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    The rising cost of living

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    12 hours ago, Xela said:

    Your personal situation has changed massively though. 

    I've gone from £100pm in an older all electric flat 15 years ago, to £75pm now, in a modern efficient flat. I am a lot more careful now though. When I first moved here, the heating was set at 23 degrees from October to April, and my bill never went over £50pm! 

    As an energy manager, this annoys me.

    General Chat

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    1 hour ago, Stevo985 said:

    The Toyota MR2 didn’t sell in France because MR2 said in France/with a French accent sounds like merde (that means shit in French)

    I'm not a car person, but as a kid I really wanted one of those because of the cool curved back window.

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    Reverse Bucket List

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    40 minutes ago, KentVillan said:

    I will never wank using salad cream as lube again, a failed experiment in my younger years, absolute agony, I think it was the vinegar that did the damage. 

    I imagine the cucumber up your arse was pretty uncomfortable too.

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    General Chat

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    I'll have 2 shandies max if driving, which depending on the pub, is either 1/2 pint total, or 1.25 pints total.

    It's very rarely the latter, the robbing bastards.

    General officiating/rules

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    3 hours ago, Marka Ragnos said:

    Ok, clear the area. Incoming Dumb American questions ... If you "get" a yellow, can't that mean two opposite things? Do teams ever "get" a pen? What are the proper transitive verbs associated with fouls? Take? Draw? Give? Win? I'm getting very confused by seemingly dual meanings. "We got a yellow card" can mean we both received one or gave one, right? 🫤

    You can't take a foul, you can take a free kick, throw in, corner or penalty.  Emi can take a goal kick.  Pau Torres can take the piss (put of oncoming strikers and make them look stupid).

    A typical example would be Jack Grealish can "draw a foul", it means you're shielding the ball or using it in such a way that you're ensuring contact with the player results in him getting a foul.  Basically if you have the ball, you're looking to get a free kick.

    A ref can give a foul, because a tackle has been attempted but the ball wasn't touched, but the player was, halting their progress. A ref can give a yellow if he thinks the foul was bad enough or the player has been persistently fouling (accumulating fouls).

    "Winning" can be used a bit like "drawing" - a player can "win a foul".  I don't think you can say "the player has won a yellow" because no-one wants a yellow. You can "win" a penalty too, but usually it would be said that the penalty has been "awarded" to a team as a result of the punishment given to the other team.

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    Birmingham Life

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    Can someone explain how a council can go bust, and explain it like you would to a 5 year old?  Y'know.. so @Paddywhack could understand..

    Surely a council is only as rich as central government investment and tax generation allows.  What is Bham council doing that say, Dudley or Manchester council aren't?

    I also heard Windsor and Slough councils are going to the wall.

    Kylian Mbappé

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    6 hours ago, GlobalVillan said:

    Yes I noticed you keep quoting me and disagreeing. Whatever the subject. It's tiring.

    I know you have other clubs you follow,  (checks Man City thread), but I dont and I think Mbappe playing for a rival would be a terrible thing for Villa and our fans.

    @Stevo985 quotes everyone because the big knobhead posts more than everyone else.

    Stop being so sensitive, you big wuss.

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    Weekends Football 16/18 Febuary

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    That's the biggest issue this season for me, Man Utd are objectively shit.  They have half decent players who give "a moment of magic", but holistically looking at them, they're proper cack.  City, Arsenal, Spuds, Us, Liverpool and even Chelsea have an identity and a way of playing. 

    This lot do the bare minimum and get lots of decisions go their way, plus they "just about hang on" then sucker punch for a shit win.

    I mean.. fair play that they get away with it this often.. there must be a skill in it somewhere.

    But if they get to Europe, they won't do anything in it because they'll canter to the knockouts and get beat by the first competent team they face.

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    What is your experience of mental health?

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    2 hours ago, Chindie said:

    I may as well follow up on recent events.

    I got my referral. They recommended I self refer to another service, which I have done, but might take 3 months to contact me. I also had a pharmacist call and discuss putting me on something else (currently not on anything for being mental). Nothing has happened since that call a week ago.

    How have things been since then? Dire. I needed to go to the pharmacy, which I can see from my house, and walk to in a minute, and I couldn't. I was sobbing on the bathroom and thumping the wall in frustration at just but being able to feel ok to go there. I eventually did it but it took well over an hour and 3 attempts, and when I finally did it I was literally going out of sheer rage, I was shaking in anger and frustration at myself when I finally got there, I must have looked like a maniac. 

