I hate

2 of us studying psychology spent a couple of weeks driving the rest of the house mad by using non-directive questioning all the time.
Uh-huh, mmm, nods head, uh-huh. So, I'm sensing that you have feelings of anger. Uh-huh. Etc...

I was quite grateful for mines lazy eye - it’s what tipped us off and got her eyes tested at 2yo - turned out she’s quite long sighted. Not sure if she’ll have it for ever, though she’ll definitely need glasses.

Eye chart tests. A chap I worked with had poor eyesight in his right eye. For his firearms medical he used to cover his right eye with his right hand and take the test then he'd cover his right eye with his left hand and take the test. Nobody ever caught on.

Fuckingnonpayers on eBay.

Shirley 3 strikes and you're out would weed these cunts out.

They didn't see him coming.

Fnah

He had great eyesight, but on the other hand it was terrible.

9.30pm: "Dad, umm, you might be annoyed about this, but here's my list of ingredients I need for food tech tomorrow."

Luckily it was only self raising flour, caster sugar, eggs and jam; and we had all of that but, FFS!

I feel your pain! In the same box as “I need a costume for xyz themed day tomorrow.”… been there.

World book day, every year. Weeks of firm decision on character X. Then the night before - 'oh, actually I want to go as character Y instead'...

Hahahaha! So true!

Just tell them books are for nerds. Easy.

My eldest especially is quite proud of her nerd-dom. Shes the kind of dork who, when all her classmates are going as Avengers, she goes as Lyra from those Phillip Pullman books. 🤓

That's great to be fair! Loved those books when I was a nipper.

Marvel characters should be banned from world book day

Yeah, I take the piss but I’m mega proud of her bookworminess obvs.

That’s my knee jerk reaction, but if kids end up reading some shit movie tie-in book rather than nothing at all then that’s fine by me.

TBF the movies are based on comic books.

Ha, yeah I was being a realist about how most kids might have come to Avengers.

My daughter went as Hilda a couple of years ago and did some gleeful pendanting to classmates along similar lines and I’ve just realised I may have created a monster…

Comic books are great, but they aren't really books

Celebrity chefs (and anyone else) who say 'Choritho' instead of Chorizo. Unless you're from Southern Spain, it's Chorizo.

And news/sports presenters who, when pronouncing the name of someone from another country, use the accent of that country to pronounce the name. Aaaahhh. Stop pretending to sound authentically foreign. It doesn't work.

Love Rob Hatch as a Eurosport commentator but he will adopt foreign accents.

Into Room 101 it goes.

The Ukraine capital before the conflict was pronounced Kiev, by everyone... Dynamo Kiev, chicken kiev, whats the capital of Ukraine? Ahh, Kiev. etcetc
Now it's all KeeeEv or Keeiiiv.
First noticed at the start with the reporters from the beeb saying it direct from the warzone. Was shocked

You do realise why that is, right?

Might be mistaken, but wasn't that change because we'd previously been using the Russian pronunciation?

Or are you being facetious. Because it sounds like you're comparing showing solidarity with an invaded country by ditching how the invaders pronounce it in favour of how the country itself pronounces it, with Clapham-ites at their local deli.