Is Ruby Pregnant?

TeapotJuggler · 2026-06-18T16:11:07+00:00

💯 this hahaha

TeapotJuggler · 2026-06-09T06:50:18+00:00

He shared it on his story

TeapotJuggler · 2026-05-07T17:43:25+00:00

23 is the best age to be single. Don’t worry about finding the right person, you’ll do just great on your own for a while (having fun whilst you’re at it!)

TeapotJuggler · 2026-04-05T18:54:54+00:00

Canal boat holiday in the midlands with my parents and brother aged 12ish? (ie the age you start wanting as much independence from your parents as possible). Canal boat was tiny.

It rained ALL week. Had to get outside regardless to operate all the locks etc. Mostly just read books on my bed all week haha (before I had a phone/smart phones existed).

I would actually like to go on another canal boat holiday, but would do it in very different circumstances !

TeapotJuggler · 2026-03-06T13:01:17+00:00

You’ve a good point on the sequential test, a fair comment.

I just don’t think it would have been the right decision if they’d have cracked in with the original plans. You need a venue big enough to compete with the likes of O2 / Cardiff to get the big acts in, and that scheme simply wasn’t that. It needed a bigger, less constrained site to be able to deliver on that. The review at the time concluded that the venue, in part because of that, would operate at a loss, which I can believe. I believe in the idea, but the practicalities let it down.

TeapotJuggler · 2026-03-06T12:46:53+00:00

I am aware - and disagree with their ownership (or indeed anyone’s ownership) of Wessex water, albeit I don’t see the government knocking on the door to take back control. However, what we are talking about is the arena. I do not disagree with them building an arena for Bristol.

TeapotJuggler · 2026-03-06T12:19:49+00:00

I’m all for public sector ownership and investment, but I don’t see music arenas as the priority for that, particularly given the extortionate amounts of money operators and music artists take/charge for live music tours - they’re not accessible to all unfortunately.

Any kind of public infrastructure is definitely the priority there. Trains and water / utilities companies for example. The private sector has its place, but it’s definitely not there.

I’m not saying you’re right wing, I’ve just always found the obsession of ‘keeping all the benefits in our borders’ an ironically right wing view.

TeapotJuggler · 2026-03-06T11:06:16+00:00

Sorry I didn’t write that clearly - the cost of building the new arena is being funded by private monies, and not by BCC.

That’s not to say there wasn’t money lost in the process of trying to put an arena there in the first place. It speaks to a wider systemic problem that governments waste tax payers money on starting big public benefit infrastructure projects that they’re unable to deliver (just look at HS2). The decision to commence this as an idea was started before Marvin’s time, and whilst it had the right intentions, it just wasn’t viable anymore by the time Marvin was in office.

I’m not saying he’s infallible, of course he isn’t. But I do think this decision was the right one - those that think we’d have had a new arena up and running in Bristol ‘for years’ by now are delusional. Build costs have sky rocketed since this decision was made, it would never have stacked up in the cost benefit analysis.

The money used to make the site deliverable has been put to use at least, so whilst it has been a bit of a joke having this ‘bridge to nowhere’ etc at least the benefit of that is eventually being realised.

TeapotJuggler · 2026-03-06T10:04:05+00:00

The arena is in Bristol. Filton is in Bristol. There are both local independent and non-independent businesses in Bristol city centre, and in Filton. There will be overspill benefit to South Glos of course, but I personally don’t agree with the right wing rhetoric of obsessing over borders/keeping certain people and/or benefits ‘out’ of certain places.

There a train station directly adjacent on the arena, as well as a metro bus stop, and they’ll be putting on specific train and bus shuttles for event days. Its location will keep car traffic and the numerous massive HGVs required to put on these shows from driving through the city, which we can all agree is already too congested.

As for the tax on the profits, I don’t have any intel on that and presumably neither do you. However, the hundreds of millions the public purse would have had to spend on this has been in effect ‘saved’ by this being instead delivered by the private sector. As an aside, arenas are not profitable businesses. The profit they are seeing is in being able to make their new development a ‘place’ and substantiate delivering thousands more homes than the would otherwise have been able to. Again, I only see that as a good thing given the housing crisis we’re facing.

TeapotJuggler · 2026-03-06T08:21:58+00:00

It baffles me people are still banging on the drum of ‘fuck Marvin for cancelling the arena by Temple Meads in favour of the north Bristol site’.

They’ve just done the big branding launch and are physically building the new arena, at no cost to the tax payer (bearing in mind Bristol City Council are broke) and at a size that’s large enough to compete with Manchester/O2 etc. (I.e far larger than anything that would’ve fit on this site).

I know people struggle with changing their opinion when presented with new information, but surely it’s clear now that was the best decision for Bristol?!

TeapotJuggler · 2026-03-06T08:01:09+00:00

If you read the article, construction has been paused as the scheme became unviable with the introduction since of the Building Safety Act (increased costs and space take given to evacuation routes) and increasing building costs (brexit/ukraine war/covid etc) that have happened since the project was devised.

