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Alana's business has a "vending machine" in Spar, Pwhelli

Alana's business has a "vending machine" in Spar, Pwhelli

I just saw this as I went into Spar in Pwllheli on the Llyn Peninsula. It's selling things like Alana's brownies, shortbreads and cakes for £3 each.

Quite a neat idea to support a Welsh business!

u/InviteAromatic6124 — 3 days ago

Which video game characters were voiced by different people to who you initially thought?

I'm playing the campaign of Battlefield 6 and the character Hayden Carter sounds exactly like he's voiced by actor Will Arnett, but after looking it up he's actually voiced by Damon Dayoub.

Another is the character Jack Walker from the game "Juiced" (2005) and he sounds EXACTLY like he's voiced by Seth Green, but he's actually voiced by Martin T. Sherman.

What video game characters were you sure were voiced by a particular actor and found out they weren't?

u/InviteAromatic6124 — 4 days ago
▲ 1 r/family

I've heard many parents say they had multiple kids because they didn't want their first child to be lonely, but I'm pretty sure it's a load of baloney that only children are lonely.

If they're able to make friends with other kids their age and have extended family like cousins who are also of a similar age then they'll have people to stop them getting lonely.

I haven't met many only children and those I have met said they did feel lonely sometimes but only a couple said they wished they had siblings. One even said they liked being the centre of attention all the time and not needing to share anything.

Only children, what was your experience growing up? Were you lonely and did you wish you had siblings?

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u/InviteAromatic6124 — 6 days ago
▲ 222 r/books

Book series you never finished

When I start a series of books, more often than not I will read the whole series to the end. However, there are a few exceptions. For me, a few of the series I never finished include:

  1. A Series of Unfortunate Events - Lemony Snicket. I read the first three books just before the film came out and only got as far as book 6. I wasn't the right target age as I was 14 when I started and really those books felt like they were for ages 10-12.

  2. The Power of Five - Anthony Horowitz. I was a huge fan of Alex Rider and had read all of that series until then and started this series because it was by the same author. I read book 3 and then grew out of YA books as I was nearing university age.

  3. The Demonata - Darren Shan. I had never read any of his other books when I picked up the first book "Lord Loss" and, like The Power of Five, I read the first 3 books before I grew out of them.

  4. The Lord of The Rings. I made it to about 1/3 of the way through Return of the King before I got bored. I really want to finish reading it at some point!

What book series did you never get to finish?

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u/InviteAromatic6124 — 7 days ago

If I a "What If? Machine" like in Futurama, I'd ask it "what if I had been diagnosed as autistic when I was a child?" so I could see how different my life might have been had I been able to get more support for my social problems growing up.

My partner would ask "what if I never broke my leg?" as that was the moment in her life aged 11 when everything went to shit for her.

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u/InviteAromatic6124 — 9 days ago
▲ 75 r/AskUK

My partner and I just came back from a weekend visiting my parents and we found a very mouldy loaf of bread on the kitchen counter on our return. I ask her why she didn't put it in the freezer so it wouldn't go mouldy and she said "my family has never put bread in the freezer".

This blew my mind as I always freeze bread as I don't eat it often and freeze it so it lasts way longer.

Is this a common practice to freeze your bread so it lasts longer, or do you folks not bother and just eat it as you go?

Edit: to clarify why I didn't put the bread in the freezer before we left. I didn't know there was still bread left over as we both have our own bread and she normally eats her bread before it goes mouldy. Had I known that she still had a lot of her loaf left, I would have put it in the freezer for her.

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u/InviteAromatic6124 — 10 days ago
▲ 92 r/Music

What songs are there where a moral is given right at the end? For example, in The Ballad of Frankie Lee and Judas Priest by Bob Dylan the last verse goes:

The moral of this story,
The moral of this song
Is simply one should never be
Where one does not belong.
So when you see your neighbor carryin' somethin'
Help him with his load
And don't go mistaking Paradise
For that home across the road

Another of his is "Rambling, Gambling Willie": So all you rovin' gamblers, wherever you might be, The moral of this story is very plain to see. Make your money while you can, before you have to stop, For when you pull that dead man's hand, your gamblin' days are up.

There's also "Cedars of Lebanon" by U2 which ends with "Choose your enemies carefully 'cause they will define you/ Make them interesting 'cause in some ways they will mind you/ They're not there in the beginning but when your story ends/ Gonna last with you longer than your friends"

I can't say it's something I've heard in many other songs.

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u/InviteAromatic6124 — 14 days ago