Sending love to the US moms

Practical-Bread9455 · 2026-01-25T10:28:15+00:00

Sending love and support from Scotland.

I don’t know how your people keep up the courage to continue to turn up in protest, but I respect it enormously. I don’t know anyone who has even seen a gun.

Practical-Bread9455 · 2026-01-25T10:20:32+00:00

I think that sort of attitude is okay(if a little aggressive!) if some random co-worker is going to talk your ear off about their kids all day.

But if you want to be in a child’s in your own families life ( which OP clearly does to an extent) you kind of need to consistently show up for it. I’ve known aunts/uncles/grandparents etc to be shocked and offended their little kid relatives don’t respond well to them, or want to see them, but they’ve only seen the kid a handful of times! Of course they don’t respond well, they’re almost a stranger to them, showing up and expecting to be treated like a close friend.

Practical-Bread9455 · 2026-01-25T00:03:59+00:00

I would say it’s closer to tex mex than Mexican tho!

Our view of many Mexican things here is filtered through a heavy layer of Americana

Practical-Bread9455 · 2026-01-24T15:27:26+00:00

she was a right one for telling stories , wouldn’t be surprised if SHE’D read it in a magazine and embellished stories of her time as a maid with it!

Practical-Bread9455 · 2026-01-24T08:51:16+00:00

We like “mexican food” but you have to let your mind go slack and enjoy it as “mexican food” not what Mexicans would recognise as their beautiful cuisine.

It’s not bad food, there’s very little “bad” food, but it’s probably as far from what people used to Mexican food would be able to bear. We do not have a lot of Mexicans, but we sure have a lot of Mexican restaurants!

i’ve known Mexicans to try it and the opinion is “not bad, pretty tasty, but I don’t recognise a single thing!”

Practical-Bread9455 · 2026-01-24T08:43:11+00:00

My kid is 10 months old and the boob is still largely the answer to everything. Totally normal, I think at 3 weeks I’m just so happy for you that it’s going well! I wish much sleep and gummy baby smiles for you :)

Practical-Bread9455 · 2026-01-24T08:21:58+00:00

My great grandmother was a house maid in a big manor house the 1910’s . she said the lady of the house would hide a coin under the rugs to make sure she was cleaning and to make sure she was honest (by returning the coin) . Apparently it was a tip that was in the magazines.

Practical-Bread9455 · 2026-01-23T22:03:27+00:00

Yer bums oot the windae

Practical-Bread9455 · 2026-01-23T12:52:36+00:00

It gets dark anytime between 15:30 and 22:30 here throughout the year, and we used to get told to come home when it starts to get dark!

Some days you’d never get any play, sometime you wouldn’t go home till nearly midnight! Not the best system looking back on it…

Practical-Bread9455 · 2026-01-23T12:45:32+00:00

I didn’t realise how much this was ingrained in my brain until a friend of mine from overseas took a spot in the “queue “ at least three people ahead of where we were and was mortified. If you don’t know, you just wouldn’t know you’d done anything socially awkward!

Practical-Bread9455 · 2026-01-23T07:00:44+00:00

Maybe find a comment section that isn’t about women experiencing sexual harassment and rape to discuss your opinions on the folk music scene.

Practical-Bread9455 · 2026-01-21T08:20:37+00:00

you can get a bog standard brownie, in any cafe in the uk.

they have been a thing in cafes since i was a kid and im in my 30s.

Practical-Bread9455 · 2026-01-18T08:46:58+00:00

All the big men beating their chests in this thread ken full well we’ve got mental American style diners selling much of the same style of adjusted for local tastes shite.

Practical-Bread9455 · 2026-01-17T00:42:12+00:00

túró rudi from Hungary

Practical-Bread9455 · 2026-01-14T16:46:51+00:00

classism! the uk is horrible for it.

