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

It’s people asking chatgpt for health advice that makes me want to jump through the screen and give them a good shake.

Yes, different places have different pronunciations. This should not be news. I watched a great long reel about this woman who claimed she couldn't read The Gruffalo to her kids because of the rhymes not being right in her accent. Just switch up for the book. I say baths with a long A, but if someone is clearly trying to rhyme maths and baths in a poem then I'll obviously switch to a short A.

I can’t work out what “lar-tay” is 😭

Scarf and laugh is in stick man and really winds me up. The book is otherwise her best, a really excellent story, but I just cannot get over scarf / laugh!

"just put a few drops of lavender on your pillow". "Try meditation". "Take magnesium". Oh fuck off with your woo woo, I have serious chronic insomnia which you clearly have zero understanding of, give me the hard pharmaceuticals! 👊🏽

Spoken as someone with lifelong insomnia. I couldn't agree with you more.

I can accept that people have different accents without getting wound up about it. It's a shame that not all of Dr Seuss's rhymes work for me, but such is life.

For me it’s just the general life stuff, like “ooh ChatGPT am I right about x, or is my husband right??” or “ChatGPT my neighbour looked at me funny, what should I do?”, or “my friend didn’t invite me at her wedding, help me draft a scathing message to her that shows I don’t care”

😭😭😭

I was rather enjoying the image of an avid cross wearer, like when Miriam Margolyes was a puritan in blackadder 2.

It's not "wrong" not to have a rhotic accent.

Sprinkling the F word around like grit on the road is coarse.

Latte (least I presume!)

It’s one service describing what they provide.
Non - std related issues in ‘that region’ may be called simply urology, gynae, etc, or an umbrella term such as Genito-urinary medicine. Which was my original point.

I'm really not keen when, after introducing something or someone the first time, posters then use "said" before subsequent mentions.

I don't know why, but I find said habit really pretentious.

Edited to correct a grammatical car crash.

This. ^ Electric cars are ridiculous lumps of junk, and no WAY is everyone going to have an electric car in 10 years (or whenever it is that the Government want us all to have one.) As a main car they are ludicrous. There is not enough charging stations, anywhere, and when they break down you can't move them. They are no better for the environment than petrol ones. Also, they haven't managed to create one yet that goes even half as many miles on one charge as a petrol car will do with a tank full of petrol.

Also, regarding people who have no TV, I do agree that they are annoying (on here, and other internet forums.) However, I have never known anyone in real life who has no TV.

I do know someone though who claims they don't watch TV, and then goes on to name 20 programmes they watch on Netflix, Amazon, Sky, Apple TV, Peacock, etc etc. I said 'errr, so you do watch TV then?' They said 'well no, I don't.' They watch dozens of hours a week of streaming TV, (even BBC iPlayer and ITVX sometimes) but maintain that they don't watch TV, because they don't watch it as it's being broadcast. Bonkers.

It was my approximation of how people mispronounce "latte".

I do have a non-rhotic accent, and I'm perfectly well aware that there isn't a letter 'r' in there...............

Holidays in the uk are not as good as holidays abroad

If you are a small child and you are not being chased by a lion and you are not having your legs chewed off by a pack of rabid dogs then you have no reason to let out that fucking awful, ear piercing scream . If you are the parent of that child then use the word NO firmly and frequently until the stupid bloody squealing stops , particularly if you are in a cafe, shop or other space where people who are nothing to do with you are trying to enjoy a coffee with a friend .

And broccoli and Stilton soup. Makes everywhere smell of vomit

It's no more wrong than my glottal stop, which probably annoys plenty of people 😂

I agree with this. Mine never EVER let out this blood curdling ear piercing scream. There is a family near me with 3 children aged between 5 and 9, 1 girl, 2 boys, and they all scream blue bloody murder at nothing! I have to put my headphones in my ears/music on when I am outside and they are outside too.

The primary school is 500 yards away as the crow flies, and I can hear the screaming from some children from there at the break times! I don't know how anyone can maintain their sanity working with young children these days. I swear that young children never used to be like this pre 21st century. As I said, mine certainly weren't. And I wasn't either. Or my siblings, cousins, and friends etc...

Being northern isn't a profession. Nobody cares.
'Eeeeee aaaaam nooooorthern'. I don't care.

You do seem bothered so you must care a bit 😉

I hate 'Fink' and 'Free' instead of think and three.

I think Beatrice is beautiful, and Zara is very attractive too

Being an 'influencer' is not a job