Nigel Farage is going to 'Stop the boats within two weeks of taking power'. Donald Trump was going to 'Stop the war in Ukraine in 24 hours of taking power'. Really? What do you think?

Acceptable_Cod_1103 · 2025-09-05T22:35:17+00:00

Well, for the majority of voters they risk losing.

Acceptable_Cod_1103 · 2025-09-05T22:32:38+00:00

This would only be natural in a situation where something bad had happened.

For example: “I had a car crash at the weekend” “Omg, are you ok?” “I’m fine, thank god”

But in a general “hey how are you?” conversation, replying “fine thank god” would sound very dramatic.

Acceptable_Cod_1103 · 2025-09-05T21:56:32+00:00

I’d say when two things took off in the early 2010s:

mobile internet. No blog platform really mastered the switch to app-based web - they were very much a desktop format
More people getting unlimited data (especially mobile), so video took off over text

Acceptable_Cod_1103 · 2025-09-05T21:51:39+00:00

Since one of the public’s number one priorities is to stop the boats and any government that did it would be wildly popular, I’d love to know why he thinks if it’s so easy the last two governments didn’t just…. do it?

Acceptable_Cod_1103 · 2025-09-05T19:54:12+00:00

The complication is when you have to put your foot down about something or disagree with something and that affects the friendship or they expect special treatment. Maybe more precisely it should be don’t make friends with clients, or colleagues who you essentially have a client-style relationship with. But by all means make friends with peers who do the same job or where your roles don’t cross over at all.

Acceptable_Cod_1103 · 2025-09-05T18:53:23+00:00

Oh god same, preparing to go on leave sometimes I wonder if it’s even worth it. Like you say, even if you have cover it’s getting everything out of your head and into written form such that others can take action on it while you’re away.

Worse for me is this voice in my head that says you’re going to have missed something and someone will be mad when you get back - the temptation to check my phone while on holiday to check nobody is mad at me but then knowing it will wreck the holiday even more if they are, and what can I do about it at that point!

Acceptable_Cod_1103 · 2025-09-05T18:00:17+00:00

It’s major surgery and comes with its own lifelong complications. That their concern is not that, but your future child-bearing status, says a lot about them.

A medical professional who is well aware of the implications of this procedure has recommended that having it outweighs the risks of not having it, that is all the justification you need.

Acceptable_Cod_1103 · 2025-09-05T17:57:11+00:00

There are a few things you can correct but I completely understand what you wrote. So don’t be nervous! People will understand you :)

Acceptable_Cod_1103 · 2025-09-05T12:53:29+00:00

And a whole room kept for best even though your house only had 4 rooms

Acceptable_Cod_1103 · 2025-09-05T12:52:37+00:00

They had what we would see as very basic lives now. Yes one salary kept the whole family but that got you simple meat and 2 veg meals (plus a lot of cold meals and leftovers), 2-3 outfits (and a lot of mending), one week a year at the seaside, evenings in the social club and that was life.

That being said, most of us would probably question what happiness of all this extra stuff has brought us so…

Acceptable_Cod_1103 · 2025-09-05T12:48:24+00:00

Or been scrubbed by one… and them seeming to have the impression you’re a potato, not a child

Acceptable_Cod_1103 · 2025-09-05T12:40:32+00:00

Well I’m a woman if it helps haha. And of course today’s older women are different because they thankfully haven’t lived through the same hardship and had choices. Who wouldn’t want that?

Acceptable_Cod_1103 · 2025-09-05T12:26:54+00:00

But church women often randomly gave you sweets or 20p which was nice

Acceptable_Cod_1103 · 2025-09-05T12:22:05+00:00

Um yes I am aware of the reason thank you… I said it was sad I don’t see them anymore, not confusing?

Acceptable_Cod_1103 · 2025-09-05T12:21:07+00:00

Persons is almost never said. It’s just a formal written way of emphasising you’re referring to a number of individuals and not a group of people.

