u/DisMyLik18thAccount

I Had never heard of Oliver Tree until he passed this month

Upon hearing of his death I did a bit of a deep dive into him and his works, and I find myself becoming a fan of his posthumously

I'm Realising I woulda really loved this guy and what he produced, and now I can't believe I've been missing out on this gem all these years

It feels kinda like the sinking feeling of finally reaching the railway platform just in time to see your train pulling away

I Feel Robbed, I wish I could've experienced enjoying his music and works while he was still with us

I've Made a few reports to Operation SNAP in the past 5 weeks, and I'm wondering if/when I can delete the footage as my phone is out of storage

All of my submissions have come back 'positive action taken' but no information apart from that. The website says to keep the footage until I'm told I can delete it, but is that even something they actually do? Will they reach out to let me know I can delete it?

I'm No Contact with both my parents, my mother is apparently in hospital right, which I know because they've reached out to tell me at least three different times, despite me already having responded and acknowledged it (But just not in the way they want me to)

First mother herself messaged my boyfriend. (She doesn't bother messaging me anymore as she knows she doesn't get a response so goes straight to him, which he is annoyed by but that's another topic) He replies saying that he'll pass the message on to me and also that he hopes she's better soon.

Later that night my brother messages me about it, I tell him she's already contacted us herself but thanks for letting me know.

Then a few days later I have a missed call and voicemail off my dad saying the same thing. (No update, just letting me know she's in there) And a few hours after leaving the voicemail he texts me repeating the same info

Now in fairness I do think her being hospitalised counts as valid reason to contact me, I'm not complaining about that, but three different times through three different people?? (Four if you could Dad's voicemail and text message separately)

Of course I don't wish any illness upon her, but also no illness is gonna make me get back in contact with her. Even if she were on her deathbed (Which from what I'm told isn't the case here) I wouldn't speak to her, I wouldn't attend her funeral

It feels like she's just using her health issues to try and guilt me into talking to her, but sorry, the fact you birthed me isn't enough for me to want to be by your bedside. Maybe shoulda actually developed a positive relationship with me over all these years

I'm No Contact with both my parents, my mother is apparently in hospital right, which I know because they've reached out to tell me at least three different times, despite me already having responded and acknowledged it (But just not in the way they want me to)

First mother herself messaged my boyfriend. (She doesn't bother messaging me anymore as she knows she doesn't get a response so goes straight to him, which he is annoyed by but that's another topic) He replies saying that he'll pass the message on to me and also that he hopes she's better soon.

Later that night my brother messages me about it, I tell him she's already contacted us herself but thanks for letting me know.

Then a few days later I have a missed call and voicemail off my dad saying the same thing. (No update, just letting me know she's in there) And a few hours after leaving the voicemail he texts me repeating the same info

Now in fairness I do think her being hospitalised counts as valid reason to contact me, I'm not complaining about that, but three different times through three different people?? (Four if you could Dad's voicemail and text message separately)

Of course I don't wish any illness upon her, but also no illness is gonna make me get back in contact with her. Even if she were on her deathbed (Which from what I'm told isn't the case here) I wouldn't speak to her, I wouldn't attend her funeral

It feels like she's just using her health issues to try and guilt me into talking to her, but sorry, the fact you birthed me isn't enough for me to want to be by your bedside. Maybe shoulda actually developed a positive relationship with me over all these years

So much for 'liquid gold'

I Dedicated myself to carefully collecting as much colostrum as I could during my last pregnancy, now baby is 9 months old and we've used exactly zero millilitres of it. spent most of its time sat in the freezer and I'm wondering when to finally throw it out

We did take some to the hospital but it defrosted by the time we got there. I Honestly can't remember why I didn't get her dad to bring some more after she was born, maybe we were too distracted after the difficult birth and it just didn't come to mind.

After we got home I was nervous to use it and didn't know how, brought it up to Health Visitor who told us to save it for when she's sick. She did get sick once several weeks later and again, can't remember why we didn't use it. I Think I'd forgotten about it by that point, too preoccupied with cleaning up sick and being ill myself. (Entire household was infected).

