I like y'all. It sounds much softer/friendlier than the equivalent youse (pronounced yooz) which is what gets used around here (Australia).

Perhaps it is regional and/or generational. I am also university educated, and would consider it one of the more offensive swear words. Oddly, I usually hear it used by men, to refer to other men, and don't hear it very often when alcohol isn't involved.

I have seen plenty of people here say that the c-word is less offensive in Australia, but I wouldn't have known that from experience. I just asked my husband and he said he hears it very often in male only spaces, but not in mixed company.

I figure she says stuff like that to avoid giving personal answers without being rude and refusing to answer.

I went to a toilet in an airport somewhere (I don't remember where) that had paper towels and a spray for sanitising the toilet seat before using it.

That doesn't mean she will be down with having her privacy violated.

Yeah, there really should be some way of legally restricting access to private images of oneself. Even if the photographer owns the copyright, they shouldn't be permitted to distribute those photographs without the permission of the person photographed.

Do we know that the site is hosted in the US?

They're also called prawns in Australia (small or large)

Wow, they're leaving out all the best stuff! Are they the meat and three veg sort?

Yes, and I have been there too. I was referring to the fact that Spain appeared to be the most socially liberal country in that report. Some of the western countries weren't great either, so it was nice to see one that is.

Spain was encouraging though.

But then you won't have the joy of fluorescent wee.

Poe's law.

That sort of thing is probably why at my birthing classes we were asked to think carefully about who you ask to be with you in the birthing suite. They said to only allow people who won't make it all about them, even if that means excluding someone you really would like to have with you.

I'm guessing the way it works is that if you are rich you can get better healthcare in the US, but if you aren't you can get better healthcare in the UK. I assume that if you don't have the required health insurance, it wouldn't be a treatment option in the US either.

Because a girl doing something 'boyish' isn't seen as shameful to the same extent that boy doing something 'girlish' is.

I thought I remembered seeing something this week about a bartender accepting money to spike drinks. It's not even safe then.

Except that it would probably add to the poor girl's trauma.

All of the kangaroo ones I have seen around here have designated no-people areas where the animals can go and chill out when they have had enough. I almost never see them in baby farm animal petting zoos though.