Why is everyone such a wet lettuce?

Oh god I know what you mean people today wouldn’t have survived the 90’s I don’t know what is wrong with people nowhere days drives me insane the way people act over nothing. People seem incapable of doing anything these days without an instructional how to video on social media.

I prepped for winter. I bought a ton of flour, oats and butter at the weekend, and pre-made bags of crumble mix for the freezer. Bring on crumble season!!!

Is this thread aimed at the person who posted about name badges at work?

Oh yes once half term is out of the way, we enter “how dare people set off fireworks” season!

Love this, made me laugh. I just imagine victor Meldrew in “one foot in the grave”.

@Cantheowneroftheredcorsapleasemovetheircaroh we just booked Ocado for Christmas week last week. Normal deliveries you can only book up to a month ahead, but they release Christmas week delivery slots early. Pretty sure sainsburys release their Christmas week slots in October. (I usually just hold a delivery slot with champagne then after bonfire night, start thinking about if we’re hosting anyone and on which days and then adding to the order as and when I think about it. )

Wet lettuce 😆😆😆

I’ve seen those videos and that poster is misrepresenting them a bit. They are aimed towards people that have seasonal depression/seasonal affective disorder and who struggle knowing that they are about to enter a depressive episode. They offer tips on ways to handle the symptoms and try to mitigate them throughout the winter.

I do think it would be difficult to know that the shortening days are going to wreck the chemical balance of your brain for months and there’s little you can do about it.

Old people's groups on facebook full of xenophobia, Daily-Mail-type inspired hyperbole, bad manners and poor grammar.

I am allowed to say that as an old person :-).

but according to some who post a lot, really a lot, and read a lot, really a lot, they work full time, manage a home and kids, clean without a cleaner, go three times a week for drinks with the girls, go on ladies spa weekends, holiday 4 times per year abroad and beyond - now you see that the majority of people are making things up for just having someone to chat to online

Which supermarket enables you to do this, please?

Tesco only let's me book about 3-4 weeks ahead, maximum

Social media has given the drama llamas free rein. 🙄

@Notdanishsusan- I started reading your post thinking “
oh yes I’m mentally preparing for winter”, but what I mean is, while I’m going about my life, I’m making my mental “to do” list of stuff to get sorted before the winter starts so I’m not inconvenienced by my own inability to plan ahead.

(public service announcement for non-hysterical people, put your heating on this week for a short while just to make sure it works. If it doesn’t, it’ll be much easier to get an engineer out to fix it and more pleasant to live without heating while you wait for them to get new parts etc than if you wait for the first cold weekend in November when everyone puts their heating on for the first and discovered it secretly died over the summer. Am I now going to be asked to spare a thought for those who don’t have heating?)

Also if you are the sort to get stressed about doing the big shop at Christmas when the supermarkets all have people in them (also doing the big shop), perhaps put in an online order for Christmas week now- you can hold the delivery slot with a couple of bottles of champagne then edit later. Then you won’t have to be panicking about going to Tescos at 6am on Christmas Eve because your food must be the freshest but also you don’t like crowds.

You could just try and just enjoy the days without wasting them by wishing they were lighter!

This is what I do but my God, January and February are so incredibly long and tedious..

And then if we have a late spring and it doesn't start warming up until May I just feel like it's been winter forever.

It does take some mental planning to "get through" it sometimes 😅

It's an improvement on last week's problem of someone's mum thinking they don't open their curtains "correctly"
Say what?? 😆 🤣
That is hilarious!

"I'm not sure what's happening to many of us, but we don't seem to deal well with reality anymore. So many are losing the plot."

Agreed. And I don't think it's going to end well.

The last refuge of a moaner is to moan about all the moaners.

I thank my lucky stars all the time that I didn't grow up with social media.

I was a fairly miserable and oversensitive child / teenager, but I wasn't being told what to do and think 24/7 by millions of desperate 'influencers', looking to turn up the volume on my fears and insecurities and anxieties in order to monetise them.

I just watched a lot of MTV and felt a bit bored and alienated, and cracked on with stuff.

I was able to grow up to be fairly pragmatic, with a realistic sense of perspective, because I didn't have total strangers crapping into my mind all the time with a mixture of rampant capitalist hustle and unhinged ideological proselytizing.

If I were growing up now I have no doubt I'd be a total mess. So I can't really blame people for being 'wet lettuces' now - there's very little space or support for people to learn to think critically and independently.

Hand-wringing over badges. Upset over name origins.
.... moaning about what other people are saying on social media that you choose to read.... The list goes on.

I know someone who spends the year worrying about next season clothes for her and her family. She has to be 'prepared'.

It's not about picking up clothes at bargain prices through the year either.

Yeah mines full of cats, babies swearing and Peacemaker stuff! Hours of fun!

This made me laugh so much! Thanks

I was having this exact convo about people yesterday out walking the dog lol with my DH !! I agree people are not resilient anymore and the awareness videos Jesus Christ don’t get me started !!!! Get outta bed go for a walk and get your head outta ya phone 📱 ❤️

Reminds me of the old joke about the diferences between Southerners and Northerners.
"Very bad weather is forcast for the next few days. Southerners are advised to stay at home; Northerners are advised to wear their big coat".