Go Gabby! It's your birthday!

@Elaken: Ok, you're completely right on that last point. But I value my friends because of things that have nothing to do with the way they look and if they thought I ever categorised them by looks (as a 'grenade' vs a hot girl) rather than how they enrich my life as a friend, I'd be very...I don't know, confused as…

@MeiTai: She's just become a lot more...disappointed with life. And those around her. And I should add that it's not been just the weight loss, I think that was a symptom rather than a cause - she also lost her mother when she was 16 (she's now 21) and her first long-term relationship (of 4 years) ended shortly before…

A great episode. Love the soup analogy, almost cried for Sally when she fell and I could not understand how Roger and Joan had sex with all that complicated underwear she has on.

Is this an official social term now? Because I once had a friend who believed she was the ugly, fat one of the group and we were keeping this from her because we were polite. Her solution was to rapidly lose large amounts of weight and cease being the witty, warm and inciteful girl I used to love being around.

@Moretta: Me and my Dad make fun of it now - we read Dilbert cartoons and he's like 'That's actually what it's like at said company'. He's semi-retired now and hoping to go into a non-office environment for his next job because he hates office and workplace politics.

I'm reading The Fountainhead right now and I really like it. I'm sorry that puts me in the same category as that sorry excuse for a human being.

My mother recently attended a market research group about women and beer, ran by a brewery that wanted to aim a new ad campaign at women. Apparently my mother was there representing the older, parental generation (she's 56 and the 'mother of a beer drinking young woman' - that's me). She did this by saying she thought…

My Dad suffered from depression as a result of stress at work and he was terrified of letting people at work know and even got angry when my mother told her friends about it, but eventually he had to take a leave of absence after he had a nervous breakdown and his company (who's insurance programme funded his…

I'm more creeped out by my Dad checking out women (which, by the way, he never does - or at least, not openly) because I still struggle with 'Parents + sex = ew!', not because I have a feminist problem with it.

Sorry, ladies - your lack of a Y chromosome makes it impossible for you to understand the subtle nuances of our testicular satire. Continue to hear us tell you to 'lighten up', and weep.

@EdnasEdibles: My experience of men at high ranking universities in the UK also illustrates this - all-male education leads to the overriding view that women are superior, untouchable bitches who need to be tricked into bed in order to impress the other chaps, who will slap you on the back and buy you another drink.…

@EdnasEdibles: My experience of men at high ranking universities in the UK also illustrates this - all-male education leads to the overriding view that women are superior, untouchable bitches who need to be tricked into bed in order to impress the other chaps, who will slap you on the back and buy you another drink.…

Dya think Greg Sgammato is known by his friends as 'the Gregster'? Because we all know how that turned out in Cruel Intentions...

Dya think Greg Sgammato is known by his friends as 'the Gregster'? Because we all know how that turned out in Cruel Intentions...

What's up with the tissue paper curls? How is it done and does it make good curls?

A little dark but otherwise way more fabulous that that plus size show we saw pictures of yesterday - I wish I was big enough to shop in this store now!

@Orora: Since doing a psychology degree, I am strongly in favour of parental licensing based on a sound psychological exam and some common sense questions (e.g. 'Do you want children because everyone else has one and you feel left out, or do you actually feel you could enrich a child's life?').

They all look like they're going into surgery. Or - for those dresses that are short, but in an utterly odd, unflattering way, like a long t-shirt - having a vaginal exam.

This is kind of judgy. So, someone decides to change their look - we don't all have to embody our heritage. I'm white British - to stay true to my heritage, I'd be morris dancing and wearing....well, god knows what. A milk maid's outfit?