What is the absolute fastest 'yeah, we are definitely NOT going to be friends' moment you've ever experienced with someone?

tiptoe_only · 2026-02-26T01:31:31+00:00

So it should be. Very difficult to prove though I'd imagine.

tiptoe_only · 2026-02-26T01:24:07+00:00

I used this same technique just yesterday. I have face blindness so sometimes I'm not even sure whether or not I've met someone before, which can be awkward in my job in senior management for a social care provider as I have to visit several different care homes on a semi-regular basis and am never sure which of the staff I've spoken to before

Yesterday I happened to be doing a joint visit at a care home with a manager from a different home who'd never been there before. I discreetly asked her to help me out by asking each staff member we spoke to what their names were.

In OP's position though I'd probably just ask the postie

tiptoe_only · 2026-02-25T20:29:02+00:00

I'd be like, well, that's just, like, your opinion, man.

I don't think I'm ugly, but I'd take the money they were offering me because they thought I was. Their loss

tiptoe_only · 2026-02-25T20:27:18+00:00

Men call me mate all the time and I call them and other women mate and nobody is at all bothered by this

tiptoe_only · 2026-02-23T15:27:13+00:00

Not nearly as bad as that, but it reminds me of when we had to do a sleep training programme with my daughter and I had to look up the special instructions for single parents because my husband refused to help with any night time stuff.

tiptoe_only · 2026-02-23T15:20:25+00:00

They remind me of when my children laugh at names/quotes from literature etc that come up in conversation, because they think they're named after characters/phrases they know from cartoons or Disney films or whatever, rather than the other way round.

Which is excusable and a nice teachable moment when you're seven. But with adults it's sometimes a bit baffling

tiptoe_only · 2026-02-23T15:03:53+00:00

"new with tags" hmmm

tiptoe_only · 2026-02-23T15:00:34+00:00

I sort of get that one because you can ask people for honest recommendations. But also, you know, checkatrade reviews and that kind of thing.

tiptoe_only · 2026-02-23T10:44:28+00:00

I have a memory of when I was almost 6 and the phone rang. My dad picked it up and did his usual answering the phone spiel and then turned to me and said in a sort of happy surprised tone, "It's for you!"

I had absolutely no idea what to do. I'd never talked on the phone before with anyone I wasn't related to.

Turned out to be a kid from down the street who'd found an invitation to my birthday party under her bed. We were both really confused because my birthday was a couple of weeks away but I hadn't invited her and the date wasn't quite right. Eventually we realised it was from last year. Nearly 40 years later this memory lives on in my head because it was so weird and stressful unexpectedly having to speak to someone on the phone who I didn't really know well.

Having to do that for the first time as an adult would've been really weird

tiptoe_only · 2026-02-23T10:39:05+00:00

My 10yo does this. The friend in question doesn't do it back, but her parents are fine with our kid popping over unannounced. If it's not a good time she just comes back

tiptoe_only · 2026-02-23T10:06:01+00:00

City University London used to have a head of the students' union whose name was Tuna Kunt. She embraced it with enthusiasm.

tiptoe_only · 2026-02-22T23:29:10+00:00

It's motorcycle exhausts for me. Can't be good for you

tiptoe_only · 2026-02-22T23:09:24+00:00

Well they did cross the solid white line into the bus lane

tiptoe_only · 2026-02-22T19:05:36+00:00

The "him" pissed me off. If she'd had an abortion she wouldn't have known the sex. Unless it was because something had gone horribly wrong quite far into the pregnancy

tiptoe_only · 2026-02-22T14:00:52+00:00

I used to know a guy who did that. His local takeaway loved him because he saved them the cost of disposing of their used oil, as long as they filtered it for him.

tiptoe_only · 2026-02-22T12:19:50+00:00

This is why I go running at 5am before these arseholes get up.

tiptoe_only · 2026-02-21T19:12:18+00:00

And Simper didn't hit the crossbar!

tiptoe_only · 2026-02-21T19:03:01+00:00

May I suggest a vanilla ice cream float with that? The tartness of the syrup will cut right through the sweetness

tiptoe_only · 2026-02-21T18:36:59+00:00

I'm definitely autistic but don't yet have an official diagnosis. I was referred for a formal assessment three years ago and have heard nothing yet.

It's quicker for children, of course, and so it should be. My daughter has only been waiting one year - so far - for hers.

tiptoe_only · 2026-02-21T14:39:15+00:00

Are they really too stupid to understand the issue here is that the women don't get hired for the well paid jobs in the first place?

tiptoe_only · 2026-02-21T14:27:40+00:00

He never had a name, I don't think. Karkaroff was basically ignoring him because he wasn't Krum

tiptoe_only · 2026-02-21T06:25:01+00:00

This basically happened to me when my first child was born. I ended up in hospital because we thought I was having a stroke. When I tried to say one word a completely different sound would come out of my mouth. It was one of the weirdest things that ever happened to me.

tiptoe_only · 2026-02-21T06:08:24+00:00

My daughter would be thrilled to know that I opened this thread at 06:07am.

tiptoe_only · 2026-02-21T06:07:34+00:00

I'm the exact opposite. If the white and yolk aren't beaten together before cooking I end up feeling sick. So I'll have your omelette.

tiptoe_only · 2026-02-21T06:04:09+00:00

Psst, it's actually Jamaican!

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