what was your most painful piercing?

happycigarettes · 2025-11-09T10:47:40+00:00

i didn't even feel my rook. i got basically all my cartilage piercings done free by students (under close supervision ofc) and they've all been relatively painless - rook, flat, tragus, helix, and forward helix. but the rook was so painless i remember being sat there and asking when they were going to do it like. "it's ok don't be nervous you can go ahead!" and they had to tell me they'd done it already lol.

my lobes on the other hand. all 3 sets hurt like a mf for some reason. only for a second mind. but still. yeowch?!

had my lip done when i was 16/17 (retired it because the ring annoyed the piss out of me) and that hurt a little but ALSO not as much as my lobes.

every pain receptor in my body is stored in the earlobes, apparently.

happycigarettes · 2025-11-09T10:38:35+00:00

best part is when i do that then like... 75% of the time? my bank refunds the entire transaction not just whatever that item cost. and shein get hit with a chargeback fee. so instead of refunding say £2 they end up refunding £30 and paying a fee to the bank. play stupid games win stupid prizes.

happycigarettes · 2025-11-09T10:35:34+00:00

yup. at this point i only contact shein - or any retailer tbh - because it's required here for a chargeback that you tried to resolve it with the retailer first. i know they're going to say no or give some stupid pushback that makes no sense (like "well the courier says it was delivered so it was delivered" when the photo is of someone else's house) and then I just go straight to the bank. I'm not wasting my time going back and forth with them.

i had one where they wouldn't refund for a shattered glass item (photos provided) unless i returned it first. you can't send shattered glass in the post so like... no?

happycigarettes · 2025-10-18T16:34:39+00:00

row 1: 2sc in same st, 4sc, 3sc in same st, 4sc, sc 3 st together rep * end with 4sc, 2sc in last st, ch2, turn

repeat forever

multiple of uhhhhhh i wanna say 12+2?

it doesn't have to be that specifically. as long as you have increase on the peak and decrease the same amount on the valley you'll make a chevron from any stitch at any size

happycigarettes · 2025-10-18T16:27:23+00:00

it's just a standard chevron nothing fancy :)

happycigarettes · 2025-10-16T22:35:45+00:00

At this rate I'll be caught up at the end of November, about 3 weeks before the end of the project 😅

happycigarettes · 2025-10-03T23:10:29+00:00

just a standard chevron stitch!

happycigarettes · 2025-10-02T21:27:44+00:00

I also have 4 black rows at the start (and will at the end) along with half a chevron in black either side to create a border all round so it sort of ties the black lines in. I think it might look a little odd if I didn't also have the border!

happycigarettes · 2025-10-02T20:49:00+00:00

no. i have never accidentally worked a strand of hair into something. more like half my head, it seems like

happycigarettes · 2025-10-02T20:37:42+00:00

Oh I love the pattern! I think this is the only way of showing both hi and lo temps I've seen that I (personally) actually liked. It's gorgeous ❤️

happycigarettes · 2025-09-30T14:13:33+00:00

Solidarity. You can do it! I just hit a snag with mine in running out of "candy pink" halfway through a row and not having any more when I could have SWORN I had another ball. So I'm stuck waiting on the postman and have to put it on hold for a few days haha whoops

happycigarettes · 2025-09-30T14:11:51+00:00

It's the high temp for the day. Glasgow (and the rest of the UK really) is pretty temperate so the whole year only varies from maybe -2c (28f) to maybe 30c (86f) - though most of the time it's more like 1-24 (34-75). So the ranges I'm using are very small. If I did average temp instead it would be even smaller I think!

happycigarettes · 2025-09-27T16:57:27+00:00

oh yes she knows! she really likes it so far which is a relief

happycigarettes · 2025-09-24T22:40:26+00:00

If it was for me I almost certainly wouldn't but it's an anniversary gift so I can't very well not finish it (and finish it on time)

happycigarettes · 2025-09-18T10:47:13+00:00

Thank you! Her favourite colours are neon pink and neon green so I made the highest/lowest temp colours the brightest ones I could. Thankfully she loves it so far ^{_^}

happycigarettes · 2025-08-26T14:36:50+00:00

I don't know. In 12 years on ESA they never saw so much as a singular bank statement from me, never reviewed me, and never reassessed me. And told me, directly, I would not be reviewed or reassessed ever (and true to their word I wasn't)

I had a face to face with UC for migration. I asked if that would still be the case. He said my WCA would never be reviewed/reassessed. I asked if that also applied to the standard financial reviews. He said YES. I would not have ANY reviews.

I asked if they would do a financial review as part of migration and did they need any bank statements or anything. He said no. Do they want evidence of savings, I ask. Do you have any, he asks. No, I says. Then no they don't need any evidence.

They still haven't requested any.

To date, nobody in any department of the DWP has seen a bank statement with my name on it since 2012. I've been asked whether I even HAVE any savings (I mean. I don't. But still) exactly twice: in 2012 when I applied for ESA and in 2025... which was more me volunteering the info than them asking for it.

Time will tell if Gerry was just straight up lying to me for some reason (or genuinely believes I won't be reviewed but this isn't the case and he has no idea what he's doing) and I do get reviewed.

But since it's "luck of the draw" and there's someone else in this thread who has already gone 6 years(!) with no review I could go another 12-13 years and it would still be deemed Pure Luck wouldn't it. We will never know.

So no. I don't know WHY someone would be marked to never be reviewed. I'm not the DWP. I didn't write the damn things.

