What I get from this: we eat broccoli before it reaches sexual maturation.

So you don’t enjoy eating fully grown broccoli, you enjoy eating prepubescent broccoli children.

I’m also realising that this is true of a lot of veg…

“bUt EaRtH iS oNlY sIx ThOuSaNd YeArS oLd!1!”

🎶 You took my orchid / you took my orchid n turned it blue! 🎶

Ah shit. The worst part was I looked at that exact page to check my knowledge. My eyes must have slipped from albatross straight to hole in one 😂 ffs

TIL

And I also learned I need to be better at reading what I’m looking at

It is also the Most Extremely hardest bird to score in golf ⛳

I love the idea of criminals commuting out of the city to work.

Like, there’s a bunch of stores in the city, and thousands of people where crime is easily accessible, but no, lets go to the suburbs instead.

Fuck it, why not go rural and go steal a bull - I heard they can get you a few bucks 😂

But yeah, so much of America is just fucked without a car that even places I’d consider to have bad transport links would look otherworldly to some people from the States.

Funnily enough I’m a Sanddancer, and you’re absolutely right.

The transport links through Tyne and Wear are easily 2nd best in the country, but they’re still a long way from London, and they continue to get worse year on year.

Our country in general is too Americanised, too reliant on cars now. I feel anyone who has really visited Europe can see just how far we lag behind in terms of transport networks.

I’m British and I came to Berlin a couple of weeks ago.

That shit was 10x better than London and 100x better than the rest of the country

With the rise of the far right in Germany, I could sadly see plenty of them agreeing with this version…

I had a game of Civ where Poland declared war on me. They were on the other side of the map.

I didn’t see them for 8 turns. Turn 9 I see a horde arrive on my border. Turn 10 - at the earliest opportunity they were able - they asked for peace.

I managed to sink 2 boats.

Heh, branch

All the while as we roast to death because all of this will take more resources than the entire energy output of a medium sized country.

Oh she does it constantly with everyone 😂 she is aware, and is striving to do it less, but yeah, it’s all confidence.

She loves baking, for example, and is really good at it, but will apologise profusely for how bad they are before anyone has even tasted them. Perfectionism is absolutely a part of it, and I think that’s been imposed on her by her mum who is also a perfectionist and expects everyone else to be a perfectionist.

But yeah, were figuring it out 😊

I do experience a bit of the paradox of impatience:

“Sorry”

“Don’t be sorry”

“Are you angry?”

“I’m not angry”

“Did I do something wrong?”

"NO YOU DIDN’T DO ANYTHING WRONG FFS!!* 😂

Yeah, I know the struggle 😂

We’ve both been working on ourselves emotionally for a long time, so we spend a lot of time and energy trying to explore why we feel certain ways about different things, and then working together to try and help each other get to where we want to be.

I obviously have behaviours which I don’t like about myself which I’m working on, and she also has behaviours which she’s trying to work on. This is one of those areas where we’re trying to figure out together “how much apologising is too much?” as a general curiosity, rather than it being an actual problem.

Neither of us feel like we apologise enough, but I don’t get called out on how much I apologise, but she does. A lot of our friends and family often tell her she doesn’t need to apologise, or that she apologises too much! 😂

I understand why I don’t want her to do it, and it’s for many of the reasons you stated: perfectionism, people-pleasing, high social standards, fear of disappointment, etc. all of which can lead to her feeling sad, anxious, and over thinking every tiny detail which obviously isn’t good for mental health.

But to try and figure out how I physically and emotionally feel when I hear her say “sorry” is tricky. Do I get frustrated? Do I feel pity? Am I annoyed? Am I annoyed at her? (Obviously I’m not, but she often assumes I am)

I guess we’re just finding it interesting to work through that childish curiosity of answering the question “…but why?” from a perspective which isn’t as often looked through.

And thank you for the response! ❤️

They went around the horn like a real man!

Will they deport Lady Liberty? 😂

Yep… She’s got some great ‘depictions’ 👉😏👉

Always wanted a woman with a snake moustache!

Alligator can have the whole house, actually. It’s okay, I’ll move 👍

Is that mummy holding their gonads?