Yeah, some kids need persuasion in order to eat a more varied diet, so that’s probably where the thinking comes from, but like anything if taken to extremes it becomes abusive.

Now I’m middle aged and have developed a bunch of food allergies, so I’ve been forced into picky eating :-(

Probably the weirdest thing for me was a lunch supervisor who decided I had to eat liver when that was part of lunch in the small rural primary school I went to.

It always had the texture of a rubber ball and the flavour of stale vomit. So I would be made to sit and look at it on my plate instead of going out and playing with the other kids, for about 30 minutes, once a week.

I wasn’t a picky eater (we didn’t have much money, so that was my main meal of the day, I was always hungry), that was literally the only thing I didn’t want to eat. Other kids weren’t made to eat all of their lunches.

I remember her being really angry about it and standing over me the whole time.

I’d forgotten all about hand pain from forced copy-writing, being a lefty that was a common part of my disliking school

You already know the answer to that, Sarge

True Lies is a fantastic movie, doesn’t belong on this thread at all!

While that’s true, most of them are abandoned for a reason … lack of work or water being the big two.

Oof, I hear you on that one (pun intended). I hate using the phone regardless of language, but if I can see the person talking I don’t have problems with communicating … this is a problem here in Spain where many companies will almost refuse to communicate in writing :-/

Damnit, and this was the final payoff after two previous posts where I put thirsty lesbian words into Betty’s mouth …

Yeah, that’s what I was getting at - many new / recent movies have such poor election that it’s hard to tell what they’re saying.

Does night mode fix mumbly american actors who are unintelligible at any volume?

Shakey cam to cover up a limited budget for a car chase, instead of getting creative … so if the rapid cuts and wobble wasn’t there you’d see that they only had one street and couldn’t exceed 30mph

As per yesterday’s page … “That body shouldn’t be allowed on the beach! [it should be in my bed]”

Because Betty wouldn’t be able to resist tearing the bikini off with her teeth?

Also a solid choice!

Girls Under Panzer put all the fan service into a separate series of short (under 5 mins) OVAs, so it’s avoidable but does exist …

As an enjoyer of non-fanservice Animé, but knowing how different people around the world have different attitudes to appropriateness, I’m going to say that you’re going to have to carefully filter any list yourself.

For example, all of Girls Under Panzer is free from fan service / sexualization, (apart from the short OVAs which are nothing but that stuff) … but some people don’t like it’s playful attitude to WW2 history.

SuperCub is another series that features zero sexualisation, but contains themes around depression, isolation, and struggling with interpersonal relationships.

Gundam: The Witch from Mercury, again no sexualization but features fighting against patriarchal systems and a love story of lesbanins.

It’s possible that none of these are appropriate for your daughter, when I was 11 I would have devoured them and come back for more.

Then there’s stuff like Born in Abyss which looks like a cutesy kids adventure but then descends into multiple layers of horror … so, tread carefully.

Hmm … niche …

One I got from a friend of a friend is a taste in shitty old cars. Whenever I’m out walking the dogs and happen across an obscure or currently rare, but shit, car I’ll take a photo of it.

Everyone loves the “halo” models, the GTIs and Turbos, but I love to see a rusty 1.4 diesel that didn’t even come with carpets when new :-)

I’ve never ever found another woman to nerd out about old cars with, unfortunately, and most guys do the knowledge test thing which is most offputting :-/

When I was little I memorised the Highway Code book, which is the UK guide to road law and use - it has a really good sign guide. Risk of Falling Rocks was my favourite, while now I live in Spain I’m undecided between the No Motorcycling and Danger of Cattle signs (the Spanish risk of falling rocks sign is lame)

Rocks are cool, I don’t understand why anyone wouldn’t appreciate a collection of them.

My mother is trying to downsize her stuff because her health is going downhill, she gave me the best of her rock collection and it’s on the shelf next to me while I type this … they’re really nice rocks.

Plus sales tax.

The US is weird …