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comment by Dave NotSo #savetheasses (U11711)
posted 3 hours, 15 minutes ago
comment by thebluebellsareblue (U9292)
posted 15 hours, 6 minutes ago
Dave.....can I call you Rodney?😀

Thanks for the response and I just checked the tabs.Vensir XL 75mg so pretty weak, which is why I thought stopping would be OK😵
I have been on them for three years after a girl in work said they were, with less night sweats etc.

I drank quite a bit for thirty years, and did E, speed and blow, so I often thought this could come back to haunt me?However, I was often down as a teenager, and felt a melancholy when other were naturally chipper and happy.

As fellow bluenose Lauders posted, at least mental health is being discussed and not stigmatixzed, as much.

On a history field trip to Cork n the 80's, a bunch of the us were pictured outside the gates of the local Protestant asylum.....we even get religious segregation into our, "Maddie's"😠




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Sure you can call me Rodney, but can you also explain why? I'm a bit out of the scene so don't know whether it's an insult or compliment....
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Just an Only Fools and Horses reference, bud......I am used to chatting with aul guys on the old firm boards, is all😀

Rodney is called Dave by daft Trigger.....give it a watch!

Where are you in the world, BTW?

comment by lauders What's the story Ross McCrorie (U9757)
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comment by thebluebellsareblue (U9292)
posted 12 hours, 39 minutes ago
comment by lauders What's the story Ross McCrorie (U9757)
posted 12 hours, 39 minutes ago
https://youtu.be/XiCrniLQGYc

Please take a minute and have a look guys
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Great vid,, Lauders.

Mindfulness, running, cycling, comedy, happy pills and counselling are the way to beat it!
Talkng to friends, family, colleagues and guys here boost mood and hope!
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Glad you've found ways to combat it mate
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Cheers, brother👍

Just had a wee blip, as job decisions for Universal Credit came up and car/ bike money problems combined with friends parents dying ......all happened together, as muggins here was trying to bin meds!
Plus lots of night terrors and insomnia, but back sleeping well again.

All cool😎

Happy Christmas and New Year folks.

Catch ya next year.

🙏

And you mate, happy Hogmanay

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comment by JFDI (U1657)
posted 1 day, 3 hours ago
And you mate, happy Hogmanay
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Have a great Christmas and New Year, bud.

comment by Rodney NotSo #savetheasses (U11711)
posted 16 hours, 56 minutes ago
Happy Festivus TBAB and others!

Sorry I missed your post the other day mate. Glad to hear things are balancing out for you. This time of year can be extra tough.

I don't like Christmas. As I've told you, my dad's a C of E minister. This time of year was always busy work time at the church so it never felt like a holiday.

The expectation to be happy and enjoy presents, family and all the trimmings makes me close off. Last year my parents separated after 42 years and none of my four sisters are talking with my dad. Messy...

I'm taking the missus to Singapore and Viet Nam for a couple of weeks instead. Spicy frog porridge claypot stews and 50 cent beers are how I plan to spend Xmas this year.

Missed the Rodney Fools and Horses reference. Family and friends have been nagging me for ages to watch but never got round. A couple of my Brit co-workers talk about it all the time. I'll have to finally get round it it.

I'm based on the Sunshine Coast in Queensland. It's a small region made up of half a dozen towns along 50 Kms of awesome beaches about an hour or so north of Brisbane.

This is my local beach if you're curious.

www.sunshinecoast-australia.com/media/images/picture-new-mooloolaba.jpg


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Love the new username😀

Sorry to hear about your mum and dad separating and the issue with sisters and parent......my family have issues too that blew up last Christmas, with me in the middle of it, so I can relate, mate.

I too have a strange time at Christmas, as I love it and hate it at the same time.The faux fun and materialism, combined with drunkenness are my pet dislikes, but my wife and daughter adore Christmas, so I get on with it.

A school Carol service cheered me up and made me proud as my wee girl played a central part in the church drama in front of hundreds,and the choir were superb too, lifting my Christian spirit.Did I ever say I was born again in my late teens, and started attending church again after thirty odd years??

I now have a personal relationship with God, and rarely preach about it.I go to a small country church and still pray most days and this helps my mental health.When. worked front line a dole office the church was an oasis of calm on Sunday.

My uncle was a presby minister and another uncle was an elder in the same church, but I am the only church attending believer in my close family now.

