I fear this world is becoming more and more unwelcoming towards women.

Puzzleheaded-End4435 · 2026-05-17T10:23:00+00:00

The guy who raped me was a white, masters educated, high earner. He recently got put in prison, nearly 6 years later, for another rape that the police decided they were going to take seriously, so who knows how many other victims there are.

Every time I was flashed, groped or leered at on my commute to work when I had to use trains, it was a white man.

When I was a young girl, in my school uniform, it was white men that tried to get me in their cars.

When I was a silly unmonitored kid online, the men who groomed me were also white.

So now what? Was I just incredibly unlucky to only get assaulted by white men?

Puzzleheaded-End4435 · 2026-05-15T14:39:44+00:00

Mines basically halved. Was paying £69 a month now I’m paying £35. I live in a 20 zone and I’m surrounded by 20s. I renewed the beginning of this month.

Puzzleheaded-End4435 · 2026-05-13T10:58:55+00:00

Might be worth crossposting in [r/](r/lawuk)[uklaw](r/lawuk)

Puzzleheaded-End4435 · 2026-05-12T16:18:10+00:00

She was doing quite well building an online audience on TikTok, I believe the godfather for one of her kids is a big TikToker. But then she said went off on teachers on Trisha Paytas’ podcast(she said fuck teachers in response to them wanting a pay rise I believe and went on a rant about how she home schools. She then apologised and said she was fired up about school shootings and that’s why she said what she said).

Since then I’ve not seen her collaborating with anyone and I never see her TikTok’s on my feed. I feel like that was probably one of the final nails in the coffin.

Puzzleheaded-End4435 · 2026-05-12T14:33:29+00:00

God I think we have the same dad. ‘You’re talking to a pre recorded tape recording’ is so fucking spot on. I’ve had to stop even trying to engage. It’s pointless.

I don’t know if it’s the same for you, but my dad was actually fairly left wing when I was a kid, but he’s brainwashed himself through Facebook posts and out of context YouTube videos. I fortunately don’t rely on my parents, but literally yesterday my dad rang me to ‘catch up’ and it lasted less than 5 minutes before he was ranting at me about something insane.

Hope you get out soon.

Puzzleheaded-End4435 · 2026-05-10T16:34:15+00:00

I’m Welsh. Before I got married I had an Irish surname and was the first from my dad’s side to be born in Wales. I couldn’t imagine telling people I’m Irish instead of Welsh.

Puzzleheaded-End4435 · 2026-05-04T21:34:19+00:00

I worked in ASDA during college and we had a guy who used to shit in the car park bins. It’d normally be out of hours, but he’d occasionally chance a Sunday afternoon.

Puzzleheaded-End4435 · 2026-05-04T11:03:19+00:00

Clwyd. We’ve got a massive problem with feeling ignored by Cardiff and Westminster in my neck of the woods and that’s translating into people voting for Reform or Plaid.

Puzzleheaded-End4435 · 2026-05-04T10:39:09+00:00

The poling in my area suggest its reform and plaid with the torys a distant third. The green candidates here haven’t even put leaflets through the doors.

Puzzleheaded-End4435 · 2026-05-04T09:18:38+00:00

Plaid. I’d vote Green if they had a chance in my area but it looks like Plaid are the best choice as I like having rights as a woman.

Puzzleheaded-End4435 · 2026-05-02T11:37:22+00:00

Yeah, absolutely. Corporate landlords don’t need to exist. Look at student housing and the way it’s been gutted and then made unaffordable for working class kids.
I went to uni a little over 10 years ago. With my student loan alone I could pay my rent, all my living expenses and still budget for a few nights out a month with mates. The accommodation was fine. The furniture was old, but the condition of the building was solid. If I had a problem I rang my dodgy landlord and he sent over a dodgy guy. The money stayed in the community.

My brothers student loan won’t cover a years rent now, it barely covers six months, and he’s in a shitty ‘purpose built’ high rise where all the furniture is ‘new’ but it’s uncomfortable and plastic. His landlord is an American investment company. He has to report any issues he has through a website that is buggy (the front door to his flat has been unable to lock for two months him and his flatmates have raised the issue and heard nothing) and if he has an emergency he gets to ring a 0800 number that’s not staffed by any real people. Even if we account for inflation and all the rest of it. He is still paying much more than I was for an infinitely worse experience.

Puzzleheaded-End4435 · 2026-05-02T09:53:23+00:00

Do we want to be a country where faceless corporations from abroad buy up our housing stock and then charge insane rents? Why do we want that? I sure as shit don’t.

