How are you?

[Shindig]

Well, now I have to do the two minute silence.

[Jimmy Floyd]

So far this is my best November for years. I don't know if that's the Vitamin D supplements talking (seriously, kids, stock up) or if it's just that every month is now November so I'm used to it.

Last night I got home from work, sat on the sofa, opened the laptop, watched a quick video, accidentally ended up in bed and slept for two and a half hours. Got up at about 8.45pm, went back to the sofa, watched some golf stuff on the telly, had a juice and a small bit of cheese, tried to go back to sleep, couldn't, played half an hour of audiobook, still couldn't, then went to the last resort for sleep which is playing back twenty minutes of my own voice reading something and that finally did the trick. Woke up 6.30am and managed my five alarms until 7.30am. Shower, coffee, apricots, off to work again.

Rinse, repeat. One day, boys, one day life will return.

[Ian]

I've also been taking vitamin d but I dunno if I've noticed much difference. I didn't realise that NHS Scotland recommend it if you live North of the wall anyway but especially this year when I'm going to be outside in daylight even less I thought it wouldn't do any harm.

[Giggles]

What does vitamin D do and why would you not have enough of it?

[Ian]

Because you'd normally get most of it from sunlight and I live in Scotland.

I assume you could make a point of adding things to your diet that'd include it but that sounds like more effort.

[Giggles]

Ah it's the sun one. Could probably do with it too as I'm never outside in daylight any more.

Do you feel wrecked without it?

[Ian]

One of my friends is convinced it's improved her mood and that she's less tired.

I'm not really sure if it's having any effect or not in all honesty and the tone of Jimmy's post makes me uncertain on his stance on it.

[Jimmy Floyd]

I've been taking it since late September and I feel like I'm less despondent than I would otherwise be in these circumstances. The clocks going back is normally a serious harbinger of doom for me.

It's hard to measure, though.

[Giggles]

I get you, it's one of those wellbeing things rather than anything actually wrong. I thought it would combat tiredness or something but I could probably fix that with some water in fairness.

[Manc]

Multivitamins are a must. I'd reccomend Wellman.

[Don]

A must for being scammed, ya. Get your diet sorted instead.

[Spikey M]

Captain Long Covid wants to tell us how to stay healthy lads.

[Jimmy Floyd]

There are only two ways you can get significant amounts of vitamin D into your diet which are:

- Changing career to become an 18th century Scottish fisherman
- Feasting on the livers of the children you have murdered

I'm not prepared to do either.

[Don]

If I wasn't such a 1337 bodyhacker I wouldn't be alive today given the barrage my immune system must have received to date.

[Boydy]

https://rhculp.files.wordpress.com/2011/12/simpsons_mansionfam.jpg

All the STDs you've picked up from cheap prostitutes trying to attack your immune system.

[Don]

https://media.tenor.com/images/74183a5ba285f75097b944bfb5d294c3/tenor.gif

[Spikey M]

https://media.tenor.com/images/7a0944c5ed6a582bb8986b4800f28261/tenor.gif

[Boydy]

Sorry, I thought it was an illicit substances joke.

[Lofty]

Vitamin D is supposedly decent for fighting off the dreaded covid too, according to Dr John Campbell of Youtube. It transpired from people contacting him that loads of people have been told to take it anyway if they don't live in sunnier climates but it is a bit under the radar here for some reason. Been on it since March and happy enough all things considered, though unfettered access to pornography may be a factor.

[niko_cee]

There are only two ways you can get significant amounts of vitamin D into your diet which are:

- Changing career to become an 18th century Scottish fisherman
- Feasting on the livers of the children you have murdered

I'm not prepared to do either.

You can get it from mushrooms.

Particularly the vitamin d enhanced ones (no shit), which they stick under a UV light to, presumably, ape the effect of the sun.

[Offshore Toon]

It's the perfect time to go mushroom foraging as it happens.

[Spoonsky]

So far this is my best November for years. I don't know if that's the Vitamin D supplements talking (seriously, kids, stock up) or if it's just that every month is now November so I'm used to it.

Last night I got home from work, sat on the sofa, opened the laptop, watched a quick video, accidentally ended up in bed and slept for two and a half hours. Got up at about 8.45pm, went back to the sofa, watched some golf stuff on the telly, had a juice and a small bit of cheese, tried to go back to sleep, couldn't, played half an hour of audiobook, still couldn't, then went to the last resort for sleep which is playing back twenty minutes of my own voice reading something and that finally did the trick. Woke up 6.30am and managed my five alarms until 7.30am. Shower, coffee, apricots, off to work again.

Rinse, repeat. One day, boys, one day life will return.

What?

[phonics]

I missed that. Absolutely psychopathic behaviour.

[Shindig]

That sounds like a crisis.

[Manc]

His WDYTOE entry went to his head.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Language learning innit.

[Raoul Duke]

"Good job you weren't here 5 mins ago..."


https://youtu.be/t4mFEA0Mfp4?t=71

[Jimmy Floyd]

Is that the cabin fever episode? Q.e.d.

