Slowlycatchymonkey

Its not mutual at all

Not sure I understand. Are we talking about how Europeans see Brits or how Brits see Europeans?

Do enlighten us

Ah mate, different generation. Men n women were a different species back then.

Which bit of what you just posted makes you think that?

Aaargh the ridiculous and frail situation of the human condition. Take a few people who really love each other and watch the fireworks fly!

Hmm 16 cups of coffee, I wouldnt like to guess what thats doing to your ticker but I wud guess if you carry on too long with that blood pressure control regimen your train ride may be over quicker than you think. Extra sad mode on.

Nail head. One of mine when he got the bit between his teeth had the ability to wear out the patience of a saint but we both recognised it and when you felt your blood pressure rising the other one could see it and would just take over. It was considered odd at the time to involve a man in the womens work of child rearing and I got a fair amount of shite about it from dinosaur relatives but thankfully for everyone times have changed and I cant see a downside to it

For some reason sometimes a child is often better with one parent than another, my two it switched between us both more than once but now they are older one responds better to me and the other to Mr Slowly and its been that way for a long time. Different strokes for different folks I suppose.

You need a mean arterial pressure of 60- 70 to maintain adequate tissue perfusion and somehow with that insane BP youre close to that! But its well out of whack so go see someone about adjusting your meds asap pretty please.

Aww theres always such sweet stuff in the mix isnt there!

Yer I definitely didnt say I doubt YOU married a moron, just @Richzx6r

Its generally always the witching hour for mum even with good kids (mine were),its just the end of a days childcare is when youve given all youve got, if youre there helping out I cant think of anything better, good on ya Did you know there was a study showing that children who have fathers that are involved in bathing and reading bedtime stories have far less behavioural problems? Sharing the workload at that time is a marvellous thing to do.

My 18 year old has been invited for his jab, they opened the bookings to everybody from midnight last night so if you’ve not been jabbed (and youre in England) get in there… unless youre a freaky anti vaxer in which case then please read some legitimate research or let nature take its course Hmm does the auto correct know something about anti vaxers? It keeps dropping in ‘Vader’ in its place

The long and the short of it is with kids youre damned if you do and damned if you dont. The rest of this post is just detail cos I sympathise with where you are. When you get to the other side of child rearing you’ll look back and realise that theres little support, no definitive manual and a plethora of arseholes with differing opinions both telling you what to do and judging you on what they think doing wrong. Being a mum these days quite simply sucks, the pressure for perfect parenting is absurd. The advice from childless people is alway hilarious, they generally have strong opinions and judgements with no clue what its like down in the trenches day in day out so pay no heed there. I bred about 5 years ahead of my peers and was relentlessly advised all sorts of nonsense. Your obviously bright enough to know what a balanced diet is and I doubt you married a moron so whatever you land up doing will likely work out fine. With mine I let them eat what they wanted and leave what they didnt. If it turned out they didnt like the main part- like I had one that didnt like lasagne the next time I’d remove a dollop of the mince and put it with defrosted cooked plain pasta, al dente portions stashed away for occasions when their little noses curled at the taste of something takes away some strain. BUT this is unwelcome extra work and dont underestimate just how time consuming and endlessly tiring getting good quality, well balanced food on the table every single day is among the myriad of other tasks- especially the witching hour of bath and bedtime. If the alternative sometimes ends up being toast well thats ok too, no harm done, mums sanity being in tact is far more important for happy healthy children. My friend who had to sit in front of her unwanted food is now 48 and STILL doesn’t eat so many vegetables that influenced the way I did things. My fussiest son whose ‘NO’ list was long now eats them all (apart from peas). He has a well developed palate for a 19yr old and adventurous tastes, many teenagers would shy away from cracking a lobster, trying sweetbreads, eating whitebait or ordering snails but he enjoys these things possibly because he was allowed to come to it in his own time. Or thats my belief, I dont have a second identical son raised differently to know if it would have happened anyway! Once I got to know everyone’s genuine likes and dislikes which I didn’t mind accommodating I put a very large decal on the kitchen table wall that said “TODAYS MENU- Take It Or Leave It” cos children (and adults) whining at you about what they do and dont fancy eating while you jump up and down like a short order chef is a massive NO. So having said there’s a plethora of arseholes with opinions you know what to do with mine…… You know your other half is gonna either laugh her tits off or get angry you’re asking for opinions on a motorbike forum

The poor mans GS… a Himalayan

Its the selling of ‘adventure riding’ now- must be capable both off road and fully loaded on road for mile eating and as that leads to a master of none they dress a comfortable touring bike up with some off road knobs, not sure if I mean the bike or the rider Its ABR festival next week and I will be having my annual giggle at the immaculate GS’s lined up outside Waitrose… before I go in there myself

I think you did a better job!

Doubt they’d use that one again after trying it on you ...

Hmm you have a point, must of been hanging round here too long

This sort of behaviour is sufficiently unlike normal French "service" to be worthy of note, asked you how you’d like to be finished off?! Blimey that is above n beyond and only €36 euros into the bargain.. likely crack whores, Id get yourself checked.

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My last visit there... true story..