Tony Le Mesmer

5 minutes ago, PistoldPete2 said:

I had problems with Upset tummy caused by wheat products like pasta , and also things like corn. Took me a while to work it out because it was an intolerance that built up over many years, probably overloaded my system. I worked it out in the end, but too late I think. A few years later I was diagnosed with diabetes, and the enemy again is wheat products and other carbohydrates. 

I kind of think now that my tummy upsets were an early warning sign for my glucose intolerance , ie diabetes. Maybe gluten intolerance and glucose intolerance are related. That's my very inexpert opinion.

anyway I think these diet problems, also have an effect on moods, energy levels etc. also my inexpert opinion. 

I think you are correct about the mood swings / low energy. When I was experimenting to see if gluten was an issue I went gluten free for a couple of months then ate some gluten to see if I reacted and within minutes I felt down and drained of energy. Heavy if you like. All within about 3 minutes.

1 hour ago, McLovin said:

Them beautiful Arab women pop up advertisements that always come up on this forum. Shame they'd be fat and ugly if you met them in real life

What you look like doesn't matter really. Of course it helps because we are such a shallow society but essentially every woman is beautiful.

13 minutes ago, Mostyn6 said:

I've got Beadle-hand you bully.

Seriously Mostyn or you just pulling my leg? 

I'm really sorry man if not as I didn't know. Just thought it was a badly taken photo. Please accept my apologies mostyn.

Charity shops that sell items for a lot more than they should be.

I go in, I browse. I pick up a couple of generic paperback books. Yes, why not. I'll have them both. Cost for the 2? - nearly 6 quid. I bought one and even then I nearly didn't. Put the other one back.

I go in, I browse. I pick up a CD. It's the Happy Mondays, Pills, Thrills and Bellyaches. It has a few scratches but I can risk it. It's £1.99. If I took it to a car boot or sold it on ebay i'd be extremely fortunate to get 50p for it. I don't REALLLLLLLLLLLLLY want it but if it's 99p then fair do's , i'll have it. End result - no sale. If they were 99p I might buy a couple of CD's that I don't really desperately want but as they are cheap I will. As they are £1.99 and sometimes more for one then I don't even buy one.

I don't wish to haggle with a charity shop but the amount of money I've NOT spent in these shops is huge and all because stuff is vastly overpriced.

They are given these items for free so isn't it best just to get them sold and make some money rather than have them cluttering up shelf space?  

1 hour ago, Mostyn6 said:

when you get pistachio nuts that you cannot open! 

Never mind that. It looks like a baby's hand!!

Anytime I answer the phone, if there is a few seconds delay I hang up. Its always a call centre. Other calls I get the other person speaks straightaway. If I get the delay or I get an instant call centre background 'buzz' I hang up.

On ‎30‎/‎09‎/‎2016 at 07:32, dcfcfan1 said:

A lot of people with Asbergers struggle to get a partner let alone have children

 

You have done well

11 hours ago, Boycie said:

Xmas depresses me too.

SAD is a problem, and we're in the season now.  I try to focus on the Spring, it's frightening how fast the seasons whizz by though. It's seems like only yesterday that I was on holiday at Easter looking forward to the summer and cursing a wet June 

Have you tried a light box Boycie? If you get a good one they can really help. They are expensive mind. I too am affected by the endless greyness of winter and for days on end you can't see the sky, just a blanket of grey cloud. I think it's hibernation mode which is natural but in some people they are more sensitive to it yet have to keep functioning when all they want to do is rest / sleep or not do much. It's about battling against your body which is always tough but hope it doesn't affect you too much over the winter.

Also there are some herbal supplements you can take for lifting mood. St Johns Wort is excellent so i'm told but not if you are on any other medication though. It interacts with some anti depressants and other similar types of medications but if you aren't taking owt then should be fine.

I've worked in animal rescue shelters since 1998 and the number of dogs we've rehomed that have had to be returned due to sudden behavioural issues that the new owners were seriously concerned about I can count on one hand. Most rescue dogs just require firm and consistent training, an understanding of each individual animal's behavioural problems by the prospective owner and a long term commitment to implement these.

My bug bear is thick people who get pups such as Akitas then let them do what they want and 6 months later when it's the size of a lion and all over the shop and they can't cope they expect rescue centres to take them in and miraculously turn them into an instant rehomable proposition overnight. Jeez. Brains in their arses.  

Also people who ring up and say they are moving house and can't take a dog so can we take it from them. Not a problem with this at all, that's what we are here for. Then you ask, "when are you moving?".

"Tomorrow" comes the reply.

Presumably they've known about their impending move for more than one day so why not ring once they had found out?! It would give us time to find and allocate space.

Then we say we cannot take it, it will have to go on the waiting list as there is no room at the centre and then you get abuse and the "you're supposed to care about animals aren't you?" line.

P*** off you waste of space.

Please.

4 hours ago, Mostyn6 said:

nah, not having that, if you use it properly, it's no different to glancing in your interior mirror, or looking up at a road sign.

True mostyn, they are just glances but a sat nav could make you linger over it if you get lost or are struggling to work out where you should be going.

Probably just semantics on my part because I refuse to have one.

I have to admit to finding maps easier for my brain to work out.

Sat navs. I use a map but my point is that whilst you are looking at it working out where you need to be, you are taking your eyes off the road. In addition it is another screen distraction in your eyeline. Why are sat navs legal and mobile phones aren't whilst driving?