[Kikó]

It's the perfect time to go mushroom foraging as it happens.

My nan is obsessed with this. We even have a framed photo of one of the mushrooms she picked from years ago.

[Spikey M]

:D

[Kikó]

It's unbelievable. There was literally no pictures of her kids or grandkids and there on the mantel piece was some fucking mushroom.

[Spikey M]

Can you get a picture for us?

[Ian]

I suppose if she wants pictures of her favourite fungi up there there's not mushroom for the grandkids.

[Spikey M]

:lol:

[Kikó]

Repped.

[Shindig]

I could maybe understand if the mushroom was the size of a pumpkin.

[Don]

I know a thing or two about an oversized mushroom.

[Shindig]

https://media1.tenor.com/images/1ed5f36a7228e4b9e738eeb864b2ce51/tenor.gif?itemid=17884219

[Don]

There is no fucking way it's still Wednesday. Nah, not having it. Fuck international football.

[Ian]

If the prospect of England deploying 9 defensive players against Iceland in a Nations League dead rubber can't even get you excited then I think you may be too far gone.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Here's something to cheer you up Taz: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/nov/17/people-cause-global-aviation-emissions-study-covid-19?CMP=share_btn_tw

Perhaps you could start a vigilante murder spree to get rid of the 1% and save the planet in the process.

[Don]

https://www.thethirdhalf.co.uk/showthread.php?2609-Coronavirus-Death-Thread&p=386303&viewfull=1#post386303

We covered this on Page 60 of the thread over 8 months back. Fuck your exclusives on 'researchers' and 'studies' Guardian, come hither and drink in the wisdom of the community.

[-james-]

There are too many hours in the day at the moment.

[Disco]

+1 to that, work is totally dead, seriously considering bringing a book.

[Shindig]

Our business is booming. Owing to the fact we did nothing through the first lockdown. :moop:

[Lofty]

It's unbelievable. There was literally no pictures of her kids or grandkids and there on the mantel piece was some fucking mushroom.

If it makes you feel better my ex lived with her grandma and grandad, they looked after her aunt's dog basically full time and fed him properly cooked steak dinners. Someone did a painted portrait of the dog and they took her picture down in favour of the painting :D

[Kikó]

:D fucking hell.

[Yevrah]

I am now two hours away from 16 days off and I don't think I've smiled as much all year.

[Don]

3 days in and mans are struggling. Fucking gone from wanting clubs open to praying gyms are open in NY. What a state of affairs, we truly have lost the war.

[Giggles]

When people started referring to themselves as ‘mans’ it was all downhill from there.

[Spikey M]

I'm currently a massive ball of anxiety, thanks for asking.

[Giggles]

Won’t do you any harm if you do get it though, you’ll be grand.

[Disco]

You don't have narrow airways along with the narrow cranium do you?

(I'm sure you'll be fine).

[Spikey M]

It's the wife I'm worried about. The Flu landed her with Pneumonia last winter and she has scarring on the lungs off the back of it.

[Don]

Bruv can you stop using that terminology, it's deeply disturbing to read.

[Spikey M]

I'm not sure what you mean, but is:


'Da bitchez, lungs is proppa fucked' better?

[Giggles]

I'm not sure what you mean, but is:


'Da bitchez, lungs is proppa fucked' better?

Mans mrs is fucked blud.

[Spikey M]

You're right, mine was chav circa 2004 I reckon.

[Giggles]

In seriousness though, need to get her isolated as much as you possibly can. Mine spent a week in hospital before with pleurisy and it’s only minor compared to pneumonia.

[Manc]

Is it possible to be alerted when someone posts? Giggles & Don seem absolutely obsessed with one another.

[Giggles]

Is it possible to be alerted when someone posts? Giggles & Don seem absolutely obsessed with one another.

We love each other really but hostility is what makes this place tick.

[Don]

What he said. I've got a particularly significant bit of toxicity overspill currently both on here and on my whatsapp groups.

[Giggles]

Fuck them all Taz, including me :cool:

[Spikey M]

����

[Lewis]

Here me now breadbin.

[Don]

I've decided to cancel my weekly big shop and do daily trips (possibly twice on some days). Just went Waitrose and the queue was long and provided the exhilarating social experience I needed to try and break free from the current mire. One thing is for sure, you're fucking having a laugh if you think the mental scars of this 12 months will heal quickly.

[Spikey M]

They will. Summer was pretty much back to normal whenever we went anywhere.

[Dquincy]

I'm currently a massive ball of anxiety, thanks for asking.

Try not to worry as it's out of your hands and you'll know soon enough. Appreciate it's easy for me to say that as I've not received the text (yet :uhoh: )

Hopefully your daughter has just got the regular sniffles. It is that time of year...

Positive thoughts.

[Manc]

Waitrose? Wind it in.

[Don]

It's just the local shop. I did my weekly shop at Lidl, I'm not a fucking nonce.