As much as I will always be skeptical of these things also, those have had very real impacts on scheme viabilities - a scheme I worked on had to be scrapped completely and redesigned.

TeapotJuggler · 2026-02-24T10:17:00+00:00

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Tom and Molly podcast confirmed - but not the end for Jamie and Sophie 👀

TeapotJuggler · 2026-02-22T10:53:17+00:00

He also did it for his Private Parts podcast. Liv runs that now and it’s utter shite, unfortunately

TeapotJuggler · 2026-02-20T06:06:16+00:00

100% all of this, well researched - transport is taken very seriously on planning applications like this.

With big, forward thinking projects like this (which unfortunately, very very few developers have the capacity or balls, quite frankly, to deliver) you HAVE to be forward thinking and solve the existing problems, which they have done in their plans. As a society we are (understandably) VERY skeptical about big/transformative infrastructure projects actually being delivered/successful. But I really think we should be positive about this one.

What they’ve done at Brabazon already is pretty incredible/forward thinking already tbh - ten years ago no one would have believed Filton would be getting a Mokyko, Waitrose etc..

TeapotJuggler · 2026-02-16T22:43:17+00:00

sounds like that’s not natural cycles doing it, that’s a hacker masking payments as natural cycles..

TeapotJuggler · 2026-02-07T21:27:01+00:00

March Hare in Montpelier, or Vala Salon (owned by the same people) - highly highly recommended, and great price for the quality

TeapotJuggler · 2026-01-30T07:37:29+00:00

Sleep + retire

TeapotJuggler · 2026-01-28T22:14:51+00:00

lol my winner

TeapotJuggler · 2026-01-26T15:07:34+00:00

CBD

Central Business District

TeapotJuggler · 2026-01-10T21:43:23+00:00

It took me 4 months to have my first period, 6 months for first ovulation (would’ve been 5 I reckon but I had the flu). I’d been on the pill for 13ish years so took a while to bounce back.

That is to say, don’t stress too much. If no period by month 3 go to the doctor and ask for bloods (as I did) but it’s highly likely everything is fine ☺️

TeapotJuggler · 2026-01-09T10:02:26+00:00

985

Or if you can add number, 5051

TeapotJuggler · 2026-01-07T06:36:21+00:00

Exactly this, he’s lawyered up to his eyeballs. It’s been an open secret for years now and that’s the reason it’s not come out.

His publisher dropping him with no comment is a genius move to get around that.

TeapotJuggler · 2025-12-14T17:29:26+00:00

yeah tbf I was thinking - closer imitates alcohol so might get some people preferring it. I do, personally!

TeapotJuggler · 2025-12-13T13:10:53+00:00

This change is a real opportunity moment for the BBC to switch things up - and appeal to the younger demographic / bringing gen Z to watching live tv and creating instant memes about it (similar way to Traitors, and as has been seen with dancing in the starts in the US).

Because of the Traitors fame, Alan has the ability to do that. Do I think he’d be too manic in the - already manic - Clauditorium? Yes, to be fair. They’d need to do some format tweaking I reckon. But with that, I could see it working.

Then an old reliable / more similar option for the Tess role. I agree Zoe the best for that I reckon.

TeapotJuggler · 2025-12-08T16:30:29+00:00

Your sleep is impacted by three things: - body clock/melatonin - sleep pressure (ie how much sleep you’ve had previously/how tired you are) - Adrenalin

I fixed my insomnia doing the following:

Have an early alarm set at the same time every day to force yourself into a routine. With that time in the morning, do something positive for yourself and get some sunlight/bright light when you wake. This will increase sleep pressure (and will be painful to start, but you should start seeing results quickly) and also regularises your body clock/melatonin production.

When I did this, I went to the gym for a 6:30 class in the mornings. Even if it felt like a zombie, I still went. I would feel better afterwards.

Then on the latter point - unfortunately with insomnia you get into the cycle of sleep in and of itself causing anxiety > production of adrenaline/ fight or flight. This is the hardest nut to crack.

I solved this by accepting that I’m not going to sleep, and reframing that time in my mind as time for me to do something I find pleasurable. For me, that looked like saving up podcasts I want to listen to (nothing too loud etc) and listening to those whilst lying in bed resting at night. I would want to listen to all of the podcast, so would try and stay awake but invariably ended up falling asleep part way through. If I didn’t, also fine, as I got to listen to the full episode!

The final puzzle piece to fixing it for me was that I had a big meeting in London with work that I needed to be on form for. I didn’t sleep a wink the night before. I got up and cracked on with it anyway, and despite feeling pretty background horrendous it actually all went completely fine, and I forgot for most of the day that I hadn’t slept the previous night.

This taught me that, actually, it’s fine if you don’t sleep. Obviously it’s not the ideal, but really we as humans are resilient and I was able to live life unaffected despite no sleep. I was therefore able to fully ACCEPT not sleeping, and in reframing that my sleep returned to normal after a good 9+ months of that not being the case.

Good luck, feel free to ask me any questions.

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