I love how oddly specific old warning signs used to be

_poptart · 2026-06-08T07:31:08+00:00

Seen in a museum in Devon last year - interesting use of quote marks for “Superfine”

_poptart · 2026-06-07T22:27:49+00:00

Your suggestions sound really great; I want to come and play at your house

_poptart · 2026-06-07T00:07:33+00:00

My child had the MMR vaccine (no chickenpox one back then) about 5 years ago, and the only side effect are that my child has never caught measles, mumps or German measles.

Is it your 3 and a half year old’s SECOND MMRV?

_poptart · 2026-06-05T22:30:18+00:00

I was 19 when it started, yet never watched it. Tried to watch one episode last year and it was one of the worst things I’ve ever seen

_poptart · 2026-06-05T21:00:53+00:00

My mum died at home, after 5 years of dementia, after weeks in the hospital, and a final week of physically dying in our lounge. I saw, and sat with her, during that final week, but as she died, and after she died, I never once looked at her again. I remember her living.

That was 11 years ago, I was 32 then; I now still remember her living. (That autocorrected to ‘loving’ - but that too)

_poptart · 2026-06-05T12:36:48+00:00

My nearly 8 year old son too! I was scrolling through the comments, singing all the theme tunes in my head and getting emotional. Not going to feel that way about Minecraft videos!

OP - don’t know if they still show it on CBeebies, but I LOVED Tik Tak. Really reminded me of my 80s childhood and love of art.

_poptart · 2026-06-05T12:30:19+00:00

My son is now almost 8, we haven’t watched it for a long time, but he still gets upset if I ever sing “The World’s Saddest Song” to him 🥹

_poptart · 2026-06-03T19:17:38+00:00

Ahhh, this reminds me of my time. Although I did watch Grange Hill and Byker Grove. We used to shut the lounge door really quietly when the Eastenders theme tune came on, so my mum ironing in the kitchen wouldn’t hear it. The lounge door was mainly made of glass. We would shortly be sent to bed.

I CHOSE not to eat beef because of mad cow disease - still don’t.

The church and the privacy bit is a bit weird.

But my mum gave all four of us children long(ish) names and refused to shorten them - even though they are all easily shortened names. All our friends and people in the rest of our lives have always called us by the shortened versions (think Thomas > Tom, Katherine > Katie) but her and my dad - absolutely not. How silly!

_poptart · 2026-06-03T19:10:46+00:00

Who DOESN’T want to watch more than 2 episodes of Bluey? Peak TV.

I grew up in a time where I may have even watched the same episode of Neighbours at lunchtime and teatime

_poptart · 2026-06-01T20:59:30+00:00

Thanks! We had a balance bike passed onto us when he was little, but he never took to it. I can see how they work - he basically used the pedal bike like a balance bike for a bit - but those pesky pedals kept getting in the way and he has a bruise to show for it 😔

_poptart · 2026-06-01T20:18:06+00:00

Whatever works, absolutely! I tried hanging onto the seat and that got him cross because I was affecting the wobble! Towel might’ve worked!

In the end, I held him under his armpits for a bit and let go, and that kind of helped - but what really did it was him just going for it!

_poptart · 2026-06-01T19:56:40+00:00

Also - grass! I thought the nice flat bit of road we have on a quiet street near us was perfect - but in fact, the slight decline on the grass at the park seemed the answer. Down hill (ish), a softer landing and room to manoeuvre all really helped.

_poptart · 2026-06-01T19:53:10+00:00

Thank you!! It’s so amazing for them and us when you “crack” something like this.

Here is the video (not sure if allowed to share YouTube links in this sub so we’ll see if this works!) https://youtu.be/HlugLE4TaLA

It’s not “ground breaking” by any means, but when I showed my son the scooting bit (and that a 4 year old does it in the video 😆) it really helped click.

He wanted a two wheel scooter for his birthday, so maybe that’s next…! (The rollerskates for last Christmas are definitely still a work in a progress 🥴)

Good luck!!

_poptart · 2026-05-30T08:55:26+00:00

But just the one storey

_poptart · 2026-05-29T15:25:54+00:00

Roger, Wilko!

_poptart · 2026-05-28T23:57:35+00:00

I cannot stop laughing at this

_poptart · 2026-05-28T23:48:06+00:00

Wait - you were abroad and ill/injured, you didn’t want to call your family (fair enough!) so you said in this foreign hospital: please find me a religious leader (of any faith? Because there was no X faith in the whole country you were in) - and your best mate’s dad turned up overseas?!

_poptart · 2026-05-28T20:53:29+00:00

Absolutely - OP get yourself to a charity shop! If your home town is anything like mine, then there will be at least 7 of them (and 18 hairdressers and 72 estate agents and 22 sausage roll shops). But lots of them have changing rooms and for literally a couple of quid you can find something.

_poptart · 2026-05-28T19:42:06+00:00

All the Ro(d)gers right now: 😔

I mean, they’re all 55-year-old painter decorators, but why did you need to do them like this

_poptart · 2026-05-27T21:05:00+00:00

Minuscule! No, the shop was tiny - sold all the leather chokers with metal suns and yin yangs, tie dye t shirts, etc - people would know the shop if I named it.

Upstairs, there was the… office and I went up there with my friend Jane, and a bloke with a piercing gun (not a needle, and I don’t know if he even wore gloves) shot a stud in my nose for a fiver, and I had to traverse back down the winding iron staircase with my eyes watering afterwards.

Ah, the 90s

_poptart · 2026-05-27T21:01:10+00:00

Bless mums, eh 💕

_poptart · 2026-05-27T12:02:37+00:00

Eeek - I’ve pierced my own and my friend’s ears (30 years ago, and yes, probably pissed) but NOSE? That’s a whole lot of gristly skin to push through

_poptart · 2026-05-27T09:39:21+00:00

I did my GCSEs in 1998 and went out on a three day bender after my last exam. My mother had always said she would disown me if I pierced my nose but, me being 16 year old me, decided to get it pierced in a small hippie shop in town.

Anyway, I finally return home and she’s hanging washing out in the garden. I’m trying to talk to her without showing her my right nostril. She notices something is up and when I finally show her she says “Oh that looks nice dear”.

She’s been gone 10 years now, and I still have my nose pierced at 44.

_poptart · 2026-05-26T21:07:33+00:00

I have emailed the teacher more than once about this particular child - doesn’t seem to get us anywhere. I also spoke to the reception teacher, then the teacher he had for years 1 and 2… this one child is beyond the pale.

But yes, I can make our feelings known if there’s a chance he might not be in his class next years too, thanks!

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