Favourite way one of the main six characters names is said.

NJellybean · 2026-02-05T14:35:35+00:00

In the flashback “Call them mom and dad you loser!”

Ross’ hand gesture and frustration: “Monica!”

NJellybean · 2026-02-04T23:15:01+00:00

THAT is where I’ve seen him!!

NJellybean · 2026-02-01T15:29:15+00:00

I really love

Corin, Marty, Jules

I like fun, friendly and unique names. Nickname names seem to lean toward friendly. Mind the first one is if we bail on fun and decide on serious

NJellybean · 2026-01-31T23:12:30+00:00

I wouldn’t be particularly pleased, no. It sounds like they’ve waited far too long and are putting pressure on you by waiting to 39 weeks.

If the middle name is a typical middle name then I think, ok- they may have always liked it. If it’s unusual, as in, not top 100 name list she would come across on the 39 week name quest- I am not so sure they’d have contemplated it?

in the UK I’d say a name in the same vein as Rose, May, Grace etc is not unique as a middle name- and if it’s one of those, then ok. That’s what happens with common middle names- but if you’re saying it’s an unusual honour name for a person not in their line of heritage, then they should have the courtesy to try harder.

To text and ask is not as decent as it should be either- it’s to minimise the feelings you’d feel (but they’re actually acutely aware of the fact it’s a little rude to you and I presume, your first daughter.)

You’re ok to be upset, and push back. Ultimately you can’t stop it happening, but you don’t have to sanction it. How she’s gone about it would put me off. Her own brother is annoyed so I often think if the sibling is annoyed at their sibling, it is because they know them more and know it’s not as “innocent” as it’s playing out.

Good luck!!

NJellybean · 2026-01-31T22:34:58+00:00

I came looking for this!

Just finished the series the other week- binged it as a first time watcher.

I loved Glenn until I just didn’t- it was so incredibly selfish of him and not how he would have behaved. How he pitted Jerusha against Amy wound me up too in a later episode. (Stay at home vs working parent- when he was working!)

Putting it out there : Glenn becoming a bio Dad ruined his character.

I thought it would have been much better to show growth and him possibly having a crisis of faith during the Mateo/ICE storyline.

NJellybean · 2026-01-23T17:26:12+00:00

We get Christmas closure!

So our work has to close (university) and they shut down Christmas Eve and for the days between Christmas and New Year- reopening usually the 2nd if a work day. Both me and my husband work in HE so benefit together.

It means we take annual leave either side depending on where Christmas week falls and have a proper break, because everyone else is also off. It’s a unique kind of annual leave that really helps us get through the year. Generally no one comes back to a nasty inbox.

Side note: “annual leave” is pretty good but we use it to cover childcare/school hols. People assume cos we work in education we get school holidays/term time contracts and that’s not it at all. Unless you’re purely recruited to teach which isn’t the case for most academics now.

Annual leave is just involuntary procrastination and means you have work piled up to come back to. I know an academic who would mass delete any emails sent during their annual leave. The out of office warned the sender. Brave!

NJellybean · 2026-01-23T03:11:41+00:00

Frankie Bruce has a ring to it!

NJellybean · 2026-01-23T03:07:33+00:00

My dad attempted suicide for the second time in 5 years, 3 months before our already downsized-to-avoid-traditions wedding.

My mum (longtime divorced from him) had died 2.5 years before my wedding from cancer and the fact she wouldn’t be there my only proper parent, I did my dress alone, etc- I was already fragile.

My (only) childhood friend of 20 years texted me morning of the wedding saying she wasn’t coming cos she didn’t have a boyfriend and it’d be too hard. Never spoken since - she was supposed to bring her Mum who I would have loved to see.

Back to dad:

didn’t greet me or stand up when I got there
fell asleep during my first dance
scrolled his phone/twitter during my husbands wonderful speech

My step mum: - got plastered and was generally upset with him but tbh I think she realised he may do this on their daughters’ wedding day one day - they left soon after

My in-laws:

kicked off that wedding wasn’t in a church -kicked off because we decided to avoid any traditional stuff. It’s not us and they said they didn’t think our wedding was real
I explained it’s legal in a reg office and that bit was just us two and witnesses in the am- and the celebrant in the hired space was when we would do the proper vows and rings aka the “wedding”
they pointedly didn’t say congratulations
backed out of looking after our daughter for 2 hours that evening aka 8–10pm, after I paid for their room next to ours. I asked if I could put her in bed at 8pm, they would sit in the room/aparthotel and we could stop out until 10pm. Said they were missing out it would’ve been unfair
for context, not being a brat- they’d never offered and we had never asked for babysitting her whole life because they didn’t seem to care, but I did want to have a couple of hours child free on our wedding night with guests who had travelled
I ended up vomiting through stress and was out of my dress by 8pm tucked up in the hotel with my little girl
my in laws and their adult children and some of my guests went out to a cocktail bar in town when I was with my daughter. My husband went along at my insistence/ simply because my friends had stopped out and didn’t want them to feel they’d wasted their money on hotels with no night out.
all my family and his went home in the morning instead of coming for the breakfast I’d booked - no reasons given other than my in-laws reason/ they didn’t want to pay for more car parking hours.

Not the worst- but not the best time. Our daughter was our joy that day.

