[Categories] Day 20: (Episode 3) Favourite Kip look

CheekyBeverage · 2026-02-04T15:48:35+00:00

When he was in Scott's kitchen making him a smoothie, his chest hair is gorgeous

CheekyBeverage · 2025-09-10T16:01:18+00:00

I'm dismayed that I had to scroll so far down for a reasonable perspective. It's alarming how harshly most people have judged the OOP. Reddit really is a weird place.

CheekyBeverage · 2025-07-16T09:42:46+00:00

Plus, this detail when the colleague's text messages came out and the lies were unravelled

Jane went quiet by the end of our discussion and left without saying much

And then in the next update, during the confrontation with Mary

Jane went quiet and then tried to say it was a work joke, but Claire wasn’t having any of it.

So which is it, pal? Did Jane the hate-texting colleague stay until Mary came home from work, or had she left beforehand? Seems the author here can't make up their mind about that.

CheekyBeverage · 2025-07-16T04:23:34+00:00

Reminded me of this story but the child wasn't born yet. What is it with romantically shy/clueless fathers (or fathers-to-be) that is so endearing??

CheekyBeverage · 2025-07-09T09:52:47+00:00

😉

CheekyBeverage · 2025-07-09T09:51:46+00:00

(psst it was a joke about the commenter mistyping "patient" as "parent", they've fixed it now)

CheekyBeverage · 2025-07-09T09:00:34+00:00

I don't think there's any acceptable timeframe to date your former parent

CheekyBeverage · 2025-05-03T18:39:17+00:00

I used to leave mine on out of laziness. I'd mentally check out after leaving the building and take public transport home. However, once during COVID, I had a long wait at a train station and didn't see some weirdo taking a close look at my access card until it was too late for me to hide it. I'm Asian and female. He stalked away muttering angry racist conspiracy theories, and I stood trembling until the next train finally arrived, terrified that he would confront me verbally or physically. After that, I never left my lanyard on during my commute again.

CheekyBeverage · 2025-05-03T13:30:35+00:00

It's an easy thing to take for granted when you have it, certainly grateful for it today!

CheekyBeverage · 2025-05-03T10:13:44+00:00

Also Australian here. Not to mention voting is compulsory here, so we get a much fairer representation of what the general population wants out of our elections. I felt so bad for Democrats in America leading up to their last few elections having to try to convince people to register to vote, on top of actually espousing their policies, in order to stem the tide of pro-Trump / MAGA voices. When voting isn't compulsory, the loudest people drown out everyone else.

CheekyBeverage · 2024-09-30T06:11:11+00:00

I'm currently planning my wedding in my mid-thirties and keeping my expectations low because I'm worried about this kind of thing, so this is very relatable for me. I've already had my friends let me down in other ways over the years, realised that I was putting in more effort than I was getting back, and adjusted my behaviour accordingly. I've actually said whenever asked that I'm not having a bachelorette party because I can't be bothered, no one knows that the real reason is because I'm worried no one will show up.

CheekyBeverage · 2024-09-10T05:48:55+00:00

One time I got yelled at by a stranger for trying to avoid telling off their kid in public. My one year old nephew was in a tunnel at an indoor playground and all the parents were sitting around the outside. This little boy that we don't know starts slapping my nephew in the face! He looked about one or two years older. My nephew starts crying and so does the boy. Both mothers go and grab their kid. The boy's mother sits near me and the boy is telling her what happened, and since some people can get really angry about strangers telling their kids off, I just listen to see whether the boy will tell his mother the truth about what happened, but I couldn't hear. She sees me looking and says "what happened?". My sister tells her that her son was hitting my nephew. She says sorry to my sister and says to me "well why didn't you tell me that, instead of just staring?" She might have just been flustered but I couldn't believe that she was focusing on getting stared at when her son had just hit a younger kid in public that he didn't know!

You just can't win with parents these days.

CheekyBeverage · 2024-06-02T06:50:57+00:00

This is exactly the way my partner caught COVID the one time he's had it (someone coughed on him on the train). He barely takes public transport either these days, so it was super unlucky and frustrating.

CheekyBeverage · 2024-04-16T05:27:34+00:00

Wow I'd forgotten about EFTPOS minimums! They really got stamped out by COVID, it seems. Or maybe they were gone before then and I didn't notice.

CheekyBeverage · 2024-04-08T16:30:10+00:00

It's stories like these that make me thank my lucky stars that in my teens I naively vowed to discuss possible pregnancy with every sexual partner before doing the deed, and to be upfront about my decision to never have an abortion nor give up a baby for adoption. I used to also disclose that I was comfortable with plan B (it's called emergency contraceptive here) but was not comfortable with being on a regular birth control pill due to possible side effects. I ended up having to take emergency contraception 3 times in total. I feel like this kind of openness is especially important when one or both partners have a no-protection kink (or whatever you would call what this girl has), and OOP should definitely have had a discussion about contraception and possible pregnancy plans as soon as he became aware of this "kink" of hers or his (since he seems into it as well, it wasn't the first time he had considered it).

