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Post by johnhurtdoctor on Mar 5, 2021 17:50:13 GMT
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Post by whiskeybrewer on Mar 5, 2021 17:58:02 GMT
Went for a walk with my mum and on the way back home, a bunch of kids appeared through some bushes and said Hi and Have a Good Day.
Lifted the spirits as it was so unexpected
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Post by grinch on Mar 5, 2021 18:08:57 GMT
Well, it’s now my head canon that the Doctor has at least one damaged and empty Dalek shell knocking about in the TARDIS somewhere.
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Post by TinDogPodcast on Mar 5, 2021 18:16:04 GMT
I had a lovely 49th birthday...
Also 15 years of my podcast
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Post by johnhurtdoctor on Mar 5, 2021 18:22:11 GMT
I had a lovely 49th birthday... Also 15 years of my podcast Happy birthday, but is that 49 in tin dog years?
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Post by Deleted on Mar 5, 2021 18:47:55 GMT
I had a lovely 49th birthday... Also 15 years of my podcast happy Birthday young man 😂😂
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Post by Deleted on Mar 5, 2021 18:48:39 GMT
Home ....feet up....dinner on...weekend off.....sighs
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Post by johnhurtdoctor on Mar 5, 2021 19:34:41 GMT
Home ....feet up....dinner on...weekend off.....sighs relax. Let us know what you are eating in the appropriate thread.
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Post by mark687 on Mar 5, 2021 22:35:58 GMT
I had a lovely 49th birthday... Also 15 years of my podcast Happy Bday and Anniversary Regards mark687
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Post by grinch on Mar 5, 2021 22:40:00 GMT
Belated birthday wishes TinDog!
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Post by number13 on Mar 6, 2021 1:45:42 GMT
Right now taking part in a online conference about bird and reptile diseases. I really miss going to conferences and having social contacts with all the "famous" professors and of course to all my friends and colleagues. However, I relish the opportunity to learn new things (and showing off my own stuff, yesterday I presented a poster on a sick falcon. No, not THAT falcon. )
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Post by Deleted on Mar 6, 2021 5:56:42 GMT
Had a fantastic day. After a 12-month break, we were back to being able to do workshops, about two-dozen people showed up. Got one hell of a welcome home, everyone was so happy to see one another after so long. Even better, one of our longtime authors there has made the shortlist for a competition that will let them pitch their story as a television series. They were thrilled. I think I'm exactly where I want to be at the moment. It really couldn't be better.
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Post by Timelord007 on Mar 6, 2021 7:42:31 GMT
Mom had Covid jab & was fine.
Still not sleeping well since dad died i keep listening out hear mom ok.
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Post by aussiedoctorwhofan on Mar 6, 2021 9:43:50 GMT
The 1st week of every month at my workplace is tentatively booked for all sorts of training. We have been doing lots of "Mental Health" training since last April when "u-know-what" really got bad. Had an interesting training session yesterday in relation to online bullying/conducting yourselves etc etc.. This topic was brought up, the reasoning being more and more people are online nowadays on various social medias/forums etc trying to gather information on the current state of the world. Interesting psychological training session on the whole aspect of "the invisible judgemental online crew hiding behind fake names etc coming down on you with words that sting more than they normally would/should" and the debate on whether you can read "tone" in online posts - don't get caught up in the whole "emoji's and the quantity that are being posted at you via comments etc" things like the thumbs up/thumbs down/angry face etc. At the end of the day it should not be taken as a true quantitive measure of anything. I just thought it was a timely reminder of the timing of this session.. 3 of the HR people at my work have Psychology degrees, 1 of them has their Masters.
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Post by tuigirl on Mar 6, 2021 10:29:53 GMT
The 1st week of every month at my workplace is tentatively booked for all sorts of training. We have been doing lots of "Mental Health" training since last April when "u-know-what" really got bad. Had an interesting training session yesterday in relation to online bullying/conducting yourselves etc etc.. This topic was brought up, the reasoning being more and more people are online nowadays on various social medias/forums etc trying to gather information on the current state of the world. Interesting psychological training session on the whole aspect of "the invisible judgemental online crew hiding behind fake names etc coming down on you with words that sting more than they normally would/should" and the debate on whether you can read "tone" in online posts - don't get caught up in the whole "emoji's and the quantity that are being posted at you via comments etc" things like the thumbs up/thumbs down/angry face etc. At the end of the day it should not be taken as a true quantitive measure of anything. I just thought it was a timely reminder of the timing of this session.. 3 of the HR people at my work have Psychology degrees, 1 of them has their Masters. So, in short, if you make your life dependent on how many likes/ dislikes you get, you got a problem? Good that some recent sci-fi series have started to cover that topic...
