[Redway]

Originally Posted by Redway

I have an off-and-on relationship with driving, meaning I’m a pedestrian quite a bit of the time. And too many drivers just don’t have regard or respect for pedestrians.

Speaking of cars, Lee Park Road/Avenue (Liverpool) is almost undrivable. You can hardly move for the amount of bumps on those-two roads.

[Redway]

Originally Posted by Redway

Speaking of cars, Lee Park Road/Avenue (Liverpool) is almost undrivable. You can hardly move for the amount of bumps on those-two roads.

And the irony is, it turns out a police-car walloped into another car just by this corner.

[Mystic Mock]

Originally Posted by Redway

I’ve been talking about this neurodiversity thing for ages. Drives me nuts.

It's crazy isn't it, Redway?

[Mystic Mock]

Originally Posted by Jessica.

It's usually a problem with their home life.

I wish that they would channel their problem in a different way on the Internet though than faking having Cancer.

[Mystic Mock]

Originally Posted by Livia

In some cases people self diagnose because they can't get to see a doctor in our Third World healthcare system. There is virtually no chance of an adult being tested for ADHD, autism etcunder the NHS. When you see someone in the news who is an adult and has been diagnosed with autism or ADHD they are invariably celebrities who have got their diagnosis privately.

Fake cancer? Now there's someone who could do with some kind of talking therapy at the very least. Or maybe they 'identify' as a cancer patient?

Fair points to both paragraphs.

And I unfortunately remember seeing a YouTube video the once where they covered someone on TikTok putting on pale looking makeup on their face with a caption about having Cancer, you could almost say it was their attempt at Satire.

But unfortunately a really unfunny one.

[Redway]

Fred (Classic Corrie; 2006) constantly dismissing Claire as hormonal whenever she’s rightfully upset with Ashley.

[Redway]

People glaring over your mobile when you’re trying to do something on it. I find that so nosey.

[Ithinkiloveyoutoo]

Originally Posted by Redway

I’ve been talking about this neurodiversity thing for ages. Drives me nuts.

Yeah not gonna lie it annoys me how a large percentage of society, and colleagues just call themselves neurodivergent now

[Redway]

Originally Posted by Mystic Mock

It's crazy isn't it, Redway?

Certain conditions (like misophonia) have to be self-diagnosed and people suffering becoming their own passionately best advocates, pharmacologists, experts, because the system hasn’t made diagnostic room for them yet and even specialists don’t necessarily have a clue, despite the fact that it’s not as unusual condition as one might think. People in those situations just have to claim agency in the face of institutional neglect and non-acknowledgement. So I do get the validity of genuine, well-informed self-diagnosis. I’m the last person in the world to overlook that. But the way things like autism and ADHD specifically are concerned, it’s just going way too far. Every 1 in 2 people claims to be neurodivergent these days, and all these people can’t be officially diagnosed.

[Redway]

Originally Posted by Redway

Ralph Wiggum.

Seriously. God knows I HATE this stupid kid.

[Redway]

Misrepresenting and gate-keeping the layers which have added to someone’s unique shade of cultural identity just so they can prove themselves totally authentic to you (big-ting), when chances are they’re more authentic than you in that regard, is something that needs to be cancelled. You don’t get to do that, whether you’re in a relationship with them or you’re just passing strangers. Simplifying the layers of someone’s hometown, or even labouring under the illusion that they can only have one, is just … not the way to go.

Someone’s hometown can be as much Cairo as it is Newham. Toxteth as much as Montegro Bay. Especially with those areas being quite multicultural anyway. They’re not abandoning their Egyptian, Jewish or Jamaican identity by making that known. They could just as well be saying that their diaspora communities have enhanced their cultural identity all-the more. Either way, it’s not to go attacking someone like a pack of hounds because they used “hometown” in a somewhat double-faceted way. They’ll have their reasons and context of lived experiences within the confines of what they’re talking about. And you can’t take that away from them, no-matter how much you try to gatekeep one culture or the other in monoculture type of way. Claiming multiple hometowns is just not a betrayal of heritage. You shouldn’t have to strip your identity of nuance to be accepted by everyone. It’s not going to work like that in a migratory, globalised world anyway.

[Redway]

Gossip dressed up as spiritual concern.

[Redway]

Apps giving you the option of them either tracking your activity and location all the time or only why you’re using the app as if anyone would actually be comfortable with the former and being tracked all the time. Why is it an option anyone would have to choose between?

[Redway]

People who burp in public like it’s nothing.

[Ray.]

Originally Posted by Redway

People who burp in public like it’s nothing.

Agreed. Revolting thing to do in front of others.

[Redway]

In MBTI lingo: extroverted sensing types who dismiss intuitives as just overly reserved and over-analytical.

[Redway]

People who make personality-pervading judgements about people based on nothing but their vis-a-vis social demeanour, especially when they’ve only ever seen the person in motion with people that they’re not terribly comfortable with. You’re obviously not going to see the real them when more of their personality is directed inwards rather than outwards and they’re not even comfortable to begin with. Comfort is everything for the average introvert. Mistaking situational awkwardness or silence with someone’s whole personality is never a good thing. Still waters run deep. And there’s often a world of immense emotional and intellectual depth beneath the surface. You just need to get to know them in themselves, and some people never will, because they never utilised the opportunity to. You … don’t get to see it in random passing or from the undifferentiated outside looking in. You get it through time, trust, comfort, nuance and maybe the odd questionnaire or two on Snapchat. Otherwise your knowledge of them might be 0.1% and nowt more. It always pays to respect the complexity of the inner world.

[Zizu]

People who post huge , unreadable blocks of concentrated text ….

[Redway]

Lymecycline capsules. The way they easily break and disintegrate in your hands is so annoying. I’ve got a good mind to make a complaint to the pharmacy.

[Zizu]

Originally Posted by Redway

Lymecycline capsules. The way they easily break and disintegrate in your hands is so annoying. I’ve got a good mind to make a complaint to the pharmacy.

Speaking from experience you may be better getting plenty of sunshine .. just use high factor sunscreen


Back in the day sun lamps plus protective goggles were used effectively but times have changed

[Redway]

People who defend Joshua Pascoe.

[Zizu]

You are welcome


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[Redway]

Originally Posted by Zizu

Speaking from experience you may be better getting plenty of sunshine .. just use high factor sunscreen


Back in the day sun lamps plus protective goggles were used effectively but times have changed

I’m not sure what sunshine’s got to do with antibiotics. As usual, you’re not making any sense.

[Zizu]

Originally Posted by Redway

I’m not sure what sunshine’s got to do with antibiotics. As usual, you’re not making any sense.

I presumed the antibiotics were to treat acne as that is the main thing those particular antibiotic capsules are prescribed for … apparently - apologies if I was mistaken


Either way I was offering you an olive branch ..

… and no the olive branch isn’t a cure for acne before you ask

[Ithinkiloveyoutoo]

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