Why think about social stigma? Look at the way Sherlock sees it: " I don't care what people think"
The most important thing is that you gain liberty and independence with a bike however it looks. With a tricycle or something similar you can't fall. It's up to you to seek emanzipation from your mother and overcome your mental blockage.
I know it is easier to say than to do. You can see it as a challenge and try to do it in little steps. Give yourself little rewards if you do it.
Imagine fighting a dangerous dragon and be a dragon slayer...

My experience is that there is always a way to get what you want if you really want it and are prepared to do what is needed to get it. For exampe have a look at internet auctions. I just found several used tricycles on  offer starting with under 6 € up to 300€ or more. You can also buy suport wheels or stabilisers and put them on a cheap used bike.
You get what I try to say.

Be wrote:

Did it occur to you that we almost stopped to discuss the plot of series 3 already? And it is only three months after the original airdate in the U.K.
Fans talk about clothes, songs, movies, Mr. Cumberbatch's outfit...
Some months onwards we might have to dust the frames on our new banner.
Somebody should toss some stones into the fan's lake...

 
Belated adding reply to this anymore, but -did- like the comment you made!  Mixed opinions, like others said, and even besides that, wouldn't there be only so much you can re-hash before people move on?  Then maybe come back to it later…  Who knows.


In unrelated, random chatter, I was just wondering if the general consensus of you were aware/concerned/unconcerned about the whole Heartbleed online bug thing that's been talked about more lately?  Apparently existed for some time undetected until finally realized the security flaw with people's info at risk, and recommended to change your passwords.  I'm honestly not too worried, but probably just change passwords on sites that actually have any more personal info, since a good idea to do that once in a while anyhow, if some of you haven't in some time (and by now the majority of them would have patched their servers).  Just wondering.

(Aw, and good luck, Phantom!)

Hey, didn't use this thread yet.
Am I right, that it is for general talking?
If not, please let me know.

About that SSL-exploit, I am quite annoyed. Changing passwords again, at least for the most important accounts... bla... I have way TOO many accounts to change everything...
Silly stupid developers . I wonder what the bug was in code...

Smaug is on his way to me, this time it is trackable, the first Hobbit got lost and I had to wait a week until Amazon sent it again... not quite nice, if you preorder to have it at the release date...

I recently rewatched the first Hobbit in English... I wonder, I read Ben speaks the Necromancer... does he even speak in the first part???

Hey!  So I'm not sure if you should be too worried.  On the one hand, it's getting a ton of news since it's finally been discovered (after apparently existing for a couple years), and it possibly (but possibly not) affected your personal info.  Here's an article:
http://www.bostonglobe.com/business/2014/04/09/heartbleed-scare-bad-sounds/4KGq7KIffclo5Y4Eo80YTJ/story.html

Basically it lets a hacker exploit access to sites that use an OpenSSL server, grabbing a chunk of it's memory.  What's on that memory at any given time, who knows.  Might have included important stuff, might not.  That's why they're recommending you change your passwords to sites you have sensitive info on.  And by now, most places have implemented the patch.  There's even a handy tool to see if the sites you use are still affected:  http://filippo.io/Heartbleed/   Me, I'm just going to change my amazon, ebay, banking, etc password and leave it at that… haven't noticed anything wrong.

I know that problem. My therapist needed three or four meetings to figure out why I was visiting her, because I was always "happy" and smiling....
Same with doctors. Have terrible migraines at home at nights, it really drives me crazy and sometimes I want to jump from a high building just to make that pain stop. But the next day at the doctor: Smiling........ Well, I am fine again then. 

This Is The Phantom Lady wrote:

I know the discs are soft tissue, but I figured you might be able to tell if the gap between the bone is too small or something... but I don't know... 

You are quite right. Sometimes you can have a good incling from the X-ray. It often doesn't answer all the questions though.

This Is The Phantom Lady wrote:

I do know I have to make myself admit to my doctor how much pain I am really in... I have a bad habit of pretending everything is just peachy; the more pain I'm in, the wider I'll smile in public and that's the mistake I did last time I saw him. That's the downside to being into acting... not being able to switch it off! Like when he poked my spine where it's worst I actually giggled. (Well I did tell him it was like being stabbed with a knife). I've been like that ever since I was a little girl..

You don't make it easy for you doctor do you. I try to make it as easy as possible for people and ask them to rate their pain rather than try to judge it by the outside signs as some people are more stoical then others. The more open you can be though the easier it is to provide a best treatment.
I hope your appoitment goes well tomorrow.

 

This Is The Phantom Lady wrote:

I am a terrible patient! Sorry! I'll try to be open with my doctor... I actually trust this man, even if I've only met him once... but I feel I have faith in him

 
There is no need to be sorry. If everyone was a model patient the job would be boring.  Many of my patients don't tell me what's going on because they can't or don't want to. The detective part of trying to figure things out makes an interesting challenge. I can sort things out much quicker though if I get more info. It's a two way street though. It's my job to help patients trust me. Sounds like your doctor managed to get that therapeutic relationship going from the outset.

Watched a film at "ARD" (1st German channel) http://www.ardmediathek.de/das-erste/fernsehfilme-im-ersten/frauchen-und-die-deiwelsmilch?documentId=20725638 yesterday...
It is funny that they are using onscreen-stuff when she is using the computer and "magically" finds everything... Reminds me of something ^^ bloody theifs

Well yes, you got a point...
I heard of that movie before it was shown, because basicaly I like her, maybe because of the accent, because my mother origins from an area where it is similar to that...
She did really well, but the onscreen thing was bit strange...