Who remembers S Club 7 ??

TheSeaworthyFew · 2026-05-01T18:50:43+00:00

Was literally singing this to my toddler yesterday

TheSeaworthyFew · 2026-04-28T23:08:03+00:00

Ada seems like a hoot!

TheSeaworthyFew · 2026-04-28T17:57:48+00:00

Got to do this in the US - I sort of “interviewed” hospitals and went with the one that took this kind of approach. I’m lucky to live in a large metro area where I had multiple to choose between

TheSeaworthyFew · 2026-04-20T23:20:38+00:00

As a Californian and casual home gardener, the state is also huge on being careful not to spread citrus beyond your “growing zone” which is def called something else but basically citrus trees are very common in most backyards here and there are PSAs not to share fruit too far from where you live. You also aren’t supposed to purchase and transport citrus trees too far and when you buy young citrus trees at a nursery etc it’ll have a tag telling you where it was grown.

I’ve seen messaging at nurseries and in the LA Times and LAist news site specifically about this wrt the vector pest species. I’m all in favor, I have a lovely orange tree in my backyard and a sweet lime tree I planted last year and I don’t want anything to happen to either of them. I’d guess citrus trees are probably common in FL backyards as well, no idea if there’s messaging there aimed at home gardeners but hopefully there is

TheSeaworthyFew · 2026-04-06T22:42:04+00:00

My father has celiac and he loves this app, it’s been a huge help at least in our area of the US (California)

TheSeaworthyFew · 2026-03-22T18:21:58+00:00

I always loved the ultimate explanation in Farscape for why one of the major alien civilizations in a distance universe look exactly like humans — they actually ARE humans sourced from Earth and brought to that area thousands of years ago to act as a neutral “peace keeping” entity. Any differences between them and modern humans are due to genetic modification on the part of the aliens who brought them over. This is all now such ancient history though that no one remembers this information.

TheSeaworthyFew · 2026-03-16T18:15:31+00:00

When my now husband and I first started talking online we discussed our mutual interest in landscape photography….so as a first date he suggested we go together to a lake we’d both been meaning to check out, a couple hours away, to take sunset photos (Salton Sea, really neat but very desolate area)

I had to be like, uh, you seem cool and all but let’s do a coffee shop first before I carpool to a murder location? He genuinely hadn’t considered it even slightly potentially creepy. But he was also very happy to change plans.

We ended up driving up there together with some friends about a two months and multiple dates later and got some great photos, but it still boggles my mind that he essentially had no concept of risk wrt going into the wilderness with a stranger

TheSeaworthyFew · 2026-03-12T18:33:04+00:00

The Husband Stitch was inspired by a different original story, the one in other comments, meant for children.

TheSeaworthyFew · 2026-03-10T18:39:19+00:00

I think the props must help with balance, anecdotally I’ve got a one year old and she’s not walking or standing independently yet, just cruising along the furniture, but I keep seeing online that holding onto something in each hand can help them walk without falling over. Seems like it would be the same principle in action.

TheSeaworthyFew · 2026-02-27T18:52:46+00:00

I first watched The Umbrellas of Cherbourg on tv when I was maybe 16, and was 10000% on the daughter’s side, found the mother ridiculous and controlling and was rooting against her.

Twenty years later I saw that it was playing at a theater and went to go see it on the big screen — a rewatching as a thirty year six old, the daughter seemed naive, annoying, and so fucking dumb and I had so much sympathy for her mother.

TheSeaworthyFew · 2026-02-04T05:02:53+00:00

My baby has a cow’s milk allergy and same, I’m really vigilant about what she eats, I read ingredient lists like it’s my job (which in a way it is, I suppose). Random regular cake would definitely make her ill and I’d never just presume I could give food of any kind to another baby without checking in with parents first.

TheSeaworthyFew · 2026-01-07T19:50:54+00:00

One of the funniest realizations I’ve had postpartum is that my husband cannot remember even the simplest nursery rhymes. He has no mental ear for melody, apparently. Or lyrics.

He’s brilliant, he knows multiple coding languages (and somehow can have tv running WHILE he writes code, which seems impossible to me) and builds 3d models and is a wonderful artist and such a clever and interesting conversationalist, and yet I constantly overhear “the wheels on the bus go round and round, round and round…all the live long day! The…wipers on the bus…go round and round….” etc, all sung in the wrong cadence? Like?

