Here we can all be heard for a little while

calleyw

whitewing wrote: »

People will look at pretty things with pleasure, in my experience - think how much joy you would bring.

Might think I am freak

Yours

Calley

Waves_and_Smiles

There is another way of looking at that Calley, people won't be looking at you but be staring at what you holding and thinking about what their own interpretation of you is in regards to that. I have always had a problem with people looking at me and worry that they will think I am horrid or weird or both. In my late teens and early 20's I became very gothic indeed and found it made things far easier. People saw the black clothes, the white face make up, the black and blue hair but they didn't see me. I was hiding under my costume and therefore it didn't matter to me so much what others thought because they were judging an image I portrayed, not who I really was.

Birdie85

I bought a straw cloche hat a couple of years ago Calley, basically a posh baseball cap in design. How about something like that, or a trilby?

Code - I flipping love Theme Hospital! There's a chance I still play it on the odd occassion

heartbreak_star

Thank you for all the advice regarding my friend he lives a little far away for me to help with babysitting or anything on a regular basis but will definitely keep "checking in" to see how he is with calls and things

HBS x

jobbingmusician

elsien wrote: »

Quick question for the less Luddite amongst us. I have signed up for a couple of webinars. My problem is that I have very little idea of how a webinar works, and other than clicking on the link at the relevant time, how am I meant to ask questions or hear what is going on?

If you have a fairly modern computer, the camera and mic will do their own thing, and suddenly there you are, online with your pic and everything, talking to others. In theory you just click on the provided webinar link at the appointed time, and there you are - connected with rather jerky photos of yourself and others talking.

Or more likely, the webinar won't work properly (90% of those I have 'attended' haven't) and you'll end up just typing your answers, like a speeded up forum - a chat room!

There's a lovely cartoon somewhere on tinternet of how webinars (don't) work IRL - my challenge to Pyxis this morning is to find it, as she is Mistress of Pix on T'inernet (MPT) It shows people being locked out of rooms etc (cos they can't get into the webinar). Which is what tends to happen!

codemonkey

Birdie - epidemics and the vomiting bug arrrgh. Also, I don't know if its the version I have but as soon as there's an earthquake, my equipment blows up even if its just been serviced by a handyman and before I have the chance to do anything.

WaS - I was a goth too. Mainly because I loved the clothes. I'd wear corsets and long skirts and clumpy boots and my hair was black and purple. Then all the pan stick and eye makeup and black lipstick. One day I was with one of my more mainstream friends in a shop and a mother was in there with her little boy and he needed a wee. She told him to ask 'the lady' if there was a toilet and he decided I was 'the lady' so he came over to me and tugged on my skirt to get my attention. A look of horror came over her face and she ran over and scooped the boy up. I still wonder what she thought I was going to do to him. People were always terrified of some of my more alterntive male biker friends even though there were all really kind and gentle. In my experience, its the ones in suits you have to be careful of.

Much like dogs. Yesterday DA dog and me were at the park and we met a Rottweiler who was on lead. DA is usually off-lead but if we encounter an on-lead dog his lead goes on. So we're walking by and the dogs are wagging their tails and the body language is friendly so after checking its ok, we let them sniff each other and do general doggy greetings. And I was chatting to his owners and petting him (the dog, not the owner) and they were saying that they hardly ever get approached because the dog breed has a bad reputation and his dog is afraid of little dogs because they've been aggressive. Nobody is scared of a Yorkie but DA dog has been attacked by them before. Staffies and EBTs also have a fearsome reputation. One staffie owner was telling me that she'd been screamed at by a parent for walking past a school with such a dangerous dog - said 'ferocious' dog was sitting on my foot with his head against my leg, wagging his tail off and rolling on his back to get belly rubs.

codemonkey

heartbreak_star wrote: »

Thank you for all the advice regarding my friend he lives a little far away for me to help with babysitting or anything on a regular basis but will definitely keep "checking in" to see how he is with calls and things

HBS x

That sounds like a lovely thing. Sometimes it's less about babysitting and more having someone who is not judgemental to listen.

jobbingmusician

elsien - I found it! And guess what, it isn't a cartoon (sorry, Pyxis!)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYu_bGbZiiQ

Actually a conference call rather than a webinar, but you get the general idea

Georgiegirl256

Another here who used to be a goth! I loved the long skirts too code (I was forever getting them trapped in my car door!) and had black and red hair!

There was one girl we knocked around with who was a few years older than us, and before we knew her, we just knew her as 'Scary Jill'! She worked in Superdrug and had massive hair and the heaviest eye make up ever, and the first time we encountered her we were young teenagers. By the time we started going out to the rock clubs, we became friends with her, and she was the quietest and sweetest person you could ever meet. Just goes to show, it's so easy to judge someone on how they look, and how you shouldn't because you don't know them.

Pyxis

Thanks JM!

Although not the right one obviously, I did find this, which is similar!