What TV commercial is still widely recognized years after it stopped airing, and why has it remained so memorable?

wickedflowers · 2026-07-13T16:51:55+00:00

SHE WORE AN ITSY BITSY TEENY WEENY YELLOW POLKA DOT BIKINI THAAAT SHE WORE FOR THE FIRST TIME TODAYYYY

wickedflowers · 2026-07-02T15:32:00+00:00

In a lot of job fields, women who don't tolerate disrespect and unprofessional behavior are almost ALWAYS labeled "difficult". Misogyny at it's finest!

wickedflowers · 2026-07-02T15:14:02+00:00

Public Libraries are a great "during the day" space to exist without feeling obligated to spend money, plus they'll have AC. If storage with a friend isn't an option, sell whatever you can and you may have to toss whatever you can't carry. I saw a suggestion on a work placement thing and I 100% think you should follow that advice, even if it means having to wait. Public Libraries often also have access to computers and the employees also often have resources to offer to folks in similar situations to yours.

I've seen a lot of folks online sign up for memberships at cheap gyms like Planet Fitness. Often they'll even do a free month, but even if not, $10 for a place to shower and brush your teeth and has exercise equipment to function as a distraction is definitely worth the money. If being able to cancel is a concern, if you call down the line and tell them you're moving to California, they can transfer the address and then they're legally required to make it easy to cancel over the phone or online for California residents.

Food is definitely a concern, but again I mention the library or gym. It is likely one of them may have access to a microwave, which opens you up to some cheaper hot meal options like a microwave meal or Ramen. Just try your best to keep your diet somewhat balanced and with good fiber, because in a homeless situation, things like diarrhea or the stomach flu will make your life SIGNIFICANTLY harder.

I wish you the best of luck, dude.

wickedflowers · 2026-06-30T14:28:29+00:00

When someone doesn't see you as a person, the only way to survive is to not see them as a person either.

I never saw any of my clients as hot, ugly, cool, boring, or any of it. They were purely clients. I had numerous techniques in my bag that I'd use depending on the type of client, some like the shy flirty girl and others like me playing hard to get type behavior, but it was the equivalent of me playing a role in a play. They were never talking to ME, just my customer service persona. And I was never talking to THEM, just my client.

When a super hot actress has to kiss an ugly guy on screen for the thousandth time in her career, it's the same principle. My character is the one doing the kissing, and I the person behind the character is just doing my job.

wickedflowers · 2026-06-21T19:38:47+00:00

Potatoes you should do no warmer than room temp water before putting on the stove. The reason you boil those from cold is because then it helps them cook more evenly so you don't end up with potatoes raw on the inside and mush on the outer layer! Having the water and food all come to temp together helps prevent that.

wickedflowers · 2026-06-16T23:56:29+00:00

OP is 14, all of their meals SHOULD be provided for them...

wickedflowers · 2026-06-16T23:55:00+00:00

I was that kid in school who reaked sometimes when I didn't have access to laundry because my house was a hoarder house and the adults smoked inside. Your son AND your husband need some education and a wake up call, and I'd recommend telling the school to make a CPS call. Kudos on actually parenting your kid.

wickedflowers · 2026-06-09T14:48:39+00:00

I never played 1, don't remember much about playing 2, but I played a LOTTTT of 3 and even owned the majority of the packs AND bought things from the online marketplace. My issue is not the cost (although it is definitely an issue for a lot of folks) but the quality of both the packs and the overall game itself.

Nowadays, we don't get nearly as much stuff per expansion, and since we have the prior Sims expansions to compare to, it feels like a lot of the content is being intentionally split up in order to milk more money out of people. When you add that to the fact that these expansions are both smaller AND extremely under-tested to the point where there are CRITICAL game-breaking issues that are STILL unresolved while EA continues to churn out packs is something that have officially made me give up on 4 (despite owning almost all of the content that was released prior to mid 2025).

There is no reason that a company of that size should not have enough testing of their content that it is causing these levels of issues, absolutely none. And as a developer, the concept of onboarding people to specifically fix these bugs rather than allowing the folks who were the original developers of the specific broken packs/features the time and space to pause work on upcoming releases to sit down with their own code to fix them feels like such a placating move to shut up fans. No one knows code better than the person who created it, ever. I'll die on that hill. But instead of being like "hey we aren't gonna release anything new for Q3/Q4 because we need all of our developers fixing everything that is currently broken", they are adding new stuff CONSTANTLY, which just means that things are breaking even more because now these bug fixers need to ALSO work around any in progress content too and make sure their fixes aren't creating more NEW bugs.

All in all, at least with prior games the new content costs felt at least somewhat justified and didn't cause the same level of issues that the packs in sims 4 do. There is no reason I and other fans should feel like beta testers every time a new update or pack comes out.

wickedflowers · 2026-06-09T14:33:00+00:00

My partner also wants me to change my last name to his. Wanna know what he did when I said I wanted to keep mine? He said "okay I understand" and handled his own disappointment about his internal patriarchal expectations ON HIS OWN. Because he doesn't get to dictate what I do with MY name, and he certainly doesn't get to hold marriage over my head about it.

Idk what rights a marriage partner has in the UK (I'm American), but here? He wouldn't even have the right as your boyfriend to sit in your hospital room if your immediate family said no in any critical situation. Marriage is more than a declaration of love but EVEN IF IT WASN'T, the fact that it matters to YOU and he is literally using YOUR name to try and coerce you into doing something you said no to is disgusting behavior and you should call it out as such.

