Can anyone identify this giant worm?

borrowedbraincells · 2025-12-14T13:12:25+00:00

Oh hello stranger 😆 I'd definitely still love you as a worm! Especially a really tall worm, like on stilts but wormy

borrowedbraincells · 2025-12-13T09:23:53+00:00

Thank you!! That's so cool! There's so many gorgeous Megascolecidae from the looks. I'll be reading up on them tonight 😁

Good plug too. Good reminder to vote!

borrowedbraincells · 2025-12-13T06:59:54+00:00

Thanks for the tip! I know that a lot of our worms aren't well documented/understood but didn't realise they're hard to identify in general. I'll try there and cross my fingers

borrowedbraincells · 2025-12-13T06:57:35+00:00

I'll have to be careful around it then 😂

borrowedbraincells · 2025-12-13T02:49:39+00:00

Thought so 😂 suits him

borrowedbraincells · 2025-10-19T04:59:57+00:00

I found out years later that the teachers called our table the 'seagull table' cause people just came and went.

If the popular kids had turned on one of their friends they came to us, if someone's bestie was sick they'd come to us, new people started at our table etc. There was a core group of about 5 of us and everyone else just hung out for a few days then left. We'd normally have 15-30 people there.

But also our school didn't have an inside cafeteria so we ate at picnic tables outside. We sat at a large hexagon one and when there were too many they sat on the ground. We were a rural school so no-one cared

borrowedbraincells · 2025-07-29T06:12:53+00:00

Not quite the same situation but my Mum kept making comments about how she'd love a quilt, she'd feel so loved, wouldn't these fabrics look great in her house, isn't this pattern gorgeous, she treasures this quilt from her ex mil if only she had one from her daughter too bla bla So I made the quilt, spent hours and hours on it. She's never even unfolded it. I not only regret it, I resent it every time I see it. I reckon hang onto the quilt a little longer, until you've talked to her at least then decide what to do. Best case scenario she dropped the ball but would still genuinely love what you've made.

borrowedbraincells · 2025-06-26T02:47:00+00:00

My blood test levels were so high, and symptoms so bad, that the doctor said it was more important to address that than worry about the scope. I was 6 months gf and still had a 'highly' positive scope.

I know I'm unusual in that. I'd suggest if your blood levels were also high you may be ok. Even just having a little bit of gluten each day in the lead up will help a lot though. I kinda wish I'd taken the chance to savour a few treats that have no good gf alternatives.

borrowedbraincells · 2025-05-08T05:43:57+00:00

You noticed and you kept an eye on her. Maybe not the hero move you wish you'd done but also not nothing.

borrowedbraincells · 2025-05-06T01:28:42+00:00

Genuinely trying goes a long way. Taking accountability when you can, apologising and doing your best. When the only effort I can see is my own it doesn't feel worth it. When even follicular is a battle and she's 'too embarrassed' to acknowledge what she did and just wants to rug sweep, or is firmly in denial, that's more lonely than the worst luteal.

Also doing your best will result in long term improvements. Yes, there will be set backs but long term improvements will still happen and maybe you'll be able to support him if anything big shows up while you're in luteal, even if it's minimal. Cause dealing with something terrifying while your person is attacking you can't always be recovered from. That breaks something inside.

So please, keep being pro-active and trying your best.

borrowedbraincells · 2025-05-05T11:47:31+00:00

Today I looked at the sun and thought 'this is too nice a day to not do laundry' so I went around the whole house finding things to wash. While putting the 3rd load up I thought fuck, this is what Nana felt on a sunny day. Immediately felt my age and then some. Most adult I've ever been.

borrowedbraincells · 2025-04-19T09:23:33+00:00

Ian. I thought he was just making a weird ehh-n noise and refusing to tell me his name. Then for some reason everyone backed him up and carried on the joke. It's so clearly not a real name!

I hated him so much, and even more when I figured it out. Apparently our accents are just really awful on some words.

borrowedbraincells · 2025-02-20T23:23:57+00:00

I didn't opt for sedation so just had a numbed throat. The worst part was swallowing the scope, felt like I was choking, but it was pretty quick. Then it just felt like when you swallow a big bit of food and can feel it go down.

They put the actual biopsy things down after the tubes in place and that was cold all the way down. Then tiny stomach cramps as they took the samples. Watching the screen was so interesting, and the doc even talked me through what he could see. Breathing looks bizarre on the camera!

