Does that cause you wrist pain when you keep changing positions?
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Aren’t we all
More or less grumpy
Rather old
Definitely Red
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I NEED to find a place to rant.
I am absolutely fucked off with hearing, reading and being told that b12 deficiency is fixable, just take injections. Being told by people who have no fucking clue about long term permanent damage, because they got fixed with a dose or two of b12 injections. 99% of sufferers don’t end up with optic atrophy, but that means that 1% or less do.. I am in that miniscule group .. so will absolute bastards stop dismissing my suffering and my condition like it does not fucking exist. It pisses me right off.
This is not about anyone on the forum. It is about the medical world and some people in that sphere.
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I had the same with Lyme Disease. Just remember it’s not you who’s mad.
Health systems and medical institutions are vicious. Associations can be a real help and relief in this. For Lyme Disease there is The Armstrong Foundation and of course for me in France a couple of Associations that supported me at least in words.
Stand strong and proud.
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Thank you pal. I think i would just like to speak with someone who understands, who has the same exact issues, i can’t find anyone! Some of the places for sight loss are really kind caring helpful people. I’ve joined quite a few health forums and such but i really would like to find that one other person that can say “no, you are not making things sound worse than they are” a kindred spirit. All the docs have done is said the damage is irreversible take the 1mg tablets for the rest of your life and let us know if things get worse. 
I am happy that people recover I just hate the assumption that all people recover.
Thanks for your kind words @Flobs 
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Long but made me chuckle in places.
Just shows how society has changed some good, lots bad.
QUIT YOUR BITCHING!!!
Grandpa didn’t have a $90 month internet bill, a $130 phone bill, seven app subscriptions at $72 month, an Amazon addiction for $200 month, he didn’t have Netflix, Paramount or HBO for another $112 month and his haircuts didn’t need a ‘stylist’!
I’m worn out hearing people moan, “Our grandparents could buy a house on one paycheck, but now we can’t even afford rent on two!”
Yeah, maybe because Grandma wasn’t dropping half her income on $14 iced lattes and avocado toast shaped like art projects. Back then, if they wanted coffee, they boiled it at home in a dented pot. It tasted like burnt rubber and regret — but it woke you up and cleaned your pipes.
And Grandma wasn’t “out to brunch.” You think she had time for mimosas and hashtags? She was making something called whatever’s left in the fridge and feeding six people with it.
Don’t even start with Uber Eats. You think Grandpa was out here paying $38 to have a burger delivered three blocks away? Please. He grilled mystery meat on a rusted barbecue, and everyone called it dinner.
Now people cry about being broke while sitting in a house full of gadgets. Two SUVs in the driveway, six streaming services, three air fryers, and matching tattoos that cost more than their light bill. You think Grandpa had a tattoo? He did. It said “Korea, 1951,” and it came with trauma, not Instagram likes.
And the kids—Lord help us. “We can’t make ends meet, but Brayden needs the new iPhone!” No, he doesn’t. You’re handing a $1100 device to a child who still eats crayons and forgets to flush.
When we were kids, there was one phone. It hung on the wall like a family relic. The cord stretched just far enough for you to whisper secrets before someone yelled, “Get off, I need to make a call!” And guess what? We lived.
The TV? One. In the living room. With three channels and a dial that clicked like a safe. And if Dad wanted to watch bowling, you were a fan of bowling, end of story.
Now there’s a flat screen in every room, the baby’s got an iPad, the dog’s got a camera, and everyone’s wondering why they can’t afford rent.
Because you’re living like rock stars on retail salaries, that’s why.
Grandpa wasn’t leasing Teslas or buying $12 smoothies called “Green Zen Awakening.” He drove a truck that coughed smoke, rattled like a storm, and smelled like oil and hard work.
They lived within their means. Whatever Grandpa brought home on Friday — that’s what they had. They weren’t keeping up with the Joneses; they were keeping the lights on.
So yeah, Grandpa bought a house on one salary. But he also didn’t have a gym membership, three delivery apps, and emotional support crystals on his nightstand. His only support system was Grandma, who told him to quit whining and mow the yard.
Nowadays, everyone’s broke, anxious, and “manifesting abundance” while ordering tacos on DoorDash for the fourth time this week.
It’s not the economy — it’s the lifestyle.
