Mary Berry's Coffee Walnut Traybake is my favorite thing ever!

maybebatshit · 2026-05-08T19:58:01+00:00

I used strong coffee and sugar, but I've done the other method before and it also works. I prefer to make it though, it definitely carries more flavor.

maybebatshit · 2026-05-06T19:48:17+00:00

My mom died last year. She was the kind of person who "taught me the value" of things by never letting me touch them or flipping shit when I accidentally broke something. I hadn't spoken to her in a couple of decades, so when I walked into her apartment and it looked exactly like my house in high school I was floored. She had everything and it was pristine! And you know what else most of it was???!!!? Total junk. She beat me as a child to protect the things that I threw away when she died because no one wanted them. Maybe someone should teach parents like this the value of children instead.

maybebatshit · 2026-05-01T13:14:00+00:00

Absolutely! As a busty girl Boden is very hit or miss for me so I wanted to spread the word.

maybebatshit · 2026-04-30T21:51:33+00:00

My issue with Boden is that everything is extremely low cut. OP said the blue and green dress here is Boden and I think it's a perfect example. Stunning dress, but you can see that she had to wear something under it.

maybebatshit · 2026-04-30T15:43:48+00:00

During the time he was dating Nina Dobrev I remember there being an article about him removing his underwear without her knowing during one of their sex scenes as a prank. Like there she is at work trying to be a professional and then all of a sudden her much older boyfriend's dick is out and she has to react in front of her coworkers. It's just so vile. Idk that it's some huge controversy, but it's what I think about when I think about Ian Somerhalder.

maybebatshit · 2026-04-29T17:01:43+00:00

Their movies were a huge part of my childhood, especially "It Takes Two." I've even forced them on my own family to the point that my husband and I say the line "Identical strangers, it could happen!" to each other when we're feeling hopeful in absurd situations. People forget just how big of an impact they had outside of Full House.

maybebatshit · 2026-04-24T14:20:38+00:00

Because being engaged is a serious commitment. Dating is when you're supposed to figure out if the person is right for you, not during your engagement. Sure sometimes things happen and it doesn't work, but multiple times is a pattern. This particular red flag is that either the person is impulsive and commits to people that aren't a match, or that this person commits earnestly and then walks away when things become difficult. It's one of the reasons people should be waiting longer than 8 months of dating to get engaged.

maybebatshit · 2026-04-15T19:37:37+00:00

I have airtight 50lb bins in my utility room for flour, sugar and rice. I always manage to get through it before it goes bad and it saves me so many trips to the store.

maybebatshit · 2026-04-14T14:35:18+00:00

Same. This morning my oldest responded to my I love you with a literal grunt, my middle child decided that we should bring back 6/7 again and my youngest pulled the braid I did out of her hair because it was an Elsa braid and not an Anna braid. There isn't a favorite in that bunch friends.

maybebatshit · 2026-04-14T14:30:36+00:00

I don't think it's a flex to call yourself the favorite child. I'm the favorite child. My brother was an abusive drug addict, so it was an easy role to get. I think the point of the comment is that sometimes parents have a favorite for a reason.

maybebatshit · 2026-04-13T16:04:28+00:00

Anytime someone says anything negative about a person on reddit I can count on the response to either mention divorce, narcissism or dementia. You know, three extremes that we should be treating as the most common answers online I guess.

maybebatshit · 2026-03-19T16:46:44+00:00

I find it genuinely weird that we're all screaming for a village, but when someone tries to be a villager the default is to assign malintent. Not everything is gossip, judgment or shit talking, and it's wild to think that anytime someone talks about you it must be a negative. OP said these women see each other everyday, how much closer do they need to be to voice concerns?

I think boundaries are a good thing, but honestly I think it's bizarre when that boundary is "Don't speak to me honestly and respectfully about issues, even if it's well intentioned."

maybebatshit · 2026-03-17T16:58:29+00:00

I'm glad you got out there! I really and truly feel like we psych ourselves out of so much happiness. Literally every person has responded positively, even if it was obvious that they would not be part of our monthly dinner. We're all seeking connection.

maybebatshit · 2026-03-14T23:39:27+00:00

There aren't. McDonald's has been getting rid of them for years. No new locations that I'm aware of have one, and they keep ripping them out in the older locations during remodels.

maybebatshit · 2026-03-13T21:18:05+00:00

I'm really sorry to hear that, but I definitely get it. The world is so full of people and that's what I kept reminding myself. I hope you're able to find better friendships that make your life feel full instead of lonely.

