This is a great title because allegedly* the Irish for “giant squid” is mháthair súite mhór, which means big mother of suction/suck.

*I say allegedly because, despite being an island, we don’t actually get that much in the way of squid. So it’s never actually come up naturally in conversation, but it’s one of those…

Or if you want to go in the other direction, I know a few former teachers now getting doctorate degrees in Education research to go into social sciences research, communication, or education policy! Depending on what part of the job you hated, it might be a good use of your skills.

I desperately want a robot cat that just looks more or less like a real cat, moves to warm places, and purrs at soothing cat-purr frequency when it’s warm. Additional functionality welcome but not required. Cat purr is so soothing and calming, my neurotic anxiety-riddled brain craves it, but actual cats are expensive…

We ABSOLUTELY are complaining about the lack of women in industries like construction and mining and sanitation. It’s pretty niche and it’s not as media-friendly as computer science and business, but there are and have been women arguing for inclusion for decades. Women took over in most of those kinds of jobs during…

Yeah it was a fun-ish movie with a ton of pacing and characterisation problems, and the issues with her character were not the worst parts of it by far! It’s pure racism and misogyny poured on top of entitled fanwank.

I think she probably meant “judged” in the sense of a double standard, or people being judgey about neutral actions. Like women are judged for sleeping with a lot of people, whereas men are not (or are even lauded). Women are judged for going back to work after having a kid, but men are not. Women are judged for…

I haven’t seen them yet either, but if they’re disruptive, I’m going to seriously consider if I need Netflix at all. Also hard agree on making the library easier to search (their genres are a DISASTER) and blacklisting shows I will never ever want to watch.

Well yes, I was being very general to say “no ads”, but I don’t mind in-house non-disruptive advertising. Like, sure, Netflix, feel free to put your favourite shows or best guesses up front and front-load them into the lists, go nuts. Just don’t interrupt me when I’ve made my decision! (Actually Insatiable isn’t in my…

Literally the only reason Netflix is a better experience than “eh I’ll just YouTube/torrent the episode” is that there’s NO ADS. I WANT to watch things legally but I also want to not be irritated out of me hole to do so. I already haaaaate the autoplay feature, it puts me off browsing and choosing things to watch…

I suspect the criticism comes from hunger. A not-super-rich white American wouldn’t be bothered complaining about a movie set in NYC telling the story of a super-rich white person, because they can go watch On the Waterfront, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Taxi Driver, Captain America, Ghostbusters, etc, and get a load of…

Regardless of any other extenuating factors (and a cult definitely counts!!), it’s a huge red flag if one person in a couple is lying about or manipulating invitations. If she has a legit reason for not wanting someone at their wedding (and it is BOTH of their wedding), she should be talking to him about it. Maybe…

I finally dyed my hair black and I don’t know why I waited so long and I love it. I’m playing with it as it grows out and gets redyed (my hair is short) by using dark blue, dark purple, dark whatever colours to cover the roots so the whole hair gets a sheen of the other colour. I feel like a magpie feather and I look…

I’ve never been on a cruise but I spent what feels like half my childhood holidays on ferries getting to France, Spain, Britain, Scandinavia, etc, #Ireland, and I can confirm that the deck is your friend. I rarely got seasick, which is weird cause I got carsick if I so much as LOOKED at a sedan for more than a minute…

Full-on protective tenure should only apply towards what you’re publishing, i.e. they can’t fire you for publishing in niche weird fields, publishing strident feminist manifestos, publishing findings that contravene accepted knowledge, etc. EVERYONE should get a hearing if accused of interpersonal wrongdoing, whether…

I’m sure it’s the same for me and I want to know, but I live in Ireland and we haven’t got to the point of making lists yet. We’re still at the point where we’re having the Pope over for a bit of a party, for some fucking reason. I’m glad you and your family were lucky enough to have avoided the predators the Church…

I’m not very religious but like, c’mon, there’s a HUGE difference between actively supporting the Catholic “child rape” Church, and like, being invested to any degree in a community/spiritual experience in any church ever. But you know that. I’d just really like to have a conversation about the Catholic Church’s…

But *you* listened and thought he embarrassed himself and couldn’t adequately defend his points and that the interviewer demonstrated the counter-response. Your hypothetical racist uncle listened and thought “finally, someone on NPR talking some real sense, pity this interviewer is obviously a SJW snowflake who keeps…

It really depends on the film and the situation. Subtitles take up a huge amount of my brain somehow, it’s not relaxing at all; I read each subtitle multiple times, while trying to match words I hear to them, and my eyes are flickering constantly across the screen trying not to miss anything. I have never found a way…

I’ve seen lots of faux-retro photos on Insta but those ones at the top of the two of them hugging give off a STRONG vibe of actually being from your parents’ photo album. I think the patchy grass, the inconsistent focus, yer man in the back obviously not paying attention; if this is staged it’s staged perfectly to…

I agree with the other posters to not put too much pressure on yourself. If it’s something you really want to aim for, with your oldest kid, though, come up with a targeted plan of attack. Get your kid to pick one kid he’d like to visit, and either ambush that kid’s parent (with your kid’s help) at pick-up or…