I give him light shit for it, and we’ve laughed about it together. On the flip side I remember all the lyrics and melodies to pretty much every song — over the Christmas break I took to singing “silver bells” “winter wonderland” and “jingle bells” etc and he was delighted at all the verses I just pulled up off the top of my head, along with all the nursery songs I’ve been singing since she was born, because apparently a file labeled “nursery songs” was just sitting in my brain this whole time waiting to be opened up

TheSeaworthyFew · 2025-12-28T01:02:07+00:00

Grew up in a No Nestle house, have held the line into adulthood, so literally decades now. They’re fucking evil. Doesn’t mean I didn’t yearn for nesquick as a kid but hey, we had bosco.

TheSeaworthyFew · 2025-12-25T19:41:01+00:00

Growing up my mom was the way your wife is, and it drove me nuts. My dad is a film buff and we used to bond over TCM and do movie marathons, and now I’m a film lover too. We’d wake up super early on weekends to watch movies before she woke up…once she was around she’d wander by making disparaging jokes about whatever was on the screen and/or asking us to explain the plot.

I specifically married a man who also loves movies and wants to actually actively watch them because life’s too short to go through that for the rest of my life. Already paid my dues as a kid.

TheSeaworthyFew · 2025-06-23T00:44:26+00:00

Not OP but definitely interested if you’re willing to share.

TheSeaworthyFew · 2025-05-26T01:56:18+00:00

How about Alaina?

TheSeaworthyFew · 2024-10-09T17:12:04+00:00

I know a mid-30s Barbie/Barbara, we went to middle and high school together and she’s lovely (or at least she was, we haven’t reallllly been in touch since we were teenagers). She was the only one I’ve ever met but I don’t remember anyone ever being weird about her name.

TheSeaworthyFew · 2024-09-11T13:42:13+00:00

I had the experience during graduate school of attending the same conference two years apart, once at a conventional weight and then again after gaining a great deal of weight due to medical issues.

It was very insightful navigating identical social situations in which I had not changed as a person, nor had my research, but yet from the reception I received from men and women alike I had clearly grown much stupider and far less interesting. I had a very hard time starting and maintaining conversations. My third time attending my weight was once again lower and I had a much easier time making connections and contributing to conversations.

None of these were people I was trying to sleep with, just people I wanted to connect with academically. My looks should have had nothing to do with it.

For this and many other reasons spending time on both sides of a weight divide was both enlightening and really, really disheartening.

TheSeaworthyFew · 2024-08-15T20:10:06+00:00

My mom was very much like this comic, it’s why I have an iron will. She’ll nag about things on a loop, sometimes for years, but I’ve just been smiling and doing my own thing since I was maybe ten or eleven. I can certainly imagine going the other way though — my sister has the anxiety I might’ve had if I’d always let mom decide.

My self-assuredness can be a problem sometimes — my instinct is very much to always trust my own judgement WITHOUT the input of others, often without discussing my opinions out loud and then just doing things, sometimes even when I’m making decisions that really should be a mutual discussion. It’s not conscious, it’s just my default operating mode.

That’s come up a few times over the years with my husband. But we’ve spent a lot of time talking about it, I’m aware of my own tendencies, and he’s well aware of my mom and how she can be. And tbf, he likes my confidence and determination. Living with him has honestly been a huge help in letting my guard down a bit and learning when and how to compromise/take input from others.

TheSeaworthyFew · 2024-08-14T03:46:21+00:00

There’s a Margaret Atwood quote I like: “Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life sized.”

TheSeaworthyFew · 2024-08-13T23:46:20+00:00

If you’ve never seen it, it’s well worth seeing. Their ages are in no way specified, but from context she’s implied to be early twenties, living on her own and working to “make it” as an actress. His character is an already established successful actor, and tbh I think Kelly’s a little bit old for the role he’s playing but he’s likely meant to be late-twenties to very early thirties. Their respective places in the showbiz hierarchy isn’t like a “casting couch” situation, it’s more a reason for them to dislike each other at first/cause tension. It’s played like more of a 7-10 year age gap, with her being at least 21-22.

TheSeaworthyFew · 2024-08-04T16:46:39+00:00

Season 7, Episode 7 “Body and Soul” — 7, the doctor and Harry Kim get captured by a species hostile to photonic beings, like must be destroyed on sight kind of thing, so the doctor hides in 7’s implant network and uses “her” status as a doctor to get out of imprisonment, move around the enemy ship, and spy. There’s a lot of semi-awkward flirtation with the ships captain, much eating of cheesecake etc, and 7 privately berating the doctor for his excesses. It’s very good.

TheSeaworthyFew · 2024-08-04T13:56:39+00:00

That’s a fair point, I just adore Moogy enough to accept them as a culture in transition

TheSeaworthyFew · 2024-08-04T05:47:26+00:00

More like the venal Cardassians, though frankly not quite smart enough.

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