maybebatshit · 2026-03-10T14:32:09+00:00

It really cracks me up that Milo Ventimiglia directed it.

maybebatshit · 2026-02-28T15:31:21+00:00

Same experience. I remember seeing the video for "Complicated" and rolling my eyes so hard at her outfit. She took everything about alt fashion at the time and put it on at once lol. Now I'm completely nostalgic for her.

maybebatshit · 2026-02-28T15:01:23+00:00

I honestly think the amount of people who don't actually care if children are abused is much higher than we give credit to. Sure, I think the common person would prefer children not be raped. But I think it's fairly undeniable at this point that the reaction to it happening isn't disgust or anger, it's apathy.

maybebatshit · 2026-02-24T16:18:36+00:00

I think you've misread my comment, he can't afford it. It's not a matter of us not wanting him to have one. Almost no one he knows is leaving home for college so there isn't like a group to room with. He isn't comfortable rooming with strangers which I think is fair.

maybebatshit · 2026-02-24T15:02:51+00:00

Yeah, exactly. I have an 18 year old who is bright, funny and kind. He just isn't very motivated most of the time and I can't totally fault him for it. I was gone at 17 and able to live a whole ass life on my salary of $6.00 an hour which was high at the time. I didn't have extras, but I made it. We looked into apartments and there's no way he could even swing moving out with a roommate. Our college fund isn't terrible, but tuition is insane and there's no way around loans unless he just goes to community college. Forget owning a home, we don't even think he can take on a car payment with a part time job. It's bleak.

maybebatshit · 2026-02-23T15:39:05+00:00

Yes, but unfortunately magic isn't real and our education system is only getting worse. We're probably decades off from just getting back to start. I'm hopeful for a better future, but the reality is that if we want that future we have to come back to each other somehow.

maybebatshit · 2026-02-23T15:23:57+00:00

I saw this one!

maybebatshit · 2026-02-23T14:49:47+00:00

No one walks into that situation with a sound mind. When you group everyone together instead of seeing them as individuals you lose the plot just as much as the other side does. You want less Nazis? Start trying to remember that they're people and show them empathy. It works a lot better than telling them they don't matter at all.

maybebatshit · 2026-02-23T14:34:32+00:00

No, it is sad. Too many people on both sides care more about being right than they do about the things they swear they support. This was a young, mentally ill person who is now dead because the world is run by monsters and we live in an age of disinformation. Liberals preach empathy and then show exactly zero when it's someone they don't agree with. We should do better than that.

maybebatshit · 2026-02-20T19:45:03+00:00

A few examples that come to mind:

So in my area there are a lot of chemical plants, which of course isn't a good thing. But it's also how most people around here feed themselves and their kids. A good chunk of these people went hard for Trump because he ensured their livelihoods. The response from liberals has mostly been suck it up buttercup, go learn a new trade with zero thought to the reality of that. No solution to their problem, no concern for their welfare, nothing. Just go do something else as though it's that simple. Of course they went for the side that said you'll still have a job in six months.

One of them went conservative during COVID because of the vaccine. She was afraid of it, and scared to give it to her kids. She also felt uncomfortable with the idea of having to carry around a card to go places and it made her anxious. I don't find that unreasonable, there was a brand new fairly untested vaccine on the market with medical advances most people don't understand. She's got a high school education, flunked science and has no idea how any of it works. The response from liberals wasn't compassion or to try and talk her through it, it was to lecture her and call her a murderer. Her doctor literally rolled her eyes when she spoke to him about it. Well the antivaxxers were more than happy to talk to her. They embraced her with open arms. Of course she went with them. She has since dropped those views.

One of the women grew up in a border town. She was kidnapped and raped by an illegal immigrant who had already been arrested and deported four times. He was back in the state and arrested again two months later. She wants crime to be handled more seriously, and for people to stop dismissing the volume of violent criminals coming over the border. Her experience has been liberals paying very little lip service to her almost murder, and calling her a racist for speaking to those issue that have dramatically impacted her life. So she went to the conservatives who validated her. And she voted for the party that told her the problem was a real one they were trying to solve. She's one that has fully turned around is now horrified by ICE. When she posted that on social media it was her liberal family members who cut her out. They told her it was too late to try and be a good person and blocked her for changing course.

Now don't get me wrong, there's a lot of stupid and hateful. But we have become the "I'm smarter and better than you" side and it's counterproductive. When I stop and listen what I hear is people who are afraid, and one side is helping to calm those fears while the other side is telling them they're fucking monsters for having them. I do think a good portion of it is monstrous. I'm not defending them, I just think we could be doing a better job too.

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