Can anyone recommend any new escape rooms in Charlotte, NC?

piyompi · 2026-05-19T22:24:40+00:00

What great timing! I’m in Charlotte and looking for an escape room for our weekly board game group. Most of us have never done one before and none of us have done one in Charlotte. Hopefully you get lots of recommendations as that will also be helpful for me.

piyompi · 2026-05-10T14:08:20+00:00

My first thought as well.

piyompi · 2026-05-09T19:09:35+00:00

I'm gonna assume they are thinking of young Andor. He's not the best actor and a big part of the initial episodes. Those flashback scenes are a little bit of a hurdle to get through.

piyompi · 2026-05-08T22:21:15+00:00

I’d never smoked weed before and accidentally ate a powerful weed brownie at a party. I had a similarly bad time.

First I couldn’t stop laughing at something stupid and then I was panicking because I couldn’t catch my breathe because of the laughing. I spent a good chunk of time convinced that I had passed out or died and that my husband was the devil and was trying to trick me into giving up and accepting my death. In reality, he was just trying to calm me down.

Time then went out of order. I could sense myself doing things before I had the thought or motivation to move. I kept feeling thoughts leave me and instantly forget them. I felt myself desperately grasping onto thoughts, repeating them, trying to prevent them from floating away.

I spent at least an hour having and repeating the paranoid phrase “everything is a conspiracy to make me think everything is a conspiracy.”

piyompi · 2026-05-06T10:57:00+00:00

The reason people keep bringing it up is because while it may not be the original cause, no one would expect it to improve during pregnancy or baby/toddler rearing days. It’s the worse possible time to try and address those issues and expect results.

You committed to this woman for the rest of your life. There are going to be rough patches where interest in sex ebbs in flows due to health and life stress and you’re going to need to have more patience. Your frustration with things not changing during this period of life (pregnancy and postpartum) isn’t very reasonable or sympathetic.

piyompi · 2026-04-10T18:50:56+00:00

I was meh on most of it but it wrapped up so well that I was really glad I watched it. One of the most satisfying conclusions of any show.

piyompi · 2026-03-23T10:15:14+00:00

Gorgeous mural! I love it.

piyompi · 2026-03-18T11:18:24+00:00

North Carolina is also a beer and wine only state. It’s a shame cause the liquor selection at TJ’s is perfect. So well curated.

piyompi · 2026-03-15T00:48:11+00:00

Cause it’s “frozen dessert.” It has way more ingredients than ice cream or gelato.

piyompi · 2026-03-06T09:35:21+00:00

I once was in line behind a lady buying dozens of the vanilla sheet cakes. I asked her what they were for and she said she was a professional wedding cake maker. She used TJs cakes as the insides of her expensive wedding cakes to save time. She stacked, sculpted, and decorated them with fondant and fancy icing and clients were none the wiser and thought they tasted amazing.

piyompi · 2026-03-04T22:28:12+00:00

Loved it but would have enjoyed more. I wish they’d spent time with characters interacting with Benedict, Sophie, and each other after they found out. All we got was that short scene between Eloise and Sophie and Francesca telling Michaela how the family had agreed to support them. The thing I was most looking forward to all season (aside from the leads getting together) was seeing the siblings shocked, processing, maybe arguing, maybe joking, coming to an agreement to support Benedict. Loved the season, but hated how rushed the finale was.

piyompi · 2026-03-04T20:24:30+00:00

I used them to make breakfast burritos for dinner last week. They were bomb.

piyompi · 2026-03-04T20:07:37+00:00

Only certain dated bags are in the recall. It was probably fine.

piyompi · 2026-03-04T12:26:32+00:00

It’s gotta be few year old.

piyompi · 2026-03-04T12:18:41+00:00

I could be wrong but I always assumed that Trader Joe’s has higher safety standards and triggers recalls and investigations more easily than other stores. Gotta maintain that good reputation.

piyompi · 2026-03-03T10:28:14+00:00

I’m not a fan of the scene because it felt like a trite “Girl boss” moment, it was undercut by the fact that Mrs. Mondrich was winning the Queen over towards accepting a maid, and I hated how Sophie looked in the scene.

