To ask for an opinion you wouldn't say out loud for fear of judgement? (Inoffensive and light hearted please)

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Weather men and women should be sexy.

I don't care if youre a meteorological prodigy

Yes!

For 'end of' the eggs can be hard-boiled.

I have a similar experience to this too. I think I probably have ADHD, but was taught such rigid strategies, with punishments and fear of getting it wrong. It was painful at the time, but it allowed me to get a degree, masters and PhD, and a decent job etc.

You shouldn't be able to give your kids made up names, change the spelling of traditional names or use names with negative connotations.

When I rule the world, crocs, UGGs and Birkenstocks will become illegal.

Looking at you, student daughter…

🤭 Someone picked me up on it a while back so I thought this would be a perfect opportunity to pretend I'm clever

When a car is heading towards me on a narrow country road and I slow down in order to pull in to the next passing place, so THEY then slow down, as if to say “oh well if you’re going to be polite and well-behaved I feel the need to demonstrate to you that I TOO am polite” I feel like picking up speed and ramming into them head-on.
Then driving around them whilst holding up a sign saying ‘But we both know you weren’t going to stop if I hadn’t slowed down, were you? You were virtue-signaling.’

Disclaimer: I don’t drive on that road anymore because this annoys me so much.

I like your style!

If anyone has ever seen Cathy Bates in the parking scene in Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe that’s what I feel like. Quite often.

Not necessarily. My brother is the type of slightly annoying person who gets up one morning and thinks 'I will do a marathon today' with absolutely no training. And smashes it.
He is currently fostering 3 children including 1 with special needs, with his wife but she works full time so mainly falls on him, so doesn't have time for training.

Not particularly light hearted but following on from the poster that mentioned abortion - I'm pro-choice in the sense that the woman and her health and wellbeing is and should be the priority. But I don't agree with many pro-choice arguments. I don't say it aloud much because there is pretty much no space for it in the polarised sphere of abortion rights. I think soundbites like 'clump of cells' is bullshit. The best we can hope for is to balance rights (which I think the UK does well) and things like 'clump of cells' insults everyone. I understand why that argument evolved but I still think it's bullshit.

Local resident pages on FB are full of moaners and rent-a-gobs who want the area to stay exactly as it was on a random sunny Tuesday in 1986 and can't cope with the fact that times/places change. All of last year ours was full of moaning about the school, that the building is dropping to bits, that there's no parking, no facilities, etc. Council has announced they're going to start building a brand new school, state of the art with modern facilities. Instant moaning about how we're losing a valuable field to the development (even though the site of the current school will become a field), that the building works will be noisy/messy, that it'll change the physical profile of the village, that it'll have more spaces so will attract pupils from that dreaded land of "elsewhere", that's it's going to - horror - near the co-op, and that they're going to install a zebra crossing outside of it which will "cause gridlock". Just fuck off.

Too many non-disabled people pay lip service to inclusion but then begrudge and resent it as soon as they start to think disabled people are getting magical "perks".

Men, as a class, are problematic and even the non-problematic individuals benefit from the gender inequality in our society.

Most Reform voters lack critical thinking skills and they only like Farage and his ilk because they want an excuse to be openly bigoted and hateful in the name of "free speech."

Dogs don't belong in shopping centres or cafes (assistance dogs excepted), it tends to be favoured by dickhead owners of badly trained dickhead dogs because only a dickhead would think a shop or a cafe is a good place for a dog. The majority of sensible owners know it's not the place for them and so leave them at home.

The government ought to offer - in fact, insist upon - some kind of therapeutic but unpleasant weekend course for people who get uptight about other people parking perfectly legally on the road outside their house. In fact, they should probably have to go on the weekend course once a month until they're cured.

As it happens, this will mean I have the house to myself one weekend in four, which will be lovely.

And have your goddamn money/bus pass/debit card ready when the bus arrives.

If you use 'text' rather than 'texted' I will silently judge you so hard that it brings on a migraine.

See also 'hospickle' for hospital and 'pacific' for specific.

And, currently the young woman interviewed at University of Kent who described antibiotics as 'a tablet fing' FFS.

I hate American sounding names for kids, especially if they're surname-derived, like Mackenzie or Campbell, or just ugly like Hal or Chad.

Thear, thear.

SUV drivers in towns and cities should pay an extra 10% income tax. They are dangerous to others, tend to be road hoggers and parliament so close to others in car parks that others can't even get in their cars.

And people who overtake on urban single lane roads when person in front is doing the speed limit should lose their licences. Forever!

People typing emails like texts. One long sentence devoid of formatting or punctuation, with an x on the end. In professional settings.

Pubs smelt better before the smoking ban.

Some of my views on so-called fashion.

Totally agree with this. I will always stand up for the rights of women to be able to look/dress how they want, but when it comes to long false nails I'll be thinking "WHY. JUST WHY."

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I’m all for the sisterhood but I would be without footwear if you rule the world.

My opinion - team sports do not belong in schools. No good comes of it. Whether you are good, bad or in the middle. Fitness and exercise is what schools should focus on.

People here on MN who quote a mile long OP to reply with 5 words rather than use @

When the last of my siblings moved out, my parents almost immediately downsized into a two bed with a toilet on both floors. They had the bathroom ripped out and turned into a step-free wet room and the staircase widened so that it could potentially accommodate a stair lift if ever needed. They also had the front door levelled to make it step-free too and did a massive declutter as part of the move so that there's not loads of "stuff" in the loft. At the time we rolled our eyes until one of them became a wheelchair user and we were suddenly pleased they had these things that could enable them to stay in their own home.

After all of that and then going through the loss of a parent, I can hand on heart say that doing these things is a kindness to your children/NOK. You owe it them to make things as streamlined as possible so that they're not dealing with a whole load of extraneous bullshit while grieving.