In my union, reps have to be put up for vote every three years, and if even after that you still don’t like them, you have the option to go straight to your FTO.

I’ve lived in the UK since birth and have always had soup spoons.

I thought, “maybe it’s a middle class thing”, but it’s not like they’re expensive and they last forever.

https://www.thebigkitchen.co.uk/product/budget-cutlery-soup-spoon/

My girlfriend (32) asked me if I was a boomer. I’m 37 😭

A lot of the time it comes down to how engaging the teller of the story is.

The same story could be told by two different people. One who’s animated, emotionally engaged and who appears them self to be very interested, the other, who is the complete opposite of those things.

There are stories that I’ve found hilarious and/or engaging that upon reflection that were really just a load of pointless nonsense and vice versa stories that feel like they’re boring and worthless at the time, but that upon reflection had real gold nuggets of information or wisdom.

This is why I’ll always listen to others, I may end up no richer, but there’s a chance that I will.

It’s a related opinion

Fair enough. I definitely do that too, sometimes you can also link the post of when the question was last asked.

Typing a query in to Google is faster than making a post on Reddit and yet people still wanted you to do it for them. I never posted “have you tried Google?”, or anything like that, but lmgtfy links were always a fun option.

All our lives are absolutely random, even if it doesn’t appear so, you were one of trillions of sperm and are one of billions of humans.

It can be argued that everything in your life is down to pure chance. I know that some people don’t like that idea, especially when they are somewhat successful and want to talk about all the hard work they did to gain their achievements.

I hate posts where the answer is the top search result on Google. We’re not here as a proxy for a search engine.

Some subreddits had a “use Google first” rule.

Dude, sisters are so much worse. Brothers fight and then it’s over, sisters are cold blooded.

These types of “Day X of Y until I forget” posts used to piss me off on Reddit, but here I’m just glad someone is providing content.