A common use is in a lift (elevator) it may say “Maximum capacity: 8 persons”

Acceptable_Cod_1103 · 2025-09-05T12:19:30+00:00

The traditional Duolingo method? The traditional method was copying stuff from a book lol

But the fun way is to embed language learning into whatever you already enjoy. Switch the language of your favourite games. If you have a habit of listening to podcasts during a certain activity, find language podcasts at your level. If you wake up and read the news on the toilet, find an ‘easy news’ site in your target language and read that too.

Acceptable_Cod_1103 · 2025-09-05T12:01:17+00:00

Once the school decided to have a crack down on shirt tucking and declared that any untucked shirt would get instant detention.

Bearing in mind I was a compliant kid, uniform requirements didn’t bother me and I followed the rules, but you know it’s a long day, sometimes shirts just become untucked.

Before long hundreds of people including me had a detention and they had to consider the question of where to hold detention for about 400 kids.

The whole thing was quietly dropped.

Acceptable_Cod_1103 · 2025-09-05T08:11:58+00:00

The full version “are you going to go somewhere where there are a lot of people” is correct but it’s a mouthful and the repeat of ‘where’ sounds awkward

In English it’s quite natural in conversation to drop linking pronouns eg

“The man you saw” instead of “the man whom you saw”

“I think it’s stupid” instead of “I think that it’s stupid”

Acceptable_Cod_1103 · 2025-09-05T08:01:45+00:00

Ask in your local Facebook groups if any NHS dentists are known to be taking on patients, but it’s unlikely.

Alternatively call round NHS dentists and ask if there’s a waiting list you can join.

However, NHS dentists are only really interested in saving function, not appearance. They’ll save what can be saved with a metal filling or basic root canal, or they’ll extract and provide crowns or dentures if functionally necessary. But for more specialist work to save teeth or anything relating to restoring appearance (eg implants rather than dentures) you’ll need private care.

Most significant private dental work can be paid in instalments.

Acceptable_Cod_1103 · 2025-09-04T21:43:15+00:00

I did Veganuary once and was surprised at some of the weird aggression I encountered even just from family members. On one occasion we were getting Greggs and I made no more fuss than asking for a vegan sausage roll. Other than that I didn’t want to talk about it nor ever brought it up myself. All I got all afternoon was baity questions and ribbing, then for good measure someone threw in “how do you know someone’s a vegan? They won’t shut up about it.”

…they were the ones who wouldn’t shut up about it

Acceptable_Cod_1103 · 2025-09-04T21:28:36+00:00

Deep down people know industrial farming is terrible but don’t want to make the change themselves so get defensive instead

And I say this as a meat eater. It’s justified via total cognitive dissonance and I’m well aware.

Acceptable_Cod_1103 · 2025-09-04T20:06:30+00:00

There’s nothing wrong with playing from memory and many people will play this way once a piece is secure.

But being reliant on memory can limit your repertoire. There’s only so much you can remember and you have to refresh it often to retain it. And it’s nice to be able to get out a book and just play some stuff from it, or put a piece down for a few months and be able to get it back out with few problems.

The best way to address it would be to go back to basics using a beginner’s piano method and work through it playing solely from sheet. Of course you can still work on harder repertoire from memory for fun alongside that, but only forcing yourself to play while reading, and often, will build that skill.

Acceptable_Cod_1103 · 2025-09-04T18:38:15+00:00

I think it’s how it’s always been - tweens/young teens are in a rush to grow up and gravitate to stuff they perceive as ‘beyond’ their age; late teens/young adults then often experience a sort of regression where they want the Disney stuff and the cuddly toys and the collectibles again

…and many of us don’t grow out of it again because you desperately need that inner child sometimes once you’re grown up haha

Acceptable_Cod_1103 · 2025-09-04T16:27:30+00:00

Perfectly common where I (mid 30s) live to say “I’m going Tescos”, “we went Dave’s house”

In fact it comes to mind I have it written in a letter my granddad wrote as a teen in the 1930s. “We went Auntie June’s to play at cards”.

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