My girlfriend hates that I game for two hours after work. I say it's how I unwind. Who's wrong?

Most people don't love travel. They just love getting away from their own lives.

Snoring in children isn't treated as normal - which is good news, because something can usually be done

A bit of snuffling during a cold or in an awkward position is ordinary and passes in a few days. Regular loud snoring, several nights a week, with no cold in sight, is a signal. Most often what's behind it is enlarged adenoids or tonsils. The list worth taking to an ENT: pauses…

My second baby slept better, and it was not because I had got wiser

We did two things differently: a sidecar cot from the first day, and no attempt to train him to silence. He napped in the living room with the kitchen, his sister and music going, and at night he lay beside me but on his own surface. He moved into his own cot later almost…

Polllifemrnoodles · 1d

A $3,000 Doodle puppy is:

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iPhone keyboard quietly refuses to suggest about 100,000 phrases, researcher finds

The iPhone keyboard carries a hidden list of words and phrases it will not suggest, researcher Derik Kauffman said on 6 November. He published the English list and those for other languages, decoded from Apple's own data files. Most entries are vulgar or about drugs, sex and…

Your son-in-law got himself and your daughter deep in debt, and now they ask you to bail them out. You:

I get about a third of my calories finishing my kids' plates. This is:

One in three children grinds their teeth at night - and it has nothing to do with worms

Grinding (bruxism) usually comes from teething, a changing bite, or tension the child didn't manage to let out during the day. The worms theory is an old myth that still sends parents to the pharmacy for no reason. Short episodes need no treatment at all, and most children…

Night-time dryness isn't a skill you teach. It's something that arrives.

Daytime and night-time are two different stories. A child stays dry at night when the body starts making enough of the hormone that concentrates urine overnight and the bladder can hold it until morning. That usually lands somewhere between three and five, and wet nights up to…

When the heating comes on, indoor humidity drops to 20% and the night cough starts

Normal is 40-60%. At 20-25% the lining of the nose dries out, crusts make breathing harder, and by morning there is a cough and a child who keeps waking. It is not a cold: no fever, fine all day. A humidifier or the improvised equivalents, saline rinses, airing the room before…

My 4-year-old cried at a Turkish ice cream stand. The guy kept snatching the cone back while everyone laughed. That vendor is:

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Polllifefishsticks · 2d

The clocks just went back again. Which time should we keep all year?

My boss was screaming at the whole team on a call, so I told him to watch his damn tone. That was:

The $5 rotisserie chicken from the grocery store is best eaten:

The biggest age gap you'd date is:

Hackers raised cold room temperatures at three sites of France's blood service

Hackers have tampered with the cold rooms of France's national blood service. On 2 November, the control systems of cold storage rooms at three sites of the Établissement français du sang (EFS) were altered so that "temperature and defrosting thresholds were raised to very high…

A plane is mostly a white noise machine with seats

The engine hum does half the settling work, which is why many babies sleep better in the air than their parents expect. The parts worth planning are the other half. Ears first: at take-off and descent, give the breast, a bottle or a pacifier - swallowing equalises the pressure…

A crafted image upload lets attackers write files to Ruby on Rails servers

Ruby on Rails, the web framework behind many online stores, SaaS products and startups, has fixed a critical flaw that lets an attacker with no account write arbitrary files to the server just by uploading a crafted image. The bug sits in Active Storage, the Rails component that…