Also, no one owes you good conversation. I went to a social thing the other day and jumped around having brilliant conversations then could not click with someone. No reason.

Also, depends how you learn. I read quite widely, on lots of subjects, but sometimes it is months til a thought crystallises in me or til several ideas tesselate.

Fiction tends to be more interesting to me because history is a) written by the winners b) written by the Great Man theory.

I would also like to hear these Mary Queen of Scots opinions

I've read thousands of books and a) quite a lot of "classics" are straight up garbage.
b) You don't always read to better yourself intellectually
c) Harry Potter is a really quick read. It's fun, and funny, so you can jump into it for comfort if you want (I have been rereading them recently to retrain my attention…

The only advice I can give is to take this week to really think about what you want/ need. Don't get caught in other bullshit

Incidentally, just because it jibed with Dan's comments about "unwoke twinks sharing gifs of black women":

Eric Idle was amongst the most attractive women when he dressed up. Shout out to Dave Foley's and Reece Shearsmith's work over the years.

"I can't think where we went wrong naming our business after an obsolete medium and the type of dwelling only associated with hillbilly serial killers and Unabombers"

The last ten minutes were on tv. My dad said "hey, Star Wars. You'll like this". i watched a minute of the trench run, then I wandered off.

Fine. If that's the price we pay, so be it.

All valid points. (Apart from the fact that the guy who did the Dunblane Massacre had been removed, quickly, from his role with the scouts when concerns were raised and that him not being allowed to rejoin or start up other youth groups outside of the scouts was thought to be a factor in him doing the massacre. I've…

At Uni I was a third wheel so often I learnt what it was in other languages

Good job we cut police funding! Especially cuts to front line services. Happened under a conservative government, but it was David Cameron who was in charge, not Theresa May.

Short answer: being around couples is nicer than being lonely.

I'm surprised this wasn't a CSI miami case.

Possums can be a financial analyst and a strong confident independent woman too.

Speaking as a straight white Christian man, straight white Christian men are the worst.

Yeah, I see no problem with that.

Yeah, it's a sensitive subject but I can't imagine a time when it won't be. It's like Americans with mass shootings/ police violence against unarmed people. "Now is not the time to politicise a tragedy" is fair but when it happens with regularity it's mathematically impossible.