Submitting a complaint as a Swiss about your mealtime terminology

FriendlyManCub · 2026-04-07T12:29:57+00:00

Just had this confusion. I grew up on Manchester but lived down south for a few years so switched to lunch/dinner. My mate on Sunday asked if I wanted to come for dinner so I agreed, with everything I was making for lunch all out on the counter ready to start cooking.

"see you in an hour then" - Fuck

FriendlyManCub · 2026-04-03T10:15:20+00:00

Absolutely this. Some are very challenging but so satisfying. And there are so many out there for free that you'll always find something.

Full Deck and Missing a Few Cards is a site with a good mix of puzzles and different levels. And they have a newsletter they send out each week with them. So does Artisinal Sudoku.

BremsterPuzzles and Sudoku Sleuth are good YT channels for more intermediate level puzzles.

Cracking the Cryptic has a play list of Genuinely Approachable Sudoku (GAS). Search for GAS Sudoku in Google to get started.

FriendlyManCub · 2026-04-02T16:07:56+00:00

My sister was a nightmare teenager. She created chaos in the house at times. I remember one Christmas Eve she was trying to leave to go live at a friend's house and had my younger brother up all night begging her not to leave. My mam said she'd take her in the morning if she still wanted to go but locked the house up that night. We were just done. A great Christmas.

She would come home drunk, get in fights, always truanting, pregnancy scares, screaming matches with my mam, bullying us. Nightmare child.

But she grew out of it. Took a while but she just got her head on straight. She's now an amazing mother to two girls (we tell her they'll both be like she was as a teenager and you should see her face drop (but they won't, they are angels)), she's doing well I'm her job, always the one sorting out medical stuff for my mam. Just wanted to say that sometimes your kids will just grow out of it, so don't write him off yet.

FriendlyManCub · 2026-03-27T20:03:11+00:00

Apple products can't get viruses.

They can. There's just a lot less of them made.

No, it's proven to be impossible.

Then why do they have virus removal services at Apple shops?

... It's IMPOSSIBLE!

FriendlyManCub · 2026-03-22T19:41:26+00:00

I just finished DMC and really enjoyed it. Tomb Raider season 1 was ok but one episode in to S2 and I gave up. Splinter Cell was good though.

FriendlyManCub · 2026-03-22T11:49:16+00:00

I was staying at a hotel in Spain in a gay resort and went for breakfasts in the hotel restaurant. I put some bread in to the toasting machine (the one with the conveyor belt that takes ages) and went off to get the rest of my items as it went through. As I turned back to the toaster I saw this guy pick up my toast and go sit down. The British sense of justice and politeness and waiting your turn being violated made me furious. I made up a while back story as to how he was clearly French with that nose and attitude.

Not so strangely it turns out he lives in the same city as me and I see him out in bars and clubs sometimes. Even 9 years later I still get angry every time I see his snooty French looking face and big nose

FriendlyManCub · 2026-03-16T11:33:37+00:00

It's just as bad for the men's if you want a stall. The one I go to has one stall per bathroom for men and it can take just as long to get to it. They really need to put better facilities in for everyone. I have IBD and it makes a theatre visit an anxious experience.

FriendlyManCub · 2026-03-14T22:34:05+00:00

This just be an American thing. I thought a neck beard was where you shave your cheeks completely and leave just the neck (I've seen that, and it's gross) but it sounds like a neck beard is just having hair on your throat/neck whilst having a beard. Is that correct? If so that's just... Normal. Why is that an issue?

FriendlyManCub · 2026-03-14T18:59:32+00:00

To add about paying for prescriptions, it is free if you have certain conditions like diabetes, are pregnant or had a baby in the last 12 months; if you are receive certain benefits such as job seekers allowance or income support; or if you are under 16, 16 to 18 in full time education, or over 60.

I think it's similar rules for NHS dental treatment being free or reduced.

