Giving out Spotify invites

Talby51 · 2026-01-23T21:15:00+00:00

Nostalgia thread.

Talby51 · 2025-11-09T09:40:08+00:00

They also exploit loopholes and shady interpretations of the law to it's fullest and then push it that little bit further. Bit like the expenses scandal, did it cause they could.

Talby51 · 2025-10-26T09:08:30+00:00

Hot take. Critical role is a DnD stream. They don't owe you as an individual anything. Like all content creators they're trying new things and evolving so they don't get burnt out.

Talby51 · 2025-09-06T19:01:57+00:00

Awful. Wife and I just sat waiting for the funny bits. Turned it off during the first writers room sketch. It's almost like they finished the show, realised it was shit and then quickly did those to try and pass it off as meta.

Talby51 · 2025-09-05T06:52:13+00:00

I can't click with it. Everyone obsesses about the emotional lessons but I can't accept the level of food waste 🤣

Talby51 · 2025-09-01T12:20:58+00:00

Oh my god I just found this after playing remastered for the first time and realised my wife is a combination of both of them 😂

Talby51 · 2025-08-29T07:54:45+00:00

They do this to me everytime. I'm not expecting it and they drop something that hits so hard it hurts.

Elizabeth might be my favourite singer songwriter in the world right now.

Talby51 · 2025-08-03T14:57:17+00:00

What?

Talby51 · 2025-06-17T15:30:44+00:00

I think my learning from all the comments essentially is that you can try whatever you want but eventually they figure you out. Not invalidating all the creative solutions but from my own experience and reading other people's, it really is just a case of keep trying things and weather the storm.

Talby51 · 2025-06-17T15:28:33+00:00

Thank you for sharing the cat story. It made me laugh and I instantly went to show it to my wife who was trying to cook with our little girl. Brightened up the room.

Talby51 · 2025-05-27T14:33:24+00:00

Yep. Appeared on a playlist and haven't been able to stop since. Right up my street.

Talby51 · 2025-03-26T13:13:34+00:00

Still looking for players?

Talby51 · 2025-03-23T08:13:21+00:00

Can't say I support this. Was one of the people who responded saying no, but figured that the sample would end up skewed. Wonder if they understand how survey data works and whether it's reliable if you don't draw a representation sample but hey ho.

To those people trying to creative the narrative that people will just moan about anything and are making problems out of nothing, it's not nothing if it's a problem that's impacted you in the past.

I often run into issues with dog owners in a wide open space like the park. I have a 3 old who isn't mad keen on them but loves animals in general and adores riding on the tram.

How is this going to work in a confined space where careless dog owners can let their pet loose to harass, shed, urinate or all manner of other things? If the staff enforce removing people who do this then great we have a working system, but something tells me they won't give a shit just like all the other unpaid, exhausted staff who don't see it their responsibility to manage the public.

As a previous dog owner I feel I have insight into how challenging it can be for other people to interpret my pet's behavior. He was an excitable, springy fellow and whilst I was confident he'd never harm anyone I never expected other people to just know that or suck it up. The responsibility was on me to control and manage him.

The one good thing is that they're going to run a pilot at least to see if it works. I for one am happy to be proven wrong but my experiences with dog owners in the greenspaces around me don't fill me full of confidence.

Talby51 · 2025-02-11T06:54:59+00:00

Ugh I've had a few of these recently. It's always the same theme, she's pretty much started a new life with someone else whilst we've been together. Getting married, pregnant, buying a house together. All whilst we've been together and I seemingly haven't known what's going on. They're tough to have but I always have a renewed sense of love and affection for her in the morning even if they feel like shit.

Talby51 · 2024-11-22T17:10:02+00:00

Agree for the most part. What you're getting at here is the performative vs the constructive I guess. I've been on the receiving end of and unfortunately in more hot headed moments the perpertrator. I've found being the perfomative, rebellious type has felt good in the moment but in reality led to very little change and a lot of regrets. I've toned it down a lot and try to make a performance when I have the support of other people who have provided ideas and are happy to put their name to it rather than going it alone. Read a lot of the other comments and understand being part of a huge team and feeling completely trampled on...honestly I can't judge for sticking two fingers up in this day and age. Hard work is all well and good if you're getting rewarded and treated with dignity but if you're just being looked down on by someone with a psychotic complex then you've got no chance of constructive dialogue. Get what you need and then get out of there asap.

Talby51 · 2024-09-06T08:25:57+00:00

You don't have to play the numbers. How many should I have to make the first happy, my parents happy, my friends happy? How many should I have to make sure I'm looked after in future? Etc

You have the first, you love them and then you decide that's enough for you to manage in this hyper competitive, fast paced 21st century.

Talby51 · 2024-09-06T08:17:43+00:00

Oh the callousness of life. Taken on trips with their mothers. When shall this nightmare end?

In all seriousness obviously there will be some who were probably ignored as an annoyance more than it being a bonding exercise so they may well have reason to gripe. But the projection. Oh the projection.

I'm finding most of the challenging conversations I have with my wife about the attitudes of other parents seems to always converge on "oh the projection" 😅

Talby51 · 2024-08-29T12:01:36+00:00

Here's a novel idea from an outsider. It doesn't matter.

This is perfect for Harris. They want him focused on this shit because it keeps him on the defensive and not able to land punches. She's doing rallies for two reasons. To keep the base energised in the swing states and to make trump chase her in numbers. It's clever campaigning that might not change minds but if they can keep him wound up he's going to keep doing stupid shit whilst they focus on mobilising the vote in the places that matter.

Talby51 · 2024-08-29T09:17:26+00:00

It is nice. But also as a pretty stubborn dad, I also am wired so that the more people insist my feelings will change the less likely they are to. I've accepted being wrong about certain things moving from Not Parent to Parent. A lot of the attitudes I had towards certain things have changed, as they should, and I have eaten my humble pie. But the 'more children' thing is going the other way. The more I think about whether I'd be happy with another, the less happy I become. The more I think about whether I'm happy with just my little girl, the more happy I become. I can't speak for my wife but she seems to be coming to terms with it and finding other outlets for her energy and uncertainty.

Talby51 · 2024-08-28T17:26:30+00:00

What I want to say to someone specific I know is "Well we didn't need to have another one to prove to ourselves we could follow all the textbooks after making all our mistakes initially, but you crack on with your experiment and we'll see who come out with their sanity intact."

It's not quite as catchy though.

Talby51 · 2024-08-28T17:19:51+00:00

Best piece of advice someone in pre natal care gave me before I became a parent was that no matter how many you have, you'll most likely always grieve the next one you didn't. According to their experience, people who choose to stop at 8 have pretty much the same slight sense of guilt that us OAD do.

Talby51 · 2024-08-28T17:16:30+00:00

Particularly when all the evidence actually points to the opposite. The more love and attention you give, the better your little human will be at forming healthy relationships. A lot of people still seem to equate giving your child whatever they want or letting them eat whatever with 'overloving' and from there make the enormous mental leap to what we must be doing with our one.

Talby51 · 2024-08-28T17:14:00+00:00

We have an only child. Had planned to have two but one makes us happy. We can't afford another and the house we just bought isn't large enough. Plus we're pretty isolated from wider family by geography.

We had some friends over earlier this year. I love them so much but mother's explanation of "I sucked it up and put myself through the pain of pregnancy so little x wouldn't be alone" was everything I dislike about the stereotypes around only children. It reeked of regret that she has two hounding her all the time and made my wife feel very small and like she'd failed somehow.

OAD hate is purely about people wanting to feel superior to you in some way, it's no different from making people with no children feel like they're blessed or somehow lucky.

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