Oh RIGHT. I totally forgot Laura and his sister had troubles.

It makes the 'yelling at a chair' make a lot more sense.

But didn't they make all/most of Laura's clothes new for the wedding? Guh. I'm so thankful to be born in the post-industrial era, pollution be damned.

I KNOW.

OH MY GOD THAT PAINTING

I do believe Cook's Illustrated looked at the salt addition times, and found that when you add salt before cooking, it actually makes the eggs creamier. See here, middle of the last paragraph. http://recipes.cooksillustrated.com/breakfast-brun…

Certainly it's a complicated situation and we don't know all the details. I often think my life would have been better had I been taken from my (undiagnosed) depressive, paranoid, abusive father. That being said, the UK government handled the situation badly, removed a child from their culture without contacting any…

Not to mention a kid who has been ripped from their family and probably doesn't even speak their native language. This whole thing is awful and terrifying.

Your country and your people thank you.

You know, I was looking for a new worst nightmare. Guess I just found it.

I think you're right. And you know, my favorite devout practitioners of faith (nuns and priests, mostly) really wrestle with their faith. They are chock-full of doubt, and they talk about it. Guess you can't do that in LDS?

I see! Thank you!

Well, it taught me a lot about what I'm willing to put up with, and that is 'not much'. If you can't call me back, you are not worth my time. But that's all in the past. I'm four years into a relationship that is my end-all, be-all, wonderful and happy. At this point in my life, he's more of an occasional…

I think it also has to do with future ability to defend copyright. It's my understand that if you don't defend it every time, you lose the legal ability to defend a copyrighted work at all.

This is going to sound bad, but be thankful it was just two days. I was involved with something like that for 18 months. Which was terrible, and stupid. Six years later, I'm in a different city across the country, he moves here, and starts showing up on my facebook friends' lists. So now it's messaging people to ask…

Two words: TRAPPIST. ABBEY.

I hope he has a host of wonderful qualities, because that would seriously be a dealbreaker for me. You must be an incredibly lovely human being.

Validation is important, though. Starting with something as simple as "It sounds like you're really upset about x. I'd like to help you with it if you want, otherwise I'm happy to listen," can be really effective. I personally am the kind of person who needs to talk it out, then talk about solutions, and when I get…

For me, it was when Graham Norton made him pull out his Richard III monologue without notice and he fucking KILLED. IT. He was barely on my radar—like, oh, that Loki guy, cool—and then I was all, HELLO.

Which is why I don't date actors. Also, as a sometimes stage manager, the fact that he's a good backstage actor just…

The school is probably in one of the posher areas, and in rush hour (3-8pm, depending) in those parts of town, it's not the speed, it's just crowded. There's a lot of people and cars moving, and quite often motorcyclists and Vespa users move too fast and too close to other cars (lane-splitting is legal), and are…