Yeah, I kept seeing the adverts for it and the more I saw the less I wanted to watch it.

Oh yes! Sorry, I forgot about the "position of trust" thing (thought it was just really, really, really immoral if the student was of age already).

I TOTALLY thought I had ringworm on my arm last month. I tried everything and it got worse and worse. I had it for a month. It was entirely covering HALF MY ARM.I was surrounded by a bunch of strangers in a warm country having to cover my arm all the time because I had PAINTED IT WITH NAIL VARNISH and nothing at all…

Oh, absolutely predatory, for sure — I just missed the illegality of it because I'm English.

You said both the things I was going to say. I salute you.

Ah, I totally assumed she was English! (Still can't really get my head around ages for things being different here and in the US).

Yep, the holiness thing is so odd. I realise that it's amazing and life-changing and incredible, etc — but it's not even slightly unusual. I have a colleague who talks to me as though my life is just building up to motherhood and everything I do is either preparing or avoiding having a kid, whereas in fact everything…

YES. I could have ANYTHING at all happen to me and my one particular motherhood-martyr colleague would somehow make it about how she has a kid. Absolutely every topic is about how she had a kid — not so much necessarily about the child itself, but more about her own suffering and how proud of herself she is for being…

Oh, absolutely. But sometimes I'm loath to "unfollow" a friend's updates when I previously really enjoyed them. If there were a way to tell Facebook to stop showing me only the updates related to the new baby/cat/boyfriend/hobby/whatevertheysuddenlykeeppostingabout, that would be wonderful.

Does "adorable" have to be patronising? I'm not disagreeing at all but I'm really interested to know.

Yep. It always amazes me that even after two decades I can *still* think "this time it's worse… something must be wrong…".

My problem tends to be that if I take enough painkillers for the pain to go away, I start getting pukey and dizzy. (I've been trying to figure it out for 20 years, to no avail.) I don't take sick days for it, though, because I don't want to be weak — if I had the same symptoms on a non-period day, I would stay at…

I never take time off from work when I have my period because I don't want to seem weak because I *know* it's a totally normal thing. Instead I stay at work shaking and puking –if I felt that rough for non-period-related reasons, I would go home.

Wasn't he dressed as Justin Timberlake for a costume party because Justin Timberlake played him in a film? I vaguely remember thinking it was quite funny.

Me too. I thought they'd be at least three times as much.

It's so tiresome, isn't it? I got engaged and then had to go back home to the other side of the world and didn't see my bloke for eight months; ugh.

Ahaha! Somehow that actually makes me more inclined to watch them, to enjoy the oddly sinister ending. I am a) rubbish at make up and b) prone to insomnia, so it might be a nice thing to do between working/studying/reading news at 3am.

Yep. One of my earliest memories (she died when I was about 5) was of her just lying on the sofa with a bucket, and me being really scared that I would have to see her be sick (I didn't). And also I remember being really confused by how someone who was so pretty (ie, young) could die.

We used to do it all the time in school, and it always worked! And we would always scream, of course. We used to say we were "levitating" each other because that's far more exciting than "science".

I had never seen her before, but I'm torn as to whether I'd watch her again… she's very pretty and seems mostly likeable but God, that baby-voice thing puts me off.