I am rambling as ever, but your post on Christmas and family touched a nerve with me, as few admit to dark views on December festivities.Years back we had elderly relatives at Christmas dinner, or funerals and now I go lay wreaths for passed parents and grandparents, and it is bleak for me.
One picture in my head is my dad at his parents grave, just months before cancer too my father, and so Christmas is black, as well as white for me.Another year older too gets me down, but as mates say, what is the alternative😇

Anyway, enjoy Singapore with those close to you and thanks for the posts, buddy.

Take it easy.

By the way, I love the sun and beach, so might pop over for a hol😀

Not jealous of Sunshine coast at all, as snow, rain, wind, fog and storms hit Belfast recently.

Just came across this.

Cracking thread.

to all contributors.

Happy New Year All.

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comment by Rodney NotSo #savetheasses (U11711)
posted 4 minutes ago
You too mate.

Owe you a proper reply to you last messages but I'm hung over and about to go out to lobster buffet and free-flow champers and beer.

Hope you and the family have a good one.
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No worries bud.......know that, "fear " feeling, as we call it here, or "hanging".

Hope the head and tummy go easy on you👍

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comment by Rodney NotSo #savetheasses (U11711)
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comment by thebluebellsareblue (U9292)
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comment by Rodney NotSo #savetheasses (U11711)
posted 4 minutes ago
You too mate.

Owe you a proper reply to you last messages but I'm hung over and about to go out to lobster buffet and free-flow champers and beer.

Hope you and the family have a good one.
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No worries bud.......know that, "fear " feeling, as we call it here, or "hanging".

Hope the head and tummy go easy on you👍
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Hair of the dog mate. Not a good on the body but in the vernacular of the young people of today, YOLO.. haha

Set in a 5* hotel rooftop bar so I'll think I'll survive hehe
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Sounds superb.....Enjoy.

I used to do beer first thing next morning, and got a buzz on fast, but the next day was hellish😛

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comment by Dave NotSo (U11711)
posted 8 minutes ago
Hey TBAB,

I'm back in the UK for the first time in 30 years for three weeks. Mostly Bristol, Manchester and London. If you're interested and nearby, want to grab a pint (non-alcoholic for you right)?
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Greetings Dave.😁

I hope you are enjoying our first summer in decades, and the heat has me back on the beer from June on my late fathers anniversary, .....only a few though, and no wine or spirits😜Nine year drought had to end!


I am over in Belfast bud, and have used up all my leave moving around Ireland this summer in Kilkenny, Donegal, and Wicklow last week.

You will see some changes in Landan, Bristol and Madchester after thirty years and I have lived in or visited all three....top spots👍👍

Have a ball and let me know here how you get on.

Taking in a Chelsea match, I trust😉

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comment by Dave NotSo (U11711)
posted 3 weeks, 5 days ago
Thanks mate.

9 years is impressive! A cold brew on a sweltering hot summer day is great, but get back on the bandwagon mate. I admire your restraint, I haven't gone 9 weeks without a drink for many years.

I knew you were across the sea up North so didn't expect you'd be in the vicinity, but thought to offer to buy you a pint just in case you were down for a Chelsea match. You and Rosso (he seems to have stopped posting on the other thread) are two guys in particular that I'd love to sit down and chew the fat over a few cold ones. Maybe next time I'm back home.

The heat has totally shocked me. I was coming from winter in Oz but I live up North so my winters are the same and sometimes warmer than London summers. I brought my sunny disposition from Oz, but wasn't intending to bring a dose of Oz-style heat wave.

My family moved to Oz when I was still single-digit age so have very limited memories of Manchester and nothing from Bristol. Will be so good to go back and get in touch with my roots.

Will be trying to take in a few games including some championship games. My dad was just telling me my great grandfather used to play for one of the Bristol clubs before WW1 so will be going to see City and Rovers matches fixtures permitting.

Shall keep you posted. Take care fella.
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Alright Dave👍

Really sorry I am getting here three weeks late.

When you say to go back on the bandwagon, you do mean wagon, right?😀

Nine years was easy as the hangover fear was killing me😏

It must be strange seeing Bristol and Madchester after all these years.....following Norn Iron to see them at Old Trafford and Cardiff, I have visited Bristol and Manc lane and enjoyed both.
I was a huge fan of the Manchester music scene, which led to raves, E and too many lost weekends in late eighties to late nineties.....you are likely too young?

Met a few guys from oz and always friendly, chilled and down to earth......like us lot!

I envy your Oz weather as wet and windy keeps me inside too much and I get cabin fever.

