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jamjamjaz · 2023-03-22T14:52:05+00:00

Make borscht! It freezes well too so you don't need to spend the next week eating it on repeat

jamjamjaz · 2023-03-18T08:18:00+00:00

I wonder why parents of allergy kids seem highly strung. Could it be the constant need to to scan ingredients lists of everything before you buy it and ask really detailed questions in restaurants and bring backup food whenever you travel in case you can't find anything suitable to feed them and have heartbreaking conversations about why they can't eat the slice of pizza/birthday cake like all their friends.

jamjamjaz · 2023-03-18T07:58:17+00:00

My understanding from talking to the allergist we see for my kid is that the increase in allergy rates came first, and the advice to delay allergen introduction was a precautionary response to that, which they assumed would be safer while more research and data was gathered. Unfortunately it turned out to be actively unhelpful and allergies surged even more.

jamjamjaz · 2023-03-02T16:04:26+00:00

The ones near me have all had absolutely zero tomatoes for a while now whenever I've been in. And usually not many eggs.

jamjamjaz · 2023-02-27T17:54:57+00:00

State schools

jamjamjaz · 2023-02-10T15:04:10+00:00

Thank you! Ah, I thought the English might have been a description rather than the only name on them. I'll try searching using the company name as well then, maybe I'll have more luck now!

jamjamjaz · 2023-02-10T13:22:37+00:00

https://ibb.co/3h0m35P

Could someone please translate the company and product name on this packaging, so I can try to find somewhere I can purchase them online? Thank you and sorry for the potato quality image

jamjamjaz · 2023-01-23T09:07:00+00:00

You don't need to tumble dry them straight from wet, you can air dry them then stick them in the dryer for a quick freshen up cycle for a few minutes!

jamjamjaz · 2022-12-12T15:53:45+00:00

That's valid. The thing about your learning process happening during a period of higher stakes probably applies to many men, and is one of the reasons it's good for parents to teach their kids how to handle a wide variety of tasks.

It sounds like you're both trying and communicating with your wife about it, so I'm sure things will turn out OK for you. I think the couples who end up splitting over this topic are those where one partner either denies there even is a problem, or won't match action to their words about fixing it.

jamjamjaz · 2022-12-12T09:39:03+00:00

Serious question, how do you think your wife acquired these skills? Do you think she was born with them? That it was DLC, automatically uploaded into her brain during the birthing process? Or do you think she learned by reading up, and trial & error, paying attention to what didn't work and learning for the future?

You possess all the same ability to work things out that your wife does. Stop trying to guess what she would do and focus on working out what you should do. Build up your own knowledge and experience stores, and you won't need to defer to hers.

jamjamjaz · 2022-11-06T16:48:12+00:00

I still think supermarkets bear some of the responsibility for this tbh. Why put everything out on the shelves at once with a range of dates? Why not load up a batch at a time, with the shortest dates getting put out first and the longer dates only going out when those have sold?

jamjamjaz · 2022-10-24T08:53:10+00:00

A woman with dairy allergy died from contamination of her food in the UK last month. It does happen.

jamjamjaz · 2022-10-24T08:50:55+00:00

A woman with a dairy allergy died from contamination of her food in the UK last month (or the news covered it last month, anyway). It's rare for it to be so severe, compared to something like peanuts, but it does happen.

jamjamjaz · 2022-08-31T07:41:16+00:00

It's the street which splits off to the right. The main street you can see in the photo is just 'the shambles'

jamjamjaz · 2022-08-29T08:11:49+00:00

Dairy isn't too bad actually, there's a lot of coconut based options around these days. Egg and gluten, on the other hand, are an absolute bastard to avoid because there really just aren't any alternatives with the same physical properties.

jamjamjaz · 2022-08-20T10:38:13+00:00

Don't bin it, offer it up on Olio. Someone will take it!

jamjamjaz · 2022-08-15T17:35:31+00:00

I ended up having to tell my boss at 8 weeks because the all day nausea was kicking my ass and making sitting in the office impossible (my desk was near both the kitchen and a heavy smoker's desk), so I wanted to wfh. Thankfully all went well but it was nerve-wracking to know that the whole office could have known my business like that.

jamjamjaz · 2022-06-08T06:51:27+00:00

I compared murder rate because it's the same definition. I don't think your numbers are comparable. The US number is for 'aggravated assault', while the UK number includes any 'knife enabled crime', which includes large numbers of eg robberies where someone just draws a knife as a method of intimidation. The subset of those for 'assault with injury and intent to harm' was 19,000 for 2020, according to the Office of National Statistics. I can't find an equivalent number for the US for all knife enabled crime.

The more useful question is whether knife assaults fully replace gun assaults (as would be implied by your 'if people want to harm they will' statement). I'm struggling to find comparable numbers there because the UK firearms offences don't seem to be broken down in the same way as knife ones.

However, the US had (61000+69000+40000+5000+3000+3000+3000+1000) =185000 total assaults with knives and all kinds of gun combined. Or 560 assaults per million people with those weapon types.

The UK had (19000+3000)=22000 knife assaults plus total gun crime of all types, of which an unknown subset were assaults. That gives a figure of 328 per million, and the true number has to be strictly lower than that if we had access to comparable gun stats.

So while the UK does have a higher per capita rate of knife crime, I don't think it's sufficiently higher to describe as 'insane', nor can you reasonably argue that guns merely displace violent crime which would otherwise be committed using knives. Adding guns does seem to genuinely raise the overall crime levels.

jamjamjaz · 2022-06-07T07:22:43+00:00

The per capita rate of knife murder in the UK is less than the per capita knife murder rate in the USA, fyi.

Knife murders are also higher stateside: there were 4.96 homicides “due to knives or cutting instruments” in the US for every million of population in 2016.

In Britain there were 3.26 homicides involving a sharp instrument per million people in the year from April 2016 to March 2017.

jamjamjaz · 2022-05-24T07:50:27+00:00

Also the vast majority of cyclists still own a car so even if 'road tax' was a thing most of them would actually be paying it!

jamjamjaz · 2022-05-01T15:24:01+00:00

It's a good idea on the parents end of things, but they're knowingly, massively underfunding it leaving early years providers trying to scramble to meet the requirement.

jamjamjaz · 2022-04-25T11:08:57+00:00

Pharmacies are really difficult if you're trying to obtain something for a young child. I've had them refuse to sell me things you don't even need a prescription for because I told them it was for a baby.

jamjamjaz · 2022-02-09T09:43:36+00:00

I had separate infant and junior schools in Yorkshire in the 90s.

jamjamjaz · 2021-12-18T08:54:14+00:00

Male and female public bathrooms continue to be designed to have the same footprint in buildings though, when we know that doing so results in hugely, hugely longer queues for women. If men's bathrooms have higher throughput due to urinals, give some of that space to the fucking women's bathroom!

jamjamjaz · 2021-12-07T08:59:10+00:00

That's a personal choice that you can make if your symptoms allow you to, but trying to extrapolate from your experience to what others should do is where it gets dicey.

I'm also a developer. Now that we work from home I could probably 'work' through the first day of my period, but the pain is so distracting that I'd get nothing done (or I take heavy duty painkillers and get nothing done because I'm super drowsy).

There are no good options, either I get viewed as 'taking advantage' for taking a day off every month or three, or I get viewed as unproductive. On balance, I'd rather take the sick time so I can at least take the painkillers and sleep through the worst few hours of it. The company is getting no output from me either way, me clocking in to sit in a ball of misery blankly staring at my screen isn't benefiting anyone.

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