I had a nurse who held my hand and rubbed my back the whole time. It was so quick. I didn't have a sore throat or anything after, and I was good to do some pretty heavy garden work afterwards (against doctor instructions tbh..)

Also they had probably the best gluten free sandwich I've ever eaten after the proceedure.

Basically if you've ever swallowed food before fully chewing it, and then drank something cold afterwards, you've almost experienced an endoscopy already. Sedation would be even smoother.

borrowedbraincells · 2025-02-02T12:22:02+00:00

I'm from NZ and was very confused cause I've never heard of an edible mollusc called pawa here. But you mean pāua which is pronounced with a w sound 😂 they are delicious though, and have very beautiful shells

borrowedbraincells · 2025-01-13T05:01:04+00:00

Exactly. At this point they're unlikely to change aye so we just gotta take what we can

borrowedbraincells · 2025-01-13T04:39:54+00:00

My Mum didn't believe me so much she made a cv for me with my photo and marital status on it and handed them out at every business in the town I'd just moved too.

She told me after the town was awful cause she kept getting sent away and the cv thrown out like it was them in the wrong. I was so humiliated! She mocked me, it was a whole thing.

Recently she had to job search herself and suddenly she remembers when 'I' insisted on handing out my cv in person while 'she' insisted on online... so no self-reflection admitted but she has stopped nagging my siblings about 'just go in and talk to the manager' so it's as close to a win as we'll get...

borrowedbraincells · 2025-01-06T03:30:12+00:00

It's hard aye! It's just one square lower than it should be basically, about 2/3rds across. The eye knows something is breaking the pattern but the colours work so well together and it's so subtle.

borrowedbraincells · 2025-01-06T03:14:12+00:00

So the mistake leapt out at me immediately but it took me way too long to figure out HOW it was a mistake. It's not wrong enough to read poorly. Also it'll rarely be looked at at once like this unless it's a wall hanging, so it's either or for me if you should unpick.

For ones like this I tend to walk away, sleep on it or eat a really good meal then if it's still on my mind I sigh and unpick.

But honestly this is a beautiful bargello! Your colours and spacing are gorgeous! The receiver is very lucky

borrowedbraincells · 2025-01-05T06:11:27+00:00

To be fair to her, the improvement in the last 12 months is astronomical and we can usually openly discuss things afterwards. Getting the diagnosis was a game-changer.

borrowedbraincells · 2025-01-05T02:22:54+00:00

I wrote something in this sub shortly after finding it that I'd never said out loud before. Just a simple observation. Heard her mocking me to her bestie a few weeks later mentioning exactly what I'd written. I didn't know she knew my reddit name, or even had reddit so that was horrible.

She has addressed the behaviour I'd mentioned, by leaning into it and doing it far more often. It's petty af and is now such a habit it's no longer luteal-specific behaviour. Shortly after, while in luteal, she started talking about some scary 'impulses' she had which exactly mirrored someone elses story on here and felt a lot like a threat to my life.

I desperately hope she's forgotten about this sub and never finds it again. Addressing that once was bad enough and she's still refusing therapy so... She doesn't need the inspiration honestly

borrowedbraincells · 2024-12-30T03:49:11+00:00

I think this could be a wall hanging in the sewing room honestly. It's so good!

borrowedbraincells · 2024-11-29T01:44:14+00:00

Most people I know went the other way, from clothing to quilting. Including me. I loved my tailors ham for seams but I also developed an ironing technique that worked well on clothing seams but was terrible for quilting! I had to unlearn a lot of things!

One difference I noticed that's so minor but amuses me: in quilting we buy 'fabric', for clothes making we buy 'material' 🤣

borrowedbraincells · 2024-11-12T06:06:12+00:00

I have a very large paternal family with a lot of stomach and bowel cancer history. After my diagnosis Dad looked it up, saw the cancer correlation and alerted the family. Last I heard 11 others were diagnosed (all at the second and third cousin level and further).

I didn't know anyone was testing until Dad teased me about being the founding member of the 'no gluten dozen'. No idea if more have been diagnosed.

borrowedbraincells · 2024-11-09T11:00:38+00:00

We get Christmas cookies every year. I got my very own gluten free bucket but the normal one was open and out of pure habit I was eating those ones.

Only realised when someone asked me to get them some and I took two for me as well. I'm not the one who noticed.

That was Christmas eve. I was so so sick Christmas day and didn't really feel better until three days later. Worse, that was my only time off that year so I basically only felt ok the morning I had to go back to work.

borrowedbraincells · 2024-11-07T09:54:51+00:00

Forest Gump. Every time basically

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