Please no more, I read about knotting last week and my brain shut down. No more!

Thank you for teaching me two new words today, dubcon and kinkshaming. I'm oddly proud of figuring out the first one without looking it up :)

We don't know that depression is linked to a neurotransmitter deficit. The serotonin hypothesis of depression is almost certainly wrong. One of the leading brain-based theories of depression suggests that SSRIs and other antidepressants promote the production of BDNF, brain-derived neurotrophic factor, but it's as yet…

That's sick :(

Savita Halappanavar. There was also Sheila Hodgers in the 80s, a woman who was in the early stages of pregnancy when she was diagnosed with cancer. The doctors wouldn't treat her for cancer as the drugs would harm the foetus, and they wouldn't give her an abortion (or painkillers!) though she and her husband begged…

RECIPE OR IT DIDN'T HAPPEN.

I have a mental image of you in a forest, foraging. You find a blindingly white cup of greek yoghurt under a dock leaf and sit down prettily in your circle skirt to eat it.

AMEN. I know so many people who consider their diet to be the One True Diet, but I think everyone's body is different and has different needs. I do well on very high protein diets, my sister does well on a high carb diet. If I ate like she did, I would be in a lethargic stupor and I would feel weak. If she ate like I…

He also charges ten dollars "a hour".

Ho-lee SHIT. I didn't consider any of those things. Maybe dick pics do serve a valid purpose then, like a resume. Unsolicited dick pics are surely even less welcome than unsolicited resumes though.

What's an ugly dick? I'm a hetero woman, and while I find many things about men rather attractive, penises aren't one of them. How do you distinguish an ugly one from a...um...pretty one?

In Ireland, we have a phrase "there's none so pure as a reformed whore". Usually applied to ex-smokers, people who have lost a lot of weight, and people who have suddenly found religion.

Do you think she's being a good role model? Or is she setting an impossible standard?

Your mother in law is right, see Winnicott's work on the "good enough" mother:

Maybe you would live in your individual bubble, interacting with artificial intelligences that are created to satisfy your desires, or maybe only people who have the right idea of perfect get in in the first place. For example, if my idea of perfect is Tom Hiddleston as my sub in an awesome BDSM dungeon, I imagine I…

Isn't it scary though, that some people assume that the only thing keeping people from raping and killing each other is a belief in a Big Disciplinarian in the Sky?

Evangelicals seem to have major issues with Catholics though, considering them almost pagan in their "worshipping" of Mary and the saints. I've even heard people say that Catholics aren't really Christians.

And the best music and the most interesting people. Conversation in Heaven would be BORING. Here's some famous Irish wit on the subject...

They have Russia's support, so they have food, weapons and a shitload of alcohol. Some are from the 25 km2 area where the bodies fell, most are not. Many are not even from eastern Ukraine.

Trying to find a job is very depressing.