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Cake day: June 21st, 2023

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  • I delivered my own child. Wife went for a snooze and somehow woke up deep in labour. No way we were going to make the hospital. Young and very nervous sounding lad talked me through it on the phone. I was glad it wasn’t my first time experiencing the birthing process because that took a lot of stress out of it.

    There were no complications and it all went smoothly. She’s 16 now.

    At the time I was mod of a parenting community that nearly lost it’s shit hahaha.

    The fire brigade arrived about two minutes after the baby.

    On the very same day my son’s best friend’s parents had to deliver their baby on the side of the road because they didn’t make the hospital!



  • Where I live there’s a legal requirement to have a certified first aider as employee once you go beyond a certain number of people on-site.

    My first job was in a large company and they paid for me to get certified along with a few others. It was open to anyone who was interested. Really cool learning tbh. I think it was three days of intensive training then a written test and practical on dummies for CPR etc.

    You have to get recertified every few years if you want to be considered legal though.


  • My entire year got suspended, then un-suspended on our last day of secondary (high school).

    So it’s the last day and pranks abound as is the case in most schools. The usual harmless stuff.

    Three lads decided that it would be the height of hilarious to fill a balloon with water and drop it out of the library window onto some unsuspecting eejit. Now I mean proper balloon, not the little water balloons you buy.

    Anyway, they heaved it over to the window and dropped it. The library was on the third floor though so by the time it got to ground you’re talking about a lot of momentum. It would have been dangerous if it had hit someone.

    They missed and hit a teacher’s car, instantly smashing the back window.

    Word spread like wildfire and we’re all called into the library for a meeting of the full year. They say to dob in the culprits or we’re all suspended. If they come forward we know they’re going to be expelled though. Everyone knew who it was but they gave us time to talk it over amongst ourselves. The consensus was to keep our mouths shut after quite a bit of arguing.

    Well, they suspended us all. We were all over 18 so went to the nearest pub. It was a bad end to a good time in the school and the atmosphere was really weird.

    About an hour later the lads involved owned up and we were all reinstated. They were expelled though and weren’t allowed to sit their state exams in the school.










  • The Nazis pulled a project 1932 immediately on taking power and absolutely obliterated every possible opposition within months of taking power through a wide variety of tactics. The gap between the Reichstag fire and utter totalitarianism was very, very short and in an era where information spread far more slowly.

    They never won more than 37% of the popular vote (though it almost certainly would have been higher had there been elections later on and before the war, we just can’t know the exact amount as there weren’t any).


  • Yeah there was plenty of resistance from various quarters it just got smashed quickly and wasn’t coordinated enough. Born again Christians were vehemently opposed to the regime for example and suffered harshly for it. Obviously all the lefties etc. too.

    On the flip side the Nazis did win over a significant percentage of the population through the late 1930s because of how well the economy was doing, it just never went to a plebiscite so we’ll never know the exact numbers.