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To ask about your little rebellions?

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Sensibletrousers · 21/07/2023 09:33

I’m sitting here about to get changed for Zumba and I want to wear shorts but my legs aren’t shaved. I will be wearing shorts anyway. It’s a little rebellion, a tiny “up yours” to the man.

I have always found little ways to rebel (recovering people pleaser) that don’t actually hurt anyone so that I don’t have one massive rebellion and ruin my life one day!!

I also don’t share food, even with my kids, and am unapologetic about it. It’s now a family joke.

What little rebellions do you enjoy?

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moreshitandnofuckingredemption · 22/07/2023 16:11

@onefinemess my DDs are teenagers and Patriarchy Chicken is just a bit of fun that also happens to make them more aware of some men's entitlement around the space they inhabit in the world
A. Bit. Of. Fun.
Not preaching hate 🤣

zingally · 22/07/2023 17:12

I deliberately clash elbows with people who make no attempt to even slightly move over on the pavement when I walk towards them.

Missingpop · 22/07/2023 18:04

When wfh I’d get out of bed 5 minutes before I needed to start work sleepily log on take my laptop back to bed with me go back to sleep knowing no one else would be in the office until after 9; I’d get up at 8.55 jump into some clothes run into the office & start working my phone would ring at 9.30am for my morning chat with my boss the CEO (😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 he can’t say to much I’m always waking him up) he’d give me my work for the day, I’d say mmm should manage to complete if not will do early tomorrow & so into my next lie in I loved it I slept so much no stress; no hassles; but I’m now back in the office full time 😂 all good things come to an end I suppose 😂😂😂😂

X2trouble · 22/07/2023 18:20

MinnieTruck · 21/07/2023 10:01

What the actual fuck😳

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I want to know what this answer was now

BalloonKnotWhistle · 22/07/2023 19:01

My biological father once put a post on his Facebook saying that whoever kept reporting his posts should fuck off and unfriend him.

It's me. 😁

He's a racist, misogynist, bellend. I'm not even friends with him but his account is wide open, so every few weeks I pop on, report everything and move on.

Serves the tosser right.

riceuten · 22/07/2023 19:22

Caledoniadreaming · 21/07/2023 11:34

I'm a regular commuter into Central London, used to be so polite to tourists taking a million and one photos of Big Ben on Westminster Bridge when I first started even though they were taking up half the pavement and some utterly ridiculous poses. I lost it though after the attack there and the massive metal/concrete bollards were put in place.

Now I march straight through them. I must be in so many photos: "angry commuter" as a caption

I work 3 mins walk from the Thames by Tower Bridge and like to watch the boats going up and down the river. Almost without fail - a tourist - usually Japanese or Chinese, but also Americans - will ask me to move so they can take a selfie with Tower Bridge in the background.

I completely refuse to move now, which confuses them completely, as the stereotypical Brit in their head will accede to their wishes.

Westsussexisbest · 22/07/2023 19:26

Lilyhatesjaz · 22/07/2023 14:11

When my children had been complaining about their dinners a lot, I would make beef stew with lots of vegetables and potatoes, I meal I quite like but the rest of the family doesn't. I called it the reset dinner, it would be some time before they complained about dinner again as they knew there was a second portion in the freezer.

Absolutely love this. Reset dinner genius

Mumkins42 · 22/07/2023 19:32

I regularly don't pay for parking. It depends on the car park though. If I get a ticket - which I haven't- then totally accept it's my fault. I am a very honest person and don't like deceit or stealing or screwing people over. I have no issue with the parking fee dodge. 🤷‍♀️

Emsb2022 · 22/07/2023 19:33

On holiday years ago, the people in the bungalow next to us kept us awake all night. In the morning, I asked the hotel for an early morning alarm call and gave their bungalow number. Had some satisfaction seeing them bleary eyed the next morning after their 'bloody alarm call'

LadyOfTheCanyon · 22/07/2023 19:43

Skinnermarink · 21/07/2023 09:42

Always sitting in First Class on my commute into and out of Clapham junction. No one checks and there are always empty seats, even if the rest of the train is ridiculously rammed. On Friday nights I sit there with a can of M&S gin and tonic as a treat 😂

I will raise my mini bottle of train wine to you as I also do this ( and go through Clapsy J for work)

DrSbaitso · 22/07/2023 19:44

riceuten · 22/07/2023 19:22

I work 3 mins walk from the Thames by Tower Bridge and like to watch the boats going up and down the river. Almost without fail - a tourist - usually Japanese or Chinese, but also Americans - will ask me to move so they can take a selfie with Tower Bridge in the background.

I completely refuse to move now, which confuses them completely, as the stereotypical Brit in their head will accede to their wishes.

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Tell them it's London Bridge. They probably think it is.

OdeToBarney · 22/07/2023 19:45

MustardChair · 22/07/2023 09:19

My former line manager used to go out of her way to undermine me in a variety of different ways. I am a lawyer and we time record work in 6 minute intervals which then influences our pay and bonus etc. She used to go into the system and change my time recordings for example, which meant it looked like I was not doing the work and had a knock on affect on what I could bill. Senior management knew she was doing this by the way, but they were weak bastards and did nothing.

