Heeee the chaps at work call me Mr Noel.

( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Tue 5 Oct 2010, 20:10, 2 replies, latest was 15 years ago)

Really?
Also, I had a weird counseling technique tried out on me today. I failed miserably. It was almost entertaining if I wasn't panicking.
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Tue 5 Oct 2010, 20:11, Reply)

I'm intrigued.

( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Tue 5 Oct 2010, 20:15, Reply)

He made me tap my hand on the table in a rhythmical manner
and speak without sentence structure or whatever, just freely, and he'd see what I said and what it meant.

As I said, it's interesting, but impossible :/
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Tue 5 Oct 2010, 20:18, Reply)

Isn't that CBT?

( girlinthehole, Tue 5 Oct 2010, 20:20, Reply)

Most likely

( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Tue 5 Oct 2010, 20:20, Reply)

In a sort of Basil Brush way?

( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Tue 5 Oct 2010, 20:13, Reply)

Nah, in a traditional Pakistani way.

( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Tue 5 Oct 2010, 20:14, Reply)

Ah, the "It aint half hot mum" situation.
Just respond by moving your head in a mysterious way.
( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Tue 5 Oct 2010, 20:20, Reply)

I actually do that.
I've spent the past three years in an office with these guys, you pick up stuff. I generally get the gist of what they're talking about when they're speaking Urdu, and I know some key phrases without having learned any.
( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Tue 5 Oct 2010, 20:28, Reply)