I’m sorry you are suffering from Crohn’s pain. Are there really no Crohn’s meds that work for you? Cutting out insoluable fiber, and going on a steroid and then switching to sulfasalazine markedly ratcheted down the pain for me (the arthritis in all my joints was the fucking worst). Granted, aside from the bowel…

Ditto. And everyone keeps saying that scent is a strong trigger for memories and that never happens to me 🤷‍♀️ I smell a thing and I know what it is, but I don’t get a flood of memories welling up.

I work in advertising. Shit like this is the result of indulging completely high self-absorbed creative directors when they despise the product they’ve been asked to work on.

I was a size 16 when I was 10 and moved from girls clothes to women’s clothes. I didn’t even have boobs yet. Granted, sizes have inflated since then so maybe it’s what would now be a 10 or something. I was a tall bookworm who was allergic to exercise and other children. I think it’s a bit cruel to call it abnormal. I…

Oh yeah, there’s a ton of speculation on that (and that Brexit was a dry run for the Russians).

I use stick deodorant on my inner thighs if I go legging-less (I abandoned trousers completely for dresses after racking up a lot of abdominal scar tissue from cancer surgery a few years back). Lasts for a few hours and no skin-on-skin friction. Super-cheap.

Yes, as the mother has two Xs, one coming from her father (50% chance passing to son), and one coming from her mother (also 50% chance passing along), but who knows 🤷‍♀️ if that X came from her mother’s mother or her father’s father etc, all the way back. So looking at the the mother’s father gives a 50% probability…

I wouldn’t say killing a person in any circumstances is doing a job perfectly, but let’s agree to disagree.

I make a lot of money currently (but spent most of my life poor), and I very rarely buy anything at John Lewis because it’s expensive. I can’t see it being all that financially accessible to working class people, but agree that it is culturally accessible. John Lewis is a welcoming place.

Shooting should mean an automatic period of unpaid leave. Killing should result in automatic firing of the cop besides the consequences of an investigation. Bet there would be far fewer people killed by cops.

The stick and handkerchief contraption is called a ‘bindle’.

Canadian who lives in Britain here; the ‘Boys & Girls’ thing strikes me as a British thing, and a bit posh, which is on-brand for John Lewis. ‘Kids’ would be far too informal, and ‘Children’s’ might be okay but sounds a bit talking down to the customer. 🤷‍♀️

I could not tell characters apart in TRL. I vaguely remember someone jumping on a grenade, but really nothing else. I couldn’t tell apart some of the characters in Dunkirk (specifically the group that hid in the stranded ship), but it didn’t matter so much as the main thrust of the film was the visceral and dreadful…

I’m a Canadian living in the U.K., voted against Brexit, and was/am totally appalled that those living here far longer had no say in their future. How is it in any way fair?

I don’t think it’s a cutoff, rather guidance. GPs are also dealing with a lot of low-level non-problems, so I can see the instinct to assume it’s something common and trivial before thinking of the worst case scenario (and I wasn’t even diagnosed with Crohn’s, which has some similar symptoms to bowel cancer until a…

Wasn’t her father American? John McCain was born in Panama and he was nominated as a Presidential candidate. (Also Ted Cruz was born in Canada to at least one American citizen).

In the UK general practitioner doctors are told to check for bowel cancer in those 40 and over, but the cancer specialist are trying to get it changed because it’s bollocks.

So sorry for the minimisations the asshat doctor put you through. I had bowel cancer a few years ago (in my 30s) and was misdiagnosed several times while I knew something was up. I was once given haemorrhoid cream by a doctor who completely failed to examine me. Another doctor said he didn’t want to book me for a…

Immigrants who hate immigrants deserve a special place in hell.

The thing that shocked me the most is that people I thought were reasonably intelligent (and nice) couldn’t distinguish propaganda from news (propaganda that wasn’t obvious to me at the time came from Russia, but was obvious that it was propaganda because it had an extreme bias and didn’t come from anywhere…