So my password was fuck off [her name] you bitch.

All well and good until I was on leave and the big boss had to call me to access my computer for something. With a totally deadpan voice I told him my password expecting to be bollocked. Instead he fell about laughing.

(Eventually she got fired for fiddling something else. After I left though sadly as I would have enjoyed watching that.

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Was she the one who fiddled her billing figures when (successfully) interviewing for a new role?

Harperblue · 22/07/2023 19:58

MatildaTheCat · 21/07/2023 13:00

My friend and I go round M&S sometimes and unpin all the clothes that are on their ridiculously thin models so they hang off. The clothes are usually a size 8 and have to be pinned to fit.

I love this!

MrsPositivity1 · 22/07/2023 20:05

CapEBarra · 21/07/2023 14:58

Many years ago I used to work in a bar, I used to boldly and cheerily say ‘nice pubes?’ to the customer while holding a scoop of ice cubes over the customer’s glass.

I’ve just spat out my coffee laughing

Maireas · 22/07/2023 20:06

Harperblue · 22/07/2023 19:58

I love this!

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Our M&S has no mannequins. Maybe you've put them off!

tommyhoundmum · 22/07/2023 20:46

When people stand in the middle of the pavement with their hands on their hips I explain politely that isn't allowed in London as there isn't enough space. Then I kind of smile.

Thisisnotreallymyname · 22/07/2023 20:48

When I was working and someone was leaving I always added an extra name on the leaving card - a name that no one had,
so “ bye, good luck , love from Vera “

Curlynic6 · 22/07/2023 20:51

At work we still use landlines, I get great satisfaction by slamming the phone down to a particularly difficult person, after they’ve hung up

MrsPositivity1 · 22/07/2023 21:09

When signing up for a discount code I use one of the 10 minute email addresses, they are fab.

If out for a walk, I will only walk on the left. If I was in USA I’d walk on the right. My reasoning being you walk on the same side as the cars drive.

This seems to piss people off when going up or down steps.

PoppyTries · 22/07/2023 21:12

CrystalPalaceAlice · 21/07/2023 15:09

I was sick of getting junk mail in the post, despite returning the mail, ringing them, emailing, & tweeting, the junk mail continued. So I got a very large envelope & returned it with their junk mail, a shoe lace, a sweet wrapper, half a small tube of glue, a sticker, a square of clean bog roll, a pen that didn’t work, & an elastic band. I’ve heard nothing back so far.

This is brilliant!

I once returned a large bag full of flyers for a local politician to their campaign office, explaining that we’re unable to vote here and it’s so wasteful to send so many flyers - we were receiving multiple flyers daily in the post from this campaign. (Several of my neighbors were so irritated by the volume of post that they refused to vote for the individual, who ended up losing the election)

I will also play Patriarchy Chicken with couples who insist on walking down narrow sidewalks clinging to each other and taking up the whole space. It amuses me to see them realize that I’m not going to flatten myself against a building or step into the street so they can walk side-by-side, and how poorly it would make them look if they slammed into an older lady with a cane, so they have to scramble at the last second.

DetectiveDouche · 22/07/2023 21:18

Oh blimey I’m SO curious about the deleted “rebellion” that everyone is up in arms about! What did they say????

SoGiveMeCoffeeAndTV · 22/07/2023 21:37

My neighbours had a really loud party in their garden until the early hours of the morning back in June when it was really hot. Pissed me off as I had to close all our windows as it was so loud then couldn’t sleep because I was too hot. I quite enjoyed merrily sending my children into the garden at 6am the next morning and let them be as loud as they’d like to ruin the neighbours lie in. We have no other houses within earshot so it wasn’t disturbing anyone else.

keffie12 · 22/07/2023 21:50

Tattoos are my rebellion 😉 Not horrible ones. Aesthetically pleasing to the eye. No skulls and crossbones for me.

I have 19 dotted around my body. A couple of them are bigger than average.

Mine include nature, small/ish animals, flowers, my children, grandchildren names, Disney, and a memorial tattoo to my late husband

One major rebellion on the back of my leg is a woman holding high the E.U flag.

I'm not on my own for the E.U. one either. It was surprisingly empowering and an F you at the government

StrandedStarfish · 22/07/2023 21:55

I ran away to Live Aid in 1985 when I was 15. Does that count?

MyGuineaPigIs007 · 22/07/2023 22:00

Otzi · 22/07/2023 11:22

Is it though?

Afaik it's a 'charge' not a price. So if you take one without paying you're not stealing. Rather, you're refusing to pay a charge. Which is civil rather than criminal isn't it? So not theft, but breach of contract.

Which is presumably why no one's been prosecuted for theft, for using carrier bags.

I never pay for them. It's quite easy in the days of self checkout and self scan etc. Never had an issue.

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Fair enough you don't want to pay for your bags. Then why not bring your own bags? Rather than steal?