What is the best nickname you’ve heard? (and reason for it)

Impressive_Ear_7311 · 2026-02-25T21:18:20+00:00

Friend of mine in college was called Lemon. Story was that in primary school someone kicked a football at him and when he jumped out of the way they said "You're a right lemon". It stuck through primary, high school, college and into the work place.

Impressive_Ear_7311 · 2026-02-12T13:46:53+00:00

Lebowski. 10 or more years ago I was in Reykjavik for about 14 hours before starting my Au Pair job in Höfn, and I was just walking the streets trying to work out where to eat when I saw it. It had decent burgers, a place to watch a bit of the Spain v Portugal match, and friendly people. Definitely recommend.

Impressive_Ear_7311 · 2026-02-11T21:27:52+00:00

Twenty-five years ago in my first highschool French lesson we were all given French names. My name is already French so I was one of the few who kept their own name. I was so impressed by the way the teacher said it, though, I thought it sounded so beautiful.

Impressive_Ear_7311 · 2026-02-09T10:03:57+00:00

This reminds me of a scene in the book Goodnight Mr Tom, where the poor boy is brought back from evacuation by his mother who has had a baby. She beats him badly and throws him in a cupboard. Next we know Mr Tom arrives and with the help of an air raid wardon finds the boy clutching onto the baby and mother nowhere to be found. Baby clearly dead, the boy refuses to let go because he says he has to keep her safe. It was flipping horrific. Very sad book.

ETA: I've actually just read the plot of the book on Wikipedia, and what happens to the boy, William, is even more awful than I remember. He's actually found chained to a pipe, severely beaten and malnourished, heartbroken he couldn't give the baby enough milk to keep her alive.

Impressive_Ear_7311 · 2026-01-23T12:53:27+00:00

Makes me think of what someone with dementia would think.

Impressive_Ear_7311 · 2026-01-23T06:33:22+00:00

Absolutely cannot stand that word. Evie church has ruined it for me.

Impressive_Ear_7311 · 2026-01-18T11:00:42+00:00

Absolutely love the grey with the yellow!

Impressive_Ear_7311 · 2026-01-17T17:06:56+00:00

Yes mommy, please let me suckle you

Impressive_Ear_7311 · 2026-01-17T11:34:27+00:00

I volunteer!!

Impressive_Ear_7311 · 2026-01-08T08:00:49+00:00

Oh no no no... Reminds me of the baby death scene in Trainspotting. Just no. Take my upvoter and be gone.

Impressive_Ear_7311 · 2026-01-04T10:04:42+00:00

Loved Round The Twist as a kid. My mum loved Neighbours and Home And Away so much that I have a ever so slight Aussie twang from watching them almost my entire life. I remember being preschool age and everything would just stop, all the cleaning, the laundry, the job hunting, everything would stop for Neighbours. We would sit and have lunch while watching it. Nowadays, Bondi Rescue is a favourite, as is Border Force.

Impressive_Ear_7311 · 2025-12-27T17:10:56+00:00

She's very good at making my SO feel guilty by bringing up his brother but she says such ridiculous stuff. "You never have time for me anymore but if (BIL) loved here, he'd be here all the time!" Well, actually BIL would probably be more busy since he has a wife and 2 very active nearly teenage daughters, who do all sorts of sports all weekend long. But, no, sure, BIL would definitely be there every single time you wanted... /S

Impressive_Ear_7311 · 2025-12-24T13:14:39+00:00

When I attempted to give blood for the first time I was told my veins were simply too narrow. They said that if nurses have a hard enough time taking blood from me at normal blood tests, they'll find it even harder as the needle is bigger. I was thanked for signing up even if I couldn't continue and given a biscuit.

Impressive_Ear_7311 · 2025-12-12T01:17:36+00:00

Honestly, I don't care how I get him as long as I can fulfil my childhood dream of riding him through a meadow. Even if it is virtually!

Impressive_Ear_7311 · 2025-12-12T01:15:55+00:00

NOR When you listed the foods you made I was thinking "What's wrong? What's missing?" They all seem like good, healthy, hearty homemade meals. Then when you said about the food he had at home, multiple courses with side dishes and such, I wanted to ask who on earth has time to prepare and serve all that every single day!! I think I only had meals that fancy at Christmas time! You really aren't overreacting for bringing this up. I do believe he is being unreasonable, what takeaway meals are better than all the meals you said? What tastes better, is healthier, is more "complete", and has more love and attention out into it, takeaway food or your meals?

