My friend found the term I needed. “Fit and flare” dresses!

A fit and flare dress is a dress silhouette featuring a fitted upper body (the “fit”) and a full skirt (the “flare”).[1]

Like the A-line silhouette, fit and flare dresses feature a fitted upper body and a wide hem. Both silhouettes flatter a wide variety of body types. The difference between the styles is that the fit and flare necessarily includes a fitted waistline while the A-line silhouette does not

It is obviously very subjective and it depends what you want out of it…

If you are buying generic branded stuff with obvious branding then you are just paying for the brand itself so that you can signal it to others. At that point, no, not worth it. You can get the exact same design, pattern etc. from other, cheaper, brands. The only “worth” here is showing you are part of that in-crowd, it is basically the same thing as wearing a team’s football shirt. The worth is purely because of the brand name.

Sometimes you are paying for a particular design. The quality might not be worth the money but if you are after a very particular style and that style is worth you paying extra then sure, that can be worth it. The kind of clothes where it is obvious if you are wearing a compromised “knock-off”. I think this category is more obvious for accessories like handbags, purses, jewellery etc. but certainly some coats, shoes etc. fall into this.

Then you just go into the world where luxury just means no compromise and then I can get it. Stuff that just doesn’t really have a “cheap” equivalent. You pay for the brand, design and the quality and at that point, if that is what you want, then it is absolutely worth it.

Never understood the point in this. When you flipped the DVD to the other side to play the other half it naturally rewound the first side. Such a scam.

I was a dental nurse for a while in my youth and NHS dental price bands were always so weird. Sometimes it was far cheaper to go private for some procedures that were within NHS band 2 but were really on the very low end of that scale, stuff like sealant or a tiny amount of filling like a glass ionomer as a prevention for a cavity that was only a few mins worth of work or applying some fissure sealant.

Yeah i had this recently in an ‘everyone needs to move off whatsapp’ topic. It just isnt practical and I would be commiting social suicide if I told everyone they could only talk to me on signal and uninstalled whatsapp.

You see this with normal heating systems. My house has hot air heating with a big burner and vents in the rooms. It is great for instant heat but once it turns off you lose the heat just as fast. And if you dont have a vent in the room it can be pretty cold.

But the house I grew up in had water filled radiators in every room. Took ages to warm up the house but it would transfer an awful lot of heat into the brick walls so it would stay warm for a really long time after the heating shut off.

So in the old house in winter you really didnt notice the heating turning on and off but in my new one it is painfully obvious. I really want to rip it out and get a better system.

Also people are a lot more protective about their karma so it tends to make everyone into a weird homogeneous blob too scared to say anything that goes against the grain

I wore 4" recently and wanted to die. 2" is no problem

I used to literally have a spare battery for my htc desire if i was going somewhere for a while, so much more convenient than a battery bank thing. Never once saw the contacts go loose in any phone I owned going back to a 3210.

Most people don’t. There is a theory (and I don’t know if it was ever verified officially) that Adobe stuff was made so easy to pirate and crack intentionally. That way students and people learning how to use their tools (primarily photoshop) would master it and therefore force any employer they later worked with to get and stay with Adobe and their expensive enterprise licences. The lower the barrier of entry the more people in the workforce could be competent with it.

I was happier not knowing this…

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Its a common trope of the galaxy brained transvestigators to get around the fact that hormones really can alter a ton of the body but they have to be able to “always tell”. So when you get a trans man that looks incredibly masculine they can’t quite accept it. So rather than admit anything they decide convoluted stuff like this where people transition then detransition later. Particularly links into conspiracies of people being transitioned as young children then ‘reverting to type’ in later life to fuel a hate narrative. Its insane.

I have some, totally worth it

Probably super garlicky mustardy mash with a ton of pepper. Love it with tinned sweetcorn and gammon, definitely a childhood comfort food thing.

I assumed this is what they meabt, never even heard of a chocolate croissant before…

As others have said, Oxford, Cambridge, Collins and Chambers are all used in the UK and there are variations of them as well (for example he Oxford English Dictionary is not the same as the Oxford Dictionary of English which is a completely different dictionary published by the same people) but they also all have different styles and rules when it comes to primarily using British or American english spelling.

If I was recommending a single one I’d say the Oxford Dictionary of English, its cheap and it is the one that served me all the way through school as it was the one we were made to get.

Steal her look https://youtu.be/frenyYk3jIA?t=127

I think we need to be more consistent with it, time to drop the ‘p’ sound from helicopter as per its roots.

I find it hard to be mean even when I feel it. A lot of it is fear of it being unjustified but I just don’t really think that it works most of the time. When I’m mean to somebody it plays in my mind for days giving them undeserved time in my brain but when I just become neutral and refuse to engage with them I’m generally more at peace with myself after and the event no longer occupies my thoughts, they aren’t worth the effort.