[Manc]

How are we all getting on?

[Giggles]

I'm big time fucked off with stuff going on at the minute but there's nothing can be done about it so, onwards.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Struggling with absolutely zero to look forward to at the moment (this 'just a few more weeks' rhetoric is total bullshit, even if it's true, because there's no certainty). Have started obsessing on daily covid stats in the hope that it will improve my state of mind when they eventually start to turn.

[SvN]

This is probably the worst time ever to start a diet. But my eating and drinking had hit DEFCON 1 levels, so something had to be done.

[Ian]

Struggling with absolutely zero to look forward to at the moment

That pretty much sums it up for me too.

I'm not sure there's anything that I don't feel, at best, 'meh' about.

[Giggles]

Just dream of the clubs.

[Kikó]

Monday was a struggle, today's better really. It's a bit of a slog really at the moment and hard to fully motivate myself for work.

[Jimmy Floyd]

My coping strategy for the last year has been (outside of work) to try and completely immerse myself in things to make the stretches of time go by. I've read an unbelievable amount of books, watched a certain amount of TV, played loads of FM last year, and although I haven't got into the new FM at all I've got an OOTP save going and an F1 2020 championship on 100% race distances.

Last night alone I must have done about 5 of those things in turn because I can't concentrate on any of them, my brain has almost stopped working. I've also forgotten how to talk to people and have conversations.

[Don]

I was hovering over upping this thread in the morning before Manc but I decided against it when I saw I had posted last and didn't want to seem too whiny but let me tell you, this isn't fucking fair and waaaaaaaaaaaa.

No but seriously, it's as bleak as it gets. I did some exercise yesterday (indoors obvs as THERE'S NO FUCKING SUN) and that improved matters considerably so I'm going to just try keep that up like the classic prisoner stereotype that we all basically are now. I picked up a strange non-impact foot injury a couple days ago though which is complicating things.

[Kikó]

If you want to be really challenged , me and the missus have been following this guy religiously:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9wFgB4AkP4

No weights required, just fucks you up.

[Offshore Toon]

I only have a small percentage of the usual new year enthusiasm, which translates to doing quite well in achieving personal goals but I really do just want to jack in the job for almost anything else. Sometimes I can't believe I've chosen to sit at a computer all day for however many decades.

On top of that, I've got an exam on the 15th and I'm struggling to take anything in. Concentration levels were already low as my mind seems to flirt with absolutely anything other than what I need to do, but the effects of working from home full time are starting to become more and more clear.

[Don]

I'd be up for following something new like that for a month, I can't be doing with that music though, might try it muted and with subtitles.

[CJay]

I was hovering over upping this thread in the morning before Manc but I decided against it when I saw I had posted last and didn't want to seem too whiny but let me tell you, this isn't fucking fair and waaaaaaaaaaaa.

No but seriously, it's as bleak as it gets. I did some exercise yesterday (indoors obvs as THERE'S NO FUCKING SUN) and that improved matters considerably so I'm going to just try keep that up like the classic prisoner stereotype that we all basically are now. I picked up a strange non-impact foot injury a couple days ago though which is complicating things.

What happened to your walking? Invest in some good waterproof and windproof gear and get out whatever the weather. I was running in a forest on a hill in a hail / sleet blizzard the other day and it was peak exhilaration. The running top underneath my Montane jacket was bone dry (other than sweat).

[Don]

Are you doing it during daylight? The darkness has really killed off the buzz for me and just made it downright annoying in parts with minimal lighting and I don't want to be following streetlights or getting one of those horrific head torches. The weather I'm fine with and actually relish.

[CJay]

Are you doing it during daylight? The darkness has really killed off the buzz for me and just made it downright annoying in parts with minimal lighting and I don't want to be following streetlights or getting one of those horrific head torches. The weather I'm fine with and actually relish.

Fair - weekends are the best time. Put a bit of James Blake or similar in your ears and hit the pavements at night for a while. Good vibes.

[SvN]

I can cope with the cold, but the darkness at this time of the year, on top of everything else, is truly awful. The only real sunlight I see is when I walk the dog at lunchtime.

[Waffdon]

Working from home is great and I hope this turns into a full time thing. I can understand why folk wouldn’t like it though, especially if you’re living alone or stuck with your partner/whoever 24/7.

It does fuck your routine up though. I’d been waking up after 1pm over the Christmas period so trying to sleep at 11pm before work yesterday was grim. It’s been snowing here too which stops it from being fully dark which is nice

[Lewis]

We're going to two days a week which is ideal because I would have been stuck here otherwise.

[Ian]

I suspect we'll end up with having to do a day or two in the office and working the rest from home but there's no talk of anybody going back at all yet so I dunno what the script will be. I don't hate the idea of doing a day or two in the office to mix it up a bit.

[Don]

Usually get out of bed and straight to work at 9. Just postponed by alarm till 10:15 and still really struggled to get out of bed today. Long COVID is back baby.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Physical or mental?

