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This has become a problem for me. Baking and eating tasty treats is a fave hobby of mine and good for mental health. Getting fat is bad for mental health. Have to stop baking and eating all the tasty treats because mental health is tanking due to weight gain. Get more depressed because not baking and eating tasty treats.

I had to be no carb and then just low fodmap for a long time. Most artificial sweeteners are carbohydrates you cant process, but aspartame my beloved is a protein you can't digest. I am not longer on either of those restrictions but I still love me my aspartame sweetened drinks. Aspartame is my bae.

I worked at a call centre. I left and now work in a prison. 10/10 would recommend prison overpopulation a call centre any time.

Omg we had a group of Americans visiting at work for a week to run some programs. I'm an American myself, but I avoided them like the plague cuz they're so loud. From California, so extra loud. Lovely people but all my coworkers were exhausted by them.

Mine does!

I'm coeliac as well and pretty much only buy bread when it's reduced and stick it in the freezer. The cheap loaves fall apart too easily and don't taste great.

I'm another American living in the UK. Scotland specifically. Everyone always thinks i must be disappointed by the weather here because it's so gray and rainy. Which, sure, more sunshine might be nicer, but I'm quite a frail person and where I come from we had extreme winters and summers. So I just suffered half the year. I welcome mild and gray and wet. I love it here!

I think we'll see more and more of this with companies now being unwilling to train employees or hire and skills up entry level employees, across all work sectors. So rather than hiring inexperienced but hard working and enthusiastic people, companies are hiring a lot more dishonest people who are happy to lie and embellish to get a job, then phoning it in once employment is secured.

Since I moved to the UK to be with my partner, they've told me quite a few times that cars have to stop when you go in a Zebra crossing and not to wait for them to stop. I always respond that graveyards are filled with people who had right of way! And there have indeed been a couple times where we'd have been struck if we'd gone onto the crosswalk despite the driver seeing us in plenty of time.

Okay?

I grew up with cats. Two brothers. One was my bestie for 19 years and the other thought I was his kitten, haha. So sweet, loving, and caring, of their own volition. I love both cats and dogs. My family eventually started to own dogs as well. The cats disliked dogs but tolerated them because we wanted them. One of the dogs we adopted was an abused rescue puppy who's always been a bit mentally off because of that abuse. The cats were much nicer to him. The cat who thought I was his kitten even became friends with the puppy which helped to rehabilitate him. (Sadly that cat ended up having less than a year left of his own time when we adopted the puppy). I know I'm anthropomorphising a bit, but the compassion of cats is so striking to me. So I always take a bit of offense when someone says they dislike cats or cats are evil assholes etc.

My partner and their family (Scottish) do not rinse off the soap when washing dishes. Not made up at all. Its gross.

Yeah not everyone needs to be highly ambitious. A social species needs its chillers for cohesion, lol.

The book Katzenjammer will pair well with this. Although don't mention it being about a school shooting, for maximum effect. I don't even want kids but I'm an American woman who's moved to the UK to be with my partner and guns and shootings are one of the major factors that made it easy to make the decision to leave the US.

Flat I'm living in right now isn't fully open plan but the doorway from the kitchen to the living room has no door (???). Almost every time we cook something on the stovetop, and sometimes under the grill, the smoke alarms go off. All the windows are open, ventilator fan is on high, and yet the alarm screams.