The driving test costs £62 for a weekday slot or £75 for evenings and weekends.

The letter said some third-party sellers are charging up to £500.

A kind of ticket scalping that never would’ve occurred to me.

My family’s always been pretty open about answering family history questions. Even delighted I took an interest. The times when I was hesitant to ask it involved “scandals” like why a cousin is so much older than the rest of us. But when I asked, they’d just tell me. So I don’t have any suggestions if they’re always hesitant or angry about answering.

We used to look through old pictures when I was young. That was a good time to ask questions. Do they have any old photos you can ask about? You can say you want to copy some into a family album for yourself or future kids.

Oh, neat! My cat gets special food cause of her own allergies, so a powder would be way nicer if one of the humans here developed an allergy.

You know, an anecdote still seems like more legit data than some of the articles I saw. Unless… you’re also sponsored??? (joking) There does seem to be a lot of potential in targeting the allergin cats make, so I’m genuinely hopeful about these kinds of treatments.

There are apparently cat foods that reduce the production of what humans are allergic to, but I struggled a bit to find an article about it that didn’t read like a paid advertisement. I guess here:

https://www.aaoallergy.org/hypoallergenic-pet-food-myth-or-magic-solution/ This looks real? Would love info from someone who knows more on this.

If there’s nothing interesting to look at, I just continue the plot of the story I’m telling myself. Some people just enjoy a meditative silence, but I’m not one of them, either. I might look like it though.

Love an organized boycott!

Ow, that sounds awful! I’m sorry you went through that.

I think I get it now. It hasn’t been tested for under 50 year olds because there’s no real reason to get vaccinated if you have a healthy immune system, right? You just wouldn’t get it.

I was wondering if there was some known harm caused by the dead virus vaccine, but it doesn’t seem like it. Like, if you get shingles, it’s because the virus is already hanging out in you, so it’s not like measles where the virus is introduced for the first time to prep your system. Prepping for shingles doesn’t make sense unless there’s a reason to think your immune system will fail. The virus is already there.

I think it helps me get it to think of the group who gets vaccinated as entirely people who are immunocompromised. 50+ is just a category inherently part of that group. If I got vaccinated now, it would serve zero purpose.

Thanks for your answer! I hope you never have to deal with shingles ever again.

Shingles vaccines are already recommended for older adults (typically those over 50) and people with weakened immune systems.

If you fit these categories, definitely get that vaccine. Shingles sucks so bad on its own, without even taking into consideration this possible dementia link.

Does anyone know why you shouldn’t get it earlier than 50 unless you’re immunocompromised? Is it just because it hasn’t been tested in other age groups? I tried looking up an answer, but that’s all I found.

They should be, but it’s easier to blame a group that’s marginalized. Ego protecting, even. It wasn’t that she was better in any way that she got the job. Must be DEI.

Losing an advantage that you were told was an entitlement can feel like something has been taken.

Mentioned this to my elderly father and he said “I could do better than that.” He’s a master of security compared to that.

I’m glad they got an extension but I hope there weren’t any people who lost their time in the day to vote because of that.

Pisses me off and reminds me of waiting in a long line in Ohio during a presidential election - I was voting near a college where they clearly hadn’t prepared for the number of voters. It took several hours to get through the line and I saw a kid come up to the line and just go “i don’t have time for this” and leave. The people in line and the poll workers were all friendly, but a lot of us left that night feeling like it wasn’t a coincidence a polling station near a college had so much trouble. You siphon off a few voters here and there, and it doesn’t seem like a lot, but it can be enough if it’s close.

I think that picture is pretty old

https://imgur.com/gallery/real-life-nyan-relives-glory-days-FBMAQjM

https://imgur.com/gallery/happy-6th-birthday-zoey-s4F22

Imagine being like “well now that I’m an axe, people will have to stop asking about my gender” and then they just keep asking!

I bet the dark general is much happier now working at their tavern with his like six husbands and wives

“No one will ever replace my husband,” she told the crowd. “But I do see some similarities of my husband in JD— in Vice President JD Vance. I do. And that’s why I am so blessed to be able to introduce him tonight.”

Her husband’s been dead five minutes and he’s married. Gross.

Personalization and identification, usually.

That’s like when my cat started to show an allergic reaction to her food so we switched her to the food her uncle (who also had a food allergy) could eat and she just didn’t like the taste as much. I’m sorry, kitty! You don’t go bald when you eat this!

I wish we could explain things to them.

Conservative women are expected to give up a lot of themselves as human beings, so of course the men have to be worth it, right? You submit to him in every way because he’s so good and strong (emotionally and physically) and a natural leader, right? Right?