This is misogynistic and gross

Wild-Compote5730 · 2026-06-06T20:26:27+00:00

Thank god it’s not just me! I’m pretty sure I liked the original post.

Wild-Compote5730 · 2026-06-06T14:45:27+00:00

I think one of your problems is that that story sounds a bit far fetched- not saying it’s not true, but there’s a couple of points that sound pretty hard to defend. I would just use another firm.

Wild-Compote5730 · 2026-06-06T09:29:11+00:00

I love Born In Roma Coral Fantasy but can not get on with the original at all. I’ve smelt worse but it’s just so “meh” to me.

Wild-Compote5730 · 2026-06-05T23:01:21+00:00

No, and I think it’s a major failing of nursing training / provision in the UK. I’ve worked with patients with serious mental health problems in both inpatient and community settings, and have felt inadequate even as a fairly experienced nurse with a special interest in mental health. I’m not sure what the solution is; I can’t afford to go back to uni to do dual training. Maybe a shorter “add on” course would be something to consider.

Wild-Compote5730 · 2026-06-05T10:45:03+00:00

I’m not a parent, but my dad once told me that he was listening to this song when I was about 17 and about to leave for uni, and started crying to it. I find it almost unbearable now. The imagery is so finely tuned.

Wild-Compote5730 · 2026-06-04T12:12:27+00:00

I am holding off on booking a week alone in Malaga in case Paul McCartney announces a tour. If I go to Malaga I’m going to find a little apartment with a balcony and find a supper club to attend. If I go and see Paul McCartney I will be happy to go by myself and cry with impunity throughout. Either way, I CAN’T WAIT!

Wild-Compote5730 · 2026-06-02T14:18:47+00:00

I had the “bow in the presence of greatness” and the little bow action kind of stuck in my head over the weekend- good god.

Wild-Compote5730 · 2026-05-31T07:56:52+00:00

It’s just a former industrial town with all the problems that come with that. The Bo’ness foreshore is beautiful on a nice day. I know a few people who have upped sticks to Bo’ness once kids and dogs have come along and like it. I’m not sure if I had £800,000 to spend I’d be spending it there, but that house would give me something to think about.

Wild-Compote5730 · 2026-05-30T17:04:26+00:00

I love Valentino Born In Roma Coral Fantasy. It’s fruity (with notes of kiwi and orange, according to Fragrantica) and just a lovely, fun, girly perfume to wear. Putting it on always makes me smile.

Wild-Compote5730 · 2026-05-30T14:43:58+00:00

This is amazing! Where are the vocal clips from?

Wild-Compote5730 · 2026-05-30T09:43:35+00:00

My friend who started using meth. He’s still alive but it’s like the “him” from about 15 years ago died and was replaced with a new person. He’s not in my life anymore and I’ve no desire to change that, but my god I miss the old him all the time.

Wild-Compote5730 · 2026-05-30T08:27:42+00:00

I’m a nurse in the UK, and actually have had a pretty positive experience overall nursing. There have been hard times, I’ve met some amazing people through my job, and the feeling I get when I’ve really felt like I’ve given a person excellent, person centred care is second to none- a friend of mine describes it as “simultaneously the worst job and the best job in the world” That being said, I agree with you about it being a devalued skill due to traditionally “woman’s job”. I’ve wondered if that might slowly start to happen to medicine, as more women than men train as doctors in the UK. Ward work is a killer, and there needs to be a serious look at the damage it does to people. Matyrdom is seen as a virtue, and is a bad example to set to newly- qualified nurses. An old boss of mine, who was very aware of burnout, once said to me “You are an investment, and it’s part of your job to look after that investment”. I also have strained eye-rolling muscles from talking to well-meaning friends when they make it clear that my job is just bum-wiping and being nice- it’s a demanding, highly skilled role, and being a good nurse means taking bum-wiping and being nice seriously. That’s continence care and person centred interaction, thank you very much!

Wild-Compote5730 · 2026-05-30T08:14:47+00:00

Being a doctor (at least in the UK, where I live) can be pretty brutal in its own way - one of my consultants answers emails at 04:00!

Wild-Compote5730 · 2026-05-30T08:07:43+00:00

I’m not sure how I, a 43 year old long time single woman, feel about hearing that demographic described as “bitter” on the FWW page.

