We got this on the way out of the maternity ward, when I was full of pain killers and stitches after my son’s traumatic birth. “See you for the next one!”

We have a family motto - “We Can But Try” - and a family flag.

For me, it was the facial features. Sims 2 has such a rich variety of face options. You can go from one extreme to the other, from heart-throb gorgeous to shockingly mutated. And it was easier to mod and find mods, more flexible in it’s openness to player creativity. 3 is more restricted, everyone has the same bland…

This is why I’ve told people not to name their kids after GoT characters until after the show ends. Who knows, maybe someone you think is bad-ass goes mad with power or sleeps with their relatives or eats a puppy by the end?

And if it’s an outdoor project, it will rain exactly when you’re half finished. So when you go back to the hardware store for steps 2 or 3 and the staff ask you how it’s going, you can can make the face. You all know the face.

If we’re complaining about bad design, in addition to being open-plan this house was built with the front door entering directly into the kitchen, about 10ft away from the sink. So the first thing anyone sees coming in after 9am is everyone’s breakfast dishes. Unfortunantly, all the new builds in this area seem to be…

KFC. As a kid my family used to get it once a month as a treat. One evening about 15 years ago we got the typical order, a family-size portion of chicken, mashed potatoes, etc. When my plate was dished out, I recieved a deep-fried spine. Just a long column of bones, casually tipped into the frier and sold without…

What kind of onion - cocktail? Vidalia? Or one of those 1lbs Ebenezers?

Someone print this in a text book and hand it out to every schoolchild everywhere, as long as the internet shall live.

For added authenticity, they need to let my toddler lick the windows and drop some M&Ms in the gearbox.

I’m sure there was when I was a kid, although that was *cough* years ago, Well, I was wrong and I was corrected :)

Spidey’s webs would probably snag on it, making it hard to swing around. That’s why I don’t think you see any electric or phone cables from building to building either (at least I don’t remember any, correct me if I’m wrong)

She’s going to have to a third car, drive it to Lowes, leave that one there while she gets the first one home, then get a forth car, drive that one to Lowes... it’s cars all the way down.

Test Drive implies to me that the mechanic would take it out on a circuatous route, maybe on a couple of different road types to see how the car performs, and then right back to the dealership. Stopping to run personal errands is not what you would reasonably expect.

This is really important, not just to teach them independence but also how to get along with people. The goober has to take money to the counter himself when we go to shops, and go up to the counter in cafes to ask for something. It’s had a great impact on his socialization, and since he’s so cute standing on his…

Just make sure the pin doesn’t come loose and get sucked into the drainage motor. My wife occationally forgets to take pennies out of her pockets, and I wind up having to slowly bleed the drain pump into a pan when they block the fan and the machine shuts off mid-cycle.

This is going to be hellish if you’re traveling with a baby or toddler strapped to you with one of those sharing-belts (which is it’s own special hell already)

There’s already a mimimum 5p charge for plastic bags here in the UK. Our grocery store has done away with all but the heavy-duty insulted bags that zip closed, and puts all the boxes used to ship goods to the store in a big wire container.Put your groceries in a box, recycle the box when you get home.

I worked in a toy store that sold these - kids adored them, but adults were incredibly sceptical. We had some in our test play area, but I can’t remember ever actually convincing a parent to buy, even when their kid had been having a whale of time for the last 15 minutes. They’re so straight-forward and uncomplicated,…

Translate short comic strips - classics like Peanuts or modern ones like Liz Climo. Start with basic two or three panel comics, with a set up and a punchline. Having to land a joke in a foreign language really exercises your thinking muscles, and they’re great for more realistic conversational structure.