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in no way am I trivialising the issues we have all faced, BUT, I am beginning to think there's a correlation of my happiness and mood versus Derby County's form! It seems when I am miserable and in a bad place, the Mighty Rams are unstoppable. When I am content with life and feeling a bit decent about myself, Derby County become clueless!
Anyway, hope all is well for everyone. Sounds like most of us are coping, and perhaps a bit more daylight into our eyeballs is helping.

The timing of this was so much better than the actual joke. Brilliant.

I was thrown out of Weight Watchers.
I accepted the decision with huge grace, because they threw her out as well.

Met a beautiful girl down at the park today. Sparks flew, she fell at my
feet and we ended up having sex there and then. God, I love my new Taser!

My missus packed my bags, and as I walked out the front door, she screamed, "I wish you a slow and painful death, you bar steward!"
"Oh," I replied, "so now you want me to stay!"

A teacher on Merseyside asks a classroom full of kids “what team do you all support, raise your hands if it’s Liverpool” the whole class raises their hands except for one kid. 
“Who do you support John?”
”Everton”
”why?”
”because my mum and dad are Everton fans so i am too”
”you don’t have to copy your mum and dad, what would you do if your mum was a prostitute and your dad was a crack head?”
“Then I would support Liverpool like the rest of you scruffy bar stewards”

If I owned a DeLorean, I'd only drive it from time to time. 

Yep, I was waiting for this. 
It's awful, wailing and nashing of teeth, huge outpouring of grief. Cardiff players losing again, but this time losing for Emilio. Tributes, silences, memorials, books of condolence. People crying in the streets and tying scarves to lamposts. Clubs and fans up and down the country joining in unity in showing how upset they are. 
Emilio is such a wonderful player, destined to become a Cardiff legend. We'll never be the same without him and will honour his memory forever. This is where football doesn't matter. Poor lad, poor family, poor us. Cardiff and Nantes linked forever by grief.
 
 
 
 
Oh, by the way, can we have our money back please?  
 

That seems an awfully insensitive thing to say, seeing as your new colleague has just driven straight into the back of a bin lorry in the fog!
Heartless git!  

It’s interesting that it’s happened in the same season as Leicester’s owner. 
Put that in the same analogy, and it’s your companies owner, who you probably saw reasonably often, if not to chat too, but by all accounts was a nice man, and used to pay for the Christmas party. And his death was extremely violent, right at the front door of your office.
Now, I’d still say the outpouring of grief there was still probably a bit much, but definitely more justified in that scenario. That would probably shake you up a bit at work. Even if you didn’t know the guy, just the helicopter exploding on your doorstep would be enough to willies up you.
So hats off to the Leicester players there. But the Cardiff players aren’t exactly hero’s for showing up to work the next day, they’re making a bit of a meal of it. And that’s the distasteful thing, are some people jumping on the tragedy for their own PR gain?

Everything going off on the Cardiff side of things is pretty bizarre and i don't think that is insensitive.
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/sport/premier-league/cardiff-city-players-afraid-to-fly-after-emiliano-sala-plane-disappears/ar-BBSWkHK?li=BBoPWjP
The Cardiff players are now afraid of flying? Really? Just in case airborne tragedies are picking out players contracted to Cardiff City.
Warnock told the players they don't have to play against Arsenal but they all chose to play because they have all been so brave.
 
I've been trying to transfer it to a real life situation. Such as a new starter at work who i briefly met at their interview being in a fatal car crash on the way to their first day. Of course i would be quite upset, but probably only slightly more than if i saw the story on the news.
I'd be at work that day and every day that follows. Wouldn't make me scared to drive to work...
Am i missing something?

Everything going off on the Cardiff side of things is pretty bizarre and i don't think that is insensitive.
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/sport/premier-league/cardiff-city-players-afraid-to-fly-after-emiliano-sala-plane-disappears/ar-BBSWkHK?li=BBoPWjP
The Cardiff players are now afraid of flying? Really? Just in case airborne tragedies are picking out players contracted to Cardiff City.
Warnock told the players they don't have to play against Arsenal but they all chose to play because they have all been so brave.
 
I've been trying to transfer it to a real life situation. Such as a new starter at work who i briefly met at their interview being in a fatal car crash on the way to their first day. Of course i would be quite upset, but probably only slightly more than if i saw the story on the news.
I'd be at work that day and every day that follows. Wouldn't make me scared to drive to work...
Am i missing something?

Everything going off on the Cardiff side of things is pretty bizarre and i don't think that is insensitive.
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/sport/premier-league/cardiff-city-players-afraid-to-fly-after-emiliano-sala-plane-disappears/ar-BBSWkHK?li=BBoPWjP
The Cardiff players are now afraid of flying? Really? Just in case airborne tragedies are picking out players contracted to Cardiff City.
Warnock told the players they don't have to play against Arsenal but they all chose to play because they have all been so brave.
 
I've been trying to transfer it to a real life situation. Such as a new starter at work who i briefly met at their interview being in a fatal car crash on the way to their first day. Of course i would be quite upset, but probably only slightly more than if i saw the story on the news.
I'd be at work that day and every day that follows. Wouldn't make me scared to drive to work...
Am i missing something?

I don’t think that’s the real Prince Phillip you’ve tagged

Just wanted to say anxiety and depression very common after flu particularly if you are prone to mental health issues. Don't worry about having time off work or letting the little one watch TV. Put your needs first for a bit. As a family you are part of a team and everyone is important including you. Have you tried magnesium supplements. They do help and can be taken with prescription medication too. Vitamin B supplements are good too. Hope you feel better soon - anxiety is horrible.

