Loooong time lurker here. (Joined early but stupidly used a username awfully similar to my own...practically handed myself to Vlad on a Wedgewood plate. Hence the changed moniker)
Origin story much the same as many others...used to admire our Jackie's ethos...then started to question it, my first alarm bells tolled when she was in her severe arthritis/walking stick/ twenty train journeys a day school run phase.
As time has passed I've grown increasingly enraged by her poverty cosplay and sheer duplicity all served up with a helping of naricissim.
I've been poor, really poor. Single mum of four on benefits poor...and yet never felt the need for her histrionics. Head down, worked hard, just about scraped through it. Huge empathy for anyone else in a similar position, it sucks, but things do get better, I promise.
I retrained and became a Train Driver (triangulate that Vlad) so pop in and like things at weird times of day or night..shift work innit. But just wanted to say that joining this thread has been a highlight of this strange year, you lot are so erudite, funny, quick, compassionate and lovely and it's become one of the favourite parts of my day to read here. Eases the stress of driving my train with this new level of heightened risk of large bottomed Mediterranean types wedging themselves to my train.
Anyhow,. Thank you Matt much Matt.
Now duck off...( You literally have no idea how long I've waited to say that!)
You are my idol. I'd love to be a train driver, please don't burst the bubble (!!) and say it's boring.
Welcome frau and duck Off!
Dear squiggles, you can google the ingredients you have, you can specify UK sites so you get the right measurements, you can google whether X can be substituted for Y - there's a world of information out there available outside the times of 4-5pm (and that's subject to napping schedule)
on a big vegan forum and was accused of being fat phobic. It happens.
