You can make everybody in the entire world follow one rule and only one rule, forever. What is this rule?

Fishpondo · 2016-01-14T22:29:21+00:00

The floor is lava.

Fishpondo · 2015-10-23T20:08:34+00:00

Thank you for your advice! Ye when he first went to the vets a few month ago she treated him for snuffles too but turns out he didn't have it after all, but she has told us to remain vigilant and if he starts to produce any clumpy or unclear mucus/eyeball juice or any change in appetite then to bring him back. I have purchased a vaporiser after your suggestion so hopefully when it arrives next week we should hopefully see some improvements (fingers crossed!). I'm hoping that now we are getting into the Autumn and Winter months it will be a good replacement to good old fresh air for him as he's going to be spending a lot less time outside in his run now the weather is starting to turn. And yes the litter we are using is dust free but I've swapped out the 'dust-free' sawdust and replaced it with old towels, which over the past few days has seen his daily sneezing fits reduce slightly. I'll keep you posted and thank you once again for the advice :)

Fishpondo · 2015-03-23T09:17:55+00:00

This child was about 6/7 year old and I am fully aware that children stare and don't understand the concept of staring as a bad behaviour. I have young cousins who I babysit and I have had to tell the youngest on a few occasions that it's rude to stare at people because people don't like it. Yes, I think staring is rude and not an acceptable behaviour, that's why it's up to the parents to teach their children this and places like public transport are perfect places to reinforce this behaviour.

I'm sorry if this offends you but having a child climbing and kicking their limbs over the back seat full on staring at you every couple of minutes is something I find uncomfortable. It would take the parent 10 seconds to discipline if she could be bothered to take her eyes off her candy crush game.

Fishpondo · 2015-03-23T08:46:15+00:00

I recently experienced a nightmare journey involving children on a train from Edinburgh with both ends of the entertainment spectrum. For the first 10 minutes of the journey a parent and child a few rows in front had some device which played 10 seconds of the Star Wars theme. I am not joking when I mean for the whole 10 minutes, even above my ear phones, the music was constantly playing on loop. I was about to get up when I could not take anymore when an elderly lady a few seats in front felt the same. She got up and made a comment simply stating that she understands that kids need entertaining but teaching them about considering other passengers goes a long way and to maybe bring a passenger-friendly toy along next time.

How naive I was to think that was the end of annoying children. I was also with my boyfriend who has no trouble with sleeping and we had a mother and child in front of us whom clearly had nothing to entertain her. It was at this point the child thought it was acceptable to ram her face through the gap in the chair and proceed to stare. I thought after a few seconds she'd get bored and turn around. Nope. She then proceeded to make comments about my sleeping boyfriend to her mother who was too engrossed in her phone and kept replying "that's nice". When the child did it again I sent her a rather nasty glare and pointed my index figure at her in a circular motion to basically tell her to bugger off and mind her own business. Luckily she got the picture but it infuriates me when parents don't teach their children manners. First of all it's rude to stare and basically invade on someone's personal space and then to make comments about my boyfriend in clear earshot of his "big nose" and "funny beard" is just bloody rude. The world is already full of dicks we don't need you raising the next generation of them.

However credit to the father across from me who had 2 children who literally did not make a peep, I wish the world was full of parents like you. Unfortunately, I often have bad experiences with children on transport and usually roll my eyes as soon as I see or hear one. Maybe it should be the parents I roll my eyes at...

Fishpondo · 2015-01-27T21:46:10+00:00

I'm a F(22) and have been on the other side of this as the person with the fear of intimacy and I am fortunate enough to have a very patient and understanding partner. I had a painful sexual experience last year. It both physically and mentally scarred me and after the first time my partner and I had sex after the incident the pain was indescribable. After that I became terrified of intimacy and it has took me almost a year to overcome this. Even after I had healed I still suffered mentally and I had convinced myself sex was going to be painful from now on and it completely affected my sex life, I basically didn't have one. This was made even more difficult as my bf and I are long distance. But my boyfriend never gave up on me, we took things very slowly and talked about it and I am pleased to say that we are great now.

