Beefy

Have you tried SwiftKey? I find it to be a waaaay better keyboard than the stock one, and it does support having a number row.

I have to know, what sort of toys are you talking about? That your dad had?

after covid started

Because of Marie Kondo right?

in the most morbid way

… oh 💀

I got my maternal grandma’s ancient le creuset enamel pots when she died. They’re in perfect condition and we use them all the time.

She loved to cook, my mum hates to cook, and as luck would have it I married a woman who loves to cook. So the pots are in good hands 🥰

Lmao my niece and nephew are going to enjoy inheriting my brother’s hundreds upon hundreds of D&D minis.

At least we use (some of) them to play with though, they’re not (only) for the display cabinet.

Zing.

Well said. I’m married to a clinical psychologist and she’s the most emotionally intelligent person I know. It’s the best. She’s the best.

It definitely helps. You can sometimes logic yourself out of a spiral by acknowledging the emotion and why it’s there, while simultaneously rejecting the need for feeling it right now.

It’s like “hey cool thanks brain I get that you want me to make sure that the bad thing doesn’t happen again so you’re looping that memory and the feeling that came with it. But actually that’s not helpful, that situation actually (wasn’t dangerous) / (won’t happen again) / (isn’t something I can solve right now), so let’s move on.”

With practice, brain usually says “ok no worries”, and you can move on. It’s not really that simple but that’s the idea.

nods Lady, of Gaga.

Fun fact: in the rest of the world it’s just called “licorice”. No black. That red stuff isn’t licorice at all.

Fun fact: Lady Gaga chose that name because of that song.

Wow, haven’t seen a roflcopter in a long time.

It’s one word, all lower case, four words, all upper case.

Forget about what’s normal for getting over a fight. You know what’s not normal? Getting into a screaming match with your partner every month.

I really can’t stress enough, that’s not ok. Not a healthy relationship, not a safe environment for your children, and not a good example for them to follow in the future.

You need couple’s counselling ASAP because this pattern has to stop.

Nonograms are great for puzzles that are hard enough to be satisfying when you solve them, but easy enough to be relaxing. I use Picture Cross Color on iphone.

That’s just Australian for ketchup: https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=dead horse

We’re way ahead of you mate, all tobacco advertising was banned in Australia 30 years ago. Plain packaging is just the latest in a long line of moves designed to de-normalise smoking, and the tobacco companies have fought against it every step of the way.

I literally just googled “cigarette plain packaging effectiveness” and there’s tons of articles analysing it and they all conclude that it has made a difference 🤷🏼‍♂️

It’s more subtle than that. Obviously no one who already smokes is going to say “Oh, the packet isn’t as pretty as it used to be, guess I’ll quit smoking now.”

It’s about the big, long-term picture. Companies spend money on branding and advertising because it works. You create the perception that your product is for a certain type of person, which makes them more inclined to buy it. By making cigarettes boring, you make them less appealing, and on average less people will smoke.

The proof is in the pudding. Social attitudes to smoking in Australia have totally flipped within a generation or two. It used to be something that everyone did. It’s now mostly seen as a gross habit.