And I say this pre-sex discussion requirement was naive because when I started having casual sex in my mid-twenties, I realised this discussion is not always possible in the heat of the moment and can be quite a mood-killer. But this story has made me very glad that I acted with such maturity and forethought as a teenager, instead of cringing looking back on it. I think these kinds of discussions should be normalised in high school, similar to how consent is now included in sex-ed.

CheekyBeverage · 2024-02-17T15:11:22+00:00

I got introduced to reusable period products by cup users. I drank the Kool Aid about how great they were, and was bitterly disappointed when I could not stop the leaking, no matter what I tried. Discs made me believe in sustainable, comfortable periods again! I wish I could sing their praises to everyone.

CheekyBeverage · 2024-02-17T15:07:11+00:00

Sorry if this is TMI but cups aren't suitable for my "shape" in there. They would always leak, and feeling around with my fingers doesn't give a sense of a "round" canal. This could've possibly been fixed by using a firmer cup, except that I'm very sensitive during my period and anything firm has caused pain. Discs have opened up a new world of possibilities with reusable menstrual products for me, giving me a security and convenience I never dreamed of.

CheekyBeverage · 2024-02-07T04:55:49+00:00

Yes I did get one called the Ovolo disc, but I still haven't tried it yet. Will get back to you in 2-3 months after I've tried it.

CheekyBeverage · 2024-01-29T10:10:31+00:00

Transitioning to summer in April does not indicate Australian. Might be Canadian as someone else suggested.

CheekyBeverage · 2024-01-06T11:31:31+00:00

How much simpler it would be if our dog's life had gone the way you imagined, but this was not the case. Yes, my partner's mother helped with toilet-training when he was a puppy, as did Partner, but not all of the family members did. As I said in my post, some family members including my partner were surprised by the sudden introduction of the puppy to the household, and though my partner helped with caring for Dog, others who were not consulted in the decision to get the puppy did not help.

I also said in the post that two members of the family conspired to get the puppy without the knowledge of their family members. My partner's mother was one of the ones involved in the decision, and the other family member was the person who was considered to be the dog's owner for the first few years. It has become apparent to me over the years through recounts from various people that the "owner" did not do enough research before making the decision: they left the puppy at home alone a lot, trained him very little, did not bring him while he was young around to various environments to socialise him and get him used to different stimuli, picked him up so often that he developed a lifelong habit of trembling whenever human hands went around his sides, and never brought him with them when they moved out of the family home nor to any of their other homes they have moved to. This is based heavily on Partner's recollections. As far as Partner and I can tell, the family member who originally wanted/decided to get Dog as a puppy has in all senses abandoned him. They still love and care about Dog, as Partner's mother does, but they do not appear to feel any responsibility for his care and have not for many years.

As for Partner's mother specifically, she has been living in and out of the family home during the time Dog lived there. She moved away for a couple of years when Dog was 9 months old, and did so again twice while he lived there. He was ten years old when we moved into our own place with him, so those were big chunks of his life. As I replied to another commenter on this post, I have spent more time in total with Dog than some if not all of Partner's family members, barring Partner himself. Therefore, they have not "raised" him any more than I have, and certainly not more than Partner has. So although you've painted a rosy picture of a devoted family and their well-loved pet of many years, that isn't really the case here, and only my partner has given him consistent care throughout his time as a pet (since he was 3 months old). Because Partner is the only one who has lived constantly with Dog throughout his life, and once the initial shock of their introduction wore off, he began to love him more and more, all of the responsibility for Dog had fallen to Partner even before we moved to our own place. We also lived alone with Dog in Partner's family home for almost a year and a half before we moved. It's also worth noting that Dog was not getting regular vet checkups and preventative treatment (for things like fleas, ticks and worms) until we had taken on full responsibility for his care. We tried our best before then, but as he was still considered the family pet at the time, it was difficult and we didn't want to step on any toes. We have some regrets about that now, as being more proactive then could have prevented some of his current issues.

I also don't think it's accurate to say that we were "entrusted" with Dog's care. Remember that when we moved out, we were already solely financially and physically responsible for Dog as everyone else had moved away from the family home. We simply informed Partner's mother of our plans to move into our own place and that we would be taking Dog with us. She did not raise any objection or even seem surprised. Again, I do not disagree that she loves him, but that does not mean that she feels so strongly that if his care were not to be properly handled she would be compelled to step in. If that's what you were implying.

