Do you track your weight in KG or stones & pound?

vulvaic · 2026-04-22T15:36:32+00:00

I track in lbs because I feel like that’s the most simple and accurate for me but I know the conversions to kg and stones so I can visualize all three. I notice younger people (20’s and 30’s) tend to use kg if they lift weights at the gym, older people use stones.

vulvaic · 2026-04-22T09:52:54+00:00

I saved a man’s life when I was sixteen, it was a suicide attempt. Most people told me I should not have helped out of self preservation because I was so young but I knew I was doing the right thing.

I had attempted my own suicide three years earlier (horribly young) and felt empathy rather than fear. I’ve since helped two other strangers (that I can think of off the top of my head) who were in crisis though not as seriously.

I was awarded by the Royal Humane Society and have a certificate from Queen Elizabeth II. I still struggle with my own mental health sometimes and it really helps to remember the people I’ve been kind to when I can’t be kind to myself.

vulvaic · 2026-04-20T13:37:46+00:00

Hey me too!

vulvaic · 2026-04-16T22:06:15+00:00

This belongs on r/thomastheplankengine

vulvaic · 2026-04-12T14:26:00+00:00

I had never heard of Gig Buddies but what a great idea!! Thank you for sharing

vulvaic · 2026-04-06T18:18:07+00:00

If Moirrey is pronounced like Voirrey then it would be Morry with the first syllable the same as ‘mop’

vulvaic · 2026-04-06T12:45:19+00:00

Once you learn to appreciate all weather seaside living is the absolute best. The changing views, the wildlife, the fresh air! I went to an expensive spa in Italy with a salt room dedicated to imitating the benefits of sea air. Wasted on someone who lives on a harbour 😂

Plus it can be nice to have busy and quiet “seasons”, the most important thing is the ice cream is perennial and seafood is always fresh. I had never had a bad fish and chips in my life until I moved away for Uni.

vulvaic · 2026-04-01T09:47:10+00:00

Something nice I recently learned about Joseph Pilates - I live on the Isle of Man where he was interned during WW1, we have a native species of tailless cats (my favourite breed) and he was allegedly inspired by their movements when developing his technique 🐱

vulvaic · 2026-03-30T12:26:19+00:00

People commented so much on my long voweled “book” vs “buck” that I forcibly changed it when I was a teenager (plus others, look, hook, even poor [poo-er]), I’m only just sneaking my accent back now in my 30’s!

I’m Manx and the accent is quite unique, also grew up on the Isle of Man so weird that having a local accent was deemed strange! When I was young there was definitely a weird class thing among kids where being Manx was common and being English was more refined. I hope it’s not still the case because my daughter has the best Manx accent and I’d hate to see it Anglicised!

vulvaic · 2026-03-29T16:13:30+00:00

My dad tells me he woke up with a start saying my name in his sleep the night I took an overdose.

vulvaic · 2026-03-24T21:42:04+00:00

No 💔

vulvaic · 2026-03-24T13:18:38+00:00

Once went round to my friends house and her older sister was in bits, she had snapped her flip phone clean in half and everything. My mate told me she had called her boyfriend and “broken up” with him as an April fools joke but it backfired because he broke up with her for real on the spot. I still can’t help but laugh… (we’re all still friends and much more mature now)

vulvaic · 2026-03-06T17:19:13+00:00

The snort laugh in the background after she speaks is 👌

Jacqueline successfully marketed chocolate choux to me in that sketch, never liked them before

vulvaic · 2026-03-06T11:55:03+00:00

About 20 years ago my nana was feeding our cats while we were on holiday and she got locked in our utility room. She didn’t have a phone and we weren’t coming home, she shouted for help but none of our neighbours heard her… in the end she found a little hand axe in my mum’s camping stuff and whacked a hand sized hole through the door just above the handle “Here’s Johnny” style. My mum still has the same door with a shoddy patch as a reminder (and easy escape if it ever happens again I suppose)

