“I’ve still got the greatest enthusiasm and confidence in the mission.” 
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I actually said that in a team meeting once.
Nobody got the reference and they all agreed with me. I smiled outwardly, but was crushed on the inside.
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Did they let you replace the AE-35 unit or did you wait to see if it would fail?
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It’s a little early and I’m feeling a bit more absolutist than I will do by lunchtime.
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Actually, I agree with everything you’ve said, @Ancient_Mariner in your previous post. Yes people can say what they want BUT it is highly inadvisable in my view.
I’ve been too hard on Abhietengg. He/she is clearly trapped in a scam farm in Laos. Or maybe his sister needs a kidney. Or an iPhone 17.
Abhietengg, this is a safe space for you to engage in a way that resonates. We’re here to listen.
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No, I think you’re right.
In my experience, wanting to share that sort of thing in an open forum is a sign that you need to be protected from your own instincts.
We can’t always achieve that, but we can at least warn the vulnerable that such sharing is not a good idea.
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100% agree AM.
Doesn’t everyone suck up to Porridge ? 
. It’s probably integrated into all AI databases to do that now. And rightly so, of course
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You’re American, right ?
That is, if you’re not AI-generated.
For the cogent sane protective reasons others have said, this kind of sharing might work somewhere like America eg California, but this forum is unlikely to be a cultural fit for this kind of approach.
There may be other sites or perhaps Facebook where you might get whatever you are looking for.
I hadn’t noticed anything special 
(I missed your comment earlier.) My views are invariably treated with respect and admiration for my general acuity.
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I got fed up with ChatGPT’s personal responses. “Great question” “Ah — that’s a sharp, insightful observation” etc. So, I asked the following:
“When you respond to my questions, I’d prefer that you answer in a non-personal way, as a machine, which is what you are. I don’t need your congratulations for asking a pertinent question for example. Just rate my question as important or pertinent, or however you consider its worth. I’m ok with that. But I don’t want a personal relationship with ChatGPT”.
Answer: “Understood. Future responses will be impersonal, objective, and without personal remarks”.
And it does now, as promised.
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Indeed.
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I use a spoon.
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Chris you are right. Everyone here should be wary. Sad world now. And for the others also right. Therapy-speak drives me mad. What happened to normal kindness ?
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Although a lovely and lively forum - it is certainly not the place to write openly about one’s loneliness or feelings of loss be it animal, vegetable or mineral. For those who have lost a spouse there are some excellent - and very sympathetic sites for UK ex-pats living in france, with posters who have all suffered the same loss. All the posters are hugely sympathetic about loss, with all the other problems and life changing decisions that such a loss involves. Google search - but this is not the forum for such open discussion.
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To be fair no-one has shown you anything but sympathy for your loss.
Where eyebrows have been raised it is your other posts - such as accusing us of being a bunch of radical, racist, biased, lefty, liberals who need to get out of our Guardian reading bubble.
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I mean to, when I have time, to respond properly to all those who were - indeed - very sympathetic about my loss. I was touched by the kindness and sympathy - and I admit I should have responded to those kind words much earlier. I’m ‘butterflying’ at the moment with a lot on my plate, having posted my rather inflammatory post - which covered several points. I type much too fast, and sometimes my typing finge4rs overtake my brain.
But I ‘m not really sure I accused everyone on here in the terms you have described - my comments may well have been regarded as robust, forthright- whatever - but if I actually accused any one in those terms - then I’ve obviously been too forthright even for my own good. But obviously struck a chord !!! - when someone writes they haven’t seen ‘any’ of the social media video’s or hasn’t read about the spat over the comments about the Oxford Union president over the assassination of Kirk - or the vile, utterly vile, display by some 2-bit rock group - among very many ‘hate’ incidents - then maybe my comments are justified. If there is no awareness of what’s happened - then maybe, just maybe….. ‘bubble’ might not be an incorrect comment.
Chat later - and oh I wish I had flown in - Concorde…
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You can always pop up to the museum at Le Bourget, Paris and sit in one.
Having flown in just about every other commercial plane my mum was keen to go on Concorde, but balked at the ticket price. So we just went to Duxford to see one when taken out of commission. And she satisfied herself by having a go driving a double decker bus instead.
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My stepfather had 96(?) page UK passports because he did so much travelling on full page business visas, but had never flown on Concorde until his retirement present, which was a Concorde flight for him and my mother.
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