5 year old me was not prepared for Mr Toilet Man in Look Who's Talking.

The inch measurements for men don't account for wider hips/bum so it takes a bit of trial and error to figure out what size to buy. Whenever I buy men's trousers I have to buy them 4 or 6 inches bigger than my own waist and then wear a belt to cinch the excess in. It's kind of a hassle and it's definitely not considered a put-together look by most women so the appeal is limited to the less fashion conscious of us.

Doesn't Cubert later figure out that the engines don't move the ship, instead they move the universe while the ship remains stationary?

Seriously, he was sent to his country of origin fairly quickly. And now he's feeling sorry for himself instead of the people dying of medical neglect in detention centres and being shipped off to a fucking Venezuelan labour camp.

I was part of the first cohort in 2008. There were a number of girls at my school whose parents didn't give permission, calling it the "slut jab". I remember boys in our year going round deliberately punching our arms on jab days and calling us slags. At least it was worth it in the end.

On Discord, a chat platform popular with gamers and tech communities, he came across channels dedicated to AI where other single men were exchanging tips about how to prompt ChatGPT to generate effective dating messages. “So, for instance, someone said that if you start a chat with a girl by asking her a list of questions – favourite film, dream holiday, that kind of thing – then paste her answers into ChatGPT, it would craft replies that would make you sound like her perfect match.” It proved effective. “It got me a lot more dates than I was getting before.”

If my spouse snuffs it before I do then I'm dying alone.

It's not just the workplaces, it's the housing. I don't want people driving to work sleep deprived after they've struggled to sleep in a hot bedroom all night. Especially not en masse.

The Forme of Cury, a cookbook published in 1390, mentions almond milk. There's no "trying", we've been referring to non-dairy milk as milk (Middle English: mylke) for at least 650 years.

The BBC tends to emulate NHS writing guidelines for patient education materials when they're covering health topics. The standard is to use very plain language with a reading level of a 10 year old to make the information accessible.

https://service-manual.nhs.uk/content/how-we-write

https://service-manual.nhs.uk/content/health-literacy

My favourite is that chiropractor who decided that gluing labia together was a valid way to manage periods.

https://www.bbc.com/bbcthree/article/96ea236d-c2f4-45db-8e83-9de3302599c4

My internal monologue is constant. Unless I'm using my language processing capacity for something else (e.g. listening to a podcast or reading text) then my brain is full of verbal diarrhoea. I'll count each step on my way up a staircase just to fill the dead air in my head.

My dad was 52 when I was born. Getting real tired of developing chronic conditions that are associated with advanced paternal age, ngl.

When I worked in memory care I found that the easiest way was to play along. I had co-workers that did their training decades before I did and they were largely attached to "reorientation in time", which is a nice way of saying confronting their delusions, and it was just upsetting for everyone.

I don't want to tell Doris her husband isn't actually late coming back from the shops, or that her parents aren't coming to pick her up, or that she doesnt need to pick up her small children from school. Wouldn't you get upset if some random stranger insisted that your spouse, who you remember waking up next to that day, died ten years ago? Or if that random 50 year old stranger insisted that they were actually your small child that you definitely dropped off at school that morning?

Unfortunately humans aren't capable of experiencing objective reality. Instead everything gets filtered through our brains, which even in a totally healthy state still can't help but filter reality through a layer of subjectivity. Personally I'd pick being lied to every day over being told my life has already passed me by every day.

They're on a crusade against insulin pumps because their friend's disordered eating habits were triggered by weight gain from an insuline pump. This ignores the fact that people without insuline pumps also develop eating disorders, diabulimia has been a thing for decades.

I had an assignment to write a short story when I was 11. Since I'd been reading too much Stephen King I decided to make it a horror story about a possessed doll in a family's attic. My teacher marked me down because it was "tense and disturbing", as if that wasn't what I was trying to achieve.

Well my evening certainly contained a lot more girldick than I expected.

Your first one or two drinks are to get you drunk. After those wait half an hour for your system to absorb all the alcohol, then take a moment and reassess. Is this comfortable? Do I feel sick? Can I get up and walk around? Am I aware of my surroundings?

If you feel good but noticeably drunk then slow way down, this is when you need to switch from getting drunk to staying drunk. Alternate alcoholic drinks with water to stay hydrated.

Currently watching a VOD from a week ago and he's still working on it. His team made a much more streamlined display for it and it's stopped saying "pauses" out loud. He's also experimented with letting chat feed the bot prompts and seemed surprised that they made it talk like a pirate.

Teen Titans ended with a cliffhanger and then Cartoon Network put out Teen Titans Go! just to add insult to injury. Certainly the pettiest thing I've been angry about for nearly 20 years.

Taskmaster has me howling with laughter every episode.