I’m very happy, thank you for your concern

And you might think I’m a dickhead but at least I can back up my opinions with hard facts

Not a dickhead, it’s true - I’ve done my own fair share of minimum wage jobs but in my HR career I deal with white collar professionals. I don’t need to apologise for that. You sound particularly bitter that your company doesn’t pay longer for your lifestyle choice of having a child - I don’t get paid time off for…

That would have been epic - I love Irish cream!

The Govt only reimburse for statutory, not full pay - full pay is a perk from the company’s pocket. I’m surprised as every single company I’ve worked for has offered 9 months full pay. Statutory mat/shared parental pay is first 6 weeks at 90% of pay, then 140.98 or 90% of your average weekly earnings (whichever is…

I like that they raised the bar on the showstopper challenge in the first week, those illusion cakes were extraordinary!

We really need to send some of our UK parents to America to see how lucky they are in comparison! Here we get 9 months paid leave (often fully paid, or at a minimum statutory £140 per week) plus additional 3 months optional unpaid entitlement, and they accrue annual holiday as normal during that time - so many people…

This. Atonement did the Dunkirk retreat so much better - still not perfect but shows the filthy conditions, exhaustion after the race to the coast, the overcrowding. And James McAvoy in a uniform, obvs ....

No, I thought it sucked too. If the director doesn’t want to get bogged down in politics, don’t do a war movie about a real event in history dammit! I hate it when they sanitize everything to oblivion like that!

I was so disappointed in Dunkirk - no blood, sparse on the crowd scenes, the absence of any women or POC on the retreat (the women’s auxiliary were actually some of the last off the beach as they were managing telephony for the retreat), plus the extended glide by Tom Hardy in the Spitfire felt like a shitty way to…

Because I could have a nice dinner out for the cost of watching Cara Delevigne pouting around space? Our local cinema is £15 per ticket and £8 for a popcorn & soda - times these by two to include Mr Ginger and we’re looking at around $65 USD for just 2 hours of mediocre entertainment!

I’m still pulling for King Gendry with Arya as hand - Baratheon blood and one of the only people not of the line of the mad King. They must have brought him back for a reason after 3 series’ out... Gendry and Arya already have a connection but she won’t be tamed by a man!

I was so disappointed with Taylor’s new song - was expecting a full-on Right Said Fred sample to groove to nostalgically, but sounds nothing like them... back to the 90s compilation cassettes for me!

It’s not lack of empathy - it’s a healthy dose of British realism :-)

It’s not just about the age - it’s about being in a position of trust around a minor. In the UK age of consent is 16, but 18 for both if one is in a position of trust, which I’d argue was the case here. He’s as bad as an abusive teacher or football coach, abusing his position in the industry to access these young…

The best thing is, she doesn’t have a driving licence - the monarch doesn’t have to have one!

Hey, not sure if you’re aware of this but the usual way to publish pics of royal cars in the UK is to blur the licence plate, for security reasons... you might want to consider that!

Modern life expectancy means it’s likely we’ll all be working till at least 70, so you have plenty of time! In my 20's my high-flyer friends were able to get fancy jobs as they had parental support for their internships, whereas I was broke and had to take whatever came along . However while I’m in my 30's and started…

Spot on. I have private healthcare too through work but that doesn’t cover prescriptions. I took my private prescription to the pharmacist and they were going to charge me £500 per month. My NHS GP stepped in prescribed it for me - down to £8.60 per month (plus my national insurance contributions of course).

I can only hope so - no-one really knows if we experience pain in these situations as we don’t come back to tell them. I found out during an operation (carried out while I was awake) that morphine doesn’t work for me - I was hours in agony before the clinical staff finally believed me and gave me something else. They…