Not my parents, but as a parent my wife and I have different native languages. I speak to my son in English, the only language I know. My wife talks to him in Indonesian unless it’s a conversation involving me then it’s English.

My son will answer her in English even though he can speak and understand Indonesian. Although his Indonesian accent is becoming more influenced by English as he gets older, probably due to the lack of using the language. Calls with his grandmother help as she doesn’t speak English but she’s partially deaf which doesn’t help.

Your privacy is of high monetary value to them.

My mum used to be an occupational therapist at a children’s development centre at the local hospital. A few times as a kid she took me there (can’t remember why, school closure or something) and it was great! All these cool toys and stuff I haven’t seen like triangular foam blocks and a sensory room which was chill. I was jealous of the kids who got to go there so much.

What does the button do though?

I visited a Swedish family a long time ago and they introduced me to one of their favourite snacks, layered bread with mayo in-between each slice, like a cake. They seemed very proud of it.

A sea cucumber eats and shits through the same opening.

That’s like something from the Flintstones. Vultures above the wash basins.

These were common in the 80’s, perhaps nearly 90’s. I remember the ads for them on TV and tried them only a couple of times. They were advertised more fancy than they actually were.

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The back, top, bottom and sides all get hot. So you’re right in that it’s radiating the heat, it just does use the typical radiator on the rear.

I have a modern fridge which is about 15 years old now. Simple digital control, multi zone temperature control, no radiator on the back, stainless steel. It was very expensive at the time but it keeps going and hasn’t required any maintenance other than occasionally cleaning the inside.

The fridge I had before this one was a cheap Beko and lasted less than two years.

Worcester Sauce

I hate every chimp I see, from chimpan-a to shimpan-z

Go back far enough and the people doing horrid things were also your people.

This is what drew me to Minecraft. Common goals or just solo’ing. And other people take great pride in showing their builds. So chill.

Totally agree. I was talking about eating out. But you’re bang on. We hardly go out to eat anymore. Pre-covid it was normal we’d go out one a week. Not it’s only time when we’re away from home and want to treat ourselves.

Totally agree. And when we’re feeling lazy we get some frozen, shove in the oven, type food. I know it’s not great but really it’s no different to fast food but cheaper.

I had a McDonalds in Jakarta a few years back. It’s a very different experience. They seem to price themselves in the way StarBucks does, which is opposite to what I’m used to. I prefer the local food still though.

I didn’t try it but I also saw Burger King there has a rendang burger. I liked the idea of it.

Everything did. I don’t know about where you are, but here the cost of going for food in a pub or restaurant is so expensive that McDonalds is still the cheapest option.

I got annoyed the other day at work. I work in the offices of a factory. It’s 35 Celsius and a lot of hard working people are working next to large ovens and suffering from high heat. A couple of people on the office Teams channel started with comments like “given the temperature we will be organising some cold drinks and ice creams for the office staff”

I would like to see those people try and spend a day on the production lines in this heat.