I Know milk baths are a thing and had been planning to do that, but I wasn't sure exactly how a milk bath works. I Assumed you just squirted a little into the bath water? I Thought I'll Google it and check sometime...but of course 'sometime' never comes

I'm So disappointed in myself not only for the wasted milk but the wasted effort. I Try to feel better by counting it as 'practice'. With first baby I tried to harvest colostrum but couldn't get any, with this baby I got I but couldn't use it, so hopefully it will be third time's a charm with next baby and I'll finally collect *and* use it

So much for 'liquid gold'

I Dedicated myself to carefully collecting as much colostrum as I could during my last pregnancy, now baby is 9 months old and we've used exactly zero millilitres of it. spent most of its time sat in the freezer and I'm wondering when to finally throw it out

We did take some to the hospital but it defrosted by the time we got there. I Honestly can't remember why I didn't get her dad to bring some more after she was born, maybe we were too distracted after the difficult birth and it just didn't come to mind.

After we got home I was nervous to use it and didn't know how, brought it up to Health Visitor who told us to save it for when she's sick. She did get sick once several weeks later and again, can't remember why we didn't use it. I Think I'd forgotten about it by that point, too preoccupied with cleaning up sick and being ill myself. (Entire household was infected).

I Know milk baths are a thing and had been planning to do that, but I wasn't sure exactly how a milk bath works. I Assumed you just squirted a little into the bath water? I Thought I'll Google it and check sometime...but of course 'sometime' never comes

I'm So disappointed in myself not only for the wasted milk but the wasted effort. I Try to feel better by counting it as 'practice'. With first baby I tried to harvest colostrum but couldn't get any, with this baby I got I but couldn't use it, so hopefully it will be third time's a charm with next baby and I'll finally collect *and* use it

Do you think there's any common misconceptions about the religion?

One I've found is many people seem to think JWs aren't allowed to drink alcohol at all

EDIT: This post has highlighted the general lack of reading comprehension in this sub lol

There's a long road a walk up every day to work, and I regularly see *multiple* people texting behind the wheel on it

So today I decide to put my phone camera on and record to see if I could capture some

I captured two today, although one was stopped at a red so not sure about that

My question is, is it possible to me to report this to the police or any other authority and submit the footage as evidence?

Thanks in advance for advice

In most estrangement cases there seems to be a story of when the AC reached out one last time to inform the parents they're going no contact and ask them not to try and speak to them anymore

I Never did. I See myself as being 'no contact', but I've technically never *told* them this. It was quite gradual, being low-contact for a while, then when I eventually decided to myself I didn't wanna speak to them at all anymore I simply blocked them and stopped replying to their messages

I Question sometimes if this is the right way to go about things, and have received a bit of criticism for it when I mentioned it on estrangement spaces before. The fact of the matter is though I just really *don't want to*. The thought of contacting them to explain why I don't want a relationship anymore feels really unnatural and uncomfortable to me

We never really had enough of a relationship in the first place to justify a 'break up' message. I Know a lot of AC's shave a complicated emotional bond with their parents despite any toxicity, hence the need to officially undo that bond and explain their absence. For me though there's no bond to break, it was never there. Explaining my absence seems unnecessary because this is just how we are.

I Suppose when I was younger any relationship I had with them was only out of the practicality of living with and being reliant on them. Once I moved out 8 years ago the drift felt natural and inevitable

I Hoped that blocking them would be enough of a message, but it wasn't as when they realised they were blocked they just moved to a different messaging platform. So I started simply muting their messages instead. Half of me feels guilty, and the other half feels I don't owe them an explanation as they were also present for every event that led up to this

Anyone else in the same position, whats your thoughts?

They said for 'technical reasons'

Is it that the act inherently can't be performed live, or a problem during rehearsal they couldn't overcome, or just the constraints of the BGT stage?

Also do you think the fact they didn't have to perform live is unfair on the other acts?

Tomorrow I'll be voting for the first time in my life and I only just realised I don't know what to do with my 8 month old. Can you take a small baby in a pram with you?

I Just did a Google and found a couple websites saying you can take children in with you but I want some confirmation and clarification. Is there anyone here who's taken a baby when voting before?

Do you have to go into a small booth, if so what would I do with the pram while I'm in there? Would It fit in, will I have to take my child out? These are the sort of things I'm wondering

As I say I've never voted at all before so this whole thing is new. Any insight is appreciated