Glad you are having a ball and keep her lit😊

comment by Dave NotSo (U11711)
posted 19 hours, 21 minutes ago
Hey TBAB,

Last week or so you mentioned in passing on the Election thread that you were struggling a bit again with the brain health. Sorry I didn't get time to respond appropriately at the time and now I cannot be fecked trawling through thousands of Sizzle's rambling posts to find yours.

I hope it was just a bad day or so and you've got the black dog back on the leash.

The summertime beers are great but they do wipe out serotonin levels. I think I need to try to emulate you and get off any booze for a while.

Had a great time back in the UK, all except every football match I went to. I even managed to see Bristol City lose to Plymouth Argyle in the Carabao cup hehe. Cursed! You'll be glad I missed out on getting Chelsea-Arsenal tickets as the result would have surely gone the other way.
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My serotonin level is shot from esctacy in the nineties, 😁and I realise booze is a downer, but drinking coffee and coke can be so boring......just on beer and no red wine or spirits as I used to cane those bad boys.

From my teens I have felt a sadness or melancholy,which led to me going through my born again phase, and in past ten years, losing family, friends and money dragged me down further, plus ageing sucks, imo!

Recently, I failed to get a promotion, our team at work sp!it up and we are training for a new benefit.Then we went on ho!iday and the weather was crap,,I got a tooth abcess on hols and on return just felt summer was over...

Next, a good friends mum died abroad and mum in law fell fracturing her hip and breaking her arm.

I know self pity is at play, and I should be able to use mindfulness, counselling and even prayer, but I have been waking up, lying awake for hours and worrying about life, death, money and family.

Hooefully, just a blip, but I gave up Vensor earlier this year, and can go back on them.

I can see the stress taking its toll on my wife too,,as she has been on anti-depressants for a decade now, and I fear my daughter inheriting our low mood.

Life, eh😊

Glad you are seeing some football while in blighty, and Chelsea seem ok......also impressed with Rangers under Stevie G, and bring on Celtic on Sunday.....your mum was from bluenose stock, right?

Thanks for caring, Dave, and if I can ever return the favour, let me know👍

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comment by Dave NotSo (U11711)
posted 14 hours, 12 minutes ago
No worries about the timing of reply.

I'll respond in depth later but wanted to add another negative for mental health. The Election Thread...

When I was looking up the exact words of the Marley quote that I posted the other day I came across this one:

"If you get down and quarell everyday, you're saying prayers to the devil, I say."

Realised I was just bickering and arguing with people, mostly Sizzle, and most of the time never getting anywhere. Was just just getting frustrated and wasting so much time and energy.

I used to find it a good stress relief, but some posters just wind me up with their bigotry and hate.

Look after yourself and family, fella. I'll take you up on your offer some day for sure.
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Liking the Bob quote and very apt😊

You are spot on about the Election Thread and the hate, personal clashes and anger there, and I do ease off it at times...But,,.like a drug it drags me back, as I cannot let sizzle, hec or redin away with the stuff they post......sure they feel the same about me, among othes😳

I know you are a good person, like most of us roaming the planet, and so that matters....not your left leaning or liberal politics, because I have encountered so many people I can suss folk out, pretty well.

Not long ago, the Election Thread was often dominated by hec,,siz, red and those calling other opinion thick, racist brexshit, bigots etc.I

I cannot let that go,,and just as I have backed up Catholics here getting stick, or guys being attacked on their own, so too I will not sit back and allow guys such as those mentioned abuse christians, unionists, leave voters, The right of Israel to exist, what some call conservative and populist opinion etc.

I had no problem with Labour as I am working class, and want equality, fair pay and rights, respect for diversity, but I see some on the far left to be red facists, copying natzis tbh, by infiltrating Labour and trying to remove moderate and centrist voices, Jewish members, brexit backers, good old fashioned working class mp's.

I have been a political animal from 1979 and it is in my blood and makes me tick, like faith, motorbikes, football, cars, music and comedy.

I know social media is good and bad, and dis place is the only place I dabble....I am caveman techophobe.

A while back someone such as Henry or Insert said I was behaving like sizzle, so I took a step back, and now attempt to post in a,more moderate, considered and tolerant manner, but I do find a few posters to be "wrong uns" and I have said so to them.....and I would do so to their faces, as I have done to others.

I realise this is not Christ like and I should not get involved, but if good people do nothing, bad people thrive.

And I will make more efforts to oppose wrong uns across the political spectrum.🙏

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