charlytune

charlytune , 6 months ago to world in Britain’s Home Secretary apologizes for joke about spiking his wife’s drink with date-rape drug

Plenty of people have been spiked by a partner in exactly this way. It’s not a funny joke. Someone making this kind of joke and thinking it’s acceptable is shitty. Someone who’s a leading politician, in a job responsible for crime and justice, at a political function in a government venue, telling this joke to a group of women… The unacceptable is off the charts there. I seriously worry about someone with that lack of judgement and humanity being in a job like that. Criticising and holding people in power to account for their actions is not 'cancel culture '.

charlytune , 6 months ago to asklemmy in What are you having for dinner tonight?

Fried trout fillets, potatoes, broccoli and green beans, with lemon, butter and some hot sauce. Chestnuts for afters. And half a bottle of Baileys.

charlytune , 6 months ago to world in Hermes billionaire to leave £5bn to former gardener

Read this as Hamas billionaire and was very confused.

charlytune , 6 months ago to world in Malaysia bans Israeli owned and linked shipping citing ‘cruelty against the Palestinian people’

What are you talking about? Anti-Semitism is rife in lots of the middle east. The protocols of the elders of Zion are still circulated as fact. And Malaysia isn’t in the middle east?

charlytune , 6 months ago to asklemmy in What's the biggest "Green Flag" that could be misinterpreted as a "Red Flag"?

That’s beyond insulting, I’d call that a controlling / abusive relationship. And if his wife seriously thinks he’s a risk to their child why the fuck would she have a baby with him and stay with him? That poor kid is going to grow up with a really damaging view of men, male / female relationships, and parental relationships.

charlytune , 6 months ago to asklemmy in People Who Don't Wear Deodorant or Seemingly Bathe Regularly, Why?

I was brought up before showers were something that most people had installed, and we just washed at the sink with a flannel cloth. We washed face, pits, bum, and feet twice a day, and only had a bath once or twice a week. I still just do a wash of the important bits at the sink with a cloth if I’m feeling very apathetic.

charlytune , 6 months ago to asklemmy in Whats your such opinion

That doesn’t stop an absolute fuck ton of people believing in it. One of my friends is quite deeply into it, she’s in FB groups about it, and decides what everyone’s type is upon meeting them. According to her I only think it’s nonsense because I’ve only done the free online tests, not the proper one. She wouldn’t listen the other day when I tried to put her right about flouride in the water, either.

charlytune , 6 months ago to asklemmy in is there a limit to the point that i will find women attractive?

Wait, 30 is middle aged??

charlytune , 6 months ago to asklemmy in Whats your such opinion

Myers Briggs is posh astrology.

charlytune , 6 months ago to asklemmy in What are your hidden gem medications/drugs/substances and what makes them ideal for your usecase

So most contraception is a combo of oestrogen and progesterone (but there’s also oestrogen only and progesterone only). Oestrogen is also the main hormone used to alleviate the symptoms of menopause, but you have to have progesterone on top of that to protect you from womb cancer (if you still have a womb).

Interestingly I struggled all my adult life trying to find hormonal contraception that didn’t make my emotions out of control and spiral into destructive depression, and I gave up in the end. It happened again on my first go on HRT. After getting some professional advice I discovered that that’s a known effect of the type of progesterone used in the most widely prescribed (ie cheapest) contraception and HRT. As soon as I was switched onto the micronised bio-identical progesterone it was like a dream, I felt normal. Not one doctor in all those years of trying different forms of contraception mentioned it could be the progesterone - maybe they didn’t know? There definitely seems to be a scary lack of understanding about hormones that’s for sure.

Testosterone in the UK isn’t widely prescribed, on the NHS you can only get it through a specialist clinic, or you have to go private like I did (it cost me £185 for the appointment, and £90 for the prescription for 6 months).

The hormone doses that are prescribed in HRT are not the same amount as our natural levels have dropped by, really the ‘R’ in HRT is misleading as what is prescribed doesn’t replace what we’ve lost, it just gives a little top up to lessen the symptoms.

charlytune , 6 months ago to asklemmy in What are your hidden gem medications/drugs/substances and what makes them ideal for your usecase

Sorted

charlytune , 6 months ago to asklemmy in What are your hidden gem medications/drugs/substances and what makes them ideal for your usecase

Sure I’ll have a go!

Edit - hope that’s better?

charlytune , 6 months ago (edited 6 months ago) to asklemmy in What are your hidden gem medications/drugs/substances and what makes them ideal for your usecase

Testosterone

I’d tried a few different combinations of HRT (for menopause), and was doing ok ish on oestrogen patches and micronised progesterone capsules. But I still felt like a shadow of myself, a barely functioning husk.

I ended up paying privately to see a menopause specialist (after finding out the waiting time for the NHS clinic I was referred to was at least a year and a half - just for my referral to get looked at), and she prescribed me testosterone. Within 48 hours I noticed a huge difference, I felt like I’d recovered a huge chunk of my energy and my personality.

It makes me furious that it’s so hard to get. I’m not sure what state my mental health would be in if I hadn’t been able to get it. I was definitely looking at having to cut hours in work to be able to cope, and that would have had a big financial impact on me.

And so many people I speak to - including women - are confused about why testosterone would help, there’s so much misunderstanding about hormones, they don’t know that women have testosterone and men have oestrogen. My aunt asked me whether it would reverse the menopause and I was just like er what… How would that even work?

charlytune , 6 months ago to nostupidquestions in What are some common everyday examples of this phenomenon? (see body)

That sounds very wrong. And probably dangerous.

charlytune , 6 months ago to asklemmy in What is the profession you wouldn't work, even for a day and even if paid your weight in gold?

I mean I’m very flattered that you think that me joining the police would revolutionise it but… No. That’s not how change happens. Otherwise it would have already happened. I’m sorry my decision to turn down a fictional offer of joining the police offends / upsets you.