If you had to attend the office you'd have been up surely.

[SvN]

I see we're now using "long COVID" as an excuse for being a workshy freeloader. As if Smiffy needed any other ideas.

[Giggles]

Usually get out of bed and straight to work at 9. Just postponed by alarm till 10:15 and still really struggled to get out of bed today. Long COVID is back baby.

That’s just taking a lazy day when you can.

[Lewis]

I reckon if you placed ten 'long covid' sufferers in a room of a hundred people I could pick between seven and nine of them out. First up, all the women with short hair. Get a good look at them. Anyone who looks like they have 'husband/dad' in their social media...

[Jimmy Floyd]

In all seriousness, it sounds more like depression than long Covid.

[randomlegend]

Post viral fatigue syndromes are well established clinical fact.

Sufferers have demonstrable structural and functional changes on brain MRI.

[Lewis]

In wrestling terminology it's known as 'working yourself into a shoot'.

[Don]

It's clearly mental as seen by the fact once I'd got over the intial hurdle yesterday, I did my physical exercise fine and felt much better after. But it has a clear knock-on effect, physically.

As you say, if I had to be up I would have. The fact it was so fucking cold outside my covers was also not of help.

I was in the Lewis camp but I imagine if some fat mess was going through the same thing as me, they would milk it so I'm also thinking this is what long COVID is. Mood seems fine (relatively speaking ofc).

[randomlegend]

Yes it's clearly mental based on your anecdotal sample on 1.

[Don]

Yes it's clearly mental based on your anecdotal sample on 1.

I'm talking about my own condition, you fucking sensitive mess.

[randomlegend]

but I imagine if some fat mess was going through the same thing as me, they would milk it so I'm also thinking this is what long COVID is.

Clearly.

[Don]

The assertion that 'this is clearly mental' is separate from that excerpt. Although I can see an argument for the link to be muddying the waters but I think it's clear that I'm merely hypothesising based on personal experience.The long COVID means I haven't the energy to conclude this as I would like so let's end it here.

[Giggles]

Give yourself a shake and get a move on.

[Disco]

It's not working yourself into a shoot if it was a shoot to begin with.

Brother.

[Don]

I've noticed a recent phenomenon of forgetting people's names. Recent cases have involved partners of two close friends and an old work colleague from 3 years ago.

Also have a real growing feeling of being mentally boxed-in.

Other than that, doing great, cheers.

[Yevrah]

My attention has turned to what to do when this is over, in a world that's then my oyster. Quite pleasant thinking along those lines for now, but when that thought inevitably turns to the reality that I still can't do anything it's going to be, well, shit.

[Jimmy Floyd]

I'm not dreaming of round the world trips and orgies (nice though those would be) but I could really handle a draught pint and the sun on my back with a couple of mates in earshot.

For now though I will have to concentrate on making sure I don't forget how to speak, which is becoming a real challenge.

[Giggles]

Pint of Guinness on a high stool, elbows on the bar.

[Kikó]

Imagine just being able to text a few mates to see if they fancy a beer? Scenes.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Now you're being farfetched.

[Yevrah]

I've forgotten what that feels like tbh. Much of normal life is a distant memory now that I have to struggle to recall.

[Baz]

Jesus wept you’re all so dramatic.

[Giggles]

Don't lump me in with them. I'm on my own in my scenario.

[Jimmy Floyd]

None of us are dramatic. We're just not psychopaths.

[Manc]

Baz would do well in prison.

[Spikey M]

Are you calling him ugly?

[Mellberg]

Baz would be used as a toilet brush in prison.

[Lewis]

If he didn't like people taking his seat in the office...

[Baz]

Jill the desk snatcher wouldn’t be in prison with me would she? If so, I wouldn’t last a week.

[Spikey M]

Mike would probably get put in a woman's prison but I don't think you would.

[-james-]

Fully addicted to sugar at the moment. A biscuit every three hours is all that's keeping me going.

[Spikey M]

Unpopular opinion: biscuits are shit.

[Lewis]

lol

[Ian]

You've mixed up the word "Unpopular" with "Incorrect" there, Spikey.

[Giggles]

Fuck sake Spikey.

[Disco]

They aren't shit but I don't bother buying them these days, crisps are the far superior snack.

[Spikey M]

The ones covered in chocolate are alright, but Malted Milks? Rich Tea? Fuck off.

[Ian]

Malted milk and rich tea? I'm beginning to think it's possible you've just never had a good biscuit.

[Kikó]

I'm on team spikey. Biscuits are shit.

[Spikey M]

Malted milk and rich tea? I'm beginning to think it's possible you've just never had a good biscuit.

They're the worst ones, but even Hob Nobs, Digestives, Borbons, etc are a bit shit. It's all very 1960.

[Ian]

:nono:

[Boydy]

Malted milks are good.

[Giggles]

I'm on team spikey. Biscuits are shit.

See how wrong you are Spikey M? See?

