Daijoubu! You’re so welcome!
Daijoubu! You’re so welcome!
I’m glad I could give you some suggestions! I hope it helps diversify your meals a little, I know it can be frustrating being stuck with only limited choices.
You’ll be fine! Smile a lot, nod your head politely (like a lil bow), and point to things. They’re used to tourists who don’t speak Japanese. They’ll be pleased if you bother to learn off “please excuse me, I don’t speak Japanese”* or “do you speak English?”**. Many restaurants have plastic fake food at the front that…
I used to fry sandwiches on an iron held hot-plate-up, if you’ve an iron, using a sheet of tinfoil to stop the iron from getting crumb-y. A fried cheese sandwich (ham, onions, leaves, etc, optional) is real comfort food for me. Scrape a little butter/spread on the outside as well as the inside for decadence and…
Best of luck, Copper!! I’ll be thinking of you tomorrow (especially cause I’ll be in my own maternity hospital, for a scan) and sending you all my best wishes. The advice my pregnancy-yoga-class-friends are sending me is to bring snacks, and not be embarrassed if you scream or shout or moo or groan or make any kind of…
It wasn’t my birthday, it was my honeymoon, but I would have happily stood there staring at Kilauea’s lava lake all night if my new husband hadn’t gently detached me from the rail after an hour or so. It’s incredible!
I’m really feeling this, but in my world it’s not a millennial problem, it’s an Irish problem. Every new generation of young Irish people, like half move away to other countries. And it’s really depressing when you hit your mid-twenties and it happens to your generation too. Some generations (like what we call the Celt…
That’s all my partner needs. He gets all the socialisation he needs to feel fulfilled by me being vaguely nearby for a few hours every day, or even just most days. We chat a little and we watch something together and then we read or game or whatever on adjacent couches and he’s totally content. I need more than that!…
This is SUCH a good point. It’s great that there are options for people with disabilities, people going through periods of difficult mental health, people who don’t keep “normal” hours, so you’ve got things like online booking systems, delivery for everything from clothes to tonight’s dinner to furniture, remote…
I am fascinated by parent-of-boys / parent-of-girls identity because it’s something we have no control over. Like obviously we have control over whether we turn it into a hashtag and a whole Brand for ourselves and shit, but if you’re one of those Not Like Other Girls girls, you don’t get to choose to only have little…
Your Christmas dinner story is so fucking tragic and I’m so angry on little!LooseSeals behalf! How do parents not notice one whole child not talking AT ALL through an entire dinner, especially at Christmas? I feel like I need to call my imperfect-as-all-humans-are but encouraging and attentive parents and thank them…
There’s that and then there’s the effect of isolating and incubating young men in all-male groups at a formative time. You form a bunch of strong relationships with only other men, as a young man, in an environment that fosters misogynistic macho posturing (both “ugh don’t be a girl” and “haha I’ve fucked so many…
You know, I really enjoyed John Wick and I generally enjoy ridiculous action movies, I enjoy watching movies featuring highly skilled shooters, I enjoy the skill of making difficult shots, I enjoy shooting on a range myself from time to time. (I also live in a country with very strict gun laws.) And I would totally…
Oh my god, you poor thing, that is WAY too much to be dealing with. And remember pregnancy hormones can make your emotions weird.
Yeah that’s horrifying! This thing of not repeating outfits is terrible, people obviously feel pressure not to repeat for fear of, what? Appearing poverty-stricken? Or lazy? But it’s like Marie Antoinette levels of performative wealth. Fast fashion is one of the most environmentally devastating industries, and also…
Because it’s not about helping women “get healthy”, otherwise it would say things like “if you want to tear it up on the dance floor, here are cardio exercises to get fit; if you want to feel full of energy all day, here’s a healthy exercise regime to improve your stamina; if you want to lift your groom off his feet…
Buddy I’m not even really ON that hill, let alone dying on it. I’m just saying the phrase “independently wealthy” literally means you do not rely on ongoing income from another person, nor from ongoing employment, because you asked what qualified her as “independently wealthy”. Paris Hilton is a horrifically over-privi…
I think both can be true.
Paris Hilton is only not “independently wealthy” if she’s still living on money her father gives her directly. It doesn’t matter where the money comes from initially; a person whose parents give them a few million and they live off that money and the interest and investments of that money is just as “independently…
Violent misogyny targets cis women as well as trans people. I absolutely agree it wasn’t random and that he intended to kill his sibling, but lots of violent misogynists kill their cis female family members. He might have been trying to kill his “sister” because he hates women or he might have been trying to kill his…