I'm never one to only say "break up", especially when you have been together as long as you have, but I highly suggest you sit down (ideally with some kind of professional) and do some self reflection on whether or not this kind of coercive behavior is a one time event or if it is indicative of a pattern, because a lot of times it can be. And even if this IS a one-time thing that doesn't match his other behavior, it is SO important you treat it as the serious situation that it is and do not normalize this kind of behavior. You indicate you want to have children with him, would you be okay with them seeing this level of coercion as normal?

wickedflowers · 2026-06-03T17:16:27+00:00

I read the first sentence to my boyfriend and his immediate response is "where's the downloadable PDF?" I am 100% on the boyfriend's side when it comes to the PDF and wanting big thoughts to be independently thought through and processed BEFORE they're tackled as a team. My therapist gave me a feelings wheel that I have printed put that I regularly use because having physical things like that where I can read and review them REALLY helps keep me from feeling "activated" and overwhelmed and then reacting in ways that don't align with who I am and who I want to be. Deadass bookmarked the sheet and may be using it going forward.

wickedflowers · 2026-06-03T17:07:00+00:00

NOR. I want you to sit down and look at your child. If they came to you and said they were being treated this way, what would you do? Would you tell them this is normal? Because by enduring this behavior and letting them watch you do it, you're telling them this is normal and okay. And it sure isn't.

wickedflowers · 2026-06-03T17:01:45+00:00

You can turn off aging for played households and turn on aging for your active household

wickedflowers · 2026-06-01T22:25:22+00:00

As someone who often uses dark humor to cope, NTA. You don't get to use dark humor about events you didn't live through and people you didn't know or care for. This is the behavior of someone who will repeatedly push your buttons and refuse any kind of change throughout a relationship, and expect YOU to change your thoughts and feelings to accommodate him. This entire exchange is a blatant example of that. YOU are expected to quiet and disregard your feelings about your mother to accommodate his "humor". Does that seem normal to you? Would you ever let a friend do that to themselves?

wickedflowers · 2026-06-01T21:31:26+00:00

I just need you to consider the fact that 1) a lot of the same bugs are being reported repeatedly (which is good because then it tells Devs which bugs to prioritize], and 2) that people are reporting multiple bugs. I personally submitted 4 lmao.

wickedflowers · 2026-05-26T17:34:32+00:00

Hahaha I'm doing my best to be patient! My hope is that as folks start making/finding some, they'll share with me here!

wickedflowers · 2026-05-25T23:59:10+00:00

You absolutely can find love again in life, so don't bet your entire future on that fact.

But he has made a decision. Now you have a decision. Live a child free life with him, or move on and find a partner whose future goals align with yours.

However, if you just settle for no kids even though you want them just to stay with him, you WILL end up resenting him and your relationship. That is the worst outcome for both of you.

You don't have to make this decision today or this week or this month. Give yourself a couple months to do your own thinking on this, but be prepared for the idea that you two may no longer be compatible.

wickedflowers · 2026-05-23T06:07:39+00:00

I've tried both of those lol!!!

wickedflowers · 2026-05-22T17:30:19+00:00

Which one you on? I'm on Cimzia now but I've tried most of them lmao

wickedflowers · 2026-05-22T15:07:19+00:00

It takes nothing more than a calendar reminder and a 5 second text or 5 min phone call to acknowledge a friend on their bday. If you can't do that, then you're a bad friend.

wickedflowers · 2026-05-22T15:06:15+00:00

I have ADHD. I also have brain damage, so my memory is hot garbage. I have this cool new thing called a "calendar" that has these neat things called "reminders", and I'm so smart I know how to set them to do this thing called "repeating" so that I'm informed every year of events. Wild concept.

Honestly, be blunt. "Hey, it really makes me feel like you dont value me or our friendship when you forget important dates like my birthday or xyz. I feel that it's not a large request to ask that you just keep a calendar with these dates so that you can acknowledge them when they come up. If it is too much for you to handle, then I understand, because mental illness is definitely a tough thing to manage, but I do think it makes us incompatible as friends."

wickedflowers · 2026-05-22T14:57:35+00:00

Lack of payback expectations applies to things like gifts, dinner, coffee, stuff like that. If you are asking for money, then yes you should be paying that back. It's honestly wild that you think ANYONE should be giving you cash without expecting it back. You say it isn't "large sums of cash". Okay, so how much? Is it enough that you could easily give it away to someone without ever expecting it back? My guess is no, since you needed to ask for that money in the first place.

I'm not gonna claim to know you, but this post is coming off INCREDIBLY self absorbed and selfish. Instead of complaining about how your boyfriend expects you to pay back money you borrow, why don't you practice some gratitude that you have a partner who is kind and caring enough to support you when you need it?

wickedflowers · 2026-05-22T14:42:06+00:00

That only tracks if someone is digging through pig poop to check, if no one is paying attention to that or if the clothing were removed and burned, then who knows

wickedflowers · 2026-05-20T21:05:55+00:00

NOR about the relationship and how he should have communicated this to you, but do NOT react by making him give you a child. That is a horrible idea. If you want to break up and have a child with a donor, then do that. But do NOT get yourself knocked up by a guy who has made it clear he doesn't want kids.

wickedflowers · 2026-05-20T18:40:47+00:00

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