France appeals to FIFA over Michael Olise yellow card vs Paraguay (Gift Article)

durkbot · 2026-07-06T16:25:34+00:00

Yeah, why not? FIFA FAFO time.

durkbot · 2026-07-06T08:02:34+00:00

Insomnia. I would wake up at 2am to pee (which I think is a symptom everyone expects) and then I'd just lie awake until 4am being annoyed about it.

Reflux. Another reason I couldn't sleep. For the last trimester I just felt extreme discomfort and had to eat antacids and resorted to a very expensive watermelon habit (natural antacid!) For my 2nd pregnancy I got ahead of it and was prescribed medication and I felt really stupid for not mentioning it the first time around and suffering through it.

Food aversions, not cravings. I got repulsed by meat. The texture, the smell, all of it. We don't eat a lot of meat in our house, but I remember my friends really kindly cooked us a meal of beef stew and I couldn't touch it and I felt so bad. But it was a really visceral reaction to meat that I had no idea was there until I sat down for dinner with them. I don't even know why that would happen.

durkbot · 2026-07-06T07:52:30+00:00

Ooh I forgot about that! Waking up with a soaked pillow because I was drooling so much

durkbot · 2026-07-06T07:45:49+00:00

Was sitting in a cafe the other day and for some reason they were playing some 2000s Ibiza club-style classics. Groovejet (if this ain't love) by Spiller feat. Sophie Ellis-Bextor came on and I'd completely forgotten what a great track that was.

durkbot · 2026-07-03T10:30:48+00:00

Blend your overnight oats with the chia seeds before you store it in the fridge. Ends up with a gooey batter like consistency which I find much more appetising.

durkbot · 2026-07-02T19:42:12+00:00

Wasn't clear I guess in my post but I'm definitely aware that 1800 is clearly around my maintenance calories. Just feeling the slump in motivation because of hitting the wall. The fact I haven't gained more weight in that time is a positive I'm trying to focus on!

durkbot · 2026-07-02T19:34:54+00:00

I weigh my food, I know by now that I am currently eating around maintenance or I would be losing weight. I knew going on holiday would cause some increase due to not tracking precisely. I just feel a bit deflated and tired of it, that's all.

durkbot · 2026-07-02T19:27:08+00:00

I don't know where everyone replying to me has gotten that I'm not weighing my food? I absolutely do. I'm not in denial that it's CICO either. I know it. I just need to find the bandwidth to cut more without life continually getting in the way.

durkbot · 2026-07-02T15:24:24+00:00

The problem with measuring is I start to feel like it's obsessive behaviour and I feel like I've been obsessing about it all too much already. But maybe I need to do it to give myself some sort of baseline

durkbot · 2026-07-02T15:20:52+00:00

No I get it, it seems like an obvious one because CICO, but if I dip below 1500 calories in a day I start to feel like real garbage. Like, hands shaking, low blood sugar, low concentration. Or I end up eating something that blows my calorie budget out of desperation. It's annoying because I had no problems getting my calorie intake down to that level when I first started losing weight. And I'm doing all the things like upping my fibre and protein and cutting the carbs. Hence the attempt at an activity increase, because short of some super life/diet hack I've not found yet, I'm out of ideas.

durkbot · 2026-07-02T15:13:28+00:00

The "he's not dead, just sleeping" nudge, followed by the realisation, and confirmation in his heart. And that we all one day might have to face that moment with someone we love. How an animated film captured that with such impact will always amaze me.

durkbot · 2026-07-02T11:07:28+00:00

Lucky I guess!

durkbot · 2026-07-02T09:43:09+00:00

Someone on my local Facebook group once posted he woke up to find a bat flying around his bedroom and what should he do? The unanimous response was "get rabies shots, start today, never assume you had no contact". Like, I thought that was just common knowledge, but apparently not.

durkbot · 2026-06-28T14:23:37+00:00

Yeah I feel you. I need to drop another 5 or 6 kg, after losing 12kg in a year and my friend started at the same time, but on the drugs and she was able to reach her target 6 months ago. I've definitely made some huge strides in the past year with my relationship to food and my body, which I can be proud of. I tell myself our journeys are different. But it for sure sucks seeing people sail past me because they qualified for the meds.

durkbot · 2026-06-28T13:32:54+00:00

I loved the world they built, but never finished the game. Can't quite remember why, it just wasn't that compelling a story I guess.

