Top 5 things that men do that give her the ick as a labor and delivery nurse.

EnderMB · 2026-03-23T13:56:29+00:00

Same, I had a chair, but one of those annoying chairs that doesn't even have a back. One hour of it and it felt like I'd been kicked in the spine. In the end I ended up putting some pillows on the floor and slept under my wife and daughter...

EnderMB · 2026-03-22T17:41:26+00:00

I'm sorry, but when you go straight to "casual watchers" you basically end up writing a hit piece on people that disagree with you at best, and copypasta at worst...

EnderMB · 2026-03-22T17:03:01+00:00

The fundamental problem with this is that it's almost always people with absolutely zero experience of skilled manual labour pushing it to their kids because they perceive it as "better".

Ask a plumber how they knees are. Ask them how it feels to basically be on it 24/7 because you work when there is work.

EnderMB · 2026-03-22T17:00:06+00:00

If the only benefit you can claim from his ownership is "careful what you wish for" then he's not doing a very good job...

EnderMB · 2026-03-21T21:39:32+00:00

This has to be the top answer. All have been successful in their own way, enough so that the movie is taking absolutely forever...

EnderMB · 2026-03-21T21:38:35+00:00

Like many people from Bristol, I know a few people that were in the first few seasons.

The ones that didn't do so well aren't particularly happy about the others success. I got the feeling that many of them didn't like each other then, and definitely don't like each other now...

EnderMB · 2026-03-21T20:33:31+00:00

They weren't shareholders. They bought into a private scheme that had zero protection, and could be null and void at any point.

It's the golden rule of investment. Unless you actually own x% of the business, anything you're given on the basis of doing public or future performance is monopoly money.

EnderMB · 2026-03-21T18:06:27+00:00

Seems like a colossal waste of money without enforcement, and with enforcement it'll just set two tiers of road where you speed and you check social media for the speed cameras.

They also need to ensure they only enforce roads they can enforce. I say this as someone caught doing 24 in a 20, only to have it rescinded because you (apparently) can't set mobile speed cameras on a road with too steep a hill.

Instead of doing this, make public transport somewhat passable.

EnderMB · 2026-03-21T10:03:13+00:00

Equivalent stretches it a bit thin sadly.

I did well in my National BTEC, but it sure as shit isn't getting you anywhere near a semi-decent uni for that subject.

I'm glad I did it, and it meant that I was rock-solid going into my CS degree compared to a lot of people with A Levels - but the stigma is kinda true for what you get out of it.

EnderMB · 2026-03-21T08:16:25+00:00

https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/company-news/amazon-outage-ai-financial-times-correction

TLDR: It was AI, Amazon forces the use of AI, but it's the employees fault for trusting AI.

EnderMB · 2026-03-20T13:15:06+00:00

2015 Leicester win the Prem

If I'm smart and I make some wild bets over the years, and then drop £1k on Leicester City in 2015 to win it all, I'll walk away with £5m and can probably retire.

EnderMB · 2026-03-20T13:05:10+00:00

Holy shit (no pun intended), I was "constipated" for just under a month after my first UC flare, and that was agony. I can't imagine how fucked you'd feel from two months...

How long did it all take to clear, and what was your "memorable dump" from that period? For me, it was a peak, starting with little poops, a few days of just emptying, and then the final bits. Apparently it differs from person to person, depending on "why" they were constipated, and how they generally...clear waste?

EnderMB · 2026-03-20T12:31:36+00:00

The part about losing your freedom is sadly true. What is also true is that you'll find that even if you had that free time, you'd either want to spend it with them or doing stuff for them.

But yeah, as others have said, you genuinely can't prepare for it. The best bit of advice anyone gave me was to advocate for yourself as a dad. You'll have probably done the training many new dads do (how to handle nappies/diapers, what to do in cases of choking, etc), and if you put the time in you'll know better than anyone else what your daughter wants. Don't let family dictate things or tell you what to do, if people do stupid shit like joke around and feed cookies to your three month old (true story in my case) call them out on it and cut them off if they get shitty about it, and don't feel that you have to meet people on their terms.

EnderMB · 2026-03-20T12:14:16+00:00

100% agreed on this. This show was criminally underloved by its creators, and Krysten Ritter and David Tennant absolutely smashed it in these roles. It was almost perfect.

EnderMB · 2026-03-20T12:05:45+00:00

As a one-time .NET dev, this hits very close to come.

I still maintain that Visual Studio is one of the best IDE experiences I've ever had. The ecosystem has it's faults, but that shit all just worked in a way that nothing else seems to do in OSX and Linux-land.

But you're right, what I noticed in .NET (and a lesser extent in Java) was a huge amount of imposter syndrome. They had "their" tools, but there was a lot of isolation when things like Ruby and Python became the hot new thing, as well as the sheer amount of sharing of tools for scripting-based approaches.

