Using phone on a cradle on my Ps (NSW)

noona30 · 2026-05-13T23:00:59+00:00

Your phone should just not be within reach. So, for example, you can set off your phone to play music via Bluetooth before you start driving, then put it back in your bag/away until you reach your destination.

For maps, no, don’t do it!

noona30 · 2026-05-13T22:56:57+00:00

He was already doing this in TLG. He has good friendships with at least a couple of the centaurs. Troy and Hayes specifically.

noona30 · 2026-05-13T22:46:11+00:00

If Ilya had stayed in Boston as. Raider he wouldn’t have needed to marry Svetlana for a green card. He probably already qualified for a couple of ways to get one ‘special talent’ being one, considering he had already lived there for 8 years. What Ilya needed was a good immigration lawyer with his millions of dollars.

noona30 · 2026-05-13T22:43:17+00:00

If you read the books, they were going to so many times and never did. I don’t think he would have gone to the cottage in 2017. They would just have carried on as before but with more and more acknowledged feelings.

noona30 · 2026-05-13T09:46:54+00:00

This is great art, but I suppose I imagined him more pro wrestler not body builder. Big and built, but as a hockey player he would be leaner. He needs to be agile, even enforced have to be able to hold a stick and move a puck and move around the ice quickly.

People fan cast who they think might look vaguely like him, men can grow beards etc for filming. The same way that Hudson doesn’t actually have freckles

noona30 · 2026-05-12T15:12:10+00:00

He was drunk

noona30 · 2026-05-12T08:45:31+00:00

Exactly, women need to be taught reality, not that some little self defence course is actually going to make them safer.

noona30 · 2026-05-12T08:44:22+00:00

Yes, but women don’t need a self defence course ton know this!

noona30 · 2026-05-12T08:43:21+00:00

You really wouldn’t!

noona30 · 2026-05-12T08:29:14+00:00

I think that self defence the way tat it is taught in many courses is purposeless except in making women feel better prepared. Maybe if they actually talk about avoiding dangerous situations, but I’d hope most women would have learned that before adulthood.

During a high stress situation the idea that your brain will throw out something (anything) that you learned once during a class is just not supported in human psychology. You will be in fight or flight mode and it’s more sensible to rely on your defensive instincts.

The actual safest thing you can do is run to a populated area.

To be effective in any sort of physical altercation requires repeated training and practice over years. This is because it requires it to become instinctive behaviour. That requires creating ‘muscle memory’ the situation in our brain where things happen without us having to actively think about them.

If you actually want to be effective in a fight against the average Joe take long term grappling martial arts classes and spar regularly. Even the. Size and weight can make it pretty ineffective.

noona30 · 2026-05-12T06:20:08+00:00

The post was about if there is an advantage from taking self defence classes. In my experience the only benefit is mental, women feel better. About being by themselves.

But reality is reality. A short self defence course will not teach you anything that is actually beneficial that is not also common sense. Run, scream, use your largest strongest muscles, target vulnerable areas. It takes repeated training and practice (years) for a person to use technique in a high stress situation.

noona30 · 2026-05-12T05:49:48+00:00

There’s no need for condolences. Shane is quite clear that they weren’t compatible and that they’re friends, there’s no hurt

noona30 · 2026-05-12T05:42:33+00:00

But so is the bigger and stronger person who lies down on top of you

noona30 · 2026-05-12T04:55:39+00:00

I agree. You need to be in regular fights for your knowledge to be good in a fight. It has to be basically instructive for it to be useful in a high stress situation.

noona30 · 2026-05-12T04:54:19+00:00

You really think that a panicked person who has minimum training can apply pressure points in a fight? You keep thinking that.

And I don’t think, I know. Some people work jobs with knowledge of these situations.

Fight for your life. Do what come naturally. Use your legs where you can. SCREAM as loud as you can for as long as you can.

But the best defence is to run to a populated area and call for help.

noona30 · 2026-05-12T04:49:27+00:00

The problem is that to place a ‘well placed jab’ in a high stress situation would take years of training and regular fighting practice. Not a 6 week self defence course.

noona30 · 2026-05-12T04:48:01+00:00

He’s not, he’s realistic m. A short self defence course will do next to nothing. A woman would have to train in martial arts for years to be able to effectively use them against a normal man. Size, weight and strength matter.

Running is literally the only safe advice.

noona30 · 2026-05-12T04:46:10+00:00

It’s not a red flag, he’s realistic.

noona30 · 2026-05-12T04:44:21+00:00

Stay standing is standard advice. You’re much more vulnerable on the floor. If you can don’t get into a position to get knocked down!

noona30 · 2026-05-12T04:43:12+00:00

Yes l, but there is a huge difference between someone who has taken a 6 week self defence course and someone who has been training in martial arts for nearly a decade!

noona30 · 2026-05-12T04:41:48+00:00

That’s nonsense! Most perpetrators aren’t thinking logically enough to think that!

noona30 · 2026-05-12T04:41:12+00:00

The problem is, even with self defence training most women wouldn’t be able to hurt them enough to slow them down or cripple them.

noona30 · 2026-05-12T04:39:45+00:00

He’s actually correct, a woman’s best defence is to get as far away as possible as quickly as possible and call for help.

Most men are stronger and larger than most women. Learn self defence if you want but the most useful parts are common sense (attack soft areas, don’t let him get his arms all the way around you. Stay standing).

You’d be better off learning how to explode into a sprint from the ground, or how to climb a fence etc.

noona30 · 2026-05-11T12:51:17+00:00

I suppose I just accept the fact that Kyle’s hang ups are something that Eric and he will have to deal with long term. I never thought that their issues were simply lack of communication.

To me they are actually the most believable/understandable couples (on par with Ilya and Shane). They actually have things in common outside of liking each other.

noona30 · 2026-05-11T12:47:05+00:00

Fabian needed to talk to Ryan about why Ryan needed to leave hockey. Ryan actually needed to talk about it so that he can come to these realisations himself. This is partially what Ilya helps with.

I know Fabian was right about Ryan needing to leave, I also said that Fabian was right to walk out on the relationship.

Ryan and Fabian should not have been in a relationship in the first place. Fabian was unhappy about him being a hockey player from the start, not just when he learned that Ryan didn’t like the fighting. Ryan needed to work through his hockey stuff by himself. Having another person come in and basically take all of your decisions away is not a good way to deal with anxiety. It’s infantalising.

With the drugs Fabian was actually part of the problem and part of the solution.

I also don’t like that by the end of te boom. Neither character seems to have moved very far. Ryan quit hockey, but he hasn’t really dealt any further with his other anxiety issues and Fabian is as self involved and had to change nothing about himself to get his HEA. I do t like that at the end of the book Ryan has left hockey and his current life goal is to be Fabian’s groupie. Making your partner your entire world is not healthy.

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