What the fuck! This is a fascinating combination of foods! 

It’s the old-fashioned way to do a personal budget; keep track of all your expenditure and all your income and make sure you’re not overspending. If you’ve got access to your transactions online, it kind of does it for you? Or people do them in apps or in spreadsheets now.

Even quicker trick, just focus on “him” (hiM = whoM). If the sentence would take “him” and sound grammatically correct, it takes “whom”. 

I’ve only encountered the phrase “grilled cheese” and the concept of a fried sandwich in America. I make them myself now because that shit is delicious. But in Ireland we’d say “toasted cheese sandwich” and we’d make it like you describe, or similarly but in an oven, or else in a sandwich/panini press. So given the…

No, that makes sense; muscle is denser than fat, so you’ll naturally sink a little deeper in water the more muscular you get. Kids generally float, so some people get less buoyant as they get older, depending on their adult body type. 

I genuinely feel so bad for the EU people who have to keep explaining things to a rotating cast of Tory morons.

It’s worse than that. The thing about making sure the death penalty is imposed without delays is legitimately chilling and I’m not sure why it hasn’t been given more air time. Those “delays” are to (attempt to) ensure there is no miscarriage of justice, including no political manipulation of state-sanctioned murder.

Will criminals obey? Will they ever? Do we give up having laws to regulate anything else just because some people will inevitably break those laws?

You’re right to focus on the word “generous”. It’s not rational to expect a company to be generous, and it’s highly irrational to expect that a company will continue to be generous against its own interest, which is always to make more profit. Google doesn’t have a “generous” parental leave scheme because it’s a…

To my understanding, it’s technically illegal in the States too, it’s just that you’d have to go to court and without an email or letter that literally said “This is because you are pregnant” you’re not guaranteed to win. The company will have some documentation indicating you didn’t meet some standard and say that’s…

Thank you! I’m in Ireland so hopefully I’ll find some this side of the pond, but if not, I’ll check those places and hope for reasonable shipping! 

Actual boat shoes remind me of (a) my da, who has several, in his enormous shoe collection (he literally owns more shoes than the rest of our immediate family combined) and (b) the posh girls at my school, who confused me at the time by wearing da-shoes.

I know plenty of people who were drinking and found out they were pregnant a month or two in. Overwhelmingly, the babies have been totally fine. “Binge drinking” covers a very wide range of behaviours, and obviously there’s greater risk and damage from, for example, drinking two bottles of vodka every day, than there…

If the USA introduced a serious buyback program, made it illegal to open or concealed carry anywhere but private land and well-regulated gun ranges, and required a licence for every legally-held gun (including a full background check, a gun safety qualification, proof of a suitable gun safe / storage system, and a…

“Where the fuck is my knickers waistband resting??” has become an increasing irritation for me over the last month or so of pregnancy. I’m going to keep an eye out for some postpartum ones! (I avoid Amazon these days)

Thank you! Good to know! I try to avoid disposables as much as possible both for environmental reasons and because my skin is hilariously sensitive to basically everything that isn’t soft clothes-quality fabric, but always good to have a short-term backup.

I love “padcicles”! Of course, the word here is ice-pops, which would track to ice-pads. But I actually prefer popcicle as a word. I’ll get some witch hazel.

Well, they were probably cool with it on some level to begin with, otherwise they wouldn’t have taken the job of flying eerily young “women” (actually girls not women) to remote locations on the dime of by all accounts a total creep. And also they work for people who probably have people killed, probably especially…

I’ve been wondering whether it’s worth the expense & shipping to buy reusable cloth maternity pads and I’ve just realised you could dampen them in water and pop them in the freezer and wear the frozen pad between two pairs of knickers and now my 7 mo pregnant self is definitely buying some...

Thank you! Baby is kicking a LOT, they’re so energetic! It’s very reassuring and nice and also fairly uncomfortable when they find an organ to kick!