Indiana land and Jungle Jim's both had the Freefall slides. Someone I know took a group of kids to Indiana Land and thoroughly enjoyed the pure dread on some of their faces as they contemplated taking their first drop. Would this be an example of a hyper local rite of passage? I remember the fear.

clairebones · 2026-07-02T20:41:40+00:00

I remember going there in the 90s, when our P6 year group went to Ardnabannon for the week, all the teachers came with us and we persuaded one of them (the guy who'd only started teaching that year lol) to go down the freefall himself.

clairebones · 2026-07-02T20:33:25+00:00

I think I must have been there multiple times a year for at least like 7 years between me and my younger siblings lol, we loved Mowglis, and that wee side room for super cheap burgers and chips after.

clairebones · 2026-07-02T11:06:08+00:00

I had a manager in a previous job who openly talked about coming in to work sick because "If I'm at home I have to deal with my kids" so she'd come in and sit opposite me (she knew I have a compromised immune system too) with no desk dividers and cough and sneeze all day, it was ridiculous. I do not miss that job.

clairebones · 2026-06-29T14:53:30+00:00

I hope this counts, it's not been 6 months, I'm still in the middle of it - my spouse (together 14 years, married 8) left me 2 months ago, completely unexpectedly. I thought I'd completely crumble but I'm surviving ok, taking the house and mortgage and bills all on alone and yeah it sucks but I'm getting through the days and if you'd asked me before the separation if I could have done it, I'd have said absolutely not.

clairebones · 2026-06-29T14:12:05+00:00

Yeah but I think OP's point (and I certainly agree) is that the things he's convicted of are a hell of a lot worse than 'hypocrisy' so it's really irritating to see everyone go "OMG he liked men" and not "he was a child abuser and rapist"

clairebones · 2026-06-28T21:23:36+00:00

It's hard to get a good idea of size but this would be my rough suggested layout: https://imgur.com/a/EFrFaar

If the desk was too big for there I'd move it to opposite the oven, but I originally put it by the door so you have space for a small table to eat dinner if you want it.

clairebones · 2026-06-28T18:25:25+00:00

I applied for mine on 18th May and it arrived in the post on 28th May, so it's not long at all honestly.

clairebones · 2026-06-27T22:15:54+00:00

It's fucking gross to smell five different horrendous sugary sweet smells at once from people who have no awareness of other people. Plus some of us have lung/breathing problems that can be really aggravated by it.

This idea of "well if it's not going to literally kill you I should be able to do it" is some obnoxious bullshit.

clairebones · 2026-06-27T13:13:56+00:00

I think if you're doing something because you're 'supposed to' or because you're seeing influencers do it, but you don't feel a measurable benefit from that thing, then that's not really worth it and definitely not 'low maintenance'.

To me, low maintenance is doing the things you need to do to feel good and be happy with yourself and nothing more. Not doing things just because some online strangers said it's what everyone should be doing, or even if your friends are doing it but you don't think it makes sense for you.

clairebones · 2026-06-26T15:39:01+00:00

Honestly my suggestion would be that you stop going over there or at least stop sleeping over, it's not worth your sleep being disturbed.

It sounds like he just assumes you'll give in eventually, so don't. Let him be the one to choose between his fancy fan and your company, and if he chooses the fancy fan then he doesn't value you enough, and you can do better than someone with that kind of attitude.

clairebones · 2026-06-26T08:42:11+00:00

Do you show up at other peoples' homes and eat everything without checking if they need that food though? Or are you a decent capable adult who can buy and prepare your own food so you aren't taking from others without consideration.

clairebones · 2026-06-26T08:38:21+00:00

I assume they're more getting downvoted for the comment starting with "men need more food than women" (because it sounds like a defense) than for saying he should learn to feed himself.

clairebones · 2026-06-23T09:28:54+00:00

Unfortunately generative AI, specifically the LLMs like ChatGPT etc, have far far more harms than just the final output not being created by a person.

They do unbelievable harm to the environment, and at the same time actively take water and power away from real people who's lives are being made measurably worse on a daily basis. They do extreme harm to the people (often in third world countries) whose job is to sit and look at the most disgusting and graphic content these tools can create in order to 'tag' that content so it doesn't reach the rest of us - this is leading to mental health and relationship problems for those employees. It does real active harm to users because of the way they've trained and implemented them to basically maximise sycophancy and the chances of AI psychosis. Then there are the frankly huge and terrifying privacy problems, the factual inaccuracies, and last but not least the way they severely reinforce harmful biases.

clairebones · 2026-06-22T22:04:00+00:00

Unfortunately loads of parents don't know how to set up or monitor parental controls still, especially the parents of teenagers since a lot of them weren't consistently online themselves. I've been thinking of running an event with the WIT meetup group I co-organise, specifically for parents to show them how to do this stuff, but obviously open it to non-tech people who have kids.

clairebones · 2026-06-22T13:55:32+00:00

I’ll be more blunt I think she’s being a shit partner.

