Yes, that’s absolutely fair enough and I respect that.

Your original comment was rather more generalised, which was my concern.

I’m a therapist.

How are young men supposed to reach out if they’re having the piss ripped out of them, at a time of emotional distress, by their own family members?

Oh, and they have to pay for their own invoices.

Amazon drivers have to deliver 200-300 parcels per day to people who fanny about answering their doors. It’s a self-employed position, so they have no workers’ rights. They don’t have time to eat and are afraid to hydrate themselves in case they need the toilet.

They also pay income tax.

I can see the glaring issue of patriarchy, if that’s what you mean? However, I certainly don’t hold women responsible for that!

The world is changing, albeit too gradually.

You are aware that suicide is the most common cause of death in young men? If this is how their own relatives treat them, it’s hardly surprising!

We do. It’s Gestalt psychology. We can just prepare ourselves to give our true response to the next person who [insert arising issue]. Obviously, they won’t give a shit, but we will.

There was plenty of good in the 90s, but I wouldn’t want to endure lad culture again at my age.

Ugh, no! The starch in them sets as they cool and they go lumpy.

There is no way to successfully revive a jacket potato.

I am terrified of spiders and couldn’t live among them. However, I always offer bog roll escape routes to spiders stranded in baths and/or bogs. They don’t deserve death because of my irrational fear.

Well, I never…

So, you have seen a cow pie with horns and a tail?

And how’s life treated you this century?

I think a committed Christian would bear their cross and walk it.

Thank Jehova supermarkets don’t display pyramids of cans anymore, though! 😀

I suspect the OP is somewhat disenchanted with their job. Frankly, I don’t blame them. It isn’t really well paid enough for the responsibility and must be mind-bendingly repetitive.

Martyrdom is difficult. Nobody promised an easy path to eternal life, as far I understand Christianity (which isn’t very well).

Point

People do sit in bus shelters when they have no intention of catching a bus (for instance, as a handy place to check messages on their phones), so it’s wise to signal to the bus driver the intention to board the bus.

I don’t know about training on awareness of blind people, though.

😆

Or nailed tae a big dode ae wid.

I don’t doubt it’s in Scotland too. I just haven’t seen it yet

What the bollocks is going on in England? The roundabout shit has moved on to lampposts?

Thank you. You’re absolutely right.

I do suspect that the young man was innocent to the difference between someone being down in the dumps and someone carrying unspeakable grief. There again, I doubt he’d have shouted that at a man.

What about someone who wears a watch on their inner wrist, rather than the outer?

I only know one person who did that. He is wrong ‘un, although not really for that reason.

This trend, as countless others, has entirely eluded me. Would someone be so kind as to enlighten me, please?

I remember famous people dropping dead on an almost daily basis. That part didn’t escape me. I’m just pondering current relevance.

Thank you.

Some young man in the street felt it thoroughly appropriate to yell, “Cheer up, it might never happen!” at me following the death of my child and subsequent miscarriage.

He probably didn’t mean any harm and may well still be having nightmares about the expression I gave him 22 years ago.

It was Gripper Stebson’s literacy issue that resulted in his reading text on “the public area”.

They wouldn’t take kindly to being told they’re not northern.

I dare you to say that in Barnsley.

“The North”. The whole of England is “down south” to anyone living in Scotland, but I don’t fancy telling anyone I grew up with in Barnsley that they’re from the south.

I’m staying right away from mates in “The Midlands”. That doesn’t feel like any of my business.