I mean it was called Brainiac and it did have John Tickle walking on top of a pool of custard. Are you suggesting I was wrong to use that as my foundation for all knowledge??

You’re right. But in the interest of no stupid questions I thought I’d ask anyway, because…you know, what if?.

And thanks for the grammar lesson, I didn’t ask for that one but I’ll take it on board.

Thank you.

I think I saw a show 20 or so years ago that tried to debunk this and obviously either they messed up, or I wasn’t paying attention.

(The show was called Brainiac).

Turned 2 a few weeks back. I think we’re entering, or have just entered the terrible twos. Fun fun fun.

I wish I could get into this, but it’s just not for me. Seems super cool and everyone seems to be so enamored with it…but I just couldn’t get it to stick.

Son broke my favourite mug. And he then threw my phone at my wrist, which hit my watch and scratched the phone screen. Yeah, its been a fun one.

I’ve stopped looking at my notifications on Reddit, it’s just too anxiety inducing for me. Thankfully I’ve not had that same problem here, although I’m sure it’ll happen eventually.

Hope you feel better.

I don’t think mine is totally ready right now, but I remember with my elder that there was a pretty big window between when she was ready and when she was willing to sit on the thing.

So the plan here is to let him get used to it being around the home, let him sit on it and interact with it and then when he’s ready to start dropping his trousers… hopefully the transition will be a bit quicker than with my daughter.

Joking aside, the scene where Tywin schools Joff on how no true king needs to say that he’s a king is peak GoT. Absolutely incredible writing, acting and production from all involved.

I’ve spent my time continuing through, and then finishing my first run on the new Suzerain DLC.

Had a good time with it but I think it’s maybe not as… fully thought out as the games OG campaign was. That said, I’m definitely going back to it at some point because I made some frankly awful decisions and it all went wrong very quickly.

I was a bit worried about how well the Steamdeck would handle it but I actually found playing with the Decks touchpads to be preferable to the games gamepad mode.

I just wish the Fury part of Bowsers Fury was a little less all consuming. The little open world they constructed was great, but I found the constant interruption from Bowser to be a little grating after a while.

I think Farrell suffered a similar sort of thing as Brad Pitt did in the 90s in that he’s super attractive…oh and he was in that bad Daredevil movie. Aside from that I can’t remember him ever being the reason a movie was bad, and whenever I see him he’s absolutely fantastic.

Eldest just turned 6. Youngest just turned 2.

Won’t lie. Having a second was never something I expected to happen. I’m not sure either of us were ready for it and it’s absolutely gutted our sense of self, our relationship and our overall level of happiness.

That said we both absolutely love our two kids. We wouldn’t be without them and they make our lives so much more…full. It’s amazing to watch them play together, and to watch my eldest show genuine care for another human, and to watch my youngest learn and mimic his big sister.

It’s not been easy. I think we’d both admit that we’ve struggled with the transition from 1 to 2 in ways we never did form 0 to 1, and our youngest has been significantly more challenging than our eldest was, but even with that, he’s an absolute light in my world.

Is it considered a staycation if you get a caravan for a week? Or is that below the Guardian?

Yeah we’ve got some of this, although perhaps not as frustratingly bad as you guys.

She’s very picky, but we’ve gotten to the point that we just cook what the other three of us eat and if she doesn’t want it then so be it.

I should emphasize that we generally only eat what we know she likes, but for some reason she’ll decide on a random wednesday that now she doesn’t like peas and …yeah okay.

Banana before bed I guess.

Bingo!

It was all good until I told my partner that she absolutely gets it from her. That did not go well for me 😬😬

I’ve been pretty desperate for some good ‘Dad friends’ for a while now but it’s never happened. I only do pick up and drop offs once a week, and whilst people are friendly it’s never gone any further than that. Sadness.

It’s happening. My eldest is six. And I’ve noticed that when it comes to being a stubborn git, she’s definitely more her Mum than she is me.

She’ll refuse to do the most benign things. Getting dressed and brushing her teeth is an absolute battle. Trying to get her to eat anything that’s not a ketchup covered fish finger? An Impossibility. She’s her Mum. Classic ‘cutting off her nose to spite her face’ sort of stuff.

Ay ay ay.