[Giggles]

Malted milks are good.

Malted Milks are the tits.

[Disco]

Dipping them in drinks is for perverts and children.

[Giggles]

Dipping them takes away the best element of a biscuit.

[SincereTheRebel]

I have a long list of unpopular opinions. It could even be a confession. Where is the thread?

[Ian]

I have a long list of unpopular opinions. It could even be a confession. Where is the thread?

You haven't killed Thommo, have you?

[SincereTheRebel]

You haven't killed Thommo, have you?

I dont know what you are talking about

[CJay]

Don does it cheer you up any to know that you are member no. 69 here?

I noticed this when I idly opened my own profile for the first time and noticed I’m 42. Phonics is 1, which makes me assume it’s assigned in order of sign up. We’re basically the Stonecutters.

[Don]

That has raised a smile tbf. Having 69 on my polo for the meet once this is all over :cool:

[Lewis]

I am number seventy. Lads! Lads! Lads! Lads!

[Ian]

Where do you see your number?

And more importantly, why is somebody called huongkkk99 among the last ten viewers of my profile? :uhoh:

[phonics]

Number One :cool:

[Don]

Your URL, no. 44.

We should just get rid of usernames given we're living the dystopian dream.

[Ian]

Ah, thanks Number 69. I was making it more complicated than it was.

44, eh. Well according to Wikipedia "since the greatest prime factor of 442 + 1 = 1937 is 149 and thus more than 44 twice, 44 is a Størmer number." So, y'know, I've got that going for me.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Member 111. Nelson.

I didn't sign up here for like a week in blissful ignorance of its existence, so that explains that.

[Baz]

Number 2. :moop:

[Shindig]

68. Not as nice.

[Luca]

Employee #53. I think I sent out the form/email to get everyone on here (or the previous iteration, thethirdhalf.ml), so I was expecting this to be lower.

[CJay]

Employee #53. I think I sent out the form/email to get everyone on here (or the previous iteration, thethirdhalf.ml), so I was expecting this to be lower.

What was the deal with .ml? I vaguely remember posting to myself and Reg I think for a few days wondering where everyone else had disappeared to. It was like purgatory.

[Luca]

Phonics set it up (and by “it” I mean this new, TTH-only message board) because thedugout.tv was dying. I then think the .ml domain then had some challenges, so a bunch of folks chipped in to buy legit hosting and a .co.uk domain - the board software and database was then just ported over from the .ml to .co.uk domain.

phonics will know the story better.

[Mike]

I think the ml was free but went down a bit?

Number three here.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Number 25.

https://thesecretofthetarot.com/numerology-number-25/


The number 25 is introspective, spiritual, team-oriented, and curious enough to continue searching for knowledge and wisdom for all of her life.

People with 25s are generally good at communicating with a wide array of people and are usually well-liked.

That is me.

[Offshore Toon]

Number 25 was the kid whose mum had to bail him out from the abuse, right?

[Spikey M]

That is also Mahow.

[igor_balis]

#10

at last i have the hard evidence that i'm a top 10 poster

[Kikó]

Employee 5. The Zidane of the board.

Or more likely Harry Maguire.

[igor_balis]

5ive

[Disco]

57. Fascinating.

[mo]

75. Reversed.

[Don]

A few factors yesterday really made the evening bleak. The cage is feeling increasingly claustrophobic. At these bad times, it's the struggle to break the monotony. It's fucking Friday ffs. Godbless the lockdown wifey at least for without her I don't know how many people I would have taken down with me in the inevitable terrorist attack.

[Giggles]

Jesus man, snap out of it.

[Jimmy Floyd]

My cure of late has just been watching the vaccine numbers tick up and the case numbers very slowly tick down. Each day better than the last.

[Spikey M]

He's not gone mental enough to care what member number he is yet, so there's still hope.

[Lewis]

I thought Taz would hold up, so if it's just me and Baz left I win because I'm not a testing nonce dipping out for Pokemon cards.

[Spikey M]

I've had a couple of wobbles along the way but I'm tip top at the moment.

[CJay]

He's not gone mental enough to care what member number he is yet, so there's still hope.

Spoken like a true 732. (Can’t believe we actually have that many sign ups - how many aliases did Harold make?)

[Disco]

People with triple digits should have smaller posts or something.

[Spikey M]

*heads

[Don]

https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/000/163/623/1313613920045.png

1330597127131684870?s=20

[Giggles]

There’s just been a “wellness advocate” on the telly.

Fuck sake.

[Don]

Mate had a kundalini awakening last night. For the uninitiated, what that means is his decision to go cold turkey on his £600 a month weed habit coincided with his developing pursuit of meditation so he can call his mental breakdown a cool name.

I look forward to hearing more about kundalini awakenings across society.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Mid-February and still no end in sight is when I expect everyone to start going fully crackers. I have good days and bad days at the moment. I had a realisation driving in to work this morning that I've only been into 3 buildings (my flat, my office, and Sainsbury's in Chertsey) so far in 2021. Actually, 4, I filled up with petrol once.