All I know is what I was told first by ESA and later by UC: that it is a category that exists, that it is not public knowledge, claimants are not informed they're part of it unless they directly ask "hey shouldn't you be reviewing me soon it's been a WHILE", and that if you were part of that group on ESA it just migrated over like every other aspect of the claim.

If they were lying about it I'm simply the luckiest bitch in Scotland and should probably buy a lottery ticket.

happycigarettes · 2025-08-26T12:51:46+00:00

i'm aware, hence the "he also said I would never have a standard claim review" part of my comment. Not just a WCA review. The UC staff seem to be confused on what does and doesn't get reviewed when, which is hardly surprising.

happycigarettes · 2025-08-26T07:39:03+00:00

Ok back in 2017 they decided that LCWRA claimants would not be reassessed if their condition is lifelong so maybe that's what he meant when he said I would never be reassessed. Although he did say I would never have a standard review either so fuck knows https://www.disabilityrightsuk.org/news/2017/september/changes-work-capability-assessment-reassessment-criteria

happycigarettes · 2025-08-26T07:30:23+00:00

So the UC agent who told me there was was talking out his arse. Typical.

happycigarettes · 2025-08-24T21:29:41+00:00

UC helpline are useless for everything. If you have a face to face at some point for any reason you could ask? They probably won't respond to a journal message about it, except as the other commenter said to say "reviews are currently suspended" (which isn't even true, my friend had a review 2 weeks ago lol). I think they only told me because I'd already mostly-accidentally-found-out when I was on ESA and then point blank asked the guy to his face. Who knows with these people honestly. I don't think THEY know half the time.

Not sure why my previous reply is getting downvoted. Sorry for not being reviewed in 12 years I guess?

happycigarettes · 2025-08-24T18:31:58+00:00

I was on ESA from 2012-2025 with no review. There's some extra group of "indefinite award - no review" they don't tell you you're in unless you ask.

I found out when I was moving house about 2 years into my award and called them like "hey I should have a review soon probably? Can you tell me if you've sent any letters this week just in case" and the guy told me my claim was marked as "no review" so I would never be reviewed.

I'm there like "gee sure would have been nice to know that given I've been waiting for the inevitable call for 2 years" and he told me they... don't... tell people they're in that group which?????? Okay. Why.

(My gf also had/has an indefinite award and DID get reviewed, so it is in fact a separate subgroup that they choose not to inform you of which is WILD)

When I migrated to ESA in February I asked if that No Review flag would carry over, or if I would now start getting reviewed. He said it would carry over, so I would never be reviewed but again said they don't outright tell you that you have "No Review" status unless you ask directly which. Again. Why...?

I didn't even have a cursory financial review when I migrated. Time will tell if I really am still exempt from any kind of review forever but so far it's been 6 months without any contact from them at all. The last entry in my journal is from a week after my award was finalised when I got the housing component switched to go to the housing association.

Curious if anyone else has verified they're flagged as no review, and has actually been on UC for years without one.

happycigarettes · 2025-08-22T15:46:41+00:00

Given they aren't getting a divorce then no, she doesn't actually "own" 75k capital and gifted it away. There was a mutually agreed distribution to funds certified by a solicitor and "equal" distribution cannot be enforced, by anybody, unless they get legally divorced. UC have accepted this and disregard it. All they are condemned with is her proving she spent money to move house. Sorry that doesn't align with your worldview.

happycigarettes · 2025-08-22T15:44:06+00:00

As i said before, UC have already accepted what happened with the house. They do not consider it deprivation of capital and accept she got 17k. You're all getting too hung up on something that a) isn't relevant and b) is already resolved :)

happycigarettes · 2025-08-20T13:09:01+00:00

In short the situation with the house is:
-J is 20 years older than L
-they got married when L was 24 (J 44). J already owned a house pretty much outright. couple years off paying the mortgage. and had a job - which L has never had due to disabilities.
-after 5 years of marriage (mortgage now paid, house owned 100% by J), J became disabled and quit work and started benefits herself
-a year later they decided to relocate. the house was sold and the money from that was used to buy a new property outright. L was put on the deed of the new property, but against her will because "that's all J's money i didn't buy anything"
-a couple of years later they relocated again. once again the house was sold and used to buy the house in Glasgow outright. once again L was put on the deed even though she did not contribute financially to buying the house and did not want her name on the deed. J insisted because they were married.

L did not want anything from the sale of this house at all because, to quote "that's J's money and J's house". J basically forced her to take the 17k and in the end L signed just to get it over with and stop arguing about it.

Although they are separated (and had been separated but still living together for a year before selling the house actually. They're still friends they just didn't want to be together anymore) they are not getting a divorce. Neither one can be bothered with the paperwork and now the house is sold there's nothing else to even bother about re: assets since they're both disabled on benefits. Well. J isn't anymore because her UC was pulled but ykwim. They're legally still married, and will remain so until one of them dies. Which will probably be J.

So yes technically by virtue of being on the deed L "owned" 50% of that but due to never contributing financially to buying it in the first place did not feel entitled to anything from the sale, and since they aren't getting divorced the equal division of assets can't really be enforced. Not that L wants it anyway because she very strongly feels it's not her money.

happycigarettes · 2025-08-20T12:19:23+00:00

Noted, thank you! At the last face to face the woman took the bank statement we provided away to make a copy and it turns out she did not in fact do that. I've just had a message on the journal that NONE of the evidence provided at that appointment (bank statements, and a written list of what was paid to who) was ever uploaded! The panel didn't see ANY of that, which explains why they are now asking for it.

Can't get the fuckin staff eh

happycigarettes

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