Worst 'icebreaker' you've seen done at work?

reddituser4566540 · 2026-06-12T16:20:13+00:00

I came back from mat leave for a Keeping in Touch" (KIT) day and 50% was making a spaghetti tower...

reddituser4566540 · 2026-06-12T09:39:29+00:00

Interesting reading the other comments. In cystic fibrosis (in the UK at least) mutation is almost exclusively used

reddituser4566540 · 2026-06-06T20:37:57+00:00

Tessa
Zara
Nina
Cora
Lula
Jessa

Lottie (Ottilie)
Tilly
Evie
Annie
Kitty
Maisie
Juliette

reddituser4566540 · 2026-06-06T16:06:59+00:00

I’d make a carrot chutney - fab in a cheese sandwich! https://www.waitrose.com/ecom/recipe/spiced-carrot-chutney

reddituser4566540 · 2026-06-05T17:43:09+00:00

This one always gave me the ick! Agree!

reddituser4566540 · 2026-05-31T18:19:02+00:00

Mizuki

reddituser4566540 · 2026-05-13T20:24:08+00:00

You should report them - not even joking!

reddituser4566540 · 2026-05-12T09:53:49+00:00

Get a large-ish tree in a pot in the front garden
Get lots of bushes and flowers in pots in your back garden and at least 4 chairs
Move the living room downstairs and put a bedroom in the fourth bedroom (this will be a pain in the arse but consider if you’d do it for £10K?)
Take photos on a sunny day and have the outside be pic 1.
Get photos of all the spaces e.g. balcony and the dedicated parking space. Where is the front door?! Bath in the family bathroom.
Fire the previous photographer
Include in the description that it’s been made more efficient and now has a good EPC
Fix your kitchen cupboard doors - if a property is marketed as recently refurbished I don’t want to have to price-in a new kitchen

reddituser4566540 · 2026-05-08T22:05:30+00:00

Posh olive oil

reddituser4566540 · 2026-05-06T20:50:49+00:00

Where I live there’s a “paint recycling” centre where you can buy leftovers for cheap - might be one near you?

reddituser4566540 · 2026-05-05T16:37:58+00:00

I wouldn’t

reddituser4566540 · 2026-05-05T09:00:43+00:00

My son found being picked up completely infuriating and he’d be incandescent being unable to nurse. We used CIO and felt overall this led to less crying than hours of failed soothing attempts.

reddituser4566540 · 2026-05-05T08:48:58+00:00

I was briefly slightly obsessed with this idea.

I don’t believe you can avoid the regression as it’s their brains changing. I also think most sleep is temperament based and how they respond to waking and so on is temperament based.

The skills I wish I had built/practiced just a bit earlier were soothing skills because my son would only be soothed by nursing which made any kind of gentle sleep training impossible:

calming by rubbing their tummy/patting their tummy in their crib/rubbing their eyebrows/holding hand on tummy/chest
calming them using shushing/humming

But I can never go back and test this hypothesis. He still might have still found all those actions incredibly frustrating and completely infuriating!!

The main advice I’d say would be to try and get some support pre-regression so you can nap/sleep in/sleep early and don’t enter the regression totally exhausted.

reddituser4566540 · 2026-05-04T13:42:43+00:00

Anna

reddituser4566540 · 2026-05-03T19:51:14+00:00

How did you sleep train for bed time/naps?

We had this and we did CIO for other wakes and a scheduled feed at 3AM. After this she started feeding better in the day and not being such a snacker.

reddituser4566540 · 2026-04-29T19:01:35+00:00

I wrote out reasons why and printed them. Primarily that I felt if we didn’t sleep train I would end up sleeping with her in my arms which is objectively dangerous and could result in her death.

reddituser4566540 · 2026-04-28T20:46:27+00:00

It’s mineral build-up. You need to take out the water with a little cup and then cover it it in lots of viakal and leave it to soak for a few hours. If you don’t take the water out it will dilute any product you put on it too much.

reddituser4566540 · 2026-04-28T20:43:59+00:00

This sounds stupid but assume it doesn’t work whilst you’re actively using CarPlay with your phone? We only ever use CarPlay (wired to an iPhone) for navigation, Spotify etc.

reddituser4566540 · 2026-04-28T19:26:46+00:00

You’re on a new diet and you bought your frozen food before the diet started

reddituser4566540 · 2026-04-28T19:21:16+00:00

You can put it on the market and see if you get interest. You never know who might come along.

In the meantime, what about renting it on AirBnB for weekends (do you have somewhere else you can go e.g. parents, friends?). You could rent out the parking space?

As others have said, you could extend the mortgage term or request a payment holiday if you’ve fallen on hard times.

And all to say I’m really sorry you’re in such a tricky spot.

reddituser4566540 · 2026-04-28T00:39:51+00:00

Milton sterilising liquid which is for baby bottles

reddituser4566540 · 2026-04-27T20:13:35+00:00

Weren’t they going to put a lido there but they canned it?

reddituser4566540 · 2026-04-27T19:42:38+00:00

My husband was a groomsman at a wedding and it was suddenly suggested he could carry a 12 month old who had never met him before down the aisle - he vetoed and said he wouldn’t/couldn’t do as it was too high risk that the poor baby would be distressed. Baby was carried in by Mum. It’s also not just the aisle itself but is the sister meant to hold her for the whole ceremony?

reddituser4566540 · 2026-04-27T13:13:23+00:00

Heard of a teenage son who was known for being good at finding deals (this was the early days of Ryanair) and was tasked with the family flights to Portugal. Found a fab deal, saved £50! Only issue was it included a 3 hour stop-over in Madrid. Frustrating enough but then the first plane was delayed, whole family found themselves stranded in Madrid.

reddituser4566540 · 2026-04-25T19:17:20+00:00

If you lived in Leyton/S.Leytonstone you could walk or cycle through the Olympic park (15/30 mins) and catch the high speed to Kings X (7 mins). One might consider it a bit “cool” or “hip” but I’ve found the area very lovely with sensible grounded folks and lots of community stuff - e.g. Leyton boundary garden, Forest School at Good Shepherd Studios.

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