Then I'm not too perturbed personally. But it seems like if they are doing this because people were writing hateful stuff, that will now migrate to the film reviews bit instead. (Although I have forgotten if those are pre-approved or something. It's been a while since I looked at it.)

I like the idea of Reddit, it just needed more ground rules and in an ideal world a touch less hatred ;-)

A lot of them were "Hey was she in Deadwood?" or "I'm so sad they killed his character on Prison Break" or something.

Does this include the film reviews people wrote along side giving a star rating? Some films had some amusing reviews.

In all seriousness, these kinds of problems can be solved by a TWoPesque set of ground rules:
1) No name calling
2) No personal abuse
3) No boards on boards
4) Use proper spelling, grammar and capitalisation.

If you like mandatory druggings and idyllic island-like settings, I'd probably go with The Prisoner…..

Ironically this went way better than a similar exchange on The Guardian ever would ;-)

Choices, choices, choices. It's all about priorities and compromise (or so I'm told).

This seems like a slight over-reaction.

I got so much happier in my mid-twenties when I finally stopped judging myself against what friends and family were doing. It was useless and led me to self-pity, feeling guilty and then trying to drink or have treats to feel better. And it put so much pressure on things like job opportunities.

I know it wasn't addressed to me but this is really useful and valuable advice. And the last bit about blaming yourself for not being very together as a kid/teen is very thought-provoking. I remember a lot from then and I feel like I need to make up for being a bad and selfish kid and teenager.

On the flip side if you make the jump to a nine to five when you've had creative hopes and ambitions you have a load of angst about whether you were a quitter and a fake and about not working hard enough to not waste the thing you were supposed to be good at. I have no idea if this is helpful or not but anyway.

There isn't a world of women, we are just people same as you lot.

We never had a left-wing government ;-) Especially not Blair/Brown. Brown's Labour was slightly more leftie but it was in a freaky ID cards and detention without trial for terror suspects kind of way.

It absolutely doesn't cause us any friction. They were young when they had us and we've got along really great for the most part. Also it's nice to be able to help them out after all this time.

Here's my business card:
:: VG: joke-killer!::

Well hopefully by my next birthday it won't be an issue :-)

I feel exactly the same. To move out sooner I have the option of giving £400 - £500 a month to my parents who need the money or I can give it to a BTL landlord who has forty odd properties they don't maintain.

I've lived at home to save up a house deposit. My parents both got made redundant in their late fifties a few years back just as my prospects started looking up workwise so they get the extra money and I've been able to save the deposit and starting costs (furniture/solicitors/mortgage/legal).

I don't particularly have any useful advice right now (it's early here) but good luck for working out what you want and what you want to do.