ADs seek spontaneous cake in 1984

[Mascotte]

New thread mash up title hope ok

Phew! Thanks Mascotte.

Thanks for the book recommendation orange - that’ll no doubt fuel the double wang of anxiety and fury! 😂

I fucked up spectacularly academically despite extraordinary early promise and clutching my Mensa card. Turns out I’m autistic which goes a long way to explain my spaghetti brain and frankly bizarre behaviour in examination halls.

Friend’s son is also a barber in Stirling. Usually dead in the summer due to the students going home. Is set to make more in the next fortnight than he usually would all summer! He got a £100 tip! 😲

Checking in so I don't lose you all.

Checking in as well.

Placemarking in readiness for my next sanity fix.

Checking in as well. This thread and FWR are the only places I go on MN now.

Should probably hide all mask threads while waiting for sunflower lanyards. I have a legitimate reason but I still feel v anxious.

Morning all. Have had a little break from SM as have come down to a friends house for a couple of days. She's gone off to value a property, market has gone mental since they announced the stamp duty cut so I'm sat in her garden with a cup of tea and thought I'd check in with you all. Have decided that I am not engaging with any other part of MN and feel all the better for it.

We went out for dinner last night, lovely new restaurant in her town, we were the only ones in there. Food was excellent but I felt so sad for them as they're not even an established business yet. They're very hopeful that the Eat Out campaign gets people through the doors. In an act of selfless generosity we ordered far more alcohol than would otherwise normally be appropriate on a Thursday night

Took under a week for my lanyards to come - one for DD2 who I was meaning to get one for anyway, a spare one for DD2 when she inevitably loses or chews it, and one for me even though I feel a bit like I'm overegging my issues when I consider the disability label (but in reality I'm not)

I shall continue reporting all the "people with invisible disabilities are making it up" twaddle as much as I can bear the mask threads. MNHQ have a huge problem with the prejudice on this site being allowed to run rampant.

Checking in.

My children are not near uni age, but I wouldn't be devastated if they took a different route into adult life. Uni life is great, sure, but the education system isn't cut out for everyone. In my professional field, those who worked their way up as apprentices and then went to uni with employer support gained more relevant education than those of us who went the traditional route

Just a thought: if we are unfortunate enough to get that fabled second wave in three weeks' time, can we blame it on mandatory muzzles?

Thanks for the new thread @Mascotte

Talking of university, ds1 ended up going because he couldn’t think of anything else to do and uni seemed like less effort ... he’s very bright but spectacularly lazy and has managed to make a complete pig’s ear of it ... he should have graduated this year after already taking a year out because he got himself into a complete muddle and couldn’t cope. However because of coronavirus, the university has offered him another teo terms b of extension for his dissertation which the idiot has accepted ... if he ever does get the bloody thing written, he’ll have taken 6 years to do a BA ....

Uni isn’t an option for ds2 as he dropped out of sixth form with severe depression so only has GCSEs

And I’m actively discouraging dd as I don’t think she’d cope at all (history of self-harm, severe anxiety and recent diagnosis of ASD). This is leading to ‘interesting’ conversations with dh who doesn’t understand at all and keeps saying ‘of course she’s going to university..’. She wants to work with horses and I think we should encourage her to give it a go - she can always go to university later if she decides that’s the best thing to do when she’s more mature and on a more even emotional keel.

Ibake I am about to rebook the restaurant we went to this week. I was heartened to see that a few others were also eating in especially when it wasn't a particularly popular time at lunch.

Terry Pratchett is trending on twitter with some of his most wonderful quotes.

To the Discworld Emporium fans on the last thread - we have the Death of Rats plushie... he sits with my Final Fantasy ones to keep the Cactuar in line!

He was trending in response to the "which author would you pick to novelise the last 4 months" by the way.

DH did suggest it was a toss up between Stephen King and Sir Terry but I think the way things are going on - even Sir Terry would think it too ridiculous to put in a book.

(We also have a statue of Death on the mantlepiece with a broken finger so his little scythe randomly falls off and reaps people walking by)

Phew... found you....

I see some of our number are vainly trying to reason with some pro-maskers on another thread. As ever, everyone who doesn't; want to wear a masks being called thick. Sigh.

@Allflightscancelled

I see some of our number are vainly trying to reason with some pro-maskers on another thread. As ever, everyone who doesn't; want to wear a masks being called thick. Sigh.

It's funny isn't it.

If you are anti mandatory masks you are a bexiter, an anti vaxer, a trump fan, thick, selfish etc 🤔. It's almost like being back in the playground.

It's almost like being back in the playground

The standard of debate was higher in my playground! 'Yah boo sucks, you stink' is quite an intellectual step up from some of the mask-fanatics comments

@BamboozledandBefuddled

It's almost like being back in the playground

The standard of debate was higher in my playground! 'Yah boo sucks, you stink' is quite an intellectual step up from some of the mask-fanatics comments

That's about the level of 1/3 of my conversations over the last few months with the DCs as my main conversationists. Then there's the telling them to do something x50, plus Minecraft/ Lego/ Pokemon/ WW2 then some riveting industrial updates from DH. No wonder I have no emotional energy left to cover my face and impede social pleasantries with a checkout assistant.

Yet like a 2 inch diameter insect bite, I can't avoid the mask threads.

I'm a bit bored today so the masks thread are at least providing some entertainment.

Place marking, glad to have found you! I'm avoiding the mask threads, they're not good for my blood pressure.

My DD didn't want to take the traditional route through university and found herself an apprenticeship instead - she's doing a degree paid for by her employer as well as earning a wage. She's absolutely loving it (nearly finished the first year) and I'd recommend it as alternative. The school weren't keen to support her as they believe the only route to success is a Russell Group university degree...
It's not an easy option as she doesn't have much free time, but she appreciates having money!

We might get pulled if we talk about the other thread(s) too much. Sorry, know it was me that brought it up

Thanks for new thread Mascotte.

My Dad's now in hopsital and looking like he'll be there a while due to delays in treatment due to covid and GPs cutting back on actually seeing patients.

DH group took a proactive approach to student lab work next year and came up with a workable plan thus managed to avoid the upper mangament plan of them working 6am to 9pm 6 days a week next academic year which they're saying comes under hours needed in contract. Other groups and departments just said no and now have that plan.

I have to admit to still avoiding school and mask threads.

If the footfall and spending in the high street falls after the 24th I am going to be doing my own mask threads demanding why they aren't out there spending as it's now 'safe'.

Seaotter those degree apprenticeships are the dogs bollocks! I wish they offered them in the kinds of subjects dd wants to do, but sadly I think they're mostly STEM, 'cos that's useful. Which is fair enough