[Mystic Mock]

Originally Posted by Redway

It has to be said, though, Mock, that Samaritans aren’t just for suicidal people, so if you had a friend who needed support and was willing to talk about it to someone, they wouldn’t necessarily have to be suicidal to tap in or ask for emotional support. They’ll listen to anyone who’s in distress or just needs someone to talk to about something that’s getting in the way of them living their best lives. Anything.

I’ve definitely had suicidal moments when I needed to use Samaritans just to keep me gucci for the night (there’s no shame in being a little open about that) but that’s not all they’re there for.

I actually didn't know that they also helped with other issues that people might be mentally suffering with.

They seem like a good service tbh, that unfortunately are getting idiots hijacking it for different reasons to what it's actually meant to be there for.

[Mystic Mock]

Oh and my own personal gripe is with the Yakuza Video Game fandom.

Unlike other Video Game franchises where their fandoms will nitpick at even the slightest issue, the Yakuza fandom largely laps it up:

1. Name change from Yakuza to Like A Dragon (and I don't care if that's what it's called in Japan) we in the West obviously don't live in Japan, and we have been calling it Yakuza since the PS2 days, and that is how it should've stayed in the West.

But anyway, no resistance from the fandom to the title change.

2. Hardly any fight back on the horrible change to becoming a Turn Based RPG, when it was originally an Action-Adventure series, with a tiny amount of RPG thrown in, and I mean very slight.

We've even got people on Twitter, trying to call the series an RPG series, which is just disgusting as it isn't an RPG series, you are the genre that you started out as, it's that simple.

3. No fight back on all of the Yakuza cast from the Kiryu era largely being removed in Yakuza 7, which again helped lose that Game it's connections to the rest of the franchise imo. But again hardly any blow back on that from the fandom.

4. The fact that Yakuza 8 moved location from Japan to America for chunks of the Game, how on earth is that a Yakuza Game? Especially when you take into account all of the other changes that I've mentioned.

And 5. Dialling down the jokes/eccentricity, if some people don't like the jokes that you've told then tough, you imo don't dial down the humour just to please people that "might've" been offended, again common sense is just completely ignored though.

[Livia]

That advert for incontinence pads where the woman is sitting on the toilet. What does she tell me that she couldn't have said on her feet with her knickers up?

[Zizu]

Originally Posted by Livia

That advert for incontinence pads where the woman is sitting on the toilet. What does she tell me that she couldn't have said on her feet with her knickers up?

Another example of slipping standards, I’m afraid !


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[Zizu]

I hate all those adverts every ten minutes advising me that 1 in every 2 people will get cancer !!

These adverts are terrible for negative/ anxious/ depressed/ worrying types like myself!


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[Livia]

Originally Posted by Zizu

I hate all those adverts every ten minutes advising me that 1 in every 2 people will get cancer !!

These adverts are terrible for negative/ anxious/ depressed/ worrying types like myself!


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How come we get trigger warnings for soaps but are subjected to the most harrowing adverts without warning? Fly-covered babies in Africa, awful animal abuse, cancer... And plenty of ads for rearranging your funeral in case you're one of the unlucky ones.

[Redway]

Originally Posted by Livia

That advert for incontinence pads where the woman is sitting on the toilet. What does she tell me that she couldn't have said on her feet with her knickers up?

This is part of what I’m saying. Those adverts are in very, very poor taste.

[Redway]

Originally Posted by Mystic Mock

I actually didn't know that they also helped with other issues that people might be mentally suffering with.

They seem like a good service tbh, that unfortunately are getting idiots hijacking it for different reasons to what it's actually meant to be there for.

They are. And the thing is a lot of people have been on both ends of the 'phone. They've had cause to reach out and they've been volunteers themselves, so it can be a double-barrelled experience.

[Zizu]

Originally Posted by Livia

How come we get trigger warnings for soaps but are subjected to the most harrowing adverts without warning? Fly-covered babies in Africa, awful animal abuse, cancer... And plenty of ads for rearranging your funeral in case you're one of the unlucky ones.

Such uplifting stuff as well ! Not !!


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[Nicky91]

how hateful, nasty and vile people can be on social media's

[Redway]

Originally Posted by Redway

'Back-to-back meetings? No time to sort lunch? Why not order some Caribou-Poutine, Maggie Fu or Greggs?'

Ugh. Enough already. Just shut up, dude.

He can’t even pronounce Greggs right.

[Mystic Mock]

Originally Posted by Zizu

I hate all those adverts every ten minutes advising me that 1 in every 2 people will get cancer !!

These adverts are terrible for negative/ anxious/ depressed/ worrying types like myself!


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Nearly everything on TV nowadays is designed with one of these three things in mind at the very least. And possibly all three if it's a tragically awful product.

1. To make the viewer feel depressed.

2. To divide audiences over Politics.

And 3. Refusal to have a proper personality that isn't just about what demographic that you come from.

[Redway]

Unnecessary drama being made to be your business. And all the annoying conversations and crazily disproportionate reactions that come with it. Hate it.

“I want us to talk about something nice”, only for it to be the ugliest, most unnecessarily drama-filled conversation you’ve had in a while. I’m not going to run a mile anyway if you really need us to talk but let’s drop the lies. You haven’t summoned me up so we can sing kumbaya over ice cream.

[Redway]

People lacking all subtlety in terms of recognising, interpreting and acknowledging someone’s need for boundaries at any one moment in time. Sometimes you need space from people and it may or may not be anything personal.

[Mystic Mock]

Why are these so good.

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[Redway]

Seriously, this Spotify UberEats guy needs to shut up.

[hijaxers]

Being labelled bloody cis Fuming

[Redway]

Originally Posted by hijaxers

Being labelled bloody cis Fuming

It’s a convenient way of distinguishing between trans. people and people who are the sex they were assigned at birth. Trans people themselves get called much worse so I dunno. I dunno. Everyone has the right to feel how they feel but I’m not trying to be up in my own because of the most handy nomenclature of the time. Trans people get too much flack at the minute.

[Zizu]

Originally Posted by Redway

It’s a convenient way of distinguishing between trans. people and people who are the sex they were assigned at birth. Trans people themselves get called much worse so I dunno. I dunno. Everyone has the right to feel how they feel but I’m not trying to be up in my own because of the most handy nomenclature of the time. Trans people get too much flack at the minute.

You are a complex little entity , aren’t you !?

Why spend so much time and energy on something so inconsequential


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[Redway]

Slow and inattentive customer-service. One person on their own behind the bar when there are dozens of people waiting to order.

[Zizu]

Stupid names chosen by big companies ‘n

Goldfish credit cards - very comforting ( not)

Head - sportswear

Elbow - a fabulous pop group

Flannels - new high street chain store




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[Gusto Brunt]

Currently the weather. Only 7c this morning at 8am.

Forecast for the rest of June a washout and some frost - continued wind and low temperatures.

No hope for July either.

[Redway]

Originally Posted by Gusto Brunt

Currently the weather. Only 7c this morning at 8am.

Forecast for the rest of June a washout and some frost - continued wind and low temperatures.

No hope for July either.

Got a bit of sun where I am today so it is what it is. In any case, June 2007 was much rainier.

[Zizu]

Originally Posted by Gusto Brunt

Currently the weather. Only 7c this morning at 8am.

Forecast for the rest of June a washout and some frost - continued wind and low temperatures.

No hope for July either.

I saw reports of a two week heatwave coming in 7 days .. Gtr Manchester ?!??


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[Mystic Mock]

Originally Posted by Zizu

I saw reports of a two week heatwave coming in 7 days .. Gtr Manchester ?!??


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That's terrifying.