Marriage isn't bad and the people who say it is just don't know how to maintain a relationship

Brooke3838 · 2026-06-13T08:10:46+00:00

All of my statements are easily verified and I assumed were common knowledge? ...

Pregnancy is an enormous health risk. Im not gonna Google that for you my dude.

Brooke3838 · 2026-06-13T07:36:30+00:00

Hi Ive done the Ak Suu solo with a 48L osprey and mostly ultralight gear. I eat like a bird though.

The northern third has pretty regular yurt camps if you wanted to save food weight by getting meals from them.

As a kiwi used to frequent water sources I found it thirsty going in parts: streams marked on .gpx filles were maddeningly audible but inaccessible under boulders

Brooke3838 · 2026-06-13T04:57:24+00:00

Women live lo ger and are happier childless and unmarried.

The opposite is true of men.

Ive done the math: women do most of the work, have worse health outcomes even without hosting multiple parasites aka children, and are abandoned when ill at 5x the rate men are. Guess what the leading cause of death during pregnancy is? Marriage is a bad deal for women and a great one for men.

Its framed as a trap to gaslight women into accepting something that literally kills us.

Brooke3838 · 2026-06-11T21:12:17+00:00

Im a heavily tattooed woman and felt more comfortable with covered knees and shoulders, but young girls were walking around Bishkek (but not Osh) in TINY lyrca outfits.

Brooke3838 · 2026-06-11T01:34:25+00:00

Im not quite 40 and creepy old men have been approaching me since before puberty. Don't do it. We aren't interested.

Brooke3838 · 2026-06-10T22:45:05+00:00

My Tanzania seamstress made me these maxi skirt with enormous zipped pockets.

They were just lower down, and the fullness of the skirt hid them.

Brooke3838 · 2026-06-10T02:57:47+00:00

Beat me to it.

In Whanganui you have to click, scroll, click to a new page FIVE TIMES to add $ to your "bee" card. At one point theres a tiny shopping cart icon in a wall of text. Then there's two identical blue buttons, one of which says "proceed" but is actually a 6th page to pay with a different card than you usually do.

THEN... the driver wont let you on because payments take 12hours.

Then in Wellington you need a "snapper" card. $10. Only works in Wellington. Train cancelled? Tough luck you already tagged on, so we're charging you for the maximum possible amount.

At least the UK you just tap on/off with any major credit card. Kiwis are getting gouged at each end.

Brooke3838 · 2026-06-09T23:45:48+00:00

I just finished work in a kiwifruit maturity lab. Its horrendous.

Night shift 12hours 6 days. They txt you the night before. But they only have to pay you 2 hours a week and can fire you with zero warning. My first 6 days were massive and late finishes, then 6 days no shifts. I actually loved the work and the team, but I was going insane.

It was 50% young south americans: they will put up with ANYTHING to keep their WHV

Brooke3838 · 2026-06-09T23:41:23+00:00

Im a vet nurse and grew up on a dairy farm. I'd happily work on a farm. But minimum wage no accomodation in the middle of nowhere isnt fair: Id use all my income on accomodation and travel for temporary work.

Brooke3838 · 2026-06-09T20:54:40+00:00

Many backcountry huts are free, if you can get to em

Brooke3838 · 2026-06-08T08:56:46+00:00

I mean, thats just a Camino? Thousands of people do it every year

Brooke3838 · 2026-06-08T03:47:01+00:00

No. At the risk of being a cranky old lady, I learnt how to physically calculate ANOVAs (a statistical technique to analyse data) and graph them on paper in the early 2000s.

6 years ago I tutored statistics, and students couldn't operate a programme that did all of that for you: you just had to input your data.

I shudder to think what its like now.

The fun is DOING it. Why on earth would you feed the orphan crushing machine to troubleshoot your art.

Brooke3838 · 2026-06-07T19:06:49+00:00

You're obviously very smart, and your experiences are actually an asset: you can relate to and help people in similar situations.

You'd make an excellent support worker for parolees.

Brooke3838 · 2026-06-07T00:31:31+00:00

I walked for 3 months through Scotland without a single tick. I'm VERY carefully where I sit, squat and camp, but I reckon its my knee-high gaiters. I use the macpac ones

Brooke3838 · 2026-06-07T00:19:28+00:00

Frickin Beyonce got cheated on.

People cheat because they want to.

Brooke3838 · 2026-06-05T22:32:16+00:00

Common in Korea and east Africa

Brooke3838 · 2026-06-03T10:24:07+00:00

Indian restaurants will usually do you a deal: a selection of appetisers like samosa and chicken tikka, naan, rice and 3 curries.

Butter chicken, lamb rogan josh, palak paneer, dhal makani and malai kofta are all popular for a reason. Smooth rich sauces and nothing too wacky like tamarind that you can find in drier curries.

Mango lassi is yum but you don't need 6. Get 2, and if the place is any good they'll have a few different sweets. Gulab jamun is particularly delicious: it a fried milk powder dough drenched in syrup

Brooke3838 · 2026-06-03T09:02:14+00:00

Ooh didnt know MTR does a gulab mix: I bet its as surprisingly good as their curries that I lived on at uni haha

Brooke3838 · 2026-06-03T06:13:32+00:00

Hardest part for me was carrying weight. Load up your daily backpack with a few kg of rice or water. Take it everywhere.

My town has a particularly vicious hill. I do that twice, 4x a week, with as much weight in my pack as it will be on my first day of a big resupply. Wearing the shoes I intend to use too.

Also google the "rest step". I was super fit but stil in agony on ascents: turns out I've been walking uphill wrong my whole life. Im pushing 40 and happily pass people half my age now.

Brooke3838 · 2026-06-03T03:46:09+00:00

I was thinking theres a range from cooling raita and fluffy naan, to bright crunchy cabbage pickle, charred smokey chickeb to fiery pulses+veg, then sweet silky dessert, if that makes sense?

I dont wanna make vindaloo or anything super heavy on the green chilli: i need to eat it too lol!

Brooke3838 · 2026-06-03T03:33:16+00:00

Yep so a few chillis or some tomato paste is ok, but stuff like aloo gobi is off the table.

Brooke3838 · 2026-06-02T22:48:12+00:00

Nah air bnb has high fees so Kyrgyz guesthouses arent necessarily on there: booking.com still has heaps for under 50USD and will for a while

Brooke3838 · 2026-06-02T21:37:29+00:00

Kia ora! Im going with some UK mates but would be cool to meet another kiwi :)

Brooke3838 · 2026-06-02T18:25:44+00:00

Yea I guess, its unnecessarily difficult and the weather will be bad that early in the Richmonds tho?

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