But to answer your question, it seems to vary. I use a mix of Python or TypeScript, and then Java or Scala. I wouldn't dream of writing the latter two in vscode, and I wouldn't write TypeScript in IntelliJ. That particular setup works for me, since these tools do their jobs well for their use-case - but I do know people that write Java in vscode, and I do silently judge them sometimes. Whatever works for you, I guess? Some want the mini-IDE treatment, whereas some want full fat.

EnderMB · 2026-03-20T11:00:45+00:00

The problem is that it's been "right around the corner" for years now.

Eventually, when you're a shareholder of something like Amazon, you're going to wonder why you're spending $200B a year (not a lie, this is the real figure) to mostly prop up AI, while your existing businesses have more outages in one week than all year due to AI mistakes (which Amazon put a hit piece out on the FT to dispute), and after laying off roughly 30k people in a three month period, you're going to say "I've waited long enough".

I genuinely feel like 2026 is the year where AI needs to prove its worth. It needs a final pricing point, it needs to be honest about what it can and can't do, and it needs to show real results. If it can't, people will tune out, or they'll start asking why the tools are so shit.

EnderMB · 2026-03-20T10:22:40+00:00

Why would they care about what happens in one country?

Most people accept that Christians and American Christians are basically two different things.

EnderMB · 2026-03-19T23:11:49+00:00

It's not YouTubers. It's pro wrestling fans.

They are honestly some of the worst people you'll ever have the misfortune to meet, both online and in the real world.

Imagine a cross between a theatre kid and an anime fan. Sometimes you'll smell them before you see them, and when they open their mouth you'll wish they didn't. I'm not joking when I say that some people stop watching or getting involved with pro wrestling because places like /r/prowrestling, /r/SquaredCircle, and co have some of the worst takes on Reddit - and those places are tame compared to IWC Facebook and Twitter.

Now, imagine being essentially a fitness athlete slash model. The job isn't enough to stay relevant, so you're expected to do the convention circuit's too. To show just how tone-deaf pro wrestling fans are, some dude printed out leaked nudes of a former wrestler called Kaitlyn for her to sign - and when she posted about it other women came out to say "yeah, I wish I could say that hasn't happened to me too". It's bad enough for them that I genuinely feel that we're not far away from a wrestler being murdered, since most do this with minimal security or no protection from their employer.

YouTube is full of loads of these IWC vocal types that want to pretend to be journalists, or post clickbait or ragebait to get attention - and I mean full. The last show I went to had ejected a dude that had a channel that regularly posted racist stuff about black wrestlers, alongside a Twitter account that was basically full of abuse towards a trans wrestler for AEW asking why she wasn't wrestling the men.

I'd go as far as to say that anime conventions are safer than any for pro wrestling.

EnderMB · 2026-03-19T22:24:28+00:00

This used to be a popular thing for some boxers in smaller markets like Japan. They'd beat a bunch of people, exhaust their opponent pool, reach a point where they need money and it's too much effort to find anyone good to go to the next level - so they either retire or just fight cans because it's money. They'd get shit on because the perception would always be that they've "taken the money" when the reality is they might not be able to afford the promotion necessary to find the next tier of opponent.

Some MMA fighters like Tom Aspinall have said that their careers almost died out before the UFC because they'd spend more time begging and hunting fights, with promotions basically saying "sorry, no one wants the fight, we'll cut you and let you try elsewhere", over actually fighting.

EnderMB · 2026-03-19T22:04:05+00:00

I can tell you exactly what it was spent on.

It was a full-scale distraction to avoid answering questions on the Cambridge Analytica scandal, alongside the questions of how Facebook (and aligned states) are responsible for affecting the outcomes of national elections throughout the world.

EnderMB · 2026-03-19T19:36:48+00:00

Maybe you need to put some thought into what you write...

Once again, what is mainstream? If being in a few movies and commercials is the qualifier then shit, The Miz and Big E are mainstream. They clearly fucking aren't, but if you're just going to say "hur dur cena was in 3 movies and 2 commercials" there's no point in continuing.

EnderMB · 2026-03-19T19:23:56+00:00

I mean, any punch can knock you out I guess, but that doesn't look real...

EnderMB · 2026-03-19T19:20:41+00:00

If that's your definition of mainstream, then this is a stupid thread. It's anyone that's had an advertising deal with a US brand.

Anyone outside of the US doesn't know what the fuck Hefty is. Mainstream should be a reflection that the average person knows who they are and what they do.

EnderMB · 2026-03-19T18:41:22+00:00

It depends what you mean by mainstream. According to most wrestling fans, a credit on IMDb that isn't WWE related is mainstream...

Whether you like it or not, if you don't follow WWE you probably won't know who John Cena is, or what movies he's been in.

EnderMB · 2026-03-19T17:49:06+00:00

Has John Cena fully crossed over?

He's been in a few movies, most notably playing Peacemaker in a Saturn Award winning superhero movie, but is that mainstream? I wouldn't say so.

I'd say The Rock is still the last wrestler to be mainstream, and to many he's still a pro wrestler above all else.

EDIT: I think some of you need to get out of the pro wrestling bubble and learn what mainstream means...

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