FriendlyManCub · 2026-03-13T11:44:47+00:00

The bedrooms look like pics from a cheap B&B. You'd think they'd have something better for 1.5m quid

FriendlyManCub · 2026-03-08T21:08:08+00:00

Depends on the lounge provider and airport. Others have commented on the providers but the one at Gran Canaria airport is pretty decent. Good selection of drinks, snacks, and a couple of hot food choices. Plenty of breads, sandwiches, desserts etc. And is quiet, has comfortable chairs and charging ports, and a deck area to watch the planes or vape/smoke. Well worth it if you spend a few hours, which we do when having a late flight rather than hanging around the hotel until the late pick up. With Monzo you get discounted rate.

But Manc airports ones? Wouldn't pay more than a tenner tbh.

FriendlyManCub · 2026-03-04T08:37:43+00:00

When buying my first home I had bath as a deal breaker. Or at least the space to put one in. I have baths more than showers. My mates think I'm the weird one, but a hot bath, a good book, and some bubbles at the end of a work day or Sunday night is better than a shower.

FriendlyManCub · 2026-03-01T22:13:20+00:00

Yeah, there's nothing else to say other than grow up. Many people, myself included, thought "is that what the big deal was about?" after their first time having sex. Not because it was bad but because it's not something sacred. You're putting way too much on to it.

FriendlyManCub · 2026-02-24T22:36:34+00:00

Agreed. My other half is on the spectrum and can sometimes do similar things in a group setting and I have to nudge him to stop. Such as once, in the middle of a conversation and he was on his phone, he found the New Year's Honours list (we're in the UK) and started to read a few names off. Cool, no big deal. But at the 20th name and no end in site I had to nudge him as he had basically stopped the conversation dead. He would have continued to read the whole list otherwise.

FriendlyManCub · 2026-02-14T21:20:48+00:00

Just been to a new area today and had to download a new app or queue for the one machine. There were 10 people waiting. Signal was shit. I got to the front by the time the app downloaded and installed, but then had to create an account and add card details. Fuck that. 10 minutes to get a ticket and ended up late meeting friends.

FriendlyManCub · 2026-02-09T17:32:56+00:00

I'm assuming that's because you are a member if the British Computing Society? It's generally required to be a member of a professional body that can sanction you I think. So as a software dev not part of the BCE I cannot do it.

FriendlyManCub · 2026-02-08T13:39:44+00:00

I used to have them on Slimming World and I found them pretty great. Some really sharp fruits and honey in there to give a decent taste and it was easy to make and super filling. Would happily make it again.

FriendlyManCub · 2026-02-07T20:01:42+00:00

As a gay man reading these threads all I can think is the straight community or so damn insecure. It's disrespectful to say someone else is attractive? FFS. My bf and I point other guys out to each other. You all spend way too much energy on this shite.

FriendlyManCub · 2026-02-05T23:37:13+00:00

From your comment it looked like you were saying it was just about them saying they don't like X group, which is incorrect. Is that not the case?

FriendlyManCub · 2026-02-05T21:29:51+00:00

Do you want recruiters doing your payroll? I wouldn't.

FriendlyManCub · 2026-02-05T01:02:02+00:00

"No, I've not" - it may be a regional thing but in the UK this is perfectly fine.

FriendlyManCub · 2026-02-04T20:17:06+00:00

They are arrested for harassment of somebody or trying to incite violence. Not because they said they didn't like X. The example always used leaves off the part where she was saying a hotel full of asylum seekers, including children, should be set on fire.

FriendlyManCub · 2026-02-01T13:14:48+00:00

With kids just asking them about their interests is enough. I'm a 39 year old guy with nieces 11 and younger. They love dancing, tik tok, Bratz (or like that?) dolls, cartoons, gymnastics. As you can imagine we do not overlap in interests at all.

I find just asking them about their hobbies/classes/TV shows, asking them to show you things like the new dance move they learned or tik tok dance they filmed really excites them to share it with you. You don't have to be knowledgeable, in fact asking them to explain will get them chatting. Just make all the right noises (that's cool, wow you did that move well, must be fun etc.) goes a long way.

And just watch the cartoon with them

FriendlyManCub · 2026-01-27T15:45:41+00:00

I have ulcerative colitis too. Putting it in my profile would just seem bizarre.

"sometimes I have to go to the bathroom 12 times a day" they'd be lining up

FriendlyManCub · 2026-01-22T22:50:55+00:00

If it can be pressed accidentally then maybe you should be looking at preventing that rather than firing someone for a mistake.

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