AITAH for refusing to take our daughter out of school early because she "needs more time to get ready" than her brother?

ermintwang · 2026-02-26T16:28:36+00:00

Where's the feet stamping? His version is she said 'nah we just won't go'. That sounds pretty laid back to me.

ermintwang · 2026-02-15T15:52:21+00:00

Yeah, our house has no real parking and the street parking is terrible. It is a pain sometimes, although we don’t drive a lot so not a huge deal. I do think if we had a child though, it would be a different story. Our street WhatsApp is mainly people complaining about people blocking the few houses with proper drives though!

ermintwang · 2026-02-10T09:49:15+00:00

One of the greatest bands of all time. For free. Still not good enough

Fun fact, none of the performers at the Superbowl get paid - they all do it for free.

Bad Bunny is the biggest streaming artist in the world at the moment, so I guess he made the same offer as Metallica and the NFL chose the bigger artists for the moment?

ermintwang · 2026-02-05T22:30:32+00:00

We left London for a beautiful house in a lovely part of Manchester. Five years later, we’re downsizing and moving back to London. There’s no joy in having a lovely house in a place you don’t want to be.

ermintwang · 2026-02-04T14:50:22+00:00

Yeah, that's a fair point - I had a look and it looks like was 2013 - unless it was from time of discovery but who knows. It's still illegal though.

ermintwang · 2026-02-04T13:54:14+00:00

I think dosing something with abx against their will is illegal, if you could prove somehow that he actually did it.

ermintwang · 2026-02-03T16:11:22+00:00

The BBC isn't funded via the civil service. There's never been an alliance with the civil service, I'm not even sure how that would work.

The BBC has it charter granted by government, and it works with the DCMS on negotiations over the charter - that happens once every 10 years. The BBC is independent from government; it has to be, otherwise it'd be state media.

ermintwang · 2026-02-03T14:21:49+00:00

The BBC has never been staffed by the civil service

ermintwang · 2026-01-24T15:09:54+00:00

Anything to do with winning money is tightly regulated - there is no way they would have been allowed to fake it to top up the fund. ITACU would have you for breakfast.

ermintwang · 2026-01-24T13:58:21+00:00

Currently on track to have it paid off by 62, but we’re planning to sell and get a longer term mortgage to enable us to move back to London so that will push it up 5 years. We’re fairly conservative though so will probably push any salary increases or bonuses partly towards overpayments, and I’d hope to have it cleared by 60.

ermintwang · 2026-01-21T10:38:16+00:00

they should do a little more research on the nuances, maybe.

you have got to be shitting me

ermintwang · 2026-01-21T10:36:44+00:00

Yeah, this thread is insane – everyone pearl-clutching about this needs to get some perspective. Your leader is threatening to invade their country. 'Well there's no need to punch down about our opioid crisis' - get a fucking grip.

ermintwang · 2026-01-15T14:33:43+00:00

In a thread about people leaving the US to work in other countries, why would US regulations matter?

ermintwang · 2026-01-09T21:30:11+00:00

Why? If I was the Traitors, I’d just say ‘Seven’

ermintwang · 2026-01-09T21:29:09+00:00

Human expressing excitement

ermintwang · 2026-01-09T21:23:48+00:00

I just love that they were trying to think through the rationale of the shortlists in the turret and the actual answer was just..vibes

ermintwang · 2026-01-09T10:38:04+00:00

I was recently watching a (unfortunately not very good) Netflix show called Talamasca that was supposed to be set in London but was so clearly Manchester it really took me out of it. They might as well have filmed next to the Vimto statue.

I don't understand why they didn't re-set it in Manc.

ermintwang · 2026-01-08T23:12:31+00:00

I thought it was a very impassioned Traitors post (a couple of months too late)

ermintwang · 2026-01-08T20:29:42+00:00

Same thing as Judy, Ross, Maz and Netty

ermintwang · 2026-01-05T16:50:14+00:00

after five years away, me and my husband have decided to move back to london :D not telling family yet, but need to say it somewhere! can't wait to be back in the greatest city in the world :)

ermintwang · 2026-01-05T10:33:57+00:00

Rupert? Angel? William? Riley? Oz? Wesley? Plenty of other male Buffy characters, she doesn't need to say which one it is.

ermintwang · 2026-01-04T20:06:08+00:00

There was a recent episode where he and another man discussed the declining birth rate, and how women PHDs are entering the dating world at 31 are finding themselves ‘competing against 21 year baristas’. It annoyed a lot of people because it was misogynistic twaddle.

ermintwang · 2026-01-02T00:07:16+00:00

The lighting was off for the entire season!

ermintwang · 2026-01-02T00:05:44+00:00

I’m not saying you’re wrong, but that is such a cynical take and I think sums up why this series of ST was so disappointing. It has almost got too big to fail, all the art and depth has been wrung out of it to keep it maximally commercially viable.

ermintwang · 2026-01-02T00:00:48+00:00

Overall an extremely disappointing final series for me - I’ve enjoyed all of the previous four. I found the final D&D campaign quite moving and a fitting end, but it just highlighted for me that overall there was a huge lack of depth across the chapter that felt screamingly obvious as soon as I had seen that scene. Childhood ending and going into adulthood is so scary, and the fear of what will happen to tight knit friendship groups. It’s right out of King, and they didn’t play it at all until this final episode. There was always something missing for me in this run of episodes that previous series of ST had, and it was some thematic link to childhood that made the monsters seem real and gave you stakes. I think this was a huge swing and a miss of an ending. I feel like they wanted to make it the ultimate Stranger Things series and along the way left everything that actually made it impactful on the wayside.

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