u/Only_Book_995

Does England have myth stories / folk tales akin to the more famous Greek or Norse tales? Can you give some examples?

Perhaps "professional" is the wrong word but I can't think of another and it's meant in the most positive way.

I work in healthcare (as well as being an aviation enthusiast) and pilot working methods, specifically CRM, is often held up to us as the gold standard that we should be aiming for when it comes to how we work together, communicate, and come to decisions.

The view we are given is that pilots are rigorously professional in their work, specifically:

\- the use of checklists and established SOPs with few occasions of "just doing what you feel is right" (eg: a flight crew wouldn't depart from an SOP because it takes too long/they feel they know best)

\- the communication between flight crew is calm, professional, sterile (where indicated) and pilots are able to separate their own feelings from the job at hand (eg: you truly can work alongside and trust a pilot you haven't worked with before knowing they will meet high standards).

\- the training provided is adequate and the companies truly do ensure that pilots are given the training and operational freedom to prioritise safety over other short-term considerations (eg: in healthcare training/refreshers are regularly cancelled because of operational demands and managers often treat it as an inconvenience that is only given lip-service)

I'm really curious a) how accurate this is, and b) if it either is or isn't, are you able to give me some (anonymous) examples of that?

Thanks!

Does anyone have any experience of working as a 111 clinical advisor?

My cat needs some investigations and I have Admiral lifetime platinum insurance. Has anyone claimed on it before? How much did it increase your premium on renewal?

These tests could potentially run into 4 figures and I feel that’s what insurance is for but at the same time don’t want to shoot myself in the foot.

My cat needs some investigations and I have Admiral lifetime platinum insurance. Has anyone claimed on it before? How much did it increase your premium on renewal?

These tests could potentially run into 4 figures and I feel that’s what insurance is for but at the same time don’t want to shoot myself in the foot.

What’s the best bits of kit to make a WSM smoker as “set and forget” as possible?

Would you recommend vs other Japanese / Asian restaurants?

Can anyone recommend a good Japanese restaurant near (or near-ish) to Kings Cross?

My cat is currently having diarrhoea with blood. It’s been going on about 4 weeks. Stool sample is negative so we’re trying a 6 week diet restriction. The current theory is he’s intolerant to something in his food that he’s been on for 2.5 months. The other is possibly an underlying bowel condition. Does anyone have any experience of a cat developing an intolerance after that length of time or of being diagnosed with a chronic bowel issue?

I’m looking for a cleaner, once a fortnight. Can anyone recommend someone? Ellesmere Port / Eastham area. Thanks.

Has anyone had any experience with using EMDR? If you’re in the UK can you recommend a therapist?

I’m currently growing lots of things which are potentially toxic to my cat (potatoes, onions, leeks, etc). I’ve kept them covered by netting until now but they’re getting big and I want / need to remove it. My cat does eat grass a lot and I’m worried that he might inadvertently eat one of them.

I wondered how often in reality people have had this happen?

Settle a debate for me, and I recognise this might just come down to your view on “Britishness vs nationalism but…..If I’m born and bred in one of the 4 nations of the UK (but genetically are a mix) are the other 3 as much “my country” as the first?

Can someone from Lanarkshire lay as much “claim” to Devon as Dumbartonshire?

To clarify I’m not suggesting that someone born and bred in Scotland can claim to be Welsh but I feel they can still see it as part of their country.

For context, my partner and I (they aren’t British) recently travelled to another part of the UK and I commented that because of the rise of an English/Welsh/Scottish mindset in each of the 3 countries I had to keep reminding myself that this was still “my country” as much as my home nation was (and im proud to think that) to which they looked at my perplexed and said “of course this isn’t your country”.

It’s a great failing of mine but I need a book to grab me in the first five pages or I quickly lose interest (Thursday Murder Club being the latest failure in that regard).

Can anyone recommend good murder mysteries or thrillers that don’t take five chapters to get to the point?

I love Forsyth and wondered who else you’d recommend as being similar?

Has anyone found a fly spray that’s safe around cats? I bought one from Amazon that claimed to be but actually had toxic oils in it.

Reading The Final Problem I’m always struck by the line about “the word is passed to Prof Moriarty and the matter is organised and carried out”. Holmes seems to suggest that M is the criminal version of himself. That is, he doesn’t decide on the crimes himself he is asked to carry them out by clients much as Holmes solves crimes brought to him by others.

Just to clarify I’m not suggesting he isn’t a genius I’m just wondering if he decides what crimes to do or if he is a “consulting-criminal” for others eg: someone came to him and said “rob the gold from this bank and I’ll pay you a %”. He’s still the Napoleon of crime because no one else can do the crimes he can.

I’m 40 soon and I want to know what are some changes I should make now / habits I should get into now that will make my later years easier / better?

As Dara O’Briain said "nostalgia is heroin for old people."

In general, in the west, life is great. There are problems but we have also solved so many problems that plagued people even 2 generations back.

Most of all, constant nostalgia, negativity, and doom-mongering doesn’t make things any better, it doesn’t make anyone feel any better and it makes people exhausting to be around.