – very very cheaply too. But it’s all extremely high quality and fresh and treated as a work of art, even on the tiniest street food stall. Every eating place has an open kitchen because food and cooking are revered. People are obsessed with the detail of it. They also hardly eat any sickly sweet desserts. Portion size is way smaller and variety is everything – like our ‘5 a day’ fruit and veg rule, they live by 30 different foods a day.
In comparison, on my commute home yesterday, I watched a man eat 3 doughnuts in a row while on the phone to his partner discussing a takeaway…
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October 6, 2017 at 2:15 pm #247
I think she was being a bad guest – I have a good friend who I go and visit from time to time – I always take flowers and wine, we go out shopping and lunching and I insist on paying for lunch – after all I am getting free bed and board. I help with the cleaning up etc when she cooks for me and when I leave I strip the bed and put the bedding and towels by the washing machine for her (she always changes the bedding between guests) OK so I am a guest in her house but I am a friend first not a paying guest in a B&B or hotel.
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October 6, 2017 at 1:57 pm #218
Any idea why you’re feeling the way you are?
I was feeling a bit meh about a year ago, and then in November the company I work for had an impulsive restructure. I lucked out on it (unusually for me), and all the people I work closely with bar one changed to a fantastic bunch who are brilliant at their jobs. The difference it has made is amazing, I hadn’t really realised how the cumulative effect of lots of slightly annoying and incompetent people around all day had had on me.
Sending vibes for your girl power anyway
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October 6, 2017 at 1:26 pm #165
and why is it socially acceptable to encourage a driver to drink…
Colleague: Drink?
Me: lemonade thanks.
Colleague, don’t you want something stronger?
Me: no thanks I’m driving
Colleague: you can have one, what do you want?This annoys me so much. If I’ve said no, stop trying to convince me it’s ok to drink & drive. The particular colleague I’m thinking of, I went to the pub with him and a few others after work, he had 3 large glasses of a very strong, expensive red wine. I assumed he left to catch a train but someone said he was driving home!!!!!
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October 6, 2017 at 1:16 pm #154
One of the things that really shocked me when i moved here was how many english people started drinking and driving when they had never done it in England, when i asked why, the answer was always that there was almost nobody else on the roads and never any police so why did it matter. It was like they were on a permanent holiday with no care for anything else.
I freely admit that i rode a bike when i was very stoned when younger, we all did it ,you used to think you were going really fast when in fact you were crawling along at about 10 mph, very surreal -
October 6, 2017 at 12:58 pm #127
Please tell your doctor all that you have put on here. I’m not surprised that you have had the reaction you have, it is a normal reaction to an abnormal load of stressors! Some work places have access to counselling services, which can be quicker than the NHS, access it if they do! Otherwise accept whatever the GP offers, including meds, they can help in the short term. If your area does self referral to IAPT then please try that, CBT can work very well for problems like this. Be kind to yourself and take the time you need to feel fit to return to work, your GP will sign you off. I would also think longer term about looking for other employment, it can be very difficult to feel comfortable somewhere others have been unkind.
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October 6, 2017 at 12:45 pm #110
I don’t know but our TS don’t allow contact from the public, it has to be done via a referral from CAB Consumer advice line. They then please themselves whether they contact the complainer or not – I contacted CAB several times about a trader operating illegally (not providing a postal address for one thing) and TS never got back to me. I have no idea whether they took up the matter with the trader concerned but it’s a bit like battling fog TBH
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October 6, 2017 at 12:41 pm #103
Thanks for your replies really appreciate it! I have been doing some research and I think I have plantar fasciitis by the looks of things. I think that Im going to trya pair of gel insoles like these ones at first
http://shoewawa.com/product/massaging-gel-insoles-2/ because the pain mainly arises when I apply my body weight on my foot when riding so gel should in theory spread this pressure more…
If they dont work I will go see a foot doctor or someone. I like the idea of checking my vitimin d levels.. does lack of vitimin d make your ligaments/tendons less able to cope under pressure? I always thought vitimin d was to do with bones. -
October 6, 2017 at 12:36 pm #97
My neighbour had awful trouble last year when their systems were hacked – he couldn’t pay his bill because of their problems and they tried to penalise him. We emailed the CEOs office and she sorted it. Here you go – give ’em hell, their customer service is pants.
http://www.ceoemail.com/s.php?id=ceo-9625
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