Things you wouldn't admit in real life part 2

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what is stopping you dressing the way you want to?

Nothing, to be honest. I just get irrationally irate at the lack of effort from other people 😬 its definitely a me issue! 😂

Well I definitely stopped giving a toss about what I looked like during covid, but my son was barely 1 when lockdown started.

He was diagnosed autistic age 3, and a year later so was I, but for my son his challenges include never having slept a full night since birth and I just don't have the energy, or eyes in the back of my head needed to dedicate to "looking nice".

Over the course of the past few years I've also been diagnosed with CFS, and am now having more investigations as I've been having strange blood pressure readings, and heart palpitations so also being investigated for dysautonomic conditions, my cortisol tests showed almost double the normal range of cortisol over repeat testing, and I'm just not trying to add to any more stress in my life.

If you see me out of the house in leggings and a top, and probably no bra, then at least it's a miracle that I got out of the house that day.

I love it for people when they manage to get dressed up and feel good about themselves and they really take pride in their image and there's nothing stopping you doing that, but I also really love it that people can just embrace being comfortable, regardless of their circumstances.

I get you.

I'm no fancy dresser myself, but I'm clean and put-together. I consider it a tiny little mark of respect to people who have to share a pavement/train carriage/office with me. I don't wear make up, but I smell inoffensive and keep my pyjamas in the bedroom where they belong.

I think there's a link between scruffiness and people's behaviour in public. Noshing on chips out in the street and playing loud music on the bus, etc. It's like nobody cares what people think of them at all.

Nobody's asking for tweed suits and opera gloves, but just a small, healthy dose of self-consciousness is the glue that keeps society together.

That I don't want my elderly father living with me. That I really resent that I've been picking up the pieces of his fecklessness for over 25 years, that I am making myself ill, that I am miserable and don't want to do this anymore.

I am in my 70's and have been eating chips in the street from childhood....on hols by the sea....walking home from swimming or walking home from evening classes when I was older...so far it hasn't resulted in my playing loud music on busses or wearing pyjamas in public......this may have something to do with the fact that the bus service round me is so bad that I don't use it and I don't own any pyjamas though.

Maybe it's a regional thing, but I was always brought up not to eat standing/walking in the street. I'm not the Queen of England though, so I don't make the rules for other people.

If nothing else, though, isn't it stressful and uncomfortable?

People with no respect for themselves rarely have respect for others

Where did you get that from? I strongly disagree

Experience

What eating chips out of the paper? why would that be stressful?

oh I have respect for myself.....respect for my comfort, respect for my joy in life, respect for my choices and for the choices of others.

Rummaging around with fork/fingers while cradling the whole greasy, hot package. Trying not to drop things on yourself. Eating greasy food with no way to wipe your mouth or hands. Food going cold too fast out in the open. Chewing while breathing/heart rate is slightly raised from walking.

When I see people doing this they always look like they're having a hard time.

if its stressful, they are doing it wrong.

Goodness, I'm sorry 😞 I am 5 foot 3 too, yet it's never occurred to me that I'm "dwarf like" - just petite. And of course, that's not saying anything detrimental about short people either too. Are we all just supporting taller than average people these days or something? 🤔😳😬

You're missing out on one of life's simple pleasures if you've never had a cone of chips at the seaside while you have a lovely stroll.

I hate Americans. They always seem so loud, entitled and obnoxious. They come across as so embarrassingly oblivious to the rest of the world. I saw a video recently where one of them was absolutely shocked that most of the UK were not deeply religious Christians who attended church weekly.

Their accents make them sound thick and their men are some of the most hateful, uneducated misogynist pricks I’ve encountered.

But your not suppose to. Its a waste of water and can lead to less effective cleaning. You are suppose to scrape not rinse.
Even the fairy add on the telly tells you that

Thank you. There are 2.5 years between my sister and I and we did play together as kids but she never liked me very much, so I'm aware being close in age is no guarantee. So far my older daughter loves her baby sister and wants to help out and cuddle her all the time!

Yet another thing I never admit out loud:

Maybe it's because I grew up abroad, but I find 99% of things that British people cling onto as "lovely little/simple/traditional pleasures" to be sad and dull. Then there's this constant accompanying act of "tee hee, we know it's a bit rubbish, and that makes it cute!".

But I know I'm a grump, and the world can be a depressing place, so I let people enjoy their sandy beach picnics and biccie crumbs on the sofa or whatever.

seriously? you might like this? https://www.washingtonpost.com/home/2023/10/04/testing-rinsing-dishes-before-dishwasher/

but Americans don't have just one accent any more than English people do.

I hate Americans

Appalling xenophobic comment. Have you met all of them, out of interest?

well that's remarkably forgiving of you......