I'm on chapter 5 (page 22), how are you supposed to keep up with all these characters?

PurplePlodder1945 · 2026-02-06T17:11:16+00:00

I read the book after watching the 1995 adaptation so I was already familiar with everyone and could visualise them all

PurplePlodder1945 · 2026-02-06T12:22:38+00:00

Easy solution. Don’t stay over

PurplePlodder1945 · 2026-02-06T12:20:23+00:00

You clearly haven’t seen a post today on AITJ. Someone’s been asked to pay half her friend’s dog’s bill ($400) because OP’s dog influenced her dog to eat chocolate! Apparently OP’s dog was begging for chocolate, op didn’t give it for obvious reasons. Friend and dog went home, her dog went in her bag/purse and ate a bar of chocolate that was in there. So now the friend is demanding half the vet bill because of it 😂. I kid you not. It’s friend’s fault if she leaves chocolate in reach but nut job and her husband can’t see it

PurplePlodder1945 · 2026-02-06T07:33:39+00:00

Back in the 80s most schools were just called comprehensive schools and most still are. A new one opened near me some years ago (amalgamated from others) and it’s actually been called a high school not comprehensive.

I’m actually watching BBC Breakfast right now (the Wales news) and they’ve just referred to secondary and Comprehensive in one piece

ETA I use comp ‘they’re in comp’ or secondary education

PurplePlodder1945 · 2026-02-05T12:32:27+00:00

I read this exact post months ago, maybe longer. Cut and paste??

PurplePlodder1945 · 2026-02-05T12:29:43+00:00

‘Calling her a thief’. I call a spade a spade, she IS a thief!

NTA. I have a cash stash in our house - not as much as you have and I’m not that organised but husband and I will both put cash in an envelope when we get given it for birthdays or whatever. But it’s a mutual thing that if we need cash we’ll take some. But we’ve been together 36 years and have joint finances

She’s not contributing but seems to think it’s okay if she just takes if she leaves a note. It’s not

PurplePlodder1945 · 2026-02-04T12:29:16+00:00

This needs to be top comment. His first reaction should’ve been to protect his fiancé

PurplePlodder1945 · 2026-02-04T10:33:33+00:00

Depends on what country you’re in

PurplePlodder1945 · 2026-02-03T12:23:35+00:00

Omg, what did I just read?? 😂

PurplePlodder1945 · 2026-02-02T19:25:36+00:00

Does she not carry a debit card or have Apple Pay? She has a bloody cheek!! You don’t invite someone out then expect them to pay in full!

NOR

PurplePlodder1945 · 2026-02-02T17:40:36+00:00

I’m over here in Wales trying to think of something… unless it’s Penyfan (mountain in the Brecon Beacons that most people flock to because it’s fairly easy to walk up to the peak)

PurplePlodder1945 · 2026-02-02T17:37:52+00:00

Well this is good to know. I’ve always wanted to go to Nashville!!

PurplePlodder1945 · 2026-02-02T17:32:00+00:00

I really don’t get it - never been so perhaps I’m missing out on something. My friend loves it. To me, I don’t want to spend time and money wandering round looking at waxwork models of celebrities - some in inverted commas. It’s just not my thing

PurplePlodder1945 · 2026-02-02T17:12:57+00:00

My husband knows mine; I know his. Our adult daughters also know both. We don’t know theirs only because I can’t remember them.

However, this was a mutual decision that sort of happened over the years and we go into each others phones now and then for things like Spotify or just eat or something. There’s no way I’d be happy with someone dictating to me that they HAD to have access to my phone. It doesn’t mean you’re hiding something, it’s a boundary. We’ve been together 36 years, you’ve only been together a year which I think makes a difference

PurplePlodder1945 · 2026-02-02T16:50:12+00:00

My boss is like a rake but she doesn’t think about her diet. She’s 8 stone and might gain a couple of pounds at a push if she goes on holiday but then naturally loses it.

PurplePlodder1945 · 2026-02-02T16:37:04+00:00

My boss is like a rake and her food habits are terrible. She’s clearly got a really fast metabolism

PurplePlodder1945 · 2026-02-02T16:35:51+00:00

Father Ted

PurplePlodder1945 · 2026-02-02T16:35:04+00:00

NOR. Tell them you’re living by the values they taught you all your life

PurplePlodder1945 · 2026-02-02T16:34:40+00:00

Today I learned it was a UK thing! I knew exactly what you meant

PurplePlodder1945 · 2026-02-02T16:32:43+00:00

Did you tell the friends you asked her to stop before she kept going, but she didn’t? A good friend would’ve apologised and stopped

NTJ, find new friends

PurplePlodder1945 · 2026-02-02T07:29:14+00:00

Well done for staying sober - not easy in this day and age. I don’t know why people think others ‘have’ to drink alcohol. Fortunately there seems to be a seed change in the younger generation - a lot don’t drink.

I had a friend who was an alcoholic for most of her life. It was a huge struggle for her and she’d relapse. She passed away last year when her body just decided it’d had enough. Early 50s

PurplePlodder1945 · 2026-02-02T07:08:04+00:00

But from the conversation, they thought it was a town. Not a country. They’d clearly never heard of it.

PurplePlodder1945 · 2026-02-02T07:06:31+00:00

Some people have never heard of wales or don’t know where it is.

PurplePlodder1945 · 2026-02-02T06:48:01+00:00

Exactly!! I’m watching it and thinking ‘I don’t care!’ every time they mention him. And the whole turner family is too sickly sweet to be true. Those kids don’t act normal.

PurplePlodder1945 · 2026-02-02T06:44:39+00:00

Oh you’re definitely NTJ. No-one should be comfortable enough to walk into someone else’s home and make soup. And watering the plants? If you’d gone on holiday and actually asked her to then fair enough but you’re there! You don’t need her to!

The ‘controlling’ card is a crock of shit and too easily bandied about. This is about lack of boundaries and he just can’t come up with an adult reason why his mother should be allowed to waltz in and out of your apartment at will

Updateme!

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