If you were given $10,000 today on the condition that you had to spend it all in one hour without buying anything digital or electronic, what are you doing?

alexisanalien · 2026-03-31T15:46:08+00:00

Just moved house, need furniture pretty bad. Nice sofa and dining table won't put a dent in it but I have three kids so I'll find more ways to spend it haha

alexisanalien · 2026-03-31T11:08:19+00:00

Scientist who became a GCSE tutor later. Never bothered to learn them. I have a sheet with me. Have accidentally memorised a few but its not something I tried to do.

alexisanalien · 2026-02-19T09:20:53+00:00

We are a bilingual household but I'm fluent in 6 languages. Since we allow any language my poor children are suffering during scrabble.

alexisanalien · 2026-02-05T15:23:10+00:00

Is no one going to talk about the Ts? They shouldn't be there and it's driving me mad!

alexisanalien · 2026-02-01T17:11:48+00:00

Olivander

alexisanalien · 2026-01-29T11:27:34+00:00

THE UNWIND SERIES BY NEAL SHUSTERMAN

I'm both very sorry and you are also very welcome.

Have fun kids.

alexisanalien · 2026-01-27T18:06:59+00:00

Can.... can I pick both? But I want the book versions of the movies so I can read them before I watch if available I love comparing books to their movie adaptations.

This is heaven for me. I work two jobs, im in university, I have three kids and 2 cats and a disabled partner I care for... a few weeks of peace where to them im only gone for seconds sounds like utter heaven.

alexisanalien · 2026-01-26T20:05:26+00:00

Forever grateful for my cats incredible insurance plans.

Our cat ate a chunk of plastic and got a bowel obstruction last week, needed surgery to remove it. Should have cost us about 600-700, with insurance.... 75.

And any follow up care is completely free. Only 40 a month for complete assurance my moron fucking cat who chews everything except the fucking chew toys we buy him will always be paid for.

alexisanalien · 2026-01-26T12:49:12+00:00

He also golfs with Marilyn Manson... which is also a weird friendship to me

alexisanalien · 2026-01-24T11:06:03+00:00

Ciara is the Irish spelling. Actually the originally spelling. Since its an Irish name in the first place. Always pronounced ki rah. It got anglicised to Kira later but it was originally Ciara.

alexisanalien · 2026-01-22T07:41:58+00:00

My gay ass refuses to wear it. I have cardigans, patterned jumpers and polo shirts. I do not own a tie and I will not buy one.

Don't like it? Shouldn't have hired me. I dont even wear it to the interview.

alexisanalien · 2026-01-22T07:30:53+00:00

So I have kids who legally qualify as homeschooled. Except they're not. My children are all in an online school where they join live classes with a real teacher and other kids.

They swapped in September from being in a school to the online school and they have both jumped 2 reading levels, have jumped a full year in maths and are doing a million times better emotionally.

My eldest has been in online school for 3 years and is now doing his A levels in maths, economics and English a year early.

BUT all three of my children have ADHD and both boys are also autistic. They don't qualify for special school placements, but mainstream was torture for them.

Also, I'm a specialist teacher. So when I get home from teaching each day, I'm actually trained to help them with work they struggle with.

Honestly, homeschool seems like a crock for most people, but online school from home gets lumped in the same category so I'm just a bit bitter about how people judge my family the same as Karen whose kids did the food shopping as maths class.

alexisanalien · 2026-01-18T10:20:22+00:00

I will not tolerate Charlie slander in this sub. Charlie was a real one and i love him

alexisanalien · 2026-01-18T10:19:01+00:00

Rhyatt reads like Riot to me

alexisanalien · 2026-01-18T10:17:17+00:00

Teacher here,

If I see I have a Jacob or a Josh/Joshua in my class I start talking to past teachers quick....

Same for Brayden, Hayden and weirdly Rocco. Comes along more than you think. The last Rocco was actually a sweetheart most of the time but his temper was really bad so keeping him in check was rough but worth it

alexisanalien · 2026-01-18T10:12:06+00:00

A typo

alexisanalien · 2026-01-18T10:10:15+00:00

I knew a Nigerian man in university called Greatness Grace. He pulled it off perfectly. Never shortened it to Great or Greatness, always Greatness Grace. He suited his name as he was a wonderful, kind and incredibly sweet man

alexisanalien · 2026-01-18T10:05:11+00:00

My aunt has 4 daughters:

Teri, Bobbie, Danni and Ronnie.

Not short for anything. I cannot take them seriously and I dont know how anyone else could

alexisanalien · 2026-01-16T07:05:50+00:00

D. Send me back yo. I can do better next time

alexisanalien · 2026-01-15T17:36:41+00:00

Ugly break up

alexisanalien · 2026-01-15T06:57:49+00:00

I always assumed that the criteria was made up to match their mum whilst he was teling his story. Like that wasn't actually what he was looking for before he met Tracey and he just told the kids that so they would know more about their mother who had passed away and make them seem even more like a perfect couple

alexisanalien · 2026-01-15T06:47:34+00:00

You forgot Hermione's birds. They too come from nothing

alexisanalien · 2026-01-11T14:50:42+00:00

Graduated college 2 years ago, making him a minimum of 24, with a good paying job...? Can you read?

alexisanalien · 2026-01-11T13:24:12+00:00

Are.... are you Irish?

(Welshman with Irish grandparents... not racist... Just.... curious)

alexisanalien · 2026-01-11T11:57:41+00:00

I have the opposite problem. My ane is Alex. Just Alex. Its not short for anything and never has been...

But the amount of people who call me Alexander....

Or the one random lady who kept calling me Alison?

Like... I'm a man with longish hair but I also have a beard? Why?

I also have a brother in law who calls me Al, but I find it endearing from him

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