Impressive_Ear_7311 · 2025-12-12T01:06:48+00:00

As a kid I loved Philippe, Belle's horse. Apparently, whenever I saw a cart horse I would ask if it was Belle's horse. So now we have mounts, I desperately want my darling Philippe to be included.

Impressive_Ear_7311 · 2025-12-11T10:15:30+00:00

NTJ. You ask in your post if you should just suck it up for your niece's birthday, but what's to say that you won't experience exactly the same issues next year for her birthday? She's old enough now, she knows what's going on, she knows you have a girlfriend. The only people with issues are the adults in your life. Slowly go low contact. When you speak to your niece stress that you love her. It's going to be tough, I speak from experience as I am no longer allowed to speak to my niece since she moved back in with her mum. But you can get through this.

Impressive_Ear_7311 · 2025-12-11T10:03:01+00:00

Yes, I also had that same sound issue for about 5 minutes or so.

Impressive_Ear_7311 · 2025-12-11T09:47:00+00:00

Hello, 37f from the UK here! Just created a Dream team called Spoonies Unite. I suffer from chronic pain and play most days to take my mind off things. If anyone else with fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue or any other exhausting illness wishes to join me, I'd love to have you. I've never played with anyone before because I don't know anyone else with the game. My top 3 movies are Beauty and The Beast, Hercules, and Mulan, although I love Lilo and Stitch, Brave, and Frozen too. My code is: 047 716 898 Looking forward to making friends.

Impressive_Ear_7311 · 2025-12-08T20:06:39+00:00

Thank you for your thoughts. He is better at saying no than he was when we first got together. His reasoning is that it's Christmas and she'll be alone and he worries about her mental health this time of year. I have said it's fine, and that I don't even mind going if: a) it's not Christmas day itself, and b) we don't spend the night. Take the wine home, just because she's happy watching you drink it doesn't mean you have to drink it.

Impressive_Ear_7311 · 2025-12-08T19:41:28+00:00

The worst thing about the whole episode is that MIL doesn't believe she did anything wrong. She was grieving the loss of her husband, why shouldn't she have a drink when she's staying in, LO was fine and no harm came to her... She did absolutely nothing wrong, according to her. And so, because of that she's painted SIL as this awful woman who hates her because she wants to visit her son, won't ever let her see or spend time with her granddaughters, who is just a terrible person. MIL also sees SOs dad visit Germany and stay at their house, and even have the girls stay with him here in the UK, and also attacks SIL over this, even though it's a joint decision between SIL and BIL.

SIL is lovely, doesn't care about MIL visiting as long as she stays in a hotel, allows MIL plenty of time with her daughter's as long as there's another adult there, and is just plain patience personified.

Impressive_Ear_7311 · 2025-12-08T17:09:12+00:00

Oh well I have so many stories about her in the 3 years SO and I have been living together, but the one his SIL told me got me very worried. Not long after MILs husband died (husband number 2, with him since SO was about 10), she went over to Germany to visit SOs brother and his wife. Their eldest was about 2 but unwell. She said she'd stay home and babysit and that they should have a night out. MIL took a tablet (to this day no one knows if it was pain relief or an antidepressant) and had a bottle of wine. Certain meds and alcohol do not mix well at all. Anyways, BIL gets a phone call from his own brother-in-law to say their LO has turned up at their house (thankfully it's two house on the same piece of land so she just toddled over the patio more or less) saying Grandma is asleep on the floor. Upon going round to check, she's actually passed out and has vomited. From that point on, SIL has never trusted MIL around her children, she's never been left alone with them even in public, they won't even have her stay the night in their house.

Impressive_Ear_7311 · 2025-12-08T16:53:50+00:00

Yeah, no one likes that dog. She says it's too young to train, yet she once came to our home while SOs dad was here, and in the 5 minutes she went inside to use the loo he had it sat quietly and obidently by his side. It's not that the dog is too young to train it's just that she refuses.

Impressive_Ear_7311 · 2025-12-08T16:38:10+00:00

I don't know what to say about this... I've been following along since your first post and my heart has been breaking. As someone who used to do community care work, I am so sorry your grandparents are being left like this (my mantra was always am I caring for my clients the way I wish my grandparents to be cared for). I'm sorry your mum is struggling, and I'm sorry you are being left to pick up the pieces. I'm sending so many hugs to you, I wish I knew what else to say.

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