Please do it, BookMaven. Think how many lives could be changed -and not just the dogs’. The links between access to doggies and improvements in mental health as well as blood pressure are proven.

He brought stripper trousers. And he fell over. I kind of love him.

“By admitting that I believe that some people are worth more than others and deserve to suffer accordingly, I lost all of my friends and I want sympathy.”

Don’t get used to it. Always, always say out loud to yourself, “This is not normal. This is not normal.”

Same. I’ve talked about it here before. Maybe even with you. Who cares? It’s the best goddamned thing in the whole show.

1. Harry.

Ne’er truer words were spoken!

Oh, ok.

Perfect. Perfect. Brave, strong, brilliant women - all three of them. Makes me tear up a bit.*

It’s him. 100%. Odious, psychopathic, morally bankrupt, and repellent.

Quite why anyone should feel sorry for the deluded billionaire racist is beyond me. Or his voters. Nobody - nobody - can claim they didn’t know what he was like. Obama himself said, “Don’t be thinking there is another Donald Trump, this is who he is.” They voted for him not despite his racism, but because of it. No…

There is literally nothing about this “man” that either inspires or requires sympathy, but everything that should inspire direct action to remove him from power.

I don’t think I’ll bother any more, frankly! But thanks for your kind thoughts x

Basically, personal stuff going on in my life at one point was overwhelming. The night I went to talk to him about not seeing each other for a while, we spent so long talking about other things, including his worries about his daughter, I missed the last train home and also never got around to the subject. I thought…

Leave them to it. They’ll probably never know. They’ll also never know what clear message they’re obviously conveying to everyone else. You’ve got to feel sorry for them, really....

Agreed. However, I am ready for that umbrella. Or all of them. As it moves into the domestic sphere, enthusiastic consent becomes so crucial and the drum needs to be banged: dont you want more from sex than knowing your partner has agreed? Don’t you want more than just to agree to sex? Why is it so hard to reach this…

Yes. The moral of the story is basically Everyone Is Happier When They Can Get It.

Quite. Men as the agitator and instigator, free from the burden themselves, getting women to join them on the dark side.

Who knows? But it “not being a good idea” has rarely stopped a bloke wading in to a debate that isn’t about him. See: every interview Matt Damon has given in the last 4 months.

Ha, it’s a shame, because there could be an interesting counterpoint to his Oprah dig here, but all anyone cares about is that damned spinner. Although, this thread is truly hilarious. I can’t believe how many deadly serious comments there are about how people wash their lettuce, and forget they even own one!