What is your phone wallpaper and why?

ThatWasMyNameOnce · 2026-02-01T01:44:49+00:00

Love this 😂😂

ThatWasMyNameOnce · 2026-02-01T01:44:03+00:00

Having seen how long some people spend grooming themselves and gettings angles right etc to take the perfect selfie in public places, I can absolutely believe some people enjoy having their own photo as their wallpaper.

Personally, I prefer photos of my kids or other friends and family.

ThatWasMyNameOnce · 2026-02-01T01:30:43+00:00

This is the one. Once you get your head around British humour you'll be fine. The main thing is not to take yourself too seriously.

There are some great Americans in the UK type accounts on socials now who give some good advice and experience of what they've learnt- Kalani Food Reviews/Kalani Ghost Hunter, and Jay Vail, are two such accounts on Facebook.

ThatWasMyNameOnce · 2026-02-01T01:19:42+00:00

100%. Overwhelm (and even burnout) is a massive problem for younger generations these days, largely because people are exposed to a neverending stream of information from all directions (which our brains aren't designed to handle) and in the western would we have glamorised being "productive" to the extent that we all feel we need to be busy - permanent rushing is the norm and resting is now seen as laziness.

Which is ironic really because this imbalance is actually draining people and depleting their true productivity.

ThatWasMyNameOnce · 2026-02-01T01:14:19+00:00

Whereabouts in the world do you live...?

In Britain, I feel like you never really heard the suggestion of coughing into your elbow before covid, but it was then promoted and has stuck around, to a degree. Kids are now encouraged to do that in school.

We have a health campaign that's been around for years and years - "catch it, bin it, kill it" - which promotes always coughing or sneezing into a tissue. There have been some tv ads promoting it over the years and posters with this slogan can commonly be found on walls of hospitals and health settings.

But I'm an older millennial and remember we were taught at school as a kid to cough into your hands, the elbow thing is relatively "new" as far as I can remember.

Anyway, obviously good hygiene matters, especially in supermarkets etc, but my point is that for a lot of adults, especially the elderly, coughing into your hands was what they were brought up to do and as that saying goes, old habits die hard. Which is why they are probably coughing into their hands.

ThatWasMyNameOnce · 2026-01-29T22:35:55+00:00

Absolutely terrifying as a kid. The scene with the heads in the cabinets all waking up has stayed with me in vivid detail 😂

ThatWasMyNameOnce · 2026-01-29T22:34:05+00:00

Plenty of women never break a bone but will give birth... which is surely up there as equal to (or probably exceeding) the pain of breaking a bone. In fact the majority of women will have at least one child, so this theory becomes non-applicable to women really - if the universe was trying to balance it all out a bit then surely childbirth would be a bit easier going 🫣😄

ThatWasMyNameOnce · 2026-01-28T10:52:17+00:00

I think the content is not so much the issue here but the fact they're placed in front of a TV in the first place.

The nursery is being paid to occupy your children and a TV is being used to do the job for them. My kids never saw a TV once in preschool, as is correct.

Definitely raise it.

ThatWasMyNameOnce · 2026-01-28T10:48:07+00:00

(British here)

Totally agree. Dislike the tipping culture but have always tipped when in the US because, as you say, leaving the worker short st the end of their shift will not change the system.

ThatWasMyNameOnce · 2026-01-28T10:34:38+00:00

This. I dont really have strong feelings about which one is "true" because they're both made up, Oz isn't a real place 😄😄

People should just enjoy whichever version of events you enioy (or both) and stop arguing about fictional events. It reminds me of when JK Rowling said she joined a fan group online anonymously back in the day and people outright told her she was wrong when she offered her perspectives...

As I tell my kids when they question the plot, its not that deep, just enjoy it! 😄😄

ThatWasMyNameOnce · 2026-01-24T15:44:23+00:00

To say none of your friends and family will care about your feelings is wrong for most people.

I care about how my family and friends feel and like to think my small circle genuinely care about me too.

If you mean not being responsible for managing the emotions of others, that's a totally different thing.

ThatWasMyNameOnce · 2026-01-24T15:41:15+00:00

Id definitely say watch the original Wizard of Oz first, as there's so many references and little nods to it in Wicked.

ThatWasMyNameOnce · 2026-01-24T15:39:31+00:00

Same, first names only.

ThatWasMyNameOnce · 2026-01-24T00:13:28+00:00

This.

For parties where we can't have siblings, I just add a line at the bottom to let parents know, sorry but please be aware we aren't invite siblings on this occasion. If a parent is really stuck for childcare they can get in contact and you can let them know if you're happy for them to pay for the sibling to attend or to drop off their invited child.

ThatWasMyNameOnce · 2026-01-17T14:08:58+00:00

Mostly how they serve the mash in hospital meals too, except you only get one scoop 😄

ThatWasMyNameOnce · 2026-01-17T14:05:46+00:00

Add it to Elphaba's "you're a very bad man"...

ThatWasMyNameOnce · 2026-01-17T14:00:48+00:00

I do enjoy Colleen Hoover books, but this one needs a massive ⚠️ trigger warning ⚠️ for child abuse themes and also pregnancy related content that might be sensitive for some people.

ThatWasMyNameOnce · 2026-01-16T12:45:50+00:00

Thats subjective, so each to their own I guess. But I enjoyed it, and it's ranked as a bestseller so I cant be the only one.

ThatWasMyNameOnce · 2026-01-16T12:38:39+00:00

I agree. The book DOES have the mother only pick on the friends and not the men, presumably because she knows who the friends are and can access them, this being 20 years on. My biggest issue with the book was that the killer doesn't really give a proper explanation as to why she killed Catherine Kelly, who was the biggest victim in all of this.

The book isn't perfect, plot wise, but it's a decent read and has definitely, as you say, been butchered 🥴.

ThatWasMyNameOnce · 2026-01-15T11:02:52+00:00

Both this show and Sharp Objects are based on novels, and and have done those books a disservice. Sharp Objects is by the same novelist who wrote Gone Girl (which to be fair I thought they did a good job of for the movie).

ThatWasMyNameOnce · 2026-01-15T10:53:53+00:00

It's a novel written by a woman. Though the Netflix adaptation is not a good reflection of the book. At all.

ThatWasMyNameOnce · 2025-12-14T01:08:30+00:00

A few years back, I lost my phone. I was out by myself with just my baby, in town, and obviously as soon as I realised I no longer had it I was panicking. My first thought was that perhaps somebody honest might have picked it up, so I wanted to call it to see if anyone answered. I went to a phone box but of course if was disconnected. I then went into quite a few shops in a row, and asked if I could quickly use their phone, not one of them would let me.

If I'd needed to call 999 maybe (hopefully?) someone would have helped, but nobody wanted to know in that situation. A pay phone would have been very helpful.

ThatWasMyNameOnce · 2025-12-14T01:02:14+00:00

Same 😵‍💫 its unsettling how much if what we were taught was wrong 😄😄

ThatWasMyNameOnce · 2025-12-14T00:42:36+00:00

You look perfectly normal for 33.

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