charlytune

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Yes. I'd just say "you know how the Courts have the power to do X, and decide Y? Well the government decided to devolve those powers to an independent office, so that people didn't have to pay for lawyers and deal with complicated legal processes. I work in that office making the Y decisions."

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Wool ball filled cushion pads. They're really plump, and just the right level of firmness, so much nicer than synthetic or feather. Each pay day I'm ordering a couple, and gradually my sofa is turning into a cosy nest.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Oh wow, TIL. Yeah I am not a fan of them. Urgh.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Oh no, someone who writes about gardening!! In a magazine for the elderly!!Look, it was just the first article I could find while I was in the middle of baking, that wasn't an American health and wellbeing website. I'm not American so I don't know those websites and I don't know what they all are. I just wanted to help the person I was replying to. The article links to the charity that has done loads of research into it. Yes I could have found a better link and fucking hell I wish I hadn't bothered even commenting now.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Yeah that's my phone autocorrecting. I'm not sure why anyone would think I meant 'restrain', but oh well. I'll edit, thanks for pointing it out.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

I only realised I'd lost my smell completely when I smelled some perfume and thought it must be off, because it smelled of nothing. Then I realised that my other perfumes were 'off', and then went around my home smelling random things and finally realised it was me. I think it was the effect on my taste that was the hardest thing though. Onions and garlic especially made everything taste horrible.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago

Thank you. I should have realised that it needed more of an explanation. Shame that people don't engage their brains before a trigger finger downvote in a science thread though.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (17 children)

Apologies if you've already tried this or something similar, it doesn't work for everyone, but I got mine back by using essential oils to retrain [edited as my phone autocorrected to 'restrain'] my olfactory system. After over a year of my food tasting like trash, or like it was off, and a dangerous incident (with a trip to A&E) where my brain fog meant I left an unlit gas oven on all night and couldn't smell it until I'd already got carbon monoxide poisoning (thankfully mild and temporary), I regained my smell and taste in about a week. Here's an article about it, it links to a charity that works in the field of loss of smell : https://www.saga.co.uk/magazine/health-wellbeing/treatments/smell-training-for-anosmia

Edit: if the down votes are because people think this is alternative medicine or woo, it isn't, it's a technique used in conventional medicine clinics. Try reading before you down vote.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 7 months ago

She was a vulnerable teenager who was groomed and trafficked into a religious cult. A white girl would not have been treated like this by the law, the press and the public.

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