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buffeh posted:Had a weird visit just now at my house. 2 people visited, a man and a woman with 2 young children in tow. They said they needed a picture of the woman in front of my house with both inner and outer doors open to "prove they used to live there for some sort of benefit claim". They said another person (who they named) was currently abroad but had lived in the house with someone else a long time ago and they needed to prove that somehow. It’s for immigration. They have fiddled with the dates on the phone/camera and it’s to provide evidence that they are a real married couple who have been living together full time for a number of years rather than one person with settled status/a British passport having been paid to marry the other so they can stay here.
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Oh man that sounds rough Barry, solidarity.
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Aug 9, 2021 18:23
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serious gaylord posted:If he hosed it hes paying for it, not you. Oh yes, he knew that. But as it turns out, he wasn't charged. He was practically crying into his shoes when he thought it might be £1000 or something. I've used him quite a few times, he's an honest guy and doesn't charge me too much. (Put it this way, he's charging me £45 including the new isolator switch for this visit whereas most of the trades round here charge £80ph.) Bobby Deluxe posted:Milo of Trashfuture has spoken before about how there are services in Russia where influencers can get a courier bike to come round with flowers, chanpagne, and boxes with Dior, iPhone, Louboutin logos etc. Said influencer takes a photo of the pile to post showing how insanely generous their boyfriend / sugar daddy is, and then the courier literally takes all the boxes, flowers etc back to be delivered to the next influencer who needs them. No need to pay a service. When I was last working full-time, some of the women would arrange large bunches of red roses to be sent to themselves at the office on Valentines day. As if we didn't know, LOL. Jaeluni Asjil fucked around with this message at 18:26 on Aug 9, 2021 |
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Aug 9, 2021 18:23
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Barry Foster posted:Man I really need to dry out for a few days, I can feel my liver pushing against my ribs lol, but the news is not helping If you want something to watch that isn't the news, depending on your tastes there is a very good second world war week by week channel I have been going through: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsIk0qF0R1j4Y2QxGw33vYu3t70CAPV7X (which has been running for about three years so there is lots to watch) Or if you want something less heavy but not too over the top I have also been enjoying these two goons play through Hollow Knight which is very good from an art, design, and narrative perspective. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLmgIY0vh1x7NkyKScO0n09qB3H-BW6pyn (which has been running since march but they are completing it faster than the second world war so there is still lots to watch) I hope tomorrow goes as well as it can too. Would give a hug if I could. learnincurve posted:It’s for immigration. They have fiddled with the dates on the phone/camera and it’s to provide evidence that they are a real married couple who have been living together full time for a number of years rather than one person with settled status/a British passport having been paid to marry the other so they can stay here. If you have somehow managed to help put one over on the home office that is certainly a very good outcome IMO. OwlFancier fucked around with this message at 18:30 on Aug 9, 2021 |
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Aug 9, 2021 18:27
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Bobby Deluxe posted:Oh man that sounds rough Barry, solidarity. Yeah I'm kinda dissociating I think, which isn't ideal, but my head feels like it's being squeezed in a vice Thanks though, man, appreciated
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Aug 9, 2021 18:30
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Thanks Owlie x Was doing the Orville when all this kicked off in June but ran out of that. Found it very soothing. Think I'll just go OG TNG, that show is like a warm bubble bath for me
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Aug 9, 2021 18:31
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I spend literally as much time as I can marinading my brain in occupations I find soothing and comfortable so that sounds like an excellent plan to me.
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Aug 9, 2021 18:33
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learnincurve posted:It’s for immigration. They have fiddled with the dates on the phone/camera and it’s to provide evidence that they are a real married couple who have been living together full time for a number of years rather than one person with settled status/a British passport having been paid to marry the other so they can stay here. But there's only one person in the picture, not a couple, and the Home Office can trivially check who owns that house and it wouldn't be her. Barry F: stay strong, cancer sucks
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OwlFancier posted:I spend literally as much time as I can marinading my brain in occupations I find soothing and comfortable so that sounds like an excellent plan to me. My therapist keeps telling me I need to stop trying to escape, and instead face to bloodshed and rawdog reality But nah lol Thanks brexit. Thexit
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u brexit ukip it posted:But there's only one person in the picture, not a couple, and the Home Office can trivially check who owns that house and it wouldn't be her. Maybe it's just to lie to relatives or friends who are out of the country? So the guy can tell his family or whoever that he's in a relationship with someone who owns a house rather than whatever her home is really like.
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u brexit ukip it posted:But there's only one person in the picture, not a couple, and the Home Office can trivially check who owns that house and it wouldn't be her. Also the Home Office don't accept photographs as evidence of relationships.
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I strongly disagree and think that the only issue with escapism is what you use to achieve it, because some things are worse for you and more expensive than others (and have diminishing returns). But living itself is a constant attempt to escape inevitability, main difference is that if you drink and you're poor they call you scum but if you're rich and piss about on holiday they call you cultured.
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Barry Foster posted:Man I really need to dry out for a few days, I can feel my liver pushing against my ribs lol, but the news is not helping Best wishes for your dad mate.
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OwlFancier posted:I strongly disagree and think that the only issue with escapism is what you use to achieve it, because some things are worse for you and more expensive than others (and have diminishing returns). That's my theory too, so I do find it a bit confusing. I think it's more avoiding bad emotions. I don't really feel much anymore I do need to stop drinking so much, lay off the weed, the pills. Feel pretty far gone sometimes. But anyway, this ain't the BF/E/N thread lol Trainee PornStar posted:Best wishes for your dad mate. Thanks bud. Hope the training's going well!
