Discussion Thread 🎪 Monday 13 October 2025

Okay, GP was absolutely lovely! She gave me a script for a medication to help me quit smoking, directed me to reduce my coffee intake and eat more (even just grazing) during the day, and if none of that helps then we'll look at the anti-sad I'm on.

I think I just needed someone in that profession to tell me what I already knew, but I'm very happy that she offered the medication for quitting smoking. It'll free up money for therapy. I'm self-aware but that doesn't help if I don't ask for it, so I'm definitely much more confident.

I'm tired but hopeful.

I hear ya. It’s so much stress to front up to the GP and it’s such a relief to be listened to and helped. So glad you got some practical steps. You got this
That's great to hear. I didn't even know there was medication that could help with smoking, aside from nicotine of course
Glad to hear you had a great experience :)
so many happy hugs
you can do this :)

I have a GP appointment today and I'm not sure what to say. My anxiety is paralysing, and my depression is escalating, but I've used all my free psych appointments for the calendar year. I think I'm falling apart, but the rent and bills have gone up, so I really feel utterly stuck.

I suppose I'll say that lol

seriously?
You are going to a GP to get some help and you are talking about your problems , you are not paralysed and you are tackling your depression even tho you feel like you are
Just keep doing things. Your feelings are tricking you.
Kudos.
Say exactly that.
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Morning! No work this week 😺

Yay!

A question that's been bothering me over the weekend. Have been utterly stumped by it, so asking here if anyone has clarification to offer.

I've been trying to figure how many kilos/grammes per metre but if you want to answer in pounds shillings and ounces that's fine with me.

Not very much. Their arms are tiny. Average weight of woodchuck is 3.9kg. if we look at a human (agile, long arms comparitively), and perhaps use the weight of a hammer (like from hammer throw competition), which is 16kg, and AVG human weight in hammer throw... maybe 90kg? That's gets us 17.7% of weight. Transfer to groundhogs that's about 700g, BUT their short arms surely limit this a lot. I'll say at least by 75%. Which leads to: 175g. A woodchuck could chuck 175g, if a woodchuck could chuck wood
- You forgot to factor in wind speed, humidity and atmospheric pressure as well what it had for breakfast.
- This pretty close to the best answer I came up with. BUT. Woodchucks are rodents, not monkey-ancestor brachiators like us. So their shoulder and arm assembly is geared to grip & gather, not swing and bear weight. So the 'calculated' answer I came up with was 35grams. Given the moment arm and leverage etc. Plus claws get in the way - woodchucks don't have fingers/thumb for gripping like us. No doubt this question will continue to bother me.
If gummy lollies were invented today, what shape would they have gone with if not snakes and red frogs?
- Those ugly Labubus
- Snakes aren't replaceable here. Frogs can be whatever though. Koalas?
- Probably, but they can wait.
As much wood as a woodchuck could chuck if a wood chuck could chuck wood

Big day today as I'll be heading into the city to see Brennan from Dropout do a DnD campaign tonight. It's a lot for a Monday but at least it starts early

rad

Question of the day: What is your favourite word right now and why?

Before my husband goes to sleep, he puts on his little cosmos videos and I understand none of it except for the word spaghettification. It makes me giggle because I know what that means and they could've named it anything else but they chose that name.

Right now it's chaos.
I have to keep thinking it and repeating to remember and reinforce becoming organised in my thinking and behaviour
Epitome. I used to pronounce it as epi-tome (epi like epi-pen, tome as in a book), because I'd read so many books as a kid/teen. I'd heard the word spoken, but thought that the spoken word was spelled "ipitomie" or "ipitomy".
I was a young adult when I realised they are, in fact, the same word. It's now my favourite haha
- In a similar sense I've got provolone rolling around my head but coming to terms that if I say it correctly with my accent it sounds bogan as fuck - provoloney - cos I can't roll my r's good.
Renuneration lol
I love "albeit". Discovered it in an article about The X-Files back when I was 11, putting magazine articles on my bedroom wall.
Idempotent. It's a best-practice methodology for writing code. Run this code, it determines whether the thing needs to be done and does it. Run it over and over, and it will do no harm. It can be automated to run every 5 minutes to only do the thing when it is needed.
A real world picture to explain the concept:

Push either of the buttons over and over and over. You'll either turn the machine on/off, or do nothing.
I'd been doing this for years before I knew the word for it.

Yes, but the day has ended and you made it through. 💪 be proud of yourself for that.
so many hugs
Is there anything we can do?
- There’s not much but thankyou
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Another nice thing that happened at work today is i can finally bulk upload leads in the CRM. I've been adding them in one by one for months and I swear it can take me a whole morning sometimes.

This will be a massive time saver I can use to run more lead campaigns

beautiful fresh morning after the rains, the thrush is singing and it's lovely

I heard this song in the supermarket and I don't know how to feel about that.

that's a pretty cool song
You should be getting down and making moves in the aisle to that absolute bop
- I was kinda grooving to it NGL 😂

Looking at my weekly unKAOS plan , I can do this. :)

the garden worries me, I have a tender back, but if i do some everyday it will get done, even if it's not as early in spring as i would like

You can do it! just a little bit every day
plonks 60l tub down
One tub full of weeds per day. That's my aim on green bin weeks

Beep Beep 🚚
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Scotch egg & Branston pickle please
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Antihistamine cocktail and some broccoli stems stewed in sugar
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I can't find my bug a salt. IM NOT HAPPY UNTIL I FIND MY GUN.

Update: I found it

Goodnight all ❤️ Hope you have a great night and ill see the insomniac's a bit later on 🛌

One of my favourite apps (Zen colouring) has been removed from my phone because Google flagged it as unsafe. Booooo.

Yeah that happened to me tonight too. My husband bypassed the restriction. Tbh I don't know what he did. I pointed and said "fix it".
- I might give it a few days to hopefully solve itself, seen a few comments about it being because of an ad. Given it seems the devs have been rolling out new features I hope they can work it out.
I miss simple games. There used to be lots of little basic games with endless levels without a million ads, bouncing pop ups every turn, endless in game purchase etc. I just want something calming I can play for 15min while I have my coffee. There’s a gap in the market. I guess it must be unprofitable.
- Flight Control
  Plants vs. Zombies
  Peggle
  Angry Birds (original one)
  Fieldrunners
  Asphalt 6
  Jetpack Joyride
  Doodle Jump
  I actually have a couple of these still installed. I think they all cost something like $1-$5 to install but that was it. No in app purchases, no ads etc. So nice.
- Look at a game called mini motorways.
You might be able to install it directly if you can find the apk install file. I had to do that with ghost commander, which is a file browser.
- Thanks for the idea!
Happy Colour has been worth paying for no ads, if you're looking for an alternative.
- Thank you!! I'll check it out!

good night everyone, sweet dreams

and special hugs for Melba {{{{{Melba}}}}}