CurlyCat

The teaching assistant described the role in the UK. It’s such a demanding and undervalued but integral role in the UK - particularly in the primary school system. However, they’re the first jobs to go with budget cuts. The pay is also insulting! I don’t know where I would be without… Read More

Must be a Caribbean thing. My family are from St Vincent and same! No butt or fart - bottom or puhp only because the words were considered vulgar or swearing. We also weren’t allowed to say shut up or hit each other which on reflection makes sense but considering the beatings we… Read More

@mhilts44 the person posted that certain behaviours (the exact phrase used) bring on autoimmune diseases and they couldn’t understand why people were pretending otherwise. When myself and others responded that this was bull- , they posted that people lacked common sense; autoimmune… Read More

The original poster of ignorant comments on autoimmune diseases has clearly deleted their post, but I’m gonna say what I was gonna say anyway - I’m that annoying person :D A basic google search will tell you that an autoimmune diseases can be controlled but not cured. As someone living… Read More

I know from experience that autoimmune diseases, of which Crohn’s disease is one, can and do just flare up seemingly out of nowhere. Putting your body under stress or viral infections can bring them on. The phrase you used ‘certain behaviours’ implies intentional abuse of the body.… Read More

Around the age of 9, I was changing the lightbulb in a lamp when I noticed that the part the bulb screws into was springy. Cue pressing the spring down with my finger on the still plugged in lamp and receiving an electric shock. A few years later, me and my sister enjoyed going to… Read More

Pure facts!

My mum’s friend asked my mum if she could attend our church ceremony as she loves weddings. I agreed as there was space but to my surprise, I reached the end of the aisle to find her sitting in the front row with her son - who I have never met- and her two young granddaughters (we… Read More

I have tons of niblings. I’ve already (half-jokingly) said to the eldest that the ones who look out for us as we get older, will be the ones to get an inheritance!

Same! That’s all I hear.