I wasn't running the marathon, silly.

Glad you shat out your false tooth though.  And that's a sentence that really deserves a page turn.

I genuinely didn't expect that.  What a day this has been!

Im such an idiot. Managed to upset the staff at the local salad bar, which i eat at every day. To be clear, this salad bar is super shit. There is actually zero creativity in the meals. You'll get something like chicken, lettuce, green beans, tomato, carrrot, avocado and spinach in a bowl. That's literally it. No seasoning and no sauce, except plain yoghurt with a couple of the meals. They really are some of the blandest meals i have ever had. BUT the portions are good, it's all pretty healthy, meals cost a fiver, and the takeouts dont lose quality overnight, which makes them ideal for packed lunches.

Anyway, the staff know my face well by now. And ive noticed over time that their smiles when i come in the shop are getting more pronounced. Sometimes they make jokes amongst themselves in Hebrew, and i started to find it a little unsettling. Rightly or wrongly, i got it into my head they were laughing at me. Presumably because i keep coming back and buying their shit food, even though everyone else evidently knows it's shit because im always the only one in there. I found this thought quite embarrassing. Sure i didnt know these people, but it was an ever so slight bother to think they thought i had no culinary taste whatsoever. 

So on Friday night when i placed my order and they began joking amongst themselves, i thought id try and set the record straight. I just told them the truth- that they should know i only come here so often because it's cheap and healthy, but actually the food is pretty gash. I think i bit of me thought we would all laugh along together about it, but instead they all went dead quiet and gave me some really weird looks. Basically it went down pretty badly. Ive just come back from there now for the first time since Friday and everyone's noticeably frosty toward me.

We love you Noxy but you are an idiot x

JonB wrote:

regmcfly wrote:

You know a lot the time I feel like such a charlatan, giving such faux advice without any degree and then contacting outside agencies to pass the buck. I dunno. I'm not doing this for the rest of my life.

Imposter's syndrome. The thing about it is, I read somewhere, that the people who suffer it the most are the ones who are most skilled and knowledgeable. The more qualified you get, the worse it gets. And similarly the other way - the least skilled and knowledgeable people are those that don't suffer from it. So be more worried if you always feel like you know exactly what you're doing. Unless the people who did that research had no idea what they're talking about, of course...

Good work chump. Needed that.

Did something taste off when she kissed you?

Pendulous:

https://twitter.com/ValaAfshar/status/1128836178852110337

SFW?

Clocks near each other with pendulums synchronise. It's a very strange thing.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/jul/24/portuguese-scientists-discover-why-pendulum-clocks-swing-together

Massive clocks.

Heh.

equinox_code wrote:

Im such an idiot. Managed to upset the staff at the local salad bar, which i eat at every day. To be clear, this salad bar is super shit. There is actually zero creativity in the meals. You'll get something like chicken, lettuce, green beans, tomato, carrrot, avocado and spinach in a bowl. That's literally it. No seasoning and no sauce, except plain yoghurt with a couple of the meals. They really are some of the blandest meals i have ever had. BUT the portions are good, it's all pretty healthy, meals cost a fiver, and the takeouts dont lose quality overnight, which makes them ideal for packed lunches. Anyway, the staff know my face well by now. And ive noticed over time that their smiles when i come in the shop are getting more pronounced. Sometimes they make jokes amongst themselves in Hebrew, and i started to find it a little unsettling. Rightly or wrongly, i got it into my head they were laughing at me. Presumably because i keep coming back and buying their shit food, even though everyone else evidently knows it's shit because im always the only one in there. I found this thought quite embarrassing. Sure i didnt know these people, but it was an ever so slight bother to think they thought i had no culinary taste whatsoever.  So on Friday night when i placed my order and they began joking amongst themselves, i thought id try and set the record straight. I just told them the truth- that they should know i only come here so often because it's cheap and healthy, but actually the food is pretty gash. I think i bit of me thought we would all laugh along together about it, but instead they all went dead quiet and gave me some really weird looks. Basically it went down pretty badly. Ive just come back from there now for the first time since Friday and everyone's noticeably frosty toward me.

This is fantastic. Not for Noxy obviously.

The salad days are over.

Salad of Akkad