I know him as Captain Wentworth in Persuasion.

Thames Water began battling the Chelsea fatberg

Someone found a condom wrapper in our school yard once. I was old enough just about to know what one was, but was utterly confused about how something that covered a penis would also fit in a postage-stamp sized packet. The idea that a condom needed to be flexible had not occurred to me...

“I don’t understand why the person taking the picture couldn’t have held the baby, but sometimes these situations happen,” she says.

I thought that coin laundries were where you could get your coins cleaned.

Beanie bats

And as a Vogon poetry expert, you would know.

She wasn’t a teenager on Vampire Diaries or on Teen Wolf, so there’s that.

Australia, yes. Can’t remember when I heard this - quite a few years ago. It could easily be the same person, but at the same time, it sounds more like a habitual thing, so I’d like to imagine we now have corroboration from multiple sources.

A friend of a friend apparently slept with Henry Rollins, and when he came, he yelled ‘FEEL THE SEED OF ROLLINS!’.

This is clearly a cost-cutting proposition. This is not about increasing vaccination, it’s about finding a politically-appealing way to put more money back in the budget.

:( That made me happy, and then sad...

Oh god, vomiting in the toilet of a train in India... It’s a ‘western style’ toilet, which just means that it’s a bucket shaped hole with a seat on top, the ‘flush’ is a jet of water that just empties ineffectually down the centre, so the sides are covered in shit and piss. And the floor is wet, and probably not just…

Never mind Full House, Outlander is back this weekend! (Utterly unrelated but I just found out and am super-excited).

I ride a bike to work, so I eat bugs unwillingly every day. Could probably make the leap to willingly if I had to.

Where I buy fabric, it's usually a discount if you empty the bolt. Or if there's only a small bit left, they just include it with your yardage. But to ask for it is just gross.

I have a novelisation of Ghost Rider, thanks to my and my brother's agreement to spend a maximum of $2 on Christmas presents.

I did this to my mum once. I was sucking up to her for some reason, offered to make her a tea, pour in the milk, then add a wedge of lemon to make it fancy. She... appreciated the thought.

Melburnian here. Melbourne has some cool old buildings that are a bit hidden, and some modern stuff that people either love or hate.

I was worried that no one else remembered that story.