Tennis ball tits
I'm not saying nobody ever got stick for things, but bullying, as in targeted and sustained abuse, wasn't that common. Somebody would notice your crap PE kit and lol about it at the time, but everything and anything wasn't long-term bullying material.
Yeah, I also can't think of anyone who has legit bullied in the multiple schools I attended. Everyone was laughed at at some point for the most stupid of shit, but unless you were a melt, you just got on with your life.
I mean I think being shouted at and called tennis ball tits every day for 3 years must come pretty close.
Especially considering I’m 99.99% sure she never had tennis balls in her bra.
Nah you're right. Well, you WOULD get bullied for the tamest random bollocks, but it would more be that someone would get targeted for being a general loser and then would have random reasons applied afterwards. You're not gonna get bullied FOR not having an iPad or whatever, but if you got teased once for it and you gave em a reaction, you'll be billy no iPad for the rest of eternity.
Fair enough, bullying was too strong.
I was always behind the curve as a kid and now I wish I kept hold of the Amiga, the Amstrad (and the hundreds of tapes) and that bootleg handheld that played Atari 2600 games.
Yeah I guess it's sorta bullying-adjacent. I was particularly thin skinned until I was about 14, especially at junior school, so would often get teased for a lot of stuff, then I just sorta grew a backbone and the first time you go lol fuck off you fat twat to the lad who tried to call your shoes gay they tend to stop pretty quickly, especially if their mates are laughing at them. I do have the privilege of having gone to one of the wussiest grammar schools ever with a particularly lame year group, so getting a kicking was never a risk so you were more empowered to stand up for yourself.
But what I'm getting at is it's fairly futile to just give your kids STUFF to protect from bullying, cus short of really mad shit like not letting your kids watch the Simpsons, even when they're 16 (true story with a couple of the weird Christian kids) or them turning up to school in literally tatty clothing/unshowered, duquan style, kids are largely gonna get bullied or not bullied based on how confident they are, and general social skills n shit I THINK, the other stuff is just incidental ammunition I think. At least in terms of it being sustained.
Hello TTH consumer advice thread.
Our electric hob is fucked and I want to replace it with an induction, but it seems to be impossible to find one that has knobs and not touch controls. I stayed at a place recently that had the touch controls and it was infuriatingly shit. Has anyone got one, is it worth bothering?
https://www.applianceworldonline.com...lass-500014064
Actually there is this but it's setting off my dodgy shite alarm.
I don't see how they can exist, really? It's like analogue versus digital.
Actually, a quick Google tells me I'm talking bollocks. They do exist, but they're not that common because people one of the big benefits to an induction hob (over gas, say) is the ease of cleaning, which is diminished when you introduce physical controls.
https://www.appliancesdirect.co.uk/p...uction-hob-hob
When I looked before the only ones I could find with physical controls were in the Ł1000 range, which I was definitely not looking to spend.
Induction is the worst, avoid it like the plague unless you are buying the hob for aesthetic purposes only. Having to replace all your pans the tip of the annoyance iceberg.
Induction is far better then ceramic electric and has it's advantages over gas, even if I'd probably choose gas if it were an option.
Aye we got lucky that I'd just replaced all our pans with Ninja ones and they just so happened to be magnetic, thank god.
The touch controls are a bit of a ballache @-james- but so much easier to keep clean.
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Yeah I'm pretty sure most of my pots and pans are compatible. I've had a taste of induction with a standalone IKEA one and I think I need the full shebang.
Induction hob acquired. Reasonable idea to wire it in myself or am I likely to blow something up?
We've not had a confirmed TTH death yet, have we?
Bought a new chair a couple of weeks ago. The Herman Miller Embody. I love it so far.
I don't know if I moaned about it on here at the time, but my wife bought a ridiculously expensive Herman Miller chair last year and then managed to wrongly install the up down thing as there was a tilt bit she missed and it was unbelievably difficult to rectify. Like the internet was recommending taking the whole thing apart difficult. Fortunately with some strategically placed pressure and some small children's hands to reach into the damn thing the situation was retrieved, but you'd think, even though it does come with a quite big warning to follow the ostensibly easy assembly instructions carefully, that they would design it in such a way as to not be instantly fuck-up-able.
Mine literally rolled out of the box pre-built. I just needed to adjust.
Ł1.5k on a chair. Jesus wept.
Still not as bad as RL's pepper mill or Luca's belt.
The wife got stung for a copy of the Big Issue today.
4 quid!
How about that inflation.
The Big Issue women always look identical.
Not if you sit on it.
It's cast iron. It'll outlast both the chair and my sphincter if I sit on it.
What a massive cunt you are.
The Big Issue themselves weirdly felt the need to confront such allegations, and said that these aren't criminal gangs but 'large, loving families'. Maybe I'm just overly-cynical, but I would be interested in your interpretation of the phenomenon, and also whether you believe that foreign tramps in London really do all have the same handwriting.
It is always Eastern European women here too. And they do look like a side line in lavender sales might be an option.
The big issue seller in Sainsbury near my work doesn't do herself any favours by wearing a jumper with VERSACE plastered all over it, even if it is fake.
Recommendations for some reasonably priced over the ear headphones. Many thanks.
What is reasonably priced nowadays? And do you mean like old skool ‘cans’ or those weird spazzy clip ones that seem to have lost the special needs stigma that was previously attached to them?
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The free pixel buds pro are tempting me into buying the Pixel 8.
12 kinder eggs, need another 12 so that I can do a swish little euro sweeper at work.
Kinder egg chocolate still delicious. Worth it.
Top effort, that.
Any good toys?
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I’ve only had one so far, and decided against opening. I did it in 2016 and everyone got to select their team (name/flag printed and in the case) and then select a toy. Had all the toys lined up and took a big bowl in. I’ll open up all the toys and build them on Wednesday.
Might buy a shitty little trophy somewhere and get it engraved.
Leave my mark on the office.
Wish I worked there.
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