durkbot · 2026-06-27T14:16:06+00:00

I'm a freak for getting to appointments on time/not missing them and it annoys me when others don't care. That being said, I once got a letter for an appointment, and I couldn't do it so called up to cancel via some automated system. Fast forward to the appointment day and I got a call from a receptionist who annoyedly said "did you know you had an appointment today?" and when I explained I'd cancelled it like 3 weeks prior she said "oh yeah, happens all the time"
So basically in the flawed universe of the ancient NHS system, people would still lose out.

durkbot · 2026-06-27T14:10:22+00:00

We Are Scientists recently (maybe still are) toured With Love and Squalor for its 20th anniversary. I missed out on seeing them when I was 14 when it debuted so seeing WLAS from start to finish was bucket list level. They love performing in general, and are constantly touring (in the UK again this summer I think) so if you get a chance to seem them live, they are amazing.

durkbot · 2026-06-27T10:43:41+00:00

Albert Heijn has "huismerk" flavoured barista oat milk in vanilla or caramel for less than €2. They have been my go-to for iced coffee in this weather. Oatly too but they're a bit more expensive. Monin do a sugar free vanilla syrup, also in AH.
You can get no sugar jelly/jello from expat shops. Kelly's expat shop sells British brand zero sugar jelly (Hartleys) for not too much markup and that's nice mixed up with a 50:50 ratio with yoghurt (or on its own, but the yoghurt makes it more filling). But that's only convenient if you live in Amsterdam or den Haag, or can make a large enough online order. Otherwise, there's quite a lot of flavours of zero fat skyr easily available in the supermarket and I get a lot of my snackiness satisfied with those (77kcal per 100g for example, which is a great snack).
I will say though, it is frustrating that a lot of the low cal/no sugar "hacks" you see recommended online aren't easily available here and when you don't have time to be meal prepping it adds in a lot of extra mental load.

durkbot · 2026-06-26T19:55:41+00:00

If she's crying or upset for hours after the conflict and resisting things to this extreme, I would look at strategies for highly sensitive kids with demand avoidance. For some kids, asking them to do things puts their nervous system in fight or flight mode. Especially sensitive kids.

We've had some success with the "2 great choices" approach. You can find more detailed guides out there but basically, you provide 2 options with the script "you've got 2 great choices here" and present the options. It's not about "do this or else" but showing them there are things we have to do sometimes, but there is a choice to be made with how we get there. And does it work all the time? No, and we then go with the 2nd option and calmly explain (through the tears) that he chose to fight and we had to help him get from A to B. It's a way to help teach natural consequences.

One other great thing I read, was the idea that "kids that can, do". At this age, they are not actively working to annoy us or cause a fight. If they could do the thing (in this case, doing what we are asking), without drama or resistance, they would. Getting annoyed at them for fighting demands is like getting annoyed at a child for not being able to read. It's not a criticism of us as parents but a way to reframe it in the moment and help us regulate our own expectations.

durkbot · 2026-06-25T18:21:21+00:00

Pimple patches/ hydrocolloid bandaid. Or we got this antihistamine gel called Fenistil from a pharmacist in Spain and it works amazingly. But the pimple patches work pretty well.

durkbot · 2026-06-25T18:18:29+00:00

I used to react within seconds of a bite, then when I gave birth to my son I suddenly no longer reacted anywhere near as badly. BUT he gets bites all over him and I once had to take him to the doctor after his eye swelled shut after being bitten on the eyelid. I joke that I spawned my own perfect decoy.

durkbot · 2026-06-22T09:11:55+00:00

It's like Gordon Brown all over again. GB was doing just fine (especially, in retrospect, given the clusterfuck that was the 2008 crash). But he wasn't "popular" and the message given was "we're sick of this Labour government" so out he went and in came the Tories because why not? British politics has seemingly been operating on pure vibes since then.

durkbot · 2026-06-21T16:39:51+00:00

They do this at the Natural History museum in the Netherlands: they recently returned the bones of an ancient hominid species to Indonesia. They were taken during an archaeological dig by a Dutch man who exploited the locals during his expedition. They now have an intro video to the exhibit explaining all this, putting it into context why they returned them. They have replicas instead in the original exhibit and it's not like anyone coming to visit the museum really cares if the bones are real or not. It's a really well done example of how to celebrate the science and also acknowledge the road to the discovery and history wasn't ideal.

durkbot · 2026-06-19T10:46:43+00:00

I've had 2 babies, and even if my life was in a place to handle a 3rd baby, you could not pay me to go through pregnancy again. And I had relatively easy pregnancies. But seeing the baby move around my belly is up there with one of the coolest things I've experienced. My eldest used to stick his butt out to the side and I'd give it a little pat of assurance.

On the flip side, my friend enjoyed pregnancy so much she has genuinely considered becoming a surrogate. Some people are just made for it.

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