That's precisely what I mean, she implies, but if ever challenged she can say of course I meant I was training to apply I never said I was a fire fighter DID I!!
That's precisely what I mean, she implies, but if ever challenged she can say of course I meant I was training to apply I never said I was a fire fighter DID I!!She tweeted a photo of her when she was 20 a few weeks ago showing her muscles saying she was training to be one.
That’s why I said that. I saw the photo
I do get that she talks bollocks a lot of the time.
I think you make this point really eloquently. Many people would (boringly) describe me as posh and I have had many many opportunities that my relative privilege has afforded me, and I’m exceptionally lucky and grateful for all of them. I’ve also had some struggles with mental health and I have found anxiety/depression has stopped me reaching out to my very kind parents for help, and for a time I was in a privileged but very difficult situation financially. An ex once referenced the Pulp song “If you called your dad, he could stop this all”.I think we can't really know what went on with her parents and her family. And just because they are middle class/respectable doesn't mean things were good. My mum, who I suspect is a narc, makes me very wary of accepting help from my parents because it comes with strings. I will do everything I can to avoid ever being in the circumstances where I have to stay in my parents house again. If poverty was more attractive to Jack than staying with her parents, I suspect its because there is more going on there than we can know.
Regarding short term poverty. I had a few years where I was struggling to make my career. I'd used my savings on a masters degree to get me into a specific industry and the next four years was going from one short term, poorly paid job to another. Each job was in another part of the country and my finances slowly dwindled. I ended up with depression and anxiety as I felt myself a failure, I berated myself for not being good enough to get decent jobs, and I had no support network to fall back on because of the moving (and above family problems).
Eventually I found another career route and I got out of that industry and I'm now in a better situation. However, I get rather terrified of being in that situation again - so I can understand the fear and trauma that even a short time on benefits can induce. However, I wouldn't call myself 'working class' due to four years of (and in one case less than) minimum wage work. I also wouldn't count myself as poor because I can only afford to live in shared houses. I also wouldn't think it my place to advise people who live their entire lives in that situation because I had (comparatively) 5 minutes of struggle. In that respect, Jack can come off as a middle-class saviour.
When I was 15 I was called a beached whale when I was a mere size 12.When I was a teenager someone once described me as 'that girl with the big round face'. I still carry that moon-face little barb with me
i don’t know but I feel like there’s an element in them that can be fixed. Have a look for a local fixing person first could be a cheap fixCan anyone help with my oven problem?
Doesn't matter how many cats she's gotCutting her brother’s hair in the garden too.
Same. I was the only child in my parents marriage, (my dad had my much older half brother in his previous) and it took them quite a while and a struggle to conceive me. My dad made no secret of the fact he wished I was a boy and my mum had post natal depression which then turned into a general disinterest/resentment so I was saddled with short hair (my dad refused to let me grow it as a child and right through my teens) and also a sense that the fact I'm a girl caused endless disappointment. My dad and I ended up being really close in adulthood ironically, but that feeling of being a disappointment has never really left me I don't think.I used to get that a lot. My mum and dad were planning on travelling after my sisters had left home. They are 15 and 16 years older than me. And then I came along. Add that in with the fact that my dad pinned his hopes on finally getting the son he wanted and then out popped another girl, I definitely felt like a disappointment at times when I was younger
Babe, same! (Except the area was poor). It’s shocking that someone said that to you, like kids don’t have filters but surely they have some idea what sounds incredibly dickish?! These things stay with us longer than the speakers imagineI was teased at school for how I look - I went to school in very white, middle class area and was one of maybe three (?) non-white kids. I was told I had a ‘very flat face’ by someone who is now happily married to very beautiful south Asian with two lovely looking kids.
My face is heart-shaped and my favourite smell is anything lavender.
Triangulation: complete!!
I think it’s because much like everything she tries her hand in, she thinks she’s hilarious. Smug.Me too. When she tries to joke it’s a little laboured.
Babe, same other than I got into the grammar parents wanted but had places at a couple of private schools in South London lined up just in case (one was where my mum taught maths so dodged a bullet there). First husband came from Lewisham, picked up his accent a bit and even now I veer between Bianca from Eastenders and a BBC announcer from the 50sI'm from a middle-class background and went to private school, but one in a part of South London not known for its poshness. I code-switch like mad and it's not even vaguely deliberate, but I roam up and down the scale of accents like Paul Young looking for somewhere to hang his hat,. I think my 'normal' accent - the one I use with my partner (though he's privately educated at a very posh school so tends to drag me upwards), my close friends and my family, is very similar to Jack's.
She’s smeg smug.I think it’s because much like everything she tries her hand in, she thinks she’s hilarious. Smug.
I’ve been looking at new ovens. Big range in price!I'd just get a new one, but I'm a bit profligate like that. Ovens usual last us about 10 years, my friend gets through an oven every three years, however she is a shit cook, and I think they die of embarrassment.
Now I remember why I never watched any of those liveOh, just realised, the fabled Puttanesca Funebra (or penne with passata) was the one she cooked and then abandoned and then had a meltdown.
She's such a (insert favourite Scottish swearword)
Also what the fuck does it mean? Whore's (Italian) funeral (spanish) pasta? It makes no sense.
It stays with you. I always knew I was unplanned, I always knew mum really didn't want me, so I turned to my nan who lived with us, I adored her. It was only years later that mum admitted trying to get rid of me my drinking gin in a scalding hot bath. It hurt, but it confirmed what I already felt.Same. I was the only child in my parents marriage, (my dad had my much older half brother in his previous) and it took them quite a while and a struggle to conceive me. My dad made no secret of the fact he wished I was a boy and my mum had post natal depression which then turned into a general disinterest/resentment so I was saddled with short hair (my dad refused to let me grow it as a child and right through my teens) and also a sense that that the fact I'm a girl caused endless disappointment. My dad and I ended up being really close in adulthood life ironically, but that feeling of being a disappointment has never really left me I don't think.
I actually don't know the name in English! I started getting Brazilian blowdries about 10 years ago (back when it was a multi-day affair and you couldn't wash your hair or put it in a ponytail or behind your ears for 3 days), but the technology has been advancing a lot.@colouredlines What is the name of the hair treatment? I have been getting Nanokeratin blow dries, wonder if it’s similar?
Oh and for triangulation purposes I have a very round fat face and CK One
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