Ghost town syndrome.

[Doclector]

Hi, I'm Doclector. You may remember me from such hits as "I can't fucking sleep. Again", "How do I human?" and my personal favourite "Yalalala, my brain's broke, You're all items of fast food". Today, I'm here to talk about a subject that may have touched all our lives at some point. I'm here to talk about ghost town syndrome.

Now I know what you're doing. You're hovering over that google search bar, trying to search it up. Don't. I made it up. I only just named it. Focus man! Back to me.

Now, y'know that bit in a movie, maybe a western, where the leads go to a place, say, a ghost town, and they say "It's quiet. Too quiet." That's what it's about. See, modern life is full of pitfalls. You're running out of money, your work isn't going well, literally everyone except you is getting laid, that kind of thing.

Then there's those times when nothing immediate is going wrong. And you can't quite handle it. You're used to constant conflict and struggle. The absence of it is unsettling, and before you know it, your mind is making up stuff for you to worry about. What if your game store reward card suddenly becomes invalid? That slight twinge? Cancer. Totally cancer. Your pc seems a little slow to start today, doesn't it? I'd give it a week before catastrophic failure. And that desk over there? Seems a little hostile doesn't it? Not like it's coming to eat you, though. Right? Oh wait. The fucking desk is alive. It's coming to eat you. WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU GONNA DO!? THE FUCKING DESK WANTS TO FUCKING EAT YOU!

Ahem. It's annoying.

So, have you, or do you currently have ghost town syndrome? Let us support each other, and talk about it, perhaps give each other remedies to it.

I've been Doclector. Thanks for listening, and remember, I talk about unimportant stuff so you can delay your return to one of our many gender wars.

 

[Generalissimo]

i know that feel, bro. it's summer holiday. all my friends have 3 women chasing after them, i have no luck of finding a temp job. and i live in a pineapple under the sea.

sorry.

i live in a quiet suburb in a backwater town in the middle of friggin' no-where

so yes, i do have GTS. quite badly

 

[aba1]

I get like that on occasion but I only have to remind myself how well things are going for myself and I find myself fairly well centered again.

 

[RedLister]

My life in a nutshell son. In the Uk there are a few towns which litrally are ghost towns and everything is an uphill struggle. Paid work? AHAHAHAHAHA your having a laugh! it's all done by workfare (unpaid slave labour which employers don't have to pay a penny for with insanely tiny chances of the person forced to go on it actually getting a job at the end of it)

Isn't really that which gets me. What gets me is the fact that half my town are jobless and in constant fear of poverty pimps such as G4S (check out there botching up of failing to meet olympic security numbers and they still want the 57million quid fee to supply them) serco, avanta and many more hunting for fresh new free labour to hand to tight fisted employers who want something for nothing. They run my town sadly.

Being chased by women? AHAHAHAHA most of them can't chase me because there pushing a bloody baby pram...scary thing is they barely look a year out of school or there just on there way to one of the 100s of fast food joints in my town centre. I like to gorge on a good fish and chips like the next person but cmon there is too much fast food in my town!

I will bid farewell my xbox 360 is giving me funny looks and some angry blokes from some of the chippies are calling because i dissed the ammount of fast food joints around.

Captcha: Get over it.....wonder if captcha knows saying that often makes the situation worse and may or may not result in a good smack to the gob.

 

[MammothBlade]

Being chased by women? AHAHAHAHA most of them can't chase me because there pushing a bloody baby pram...scary thing is they barely look a year out of school or there just on there way to one of the 100s of fast food joints in my town centre. I like to gorge on a good fish and chips like the next person but cmon there is too much fast food in my town!

I will bid farewell my xbox 360 is giving me funny looks and some angry blokes from some of the chippies are calling because i dissed the ammount of fast food joints around.

Captcha: Get over it.....wonder if captcha knows saying that often makes the situation worse and may or may not result in a good smack to the gob.

What, did you write to the paper about it or something? Or called a town meeting?

Needless to say it's the same here. There are more takeaways than people. The whole town is like one big grease factory. Such an eyesore, the rows of shops are ugly as it is.

 

[RedLister]

Being chased by women? AHAHAHAHA most of them can't chase me because there pushing a bloody baby pram...scary thing is they barely look a year out of school or there just on there way to one of the 100s of fast food joints in my town centre. I like to gorge on a good fish and chips like the next person but cmon there is too much fast food in my town!

I will bid farewell my xbox 360 is giving me funny looks and some angry blokes from some of the chippies are calling because i dissed the ammount of fast food joints around.

Captcha: Get over it.....wonder if captcha knows saying that often makes the situation worse and may or may not result in a good smack to the gob.

What, did you write to the paper about it or something? Or called a town meeting?

