The Room 101 thread - for things you hate or just having a bloody good moan

[Medicine Man]

Some of so called breakfast cereals in the states and even here for that matter are terrifying. 55% sugar would probably count as a diet cereal over there. Isn’t there a ‘cereal’ that’s basically just chocolate biscuits? Cookie crunch or some such. Probably with some kid friendly cartoon dog on the box or something. Hey kids! How do like the sound of daily insulin shots and losing a foot to gangrene? Yaaayy!

I do like the idea of Weetabix, now with added adrenaline. It’s basically just plain weetabix, but they’ve chucked a couple of blueberries in there. Sign me up, I can practically taste the exhilaration.

[Animalmother]

Accidentally got the syrup favoured Weetabix once. Christ that made for some unpleasant breakfasts for a week or so

[Raid]

My mum used to buy my brother and I one of those Kellogg's variety packs when we went on self catered holidays. I have fond memories of getting to try the ones that they'd never usually buy for us (basically all of the sugary ones like Ricicles). I even remember one coming with the short lived Banana Bubbles, the cereal that thinks it's a milkshake.

I'm realising now that I have a remarkable memory for being marketed to as a child.

[Solitaire]

I'm an odd duck over here in America. My mom is from Watford, Hertfordshire, so I grew up with lots of British items on my plate. I don't eat cereal at all. I'd prefer beans on toast for breakfast

Yah, Raid, it makes me a bit sad honestly to remember how easily we are manipulated into wanting things when we're kids. I get angry about it as well, or at least I did when my kids were much younger. Everything from toys to drinks and food is all shoved into the faces of families - parents don't stand a chance against it all unless they live in a shack in the woods, without tv/internet.

[Rossell]

All these click bait news stories about time travellers from the year 3000 (not much has changed but... ) coming back and saying we're all going to mutate into whales in two decades time. Getting beyond parody now.

[Wrathbone]

I... what now? Haven’t seen anything like that! Are these future people whales themselves? What is their mechanism of time travel? Do they retain vocal and mental faculties in their aquatic form?

[Rossell]

This is the straw that broke my camels back to put it here, last year they've been a dime a dozen:

https://www.ladbible.com/community/vira ... 1-20210329

Hard to tell with the whales though, I imagine it's like Star Trek: The Voyage Home.

[Sly Boots]

Like WB this is literally the first I'm hearing about this

[Wrathbone]

[Paul]

True narcissists, borderline personalities, and the like, these are the people that 'cast a spell' on you - it's utterly intentional, and innate, like a spider spinning a web. Hell, I fell for it just six years ago, and at that point I'd been a psychiatric nurse for 20 years! She was BPD and NPD, mixed together in a hot redheaded succubus of a woman.

The love-bombs, yeah, that's a tactic that works for sure. Men are in general so unused to hearing praise for anything at all that we practically stumble over ourselves in the chase, when someone like this comes along. Also the good-in-the-sack part of it - says she'll do "anything for you," etc. Once you're trapped in that web, the screws start turning, to mix metaphors. I could go on and on as far as this subject is concerned. I'd spoken about this ages ago, on the old PW forums, and got some feedback from a few of you with anecdotes of past relationships. I think it's a right of passage for most young men to suffer through at least one BPD or NPD relationship. Many men never escape at all, doomed to a life similar to that of a chained, whipped hound. Glad you're getting untangled from it all.

She came at me something fierce. Compared to what I'd had before, she totally blew me away.

But yeah. As time wore on and she had me in her grasp, holy shit. For a long time I kept arguing back, but eventually gave up because it didn't matter how obviously wanked up her perspective on things was, she just couldn't see any perspective other than her own. Pathological / terrifying. I called her out on it back in 2018/9, and that's where things really took a turn.

Never, ever tell them you've got their number. EVER. Just back away. Very slowly.

[Alan]

On the bright side, it looks like you got her username in the divorce.













Too soon?

[Paul]

Never

[Animalmother]

Jesus

[Paul]

I was summoned to the local police station last night.

TL;DR - having been locked out of the marital home for months (zero justification for this) and therefore denied access to my personal items (I've had two pairs of fucking jeans and a few jumpers to wear since early Feb), I LEGALLY - as per my solicitor's advice - instructed a locksmith to change the front door lock. Went in, got my shit, sent her a text and email explaining what had been done, linked to legal articles to illustrate beyond any doubt that I hadn't done a darn thing wrong / asked when she'd be home so I could pass the new key to her.

Suddenly she's sobbing to one of the PCs about what a threat I am, how I'm an unfit parent etc.

... then throws her own fucking self under the bus by showing said PC an email she'd sent earlier that day asking if I could have the girls every night next week.

SUCH THREAT
MANY UNFIT

Thankfully, the PC saw through her bullshit and told me that she'd be amending the report to paint me in a favourable light, as clearly I "Am the victim in this situation", for which I am eternally grateful.

Jesus H Christ.

[Sly Boots]

I was summoned to the local police station last night.

TL;DR - having been locked out of the marital home for months (zero justification for this) and therefore denied access to my personal items (I've had two pairs of fucking jeans and a few jumpers to wear since early Feb), I LEGALLY - as per my solicitor's advice - instructed a locksmith to change the front door lock. Went in, got my shit, sent her a text and email explaining what had been done, linked to legal articles to illustrate beyond any doubt that I hadn't done a darn thing wrong / asked when she'd be home so I could pass the new key to her.

Suddenly she's sobbing to one of the PCs about what a threat I am, how I'm an unfit parent etc.

... then throws her own fucking self under the bus by showing said PC an email she'd sent earlier that day asking if I could have the girls every night next week.

SUCH THREAT
MANY UNFIT

Thankfully, the PC saw through her bullshit and told me that she'd be amending the report to paint me in a favourable light, as clearly I "Am the victim in this situation", for which I am eternally grateful.

Jesus H Christ.

That sounds awful, at least common sense on the side of the police won out.

Nothing I can relate to on a personal level. Closest I came is when I was 18 getting engaged to a girl I'd dated for 6 months or so (it feels like lunacy now, the part above about being bewitched rang horribly true) and when we broke up, largely because her mother was the personification of evil, she'd shout abuse at me in the street, and on more than one occasion told a mutual friend that if she was driving and saw me walking by she'd run me down. Something I could all too easily have seen her doing. Fortunately I was away at university at the time and only home during holidays, and after graduating I moved away and have never been back.

Hardly a day goes by I don't thank my lucky stars for getting the hell out of that while the going was good.