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https://twitter.com/corbyn_project/status/1424774223164280848?s=19 The old man can still draw, brother
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Aug 9, 2021 18:52
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We can post starmer bad any day of the week, so don't feel like you're intruding. All I'll say is that yeah, you're right that chemical fixes can be pretty poo poo, so maybe your therapist is trying to focus on that, but I don't think the desire is wrong, everyone's gotta do some things to manage the pressure of the world, and some people have a lot more pressure to manage than others, and some of us have bad behaviours that add more (like reading the news, IMO) that we can't stop (cos lol it's designed to make you anxious so you can't stop reading it). And sometimes the pressure and the relief are the same thing, especially with the chemical fixes. But changing all of that is hard and I don't think you're wrong for struggling with it. I just wish it were easier.
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them people might have just been very bored and/or lonely my great aunt got herself blacklisted from most estate agents in town because she kept booking appointments just to have a nosey around people's houses. she'd have loved modern property websites imo
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Aug 9, 2021 18:55
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one december about 10 years ago i was driving to work around back roads and i thought the car in front of me was being driven by someone pissed or off their head - they kept slowing down to a crawl and swerving all over the road. when we finally got into a town that was gritted and well lit i overtook them and it was an old man and woman and he was slowing down so she could take pictures of people's christmas lights
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Aug 9, 2021 19:00
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it's amazing what people think up to do with their days ime
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Bobby Deluxe posted:I wish I could delete twitter, it's awful. I like Twitter tbh.
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OwlFancier posted:We can post starmer bad any day of the week OwlFancier posted:Hollow Knight
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https://twitter.com/emcnally96/status/1424795800991850497?s=19 Fuckin
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It's all fantasy anyway, we're not going to lift a loving finger and our children and grandchildren and great great grandchildren will burn
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Barry Foster posted:It's all fantasy anyway, we're not going to lift a loving finger and our children and grandchildren and great great grandchildren will burn My nurse friends swear by mirtazapine if you're interested in something that stops obsessive thinking
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Gonzo McFee posted:My nurse friends swear by mirtazapine if you're interested in something that stops obsessive thinking Didn't get on with it in the end, gave me rls which kinda defeated the object of making me sleep better. I am thinking I'm gonna have to think about going back on meds though. Not many left to try, but I think there's a few possibilities yet...
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Gonzo McFee posted:My nurse friends swear by mirtazapine if you're interested in something that stops obsessive thinking I got prescribed this for sleep, it's a godsend & I sleep reasonably well now.
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Aug 9, 2021 19:46
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Barry Foster posted:Didn't get on with it in the end, gave me rls which kinda defeated the object of making me sleep better. If all else fails taking a job in the third sector mental health worked for me. If only because it gave me a place to focus my hate and energy into helping people and doing positive things for people rather than hating myself. No easy fixes ever but working through things by helping others and finding a purpose that isn't another man's profit helped me tremendously.
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mirtazapine gave me the worst loving dreams, not exactly nightmares but they were incredibly vivid and really unpleasant
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u brexit ukip it posted:But there's only one person in the picture, not a couple, and the Home Office can trivially check who owns that house and it wouldn't be her. If it's part of a package of evidence for a visa application, the chance of whichever bored Home Office functionary is spending 10 minutes processing the application checking out land registry or tax information and poo poo for a random picture of someone in front of a house is pretty much zero.
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goddamnedtwisto posted:In Cosmic Weirdness news I ordered one of those miniature house kits that HopperUK has posted in here, and the UK importer for this particular one had an extremely familiar address, which turns out to be the block my ex-girlfriend lived in when we were going out. Ooooo post the results when you've done it!
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Aug 9, 2021 20:13
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Aug 9, 2021 20:14
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HopperUK posted:Ooooo post the results when you've done it! Well the result as always was a deep sense of shame. Oh you mean the model, not the ex-gf? Will do.
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Aug 9, 2021 20:19
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If you figure out a way to upload deep shame to imgur please post that also because I would be interested to see how it is encoded.
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Aug 9, 2021 20:21
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Hypothesis: The problem with this country is that nobody's been taught how to say no politely, so when someone asks them to do something they don't want to do there's a brief struggle in their head between the urge to agree out of politeness and the urge to explode into a furious screaming fit to get out of it. E: The "Punt or oval office" reflex
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I think creating a standardised format for embedded headlines and images for news articles to share might be Twitter’s best and only positive contribution to the internet
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OwlFancier posted:If you figure out a way to upload deep shame to imgur please post that also because I would be interested to see how it is encoded. 
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u brexit ukip it posted:But there's only one person in the picture, not a couple, You've never taken a picture of your partner?
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Gonzo McFee posted:The old man can still draw, brother
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I was prescribed mirtazipine a couple of times as a dirty way to put on weight, and it worked. I was also probably very depressed back then, and I'm sure they kept me from going down some really dark cycles, but coming off them was so loving hard. I'm struggling with a bit of the old black dog myself at the moment, and I'm going to give microdosing mushrooms a go when I eventually find where I stashed them. They've been working wonders for a few friends of mine. I hope the waters calm down a bit for you Barry, and if you ever want to chat, my inbox and discord is always open to you. Stay strong mate.
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I misread the discussion as marzipan and wondered how I could go about getting marzipan prescription...
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