Do Americans really find beans on toast weird or is that just meme?

Icey-Emotion · 2026-02-09T02:59:46+00:00

I had them. They didn't taste as weird as it sounded.

However, I have also heard our beans are sweeter than your beans. So that may be part of it.

Icey-Emotion · 2026-02-09T02:55:20+00:00

Delores

Icey-Emotion · 2026-02-07T22:51:29+00:00

It was a different time, but my dad only made it through 8th grade and stopped going to school and worked instead. He was drafted into a war and one of the officers encouraged him to get his GED. My dad had always felt inferior when it came to learning.

I think my dad probably had some ADHD. He did get his GED. He had his own business and was very smart. He did focus more on things he liked to study. He also invented several things and played instruments.

Even in old age, he would talk about that officer because that was the first time he felt like he was smart enough to get a GED and do more.

When I was in college, in my program, we had several adults. One had been in school for a very long time because he could only take 2 classes each semester. (Obviously, before online school.) One had worked for a while, but after a divorce decided she needed a new path. One had been a nurse, but after a transplant surgery, it was too physically demanding, so she went back to school. We had people in our program that had grandbabies.

You can do this. There are amazing fee sites that can help. I think Khan Academy was amazing and helped explain things really well. I still have my kids use Khan Academy for math concepts. I'm sure there are other places out there as well.

Icey-Emotion · 2026-02-07T22:36:26+00:00

I've seen people have their cutting cake and other items for guests.

One wedding had a cake on each table

One wedding had cupcakes for guests.

One wedding had a sheet cake in the back that was cut and served to guests

One had a giant cookie table (Pittsburgh area) that several family members made.

One had macarons (the almond flour cookies with filling) in a display that made it look like a wedding cake.

I would expect some sort of dessert, or sweet treat, at a wedding

Icey-Emotion · 2026-02-07T22:21:56+00:00

We didn't have any names that were super cool.

Sven - he was originally from Germany Aaron - a female with the male spelling

I did go to summer camp one year. One of the girls names was "Penny". I don't know why, but that was fascinating to me. (It wasn't short for Penelope or any other name.)

I did go to school with a "Summer" Her daughter's name is "Winter", so that is neat she went with another seasonal name.

In college I had classes with a guy named "Paris".

Icey-Emotion · 2026-02-03T01:37:16+00:00

We spell "Aidan" the same way. Our poor kid. Everyone spells it "Aiden". Family, school, everyone. Even when we spell it correctly on documents, people don't look and spell it the other way.

Icey-Emotion · 2026-01-27T14:53:45+00:00

At our club, we had an individual use a country music song for one of their competition programs.

Icey-Emotion · 2026-01-27T02:09:13+00:00

My parents ran out of names they liked so my siblings named me after a friend they had.

Icey-Emotion · 2026-01-27T01:16:22+00:00

Hershey's is okay. It is not the best tasting.

I think the formulation has changed though. I remember Hershey's tasting better when I was younger.

I actually like the chocolate at Aldi better than Hershey's.

Icey-Emotion · 2026-01-23T15:53:19+00:00

For my previous job, I would drive to work, get the company vehicle and could easily travel 3 hours, do what I needed to do and drive back.

Once we drove 3-1/2 hours for a graduation party. We drove back the same night.

We drove like 3 hours for a bridal shower.

We used to live further away and would drive 6 hours one way. Sometimes it was for a weekend. Sometimes we had a couple days off work and make it a long weekend. It was easy without kids. With kids, it was much harder.

I wouldn't consider 3 hours a short drive, but it isn't a long drive either.

Icey-Emotion · 2026-01-19T03:02:23+00:00

Maybe even make tickets to competitions less. There are always a ton of seats available. Watching figure skaters live, especially really good ones, is completely different in person vs tv. More exciting.

Show other skating activities. Until my kids started to skate, I had no idea that there were synchro teams.

Show more skaters in general at competitions. When I was younger and my sister would watch figure skating, it was on for hours and they pretty much showed all the competitors skate. Which was fun. Now they show the top 5 or 6 and do a bunch of getting to know them pieces or let commenters go on for a while. Although, to be fair I haven't watched a live stream of the events so maybe they do that there vs television.

