[Zizu]

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[Zizu]

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[Redway]

ChalkOutlineMan.

Happy now, buddy?

[Beso]

People who buy scented candles just to use them as ornaments

[Josy]

Originally Posted by parmnion

People who buy scented candles just to use them as ornaments

I feel personally attacked

[Beso]

Originally Posted by Josy

I feel personally attacked

Light them, or take then up to the bottle bank,

[Josy]

Those electronic cigarette things! is it lost mary and fairy bars or whatever they are called laying all over the streets it's getting ridiculous

[Zizu]

Originally Posted by Josy

Those electronic cigarette things! is it lost mary and fairy bars or whatever they are called laying all over the streets it's getting ridiculous

Yeah just as we stopped seeing Covid masks all over the place .. now it’s bladdy vapes


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[Redway]

This trend (it’s been increasing over the past 7/8 years) of neurodivergence becoming such a popular thing that every other person says they’re autistic and/or ADHD now. If it was under-diagnosed in the past, it’s over-diagnosed now. Sometimes the diagnosis is self-diagnosis that happens on TikTok and it’s just crazy.

[Zizu]

Originally Posted by Redway

This trend (it’s been increasing over the past 7/8 years) of neurodivergence becoming such a popular thing that every other person says they’re autistic and/or ADHD now. If it was under-diagnosed in the past, it’s over-diagnosed now. Sometimes the diagnosis is self-diagnosis that happens on TikTok and it’s just crazy.

Plus everyone seems to be OCD !!


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[Redway]

Originally Posted by Zizu

Plus everyone seems to be OCD !!


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People get spooked when they hear about how unpleasant and uncomfortable OCD can be for the person going through it. People who have sexual, religious and violent obsessions that they know are going to be completely misunderstood by people who don’t fully get OCD and the spectrum of it would feel much more at ease if it was just a case of them being extra-clean and they’d say they had no problem at all if that was their only problem. Seeing OCD as a disorder of excessive cleanliness and constantly framing it as that alone doesn’t help. Yes, that’s some of it for a certain proportion of people with OCD and obsessive-compulsive personality disorder but that’s not even the half of it. Just the most stereotypical, publicly acknowledged type.

[Mystic Mock]

Originally Posted by Redway

This trend (it’s been increasing over the past 7/8 years) of neurodivergence becoming such a popular thing that every other person says they’re autistic and/or ADHD now. If it was under-diagnosed in the past, it’s over-diagnosed now. Sometimes the diagnosis is self-diagnosis that happens on TikTok and it’s just crazy.

I've seen that trend too.

And people faking having Cancer, which is just grim.

[Redway]

Originally Posted by Mystic Mock

I've seen that trend too.

And people faking having Cancer, which is just grim.

It’s all so grim. And cancer’s not exactly an illness to malinger. I should know that.

Everyone’s on some sort of spectrum in the grand scheme of basically every personality type out there being connected to some pathology at the more extreme end (physical and mental, like there’s a connection between bipolar disorder and diabetes for example now) but that doesn’t mean that being a bit inattentive sometimes for any number of reasons is ADHD or every social quirk under the sun is autism. Some people even wanna label Andrew Treneman (Waterloo Road) as autistic now. And now “neurospicy” is a buzz-word that so many people who have come out of the woodworks to say they’re autistic now cling onto for dear life, like it’s some sort of new Nandos peri-peri flavour or a new type of jollof rice. It’s gone way, way too far. So annoying.

[Mystic Mock]

Originally Posted by Redway

It’s all so grim.

Everyone’s on some sort of spectrum in the grand scheme of basically every personality type out there being connected to some pathology at the more extreme end (physical and mental, like there’s a connection between bipolar disorder and diabetes for example now) but that doesn’t mean that being a bit inattentive sometimes for any number of reasons is ADHD or every social quirk under the sun is autism. Some people even wanna label Andrew Treneman (Waterloo Road) as autistic now. And now “neurospicy” is a buzz-word that so many people who have come out of the woodworks to say they’re autistic now cling onto for dear life, like it’s some sort of new Nandos peri-peri flavour or a new type of jollof rice. It’s gone way, way too far.

Some people on the Internet just want attention so badly that they don't care how they get it unfortunately.

[Redway]

Originally Posted by Mystic Mock

Some people on the Internet just want attention so badly that they don't care how they get it unfortunately.

Yup, sadly. And the thing is with these labels is that the more you internalise them the more you start to become your self-diagnosis. Unless you’re willing to take medication to weed out the more undesirable parts of whatever neurodivergency it is you think you might have more inner traits of than average (and there is medication out there for all of it), what’s the point in making yourself more and more neurodivergent and then suddenly expecting people to accommodate for you completely differently than they have for the past 25/50 years of your life? Especially when you don’t even have an official diagnosis.

