vashti

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[–] vashti@feddit.uk -1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Both child grooming and emotional and sexual assault are illegal in the UK, bizarre as this may seem to you.

[–] vashti@feddit.uk 1 points 1 year ago

Disconcertingly close to the truth tbh.

[–] vashti@feddit.uk 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Yes, it was a chest freezer with one of those little filing cabinet locks. It genuinely never occurred to mum that her eight year old could pick it with her hairpin.

[–] vashti@feddit.uk 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

... Have you honestly, genuinely never heard of test tube babies? Do you not realise we've had them since the 70s?

Think about that, then realise we had all this shit about "but the poor children" back then, for that, and none of it ever materialised because nobody gives a shit or ever knows the difference or cares at all.

It's no different than giving birth by c-section, or indeed vaginally. There is no difference.

[–] vashti@feddit.uk 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Who the hell is getting bullied for being a test-tube baby?

We had all this shit in the 70s before the first IVF baby, and to the best of my knowledge, bullying over it has simply never been a thing.

[–] vashti@feddit.uk 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thank you! What a great explanation. I'm always amazed by how much cooler things are than I expect.

Please accept this lemmygold: 🥇

[–] vashti@feddit.uk 6 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I've got to ask, though—how is breathing CO2 pollution? Aren't we just taking in air, removing the oxygen, and exhaling the waste gases? Isn't there the same net CO2 afterwards?

Have I misunderstood something as simple as breathing? Please say no.

[–] vashti@feddit.uk 3 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I figured out one of those locks when I was eight. Used to unlock the freezer with a paperclip

[–] vashti@feddit.uk 92 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Jesus. I can from time to time, I used to be a regular on /r/canning. The attention to detail re food safety was one of the best things about the sub, as you really can kill yourself and others if you piss about.

[–] vashti@feddit.uk 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I mean, I'd never use Notepad. Download Notepad++, it's better in literally every way.

[–] vashti@feddit.uk 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Doesn't have formatting, unless Notepad has got really adventurous at some point in the last decade or two.

[–] vashti@feddit.uk 34 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Slightly annoyed about this, as I do use Wordpad (it's lightweight and useful for quick notes that I want to mark up with bold and italic). I don't always want to watch Word or Libreoffice load for twenty to thirty seconds.

Shitty decision, happy to be Wordpad's one fan.

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