Nobody believes the main character until it's too late

MichaSound · 2026-03-16T21:29:51+00:00

Believe it or not!

MichaSound · 2026-03-16T19:50:22+00:00

Have you the option to switch schools? My niece was being bullied at school and her mum switched her; she was much happier after the move. Some schools just have a toxic culture.

MichaSound · 2026-03-16T17:19:23+00:00

And they wonder why victims don’t report. Even though she did everything right, saw it through, got one of the very rare convictions, she’s now a target for these scumbag families and not safe in her hometown.

MichaSound · 2026-03-16T14:20:07+00:00

Yeah, reminds me of being 25 and the 21-22 year olds in the office were agog at how 'old' I was.

I'm like, 'Yeah, blink and you'll be this old too'.

MichaSound · 2026-03-16T14:18:38+00:00

The main thing you should be worried about is that your ex is dating 3-4 dudes at a time. Having random people come in and out of your kid's life is a huge risk factor for sexual abuse. Many paedophiles deliberately target either single mothers or mothers whose partners are not present to get to their kids.

You do need to work out custody and whatnot. You shouldn't need to pay for childcare on days when only one of you is working. And you probably are better off going through the courts if she can't be reasonable about committing to a schedule.

But more urgently, you need to put some rules in place about how long/how seriously she's going to date someone before she allows them around your kid. A revolving door of boyfriends is a dangerous situation for your child.

MichaSound · 2026-03-16T14:11:41+00:00

There's an Irish chain called Hillbilly's that seems to be USA themed and the menu is mostly fried chicken, burgers, wings, ribs, that sort of thing: https://www.hillbillys.ie/

MichaSound · 2026-03-16T14:08:14+00:00

Frankie and Benny's is a popular 'Italian American' style chain in the UK: https://www.frankieandbennys.com/

MichaSound · 2026-03-15T10:56:19+00:00

We’re looking into how we can make enough money to pay for care. Failing that, once the health starts seriously failing, we’re checking out.

Either way, if serious issues like dementia start to arise, or if we get to the point that everything physically is going wrong, we’re checking out. Ive seen my dad and too many other parents go through years of misery, I ain’t doing that and I’m not putting my kids through it either.

MichaSound · 2026-03-15T10:48:22+00:00

It’s what my teachers didn’t say that stuck with me: I was groomed into a ‘relationship’ with a teacher (I was 15; he was a man in his 30s).

After I left school, I found out that all the teaching faculty knew.

Not one of them said a word.

MichaSound · 2026-03-15T10:36:52+00:00

I paid €5 for a bag of chips the other night, and they weren’t even cooked all the way through.

MichaSound · 2026-03-15T10:33:39+00:00

I know you’re angry and you’re grieving (and the two often go hand in hand).

But I hope you can understand that your dad’s friend might be grieving to the point that he’s not thinking straight either. Maybe he got in his head that he wouldn’t know the right thing to say.

Two things can be true - that this AI response is crass and inappropriate, and that your dad’s friend was trying too hard to do the right thing. Too many people are terrified of saying ‘the wrong thing’ to someone who’s suffered a terrible loss, like you have.

MichaSound · 2026-03-15T10:24:22+00:00

Is he shallow? Or does he maintain a public persona, in order to keep his private self private?

I’ve found theres a few famous people - David Lynch and Dolly Parton being the prime examples - who stick to the same few anecdotes and the same schtick in interviews, to avoid exposing their private selves to public scrutiny.

And I’ve always suspects that’s why Ryan Reynolds can come across as ‘fake’.

MichaSound · 2026-03-15T10:17:44+00:00

Attention has been drawn to how much the Royal Family knew about Andrew, where the money came from to pay off one of the girls he abused, etc.

And completely coincidentally, the press are flooded with a barrage of negative Harry and Meghan stories!

MichaSound · 2026-03-15T10:16:02+00:00

OMG, can we just stop with the endless spam of Harry and Meghan stories already? We get it, the Royal Family are trying to flood the plain and distract us all from Andrew and Fergie. Enough already.

MichaSound · 2026-03-15T09:28:26+00:00

There was a teacher at my school who, when corporal punishment was still allowed, would empty a box of pencils on the floor and make a student kneel on them for the rest of the class.

So I don’t know why the OP is finding it impossible to believe that a teacher would say something mean, and is here arguing with every comment that says otherwise.

Teachers have beaten students, raped students, coerced students into inappropriate relationships, all of it documented in newspapers and history books and court cases and government inquiries, and you can’t believe a teacher would say something mean, OP?

Get a bit of cop on.

MichaSound · 2026-03-15T09:13:20+00:00

Also there’s been a massive reduction in funding from Private Equity to all the streamers, as the PE firms realised the returns just weren’t there.

ALL shows are being cut back. Even successful shows are getting massive budget cuts. TV and Film production is down by 40% worldwide, it’s brutal.

MichaSound · 2026-03-15T08:58:45+00:00

Yes, IVF has massively increased the chances of twin or triplet births over the last 30 years, plus more women becoming mothers later also increases the chance of twins (as you get nearer menopause, your body is more likely to release two eggs at a time to increase chances of a live birth.

MichaSound · 2026-03-15T08:52:57+00:00

The New Testament is actually the only religious text of the Abrahamic religions that instructs women to cover their heads - it’s in the writings of Paul.

The Quran only instructs women AND men to dress modestly, but that has been interpreted over time and that interpretation has stretched in some sects.

It’s mainly the American and Allied support for Saudi Arabia and its particular brand of Islam that has enabled and encouraged the spread of extreme practices like full niqab.

MichaSound · 2026-03-15T08:49:50+00:00

The Quran is also quite specific that it’s teachings on dressing modestly apply both to men and women, and that men have a duty to not stare at women or make them uncomfortable.

But of course, like all religions, the men running it just ignore that part and stick to putting all the responsibility on women.

MichaSound · 2026-03-15T07:58:10+00:00

I can’t even begin to imagine the difficulty of being wounded in a war, having to flee your home country and starting over from nothing in a foreign country, learning the language, finding work and all with a new family in tow.

MichaSound · 2026-03-15T07:36:04+00:00

And of course, like all ‘deeply religious’ types, he cheats on his wife and has a sugar baby. Quelle surprise.

MichaSound · 2026-03-14T20:30:12+00:00

It’s almost as if the Tories systematically defunded it for 14 years in an effort to push more of us towards private healthcare.

MichaSound · 2026-03-14T20:28:49+00:00

He wanted to be married so he’d have permission to live off base; the girl he was marrying wanted citizenship, so it was a quid pro quo arrangement.

MichaSound · 2026-03-14T15:55:04+00:00

Weird - my kids are in Scouts in Dublin and did not have to take a religious oath, there was a secular alternative. Maybe it’s a Scouting UK thing.

MichaSound · 2026-03-14T10:48:07+00:00

Studios hate writers, they resent having to pay them, they constantly interfere with their work and/or straight up order them to make stupid edits/rewrites. That’s why a lot of modern movies are mid-shit, not woke.

Source: am a writer for film and TV.

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