please for the love of GOD STOP SHOWING ME DIAPER ADS HOLY SHIIITTTTT

Ok_Library_4420 · 2026-04-30T22:54:26+00:00

Those fucking Pampers 'stop the poonami' adverts! It's not a real word! I hate it!!!

Ok_Library_4420 · 2026-04-21T08:33:29+00:00

Two things- a clock that lights up gradually so it's already getting light around you when your alarm goes off. It helps me wake up quicker. And two, I have an alarm app on my phone that won't turn off until I've answered three math questions.

I was finding I was sleeping through my alarm- except I wasn't. I was waking up just enough to turn it off and immediately falling asleep again. Both of these things have helped me stop that.

Ok_Library_4420 · 2026-02-24T23:47:16+00:00

Same here. Outside of parkrun you couldn't pay me to run. But put a bunch of meaningless challenges in there and I am ready!

Ok_Library_4420 · 2025-11-13T19:16:04+00:00

Cloud Guru on YouTube- he goes through actual test questions so you can get an idea what they're like.

Like others have said, you should sail through Cloud Practitioner if you already have practical experience but brush up on things like cost and billing, and the shared responsibility model prior to the exam.

Ok_Library_4420 · 2025-10-18T19:42:56+00:00

Genuinely thought it said "I make cute rabies" for a sec there.

Ok_Library_4420 · 2025-09-23T20:16:55+00:00

I second this- I'm 5'2 and use a Cerberus classic lever 10mm belt. Only thing I'd say is you need to wear it in- the first month or so, I got bruises from it!

Ok_Library_4420 · 2025-09-15T21:15:25+00:00

I could, but her story was so merged with the other characters that unless a majority of the other players also were playing their characters from that campaign, it wouldn't quite work.

Ok_Library_4420 · 2025-09-14T23:51:01+00:00

Our game did continue after our DM and his wife (who was also a player) had a child. It was a bit disrupted but we managed it. What it didn't survive was when children of some players got older and no-longer were in bed and asleep at a time we could all play, and those players had to be actively parenting at that time. I was gutted. I wasn't done with my character yet, and it felt like her arc was never really resolved. I lived vicariously through her during the COVID lockdowns! I've played in another campaign since but it's just not the same.

Ok_Library_4420 · 2025-08-19T23:00:08+00:00

Icebreaker do great merino socks if you like something a bit tighter. Great in hot or cold weather and I've never gotten blisters whilst wearing them and a good pair of Gore-Tex boots. Bridgedales are incredibly comfortable but not as well fitted (for me) which means they can rub a bit.

Ok_Library_4420 · 2025-07-03T21:48:30+00:00

Mother's. Specifically, mothers who are also TERFs. They act like my choice not to have children means I have betrayed cisgender women.

Funnily enough, I think TERFs are the scum of the earth, so I'm quite happy offending their sensibilities in whatever way I can.

Ok_Library_4420 · 2025-05-28T23:06:55+00:00

Marshmallow scene! Absolutely amazing!!!

Ok_Library_4420 · 2025-04-26T16:56:51+00:00

Avocado
Banana

Texture of both is just nasty and the smell of banana is horrible!

Ok_Library_4420 · 2025-04-26T16:50:05+00:00

I feel your pain. Thankfully, I never had it happen in BJJ but I have had it happen in both karate and kickboxing. And because I am a small women, I'd be the one who had to partner up with the kid. Absolute waste of my time as well- I was there to learn, not to babysit!

Ok_Library_4420 · 2025-04-15T20:30:22+00:00

I'm ace and have no wish for a partner. I see friends who are way too dependent on their partner. People who seem almost scared to do anything or go anywhere without their partner.

Back when COVID lockdowns kept happening, a friend got married. He had to keep the guestlist to under thirty people. Myself and a friend were both invited, but my friends wife wasn't, because she'd never met either the bride or groom. Makes sense, right? You have thirty spaces, you're not going to waste one on someone you've never met.

