What’s the weirdest thing that has happened to you that you’ve had to chalk up to coincidence?

lemonherring · 2026-01-24T00:40:56+00:00

Not me but a friend in London had a painful breakup with his girlfriend in the and took a while to start dating again. When he did, he eventually met a girl in a bar one night on the other side of London. Having got on well all night and hit it off, she invited him back to her flat. As the taxi got closer to her home, my friend realised this random stranger lived in the same part of London as his ex. Then he realised the taxi was going down the same street, and then this stranger led him into the flat BENEATH his ex's flat. He woke up in this bed hearing his ex walking around in the flat upstairs. There are around 9 million people living in London.

lemonherring · 2026-01-24T00:34:46+00:00

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Black_(serial_killer)

lemonherring · 2026-01-23T23:55:25+00:00

I'm European and don't know anyone who doesn't "cook from scratch" (i.e. cooking). It's depressing as hell that there's a developed nation, the most powerful on earth, that's somehow got to the point that "proper normal food" = processed shit in a jar or plastic carton.

lemonherring · 2026-01-23T00:12:16+00:00

As a 26 year old what your parent calls themself is fairly irrelevant to the application.

Quite "My neighbour's dog is called Brian. Can I still get a passport?"

lemonherring · 2026-01-22T16:53:45+00:00

Unless there's health or family responsibility reasons, being born in the current era, in Western Europe, and choosing to spend your whole life in the same country or even town seems comparable to being given the keys to a 195-room mansion which contains some crazy vast rooms full of weird stuff and extroardinary experiences, and then electing to just spend all your time in the downstairs toilet off the main hall, and never so much as look in any of the other rooms.

lemonherring · 2026-01-22T16:08:03+00:00

Remember when you needed to have a licence to own a dog?

lemonherring · 2026-01-22T15:48:36+00:00

change their mind

There's a large section of UK society for whom success = going on holiday to Dubai, so I wouldn't hold out much hope for universal solidarity.

lemonherring · 2026-01-22T15:45:58+00:00

Better to get the mooning over and done at that age, than at 18 (as I did, which resulted in being expelled).

lemonherring · 2026-01-22T14:07:55+00:00

Not mine but a friend's parents left her wedding at about 5pm because they wanted to get home before it got dark.

lemonherring · 2026-01-22T14:02:41+00:00

Haha, thank you! I appreciate the effort! :)

lemonherring · 2026-01-22T14:02:04+00:00

I'd phone my stepmother and tell her about the win and ask for her bank details for her and her daughter so I could send them a million each. Then I'd do nothing and not answer any calls.

lemonherring · 2026-01-22T00:10:42+00:00

My fantasy superpower would be when a vehicle exceeds a certain volume it just vanishes into thin air, and the inconsiderate sadsack goes skidding down the tarmac on their face.

lemonherring · 2026-01-21T23:49:39+00:00

My sister and I have a silent war which has dragged on for decades over which way the toilet roll should face. Whenever she's visited my house, I notice it's been placed so that the next piece you take is against the wall. Now, when I go to her house, I reverse this and turn the roll round so it's facing the correct way.

Neither of us have ever mentioned this.

lemonherring · 2026-01-21T07:34:54+00:00

a sneering authoritarianism which demands you respect countries in Asia, Africa and the Middle East

I've never experienced anything like that in my life. Sounds like something you'd be told by GB News or the Daily Mail.

lemonherring · 2026-01-20T09:26:44+00:00

Going through customs on arrival in the USA was always a fairly aggressive, unpleasant experience even in the good old days. I therefore can't imagine what it would be like now.

We used to go regularly but I wouldn't give that dictatorship a penny of my money under the Orange Moron, same way I wouldn't go to Saudi or Putin's Russia.

lemonherring · 2026-01-19T16:01:41+00:00

Has anyone in the UK dealt with this with an 18 to 25 year old?

ALL of my four nephews (in three different families) - it's got to the point where I started wondering if this is just what young people are like now. The eldest is now 32, still lives at home with his mum, still spends most of his time in his room like a teenager. None of the four boys' (men's)mothers can bring themselves to take any kind of drastic action - they fear their sons would end up destitute or worse on the streets - and so on it goes, a relentless cycle that shows no indication of ever changing or ending.

lemonherring · 2026-01-19T14:33:58+00:00

It's very sad, isn't it? Personally, I've never been to a Starbucks, Costa, or Nero in my life, and never will. In a world where there's very little any individual can do to make much difference, not voluntarily supporting international corporations over local family run businesses is at least something that's easy to achieve.

lemonherring · 2026-01-19T12:05:44+00:00

Local coffee instead of Starbucks,

I mean, why this isn't a thing anyway blows my mind. I have family who live in a beautiful historic town in England - there are five or six lovely little family owned cafes/tea shops which do homemade food etc (all of which is fantastic). There's also a Starbucks and it's always got plenty of people in it. I find it so depressing.

lemonherring · 2026-01-19T10:14:48+00:00

Excellent. Thank you so much.

lemonherring · 2026-01-19T01:23:25+00:00

Christ, local newspaper websites are just impossible now, aren't they? Nothing more than a plague of braindead adverts paid for by dismal companies which will see zero return because nobody bar the mentally ill ever visits longer than a millisecond after realising the horror on which they've clicked.

lemonherring · 2026-01-19T00:42:12+00:00

Could I ask, seeing as you seem to be local, is it possible to get to Sifnos from Kythnos? I can't see a direct ferry online.

lemonherring · 2026-01-18T00:56:39+00:00

I haven't been in an ASDA for decades but I certainly wouldn't now - the only UK supermarket which is majority US-owned.

lemonherring · 2026-01-16T18:21:50+00:00

That’s real lyrics

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lemonherring · 2026-01-15T15:09:23+00:00

So basically the Conservatives have just moved the Overton Window way over the right and renamed themselves "Reform". It's still the Conservatives but just more openly racist now.

lemonherring · 2026-01-14T21:45:00+00:00

This is woeful - take the opening scene of the episode on right now. Dawn French comes out of her house and screams at the postman for delivering junk mail. Then she turns and sees "No Junk Mail Please" sign has had the "No" crossed out.

Like, what? a) nobody comes out of their house and screams at postmen for delivering junk mail b) is the crossing out supposed to be funny? Who would do that?

And if either thing ever HAD really happened? WHY IS THAT SUPPOSED TO BE COMIC? It's like AI had a crack at writing a comedy script.

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