u/ariadnevirginia

I need to put my mother into a nursing home just for a few days while she gets over the flu.

Any good recommendations?

I can't remember exactly if it was TV or a film, but I think it's a film.

All I remember is that there is some kind of living situation which seems uncanny to one of the people in it, and she investigates until the conspiracy or cover-up begins to unravel....she talks to her friend about it, it's apparent that the jig is up....and her female friend after being initially kind and supportive eventually snaps and says furiously "you STUPID bitch!"

Then goes on to say they could have been fine, with an easy life, but the friend had ruined it all by nosing around.

It's not "Don't Worry Darling".

I had to sit through commercials in the cinema a couple of times and was wondering.

Surely everyone is annoyed by precocious kids aren't they?

I saw the McDonald's ad with kids being happy to eat McDonald's.

No problem. That's advertising, I get that.

But the Persil ad is really giving me the pip.

A cute little girl doing a video about the "Persil challenge" striking sassy poses and going "let's do this!"

Later shouting "come on!" Into the camera. It's so twee and scripted.

Encouraging little kids to "vlog" when they just want to sell washing powder seems like such a soulless move from Persil.

Does anyone watch them and think "oh cute?"

So, I lost weight on Mounjaro then moved to Wegovey because Mounjaro doubled their prices.

I still have about a stone to lose but have settled just for not gaining any weight back - Wegovey isn't as effective for me as Mounjaro but at least I'm not gaining.

The trouble is that the online pharmacy I've been using isn't happy for me to space out doses.

They say they will only sell it to me if I use it weekly.

I've checked with a GP and medically it's fine to space doses.

Is anyone else in the same situation? I had a very frustrating call from the pharmacy saying doggedly over and over that they will only prescribe if I take it weekly.

Maybe I should switch to the pill?

I can see B&Q have a glass based mosaic option but I was looking for ceramic.

The toilets in Westfield shopping centre have gold ceramic tiles so it must be possible.

I want the closest thing to medium bright gold possible - has anyone found good options?

I'm in London btw but could always order from elsewhere as long as I can get a sample first.

I thought Dodgeball was pretty silly, but I love the line "you made me bleed my own blood!"

What one good thing can you think of in a not-so-great movie?

I feel as if "the casting of Christopher Walken" may come up a few times.

I hear a tiny patter of rain on the roof!!!!

Yes, I know technically it's Tower Hamlets.

I'm moving there from London Fields, which has swarms of foxes nightly and I'm hoping that there's a community of them in my new neighbourhood.

My new lamp just exploded a couple of bulbs last night which isn't a great sign.

Any recommendations to get the whole thing rewired or at least checked over by someone who knows what they are doing?

Thanks.

I'm trying to buy a flat, and the estate agent and the owners have both gone out of their way to point out "there are lots of families with kids here" and I am single and will be living there alone.

It ACTIVELY puts me off.

Children are noisy and tend to leave toys and bikes and skateboards everywhere and their parents are usually looking for an excuse to boast about how special their kids are which is a) boring and b) a minefield because if you're not enthusiastic enough about their offspring they tend to hate you.

When my next door neighbour died, his son told me "don't worry, I sold the house to a lovely family".

They have 3 kids who now dominate the communal area with noise and scattered toys.

Why would he think I'd be pleased? My ideal neighbour would be an OAP with quiet habits or somebody very glamorous I could burnish up my social life with.

Is it because "families" are supposed to be respectable somehow? Because I don't see it.

Is there an option to make a wishlist for things you find, want, but don't need and want to think about?

I googled, it said you can click on a heart to "like" an item then you can pull up a list of "liked" stuff but I don't see a heart?

I just watched Along Came A Spider and Alex Cross guessed the baddies password so fast.

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They had said at one point that their father won an antique gun in a game of Aces and Eights, so he entered AcesandEights and bingo!

Cracked it on the first try. Had the correct capitals and everything.

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I realise that the very personal password is to allow the password to be conveniently guessed, but it's so, so much more likely to be Nibbles123 or MyPassword or Hello1?

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https://recorder.google.com/196aac8c-0daf-4edd-81ae-65462ca700d0 I live in London Fields and it sounds like an alarm?

Keeps going off recently. Really it sounds industrial, like as if it's a nuclear warning or something.

In one of the Thomas Harris books, Hannibal Lecter uses an ancient mnemonic strategy called the Memory Palace (or Mind Palace). This involves visualizing a vast, familiar physical space and assigning specific memories, facts, or pieces of information to distinct rooms, objects, or architectural features.

It's based on the method of loci traditionally attributed to the ancient Greek poet Simonides of Ceos around 500 BCE, so OLD.

and I feel as if the Backrooms in the film is a perfect example of a Memory Palace gone warped and wrong....as memories DO warp and alter for us.

It's a realistically nightmarish version of a Memory Palace, and when you enter, it starts adapting to you, so it ends up as a collective location for the memories of all the people who have gone inside. It's why you can never really leave - it's become part of you, you see the version of Mary at the end which suggests that even if she leaves, part of her is trapped there.

But maybe I'm overthinking it 😊

I had lens replacement surgery with Optical Express and my eyesight is worse now than it was before.

I paid over £8k for the surgery.

I have had a series of appointments since then where they test my eyes and say to come back again.

They had me wear a series of contact lenses to "check my prescription" but didn't answer questions about why that was necessary.

They have done no follow up, it's all been me chasing them.

They said I can get LASIK through them to correct my vision...or maybe I will need the new lens replaced in one eye.

I am beyond frustrated, have laid out my concerns in a letter they haven't responded to.

Do I have any legal recourse? I feel I should get my vision corrected by them ( if this is even possible) and I should get a full refund, but is this a possible outcome?

Should I report them to the ISO or the CQC?