Just doing it over and over again. I memorise which ledger line is for which note now - and same applies for notes way above or below the ledger - and that’s all there really is to it. When you’re sight reading I feel it helps you to pace yourself as well.

I love em. Favourite food as a kid, the cheap packet ones. As a teenager I realised you can have authentic sausages of that length so I usually get those when I buy hotdogs, nowadays. Try and get a deli hot dog for instance, or bratwurst.

It’s completely made up based on your mind’s interpretation

Or rather, it’s derived from popular science fiction

I don’t think I know anyone who buys them on a regular basis

Seems to be a lot of peope that do the postcode one, and the fact that it’s traditional lotto is so pushed in shops, and the fact it manages to keep rewards so high, suggests that a lot of people buy-in to it. Plus almost every neighbourhood high-street where I live has a betting house - I guess that’s an improvement though, because there used to be one for every neighbourhood.

Like how we all face the door in an elevator or feel the need to say ‘ope’ when we almost bump into someone. What’s a silent rule of society that you find hilarious or totally unnecessary?

I look in the mirror when there is one.

And when i bump into someone i go “SORRY IM SORRY IM SO SORRY IM SORRY AREYOUOKAY”

I spiritually felt like an adult at 16, which was also the traditional age of majority here, but then i moved back in with my parents to do university and felt less and less like an adult

I’m definitely more fond of the idea it’s a different age for different people. I started puberty early and always felt other people my age were out of step with me - people like me physically and mentally become adults sooner than other people. (But we shouldn’t try and use this in regards to consent laws or drinking age, of course)

But the most important consideration is if you treat people well and do things on your own initiative.

Just make a will?

Lottery culture is insane now in my country, britain. I was raised to never engage in gambling but they now have lotteries you can enter for free and ones that your neighbours can enrol your neighbourhood in. In many ways, britain still tries to be capitalist HQ

Oh yeah I forgot about that aspect 😅😮‍💨

The Giver is a dystopia and it was still very chill.

Also if I’m honest Divergent seemed pretty chill in the first book.

I think it’s a shitty thing to do long term unless your child has disabilities (in which case a school accomodating them is better).

Send your kid where they choose to go, it’ll probably be school where their friends are.

I, already being pretty awkward as a child, cannot imagine trying to unlearn awkwardness after suddenly changing to public schooling. Might even have the opposite problem, showing too much energy when interacting with people i don’t know well.

Definitely DEFINITELY don’t do it for primary (elementary) school age.

Not to boast but i’ve never seen it with water at the bottom like this. Is this perhaps the outcome of layering the top with potato nuggets from the freezer rather than mashed potato?

That’s interesting, and I agree. My parents didn’t let me eat hamburgers until i was like 15 or 17 and they reinforced this idea that they were just magically really unhealthy because places like mcdonalds sold them (i also met other people kids who were given the same programming lol).

They therefore looked pretty gross to me, and i remember at 11 y.o. telling my parents in disgust that I saw our neighbour eating a hamburger at lunch. It genuinely symbolised greed and disregsrd of health to me that much. I think that was probably the first time they realised they went overboard with the health programming.

Hotdogs are undeniably quite gross-looking if they’re the packet brought plastic-y stuff. But I LOVE THEM.

As for curry - I didn’t get offered it until I was 11 and it was a little hard to get past how it looked but luckily I was in the “I’m going to stop being a picky eater!” Phase. Nowadays the smell of food matters way more than the look, and curry is obviously perfect for that.

I haven’t liked them that much when i had them

Was there anything you actually were allowed to do? What did the work day consist of?

The stupid thing is that they could create a position just for that, and tell them their job is to be fired. A new hire every day, don’t waste time on the training. Or is there an employment watchdog who cracks down on these schemes?

So children can be fostered and still in contact with their biological parents?

Does it have to be something I’m good at?

I often think about teaching middle school or high school instead (obviously college is safer, pays more and is maybe more fun) and when I do that I like the idea of language teaching, or science or maths.

But hence I would be perfectly happy to give language classes or lectures in a university setting.

Is this common? I thought we were supposed to use [email protected] for personal, and just avoid using it for any spammy stuff. Instead use it for Work and contacting real people

Generally in my own I’m side on but it really depends on the shower’s geometry.