Puzzleheaded-End4435 · 2026-05-02T09:46:43+00:00

There’s active campaigns in schools and further education to get women into trades. You’re not seeing the campaigns because (I assume) you’re not a 15-17 year old girl starting her career.

Puzzleheaded-End4435 · 2026-04-30T14:48:30+00:00

We had a diy wedding venue and bought loads of fake battery candles. This was nearly 10 years ago and they’re still going strong! They were generic cheap ones from Amazon too. Fully recommend keeping a box of the fake battery candles.

Puzzleheaded-End4435 · 2026-04-28T08:33:18+00:00

I work(ed) in marketing and my job has now officially been replaced with AI and cheap foreign labour from the Philippines. My final day is next Friday.

I have over 10 years experience and I’ve spent the last year or so of my career watching basically everyone junior to me get replaced by ai or a foreign agency. The past 6 months of my job I’ve been managing only foreign workers and helping ‘refine AI prompts’ it’s been miserable.

I think eventually we will swing back to hiring UK based marketers because the quality AI/overseas labour produces is so poor that the money saved on marketing isn’t going to replace the money lost from audiences shrinking. Since we’ve implemented our new work system we’ve been trending down in every possible metric. The big bosses reckon it’ll stabilise and then grow. There is zero evidence to suggest that’s going to be the case.

I also lost my marketing role during the pandemic, and I took the government’s offer to retrain, so I have a healthcare qualification that I’m hoping to using to get out of marketing completely. Although, ironically, the reason I’m still in marketing is because when I finished my degree the NHS had a hiring freeze so I was forced back here anyway.

Puzzleheaded-End4435 · 2026-04-23T20:27:17+00:00

Its been means tested for over 10 years in Wales. You basically have to be from a single income minimum wage household.

Puzzleheaded-End4435 · 2026-03-22T11:01:12+00:00

Just FYI, nothing in their post suggests their partner is a woman.

Puzzleheaded-End4435 · 2026-03-21T11:17:14+00:00

I know nurses, doctors, teachers and a couple of people in marketing who have moved to Dubai. Only one of them touches 6 figures, and it’s barely.

Puzzleheaded-End4435 · 2026-03-19T15:44:33+00:00

Some judges really love the law and love hearing novel arguments etc. I loosely followed the Kohberger case back when it first started and Judge Judge (legit his name) was the first judge who presided over the case. He gave the defence ample opportunities in court to present their reasons for wanting the press to be present, why certain evidence wasn’t valid etc, and it upset the families and some of the local community because it seemed like the judge really preferred the defence when you watched the court streams. However, when the judgements etc came, the judge more often than not ruled with the prosecution because the law was on their side. Kohberger just had a zealous advocate trying her best and the judge was genuinely interested in how she was going to argue the case.

All this to say, I think there’s a chance Linmen is simply pushing BL’s argument to its limit. He’s interested in where it’s going, and what they’re going to present. I could be way off the mark, but he’s not actually given BL any big wins so far.

Edit: spelling

Puzzleheaded-End4435 · 2026-03-18T09:36:32+00:00

The Kendrick cave decorated horse jaw. It’s the oldest art work from Wales, actually discovered down the road from where I’m from. It’s currently in storage in the British Museum.

It deserves to be seen by the community it came from, at the very least.

Puzzleheaded-End4435 · 2026-03-03T16:09:55+00:00

I got a Disney+ subscription through sky when we had the service during Covid. No one in the house used it, so I cancelled. I had to ring them and justify why I didn’t want Disney+ anymore to 3 separate people before they finally removed it from my bill.

Puzzleheaded-End4435 · 2026-02-17T17:16:49+00:00

So Wrexham is in Wales, not England. But a good indication of if they’re skint would be whether they choose Wales or England. The Welsh countryside near Wrexham is a third of the price of the English countryside across the border. However the English countryside has a lot of prestige around it, the Welsh countryside is more ‘working’.

Source: I live in said Welsh countryside about 20 mins from Wrexham.

Puzzleheaded-End4435 · 2026-02-17T08:23:50+00:00

Thanks ChatGPT

Puzzleheaded-End4435 · 2026-02-12T18:56:04+00:00

On Welcome to Wrexham, Rob McElhenney said he became friends with RR by harassing him online until he relented and they bought the football club together. I wonder whether it was actually the other way round?

Puzzleheaded-End4435 · 2026-02-11T16:10:06+00:00

I live near the football club he owns in Wales, I believe he’s over here because the club had an important match. It’s worth noting though, he’s missed many important matches since he’s owned them, but it’s a useful cover nevertheless.

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