I hate the monstrous cardboard tube things, but the teeny-tiny smooth plastic applicators are super comfortable and easy for me — slightly easier than an applicator-less tampon, although I don't mind that either. I just HATE the monstrous cardboard tube ones.

Yeah, me too. On the last few days I usually take one out and then wait a little while before putting the new one in, because otherwise it just hurts like crazy (I've only just recently figured out that I can do that, after 17 years of perioding. Maybe I'm less bleedy than before…)

Ugh, the cardboard ones! My mother always had them so I grew up using (and hating) them… and then after a few years I discovered that tampons could actually be small, dainty things that didn't take up my entire handbag. Amazing.

That's what I thought, too… I don't really care what type I get, but I've always had options around Europe.

Oh, the fancy pearl ones are great!

Big American ones, like ones with the cardboard applicator that comes all extended and enormously long? Those were the type that my mum always had (in the UK) and I felt like they were some sort of massive, ungainly piece of medical equipment. We did definitely have them in the UK, though… maybe it was a regional…

Whoa — applicator tampons are unusual in Europe? I had no idea! I've been using them all my long, British life.

Yes! I made an American move here and he LOVES the food.

He and I were born in the same hospital! And I freely admit it, apparently.

I emigrated to the US and people suddenly thought I sounded lovely, which was fun for a while!

I'm a… medium 31-year-old girl? Will it still work?

Ha! I used to live in the US and I was so sad when one day I realised no one commented on my accent anymore. I started trying to "put on" my own accent to stop it from getting Americanised, but it didn't work.

Yeah, I really like kids a lot! But there's a least one person each day who makes me want to leave the carriage/room/planet, kids and adults alike.

Yes! Amazing. I want to go to Jezebel HQ and see if they think my Essex accent's sweet, too.

YES. She's just like little girls I see every day, the ones who give me a headache (there are plenty of other little kids who are perfectly non-headache-inducing, but God, the screechy ones make me cringe).

My department recently had two vacancies, and more than 450 people applied. We ended up changing the job descriptions quite a bit to fit the two people we ended up hiring, and a few other applicants are now freelancing for us. A couple of others we've connected to other departments and other companies and people in…

I wish I'd done lasers far, far earlier. I want more as soon as I can afford another Groupon! (No budget for a home set-up, sadly.)

I have done the misted-up-glasses-in-the-shower thing and also the post-shower-sink thing, and both are stupid and tiresome and awkward and time consuming. Ugh. I sympathise. The solutions for me were a) contact lenses and b) hair removal.

Worried tennis-fan eyes? I was watching this match at home and getting super stressed out myself.

I will definitely do my legs one day when I see a good deal/have more money!