Balderdash!
Looks to me like you're coping remarkably well with everything you've got to contend with this week.
You're a loyal worker and responsible parent, clearly. Stop beating yourself up for a minute and give yourself a pat on the back instead. Billy isn't going to be scarred by Cbeebies/whatever for a few days til you get back on your feet, fella.

Billy will be fine, this is what happens to me when the missus is at work during the day and I’m alright.
Just make sure you’ve got it on kids mode, some weird places on YouTube that you can end up.

That's a bit out of character. Are you ok?

That's a bit out of character. Are you ok?

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Phew, when i scrolled down to the photo i feared the worst..
 

This makes me so angry.
I work behind the Showcase cinema myself and would love to know the name of this company.
I'm the least confrontational person you could find but i would happily go in there and tear into them right now.

Sorry @TigerTedd, but you're shifting the blame for your poor clutch control onto a blameless 3rd party.
 
 
 

I'm way too late on this band wagon to catch up properly. But here's one that's been pissing me right off recently... Polite drivers! 
The example is, you're waiting patiently to turn right out of a junction. You've not been waiting long, you're in no rush. You can see a gap on the horizon, just after that red car, that's your chance. But then the red car starts to slow down. You're not sure what his intentions are or what's going on. You're getting a bit pensive, because you can see your window of opportunity narrowing as the car behind him starts to close the gap. Then eventually he comes to a stop and flashes you. You're not ready for that, so you're caught on the back foot and get your feet in a mess, and end up stalling. Then he's looking at you like a banker, while you're blocking traffic.
If he had just carried on his day as normal, without taking it upon himself to decide that the normal rules of the road are not appropriate for this situation, and they need him to give it a helping hand, everything would have gone quite smoothly.
Now, had it been a static queue of traffic, you leave a gap, that's the rule (and it pisses me off equally when people don't understand that rule, and beep at me for having to force my way out in front of them cos they didn't leave a gap!)
And it always seems to be the car at the end of a stream of traffic. The one where it wouldn't have made the slightest difference if he'd have carried on.
It also applies when you're a pedestrian. I tell my kids, 'we're going to cross after this blue car.' Then the sodding blue car slows down and lets us cross. Like he's doing me a ducking favour. He's a) thrown me off my stride, so now I'm half tipping my daughter out of her pushchair while I try to get off the curb, cos now I don't want to inconvenience him by taking too long about crossing, and b) not helping me to teach my kids how to cross the road.
So, in summary, don't be a polite driver. Just stick to the rules of the road, that way everyone is on the same page, and everything will work out fine for everyone.

I started this thread 3 years ago cos I realised I was in a very low place, but wasn't sure how low I was, and how much lower I could manage. Sadly, I'm back in a similar place and have been for a month or so, except I'm struggling to find any comfort in self-awareness or knowledge that others are suffering similar.
I've tried to avoid burdening anyone with my feelings over the last month, but am hoping writing it down on here might help, so apologies in advance. I'm in a situation where I am having a daily battle with myself. These battles used to be annual, then monthly, then fortnightly, then non-existent, and they're basically a "what's the point?", and being candid, they've been a give yourself a reason to live internal conversation. The bit I'm realising is that many of my reasons are based on fantasy, ******** and delusion at the moment. Silly things like "you might fall in love and live happily ever after!"!!
What's been quite saddening, but I accept, is that friends I used to rely on can no longer be relied on for anything. Simply as they have other issues to deal with, Mortgages, Weddings, Babies, Family Illnesses, Work issues etc, so I cannot expect them to drop anything just to pander to my neediness.
I drew parallels to Ronnie's post recently, scarily so. In recent months, my only positive has been work, and knowing that I'm doing a banging quality job, or so I thought. I had the wind knocked out of my sales recently, having discovered my manager isn't actually aware of what I am doing and would quite happily see me down the road. Things came to a head, and I won a little battle (that I didn't want) to save my job. But not without a few weeks of feeling very isolated, lonely and victimised.
Over the last few years, those I consider friends have declined almost all invitations to visit or spend time with me, always with reasons I might add, but nevertheless, I've eventually began to take it personally, even if not intentional rejection. Every attempt to get together as a group is just a stressful waste of time, and the reasons they've given to not be able to attend have been quite surprising, and I've taken that as me being way down on the list of priorities.
I went off the radar a few weeks ago. Literally made myself uncontactable. Deleted Whatsapp, Snapchat etc, didn't tweet, didn't post here or anywhere else, and just worked, and went home. I cannot explain why I did this, but eventually people guilted me into getting involved in things. I wrote a lengthy explanation to 20 mates making them aware of what I was going through, and on the whole they responded supportively. I spent a few weeks trying to force myself to be more positive, but the fact that these supportive friends have just carried on being somewhat neglective and ignorant, knowing what I was feeling, has left me feeling doubly negative.
Christmas is never a great time for me, I have always felt lonely and isolated, but that doesn't usually hit me this hard. I've never felt so isolated and emotional, and pointless and worthless and demotivated for life as I do right now. I'm at the stage where the only reason I haven't ended my life is cos it would kill my grandma. She is ill as it is. I've even nearly thought it wouldn't matter as she is ill anyway, so my going wouldn't really matter.
I've recently had a mini-meltdown and told a circle of friends that I'm sick of begging for attention so I will leave them alone, and they should leave me alone. I thought that would be hurtful and I'd be sad, but I'm not. It just gives me the freedom to do what I want without any guilt. Another circle of friends are making me feel like doing similar with them, and if that happens, I will be totally isolated and friendless and the sad thing is that I think I want this.