Wake up, turn off your subscriptions, make your own coffee, and maybe—just maybe—you’ll smell the truth.
“Yes I copied this”… It’s truth… 
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Grandpa also had a secure job, a housing market that wasn’t fucked and likely lived through the post war boom economies that appeared around the world.
If people choose to have a subscription or buy a takeaway coffee because they know that by not doing that and saving will still leave them nowhere near a deposit for a mortgage then?
It’s not truth and it’s not helpful to pick battles.
Sorry I find this degenerative slop appalling bad.
Now kids who don’t use headphones well….
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Appalling slop, completely disagree, it isn’t just the message around buying a house it is about priorities and yes I am grumpy and have a lot of these things could i go without them, yes and a sometimes if money is tight I do.
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Boomers objectively had it much easier when it comes to buying a home. Sure standards of living wrt consumer goods have risen but a think you’d find most millennials would happily swap subscriptions, avo toast and new iPads etc for a boomeresq home in an established suburb.
As long as in that home, the fridge freezer had access to the internet, the kettle was robotic and the carpet cleaned itself.
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Life moves on. Some of the things that are essential to modern day life would have been seen by a previous generation as great luxury. It’s just how it is.
There have always been generational ‘wars’ but it’s much better to learn from each other and get along. I’m an old fart (it’s all relative, but I’m 55) and I absolutely love that my 23 year old daughter is back living at home, as we always have young adults in the house who are in her orbit, and by extension, my orbit too, I suppose.
One serous point in this conversation is the cost of housing.
There has been a longstanding ‘model’ that 3x or maybe 4x of your annual income should get you a mortgage and a foot onto the property ladder. Work hard, cut back, do what you have to do to get a deposit together, and take a big step forward into self-sufficient adulthood.
That’s the sort of world I stepped into in buying my first house back in the day in the UK.
However, that sort of thing now seems more elusive than ever, or even all-but-impossible to many millions of young adults. The average wage and the average cost of a home are pulling further and further apart.
Good jobs.
Affordable housing.
That’s what is needed. Easier said than done of course, but whoever is contending for that is worthy of holding political office. Oh, and on a tangential point, I would have thought that the problem of benefit fraud would be significantly reduced if people had a decent job to go to. I don’t think people, on the whole, want to cheat.
But they need a viable option to help them build a life.
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60000€ might get you a tent 
amongst the tramps 
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“Live” news stories on the BBC website. It used to be that something happened, a short news story was added and then updated if more info came along. So if you wanted to know about it you could just read one coherent well formed news story and know what was going on.
Now something breaks and it becomes a “Live” news story. Everything is back to front and potentially spread over more than one page. There is not simple well formed summary, and if you want to know what has actually happened you need to start from the end and work your way back through swathes of opinions, random comments from people who know less than you do and hot takes. sigh
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yes yes yes!
I have the same damn issue when reading sky news live reporting.. a court trial.. i get to read the information that is a continuation from the article below before i ge to the article below constant up and down, wearing out my mouse. Just give me some structure that make sense, give me an option to remove non important articles.
Oh and when they give me a headline about some story.. make sure that when i click it .. it is not 2 miles down the page.. and when i get there.. it tells me that it will be in tomorrows newsletter or some bullshit.
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Could rename the Brentford postgame thread with the same title as this thread.
Moaning central!
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It makes me not so grumpy, but vaguely depressed, when Facebook, Google Photos or whatever else shows me old photos of cats, dogs, people or whatever else that is no longer with us.
We have lost two cats this year. One went missing in July and the other died last week. Facebook now put up an image of the missing one as a kitten two year ago. Well, thanks for the reminder. She was probably squashed flat by a truck a couple of months ago.
Then Google photos put a montage that it described as “cuddles and purrs”. It concentrated on our surviving cat who is neither cuddly or purry. He is a cantankerous old twat who bites people for fun.
The worst one was a picture of me with the “red whippet” (my avatar) who died a couple of year ago. Facebook showed me a picture of the dog from 14 years ago and encouraged me to post a picture to make a “now and then” posting. It’s a dog, you fucking halfwits. Use your bleeding brain and determine what has gone on in that time. Or do they expect me to post a matching picture of the plot in the back garden where he is buried?
I think I’ll stop looking at my phone and go off for a cry.
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