Read a comfort book/watch comfort show. You know it won’t hit as hard, but it’ll still be fun.

We get prints of photos of our daughter and from holidays for exactly this reason. Snapfish does pretty cheap prints, so although they’re not amazing quality they’ll still do for having a look through every now and then.

Unfortunately, my memory is pretty shit so I often forget how I fucked up when the situations come around again.

FFS, it’s not like I avoid the news but I had no idea there were people on hunger strike in this country. Absolute failure of journalism.

Yes

Don’t people normally aim slightly larger then go back to get it resized?

I can only hear that dripping in sarcasm. Of all the Bluey characters, why that one? 😄

I remember my dad saying he regretted having not done a different degree in his 20s. I love him and I know he didn’t mean anything by it, but it did feel like he was saying he regretted having the life that ended up with me in it.

Since then I’ve tried never to regret a decision, but still to learn from mistakes.

I’d agree with the folk suggesting you live together for at least a year first, whilst also holding down full time jobs. That’s what most of your life is going to be like, so you should know what that feels like before making that kind of commitment.

To be practical, the commitment is more about the money since weddings are expensive and divorce is just a bit of hassle (unless kids or mortgage are involved).

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But why hide it? Why not normalise expressing emotions and talking to people about them?

Yeah… No. I’d definitely prefer to see my kid cry than bottle my emotions up to lash out later

Considering some of the islands are still under British sovereignty, and many more within the commonwealth, it wouldn’t look good for the UK to be sharing intelligence that leads to the murder of its own citizens or that of close allies.

I know worse or as bad has likely been committed under the auspices of the war on terrorism, but publicly that still had more cause than the USA’s current status as a rogue state.

If you like science you’ll provide sources. ;)

Yeah, a pigskin (lambskin?), aka a condom.

Right?

Yup. Didn’t say it was good for them

You haven’t seen the ridiculous quantities that some alcoholics will consume

Yinz is definitely a Scots thing

I worked with an ex-paramedic who alluded to a similar factor in leaving to become a nurse aide.

Or a knife