I was both shocked and not shocked that Linda wasn’t in consideration for star baker. This show does not feature older women bakers with the same enthusiasm it features older men bakers and the young people. They are consistently downplayed until they are weeded out in the middle of the season with the excuse “she has…

“American pies are too sweet”

Additionally, I find the British perspective on what’s common baked good knowledge to be so weird.
they go from
“Oh I love an opera cake”
“I love religieuse”

I’m not surprised by the results of the brownie signature bake. This is the same group that struggled with the coconut macaroon technical bake. The devil is in the details with simple recipes.

Still not as scary as this new layout.

It sucks to grow up in an army unit I guess?

Depends on the kids I guess - if your kids are constantly shirking their responsibilities and you have to ride their asses or else they won’t get anything done, then yeah a firm hand may be necessary. But on the other hand if your kids are pretty good and it doesn’t really matter if they take the trash out now or in…

Yup. *You* don’t care about his teammates. You child does, though. TBH, though, what should really happen is that things are more structured, as in “be home by 5pm for dinner” or “dinner is in 45 minutes” so the kid can plan with the parameters given and nobody is caught in the middle of a game.

And because you’re the one person who insists on being “that guy”, your kids will grow up to be inconsiderate individuals who don’t respect other peoples’ time, or other people in general. They’ll be the karens in drive throughs and checkout lines who insist on holding up 30 people behind them because *only* their…

It can also help to understand priorities. Saying ahead of time that dinner is the priority and it is starting in 15 minutes sets the expectation to not do anything you don’t want to have to stop when dinner time comes around. It could also lead to respectful negotiation. “Can we make it 20 minutes so I can finish my…

Instead of telling my kids that dinner is ready or it’s time to go bed, I give them a countdown. Something like “dinner in 15 minutes” or “start wrapping up for bed”. I think this is a good introduction to time management.

It’s interesting to me that parents today seem to feel like they need to participate in their children’s pretend play. I don’t remember my parents EVER doing that with me. If I wanted to play pretend, I either had to do it on my own or with friends. Were expectations just very different in the 70s? Or were my parents…

My son’s current is “do you want to see how this toy falls over/goes to sleep/lays down?” Contrary to my expectations, it does not involve things being thrown or slammed to the ground or any loud sound effects. Everything just very slowly, gently tips onto it’s side and lays still. Exactly the same way. Every single…

How about instead we read these stories to our children and have conversations with them about we deem right or wrong about the story.

The problem is not a cop being what you’d consider fat or a cop being what you’d consider thin... the problem is so casually referring to them with those words, “a fat cop” did this, and “a thin cop” did that. It teaches kids to categorize people this way.

If you find something problematic in everything, you have weird terrible tastes.

Just because it wasn’t purposeful doesn’t make it harmful.

Kids — including you, once upon a time — form a lot of their views about the world based on the media they consume. Study after study shows it has an impact. Parents choosing to not…

“The hard on some people have for their being no solution but to lock everyone up for the year plus”

Sweden: 16,755 cases. 2021 deaths. 156 deaths/million pop.

You are commenting on topics where you understand very little and you should be ashamed to show your ignorance in public. The majority of what you wrote is not based in facts and you seem to have missed the reading comprehension part of school. 

You’re misrepresenting what the author said which was that trying for herd immunity will result in many deaths. Have you seen the number of deaths in Sweden compared to that of its Nordic neighbors who shut down for a bit? And this is the metric we have now. We have no idea what the long term health risks are of their…