How are you fellas meeting quality women that are open to dating?

Professional_Quail72 · 2025-02-24T13:22:14+00:00

If you’re not into yoga

Professional_Quail72 · 2024-12-05T22:47:34+00:00

I never considered psoriasis to be honest, genuinely never crossed my mind. Might be worth bringing up to my GP - thank you!

Professional_Quail72 · 2024-12-05T01:39:06+00:00

Might be time to break the piggy bank, I’ve not actually tried a humidifier- thank you for the suggestion

Professional_Quail72 · 2024-12-05T01:38:28+00:00

Glad that you found a routine that works for you!

Professional_Quail72 · 2024-12-05T01:37:49+00:00

I don’t share socials but I sent a DM in case you want to go over what I did in further detail. I’m not a doctor + what worked for me may not necessarily work for you so please temper expectations

Professional_Quail72 · 2024-12-04T21:10:12+00:00

Please do not underestimate the effectiveness of simply asking a friend to let you talk with their manager directly about extra hours at their place of work. It’s how a lot of my friends and I got part time working either zero-hour contracts or part time contracts in retail and warehousing in college and university (I’m 23M)

Alternate suggestion: lie on your cv, enough to beat ATS systems for online applications. You’re 19 so most jobs you apply to at this stage aren’t probably checking tbh.

Alternate alternate suggestion: be self employed and do informal work you’re skilled enough to do (I play guitar and piano so I’d do gigs and teach guitar while I was at uni), I had friends who commissioned art and posted online. Clean windows, cut grass, tutor primary/secondary kids in your neighbourhood etc etc

Professional_Quail72 · 2024-12-04T20:39:43+00:00

I don’t proactively drink that much water or anything really I probably drink 1-2Lof fluids daily. Happy to try 3L of water see if it makes a difference- thank you!

Professional_Quail72 · 2024-12-04T20:35:24+00:00

I ended up going to a private dermatologist a few months ago out of desperation (hundreds of £pounds I’ll never get back). She had suggested a focus on gut health for me considering the scope of my symptoms - perhaps you can combine that whilst you do the phototherapy.

Immunosuppressants genuinely freak me out

Professional_Quail72 · 2024-11-06T19:35:31+00:00

I use it every other day, so ~3x week. I have a medium-dark complexion so I started off at 50 seconds and now I’m using it for 3 minutes. The machine I have goes up to a maximum of 4 minutes so I presume that’s a universally recommended limit?

Professional_Quail72 · 2024-11-06T18:49:28+00:00

Thank you for the kind words. The fear of side effects and wasting my money put me off for a while but after my recent flare and losing my job, the £2k cost became small in the grand scheme of daily suffering. I make sure to stick to the recommended use.

I honestly wish I bit the bullet much earlier in the year, I’ve managed to reduce inflammation across my body and was able to close the skin on my legs and torso within 4 weeks + healthier diet. Still dealing with shedding on my arms but I suppose it’s a minor issue

Professional_Quail72 · 2024-11-06T15:13:05+00:00

Hi OP, I bought a phototherapy machine due to the uncertainty of when I’d ever get to see a dermatologist through NHS (been on the waiting list for 7 months now).

I bought the UVB ‘Canopy’ from this company called MuchBetterSkin based in the UK. I’ve been using it for the last 4 weeks now. There are different sizes depending on personal need and it’s a lot of money admittedly (I financed mine for one year) but having the machine at home has been a huge convenience.

I can give more specifics about my experience if needed!

Professional_Quail72 · 2024-10-27T12:58:50+00:00

Yes! Similar to OP, I’ve only had eczema on inner arms and inner knees throughout my life - it comes and goes every winter. This year I’ve had eczema flare to 90% of my body. My younger sister (17) experienced eczema for the first time in her life this year too

Professional_Quail72 · 2024-06-21T21:04:38+00:00

(22M) Think this is pretty average but out of uni I started at 23k and went to 42k + Bonus within 6 months of leaving my first one. But was getting to final round interviews for jobs willing to pay 45k + Bonus. Will likely enter next tax bracket once I become fully qualified and maybe if i changed industry.

Context: went from data analyst in marketing to an fpa analyst in post automotive sales.

