Oh no, the Pregnancy Sucks club is not small, we're just cowed by all the people insisting you should be Glowing. And Life-Affirming. And Radiant. When all I felt was sick, exhausted, hormonally depressed and pissed off I couldn't have red wine or coffee for so long.

YAY midwives! I think you will love it.

Ugh, I can still feel the physical sensations of it. I was not a woman who liked pregnancy; I wanted children, and so endured pregnancy. So you have ALL my sympathy, and I hope it passes quickly and smoothly and is as good as possible and ends in an easy labour and a healthy and awesome baby and mum! Very happy to…

How did I not know you are PREGNANT! B-shaah tova! That's wonderful! Is it going well? So (irrationally, given I don't know you for realsies) happy to hear this!!!

I'm very grateful to you for sharing this because I feel a tiny bit less awful knowing I'm not the only one.

Are you comfortable with the extremes this would logically lead to? If you can't force someone to buy their own health insurance, and you can't force taxpayers to fund healthcare for the uninsured, and you can't force doctors/hospitals to work for free, then you're going to be letting people die who could easily be…

Oh God. I'm there with you.

Will look up your thread. Thank you.

What what? Alleged rapist? Oh hell. Please no. I hadn't heard that, and found him so utterly likeable. That makes four for four Voice judges who are awful human beings, if so.

So I met this guy on a recent research trip. Nothing whatsoever happened. He's married. I'm married. Our entire four hour conversation could be viewed by both spouses and nobody would find anything wrong with it. And I cannot stop thinking about him.

Honestly, the whole bar of good dark chocolate is still better than lots of other binges, especially if they're commercial ice cream/cake etc. Less sugar, way way less processed stuff. Are you a red wine fan? They go well together. So does scotch.

Get yourself some really good quality dark chocolate. It doesn't have that much sugar, it does have a lot of nutrients in it, and it's rich, so a little will go a long way. Far far better to do that than to eat, say, an entire McCain Deep n Delicious chocolate cake. I've done both in the throes of chocolate…

Climb two staircases without pausing?

Why is it ok for people to concern-troll drunks and drug users (Hello, Lindsay Lohan and Miley Cyrus!) but unacceptable to point out the health problems of people this size? Gabourey is not even plus size; she's custom ordering clothing because she's carrying around more than an extra human in adipose, which is…

Not that she needs one, but might be a reason why she prefers her hair short.

Facts aren't matters of opinion. If you concede that they are, you're ceding. Do you have the balls to go there?

a.k.a the human equivalent of testing positive for chlamydia.

So that's got to make it legally murder, right? Stand your ground requires that you feel some degree of threat, correct? Which cannot possibly be present if the person is walking AWAY from you.

Or just, y'know, don't answer the door? If someone's at the doorbell, and I'm scared because I'm not expecting anybody and I'm alone in the house, I stay upstairs and don't answer the door. It's not even necessary to call the police if they're knocking/ringing politely. If you hear someone trying to force the lock,…

Canadian who's lived different places, here. For me it's neighbourhood and time of day dependent. We've usually lived in areas where I feel no need to lock the doors during the day, but that's not really a function of what country we're in. At night, I always do, just because it seems more vulnerable to me when…