[Baz]

Before you all off yourselves, please sell me all your old Pokémon cards and/or wrestling figures.

[Kikó]

This week off has made me realise how knackered I am.

[Lofty]

Did we have a WDYTOE thread at Christmas? Biscuits are excellent, by the way.

[Ian]

I think the last one was when a couple of people did audio ones but I don't think there were that many other lists.

[Jimmy Floyd]

I haven't had a biscuit in years, I don't think. If I buy a packet there's just no way it's seeing out the day on which I opened it. Same goes for crisps. Just don't eat them.

[Disco]

Mate had a kundalini awakening last night. For the uninitiated, what that means is his decision to go cold turkey on his £600 a month weed habit coincided with his developing pursuit of meditation so he can call his mental breakdown a cool name.

I look forward to hearing more about kundalini awakenings across society.

He's either getting ripped off or is literally never awake.

[Don]

The former. He was getting all kinds of bullshit strains with fanciful names shipped over in the most impressive of professional packaging and branding.

[Kikó]

A friend of mine has started the Wim Hof method. 5am start, 5k run then a freezing cold shower - he says it's mentally improved him. The whole method is based around controlled breathing techniques but it just sounds like a shit sandwich where the bread is actually more shit.

[Don]

Win can suck on my fried foreskin if he thinks he's getting credit for putting 2 things that are good for you together and slapping his own name on it.

I can attest to the cold showers. Besides manning little melts up both mentally and physically to a bit of pain, the effects on mood and well-being carry long into the night. Start slow (get under the shower from the off if yours takes a few seconds to heat up) and build yourself up to a minute.

It was so much easier with the showers at my spa and being able to look forward to walking into the sauna straight after :happycry:

[Baz]

Yeah someone at work got on board with that but he soon fell off when he realised he kept getting colds.

[Don]

It's meant to improve the immune system. Someone give our guy £200 for his 10 hour video course so we can find out the truth.

[Lewis]

What by leaving you never quite clean and getting you used to filth?

[Spikey M]

Yeah someone at work got on board with that but he soon fell off when he realised he kept getting colds.

What? Unless he's fitted a virus replication system to the cold tap how the fuck would that work?

[Manc]

A friend of mine has started the Wim Hof method. 5am start, 5k run then a freezing cold shower - he says it's mentally improved him.

That is proper deviant behaviour.

[Don]

Got a bit of work that's been hanging over me for weeks that I will hopefully clear this week and feel a nice lift from but generally, the state of play is poor with still no sauna date to fucking pin some hopes to.

Just caught that Prince William and the footballers documentary on mental health after MOTD2 and it was quite lol listening to the 4 geezers who had developed problems, one cited a serious car accident that meant he had to quit all his sport for a long spell of rehab and isolation within his hospital room and the other said sport was what he clung to as his release for troubled times. Try all of those turned up to 11 and all at once, you soft shites. But no, real talk, be interesting to note how many of them should have had a tribute at the end of that show with a framed mugshot titled "...-2021".

[Jimmy Floyd]

Yesterday was a wobble. I think it was the stuff about having a picnic with my 'household' in 4 weeks. This government doesn't understand messaging at all, you have to give people hope. Life is utterly pointless atm except as day by day survival.

It's partly my own fault and my biases for being a deviant etc but sometimes I think people with kids and nice houses just don't get it.

[Spikey M]

In the first wave, having the garden (and the weather) really did make the world of difference, but this time around, being stuck at home with 2 bored and needy children is a massive loss for team parent.

[Jimmy Floyd]

I should have phrased that better, what I meant was the north London townhouse crowd making the decisions.

I don't think any of us normies are having too much of a barrel of laughs.

[Giggles]

It's currently stopping me buying a gaff but what can you do?

[Don]

Women on radio just now describing the crumbling mental health of her teenage son and in tears asking for him to be allowed to play football :happycry:

[Jimmy Floyd]

No, Taz. Just no. People are dying.

[Giggles]

Buy him an Xbox. That's all he's probably after anyway.

[Spikey M]

I thought face to face socialising died in the under 20's a long time ago.

[Don]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000s7vt

47 mins in.

[Kikó]

I feel like shit today. Think I'm just exhausted from working weekends recently.

[Jimmy Floyd]

I'm weary as hell with work too - feels like I've been there for some epic year-long vigil, when of course I've done the same hours and only a bit more actual work than I would normally have done, it's just there's been no mental break from it with holidays / weekends out / literally anything to do, so it builds up in your head I think.

I've tried a little go-slow to try and give myself a break but there's no real way of doing that in my business, either you do deals or you don't.

[Kikó]

I had one of our team drop out last weekend (Sunday afternoon) ahead of a presentation on Tuesday with the dreaded covid (don't buy it- think he bottled it) so had to work throughout the rest of Sunday on Monday on a presentation. I've also got this marketing assignment due for the end of the month which includes handing in an advert (my laptop can't deal with editing).