It's one of the biggest most overwhelming social and cultural changes of the last 5 or so years. Mobile devices. People are now so reliant on them that they actually experience anxiety and panic symptoms when they are without them. They are as addictive as the usual protagonists like drink , drugs etc and the long term effects of broken down relationships due to poor one to one engagement and communication in favour of being distracted by the mobile are ironic when you consider that these devices are supposed to make communication and connectedness easier.

I can't think of a single thing more ineffective at human connectedness than social media and the obsession with phones.

4 minutes ago, RadioactiveWaste said:

I thought it was Ed Milliband!

It is!

6 hours ago, Paul71 said:

And even worse z listers having their weddings splashed across OK magazine etc, making out like they know the secret of happiness the rest of us don't. 

Yeah and they end up splitting up anyway and wonder why. Vacuous and false those weddings. Just like those getting married.

6 hours ago, Paul71 said:

They all seem to follow the same plot, they all seem to have had a problematic childhood, either due to poverty, illness, abuse etc....followed by a rebellious young adult era, then the introduction to money...romance, going off the rails...some major low point in their lives and then finally happy ever after.

Then 2 months after the book comes out that happy ever after goes pear shaped leading to book 2 in a couple of years time.

That said Alan partridges autobiography is well worth a read.

I must confess to owning the Alan Partridge autobiography but as its a spoof I can get away with that one.

Autobiographies by complete nobodies. Joey Barton has one out. Quite why anyone would be the slightest bit interested in his self absorbed life story is beyond me.

IMO anyone well respected and humble enough to not tell their life story for money will remain so.

I will one day write my own life story but just for the benefit of my family. I have no urge for anyone else to know and quite frankly i'd be perturbed if they'd want to know. I would do the same if I was in the public eye.

Added to that autobiographies that are written on behalf of someone such as a ghost writer. These stories automatically lose their credibility as the editor / writer can advise the 'star' about what is good to put it, what is not, what can be embellished and so on and so forth. Anyone who wants an autobiography of themselves should write it themselves with no outside interference and everything that the person truly wants to reveal will be revealed.

Lastly, autobiographies of 'stars' that have just been born. Ok so not quite that but people who have been in the limelight for 5 minutes and haven't yet reached puberty and they get one whipped out for Christmas. Dear God. Worse than these are those who fund this self obsessed hobby of the rich and not so famous by buying such cretinous books.

and on that bombshell.....................................

Just now, reveldevil said:

Obviously, coming from a male nurse, an unorthodox treatment for piles would spring to mind!

I was going to like that post revel but just can't bring myself to do so.

1 minute ago, Tony Le Mesmer said:

Coming from a nurse i'd start to think my luck was in!

Female nurse though obviously

and only if i'd fully recovered from the serious cardiac disturbances that had brought me to the A&E in the first place.......

1 minute ago, reveldevil said:

Wye aye man, take two of these and see us in the morning.

Coming from a nurse i'd start to think my luck was in!

Female nurse though obviously

 Totally get it Phoenix!

At uni I did a science related degree and one lecturer one day gave us all a list of 'key' words that we should use to pad out sentences or even use in interviews in the real world. He reckoned you could always string a couple together to make it sound more intelligent. Words such as 'strategy' and 'integrate' were at the top.

What annoyed me also at Uni was when I got an assignment, instead of a simple sentence asking me to research and discuss environmental enrichment in captive primates for example, i'd be faced with half a page of guff padded out with big words that meant exactly the same thing and it would take me an hour to actually decipher what I was being asked to do!!

Love the coal face one man!

I prefer and respect people more for just telling me how it is without the use for big words. I don't want politics, I just want someone genuine who I can relate to and who is not trying to be up their own arse just to make others think they are better than they are. Sadly, the above is standard practice today it seems. Loads of tripe and no common sense.

I mean if you go into A&E with chest pains you'd take a broad speaking Geordie nurse who knows how to make you better and at ease. No need for 'strategies' and stuff is there?

I understand tv , drama etc stirs emotions but its like these people are detached from reality. They take it too seriously. A bit like football fans.....

I'd add to that people who are inconsolable when someone famous dies who they don't even know nor have never met. Bugs me.

Like when Princess Diana died. I understand that in her case she was well loved by many people but enough for hordes of folk to travel to London from all over the land and stay in hotels and stuff at great inconvenience and cost?

Give me a break. They just wanted to get on telly sobbing.

I find it almost inexplicable how the death of someone you don't know or have never met can bring on so much emotional outpouring. Talk about mass hysteria.

On ‎22‎/‎09‎/‎2016 at 18:15, Bridgford Ram said:

This must have been covered but just in case - I really hate the clickbait adds you get on all sites now with headlines like, 'She didn't know why the crowd were still cheering', 'The cameraman didn't expect to see that', '76 historical photos you won't believe' or 'Derby County close to signing...'

I am no expert in Google rankings but I am sure that these adds probably do more damage for the sites than benefit.

Seen a couple this morning.

"Strictly fans furious as dance off is cancelled"

REALLY?!! SERIOUSLY?!

"Corrie fans distraught over Ozzie's death"  (ozzie being a black lab who was acting )

REALLY?!

It's a dog. Whilst the death of a dog is a sad event, in this case it's a soap dog!! He isn't dead for Gods sake!! GET A GRIP!

Anyone read all these self help, motivational books? They're ten a penny at Bolsover library so thought i'd get some today and give them a go. Books for assertiveness, anxiety, confidence, positive thinking etc etc. Boom!

Pervert van drivers. Stop ogling women and concentrate on the road you knuckleheads. As if these women are going to be interested in you anyway what with your intelligence and emotional understanding.

People who don't leave feedback on ebay.