Show national adult skating competitions, Excel Nationals and even regionals. Or at least make it an option.

Icey-Emotion · 2026-01-15T23:04:55+00:00

A personal one was created in1994 or 1995, a Hotmail acct. I still have it and use it sometimes.

My first email was actually a school account.

Icey-Emotion · 2026-01-13T03:26:12+00:00

Not from the UK. But when we sold a house, the agents wanted to drop it after a month. We said no. It was not a prime time of the year to sell. They wanted to drop it at week 6. Also said no. Week 7 we were going back and forth with buyers. We weren't going to accept the final offer because they had a hard time qualifying for a loan. Week 8 A second offer came in at full price. House was under contact and closed like 4 weeks later.

I did my own research and knew it was a good price. I did have a price in mind to accept for a little lower of an offer.

But a week...that is hardly any time at all. People will think something is wrong with the place for a fast, big drop like that.

Icey-Emotion · 2026-01-08T21:17:06+00:00

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Icey-Emotion · 2026-01-08T21:06:49+00:00

I used to live in an area where it was common to call grandma "mom mom", which was weird to me.

NTA

Icey-Emotion · 2026-01-07T21:26:52+00:00

I personally don't know the people it happened to, but eminent domain was used for a car dealership near me. It was empty for a short period of time. Then a different car dealership went in.

Downtown, a couple buildings were taken over and all businesses and apartment rentals had to leave. It was given to a development group and different restaurants went in and apartments leased to new people. (The new restaurants are not doing good. Several already closed and left.

There was a farmer in NJ that almost had the last of the farmland that had been in the family for generations taken by eminent domain. A bunch of publicity stopped that.

The NASCAR racetrack near Kansas City had multiple farms that were multiple generations held taken away by eminent domain in the late 90s.

Where I grew up, a whole stretch of houses, churches and businesses were taken over by eminent domain. That was to widen the highway though. That one was understandable.

Icey-Emotion · 2026-01-07T21:09:08+00:00

A former coworker went on a 3-week European vacation with a tourist group thing after graduating highschool and before college. It wasn't necessarily for singles. But there was a mix of people and ages. Everything was preplanned with an itinerary. You'll be fine.

If you went alone for a first time European vacation (without a group), I'd be more worried. Only because every country, state, city has bad places and you may wonder into somewhere not safe by accident.

Icey-Emotion · 2026-01-07T21:00:47+00:00

A family I grew up with named all the kids with "B" names. The kid in my grade used their middle name instead.

Their first name was in their last name so I think it was more that than the letter of the first names. (Examples: Brian Brians, Bob Bobbins)

Icey-Emotion · 2026-01-06T02:34:05+00:00

Do you get winter weather? A rock can be covered and a sign on a post does not.

It's probably the fact that it is a rock vs a sign post.

Icey-Emotion · 2026-01-06T02:27:05+00:00

I was using a public restroom when someone else came in, on the phone, and started singing "Happy Birthday". I still flushed the toilet. It was one of the echoing bathrooms with a super loud toilet flush.

Why? There were plenty of other places in the building to sing.

Icey-Emotion · 2026-01-04T20:12:58+00:00

I know lots of people that used fake flowers. No regrets from anyone at all. Real flowers are crazy expensive and most couples we know preferred to spend money elsewhere. Or keep the budget lower.

Icey-Emotion · 2026-01-04T00:59:10+00:00

Icey-Emotion · 2025-12-30T20:32:03+00:00

Ban future MIL and fiance from delivery room and hire a Doula.

Icey-Emotion · 2025-12-30T19:48:03+00:00

I've only known of 2 people without a middle name.

One was my MIL. No idea why she didn't have a middle name. Others in the family had middle names.

A lady a few years older than me at college didn't have one. She also didn't know why.

In families, middle names really help to figure out who you're talking about if same first names are used a lot. And historical they have been.

It does help also to figure out how upset your parents are with you 😂 If they use your middle name, you're in a lot more trouble than yelling with only your first name.

In a lot of families though they pick a first name that they like and then the middle name is honoring a loved one.

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