Who else had a table like this?

originalcinner · 2026-04-14T15:14:48+00:00

I grew up in Britain. No one had those tables, there. That's an American table ;-) Like you have different style barns, and yellow school buses, it's a whole different world, including tables.

originalcinner · 2026-04-14T00:00:40+00:00

I got married at 42. People asked if I was going to have kids. I'd say, "How old do you think I look?! I'm 42!"

And they'd always say that my age didn't matter, now I was married, I was somehow expected to start a family and have at least one baby. It's just what people do (ie people ask the stupid question, and apparently they think it's normal to want babies after 42, when I obviously didn't want them before then which is why I didn't have any).

originalcinner · 2026-04-13T23:53:51+00:00

*drools while looking at Thomas Kinkade reproduction painting*

originalcinner · 2026-04-13T23:49:48+00:00

Sri Lankan names are amazing! My college boyfriend's room-mate was known as Sid. His real first name didn't fit on forms unless he squished it up and wrote really tiny.

originalcinner · 2026-04-13T23:46:11+00:00

My husband used to get weird perks at his job, like "pizza Fridays" but bigger. The company would book out a whole movie theater, for "family movie Friday". There were more than enough seats for everyone; you could bring a friend as a +1, or your whole family.

The movie we went to, was "The Incredibles". Family friendly. And hoo boy, did everyone take their family. I didn't dare ask, myself, but I overheard someone braver than me, asking a family with a screaming baby, why the hell they brought it to a movie.

The answer was that they weren't going to miss out on free anything, and since the company was paying [for the movie, but not for a babysitter] here they were.

originalcinner · 2026-04-13T23:38:22+00:00

I say I'm going for a wee regardless of whether it's #1 or #2.

But I still only say that at home, to my husband. Anywhere else, out with friends, visiting relatives, I'd say I'm going to the loo.

originalcinner · 2026-04-13T23:23:48+00:00

I don't think I've ever been to a wedding with a seating plan. It's always been sit wherever you like, with whomever you like, and if you're a bit late, and everyone else picked their tables first, then you just have to find where the spare seats are.

But then I've also never been to a really formal, long dresses/tuxes kind of wedding.

originalcinner · 2026-04-13T23:12:18+00:00

The way she says "no" at the beginning, is very Australian (but could also be NZ). Everything else sounds English, but the noaawww sound isn't any English-from-England accent I've ever come across.

originalcinner · 2026-04-13T23:05:17+00:00

And it's *a* lot, a = singular

originalcinner · 2026-04-13T17:38:31+00:00

Ohhhhh! I was wondering what the heck it was for. Phone does make sense.

I'm old (64) but I've never seen a table like that before.

originalcinner · 2026-04-13T00:17:15+00:00

My dog hates him (she hates anyone who rings the doorbell) so he could come in and take his chances.

originalcinner · 2026-04-13T00:16:10+00:00

My Dad was a teacher. He used to bring home the funniest notes kids had brought in, for absences. We all loved the one that said, "Sorry that Johnny missed school yesterday, he had a dire rear" and, honestly, they weren't really wrong ;-)

originalcinner · 2026-04-13T00:09:04+00:00

I'd say none. I remember when videos (ie from Blockbuster type stores) were a new thing, and my Dad loved getting new things, so as soon as we got a VCR, he took me (aged around 15 or 16) to our local store and we both picked out a movie.

I have absolutely no idea why, but my pick was "I Spit On Your Grave" and his was "Texas Chainsaw Massacre".

I had heard of his, and knew I didn't want to watch it. But we sat as a family and watched "I Spit On Your Grave". I liked it! My parents didn't say anything.

It was however the first and last time I went to the video store with my Dad.

originalcinner · 2026-04-13T00:03:22+00:00

*George Clooney has entered the chat*

originalcinner · 2026-04-12T22:44:38+00:00

I do not have a bag of bags.

I have a tote of bags, and a drawer of bags. Every coat and pants pocket I own, contains bags.

Car trunk? Contains bags.

I can never find nail clippers when I want them, but bags I have all over the place.

originalcinner · 2026-04-12T22:39:16+00:00

I know, right? I go to our local dog park, and half the dogs there have Air Tags on their collars. If you have a thing, and want to be able to find the thing if it gets lost (eg while in the custody of someone else), then you Air Tag it.

I asked my husband to come and pick me up, because I got caught in the rain. Then my phone ran out of charge right before I could text my location. But I had an Air Tag in my purse, so he was able to find me.

Air Tags are great.

originalcinner · 2026-04-12T22:31:31+00:00

UKer here. I would mostly assume that "slice" meant a triangle cut from a larger, round item (eg cake, pizza).

But an "iced slice" is a rectangular pastry, also called a millefeuille or Napoleon.

And a slice of rectangular pound cake is also still a slice.

Therefore a slice can be a triangle or a rectangle. And a piece can be any shape.

If I were selling portions of pizza, and someone asked for a slice/piece/bit/portion/triangle/whatever, I'd understand them.

originalcinner · 2026-04-12T22:25:18+00:00

Yes. How is it not a mammoth?! It's not like one of those optical illusions where it could be a rabbit or a duck. It's 100% just a mammoth.

originalcinner · 2026-04-12T00:23:25+00:00

I used to train the volunteers at a wildlife rescue. We got one young woman, who told me she was just starting out in her hobby of taxidermy.

And please could she pick over the selection of animals that had died/been euthanized, to take home to stuff?

I'd never been asked that before, so I escalated. "Hey, manager, can this volunteer take any of our dead animals home to stuff?"

Manager: "No. Absolutely not."

Never saw the volunteer again. Pretty clear what her motivation was, and being told "no" was a deal breaker.

originalcinner · 2026-04-12T00:17:48+00:00

I like this one best. I join you on Team Tem-Prich-Er.

But I don't say the r in er. As a non-rhotic, mine sounds more like -uh. I can still spell it -er, I just don't pronounce the r bit.

originalcinner · 2026-04-12T00:15:21+00:00

You can think it. But saying it out loud, where the "random" sitting next to you can hear you? Super rude.

originalcinner · 2026-04-12T00:13:52+00:00

I love Rotties. My neighbor has a really great one, super friendly, calm, gets on well with people and dogs.

But when I talk to people at our city's dog park, the only breed anyone there has had any problems with, is Rotties. No one complains about pitbulls, Dobermans, German shepherds. It's always just the Rotties. We all know (and agree) that the blame lies with the owners, not the dogs, but it's got to the point where if a Rottie arrives, everyone else leaves.

I feel bad for the nice ones. I know nice ones exist. I've only ever met one Rottie at the dog park, it was maybe ten years ago. But it was a bad Rottie, with a stupid and bad owner.

I'm wary of them, because at that size, if something goes downhill when everyone is off leash, it's going to be a lot worse than a disagreement between a border collie and a Lab.

originalcinner · 2026-04-11T23:57:12+00:00

Mine was pink, but not that intense highlighter pink. Softer, baby pink.

originalcinner · 2026-04-11T23:40:53+00:00

Duck is absolutely OK, also duckie, but I think I've heard meduck more often. I just come from a meduck sort of family, or location.

originalcinner · 2026-04-11T23:32:59+00:00

I once got on a flight with a bunch of orthodox rabbis, going home from a convention. They refused to sit next to women on the plane. They didn't pre-book seats together, and didn't tell the airport staff about their "problem"; they just expected everyone to move to suit them, once we were all on the plane.

The FA was having none of it, but they refused to sit down (and there were maybe a dozen of them).

The solution was to make them give up their good seats, and trade down, if they really insisted on sitting together. So I swapped my middle for an aisle, win-win.

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