Still, at least it's warming up.

[Spikey M]

I'm weary as hell with work too - feels like I've been there for some epic year-long vigil, when of course I've done the same hours and only a bit more actual work than I would normally have done, it's just there's been no mental break from it with holidays / weekends out / literally anything to do, so it builds up in your head I think.

I've tried a little go-slow to try and give myself a break but there's no real way of doing that in my business, either you do deals or you don't.

I was going to type this post myself.

[Baz]

Yeah it’s beyond tiresome now. If it wasn’t for FM and the prospect of horse racing to look forward to, it would be the pits. Liverpool being dogshit is a major contributing factor m, not gonna lie. I don’t even get the ‘zone out and pretend everything’s class for 2 hours’ at the weekend anymore.

So Cheltenham on 16th-19th March and then rugby leagues back on 26th March, so that’s my light and the end of the tunnel. Can’t come soon enough tbh. Also got a stag do (previously mentioned in the job thread) in July as a massive milestone for 2021. If that goes ahead, the year could be saved. And then a holiday abroad in August? Wait, wait, I’m getting ahead of myself. Back to the horses.

[SvN]

I'm starting to flag, possibly for the first time in the entire shitshow. I'm struggling to motivate myself for work, even when we're going through a really busy period (which could leard to serious growth, if we take advantage of it). Normally I'd be excited and spending evenings working on strategies and processes, but right now I just want to go to bed.

[Raoul Duke]

I've booked a couple of days off next week for a long weekend. Nothing much to do but will try and get out for a cycle and mooch about.

[Don]

That's it, physical exercise is the only way out of this. The Beast from the East is asleep for 12 more months. I went out in shorts and t-shirt earlier to the shop and it was glorious in the daytime sun. I've got a long road to undo all the physical and mental damage of the last 3/4 months through exercise in the coming months.

[Boydy]

Alright, take it to wellness instagram.

[Shindig]

He can finally dig the kid's bike out of the cupboard.

[Waffdon]

Yeah it’s beyond tiresome now. If it wasn’t for FM and the prospect of horse racing to look forward to, it would be the pits. Liverpool being dogshit is a major contributing factor m, not gonna lie. I don’t even get the ‘zone out and pretend everything’s class for 2 hours’ at the weekend anymore.

So Cheltenham on 16th-19th March and then rugby leagues back on 26th March, so that’s my light and the end of the tunnel. Can’t come soon enough tbh. Also got a stag do (previously mentioned in the job thread) in July as a massive milestone for 2021. If that goes ahead, the year could be saved. And then a holiday abroad in August? Wait, wait, I’m getting ahead of myself. Back to the horses.

Can’t believe I’ve found 5 bankers already.

[Baz]

Can’t believe I’ve found 5 bankers already.Go on.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Hit a low this morning and I'm not really sure why. It's something about the sheer monotony I think.

Yesterday I went into the local town to get a takeaway burger for lunch (normally I'd have a boredom sandwich / salad) and on the way back to the car I took a slightly different route which went through a very short underpass where I hadn't been before. Whilst in this underpass - ten yards of grey concrete covered in rain water and bird shit - I suddenly felt this immense excitement because just for a second, I was actually in a place where I don't normally go. It felt so liberating.

[Kikó]

The joy of finding new walks..

We've found a couple of new running paths locally and it's like unlocking Narnia for the brain.

[Spikey M]

Jimmy trying to get mugged just for some social interaction. :(

[Manc]

Sounds like you need some time away from the office, Jim.

On the topic of liberation, I've stopped watching/reading the news and my mood has improved greatly.

[Ian]

Jimmy hoping somebody would tell him to "Fuck off, clean shirt" no doubt.


On the topic of liberation, I've stopped watching/reading the news and my mood has improved greatly.

I think there's definitely a correlation between the people on here going through the more obvious lockdown meltdowns and those who are exposing themselves to as much news around this as possible.

[Jimmy Floyd]

The news is my way of coping, I feel powerless unless armed with knowledge and information. Nothing in life will improve until the pandemic ends, so I have to have detailed expectations about when that might be.

If I switched off from it then it would just be me, the office and the inside of a 1 bed flat in perpetuity. My brain is far too active to deal with that.

[Spikey M]

I'm with Manc on avoiding the news. I still check in with it to keep up to date, but it's not the constant background noise it used to be.

I've found getting a new hobbie invaluable. Learning how to trade on the stockmarket keeps my brain busy, gives me something to do in my spare time and gives me what feels like an entirely different world to escape too.

[Kikó]

The only time I'm really interested in the next bit of news is when they talk about the next phase of lockdown. Otherwise, it's just continued hysteria and misreporting.

[SvN]

I've also started actively avoiding the news. It's all bollocks, as evidenced by the complete 180 they've done in focussing on the daily numbers since they've started to drop.

