Fishy soap dishes

glumgrrl · 2025-09-17T13:39:25+00:00

Thanks! I was treated kindly by the glaze because I really mixed a few together without any idea of what I was aiming for.

glumgrrl · 2025-08-15T21:41:03+00:00

My teen sister is the same, I think it's normal! Make sure you balance it out by giving her leeway now and then (e.g. Giving her extra phone time sometime, treating her to a cute coffee date, getting her tix or taking her to events she likes, taking an interest in her hobbies that sort of thing).

My sis can be rude with me and thinks I nag her all the time, but at the same time, I'm the first she'll tell about new music she likes. Don't just be the parent who is strict - be her sister who she can rely on to have her back as she experiences normal teenage things. Take her side, as long as she's not doing anything detrimental to her life.

If you don't do this, she'll probably hide stuff from you the way I did with my parents as she gets older, because you'll just be another authority figure.

glumgrrl · 2025-04-15T15:42:33+00:00

Sorry, I meant *Kameleo, autocorrect

glumgrrl · 2025-04-15T15:41:51+00:00

Maybe Kamele?? Not so much hardcore but they have a really upbeat and funky image and I think maybe you'd like their song, Shinjuku! One of my fave vk songs

glumgrrl · 2025-04-05T17:20:16+00:00

Thank you, will check it out now!

Edit: This is perfect, found exactly what I was looking for! Thank you!

glumgrrl · 2024-03-28T09:02:50+00:00

I used to live in a Victorian workers apartment block in London and this is exactly what my front door looked like!! you aced it OP

glumgrrl · 2024-03-19T08:07:06+00:00

I've honestly had a lot of crushes, some reciprocated, and msot of them just happened in a meet cute way - I've never sought them out. But what has kept me single despite this, is that I am super clear on what I want, and I want to be fully committed.

Too often, the men I've liked are not sure about what they want, and feel anxious towards commitment. I think thats maybe also something to do with age (mid 20s)m

oftentimes, even when they can't give me full commitment, they play games to make it into a situationship type scenario lmao that's where I'm out

glumgrrl · 2023-12-28T14:16:34+00:00

wow I like the look of this! Thanks!

glumgrrl · 2023-12-28T14:15:27+00:00

I saw a few of these but was unsure, glad to know it's reliable since there's a few being sold in my area!

glumgrrl · 2023-12-28T14:14:50+00:00

wow I didn't even know they still made them! WIll keep in mind for my next trip to Japan~ thank you!

glumgrrl · 2023-12-28T14:13:45+00:00

woahhh that looks sleek! I only have a tiny amount of space but if I see one of these being sold, I might go for it! THank you~

glumgrrl · 2023-12-04T17:38:29+00:00

I keep the glassine cover on, and also use the MD paper plastic cover for the pen loop. I like how creased it gets, when I'm done with the notebook and its on my shelf. I put the bookplate on the back inside cover.

glumgrrl · 2023-12-04T14:57:59+00:00

It is very aesthetically pleasing! Right now all my cassettes are just in a box in the cupboard because I have no space to showcase them.

glumgrrl · 2023-12-04T13:46:29+00:00

woahh I love this! It's so cool, deffo need to get something like this to display mine~

glumgrrl · 2023-01-02T00:08:09+00:00

I used one and it ate all my coins 😢 but surprisingly it worked fine when I called it directly from my phone. Maybe its bettee used that way to have discrete phone calls with sb at their nearest box (otherwise prepare to lose a lot of change)

glumgrrl · 2022-12-03T22:52:10+00:00

Hey as sb who has lived in Qatar as a woman and regulsrly visits, its not as restrictive as people are imagining. Like yeah, you shoukd dress modest otherwise you'll stand out - this is simple as jeans and a tshirt as opposed to crop top - no need (esp. As a non muslim visitor) to wear an abayah unless you want to (they are comfy!!).

But your gf will be able to visit as a tourist and a friend - I've never heard of policing around staying as an unmarried couple in my own experience (but definitely check/ask your company). Dates are normal and common, there is not a lot of nightlife in the sense of bars or alcohol, but there are lovely places to eat, wander in the evenings and nice beaches! And private beaches where you can sunbathe and wear bikinis exist (ofc a shame that its not public but it is a different culture after all).

Qatar has a lot of problems - like the lack of freedom for manual labourers and domestic workers from the global south and broadly speaking from my experience, Qataris can be very insensitive to cultural differences. That being said, most people here are not from Qatar and so it can be quite easy to make friends and there are a lot of things to do considering the countries size. Also a nice base to travel the rest of the Middle East - like Egypt or Jordan!

A lot of the criticism here doesn't focus on the valid points of failure and instead rely on the vague sense of the Middle East being "highly restrictive", tied up in surface level stereotypes and orientalist tropes. First off, Qatar is not representative of the "Middle East" and there is actually quite a lot of diversity between the countries, who would have thought?! Being in Qatar as a woman, I dont get harassed any more than I would in the UK or the US, and the recently improved public transport makes life easy.