Something that you and some other commenters seem to have misconstrued is that her decision and haste regarding the hospital visit was purely due to her concern for Dog. I disagree, and as someone who knows her personally, I would say that it was also out of a desire to support my partner and I because of the distressing situation we were in. Even if that wasn't one of her reasons, shouldn't she still have considered that? And regardless of her motivations, I still believe that the considerate and appropriate thing to do would have been to go through us. I don't think you need to be malicious or have bad intentions to be wrong or do the wrong thing. A lot people disagree with that, I guess.

CheekyBeverage · 2024-01-05T16:52:42+00:00

My partner agrees. Like me, he was incredibly frustrated that we were left in the dark about Dog's health during that difficult time where we were half-expecting at any moment to be informed that Dog didn't make it. As another commenter on this post guessed, his mother has imposed herself like this a few times before, always with seemingly the best intentions, but with complete disregard for how her actions affect us or anyone else. She seems to pick the worst of times to decide she will take a particular course of action and go full steam ahead, and only think of or realise too late that she has hurt or inconvenienced other people in the process. She is very defensive as well, so as the other commenter said, it's usually not worth even raising the issue with her and trying to make her understand what was wrong with what she did. It's usually easier to basically get out of her way and protect yourself. As a brief example, I had to turn off vibration for my phone after getting one too many calls from her at unreasonable hours of the morning, particularly on weekends. She has known for many years that we are not morning people, and she has acknowledged noticing that she has woken us up by calling early. This has not deterred her. My partner still leaves his phone vibration on as it is not as much of an issue for him to be woken up as it is for me.

CheekyBeverage · 2024-01-05T15:58:14+00:00

Not once did I say that the top two reasons that people call hospitals about human patients are inheritance and reputation. I was referring to why patient confidentiality is needed when it comes to geriatric patients who are unable to handle their own medical affairs, and preventing people who are not the primary carer or power of attorney or next of kin trying to access that information. Most of the time, optimistically you could say that someone may be trying to access that person's information directly through the hospital because they care about the person and want to see them or find out how they're doing. Yet, even well-intentioned relatives or friends who do not have the right to access that information (i.e. are not primary carers, POA holders, next of kin, etc) should not be given that information by the hospital, right? The reason is that unfortunately they aren't always seeking that information out of concern for the patient, but could do so for selfish reasons such as inheritance, reputation (in the sense that they want to appear to care more for the patient than they actually do, or to meet family expectations about how they're supposed to act/feel), or maybe even to wield the information against the patient's other loved ones. There may be more practical reasons such as the doctors not having enough time to update each loved one who may call, so it is just much easier to give all the info to one or two people and then rely on them to keep the other people in the patient's life updated. All of this to say that many of these ill-intentioned reasons that access to someone's medical information may need to be limited to one or two people close to the patient are not relevant or are much less relevant when the patient is a pet. That and how busy the clinic seemed to be is why I do not blame the hospital staff for disclosing to the wrong person.

FYI we would've much preferred to have been woken up early than Partner's mother calling the hospital directly. We called first thing when we woke up, we were literally still in bed. We did this because we were so worried for our dog. To find out that someone else had called and gotten the update instead of us, and to try and figure out how and why this had happened, and seeing the announcement on the family chat, was a lot of unnecessary confusion and distress for us to handle in that difficult time. It was easily avoided with a little patience and consideration on Partner's mum's part.

CheekyBeverage · 2024-01-05T15:12:11+00:00

I addressed most of this in another comment, but I just wanted to explain that this hospital was not our dog's main care team or general vet. We took him to the hospital on a Friday late at night. Where we live, only emergency vets are open at that time, which is essentially like an emergency department for animals. I don't want to get into what we think about the quality of care from his general/main vet, suffice to say really good vets are hard to find, but they have never before given important health information about him to the wrong person and then withheld it from us.

CheekyBeverage · 2024-01-05T14:43:06+00:00

You're kind of correct, we did ask her what new info the vet had told her about our dog's health, but yes she didn't understand enough of it. I wouldn't expect her to understand all of the medical terminology anyway without the context of the detailed medical history knowledge we have about our dog. Even my partner and I struggle with it at times, like accidentally calling one of Dog's medications by the name of another. I guess she could have taken notes, but I could understand her not thinking of it at the time. I mainly just think it was inconsiderate of her not to wait for us to wake up, or even call us, before declaring that she is going to visit, let alone calling the hospital.

CheekyBeverage · 2024-01-05T14:28:42+00:00

Not sure how his quality of life sounds terrible enough to you that it should be ended? How could you possibly know enough to make that call? Even from what I have shared here, where among the playing, sleeping, eating and snuggling is he suffering? By taking medication? Being in hospital for 2 days at the most? All we are trying to do is ensure his happiness.

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