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    How to tell someone off when they comment your behaviour?

    How you could use this in part of an explanation I don't know, but there's some cultures where looking directly in to a person's eyes is very rude and offensive. It says that you don't trust them. Some Australian Aboriginal people still live a hunter/gatherer life style and watching an animal's...
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    My memory problem

    I agree with Jonn on this. I've had instances where memories have returned with amazing clarity yet I see no reason for me to have retained those memories. The last time was when I went from being homeless to living where I am now. When I got this unit my case worker lady gave me a hug, and...
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    What’s everyone’s favorite stress decompressor Video Game?

    That sounds very much like what I look for in a game. Orchestrally sorts of sounds in the background and very little stress. The Elder Scrolls:Skyrim is what I'm getting a big kick out of at the moment. Before I started on that it was No Man's Sky.
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    Having Neurological and Gastrological Problems

    None. Nothing at all like that. I drank a bit of alcohol and smoked a lot of weed my entire life but I make no excuses for that. I wasn't 'self medicating", I do it because I enjoy it. These days it's quite rare for me to have a drink but I still smoke a fair bit of weed. My anxiety attacks...
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    Having Neurological and Gastrological Problems

    I had a very similar problem but a bit more severe. I wasn't just getting light headed and dizzy, I was passing out and collapsing. One bloke said I went down like a felled tree. On several occasions I broke bones when I hit the ground. Doctors could find nothing wrong with me and their...
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    How to tell someone off when they comment your behaviour?

    I had never seen that put in to words before, but that's a lesson I had to learn at a very young age. Never try to make excuses or apologise to a bully, that's the behaviour of a Victim. Do it even once and you'll find yourself doing it forever. I disagree with comments above about not making...
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    More Windows 11 Bad News From Microsoft

    I never had any luck with either of those programs. I think I've tried just about everything there is over the years and the only program I've consistently had a good run with is Q4Wine. I have several different wine prefixes labeled Win98, WinXP, Win7, etc, to suit the needs of different games...
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    More Windows 11 Bad News From Microsoft

    Unless you want to play online you're better off just loading your games under Wine. I can help out with things if you run in to trouble. For most games it's pretty straight forward if you have Q4Wine installed. Simply double click on the Setup.exe file or whatever it's installer is called the...
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    What do you drink when you play video games?

    It doesn't matter if I'm gaming or not, I drink a lot of coffee. And although I manage to spill it everywhere else I've never in my life spilled a drop on my keyboard.
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    How to tell someone off when they comment your behaviour?

    I usually throw things like that straight back in their faces. "You're the one complaining, I don't have a problem.". I was in the pub one night and a woman started complaining about my hair and telling me that all that hair went out of style back in the 80s. I burst out laughing. She got...
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    My memory problem

    My autism came with eidetic memory, there's very little that I forget no matter how hard I try. That said, it always fascinated me that I was able to remember so much and as a kid I experimented with it a lot. There's a few things that my brain has trouble storing, and one of those is people's...
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    What? I am on the speaker phone, oh boy.....

    It's probably illegal here now too, but some people simply have no manners or any concept of common courtesy. I have seen people kicked out of restaurants because they're too loud and obnoxious with their phones though and are disturbing other patrons. In Australia we don't normally tip but I've...
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    What? I am on the speaker phone, oh boy.....

    It's been many years since I enjoyed going out to restaurants but I used to love going to one in Melbourne, Leo's Spaghetti Bar. It was a bar and a restaurant and it ran a signal jammer - no phones or wifi inside the building. They had a huge sign out the front warning people to turn their...
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    What? I am on the speaker phone, oh boy.....

    That's something a lot of tourists do here, very annoying and very rude. Tight enclosed spaces like on public transport or in an elevator are quiet places normally, but some people are so self absorbed that they don't notice that they're the only ones making noise and everyone else is staring at...
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    Ways of cooling down an apartment without AC.

    Try looking at the world from my side. :D There's a lot I'll never understand.
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