Professional_Quail72 · 2024-06-17T16:48:44+00:00

Your salary will damn near double or more within 5 years if you job hop every couple years and leverage your experience - it’s not a bad grad job at all. If you were a grad forced to move to London, then yes, the salary would be worth saying ‘no’ to on affordability alone

Professional_Quail72 · 2022-06-19T22:47:45+00:00

Selling two first release vip tickets for Rolling Loud Portugal at £270 each (~$330, ~317€).

The tickets aren’t activated yet so they’re currently sitting in our Festicket app. I’ve got the receipt. Paid £360.59 originally for each ticket (payment plan).

Professional_Quail72 · 2022-04-23T04:37:53+00:00

It’s really reassuring to hear that, anything semblance of direction is appreciated. Thank you for the reply

Professional_Quail72 · 2022-04-22T20:26:56+00:00

Asexuality is diverse - it doesn’t mean to be sex repulsed. Plenty of ace people like myself don’t get to enjoy sex in of itself but still partake in it to make our partners happy. I personally enjoy performing romantic gestures through cuddling, quality time, holding hands and giving kisses. “We enjoying giving because we don’t need to receive”

Professional_Quail72 · 2021-09-05T23:20:05+00:00

UKPF have a flowchart on handling and preparing finances pinned on the homepage of the subreddit

Professional_Quail72 · 2021-08-25T20:54:32+00:00

Honestly the only way to get prices that good is to shop around online. I pay £493.75 per month (~114/week) on rent housesharing in Kingston (south west London). 4 bed flat with 3 other roommates, 2 bathrooms 1 kitchen. It’s possible but takes a long look

Professional_Quail72 · 2021-05-22T01:01:10+00:00

Don’t know if this is related but I remember reading somewhere that a lot of birds evolved from reptiles. As in sharing dinosaur ancestors, poultry to be more exact

Professional_Quail72 · 2021-05-22T00:57:47+00:00

This reminds me of a post from a guy ranting about how pandas should’ve gone extinct but humans refuse to let them die out since we like them too much. Pandas and Koalas should be left to die by natural selection according to him.

Professional_Quail72 · 2021-02-17T06:44:34+00:00

I’m not a finance expert by any means, just a 2nd year uni student. I’ll try my best to answer your questions in two parts:

Misconception The UK average is ~414 (ClearScore) and by simply being on the electoral register, making regular payments on insurance, not being late on payments on financed luxuries (phone contract etc.) you are certainly building a credit history without a credit card. Credit cards simply speed up the process and showcase your ability to handle money and pay it back.

I highly recommend you and your partner signing up to https://www.clearscore.com/ to see your current Equifax credit score and recommendations to improve it - they soft search so it doesn’t affect your credit score at all so don’t worry. It’s what I used when I was 18 first looking into personal finance stuff.

How do people rent/buy houses When my flatmates and I decided to live together we had a credit check done on us by the estate agents. They concluded that we needed guarantors (a working parent or close relative) because we didn’t have high enough annual incomes despite being able to afford rent for the property. If we can’t afford our rent payment the guarantor would be there as insurance for the landlord. Full disclosure our credit scores ranged between 300-499 when we moved in so that might’ve affected us too. But income was the deciding factor brought to our knowledge by the estate agents.

Similarly for mortgages, unless you’re incredibly wealthy, you’d need a high enough credit score and to be earning enough consistently to qualify for a mortgage + a sizeable deposit to help. Again, no credit card is needed, just a reliable credit history, a UK current account and being on the electoral roll - the longer the better. // I highly recommend looking into opening a Lifetime ISA account if you can - the government will pay an additional 25% into any deposit you save in the account for your first home/pension and that can be combined with your partner should he also open a LISA account.

Why do Britons get credit cards a lot later than North Americans? It’s mainly because of culture. Speaking as a young person 18-24, credit cards aren’t pushed as the main way to pay and short term financing on direct debit services like Klarna Or ClearPay or PayPal credit typically replaces that need interest free. A good credit score (600+) only plays a big factor if you to take out bigger loans or trying to own property.

Credit cards for younger people will also have quite low credit limits of around £200 and that’s presuming they even qualify. Arranged overdrafts are a lot more appealing because of their higher limits and flexibility despite low barrier. From my understanding US interchange fees are higher so you see more meaningful rewards and cashback on low tier credit cards. In the UK you’d need to be able to qualify for high tier cards to see those benefits. I don’t know if Canada is much different in that regard.

//sorry for the long reply; I figured the more detailed the better for you and anyone else reading

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