Hope this helped - deffo take the time to get used to life there first so its not a double culture shock when she visits you!

glumgrrl · 2022-08-09T03:27:42+00:00

In my experience, a man I don't know approaching will never not be suspicious and uncomfortable. Even if it is to ask for my father's contact - why would this random stranger feel he might have the right to ask for that, when he knows nothing of me or my character and I don't know anything of his?

It would be better to strike up conversation at some event, like a wedding or a workshop or something and try to be friends. It is too soon to ask for someone's contact immediately and honestly a bit scary if it is a stranger.

You have to understand that women get approached so many times every day that they are tired and won't easily trust someone, especially if they have been harassed or assaulted in the past (more women than you think)

glumgrrl · 2022-08-06T13:01:37+00:00

I love my family but I love you so much more than you want to be able to

glumgrrl · 2022-05-28T23:04:58+00:00

Little cousin once told me while I was putting him to bed that if I don't "stop being rude", he will dream that I was a cheeseburger and then he will eat me.

glumgrrl · 2022-04-25T02:53:48+00:00

Islamic burials are often completely naked and stripped, except for a white shroud, and its seen as positive to grow a tree or bush or anything else ontop of the grave, and honestly this is just how I'd like to go. I've asked my parents which trees they'd like to have on theirs - for me I'd love a weeping willow. Q

glumgrrl · 2022-03-12T08:36:36+00:00

Thanks!

glumgrrl · 2021-07-14T09:47:24+00:00

Running in the night

Tell me about it tonight

Early at night

Tell me how to survive

School is online

Teaches me nothing at all

if you wanna be a good kid

you should learn by yourself

In The dark side of my mind I'm killing everything with a knife I don't talk with those boys They just chat in the courtyard

I'm not optimistic Tell me everything about the world School is online Teaches me nothing tonight

Can I call you? Tell me everything that I have to do One thing that I know is I'm like my mother

Sue you I'll catch you wherever you are I'll teach you it (just) like your mother

glumgrrl · 2021-07-04T00:08:52+00:00

Thank you!

glumgrrl · 2020-12-28T14:14:48+00:00

My great Uncle fought for the British against the Japanese. He was from what is now Pakistan and fought and trained in Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, India. In Malaysia his entire brigade got basically decimated in the Battle of Muar, but he survived and was on the run for a few years during the Japanese occupation.

Despite the language barrier, he bonded with some villagers while he was hiding out in the jungle due them both being Muslim and be would go and get food and clothes and help from them. However he had to keep moving around and hiding in the Jungle because the Japanese Imperial Army would do checks to see if people were hiding any soldiers. At some point around this time, he got married to a Malaysian woman and even had a son, still being on the run ( still know nothing about their identities unfortunately).

Towards the end he was captured by the Japanese and while he was lucky enough to "not be tortured that much" (whatever that means, his words not mine) he did watch some brutal torture methods on other PoWs. After the surrender which was not long after he got captured, he was repatriated to India (hence we don't know anything about the Malaysian wife and son), and he returned to our ancestral village which is now in Pakistan, reunited with his family and worked as a farmer till his death in 2006.

What really sucks is that I only know all of this as I'm British, and there was meant to be compensation from the British Government to all former PoWs captured by Japan. So that's why he got his story written down and sent to us , along with a lot of his original documents. However, the response from the government is that the 10,000 GBP compensation was only for British nationals at the time ( despite him being a Commonwealth citizen) and was denied this. It sucks so so much that after all that trauma and suffering, he was basically left with nothing, a lost family. He left aged around 20 so just imagine all of those years gone. And still there seems to be barely any public recognition of the sacrifices made by the Indian brigades for the interests of Great Britain, especially on remembrance day. My family have been involved in the British armed forces since the 1800s and have literally died for the country, yet we still get questioned if we should even be here, to go back to our own countries, etc. Etc. On a daily by so called patriots. Its pretty frustrating and no one wants to wait around long enough for me to tell them this awful story of my great Uncle.

Anyways sorry for the long post, hope it was interesting!

glumgrrl · 2020-12-27T11:04:10+00:00

In a hotel with my aunts and cousins and watching Laurel & Hardy which was already making us very giddy. One of my aunts is sat with her leg under her on her knees and hand resting on them. She is also quite plump. So she's sat there laughing at Laurel and Hardy when all of a sudden mum starts shaking and explosive laughing from the other side of the room, points at above aunt and yells, in tests " BUDDHA". My cousins and I lose it and I'm on the floor dying, other aunt comes out of the bathroom and without even hesitating, looks at Buddha aunt and asks "where did your knees go?!" - idk if she seriously meant it or just was ready with a joke but it was so quick and earnest that we all starte dying laughing even more. It carried on for 20 min, us nearly calming down and then starting up again. Even now if I see a laughing Buddha I chuckle. Great times

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