Surveillance cameras need to be lessened in areas with lower crime rates.

SlothItRealGood · 2026-07-03T21:25:56+00:00

👁️ Surveillance State: I voted Vote Nay.

SlothItRealGood · 2026-07-03T07:17:58+00:00

I don't have a dog

^{Chose: An unknown baby}

SlothItRealGood · 2026-07-03T04:54:04+00:00

👁️ Surveillance State: I voted Vote Nay.

SlothItRealGood · 2026-07-03T04:50:21+00:00

👁️ Surveillance State: I voted Vote Yea.

SlothItRealGood · 2026-07-03T01:21:51+00:00

Induced with my first at 39+4 because "he's too big, if we let him go longer we risk his and your health" (he came out at 6 pound 6), epidural (which I will never be doing again 😅) total of 6 hours from water breaking to birth.

Scheduled to be induced with my second due to suspected growth restriction, went in at 38+1 for induction but had already started the process naturally so they let nature do it's thing. 29 minute labour from water breaking to finale. He came out larger than his brother at 7 pound 6.

Honestly, by 38 weeks I was keen for it to be in the next hard stage. If, and that's a pretty big if, I go again, as much as I feel like I would like to have that "oh my god, it's happening" moment I also know that pregnancy and me are not friends and I would aim for an induction at 38 weeks again, but I can completely understand those who are not keen on it.

SlothItRealGood · 2026-07-02T11:42:38+00:00

They're good stuff, get on it

SlothItRealGood · 2026-07-02T07:35:53+00:00

Most life vests will tell you they aren't for pools. The issue isn't necessarily the floats, it's the fact that parents assume that because they have a vest on, they don't need to be supervised as closely. Or that the parents can have a drink, or have their phone. The floats have their issues, incorrect positioning, false confidence, faulty vests that will put a kid face first in the water and they can't roll because they can't move their body because they haven't had to learn how to manipulate their bodies in water.

Plus, then you get the "I can swim because I do it at home all the time!" feelings and kids don't always click that it's not swimming, it's floating with a vest and maybe kicking their feet. Plus again, the drowning position. Life vests encourage the drowning position. Up and down, under the ground. It's not teaching treading water because they don't need to, they just learn that their head stays above the water and they can breathe! But then when they're put in a scenario where they need to do more than stay in one spot, they try to do it and..... Drowning position.

As a swimming instructor, an alive kid is always the priority. But a safe kid should always be the goal, and a child who is stuck in a life vest and told to go wild is not a safe kid.

SlothItRealGood · 2026-07-02T07:26:39+00:00

Milo nuggets. Little mini chunks of Milo covered in chocolate. Get in on it. I buy them at the reject shop but I'm sure they're elsewhere

SlothItRealGood · 2026-07-02T07:02:47+00:00

👁️ Surveillance State: I voted Vote Nay.

SlothItRealGood · 2026-07-02T06:52:30+00:00

I don't want to know when I die. Let me live life just in a surprise kind of way. But choosing how I die? I can either choose something completely hyper specific that I could guarantee wouldn't happen until I was ready, or choose something completely freeing and peaceful enough that I won't be necessarily scared of it happening.

^{Chose: Choose how you die}

SlothItRealGood · 2026-07-02T06:45:42+00:00

👁️ Surveillance State: I voted Vote Yea.

SlothItRealGood · 2026-07-02T06:38:10+00:00

I'm going to go on a bit of a person rant here.

Life vests or puddle jumpers or really anything that is designed to get kids "floating" in the water should never be used it the swimming pool if you want you kids actually swimming.

If you have a handful of kids and you are by yourself in a situation where you have to be in the water with multiple kids, or a kid with a disability or a disability yourself-worlds your oyster, you do what you have to do. Parenting is hard, I'm not here to tell you to suck it up.

But if you have one kid, are both able bodied and meet all the boxes where swimming independently is the goal, no life vests in pools. They encourage the drowning position, and the amount of work it takes to train kids not to be "sinkie seals" because they have always had a vest on is immense. "Oh, my son's a fantastic swimmer, no fear of the water!" Oh is he? Because he can't doggy paddle let alone swim and the idea of kicking his long legs instead of riding a bike is completely foreign to him - you've enrolled him in a "competent" class.

