Which Irish accent are you thinking of?

"Oh, I just assumed it was Canadian because it wasn't loud and annoying like most American accents."

To quote someone upthread who is far more loquacious than myself:

North or South? My vote is for the North Walian accent.

As a European person working with technological health companies across the world, I will never endorse a US-based company's product to be used here in Europe due to their weak data protection legislation. The Safe Harbour legislation between the EU and the US has been under review for years, and the current…

I LOVE that entire album, and I love her voice on it. The Windfall and that song that channelled that Yeats poem (can't remember the name) are superb.

Thank you for your apology on behalf of your people, I graciously accept.

That...that's one of the nicest things anyone's ever said to me! *sob*

Hi Rapunzel,

About a decade ago I was in the US for three weeks and I was horrified by the vomit-tasting chocolate. I found this bar in a shop one day and got very excited:

I only know it through literature prior to 1900...

Hey, I work at Bedlam! We don't need his kind here.

Fremd-SHAME-en. It actually is, I lived in Germany for years and people used the word all the time :)

Don't forget Joseph Gordon Levitt!

Hi Foxglove Tea,

Not crazy at all. As you say, he's done something weird and stalkerish, saying "I can still reach you and influence you", while doing it in a way that can make him look sweet and caring as opposed to manipulating.

One of my flaws, I suppose, is that I seem to always want to salvage something when possible, like I can't stand it when I've had an acrimonious split in any type of relationship (romantic or otherwise) and that there is this person out there in the world, thinking badly of me. But I really need to cultivate my IDGAF…

Then your behaviours make sense. As I said, two people may have the same behaviours with different reasons - a woman may eat a pint of ice cream because she's an emotional binge eater, or because she's pregnant and has a food craving, or because there's no other food in the house for dinner. Only one of these reasons m…

Fun fact: Bethlem Hospital is now one of the best psychiatric hospitals in the world, about 800 years on from its foundation! It's always weird to me how they never changed the name though.

Equating non-healthy food with "poisonous things" is a red flag for me.