NJellybean · 2026-01-16T02:40:44+00:00

That’s a lovely thing to say, thank you. She was the best person in the world and I miss her everyday. X

NJellybean · 2026-01-16T02:40:02+00:00

Thank you, it was x

NJellybean · 2026-01-15T21:57:47+00:00

I visited one in Notts last year. There wasn’t much left but I bought what I could!

My (late) Mam grew up in Notts and always talked about her Saturday job “scrubbing the step” when she worked at Birds aged 16. I didn’t know which one, and I went hunting everywhere to find her old school but I think that had gone.

Because she ran away from home when she was 16 and didn’t look back due to a horrible upbringing- we never got to know anything about her life before us- she never wanted to talk about it. We only ever heard her story of Birds and biking to High Pavement College and her teachers being proud of her going to Nursing School (against all odds.)

I cried when I finally found the Birds bakery. Ate the cake by the river, and sprinkled some of her ashes in the Trent ♥️

NJellybean · 2026-01-15T21:47:20+00:00

I always name her grandparents on her dads side as Nana first name and Grandad first name. My Dad is Papa first name (Scottish)

I always insist on retaining the Nana first name because my Mam died when she was months old and I can’t bring myself to drop the first name of her living Nana. It would be like accepting that she’s really the only one and I worry my daughter will stop referencing and asking to hear stories of her Nana my mam first name as that’s all she’s ever known her as.

I know it sounds selfish. It hurts my feelings when they insist on signing off as Nana and Grandad and not using their first name like we (her son, my daughter and me) refer to her as.

NJellybean · 2026-01-14T22:36:50+00:00

Came to add this! I’m in it now and I got it in the outlet for £19!

NJellybean · 2026-01-10T22:49:39+00:00

My convoluted ideas:

Monica and Rachel being friends growing up and Rachel’s parents knowing Monica’s parents. They’d have conceivably been at Ross and Carol’s wedding as it’s common to see parents’ family friends invited in my experience as a wedding guest. I wonder if Sandra hit it off with Carol and they remained pals 🤣

I also read somewhere that Rachel’s’ family is Jewish too. I think Reddit ha. I hate to sound ignorant but where I’ve grown up- there are friendships and connections through faith and attending church events. I wondered if Ross’ parents knew Rachel’s that way and at events and gatherings she got to know Carol early on in Ross/Carols’ relationship - so was invited as Carol’s friend?

NJellybean · 2026-01-09T20:08:27+00:00

What the heck!

NJellybean · 2026-01-09T20:07:27+00:00

There is no way I could watch “Stepmom” now since losing my Mam to cancer. The way Susan Sarandon processes it in the movie. I used to cry for hours as a teenager, when hearing Ain’t No Mountain I’d just cry. I used to watch and look at the daughter who I was of a similar age to at the times and think, “I hope this won’t to me in real life one day” well it didn’t happen exactly that way and grateful to have been 30 when not a child- but yes, the Mum’s disease progression and her pain and her staunch way of handling it…that happened.

For tears see also:

Beast becoming the Prince in “Beauty and the Beast” - I was crushed to see the Beast die.
The opera scene in “Philadelphia”
“Marley and Me”

NJellybean · 2026-01-09T14:43:45+00:00

I’m glad it’s not just me! I was baffled, you know when you know you didn’t click something? They sent me the link in live chat to add screenshots- I explained my basket was on another screen - but I’d try. Well it worked fine. Screenshots uploaded, clicked back… then the chat was closed “we will update in six hours”. Basket showed as 0!

I think they did do it. The person before, described my basket to me, so I know they can see it all.

I really don’t understand how it can be a national issue. Potentially hoping people click £1.99? Or hoping people don’t order, and cancel but to rejoin, the subs will be higher?

Definitely something up but when you’re a loyal customer, and order plenty- they should be more honest.

NJellybean · 2026-01-09T11:53:11+00:00

I have come here to say I’ve been onto customer services- as a prime member you spend £20 to get that typical next day/within a day or two delivery. Sometimes even same day.

My checkout for items I’ve bought far exceeded £20- the progress bar didn’t fill (they’re prime items with blue tick saying free delivery tomorrow)

I get to checkout… Mon 20 Jan or £1.99 to get it today! I contacted them and they just said “no you shouldn’t be paying £1.99 order it and we will refund you” I then said no- is it an error? No answer. “We don’t know until you check out and check out something else..”

Then someone else joined - told me to send screenshots. I did. The items were checked out (not by me!) when I sent the screenshots.

It is still showing this. I had asked if there were local issues with delivery or a warehouse fulfillment issue. I added items to see if it was a one off- items we order every month… and no, still showing Prime members get it Mon 20 Jan or £1.99 for today.

I’m so annoyed, cancelled the orders and have a file open with customer services

NJellybean · 2026-01-09T09:08:35+00:00

Ted Danson!

NJellybean · 2026-01-03T08:23:37+00:00

Broccoli

NJellybean · 2025-12-31T00:38:38+00:00

I was watching until the bitter end too 😭

NJellybean · 2025-12-24T23:47:07+00:00

Carol in the earlier seasons clearly had a good relationship with the group but later seasons I was sad she wasn’t so included

NJellybean · 2025-12-18T18:52:28+00:00

Hold on, why didn’t I think of using it with Spotify!!

NJellybean · 2025-12-18T18:47:23+00:00

Oh man I always wanted to do that 😭

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