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CXRAndy

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I had meals with friends and family at several Michelin star restaurants Sat Bains in Nottingham, Grovesnor hotel in Chester, few places in London.

The nicest by far was Andrew Fairlie at Glen Eagles when we stayed over Christmas and New Year one time.

Lovely food, need a mortgage deposit to eat

Worth it for the experience
 

laurentian

Member
I had the misfortune of going to our local 5 star hotel for afternoon tea last weekend, if I'd asked a waiter there for a recommendation they'd have probably said McDonalds or KFC.

Yeah, I only employ this method when overseas . . .
 
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briantrumpet

briantrumpet

Squire
WTAF?

No. She's dead. Ditto all dead people. That's kinda the point.

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Is this some AI offering? Either way an alarming number of people would use it. Imagine you've lost a child or a spouse or a pet, or a parent? How different is it from watching videos of them? Probably would cause more long term psychological damage, I'll grant you.
 
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briantrumpet

briantrumpet

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Is this some AI offering? Either way an alarming number of people would use it. Imagine you've lost a child or a spouse or a pet, or a parent? How different is it from watching videos of them? Probably would cause more long term psychological damage, I'll grant you.

I think that answers itself with minimal thought.

Struth, we're already rubbish enough in Western society at dealing with death, let's not pretend even more than the "passed away", "passed", "slipped away", "Went to sleep" euphemisms. FFS. "Dead" and "died" are the words.

The human emotion of grief has evolved with the human brain to help make sense of losing people you can't imagine not having around, and to deny that emotion would be as destructive as denying happiness or any other emotion: it's part of what makes us human, however hard it is to deal with.

If you can bear a Shakespeare sonnet...

When to the sessions of sweet silent thought
I summon up remembrance of things past,
I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought,
And with old woes new wail my dear time's waste:
Then can I drown an eye, unus'd to flow,
For precious friends hid in death's dateless night,
And weep afresh love's long since cancell'd woe,
And moan th' expense of many a vanish'd sight;
Then can I grieve at grievances foregone,
And heavily from woe to woe tell o'er
The sad account of fore-bemoaned moan,
Which I new pay as if not paid before.
But if the while I think on thee, dear friend,
All losses are restor'd, and sorrows end.
 
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Ian H

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Nope. Can't stand a Shakespearian sonnet. Or any sonnet. Just talk normally.

You don't know what you're missing; and probably won't unless you read [any poetry] aloud.
 
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briantrumpet

briantrumpet

Squire
I have actually been through education, you know. Hard to believe, but at the end of it I made my own mind up about some stuff.

It does depend how it's read too. I still find this wonderful each time, how the sentiment flips, and how brilliantly Dench captures it. Even if you don't like poetry, or specifically sonnets, it's worth a couple of minutes of your time, I think.

 
Perhaps you were told as a child that you'd not get pudding if you didn't eat up your sonnets.
I think I developed a strong aversion at a young age to things that I ought or should. Including, inter alia, church, sprouts, some art, some music, some literature, some sports, some hobbies. Pretty much any opinion that hasn't been solicited, basically.
 

Ian H

Squire
I think I developed a strong aversion at a young age to things that I ought or should. Including, inter alia, church, sprouts, some art, some music, some literature, some sports, some hobbies. Pretty much any opinion that hasn't been solicited, basically.

Prejudices are never rational.
 
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