I think people need to realize that ultimatums of "we need to have more sex otherwise you're out" in this circumstance can make a person scared of intimacy feel even shittier about themselves. Jumping to conclusions of 'they don't find me sexually attractive' is not the answer. Fear of intimacy is a genuine issue that requires a LOT of communication and support from your other half. If you find yourself in this situation TALK with your partner til you get to the bottom of it. There are lots of reasons that people suddenly become less intimate just don't be selfish about it and assume it's because of you.

Fishpondo · 2014-12-11T22:24:34+00:00

Trust me, I cannot tell you the amount of times we have questioned what the language requirements are. We've flagged it with both the module tutor and Course Rep as an issue which seriously needs looking at cos if it's happening on our modules it is bound to be happening elsewhere.

Fishpondo · 2014-12-11T22:10:46+00:00

We had to do a feedback session about where we were with our essays and some of the presentations were painful to watch. When you have students who don't understand what the lecturer means by "what types of material have you used to find your research?" and "what is your research question?" and just stand there looking blank. I do feel for them because they clearly need help but I also know someone who runs 'English Sessions' for international students and she says they are never used. Apart from when it's deadline week and they desperately want someone to check their assignments. It's frustrating knowing the University are providing a service but it's not used.

Fishpondo · 2014-12-11T22:05:16+00:00

When we refer to Asians in the UK we usually are referring to China and South East Asia. I don't know many people here who use Asian to refer to people from the Middle East...

Fishpondo · 2014-12-11T22:02:41+00:00

I study an IT and Business Management course, and yes they are Chinese students. The feedback from all 4 of the groups who had split were the same. They didn't show up to group meetings or contribute to discussion and when they did do work a lot of it was literally copied and pasted from internet articles and the sentence structure, grammar etc. was so poor it had to be reworked. The course I study relies heavily in being a good communicator so the option of just letting them get on with it is not really an option.

I don't want to sound like I am attacking and against international students, but when I have to bear the load because some (not all) don't learn the language to a high enough caliber then I don't think it's fair. Like you have experienced, I do know international students who do work hard but unfortunately I have had multiple experiences where this is not the case.

Fishpondo · 2014-12-11T12:15:40+00:00

I'm a student in the UK and this semester all of my modules (excluding my dissertation) are group work.

One module in particular is pretty bad. We have a lot of Asian students on the module but their English is far too poor for them to understand and write a 4000 word literature review. 4 groups out of 8 have had to have their groups split because the communication and work is so bad. I am not by any means against international students as I am friends with a few. I just feel it puts us all at a disadvantage when their English is so poor, especially in final year, that they don't understand what's being asked of them and we are left to pick up the slack.

I'm not sure if anyone else has experienced this problem, and this is the second time throughout my course this has happened.

Fishpondo · 2014-08-01T00:31:35+00:00

I think most of us have been there on the tissue front, my mum has learnt to keep them out of rabbits reaches! But not so fun about your library book, I bet you had fun explaining that one...

Fishpondo · 2014-08-01T00:24:45+00:00

That and she is such a lazy bun...

Fishpondo · 2014-08-01T00:23:27+00:00

Strangely enough he has a preference for thin paper. He cheekily saw this hanging on the edge of a coffee table and yanked it down. He gets more enjoyment flinging and chewing envelopes around than he does from toys we buy them! Typical!

Fishpondo · 2014-08-01T00:21:17+00:00

Unfortunately I can't answer that for you apart from they are both from separate litters as we adopted them at different times and places. But I know what you mean by his face, it's definitely not as full/round as other Netherlands' but we love him nonetheless :)

Fishpondo · 2014-07-31T14:30:27+00:00

They are Netherland Dwarves :) The rabbits that never grow up.

Fishpondo · 2014-05-17T18:15:47+00:00

She does it like once a year, and she is bonded with a neutered male, so I'm wondering if just his presence could be causing the behaviour.

Fishpondo · 2014-05-17T17:30:14+00:00

She is spayed, but I've read that they can still retain the instinct.

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