    I've also failed to pick up the girlfriend so many times we've stopped my going to get her most of the time. The last time I picked her up I got caught in traffic at the top of her road and was screaming at myself in such a rage my voice was hoarse for about 4 days. I also have spent most of the week trying and failing to go fill the car up. Including an hour tonight trying to prepare to go where I completely failed and decided I wasn't sitting there all night sobbing and bruising up my arms from slamming the walls in rage and frustration at not being to simply get in the **** car and go fill it up at a petrol station a 2 minute drive away. And now I'm sat here being contemplative about what all this means. And I'm just thinking about my life is so empty and so pointless, how all of this is absurd, and how my little corner of this nasty little world is **** empty but for frustration. How every evening is a waste and every day is pointless at a deeply frustrating and maddeningly hopeless job to hide party stone books to sustain this nightmare. And how even writing this is pathetic impotent whinging for which any response is pointless and any threat is empty, even though a significant part of me is saying the sensible choice is bleeding out, and shouldn't be written because it's pathetic and you should just get over it. But equally I've got no way to vent and bottling it quenches nothing. I hate it all.

    You need to seek help, immediately.  Don't accept a referral, demand something be done.

    If you're going "oh.. ok then" the person on the line is probably prioritising someone else they're on the phone to sounding much more desperate.

    It's going to be the same as A&E, who you going to rush through the door?  The guy moaning about his hand he hurt playing football, or someone with chest pain?  It's not the right system, but it's the one we have, I suggest you play the game.

    I don't understand what you're going through, because I find the world a beautiful and fulfilling place, full of wonder and interesting things (minus @sidcow).  We're all one in a trillion, we're all incredibly lucky to be here, but life is to a point what you make of it.  

    Surround yourself with positivity if possible.  Cut out the shit, leave the "downers" and make sensible decisions on the things you CAN control.

    I'm assuming you have Agoraphobia, I'm sure that's shit and I'm sorry you're experiencing it.  You spoken to anyone about it?  Gone online to find help?  Joined a community who might understand what you're going through and maybe suggesting things to make it slightly less shit, so you can walk a minute up the road?

    Do things you find happiness in.  You seem to have hobbies.  I know there's a massive toy fare (fair?) Coming up at the NEC, you going?  If not?  Why not?  It'd be right up your street.  Sounds like you could pick up a paint brush or pencil and do some art too.  I'm sure your inner mind would bring to life some really interesting things.

    This is total guess work, and as you mentioned in your irony filled post, you probably won't even register this, but you're a bright, intelligent person who can't leave his own house without losing your shit.  It's kind of.. not surprising you're depressed.  I work from home and unless I go out, I often feel shit.

    So start at the start and rather than trying to "get better", try to do the little things you can do which help.

    Anecdotally, I play a lot of ps5 and play battlefield and have done for 15 years.  A guy I've played with since bf3 came out (in 2010?) hadn't been online much at all lately.  He came on the other day, I had a chat with him and he told me he nearly took his own life after some small skin issues became a real point of depression.  I just sat on the other side of a headset and listened to someone telling me some deeply private stuff..  the skin stuff was just the tipping point to lots of other stuff, but I was glad to hear he was in a much better place mentally.  He's not out of the clear, but he's made the effort to approach his issues with professionals and fair play to him.

    Good luck to you.

     

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    Things that piss you off that shouldn't

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    Broke my leg in 3 places because I was having a piggy back on my brother and I shouted "YEE HAW!" and pulled back on his neck to impress a girl, he landed on me and i broke it in 3 places, two fibia, one tibia or vice versa. I was 7.

    Broke a rib fighting with my brother over the last piece of my birthday carrot cake.  I was 24, he was 30.  He won.. 

    Snapped my ACL when flying a stunt kite in some shit Northern Welsh town near a Haven or pontins or summat.  My feet were buried in sand and one of the two kite cables snappe and it twisted my knee.  I tried to play football on it 2 hours later - LOL bad mistake.

    I tore my hamstring jumping for a volley at 7 a side, no-one near me and my hamstring rolled up my leg into my arse and I had to drive to the hospital.  Every time I had to change gear, it was agony.

    Twisted my testicle when getting out of the car when I was 10, that was pretty nasty.

    Few stitches here and there falling when skating on quads 8-12.

    All pretty standard.

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