Needless to say it's the same here. There are more takeaways than people. The whole town is like one big grease factory. Such an eyesore, the rows of shops are ugly as it is.

Nah many people living here already beat me too it. Although coincidence you asked because i looked in me local today and there was another writing about the lack of variety in shopping. Having our 5th tesco built and a burger king slaped here too despite mass public protest. You see our council don't listen to the people it serves. Just likes getting sneaky brown envelopes under the desk.

 

[Hero in a half shell]

My life in a nutshell son. In the Uk there are a few towns which litrally are ghost towns and everything is an uphill struggle. Paid work? AHAHAHAHAHA your having a laugh! it's all done by workfare (unpaid slave labour which employers don't have to pay a penny for with insanely tiny chances of the person forced to go on it actually getting a job at the end of it)

Isn't really that which gets me. What gets me is the fact that half my town are jobless and in constant fear of poverty pimps such as G4S (check out there botching up of failing to meet olympic security numbers and they still want the 57million quid fee to supply them) serco, avanta and many more hunting for fresh new free labour to hand to tight fisted employers who want something for nothing. They run my town sadly.

As someone who has spent the last 5 weeks filling out paperwork, police check forms and attending interviews so he can have 8 weeks work experience with no prospect of a job after it

Nah many people living here already beat me too it. Although coincidence you asked because i looked in me local today and there was another writing about the lack of variety in shopping. Having our 5th tesco built and a burger king slaped here too despite mass public protest. You see our council don't listen to the people it serves. Just likes getting sneaky brown envelopes under the desk.

Hilariously enough, I'm trying to get a job in the planning industry, and I can tell you for a fact that the only places that are actually hiring in the whole planning system are the companies that specialise in taking on those Supermarket chainstore applications and pushing them through by any means necessary. It's an absolute shambles, and I'm stuck in the middle of it. [small]Yay![/small]

But who cares, because tonight I'm going to watch a man dressed up like a flying mammal fight crime. Hurrah Escapism!

 

[Guffe]

For me it's the TV.
I swear to god that thing is haunting me!
And remember, always look up, IT'S ALWAYS ABOVE YOU!

Captcha: creepy crawler... I'm not going to sleep tonight!

 

[Shadowsetzer]

Then there's those times when nothing immediate is going wrong. And you can't quite handle it.

Start of June... Hurray, summer holiday! Oh no, have to go somewhere to prepare for an internship. Hurray, summer holiday! Oh no, I have to refine an essay. Hurray, summer holiday! Two weeks later. Gamepc crashes. SSD broken. One week later. That's this morning. Gamepc is back! It works! Oh no, all kinds of weird lines. Buys new cable. It properly works! That's *now*. I'm just testing out Napoleon Total War. Hope it keeps working...

You just jinxed it. Bets on which part of the computer breaks now?

 

[Dectomax]

Well, in another two months my stint in the Navy ( Royal Marines ) comes to an end and I'm unsure whether or not to stay on or leave. It's kind of daunting thinking about coming back to civvi life because I don't have the faintest clue where to start!

 

[Doclector]

Then there's those times when nothing immediate is going wrong. And you can't quite handle it.

Start of June... Hurray, summer holiday! Oh no, have to go somewhere to prepare for an internship. Hurray, summer holiday! Oh no, I have to refine an essay. Hurray, summer holiday! Two weeks later. Gamepc crashes. SSD broken. One week later. That's this morning. Gamepc is back! It works! Oh no, all kinds of weird lines. Buys new cable. It properly works! That's *now*. I'm just testing out Napoleon Total War. Hope it keeps working...

You just jinxed it. Bets on which part of the computer breaks now?

Its very soul.

The effects of things being "too quiet" continue. I had wierd dreams last night, consisting of something to do with all the SCPs escaping, chasing after a stolen chocolate cake, and a family turning to dolls and then the daughter turning to nothing while saying "I feeeeel straaaange".

Then this morning I played timesplitters two for the first time in ages and went into a strange blood rage over the fact that there are some arcade league/challenge levels I will simply never complete.

 

[s0p0g]

actually, i kind of enjoy the few calm days that there are - you know that shit WILL hit the fan sooner or later, so don't force anything, don't challenge anything, just let it flooow naturally, and it'll be just fine. and go to hell, again, as it has done so many times, BUT: let it all go to hell without my help - my hands are clean

cheers!

captcha says: case closed - eeyup, couldn't possibly put it any better

 

[thiosk]

This seems like the plight of the modern man. I count my blessings every day. I don't get paid much, but I get paid to do exactly what I love to do: nanotechnology. And the hot female grad students throw themselves at me. For science, not for booty time, but thats ok because I'm already married.