[Jimmy Floyd]

I started obsessively keeping track of the statistics at about New Year, a) because I like keeping track statistics, and b) believing (as things were going very wrong at that point) that it would afford me a nice mental boost when things turned around. That did indeed happen, but now that boost has gone into reverse because the numbers are still doing the right thing but gov policy / media coverage isn't reflecting that, which has also convinced me that the media needs tearing down completely.

I very rarely read the actual news in the conventional sense.

[Offshore Toon]

I can't believe so many people bothered with the news up until now.

[Raoul Duke]

I've just eaten a load of Chocolate Digestives, so I feel fantastic (biscuits) but sad (no more biscuits).

[phonics]

I’m so bored I’m considering dying my hair.

[Giggles]

I'm so bored I nearly want to hear more.

[phonics]

I'm so bored I nearly want to hear more.

I'm so bored I drew you an artists impression. Gonna dye it all black and then shave off the sides only so it's black on top and blonde on the sides.

https://i.imgur.com/7mX56Nd.png

[Raoul Duke]

Like if Sadio Mane wore giant white trainers

[Manc]

Lord Bendtner vibes.

[Manc]

What a difference the sunshine makes. I'm filled with hope.

[Don]

Yeah, I can sniff [20% of] my extended climbs into mother nature's bosom and it's glorious. Work is looking better, I have a new workout, Liverpool are back...much to be grateful for. Allahuakbar.

[Raoul Duke]

Meant to be 16 degrees here over the weekend (which is, of course, not the one I have booked off)

[Shindig]

I'm going to look at some castles. Probably.

[bruhnaldo]

Happy it’s almost 5pm ayyy

[Manc]

Why have you deactivated your DMs?

[bruhnaldo]

I’m too cool for DMs u no

[SvN]

He had a hissy fit playing werewolf

[bruhnaldo]

I won’t make that mistake again!

[niko_cee]

Sad thing is had you done it in the next game you'd have been seen as some sort of savant

[Giggles]

Why would you have a tantrum about a werewolf game? It’s it all just blind luck anyway?

[Spikey M]

I think you'll find it is pure skill. :mad::mad::mad:

[Ian]

"Right lads we just lynching anybody who's actually bothering to post again, yeah?"

[bruhnaldo]

Why would you have a tantrum about a werewolf game? It’s it all just blind luck anyway?

Cause I was having a pretty rough time with real life so I dove into it trying to bring joy to others with my participation only to be thwarted by some virgin basement dweller whose blind rage to what amounts to a series of 0’s and 1’s lead him incapable of picking up any strategy or code - who then was so embarrassed he loudly blamed it on me for trying too hard bc he was scared of losing internet points with his cool friends by fucking up what was a fun game prior with his petty, pedantic, and pathetic misconceptions.

[bruhnaldo]

Mind you I’d happily have forgotten about this place until Baz followed me on twitter for the 5th time - which was why I closed my DMs to begin with as we found out last time I tried to stop being bothered by this bullshit if you change your email you get locked out of your account so I just turned off every light on my way out.

But lets keep making this a thing I guess.

[Spikey M]

"Right lads we just lynching anybody who's actually bothering to post again, yeah?"

Always murder Mahow first. Tradition and values are important.

[phonics]

Bruh, quick tip for the internet. Don’t post 2 massive diatribes and then say other people are making a thing of it. Just don’t reply.

[Lewis]

Cause I was having a pretty rough time with real life so I dove into it trying to bring joy to others with my participation only to be thwarted by some virgin basement dweller whose blind rage to what amounts to a series of 0’s and 1’s lead him incapable of picking up any strategy or code - who then was so embarrassed he loudly blamed it on me for trying too hard bc he was scared of losing internet points with his cool friends by fucking up what was a fun game prior with his petty, pedantic, and pathetic misconceptions.

lol who was this?

[niko_cee]

I think it was Mahow, but that's a slightly odd recollection of events.

[Giggles]

"Right lads we just lynching anybody who's actually bothering to post again, yeah?"

:D exactly.

“He’s posting too much! Wolf!”
“He’s not posting at all! Wolf!”

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Cause I was having a pretty rough time with real life so I dove into it trying to bring joy to others with my participation only to be thwarted by some virgin basement dweller whose blind rage to what amounts to a series of 0’s and 1’s lead him incapable of picking up any strategy or code - who then was so embarrassed he loudly blamed it on me for trying too hard bc he was scared of losing internet points with his cool friends by fucking up what was a fun game prior with his petty, pedantic, and pathetic misconceptions.

If you're talking about me then you've missed the mark, as always.

[Baz]

Mind you I’d happily have forgotten about this place until Baz followed me on twitter for the 5th time - which was why I closed my DMs to begin with as we found out last time I tried to stop being bothered by this bullshit if you change your email you get locked out of your account so I just turned off every light on my way out.

But lets keep making this a thing I guess.
Glad to see you back posting. :)

Do you still work with that girl you had a thing for?

[Offshore Toon]

Bruh being the American Mahow is just too perfect.