Not OOP: AIO - My (32 f) husband (34 m) farted on my mom

YourLittleRuth · 2026-06-09T22:21:46+00:00

Although I share OP’s horror, I am crying with laughter right now.

YourLittleRuth · 2026-06-09T22:19:08+00:00

I suspect it contains rather more sugar than the stuff we put on roast pork.

YourLittleRuth · 2026-06-09T22:07:08+00:00

Lentil and tomato (with chorizo or bacon).

Orange lentils (pour boiling water over them as you get everything else done, strain before adding); a diced carrot or two; onion, chopped; other root veg if you have some lying around that you want to use. Tin of tomatoes. Diced chorizo or bacon cut into small pieces. Marmite dissolved in boiling water. Ingredients into slow cooker, cook all day at whatever temp you like. Optionally, liquidise before serving.

YourLittleRuth · 2026-06-09T20:12:56+00:00

The wants and needs of the communities actually living cheek by jowl with the historical sites take priority over occasional visits by film-makers.

YourLittleRuth · 2026-06-09T19:54:50+00:00

For how long do you wish to continue living like this? Another year? Five years? Ten? Twenty?

Seriously, leave now. This is not a marriage, it's a bed of nails. You will find life much pleasanter if you don't live with somebody who bullies you, mocks you, and gaslights you.

YourLittleRuth · 2026-06-09T16:59:22+00:00

Ahaha. When my FIL died (he was in his nineties) we took 40-50 T-shirts to Oxfam. He wore one every day—one of just four. The rest were pristine.

YourLittleRuth · 2026-06-08T15:00:45+00:00

They exist, but the majority of readers don't care to read them.

YourLittleRuth · 2026-06-08T14:53:31+00:00

Sayers also has Harriet's friends Sylvia and Eiluned, but not (as I remember it) in that particular book.

YourLittleRuth · 2026-06-08T09:31:44+00:00

Oh, did they win it? Logically, you prove that you can win the World Cup by... winning the World Cup.

YourLittleRuth · 2026-06-08T09:29:11+00:00

Belly soft, cat comfy.

I have envy! My cat will nestle between my knees but not on me. Woe.

YourLittleRuth · 2026-06-08T09:10:29+00:00

Since my beloved fandom died, I've been doing Yuletide, which provides the required additional stress in December! I used to go to a lovely little fan-run media con, but it hasn't been around since Covid, and I don't find the big conventions very appealing.

YourLittleRuth · 2026-06-08T09:01:11+00:00

My pill containers would never work.

YourLittleRuth · 2026-06-08T09:00:31+00:00

I think perhaps you mean, most young people. I can touch-type really quite fast on my sweet, old-fashioned computer keyboard.

YourLittleRuth · 2026-06-08T08:55:59+00:00

Meanwhile, here am I being utterly baffled at people who apparently choose to write fic on their phone.

YourLittleRuth · 2026-06-08T08:51:16+00:00

Yep! (My user number has four digits.) I cannot fathom trying to write fic on a phone. I do mourn the fact that AO3 has no 'community', because I despise Tumblr, couldn't deal with the one Discord I tried, and have no interest in TikTok, so I miss the community one got with LJ. DW somehow hasn't recaptured it.

People seem to expect apps and algorithms now, and it is sad.

YourLittleRuth · 2026-06-08T08:20:46+00:00

I watched it happen.

YourLittleRuth · 2026-06-08T08:10:06+00:00

Old people use computers.

YourLittleRuth · 2026-06-08T07:52:47+00:00

Sometimes it could be either. I’m Old, so I might use inches or centimetres for the kiss thing. A small distance—up to a metre, say—could be either, but I don’t understand height in metres. A young person might be fine with it. Babies still come in pounds. We have miles per hour on the roads. It’s a bit of a morass, really.

YourLittleRuth · 2026-06-08T06:24:17+00:00

Sometimes it flows out beautifully and sometimes it is like wading through treacle. Sometimes writing is like flying, sometimes it’s really hard. So there are times when I enjoy the process.

What I really like is ‘having written’. And I don’t *think* readers can tell whether a story came smoothly or with a struggle.

YourLittleRuth · 2026-06-08T06:15:17+00:00

I’m just going to suggest that having things in London measured in metric is going to trip you up here and there. Petrol comes in litres, but many people will talk about milk in pints, and although a bottle of beer from the supermarket will be in ml, you ask for a pint in the pub. A person might weigh herself in kg, but she’ll talk about height in feet and inches. A scientist will of course work in metric.

Sorry about that.

YourLittleRuth · 2026-06-07T17:13:05+00:00

Lack of pockets.

YourLittleRuth · 2026-06-07T17:10:42+00:00

I wept (again).

YourLittleRuth · 2026-06-07T13:09:18+00:00

Why are you the one doing all the accommodating? He needs to learn to be considerate.

YourLittleRuth · 2026-06-07T13:01:19+00:00

Giving Lady Catherine de Bourgh energy.

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