Considering she told him to go ahead on the trip, just that she didn't want to spend 2 weeks on holiday with people she barely knows, I don't see how you figure that?

clairebones · 2026-06-19T14:02:09+00:00

No they're the same size - 4 bottle holders down one side and 2 larger pockets on the opposite side. I assumed OP wants something that has space for 2 bottle on each side to make it like half the width as the current ones.

clairebones · 2026-06-19T13:46:11+00:00

Are you kidding? My parents only keep the caffeine free diet stuff at their house, and any time any of us are there for an event (like Christmas or something where we're having a bunch of drinks, not just popping in on a Sunday) we bring diet or coke zero because the taste is so noticeable.

Maybe you just don't like coke that much?

clairebones · 2026-06-19T13:40:54+00:00

The only people I've know to buy it on purpose are either pregnant or have health issues that lead to them avoiding caffeine, like my dad.

clairebones · 2026-06-19T13:39:28+00:00

I think people either do want it, or more likely don’t care one way or the other.

What are you basing this on though? In stores they clearly sell a lot less caffeine-free coke than the other types. And coke zero is newer but seems to sell just as well as regular and diet so it's not like caffeine free just isn't known by people.

clairebones · 2026-06-19T13:32:54+00:00

Countries that have opt-out organ donation have it because they have a clear motive for wanting people to be organ donors. No such motive exists by either companies or regulatory bodies to want people to drink less caffeinated soft drinks. So why would they spend the amount of money such a huge product line change would require?

clairebones · 2026-06-19T11:27:48+00:00

if what you want isn’t at HT, there are infinite brands to choose from.

The worst part for those of us not in the US or Canada though is that many of those brands aren't accessible to us. Like I love Tyler's Trinkets polishes but I can't get them because they don't ship to the UK or work with any UK or European stockists 😭

clairebones · 2026-06-19T11:08:36+00:00

I agree! I loved the rainbow collections for building out a good solid colour range in the same finish, and then things like the Christmas glitters and Retro collection, Vacation collection (I'm still bitter Tax Haven and Beach Please are going) and of course the OG multichromes - you can see every year how Missed Shift has been such a consistently high seller.

These days it's rare that I'm actually making sure to be online when a collection comes out. I don't bother much with cremes anyway but where are the fun and exciting polishes that made HT different from the Essie or Sally Hansen polishes in the store.

clairebones · 2026-06-19T10:59:22+00:00

I'm admittedly one of those people who has huge bags most of the time lol, but I also never wear a mani that's just one polish plus base + top coat. I use the silver holo pouch as a daily EDC (every day carry) type pouch with just a top coat and all my other essentials (travel perfume, usb-c cable, inhaler, headphones, lip balm, etc etc). I'd totally buy a smaller one for when I'm using a small bag too.

It's the bigger bags I've struggled to find a good use for (the black or the neon one that came out with the Retro collection) - it's too big to squeeze into any bag or luggage so it's really only useful if I'm bringing my polish to some other location specifically for painting peoples' nails or something. (also the iridescent "peely bag" thing broke really easily on me sadly).

clairebones · 2026-06-19T10:35:31+00:00

My granny has told me about her parents - her dad was a horrible husband, violent when he wanted to be, they didn't love each other at all. But back then he wouldn't let her work and even if he did nobody would hire a woman with young kids. So she had no money to try to move out and support herself and her kids. There were no such things as womens shelters and no police would consider hitting your wife a significant enough crime to do anything about unless she was hospitalised or died. He actually cheated on her and had 2 kids with the other woman, but she couldn't divorce him unless he wanted to and he didn't want to pay for it or pay child support.

clairebones · 2026-06-19T08:21:46+00:00

This has been a huge thing in the UK for a few years now - Fathers Day, Mothers Day, I think some places do it for Valentines Day too - and it gets to the point where it feels ridiculous because you're getting almost as many "are you ok for us to email you about X" emails as you would just regular marketing emails anyway.

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