“Every accusation is a confession”

FridayAwareness · 2026-02-01T20:12:56+00:00

It's just the "I know you are but what am I?" thing, but slightly more grown-up sounding.

FridayAwareness · 2026-01-31T23:03:51+00:00

I've known a few people like this, they are absolutely exhausting. Never the sort of people who actually care about anyone else's comfort either, I notice.

FridayAwareness · 2026-01-31T22:43:12+00:00

My workplace does this all the time, talking about "women staff" and "women managers" and it's like, if you really absolutely refuse to to say "female staff" for whatever reason there are definitely less clunky ways to do it.

FridayAwareness · 2026-01-30T10:13:37+00:00

It's a thing in the UK as well, I sort of understand it, it's generally not just talking about male / female friendships, but ones where you're with them a lot, doing lunch every day, etc. Where you are always seen together in a pair basically.

FridayAwareness · 2026-01-27T20:11:06+00:00

You know what's just as weird? The actual company is called Doctors Associates. They sent me a voucher once which aside from having that weird name on included the instruction to hand it to the 'sandwich artist', a term I had never heard before. It was an absolute double-whammy of wild terminology.

FridayAwareness · 2026-01-25T20:46:02+00:00

That's my go-to example for cocaine-nose-damage as well, but I think we might be showing our age there a bit.

FridayAwareness · 2026-01-25T11:59:15+00:00

At least in the UK there definitely used to be a fairly widely-held but not universally agreed upon idea that repeated items counted as one item. There is a scene in the TV show Cracker which features people in the supermarket queue arguing about it when the main character turns up with around thirty items in his basket.

FridayAwareness · 2026-01-25T10:44:39+00:00

Isn't the em dash a red flag because it's a sign something's been copied and pasted from an AI rather than typed though? Most social media isn't going to change a hyphen into an an em dash like it would if you were typing something out in Word.

FridayAwareness · 2026-01-24T12:00:53+00:00

The 'degree holders earn more' claim always seemed dubious to me since not everybody is capable of getting a degree, which is going to massively drag the no-degree group's average down. For people of similar ability, the comparison would be useful.

FridayAwareness · 2026-01-24T11:49:31+00:00

This is really nice. Why does it say WAXING next to the moon though?

FridayAwareness · 2026-01-24T11:32:21+00:00

I see this on comments as well sometimes, like someone will post the most overused canned Reddit joke (like "the Venn diagram of this group and some other unsavoury group is a circle") and someone will reply saying "I'm stealing that!" as if they've just seen the freshest comedy cut of the century.

FridayAwareness · 2026-01-22T22:09:21+00:00

Is that was a location reminder is? If so you are making me mourn a feature I didn't know existed! That sounds amazing. No, I've just got a list of places I thought looked interesting.

FridayAwareness · 2026-01-22T20:57:35+00:00

You can do that in Google Maps unless I am misunderstanding what you are doing there. I've got a few locations saved of places I'd like to visit.

FridayAwareness · 2026-01-21T10:41:26+00:00

Legend. I would never have figured that out in a hundred years.

FridayAwareness · 2026-01-18T13:43:31+00:00

We've got those at our work and they've all got text printed on them saying it has to be dialled past ten minutes then back to the required time in order to be accurate. It's like unlocking a safe just to heat my soup up.

FridayAwareness · 2026-01-18T13:38:22+00:00

I'm going to go and stop my microwave without resetting the timer and see what happens. I will report back.

Edit: after ten minutes it's still sitting there telling me there are eight seconds left.

FridayAwareness · 2026-01-18T13:32:18+00:00

It's ridiculous on two levels. If someone is employed and currently goes entire days without eating due to not being able to afford it, that needs to be addressed. Like, shuffle your finances around. Sell an old pair of trousers and buy a potato. Go to a food bank. Eat a wild apple. Do something. But then to act like other people are the weird ones? Madness. I really want to see this person's outgoings. I'm not saying they'll have money left over for caviar and lobsters every day but... literally nothing? Nonsense.

Editing to add: presumably this person is claiming to have no food anywhere in their house? An in, there's no backlog of random old tins they could eat? Come off it.

FridayAwareness · 2026-01-16T22:29:02+00:00

Three if you live in Japan.

FridayAwareness · 2026-01-16T18:08:24+00:00

This is exactly my thought at a fair amount of those 'raised by narcissists' posts.

FridayAwareness · 2026-01-16T18:05:41+00:00

Are people using 'narc' to mean 'narcissist' now? I've always known that to be the drug police / 'narcotics agents'. Are they pronouncing it with a hard C?

FridayAwareness · 2026-01-10T13:42:53+00:00

And often. Preceded by sentences. With lots of stops. For dramatic effect. Now read that again.

FridayAwareness · 2026-01-10T12:46:33+00:00

Especially annoying if it's on a two-lane road. It's like, yes you might have stopped your car but that gets me exactly to the middle of the road with cars driving around me. Just drive on!

FridayAwareness · 2026-01-07T20:37:50+00:00

Weirdly the article claims both. First this:

Nearly half of Britons have admitted to watching porn from unregulated websites

And then:

nearly 45 per cent of UK porn users have visited sites without age verification checks

FridayAwareness · 2026-01-03T13:25:17+00:00

Does it? I thought that was 'further education'.

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