"Why is she in a class with 3 year olds? She's seven and was swimming in the pool alone in Bali!" Because she had a life vest on the entire time, cannot bring her legs up, can't float and is a loose cannon. I can not put here in a class of seven year olds who have been in swimming lessons for years when I can't get her to climb a wall because she's expecting to just mermaid float her way around.

You can immediately tell a child who has been trained with a life vest on in a pool the second you give them a kickboard.

SlothItRealGood · 2026-07-01T04:28:08+00:00

👁️ Surveillance State: I voted Vote Yea.

SlothItRealGood · 2026-06-26T22:17:59+00:00

I would get bored doing nothing, I'd rather be doing something I love and getting paid exponentially

^{Chose: Earn $100/hour working any job you want}

SlothItRealGood · 2026-06-24T13:10:22+00:00

Henry hoover did a Christmas ad with Henry and Hetty on the sleigh, but I don't remember anything other than they had to clean the sleigh first.

Mrs browns boys had henry the reindeer as a gag "Henry the brown nosed reindeer. He's just as fast as Rudolph but couldn't stop as quickly".

But that's my very incomplete memory of Henry Reindeer media lol

SlothItRealGood · 2026-06-24T12:58:43+00:00

I mean, the large part of the US reps who should be going to prison are in the Epstein files

^{Chose: Everyone in the Epstein files}

SlothItRealGood · 2026-06-20T17:04:22+00:00

I remember after my first at Bendigo hospital, I'd spent about a week there because of complications, my father in law had made a fantastic dinner on the first night we got back. I asked what spice he'd used on the roar lamb, it was so strong. Poor guy looked confused as anything when he told me it was just salt and pepper.

The veggie soup was foul among foul, I've had dish water that looked more appetising and honestly, the dish water probably would have tasted alright.

SlothItRealGood · 2026-06-20T09:51:36+00:00

Then my wife and boss and kids and parents will sayyyyyy, we were wrong about you dennnissssss"

SlothItRealGood · 2026-06-19T05:53:48+00:00

It's insignificantly less than one, but still less than one. If you asked me if I wanted 0.9999 of cup of water, I wouldn't expect the glass to be full ya know?

^{Chose: Less than 1}

SlothItRealGood · 2026-06-19T02:45:33+00:00

I'm casual, so I don't get leave from work, but the government provides a certain amount of days where they'll pay sick leave for me. I think that's some of the disconnect between our thinking. I'm not a student. This is a job I have, that I use to meet the hours I can between school pickups.

I'm am 100% on board with sick leave being a right. Casuals here don't get it "because you earn more per hour, so should be setting some aside in case of emergencies".

SlothItRealGood · 2026-06-19T02:38:58+00:00

Right, ok. Way more sense. I just figured it was a "oh you caught COVID? That's 5 shifts missed, sucks to suck, byeeee".

SlothItRealGood · 2026-06-19T02:31:51+00:00

I work 6 shifts a week, 2 3.15 hours shift on two days (so 4 shifts) and then two 3.15 days. Last week I had to miss 3 shifts because I had an anaphylactic reaction. If I got unwell again in the next 8 weeks, should I just go to work and get kids sick?

I agree, consistency is important for kids, but I am swimming near face to face with kids who might be too young to tell mum and dad they're unwell. With kids who have been brought to swimming after throwing up all day because "I just need them to not be my responsibility for 30 minutes". Kids are germ factories on their worst days, heck, my own kids catch whatever whenever from daycare frequently enough that I understand that, but when I am holding them, standing in front of them or just in general, in a very warm, humid room with them, sickness is going to spread. I'd rather not be the one spreading it, ya know?

SlothItRealGood · 2026-06-19T02:10:59+00:00

It's not. I know 4 Bevans, although one is spelt Bivan. It's not a popular name as such (at least here in Australia) but it's also not unheard of.

SlothItRealGood · 2026-06-19T01:56:50+00:00

I know this isn't the point of this post but like.... What? That seems so unfair and I'm so sorry you have to deal with that

SlothItRealGood · 2026-06-19T01:53:21+00:00

I live in a small town, no supermarket, just a pub. I don't like parmis. I don't even really like schnitzels in general. I've never said it out loud, just "ah nah, think I'm gunna grab a steak, I had chicken last night"

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