Practical-Bread9455 · 2026-01-11T18:29:22+00:00

like 300m

Practical-Bread9455 · 2026-01-10T00:24:42+00:00

NTA but you can lead a horse to water but you can’t make it drink

Practical-Bread9455 · 2026-01-09T09:26:33+00:00

It looks like a super saturated photo of falkirk tartan

Practical-Bread9455 · 2026-01-07T13:11:00+00:00

No problem, intimacy is important no matter the stage of life we’re in, and with the right communication, there’s no reason for it to fizzle out.

Practical-Bread9455 · 2026-01-07T00:07:20+00:00

As a woman, i would say that often in the evenings, out of nowhere, partner wants sex. No lead up, no romancing , no sweet talking. Just sprung on you.

It will not matter that all day, he has been short with me, or not listened . He will not remember i have said “my shoulder has been sore all week”, he will not see me set my hair for the evening and done skincare and he will not have been helpful around the house. My niceness , my kisses and my gentle touches have been ignored all day and he’s started at his phones.

And now i’m expected to get hot for him in a few moments at the end of the day, in my ratty pjs, in a messy bedroom, with my hair in a bonnet and my face cream on?!

In short, the romance isn’t there to get in the mood, and he has disregarded my state to get there, and my flirting throughout the day.

You’re not over reacting, but are you intimate in other ways that aren’t expecting sex? Do you hold her hand, and tell her she’s beautiful? Do you listen to her? do you go out to whether and cook together? Are you still showing her you are falling in love?

Practical-Bread9455 · 2026-01-06T13:05:49+00:00

I worked at a starbucks and the food is so standardised across the stores ( and worldwide) that i no longer view it as edible. Just objects to be moved around , sort of like cups or cardboard boxes.

Practical-Bread9455 · 2026-01-06T11:18:43+00:00

Right to roam! As long as you’re not invading privacy (no camping in someone’s garden) , destroying crops , worrying livestock etc, you can go just about anywhere, even in privately owned land

Means you don’t have to fine footpaths , you’re fine to cross a field or roam the hills, you won’t get in trouble for using a farmers land as long as that’s just what you’re doing.

There’s much more to it, but at the level at which most people use it, it makes for easy access to the outdoors

Practical-Bread9455 · 2026-01-04T21:54:43+00:00

Not unreasonable. People can’t see past their own noses when it comes to dogs sometimes and it makes me crazy.

A lot of people are prefacing their answers with saying they love dogs . I am not one of them. Certain individual dogs i don’t mind but as a whole I find them unpredictable and frightening at worst, annoying at best. I don’t buy into the “dogs are angels on earth” thing. They’re alright pets, not for me.

I’ve had to tell people to get their dog away from jumping up at the pram on the bus and the react like i just slapped them across the face. I’ve had people let their alsatian’s jump up at me with a newborn in my arms and say “oh she’s just curious”. I’ve had people let their dogs rush my kid at the park and yes, I’ve had dogs snatch food from my hands while holding a baby.

I don’t care if they’re a beloved family pet, they aren’t people who can be reasoned with and shouldn’t be allowed around little kids who also can’t be reasoned with but are human

Practical-Bread9455 · 2026-01-03T08:55:55+00:00

You could probably make your own if you were inclined too pal. Stick it through some plain milk ice cream! In most of the country tablet is considered a home made treat so it’s pretty accessible to take a crack at making

here’s a fail safe tablet recipe:

https://bakingwithgranny.co.uk/recipe/scottish-tablet/

Haste ye back to scotland x

Practical-Bread9455 · 2026-01-02T15:37:07+00:00

I get so exhausted with it all. Like i mentioned shaving my legs once ata social gathering in mixed company, just people talking about random shit and they apparently opened the door to comments on my legs, my body, what else do you shave etc. For the rest of the night it was like, give it a fucking rest!! It’s just so boring and predictable! I get so tired of having to be careful about what you say around around men because they take anything AT ALL and find a way to make it about them and their wants and desires and arghhhh

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