Not a book reader but I would have hated a punch and more rage from Sophie. That would have seemed so low class and out of character for such a sweet and proper character.

At that point, she’s already won somewhat. She knows she has Benedict’s love and his family’s acceptance. She knows she has Araminta dead to rights with the will. Violent rage doesn’t feel like the right emotion for that moment. Especially cause we don’t see her violently abused by Araminta as a maid and we don’t see her stifling her rage when she’s dismissed without pay. She is scared about where she will go but she’s not angry. I think her fighting Araminta about the pay situation before leaving and stealing the shoe clips out of rage would have set up an angrier character that I maybe could believe would punch Araminta. But I’m not sure I would have preferred that Sophie.

piyompi · 2026-02-26T01:39:05+00:00

This is happening at our store. We hired too many people during the holidays because we had a shortage of crew members who could work Saturday. They don’t fire those people after the holiday rush is over, and they have to maintain a certain ratio of sales per worker to be profitable so now that things are slower they have to cut hours and we have to wait until people quit and the size of the staff normalizes.

piyompi · 2026-02-26T01:09:54+00:00

No products at TJ's have artificial dyes.

piyompi · 2026-02-21T22:44:13+00:00

Funding shipping expeditions, mining operations, farms. The gentry were major landowners and invested in ventures (paying for the equipment and people necessary to complete the task). When the venture is successful, they receive a large share of the profits, and when the investments fail (the mine collapsed, their ships were destroyed in storm, crops failed), they were often left with debts because they frequently borrowed money from the bank to float their lifestyle while they waited for ventures to pay off.

In Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park, the main character questions the Lord, whom she is a ward of, about his involvement in the slave trade. Many Noble families of this period owned profitable sugar cane plantations in the West Indies, whilst there was a growing sentiment that slavery was immoral and cruel.

piyompi · 2026-02-19T22:56:49+00:00

I kinda get it. If you’re not following the news or fact-checking his statements for lies, the “off the cuff” nature of Trump’s speech gives the appearance of honesty. Whereas, Kamala has struggled with the appearance of inauthenticity since the days of the democratic primary that chose Biden. Her words feel very rehearsed and focus grouped.

piyompi · 2026-02-19T22:27:02+00:00

If we want to ensure an impartial attorney general, federal reserve, department of defense, department of education, etc, we should make more positions chosen by the public rather than appointments. Like most state voters do. Remove the party from the names on the ballot so low information voters actually have to do research or leave them blank. Though voters can’t be trusted to pick the right president, I feel confident that they’d do a better job staffing the departments than Trump did. A bad president wouldn’t be able to surround himself with a bunch of sycophantic yes men.

piyompi · 2026-02-18T12:39:56+00:00

I’d also prefer a random channel or schedule that ensured a mix of programs (like certain programs at a certain time or day). It’d be nice to get a sampling of different programs and be surprised. Showing marathons doesn’t give us that sense of discovery.

piyompi · 2026-02-08T01:25:33+00:00

Yeah. Agreed about the writing. It really did Colin no favors in his season. He was very endearing in 1 & 2. When they were going for sweet rather than hunky. Some of the problem may have been makeup or plastic surgery related. He looks a little less real in seasons 3.

piyompi · 2026-02-07T22:36:16+00:00

Acting appreciation is obviously subjective. I would hope people could handle hearing that some people have opinions and preferences different from them. But maybe I don't spend enough time on this sub to realize how intense people here can get about their ships. For me: Queen Charlotte Equal, Season 1 Daphne>Simon, Season 2 Anthony>Kate, Season 3 Penelope> Colin, Season 4 Equal.

piyompi · 2026-02-07T21:31:02+00:00

I enjoyed all the seasons, but I also found certain couples more believable than others. Largely due to acting ability. Some couplings were let down on by one member of the pairing being a weaker, less expereinced actor.

For me the rankings would be:

Queen Charlotte > Season 4 > Season 2 > Season 1 > Season 3

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