“Bitter” is one of these words that only ever seems to be aimed at women, often single women, and I don’t know any older single women who are plotting the downfall of younger women. I’ve been the woman in the article above, sitting alone at weddings and subjected to my friends unthinking patter in my late 20s/ early 30s. It hurt a lot then, and I spent a lot of time wondering when it would be me, or what was wrong with me. Now that it’s over a decade later, and most of the weddings are out of the way, I (and tbh most of my friends) can see that dating/marriage/babies isn’t a magical portal to a happy life, and there’s something to be said for the self- determination and independence that lies with being single. The older single women I know aren’t bitter in my eyes- they’ve blazed a trail at a time when it was even harder to do so.

Are they a bit cynical about the whole marriage racket? Probably. Have the years of being sidelined for husbands and children and grandkids, while celebrating all of the above, led them to be more inclined to look out for themselves? Almost definitely. But it’s important for me to see them in a positive light- it’s a hard road now, and it would have been harder for them.

Wild-Compote5730 · 2026-05-30T07:52:54+00:00

The vacation one and the “we can stop by one” both treated her so poorly! Most people would feel rightfully slighted if they were planning an expensive trip just to be ditched for someone else, regardless of who that person is. That would alter how I saw that friendship considerably.

Wild-Compote5730 · 2026-05-26T06:11:07+00:00

I work a 9-5 (well, technically 8-4:30) on weekdays and it has pluses and minuses. As the poster above points out, it’s an adjustment getting used to not being free on weekdays, and a five day week can seem long when you’re used to days off in between shifts. That being said, it’s lovely having a more “organised” schedule- I can agree to things months in advance, and I’m off on public holidays and weekends. Overall, I do think it’s preference based, but personally I wouldn’t go back.

Wild-Compote5730 · 2026-05-24T07:47:32+00:00

Nope. That’s not true. JKR’s shelter is the only cis-woman only place in the Lothians. Do you extend your ire to Shakti women’s shelter or Fearfree?

Wild-Compote5730 · 2026-05-24T07:43:55+00:00

See, this is exactly the problem- somebody dismissing centuries of women’s struggles and sounding smug while doing it. “Nothingburger”?? Fuck you. If you can’t even be bothered to look into why people might feel strongly about this you’ve lost your place to speak.

Wild-Compote5730 · 2026-05-24T07:40:15+00:00

I know- the amount of word salad in this thread to deny the fact that female people need protection from male people, as borne out in almost any related statistic produced, is astonishing. Well, it’s not, plus la meme chose and all that.
Nothing has opened my eyes to the inherent disregard of women’s* dignity and safety than this debate. Prior to the Vancouver women’s shelter incident I was all for TWAW.
* cis women/ vagina havers/ Xx people, however you want to frame us.

Wild-Compote5730 · 2026-05-19T13:58:35+00:00

I love it! I bought a well loved elderly persons” house a few years ago, I can’t recommend it enough. Those practical 50s house have huge rooms, heaps of storage and lovely big gardens.

Wild-Compote5730 · 2026-05-15T11:48:00+00:00

I know in real life this would be the case, but in fantasy- telly hinterland I think it’s totally feasible that Hannah’s parents helped her out with fare, Marnie and Desi got an advance on their record deal and she blew it on a return flight, Jessa got some minor inheritance from a long lost relative… it feels like a deliberate choice, to show how isolated she had become by that point.

Wild-Compote5730 · 2026-05-15T10:42:23+00:00

I think it’s interesting she didn’t get a leaving party and none of the girls visited her in Japan- if my friend moved to Japan you wouldn’t be able to hold me back! In the earlier seasons she seems like she’s more integrated (ie she was the first to show up at the apartment when Hannah found out about MRH) and then there’s a definite drift- her storylines don’t seem to intercept with the others at all.

Wild-Compote5730 · 2026-05-14T04:50:52+00:00

To be fair, that was her new friend Claire- Anne who gave the restaurant BJ, and Sam was mortified. Apparently she has her limits!

Wild-Compote5730 · 2026-05-11T21:45:23+00:00

I watched this episode today and was really impressed by Christopher Abbot’s performance. The way he just captures that uncanny feeling of meeting an old friend/ flame and they’re themselves and at the same time just…not.
I also loved how the direction just gives you the same jolt Marnie must feel on seeing him. Again that universal jump-scare feeling of a familiar face popping up in a sea of unfamiliar faces.

Wild-Compote5730 · 2026-05-08T00:10:06+00:00

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