*headdesk*

.....I spent 7 years saving for this.

Dragging my credit score up to a point where the bank would be willing to lend me the money for my mortgage. Saving up £7500 for my deposit. Cataloging ALL of my outgoing expenses, etc. I don't have Netflix. I don't have Disney+. I don't have Sky, BBC iPlayer, or any other streaming platform. I have never gotten a pet. I use only public transport and spend most of my time walking if I can get away with it. I've spent most of my adult life living off pasta and £1 frozen meals from Iceland.

I'm still using the phone I got on contract and paid off 6 years ago with a shattered screen. My PC is a prebiotic standard light gaming model that's 7 years old with a monitor over 15 years old. The newest luxury thing I own that isn't furniture is a Nintendo Switch my housemates got me for Christmas that I don't don't play because I don't want to pay the Nintendo subscription. I'm going to be cancelling my PlayStation sub soon as well.

This isn't a gotcha, or a woe is me, it's just a simple, bewildered, "you're calling me moneybags when you earn an additional £10 an hour on top of what I earn? Maybe.... make better financial decisions????"

the maltese burger but in high quality this time. happy pride month

One of the kids: "did she just throw away your socks?"

Kid 2: "she threw away my socks!!!!"

Me: "oh, are these yours?"

Kid 2: "my mistake, I'll get them."

Me: -sets them back where i found them- "just keep an eye on your stuff, ok?"

Mom, appearing from nowhere. "She's 8. Mistakes happen."

Me: "just advising to keep an eye on her stuff is all."

Mom: "Don't parent my kids."

I feel like this lady (and some others I've seen) are using 'parent' as a stand-in for 'discipline' or in this case 'support the rules of a public space.'

Which makes me darkly curious about like... what your parenting looks like, but its also none of my business.

all his neighbours immediately distrust him because he’s russian and they haven’t gotten over the red scare and also no one new has moved in to the town in almost a decade

but then he participates in podunknowheresville’s annual lawnmower race with a monstrosity made from scrap metal and far too much duct tape and he wins second place in a neck-and-neck final round against sam americason, the most anti-russian man in the village

They do also have eyes, and their vision is actually pretty acute. But their optic and mechanic sensory inputs aren't integrated together like electro-mechanic sense is. So they have these two fairly sophisticated sensory complexes that Barely talk to each other.

No wonder they try to bring the two inputs together in their environment then; picking things up and turning them around allows them to apply both their mechanical and optical senses to the object. They're just trying to make up for a deficiency of neural organisation.