I mentioned upthread that I finally got rid of the alien I’ve been hosting for...5 years according to the doctor. He was a dermoid cyst approximately the size of 2 man fists put together (the doctor had limited props for demonstration) and was hiding behind my bowel. But the doctor managed to save my ovary and…

Don’t you put the drill into reverse and hope to Christ you don’t take half the decking board with you? What’s an impact driver I ask because this sounds like something Dad would unwrap at Christmas and become his new favourite thing for the entire year.

Hello! I am 1 week post-laparotomy to remove a cyst that went a bit mental and tried to take my ovary with him. The little bastard is gone (I named him Clive), and my magic dissolvable stitches have fallen off, but I’m now freaking out because people have told me to a) keep the wound dry and don’t wash it, b) wash it…

A RIGHT FUNNY MAN DARCY

Is that a thing then? Southerners in America not liking the Irish? 

She was absolutely amazing on that show. Her character was originally male if I remember rightly, but the director basically said there was enough penis going on already. Olivia Colman is utterly hilarious in talk shows but she’s got giant acting chops as well. She’s going to be fantastic in The Crown.

I’ve the same problem :( I’ve tried on my laptop, tablet, phone...

So I studied Computer Science for one utterly miserable semester before I realised that I was actually quite shit at anything to do with logic and I only went to college because I thought that’s what my parents wanted when in fact they just wanted me to not be forcing myself to do something that made me unhappy. I…

Nothing, NOTHING can beat walking Rome in sandals for a day and coming back to the hotel to find a perfect pattern of absolute filth where your skin was showing. Like I had to scrape it off with a plastic spoon before I could even get in the shower. Rome is disgusting.

Maybe if you worked with less fabric? I live in Africa and wrap my hair inside the house (because it’s humid as shit here and I’m growing out my hair and the wispy sweaty strands at my neck drive me bonkers). Outside the house I don’t so the solution I kind of found is to cut some of my scarves in half and just use it…

“Tom Petty or heavy petting or Costa Rica”

I lost it at rigging.

I kind of half agree with you - especially on the PR shit. Ed Sheeran has no bloody business stepping foot in Liberia unless he has a transferable, useful required skill. The only person who benefitted from that stunt was him.

This thread is really interesting, but people do seem to either be talking at cross purposes or completely misunderstanding each other. The teacher in me (that’s currently in Africa btw) just wants tell everyone to take a clean breath, stretch and start again.

Er, is he alright in his upstairs. Has he actually seen a piece of text in Irish or is he deliberately looking to misconstrue an honest question because I have trouble speaking Irish and there’s a lovely gold harp on my passport.

That’s not an axe that’s an IUD and don’t try to convince me otherwise.

I live and teach in East Africa and everything about this trailer is what I see every day in my city. Braids are not a big deal, shaved heads on school girls is commonplace because sometimes they wait until they’re older to do anything more elaborate with their hair as a mark of maturity. I’ve never been to America…

It’s a Kurdish unisex name, pronounced Ssshwan, less of a hard J sound. I think he’s Syrian Kurd but grew up in Sweden.

I can’t watch it. I have zero cringe tolerance (I can’t even watch The Office without drinking heavily).

So I’m currently in hospital after waking up yesterday screaming like a banshee utterly convinced I had been stabbed in the ladygarden. Turns out my left ovary has eloped with a cyst and both are currently making a break for the border. The healthcare system in Ireland is much maligned but my doctors were not fucking…