Very true, Cass. The best bet is to raise children who don't give a shit, though that is not 100% under the parents' control. In the high school years I got really lucky with guy friends (mostly rich, private school boys, but not pampered) who treated us right. They all had younger sisters, but mostly I think it was a…

Ugh. I'm in a job where we don't work in the office, but we are encouraged to use it for everything we need. Never mind that when we do check it, it's 3/4 outage notifications from IT and company spam (health insurance/superannuation/someone's friend who is now a beautician).

It's a fair call. I don't work in an office, never had a meeting, so I assume the question is "talk before shagging?" Now, I'm not one to slutshame, but I just think it's polite to get a dude/dudette's name first and see if they have a firm handshake. The handshake is not important, but I want them to think it is.

I am so confused by the first one. I don't know what Gchat is, and I haven't Replied All for at least 15 years. Are we talking about MySpace type stuff and fw: fw: fw: emails?

My Nanna would have said "gawd, why's he so maudlin?"

I never thought I'd say this, but at least Putin still has some expression. Clearly he can still do a shiny smug and creepy. I can't wait to see what his new and improved Blue Steel looks like upon a wooly mammoth. Let's be real, that's what we all are waiting to see. Serious Putin on a primary carnivore keeps the…

and if my post came off not right, pansexual as he knows his effects. Someone may educate me as to the right meaning of pansexual, but as a dude who people across the board would go, surely he's at the top.

Just a few hours ago I read an interview with him where he described himself as "a pansexual sexual object." For a hot second I thought he meant HE was pansexual (as he was married to a woman a long time ago, and it's a long and interesting story) but then I figured he meant that he was a sexual object for all sexes,…

RiffRaff, I've seen a whale shark poop. It's shocking and special, just like you.... I mean me, I mean all of us.

OK, so my imaginary best friends are Drew, Kate W, Emma Thompson, Keira, Tay, Claudia Karvan (look her up if need be, I grew up with her, and I like her and I love her) and now Olivia Wilde (Olivia Benson knows how I feel, but apparently she's always busy).

Yep, we had that too., a few rows ahead. I could deal with the bleeping and blooping because the kid would sleep eventually. On the way there we had parents who had no probs with their toddler screaming through check-in and the flight. A kid playing audible games at midnight wasn't so bad. The lady behind me getting…

I do not understand people who do not understand headphones. A few months ago I was flying 6hrs home from Phuket and the older lady behind me was playing a movie with no headphones. Lady, it's an 11pm flight. YOU get to be inconvenienced, not the rest of us.

Mostly off topic - when you guys come across stats that Australians are the biggest internet pirates... I could not watch that Australian Open link because I'm in the wrong region. It's fucking bullshit.

FLASHBACKS!

Oooh, tough call. I'm thinking mid/late '90s. Not that I'm giving it all the credit, but I didn't come across "breathe" until my imaginary best friend Drew Barrymore's Cinderella with her delightful "Just breathe" line. Tattoos were more likely to be Celtic crosses, or Radio Birdman/Black Flag symbols.

Oh Madonna, is he a rebel heart too? I'm pretty sure I would have got that as a tattoo written across a burning heart when I was 13.

Kim, your hair is yellow (platinum is quite another thing) and you need to stop messing with your face. Says 6 billion humans. (I have it on good authority)

My grandad, many years ago, on Christmas Eve turned to my Grandma and said he felt funny, like his heart was racing without any feeling of anxiety, it's odd, but it'll be fine. Thank god my grandma called the hospital, as my Grandad had a very minor heart attack.

I used to hate this song too. It was the epitome of bad radio stations stuck in a time warp. But it is actually so good! You have to hear it played live! We need the episode of hubby debating the merits of the saxophone.

At least Jared is dating vaguely within his age range, if this is true. It's still more than a ten year gap. Just like Bradley Cooper, Johnny Depp, John Meyer (depends on the week), Leonardo Di Caprio, etc. Guys my age dating girls in their early 20s.