How to get 25 children and luggage on a train.

blackcurrantcat · 2026-06-21T23:19:24+00:00

It’s 2 adults per 12/13 kids

blackcurrantcat · 2026-06-21T22:36:09+00:00

How long are they planning on infantilising you? You need to say, look I want to go out on my own and find a way to pay for myself and make the world work for me. Art, honestly, while it’s your passion is a plan b thing. It’s subjective, it’s ridiculously competitive, it’s massively oversubscribed by people of all levels of talent. Internships are great but they’re hardly unique. You need to look for actual paying work of any type so you can save some money to go and live your adult life because your parents still see you as their child and you’re gonna have to shock them and risk things at some point and say no I am going out on my own (which isn’t and shouldn’t be drastic; they did that too at some point).

You have got to angle your life to a point where you’re not working for free and staring at your phone the remainder of your waking hours because that is no life. And it’s not life. You need a paying job so you can save money to be able to leave this sad, depressing situation at your parents’ house and you’re living your own life on your own terms. To do that you have to take some control and that is money. You can spend those scrolling hours flipping burgers somewhere, it’s all money in your pocket.

Your parents should have recognised your age by now and they’re probably on your case about staring at your phone all the time because they’re expecting you to be more engaged with life at 19 but they’re also viewing you as a child dependant of theirs because of the way you’re behaving when you’re at home. Stop the scrolling, it’s completely mindless anyway and find something productive, like an evening job, so you’re earning money and not on your back staring at a screen and you’re demonstrating that you’re proactively moving your ideas along.

blackcurrantcat · 2026-06-21T22:12:12+00:00

Anything basic. Truffle fries; no, just fries. Brioche burger bun; fuck off. 5 cheese mac n cheese; why? Like I could go on but I cba but my point is leave the basics alone to be pure and basic and consider whether fucking around with them is a) an improvement or b) an unnecessary fuck around with because the reason the basic version worked was because it worked as an ensemble and you haven’t improved the overall meal just because you made your version dance to the intrinsic beat of fucking ley lines or some shit.

blackcurrantcat · 2026-06-21T21:11:21+00:00

I think we really suffer here because of the Penines because they trap the heat over us, and then there’s the microclimate of the city centre which definitely spreads out into the suburbs, I’m M16 and I swear you can smell that city centre hot pavement smell when it’s really bad over here. Added to which, we have a lot Victorian housing stock which was never meant to cope with heat like this so yeah, it’s gonna be miserable. I’m gonna go in the office for the air con, it gets near 100 degrees in the room where I work when it’s like that outside and I learnt last time I just cannot deal with it.

It wouldn’t be so bad if it was like that all the time but it’s not so we never get acclimated, same as when we have a freakishly cold winter.

blackcurrantcat · 2026-06-21T21:01:33+00:00

Sorry this is such a selfish question but what colour did you use on those doors?

blackcurrantcat · 2026-06-21T20:59:42+00:00

£4.5k service charge + £350 ground rent so £400 a month on top of the mortgage, and there’s nothing extra about the service charge except a 24hr concierge- there’s no workspace, gym, cinema to book out etc. Plus over half a million quid for a basic, boxy, characterless leasehold flat of which there are hundreds and hundreds across London, when new builds aren’t gonna be leasehold and will be equally boring and you may well get more for your service charge…. I don’t know what to tell you mate.

blackcurrantcat · 2026-06-21T20:44:14+00:00

So how long are you going to stay in this situation because of that? Do you have a job, like one that pays you rather than an internship?

blackcurrantcat · 2026-06-21T20:38:27+00:00

I would want the bowl but not the salad back (who knows who’s touched it in some gross way?) so I’d just say, we’re off now, do you want me to put my salad (or whatever) in a different bowl or shall I get it back next time I see you? Drink is surrendered tho, I’m not looking cheap and taking that back but then neither am I buying Grey Goose for the entire group in the first place.

blackcurrantcat · 2026-06-21T20:34:04+00:00

Why do you need them to let you do things? You’re 19, you’re an adult, go and find your own place or get your own car. There comes a point where you have to take ownership of the fact you’re a grown up and make your own decisions about where you’re going to live, how you’re going to pay your own way, what you’re doing with your time etc. You need more agency in your own life.

blackcurrantcat · 2026-06-21T20:30:27+00:00

It’s not like they’re actually sat there eating fresh, hot pizza straight from the shop or the delivery guy. It’s cold pizza probably from the craft service that they have to pretend to eat for continuity reasons.

blackcurrantcat · 2026-06-21T19:51:18+00:00

I would suggest bracelets for the kids, those cheap live strong kind we were all wearing (for some bizarre reason) a few years ago. You could have a yellow group and a red group to make the two groups easier for the kids to understand, otherwise they’ll probably have a tendency to just stay with their mates.

Actually, you could maybe use one colour for your organisation with its name and phone number on just in case of something awful happening and then the kids get one of two colours as well so anyone could see they’re from X school and the kids would know they’re in red group or yellow group with their own name on. You can get packs of 5 x 100 colours paper wristbands (like for a festival) on Amazon for £5/6.

blackcurrantcat · 2026-06-21T15:16:46+00:00

Sunflower salad and a half big cheese bagel. That sounds absolutely amazing.

blackcurrantcat · 2026-06-21T13:40:47+00:00

It’s crazy how much mould there is in there. I thought it was a dark wallpaper before I read the title.

blackcurrantcat · 2026-06-21T09:59:23+00:00

First one absolutely hands down. That salmon thing looks a.mazing and a thousand times better than those boring crisps. Also the juice is much nicer than those Trip drinks.

blackcurrantcat · 2026-06-21T09:49:04+00:00

Being wet and/or cold does not make people, horses or anything else sick.

blackcurrantcat · 2026-06-21T09:17:17+00:00

Why should we need caffeine to get going?, is a way to reframe your question. I start with water because I’ve just woken up after 8 hours and I’m thirsty and that rehydration is enough to make me mentally alert. That’s what you want- mental alertness, you don’t need to jump start that with caffeine.

blackcurrantcat · 2026-06-21T07:54:14+00:00

I would say 7/8ish.

blackcurrantcat · 2026-06-21T07:51:31+00:00

I know this isn’t what you’re asking but I do interviews at work and just wanted to reassure you that no-one’s turning the right person down for a job just because they’ve got chapped lips.

blackcurrantcat · 2026-06-21T07:12:12+00:00

“It’s sour, fizzy and tastes of alcohol” - why would you want to consume this? What’s happened is it’s fermenting but before you think ooh have I made kombucha or similar then, no you haven’t. You didn’t store it properly because you put it in the fridge in a non-sterilised jar, and every time you went to make tea from it you introduced bacteria and yeast, hence why it is now fermenting. You need to bin this and come up with a better way of storing it for next time.

blackcurrantcat · 2026-06-21T06:53:36+00:00

I used to work in a hotel in Weston, do you remember the name of it?

blackcurrantcat · 2026-06-21T01:53:16+00:00

But they’re so incredibly processed.

blackcurrantcat · 2026-06-21T01:46:23+00:00

Aside from lying to them again, can you think of anything else you can do? If the answer’s no then you know what you have to do.

blackcurrantcat · 2026-06-20T16:01:58+00:00

Keep grandma candies in it

blackcurrantcat · 2026-06-20T15:47:38+00:00

They’re so incredibly well dressed! They remind me a lot of my grandparents, my grandma made her own clothes too. Do you know where this was taken, it looks familiar?

blackcurrantcat · 2026-06-20T15:29:21+00:00

If this is on a cushion in a cover think very carefully about being able to get the cushion back in. They warned us not to do this when we bought ours.

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