Ooh, haven't tried that one. Does it work internationally?

We had HBO so I think we just automatically had HBO Go, too. It was so handy when we were in the US.

The annoying thing is that we do have HBO Go access, but it seems like we can't use it out of the US… being in the UK is really messing up my True Blood habit.

Oh for the love of God… I'm going to have to start watching it illegally on the internet to catch up, aren't I?

YES. I aspire to that.

When I lived in LA at first I thought people were really, really friendly on first meeting but then I wondered why no actual friendship occurred… back in London, there's far more swearing and making fun of people, but friendships happen.

I lived in Los Angeles for years and love it… BUT London is a relief from chirpiness.

My friend did a less-ballon-y version of this at her birthday party. Everyone did really well with their colours and it looked glorious.

Two hours is such a short amount of time… I wonder if perhaps they didn't have a system in place for "pausing" a project, which seems like it would make a lot more sense than just up and cancelling it at the drop of an (admittedly serious and valid) hat. I bet they will now, if they didn't before.

I don't remember the details exactly, but did the submission to Kickstarter *not* contain the deeply problematic bits? I can't check it right now but I think the really wretched stuff was not part of the submission…

My super-duper-cutesy and fantastically polite US friend always poses like that in pictures thinking it means "peace" and when I told her that to me it means "fuck off" she was half-mortified/half-delighted and now always poses with her hands the other way. It makes me gleeful!

Oh, I forgot about the not-getting-drunk-with-colleagues thing! (I realise that doesn't go for every workplace, but my years of working in London and LA ostensibly similar jobs for ostensibly similar companies made it seem common.)
The differences are fascinating, aren't they? I had LA friends come to London with me…

I could probably do with quitting alcohol and caffeine for a while, for my own sake, but seeing as I'm so broke I'm living at my parents' house aged 31 I can't see myself having a baby till I'm at least 40, really. Ugh.

Oh, God! That sounds hilarious/awful/brilliant to see. I love seeing women on their way to races, walking down the street in their finery among the tracksuit-and-trainer-wearing public, but I think I would take evilly gleeful delight in people just randomly thinking they'll fit in somewhere by wearing massive hats to…

Very true. When I lived in the US I found the USians, on the whole, to be quite restrained and not very sweary or anything, and I was constantly stunning them with my general vulgarity and decadence and bad language. (I am not a particularly vulgar, decadent person, either.)

Not entirely related, but I've suddenly remembered this and must tell someone: my favourite thing about being in posh hotels in the morning is when women arrive for a wedding later that day and they're wearing their most casual clothes and are totally un-made-up but apparently had no way to transport their GIANT HATS…

I gasped in horror and then ranted for 30 seconds about how it's awful and somehow mid rant I discovered that I actually love love love it and it's brilliant and I want it to be my name.

Thank you for reminding me what a good word it is; I should use it more often. (Sometimes it can mean "some noise", not even any sort of disagreement… that's quite old fashioned, but I like it.)

If someone said "row" to describe physical violence, I'd be impressed by their talent for understatement. It's just something noisy and blustery, usually.

I *buy* tons of stuff from Asos, and then return most of it — I much prefer it to going to a shop, actually.