I'd love to tag along with someone on Route 66, assuming we don't break down miles from life.
I'd love to tag along with someone on Route 66, assuming we don't break down miles from life.
Yesterday, I got pins and needles in my left hand suddenly, and it lasted all day. This morning it seemed better, until I walked the dog - and it came back. I'm sititng at my desk and my right hand and feet have gradually started tingling too.
Am I dying?
I taste copper
Sounds like a heart attack. RIP.
Carpal tunnel maybe?Originally Posted by SvN
I seem to have it, seems to flare up every now and then for a few days/weeks before going away. Get really bad pins and needles in my left hand (can be in right hand and right big toe now and then) when I sleep.
I have a cold, presumably given to me by my manager who was sniffling during my performance review. Bet it won't get me out of visiting the office this week though
Bunch of moany old bastards
You should get seen if you're having pins and needles in multiple limbs.
Not if feet are also affected.
I have a cold which is giving me an unreal sore throat. Consequently, I drank 2 litres of pure orange yesterday and I can now barely leave the bathroom such is the explosive nature of the diarrhea its given me.
You're welcome.
Do they not have strepsils in Southend?
I’ve got chickenpox.
I'm a twit
Is @SvN still alive?
He died sadly. The board is now being managed by the estate of vN.
Isn't that quite nasty in adults?
If you’d have asked me this morning I’d have said I’m just a bit itchy, but the itchiness has become a secondary symptom far far far behind feeling like I’ve been run over. Feeling “achey” doesn’t even begin to cover it.
My daughter had a week off school with it a fortnight ago, along with five of her classmates. Me and my son thought we’d avoided it, presuming some kind of natural immunity. Nope. He came out in spots yesterday evening, and me overnight. Was not prepared to have them on my cock and balls.
But like I said, the itchiness is mostly kept at bay by antihistamines, but paracetamol isn’t doing anything to stop me feeling sorry for myself.
I'm a twit
Amazes me that people don't get their kids vaccinated against chicken pox.
That's a bugger Baz. Chicken pox is no fun at all. Presumably you've not had it before. It's very to get it twice apparently.
Milk it for all It's worth and get your wife to wait on you.
Is there any difference/benefit to natural immunity compared to the jab?
Don't think so, why would it?
I just don't think it's that well known about. Yeah you have to pay for it, but it beats the fall out of kids being off school for weeks, without even getting into the illness itself.
Christ I wanna rip my skin off.
I'm a twit
I feel like I keep unlocking new symptoms. This one is astronomical diarrhoea. It started as a paste, like a blendered potato soup, but quickly developed into pure liquid. Unique in colour to anything else, it most closely resembles KFC gravy or Jeremy Clarkson’s footwear. And I could keep going indefinitely, I imagine.
If there was enough financial backing, and a willing participant, I’d gladly make a bit of dirty porn money giving someone some scat Chinese water torture treatment.
Still feel run over, still feel itchy, still can’t sleep, but now I’m also on the bog every hour for a long sit down squirt.
I'm a twit
Merry Christmas.
Iirc the cherry on top of adult Chickenpox is infertility. Enjoy!
It started as a paste...
We can get Christmas number one if we get our skates on. Somebody find a tune.
Hot Chocolate - It Started with a kiss, Shirley.
And we want number 2 really.
Never seen so much human waste
Been snipped anyway. I’ll take drowsy sperm as tomorrow’s new symptom, no problem.
I'm a twit
Was that government intervention or a personal choice?
Speaking of childhood illnesses, my little one spewed on Saturday followed by fever and then rashy red skin. Doctor says scarlet fever and antibiotics. Shit currently normal.
My daughter crashed and went to bed at 6 with a bit of a temp, we were with Baz and his son last Monday, she better not have the pox!
Both of mine skated through the pox without much drama. A bit itchy, but not unwell in general. You definitely want it as a child if you're not going to get vaccinated.
Bareback Baz.
Apparently the jab is 75% effective for adults compared to 98% effective for kids.
That's why you give it to kids?
What does effective even mean in that context? One of my kids had the vaccination and then had chicken pox [I think], but they symptoms were so mild that you [they] could barely notice them, isn't that how vaccinations work?