So I really don’t get this obsession people have these days with wanting to be and identify as neurodivergent. It’s almost as bad as this trend from 2018-ish of people identifying as non-binary. I’m all for LGBTQ+ inclusivity but unless you’re intersex or transitioning you’re either a straight-up male or female, period. Never mind all this nonsense of pronouns. People in themselves are phenomenally diverse and complex but the binary division of biological sex has only few genuine exceptions. You’re not “non-binary” just because you wanna be.

[Redway]

People thinking “moving-in-silence” seasons means someone’s automatically going through a tough time in their life. Being a bit quiet about where exactly you’re at and how things are going with you beyond being okay isn’t inherently a negative. There’s a season to celebrate openly with everyone, sure, but there’s also a season where you might want take more of a conscious step back for a minute and manoeuvre your zone quietly, but it can be positive. The radar-top can wait. A bit more quietness than usual about your plans and what you’re doing in life doesn’t automatically mean the person’s going through bad times or worried about a lot. Sometimes people do that and people speculate the worst and thing something’s seriously wrong but a lot of those concerns are very over-exaggerated or just totally unnecessary. Moving in silence for a lot of people is literally just that, and it’s not like it’s bound to be forever. You might want to keep quiet about your new job until you’ve been there for a while or are a bit closer to being in the career/job you really want to be in or you might not be ready to have kids if you’re married until the time feels right, and that’s between you and your spouse, not the whole world. That’s okay. People with loose tongues are gonna gossip anyway so you might as well get comfortable and set boundaries while you’re at it. Your personal/professional/relationship business is your business.

You’re not on a path to permanent childlessness (if having kids would be your ball), a career you’re not best-happy with but you might be sort of stuck with for now (even if it’s a good job) or a mental breakdown by keeping silent about certain things until the time seems right. You don’t have to update your LinkedIn profile 99 times a day and judge people who didn’t go to certain Russell-Group unis (as if Loughborough isn’t better than Southampton main) for people to know that you’re earning money. So long as you and the people closest to you know, it doesn’t matter what other people think. They might be biting their words in two years, when your present vision’s clearer to them (not that you even owe them that much). If it makes perfect sense to them in the meantime, it does. If it doesn’t, it doesn’t. There’s not your problem. The only person you’ve got to fully answer to is yourself.

[Redway]

When people lump black and mixed-race people together. With more than 70% Afro/Afro-Caribbean admixture I understand but at 50/50 or less black is black and mixed-race is very-much mixed-race and in its own distinct little category. Everyone has the right to affiliate with what they identify with more, I guess, but doing it automatically with people who you know are half-and-half (sometimes even less than that) harkens back to the one-drop rule (horribly racist). Hate it when people do that.

[Beso]

I'm a bit of all the above tbf. When I can be bothered.

[Redway]

Originally Posted by parmnion

I'm a bit of all the above tbf. When I can be bothered.

What, when you can be bothered to plug in a vacuum? (Don’t tell me.)

[Beso]

Originally Posted by Redway

What, when you can be bothered to plug in a vacuum? (Don’t tell me.)

I dont have sex with Hoovers. Well not henry anyway.

Reminds me of a story from school though, about masterbation.

One of our friends group was told the best way to master bate was by poking a hole in a bar of soap to slidenotbup and down your penis.


We all laughed.

2 weeks later another group.memeber had a sleepover at his house and found 3 donut shaped bars of pearls soap on the side of the bath.

[Redway]

I’ve spoken about religious hypocrisy here-and-there but ya. Better know you’re being roasted on Zoom tonight if you have links to that kind of community and people incorporate gossip into so-called Christian values and the spirit of prayer.

Originally Posted by parmnion

I dont have sex with Hoovers. Well not henry anyway.

Reminds me of a story from school though, about masterbation.

One of our friends group was told the best way to master bate was by poking a hole in a bar of soap to slidenotbup and down your penis.


We all laughed.

2 weeks later another group.memeber had a sleepover at his house and found 3 donut shaped bars of pearls soap on the side of the bath.

Interesting character you are

[Beso]

Originally Posted by Redway

I’ve spoken about religious hypocrisy here-and-there but ya. Better know you’re being roasted on Zoom tonight if you have links to that kind of community and people incorporate gossip into so-called Christian values and the spirit of prayer.



Interesting character you are

I'm a small fish compared to the soap man

[Redway]

Clickbait.

Alina is not a legendary Corrie character. FFS.

Heck, David calling his mum Gail all the time. That’s your mother. Put some respeck on her name, boy.

[Zizu]

Originally Posted by Redway

Clickbait.

Alina is not a legendary Corrie character. FFS.

Heck, David calling his mum Gail all the time. That’s your mother. Put some respeck on her name, boy.

ClickBait videos on YouTube drive me even more crazy !!


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[Ammi]

…when there is a new TV series being shown and you’re waiting to binge it all at the end …but there are articles about it everywhere on the internet and avoiding spoilers becomes a huge challenge…