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You just reminded me of the time my nan told me about the first time she ever saw anyone black, as a 20-something during the war (the man in question was a US soldier), and said she had to force herself to stop staring. I'm now envisioning her having an expression like a fascinated toddler. (She asked me if I

I know in the grand scheme of boobs D isn't technically, officially giant, but I was an A for a long while and now I'm a D – multiple times each day I wonder at the relative enormity of my own boobs. To someone else they might not seem that big at all, but to me it's like my own body has grown some super duper new

Absolutely! That's when I use them. I just don't use them if there's no ambiguity.

I work in an editorial department and now we all have our headphones in and are surreptitiously chair dancing.

I love semicolons but hate Oxford commas most of the time! I'm so excited to be talking about punctuation that I'm compelled to use exclamation marks!

When someone makes a song about dangling modifiers, let me know.

I was stunned to find so many US people who loved Benny Hill… I gleefully reported back to my friends and family in the UK every time. We were all mystified.

Yep. I spent so much money and paid so many taxes in the US, as did my friends and family who kept visiting me… I even went back there to get married, and will probably be going back there forever now I'm married to an American. I'm California's one-woman stimulus plan.

Good luck!

I sorted out my own H1B and it was bloody hard with no help from anyone (other than an employer willing to sponsor me, etc). The company didn't advertise my job at all – I really didn't think they had to (if they were supposed to, it's my fault that they didn't). And, it cost much less than $5,000, which I think

I got married there, right in front of that window. At the reception my all my best girls got in a fantastic dance fight right there where ZD is dancing and it was a lot better than this video. And then my mum got up and tried to do the Single Ladies dance with them and it was brilliant.

Thank you for putting this in my head, replacing last year's Eurovision winner.

Ohhhhhhhhhh, yeah, don't remember that one!

Turkey were SO GOOD last year. They made a boat, out of themselves! I was very sad they weren't back this year.

Last year's winner gets stuck in my head ALL THE TIME. Which is ok because I sort of like it.

"Diamante dollar" is my new favourite thing.

Mine was $3.99 from some party supply shop 24 hours before the wedding, as a total afterthought. We look like little plastic Kennedys with perfect plastic hair.

Yep. I always love getting a new intern… some of them haven't had any editorial workplace experience yet and seem a bit stunned by the fact that you can swear as much as you like just as long as you're not boring.

Exactly… I think cutting out an entire class of words would be the opposite of creative language use, really.

That was glorious.