Or English people! Fun! The posters for blood donation around my old office building always said "Everyone welcome!" and sometimes some of us would write on them in protest.

I'm dying. DYING. That's magnificent.

Sorry, I should've been clearer about where I see the similarity. My friend was blamed for outing someone who didn't want to be outed, and like this it was a really complicated situation in which my friend wasn't seeking to out anyone but he found it unavoidable. My friend had to report to some work-related incidents…

Someone I love was the only person blamed in a suicide note by someone who'd been suicidal for years before they even met; that person's death was clearly *not* the fault of my friend, but people thrust guilt upon him regardless. He started to feel very guilty and had a terrible time with it for ages, and I wish he…

Yes; the journalist unknowingly ventured into a situation that was far more complicated than he could possibly have expected. Very tricky.

Yep. I love it. (I love Lightroom more, but Photoshop comes second.)

Yes, times 100. I'm exporting a ton of jpgs from Lightroom right now, actually — you have to do *something* with raw files, and 99% of the time that something doesn't involve switching anyone's heads around. (And if I wanted to move heads around, I'd give it to a retoucher, because I'm definitely *not* a retoucher,…

Oh, this is glorious. I should've spoken up sooner.

Does no one else see all this "doge" stuff and think of mediaeval rulers in Italy?

Yeah, the original pictures were mostly fine and then just tweaked a bit in post. I'm bewildered by the fuss about it. I've done loads more on plenty of shots, too.

YES. I sometimes shoot in that style and it makes everyone look about seventy shades lighter than they are in daylight (it gets tricky if one model is very pale to begin with). (And then sometimes I shoot in ways that happen to make everyone look a bunch darker, too.)

I bet *that* motivation could make it happen, if she's personally torn between the two!

My example was bad, sorry. I just meant that she might really like her current hair situation and yet still equally want to go natural. If you're equally drawn to conflicting things, for me, at least, it's so much easier to stick with the thing I currently have.

That's very true. But on the other hand, anything she does is massively scrutinised, which might be an obstacle in itself. Or, it could just be the wanting-two-things-at-once dilemma — perhaps she would dearly love to have natural hair but also really equally loves being blonde (I'm like that with…

There are lots of things I would like to do but don't, for various reasons; perhaps even Beyoncé has conflicts and dilemmas.

"Cunt" is an excellent word. I wish it were used more often.

There are adults I wouldn't take to a restaurant like because I can't expect them to not disrupt other paying customers (including me), let alone babies. At some restaurants, you pay for the food; at others, you pay for the food and the environment… and if you have some sort of emergency that means you can't make your…

Cheers!

On my last flight I watched a good eight hours of Game of Thrones and True Blood. Nudity was apparently not a concern.

I love that bathroom! Yep, it's so tiny there… and yet so convoluted.