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#956169
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Crispin Glover talks to IGN about the themes of "monetary reward" in BTTF
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Normally I would suggest requesting a thread merge but I’m not sure if it’s still possible. Besides I’d imagine that the mods have more pressing troubles. It’s essentially the same topic so could you in future keep your exciting Crispin Dry news to one of the two threads. He is an interesting guy and I have to confess to having some sympathy for the topics he raises. What with me being a raving lefty and all.

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#956089
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If you need to B*tch about something... this is the place
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I’ve known him since I was 17. He came over from India and we did our foundation art course together. The girls on the course couldn’t pronounce his name so the called him Baloo (after the Jungle Book character). Baloo is also Hindi for Bear and he wasn’t familiar enough with the Kipling story to make the connection and thought it was incredible that all these girls were calling him Bear in Hindi.
The first week we were there it snowed and he hadn’t seen snow before so he just spent the whole time in utter amazement. One day we were parked in a car when a lady friend of mine and her mum saw me in a car and came over to talk to me. When we drove off he was asking me who she was and she was asking her mum who that guy was driving me around. It wasn’t long before he was going to Russia where she worked and then they got married and had two lovely kids. Then her brother (also my friend) met my Indian friend’s sister and fell in love and got married and currently have six kids so I’m this honorary third parent to eight children.
I’ve spent the whole day with this really nasty knot in my stomach. Not knowing what’s going to happen to him and all these connected people.
Thanks for the good wishes.

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#955989
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If you need to B*tch about something... this is the place
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A very good friend of mine is currently in the intensive care unit of a hospital in India. I’ve just been talking to his wife his brother in law, one of his children and a very close mutual friend in the Czech republic, to let him know.

He had a heart attack and it’s touch and go. I talked to him before he left and he sounded really depressed and suicidal. Hopefully if he pulls through it will the sort of life changing event that will restore his life but we have 24hrs to find out.

What a morning.

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#955485
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The Place to Go for Emotional Support
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The classic pattern of an anxiety attack is one of a feedback loop. The method for breaking it is to keep trying to replace the unwanted input. It will not work all of the time but the more you try the less you will repeat the same input material. So when you get an urge to watch a theological film watch something else even if you are frantically itching to watch it. Even if your mind is desperately trying to bend the topic of what you are watching to a theological theme just accept it and carry on watching the other thing regardless. It will be difficult, it will frustrate you but if you keep doing it the pattern of inputting the output of your input will break. Even then you will have recurring anxiety but by then you will be stronger. Keep at it and keep away from the theological videos as much as possible. I really had to fight the urge to pick up a plastic bottle in the other side of a busy road today. I used to get into quite a state about picking up litter. Now I limit myself to what is at my feet and not darting from street to street in all weathers trying to pick it all up.

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#955432
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If you need to B*tch about something... this is the place
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It’s suddenly summer again so I was able to cut the grass at the front. The cat crap problem continues to vex me. It can’t be the same cat, unless it’s immortal. Now I’m bunged up with pollen. On the plus side I saw a magnificent bug. Sort red cricket thing. I’ve never seen its like before, not on this planet, wish I had my camera to hand. The bees sang to me. I love them, bees.