Bicken Box.
Yeah, but mine didn't have the vaccine and also barely noticed them.
Fair questions that I do not have the answer to. But perhaps Baz should have got the jab.
On a separate note, I have a certain member of staff who is off ill a lot (compared to others). It's frustrating, she must have been the runt of the litter. That or (I'm generalising) youngsters have less will power and resolve these days.
Quiet quitting, Quince. Most of them are up to it and good on 'em, really. Most of them have been robbed of the futures they dreamed of over the last 15 years, so why not.
Start the warning process so you can get rid.
The younger lad (26) who's joined us is bizarre, I don't want to get on the 'kids these days' bus but while clearly very able, he exhibits some odd behaviour. Randomly had about 8 sick days in 3 months so far, and never rings in for those sick days, just disappears. Once he came in for an hour and then just went off sick without telling anyone he'd gone. Finally earned himself a warning last week for walking out in the warehouse straight under a forklift with his headphones in.
It's like he's living in some parallel reality. Perfectly good at his job but only seems to do it when he fancies, which will I fear be a risk to his probation at six months. Dunno if it's a generational thing or just him but observing Gen Z more widely they really seem to have commitment issues.
Oh, and he's quite bitter about life because he has a computer science degree but apparently all the coding jobs are going to more experienced people who have learned to code at an older age (say sorry Boydy) which apparently forces him to do glorified data entry for us.
Only just realised this isn't the job thread but oh well, I'm old enough to look the part ranting away in a doctor's surgery.
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I'm just shooting from the hip here so may be well wide of the mark, but is it maybe a symptom of the housing situation?
At 26 I was already in a long-term relationship and ready to pull the trigger on our first house, so losing my job would have cost me a lot. I accept I was in the minority for people that age, and living in the arse end of nowhere certainly helped on the money side. But for many young people now at 26, especially in the London area, they're a million miles away from being able to even think about getting their first house. A guy I used to work with was a single lad in London, coming up 30, probably earning close to six figures. But to be able to afford the house he wanted in London, he's had to ditch us and go to Saudi for a few years.
Therefore these young people on average wages are probably living with parents for a long while yet, so there's no perceived risk to falling flat on your face in a job because nothing else will change. Short term thinking I know, but that's how many people process.
There's alot going on, none of it good. Housing is part of it but I fully believe Social Media is the main problem. The situation feels hopeless, none of them want relationships, or even real world friendships. They just want to wither their days away on their app of choice.
But even that's probably a symptom. I suspect there's a great deal of money to be made in identifying why Gen Z are so broken.
In more positive news, Gen A seem much more normal. Or, atleast, more like younger Gen x'ers and older millennials in their outlook, so hopefully things improve once the Antidepressant crew overdose.
If that's the case, then it's 100% the internet that is Gen Z's issue. They grew up at the same time the internet did, so it meant unchecked exposure. Now everyone is much more aware of its negatives, children seem to be managed a lot better with it.
I was OK on Gen A until I learned that they all watch videos/TV/film with subtitles on, constantly. Now I'm deeply suspicious and seeing what other psychopathic behaviours are going to become apparent.
The problem is there's so many theory's which seem like they might be right.
Another one I've heard is that Gen X are rough and ready because their parents (boomers) were fucking useless and either let them roam free or threw them at the grandparents, and this created a generation of helicopter parents that raised a load of broken Children (millennials), and this time there was no going out or spending time with the grandparents (fucking boomers) because they were still useless.
And so the cycle repeats and the Useless millennials are now giving birth to savage - but less delicate - offspring.
Who knows what the actual truth of the matter is. It's probably a combination of things. Useless parents, too much Internet, unaffordable housing, low wages, etc.
Is there an explanation for this deviant behaviour?
The non-psycho explanation would be that they watch TV but also have TikTok blasting on their phones at the same time, so they're incapable of following the dialogue on TV.
Although I'm apparently way out of my depth on the topic of society as a whole, so I'm probably talking nonsense.
I think it's probably that once you [they] accidentally, and unknowingly, activate them on your streaming service of choice it is basically impossible to get rid of the things.
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