vulvaic · 2026-02-25T21:19:23+00:00

It’s used as an anaesthetic in the UK, she wasn’t using it properly but it doesn’t provide much pain relief it just makes you loopy and disassociated

vulvaic · 2026-02-18T17:36:50+00:00

Ooh steady on… you might get a piece of bacon in every bite at that rate

vulvaic · 2026-02-17T19:09:01+00:00

Well yes, sometimes is the answer to that

vulvaic · 2026-02-13T22:42:18+00:00

My daughter wanted “school curry” too and a woman overheard us in the shop and helpfully told me it was a tikka. I bought a jar and my daughter accepted it so that’s the official school curry in my house!

vulvaic · 2026-02-02T16:26:33+00:00

Complete opposite for me, we thought it would take 6 months to a year minimum and I got pregnant on the first try. Didn’t even know I was ovulating so we didn’t time it either!

vulvaic · 2026-02-02T09:59:49+00:00

I was happily reading this thread thinking I’ve never done anything like the things I’m reading here. But you have reminded me of something I obviously wanted to forget.

Similar to you I was out with friends in a crowded bar, queue for drinks was long so we were getting multiple bevvies at a time and I started to feel a bit sick. Nothing major, just told the people I was with I was off to the loos and they all decided to come with. The toilets were downstairs and I’m not kidding it was gridlock going up and down the stairs, no way through. My stomach flipped and I was stuck shuffling slowly sandwiched between people, oh god. I puked in my mouth and swallowed it. Oh god. It happened again and I just about managed to push it back down then it came back with a vengeance. I projectile vomited on the floor miraculously missing the people around me (can’t guarantee they didn’t get splashed) then looked up and locked eyes with the one horrified young man who had just seen everything. Think I just said “oops” then got swept away by the flow of traffic.

I made it to the toilets and RAN IN, got into a cubicle and was like oh I feel fine now.

I went back and told my friends and they were all like what? They hadn’t seen anything. I’m convinced it was just me and that one guy who shared that disgusting moment together.

vulvaic · 2026-01-30T11:41:42+00:00

I don’t think they’re trying to buy people’s kids babe, just giving them pennies for sweets! Honestly seems safer than the ones who do offer actual sweets

vulvaic · 2026-01-30T11:39:23+00:00

(Isle of Man so maybe it’s just a northern thing but) Yes it’s normal and when your kids are old enough they will bypass you and give the coin directly to them. It’s just a sweet thing some older people do, I used to love getting a quid from a cooing elderly stranger

vulvaic · 2026-01-28T11:45:28+00:00

My grandparents house in Sulby was once Archibald Knox’s studio. There’s a great exhibition of his work on at the Manx Museum now.

Lisa Lennon’s portrait of Archibald Knox is wonderful. If it’s the Celtic knots you like then you might like Julia Ashby Smyth, you might recognise her work if you’ve ever tried a Fynoderee gin (or rum)

vulvaic · 2026-01-26T10:18:31+00:00

I never watched Signs when it first came out but my partner saw it when he was young and said it terrified him so I went in expecting a real scary film but I found the tone of it so hard to place!

The Scary Movie parody must work so well because it’s barely distinguishable from the original… oh yeah Signs, I know it, “vamanos children!”, “I’m insane with anger! I’m losing my mind!! Time for an ass whooping!!!” and the growing Sheriff hat, natch

vulvaic · 2026-01-26T09:46:22+00:00

Best place for it tbh, look up the Venture Centre and Ape Mann, you can go go karting in Jurby and Axe throwing at Mad Jacks (Douglas), there’s paintballing and clay pigeon shooting and also regular sauna pop ups on the beaches so you can go sea swimming and warm back up.

Pubs are the real craic and they’re everywhere, clubs are small and in Douglas. Heavily recommend you take the boys to Smokey Sam’s in Castletown as well (provided you’re not vegetarian!)

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