Nick McLean

[Nick McLean @beaky1977]

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[Nick McLean @beaky1977]

@Butlins Constantly ignoring my messages is not acceptable

[Nick McLean @beaky1977]

@Butlins Still so slow in responding to messages.

[Nick McLean @beaky1977]

@Butlins You are still ignoring my complaint over 2 days with no reply, it’s unprofessional and unacceptable.

[Nick McLean @beaky1977]

@Butlins Any chance of a reply to my complaint, answered really quickly when my message involved you getting some money off me, now I have a complaint you have ignored me for over 24 hours.

[Nick McLean @beaky1977]

@stremio Hi, the website is hard to download the android tv version since you’ve made a change to the download page, the dropdown box you can’t access using the downloader app on my Google tv streamer. Any chance you can make a change?

[Stan Collymore @StanCollymore]

Suicide.

I'm choosing to be deliberately blunt and provocative in this post because it's necessary. Government, charities, football clubs are all pushing water up a hill in highlighting what is undoubtedly a major health crisis.

You take a rope.
You put it up in a garage or a tree nearby or far away.
You're thinking about every loved one you'll leave behind as you put that rope around your neck.
Then you drop.

Some are decapitated.
Some aren't.
All are found by someone who has a lifetime of trauma that will never leave them.
A son.
A daughter.
A brother.
A sister.
A mother.
A father.

I know 2 men who hung themselves.

One was found by his Mom.
One was found by his brother.
Neither have recovered fully. 20 and 30 years on.

A life sentence for people who were already worrying, terrified their loved one may do something.

So just visualise the above and ask, "is there another way"?

A segway for a moment.

I do a few Q&A's every year. Tales of yesterday with a 99% male audience of my age group.

After the stories and fun, my last question back to the audience is..

"Hands up if you struggle with a mental health issue".

Nobody ever puts a hand up. Despite 1 in every 3 of 500 attendees statistically struggling.

"Ah, nobody, that's fucking brilliant! Well I do! ". I then graphically tell people, stunned into silence about how a rope around my neck in the middle of nowhere jolted me to go home and cry like a baby to my Mom.

After the Q&A has finished, something always happens. I'll be chatting to a few guys, saying bye and one by one, men will come over and whisper " I struggle".

Or my mailbox the next day will have 30 emails from guys, their partners or kids saying " Dad/Uncle /Brother was there last night and what you said hit them hard".

And that's how some people realise that it's time to speak to a pal or family member or even rant to me in an email. It works, I often get a follow up email a year or 6 later saying that they took responsibility for their suicidal feelings and are now flying.

Humans are programmed to want to live, to have families and to keep the species growing and thriving. So for a human to want to short circuit that desire isn't normal, and it should never be spoken of as normal. It's the ultimate red flag.

If you suspect your mate, Dad, Brother, Uncle is struggling mentally, they deserve your intervention.

They deserve a " are you OK, please tell me what's up".

They deserve an opportunity to get past wanting to hang a rope over a tree or in a garage and slowly struggle until they die and you find them.

If you've been there and trust me I have plenty, then you'll know that text out of the blue, or a footie mate or one of your kids asking jow you are can open the curtains to some sunshine.

Because when suicide is your only answer, the room is already dark, and you can't see a way out.

So please, fucking pretty please, ask that husband, Dad, Uncle, Cousin, footie pal TODAY how they are.

You may be shocked what comes back but extremely glad that you asked.

For those who struggle, you're not alone.

[Nick McLean @beaky1977]

@CuckooInternet Repeatedly messaged back with my availability and your threats of charges, still waiting again over half a day now for a reply.

[Nick McLean @beaky1977]

@CuckooInternet I’ve done nothing but email, phone and message you on here. Constantly being told I would be rung back within hours and you don’t call back, having to always contact you to get any information because you are so slow. My go live was the 2nd May and you have been so slow.

[Nick McLean @beaky1977]

@CuckooInternet Stop lying, you can see from my DM that I have done everything possible and contacted you over 10 times, it is you that has caused these massive delays and you are just trying to make yourself look good on here.

[Nick McLean @beaky1977]

@CuckooInternet No it’s not and you know it’s not as you finally replied to my dm after ignoring it all weekend

[Nick McLean @beaky1977]

@CuckooInternet @WeAreOpenreach @ukgov @BenHouchen @TeesValleyCA Still nothing

[Nick McLean @beaky1977]

@CuckooInternet @OctopusEnergy Wish I’d never listened to you @OctopusEnergy, over 8 days now with no internet and looking like it will be the middle of next week before they try and fix it. Never had so much trouble. I would reconsider linking yourself up with this shoddy company.

[Nick McLean @beaky1977]

@CuckooInternet @WeAreOpenreach @ukgov @BenHouchen @TeesValleyCA Generic reply when you know that I had already messaged you, over 3 days now with no service, never had such a terrible transfer to a new ISP.

[Nick McLean @beaky1977]

@CuckooInternet Yet you leave me with nothing due to your incompetence, over 24 hours with no service since going “live” ignored on DM and basically fobbed off for the whole bank holiday weekend.

[Nick McLean @beaky1977]

@Georgeatasda why do you lie on Facebook messenger and avoid paying back my money for a faulty item and force me to contact my bank to try and recover my money which you have been saying you’d pay back for the last month. And now just ignore my messages.

[Nick McLean @beaky1977]

@Georgeatasda could you contact me regarding an airfryer I bought from you late last year as one side is now very loud when running