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Post by Deleted on Mar 6, 2021 10:32:34 GMT
The 1st week of every month at my workplace is tentatively booked for all sorts of training. We have been doing lots of "Mental Health" training since last April when "u-know-what" really got bad. Had an interesting training session yesterday in relation to online bullying/conducting yourselves etc etc.. This topic was brought up, the reasoning being more and more people are online nowadays on various social medias/forums etc trying to gather information on the current state of the world. Interesting psychological training session on the whole aspect of "the invisible judgemental online crew hiding behind fake names etc coming down on you with words that sting more than they normally would/should" and the debate on whether you can read "tone" in online posts - don't get caught up in the whole "emoji's and the quantity that are being posted at you via comments etc" things like the thumbs up/thumbs down/angry face etc. At the end of the day it should not be taken as a true quantitive measure of anything. I just thought it was a timely reminder of the timing of this session.. 3 of the HR people at my work have Psychology degrees, 1 of them has their Masters. Snap. We had a very similar conversation on our end. There's a real-world equivalent: the context-free scowl that people sometimes have when they're thinking or are tired from the day. Often misinterpreted as anger or judgement. Best solution, whenever there's doubt, is usually to ask. We were coming at it from the perspective of fiction writers and, if you've ever tried to write a story from scratch, the thing that will trip someone up most is the emotive language. Getting across whatever they're feeling in the moment. People spend decades trying to perfect that. There's this blanket assumption that anyone contributing online knows how to write. A basic ability to use spelling and grammar. Enough to hold a conversation. What's also assumed is that the Nth number of years speaking the language immediately transfers to the written word. Unfortunately, it's not that straightforward. The process is a lot closer to those teenage years where what was in the head and what came out the mouth are very different. There's a loss in translation. That, more than anything else, trips people up. And of course with the written word, it's so much easier to get a reflection of your own feelings (and anxieties) imprinted on the top of an innocuous sentence like, oh, I don't know... "I like cheese." (Take him to the gallows!) Primarily, because the sentence isn't said in one moment and forgotten by the next. It lingers for minutes, potentially hours, between messages back and forth. The result can therefore look rather strange at times. A heated discussion between AA and BB was indeed heated for AA -- 48 hours ago. AA's since cooled down, but BB only saw the message today and is livid. AA can't understand what the fuss is about because the emotional response is there and gone. I think judging "tone" can be a complete nonsense in that regard, too. Therer's no face, no voice, you've only their words and the mood you're reading them in at the time. "You don't have the added context you find in prose," he shrugged. Or necessarily, the backstory of their day. Part of the human condition is to arch your back and go on the defensive, it's survival, but 80-90% of the time, the text-based transgression is usually forgotten. People are much more self-conscious about themselves than seeking out a perceived enemy in the water (that sounds exhausting and a complete waste of time, to boot). We're kind of in the adolescence of the internet at the moment. The language is changing, the expectations are changing.... It'll be interesting to see what it looks like in thirty, fifty years from now with a few generations to process communication like this. With COVID, it's certainly not going away and I think the idea of online interactions being "just online" (i.e. lacking consequence) has begun to change, too. Hopefully, the reliance will make people kinder. It's impossible to meaningfully connect otherwise.
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Post by Timelord007 on Mar 6, 2021 13:28:06 GMT
Just filled in the 2021 Census online Zzzzzzzzzz
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Post by Timelord007 on Mar 7, 2021 7:12:55 GMT
Woke up in bits feel overwhelmed by grief finally hitting home now about my dad's passing, sruggling with motivation, just want hide under the duvet & forget.
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Post by aussiedoctorwhofan on Mar 7, 2021 7:14:23 GMT
We have a Public Holiday tomorrow.. for a horse race.... 2moro will be a "house tidy up " day.. with maybe an arvo nanna nap.
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Post by tuigirl on Mar 7, 2021 10:18:12 GMT
We have a Public Holiday tomorrow.. for a horse race.... 2moro will be a "house tidy up " day.. with maybe an arvo nanna nap. So this is still going? Even in times of COVID? And the growing crowd screaming about animal abuse? I remember that each year, at uni (in NZ), we were placing bets at the department and we had the TV on even during classes to see if our horses won...
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