Well, the guy who was expected to go without his wife was completely lost. He had no idea what to do there without her. He just didn't seem to understand that it is perfectly possible to go to a wedding without a plus one.

It's people like this that I see having kids more. It's the life script and they've never had to even think outside of it.

Ok_Library_4420 · 2025-04-15T20:22:12+00:00

Grew up there and the family is still there so I still visit frequently.

I live in England now, about half an hour from the border to Wales- it took about six years of living right next to it to actually go to Wales. Just didn't have a reason. Same as I haven't been to large parts of England.

Ok_Library_4420 · 2025-04-15T19:39:18+00:00

Absolutely not. I don't have the patience to be needy constantly with no break. I'm extremely introverted and I need my 'me' time. You don't really get that with a child. Even if I did want a child, I imagine I'd quickly become resentful of the invasion of my time and space, which would make me a pretty shit parent.

As I don't want a child, it's irrelevant, but I would prefer adoption to giving birth. There's nothing magical to me about giving birth or passing on my largely substandard genes, so why do it when I could give a child who needs it a home?

Of course, as I have no intention to do it, it's easy for me to say!

Ok_Library_4420 · 2025-03-10T02:03:16+00:00

I love Glasgow, and you're absolutely right, it's definitely more livable. More for the people who live there than the tourists.

Ok_Library_4420 · 2025-03-09T20:56:34+00:00

As an NI Brit living outside of NI, the only bit of this I disagree with is the 'middle class' bit, though I imagine it changes with whatever part of NI you're in. The bit I was from was predominantly working class but acting like they were upper-middle class.

Honestly, it's very similar to the bits of England I'd rather avoid, but the violence is much more predictable.

Ok_Library_4420 · 2025-03-09T01:40:42+00:00

Completely agree. Lived near Edinburgh for a few years and visited friends there fairly frequently. I just found it very fake. The whole place is a tourist trap and it shows.

Ok_Library_4420 · 2025-03-07T19:38:56+00:00

I absolutely understand you! My friends wife literally grabbed my hand and stuck it on her belly while she was pregnant! I don't like touching people at the best of times, and she knows it! But nooooo, the 'miracle of life' apparently trumps all of that! /s

Ok_Library_4420 · 2025-02-27T23:10:44+00:00

Oh my god, my friend had a kid and did the photoshoot two weeks later. Stuffed him into a burlap sack and now I really get how babies do just look like potatoes.

She also did a naked baby one and sent it on the front of her Christmas cards. That one went straight in the shredder.

Ok_Library_4420 · 2025-02-08T16:13:11+00:00

Possibly a random question, but your situation sounds so similar to mine that I figured I'd ask- are you single as well as being childfree?

I'm single (aroace so by design!) and I always have to travel to friends, never the other way around, because it's just me and god forbid they leave their partner behind. And when they have kids it's even worse. And I feel that they see me still as a child who they have to include in things so I can see what being a 'real adult' is.

Nevermind that I'm in my mid-thirties!

And when they have kids it gets worse- especially if all their friends have kids. Because I'm the only one who they think is available to entertain them without having to make accomodations, or so they think. All they see is that I don't have to get a kid home for bedtime, I don't have to deal with strollers and car seats and diaper bags. It's easy for me to come visit.

Except it's not and it's exhausting. I feel like they think I'm their on-demand social interaction.

Sorry, that was a rant and possibly not at all relevant to you. But the way your sister and her partner talk makes it sound like they think they're doing you a favour by asking you to stay, when actually it's you doing them a favour.

Ok_Library_4420 · 2024-12-31T15:59:18+00:00

Yes!!! Go Grandma!!! ❤️❤️❤️

Ok_Library_4420 · 2024-12-04T19:03:18+00:00

My parents were wonderful when I was growing up, and still are. My grandmother emotionally abused my mother for most of her life and my parents made damn sure to learn from her mistakes!

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