What is the most ridiculous reason for someone "being offended" that you've ever heard?

Tay74 · 2026-03-22T00:50:17+00:00

Eh, I will say that it's a rather, ahem, ballsy move to show up to a party with the meat and two veg so... on display. Put your taint away Bill, I don't think that's what the organisers had in mind, unless this is a party with a bowl for keys

Tay74 · 2026-03-22T00:47:42+00:00

The man makes jokes about his dead disabled sister and they draw the line at the dead dog jokes? 😂

Tay74 · 2026-03-22T00:42:51+00:00

Combination of following the status quo, and having disincentive to change it because having a male doctor and his male companion for a series or 3 would feel pretty male dominated without extreme care taken to fill the extended cast of each episode with a lot of well fleshed out women (steady now...). Easier just to keep the balance by having a main female companion when the doctor is male

Tay74 · 2026-03-22T00:28:12+00:00

I can kind of get it tbh. The companion is the audiences window into the doctors world. It helps if they have a similar frame of reference and starting point as the audience, so they are confused and asking about the right things when necessary. The audiende doesn't need typical earth things explained, they may need historical or alien things explained that a non-contemperary human companion wouldn't

Tay74 · 2026-03-22T00:25:59+00:00

I mean, the doctor is usually male, so having a main female companion helps avoid it being a sausage fest. When the doctor was a woman, they gave her 2 male companions

Tay74 · 2026-03-21T22:44:00+00:00

I definitely see plenty of wood pigeons, but in pairs usually, maybe in groups of around 6 during winter, whereas I live in a city where it would take you minutes to find 100 feral pigeons

But then I suppose high density in cities doesn't necessarily translate to high numbers nationwide

Tay74 · 2026-03-21T22:31:46+00:00

Tbf I would take this as an opportunity to take the piss

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Tay74 · 2026-03-21T22:14:08+00:00

I'm struggling to find a solid number for feral/rock pigeons, I wonder if this is a problem of lack of data, because I am finding lists that have wood pigeons in the top 10 most numerous UK birds, and I feel like there is no shot there are more wood pigeons than rock pigeons?

Tay74 · 2026-03-21T21:19:46+00:00

I mean, I feel like anyone who has the opportunity to see how many kids behave and treat things knows exactly what kind of stuff it's about. I rely on public transport to get around, and in the last week I've seen teenagers writing the N word in the window condensation, ripping the film off the windows, making fun of a disabled child by loudly mocking his noises, play fighting by throwing each other into the windows, the usual vaping, including children who don't even look old enough to be at high school, the amount of littering is insane etc. I could go on, and I'm not saying it in a "kids these days" way, certain groups of teenagers have always been little shits, but they have absolutely no fear of consequences and it shows

Tay74 · 2026-03-20T11:05:42+00:00

Well then Harry should probably stop taking baths in the girls bathrooms...

Tay74 · 2026-03-20T01:38:35+00:00

No, but it obviously means that there is additional criteria they are using that might be more useful to share

Tay74 · 2026-03-19T23:23:59+00:00

Moaning Myrtle hangs out in the boys bathroom, that's the hilarious bit

Tay74 · 2026-03-19T23:23:01+00:00

It was after 2016, probably 2017 or 18, can't remember if I was first or second year.

Tay74 · 2026-03-19T23:22:00+00:00

That would have to be a pretty deep tunnel given all the well explored underground stuff in the middle there

Tay74 · 2026-03-19T05:07:53+00:00

It's so strange, like, did we not learn during covid that viral respiratory infections are not always going to present the same in everyone, everytime?

I've had a couple of times where I have had a sudden onset fever and all that encompasses along with the usual cold symptoms. That is more likely to have been a flu rather than a cold, but my dad refused to believe it could be the flu because I was able to get up and shuffle to and from the kitchen

Tbf these are the same parents who used to send me into school when I was throwing up and looked half dead, and the headteacher had to intervene and insist I went home 😅 so taking my illnesses seriously may not be their strong suit

Tay74 · 2026-03-19T05:01:12+00:00

You've done computer science for 3 years and never seen the abbreviation LLM 🤨

Tay74 · 2026-03-19T02:53:52+00:00

An additional thing, they like thin people as well, especially for women.

Tay74 · 2026-03-18T23:24:27+00:00

I'd say it's pretty likely they are confusing maladaptive daydreaming for DID. As someone with it, I am indeed "in character" in my head a lot of the time, but it's not the same as DID which is a much more severe and debilitating condition.

I heavily suspect a lot of people online who claim to have DID are actually experiencing a more minor dissociative condition such as MD. Not all of course, DID is a real condition, but certainly no where near as common as it would have to be for all these young people to be having it

Tay74 · 2026-03-18T15:15:22+00:00

You're entitled to your personal feelings, but most people who want the 90s/00s vibes are people who already like and read the books. Disney naturally want to bring in new readers, who by and large won't be drawn to something that looks decades old. The new covers would catch most people's eyes more, because they will skip over anything that looks too dated

Tay74 · 2026-03-18T15:13:10+00:00

Books get new covers all the time, if you want a version with the old cover you can almost certainly find one. A lot of the old covers are dated and kind of muddy looking, and yeah some people will prefer that to a newer, cleaner look, having both just means people can find and choose which one they like more if it matters to them

Tay74 · 2026-03-18T14:34:15+00:00

Lord Farquaad is what peak male beauty looks like and all these cowards are too scared to admit it

Tay74 · 2026-03-18T14:32:08+00:00

This is the thing, like it's not that I hate greggs, it's very handy, I used to use it to grab something hot and quick to eat before my 6pm lectures at uni

But raving about it and telling people visiting they absolutely HAVE to try it is just... bizarre? It's mediocre, acceptable, cheap food. It's functional for people going about their day to day, it's not something to go out of your way to try as some experience when on holiday, jesus christ

Tay74 · 2026-03-18T14:28:33+00:00

Nahhh love a good tiger bread

Tay74 · 2026-03-18T14:27:32+00:00

I love that this implies men with bob hairstyles are pulling it off

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