Apparently periods of starvation can do whack things to your appetite, metabolism, etc. It shows up in PoWs too.

That's Jacqueline Bisset at the bottom? WOW. Diana looks amazing too. But see, Liz's eyebrows are just too much for me. Oh well, a chacun son gout and all that.

Bleghhhhhh.....I've gone off her now.

"couldn't stand the sight of Sharon Tate's pregnant body"

She did? Ugh.

Oooh, thanks. I'm somewhat bedridden tonight so this will be juicy reading.

Oooooh, got any good links? I would love knowing about those skeletons.

Gotta get those clicks!

I also find the celebrity-worship aspects of the Royals really disturbing. It's not healthy, but the Royals do nothing to reduce it.

I had to look up Boden catalogue. You nailed it.

That is all very interesting. Certainly does not help the image of the Royals as dead weight.

The moment a corporation pays you a wage, no matter how low, the rest of them bite and scratch and claw to get it back.

I feel certain that if she said to the staff "I've got to go outside to change my baby's diaper, can you keep an eye on my kids while I'm gone?" they would have obliged somehow. Or she could ask the patrons at the next table over. Something like that.

I'd never seen this one!

So she could be mimicking the dysfunctional stuff she picks up from her friends who are picking it up from their dysfunctional families. I, uh, know from experience how that can happen.

People are all into all kinds of things. I wouldn't rule out the possibility that some woman somewhere would be into that. I don't see why it has to be demeaning.

MMF means the men do stuff to each other too. MFM is when they both do stuff to the woman.

Is she in any conflict with anyone at school? And taking it out on a "safe" target (you)?

LOL, it was familiar to me too. I lived in Australia for 4 years. Personally I picked up on a really toxic Irish-Catholic "know your place" kind of attitude, and I saw so much binge drinking, even among adults well past their early 20s, that I really wondered what psychological demons people were running from.

After all her crazy stories of drunken hookups, affairs, extreme office drama, I did say to her "so it's like Mad Men?" and she said "Yeah."