EXACTLY. And I hate that showers are becoming a thing in here now too — "give me things" parties are just embarrassing, I thought.

I got married a few months ago and most of my friends didn't give me anything tangible and that was still great. Some of my best and longest-standing friends didn't go, and that was sad but I'll just have to deal with it.

I got married in America where I think the tradition is to give gifts from a registry, so I made a registry and a few people got us presents from it. A lot of others gave us a totally unexpected amount of cash/cheques in cards, which I didn't know was a tradition at all. And most gave us nothing as a tangible present,…

I bet it's regional. I just asked a handy foreigner and he told me there have always been seven in his world.

America, Eurasia, Australasia, Antarctica and Africa! It came up recently in conversation and at home all my friends of my age were taught the same thing. It seems it was only later that we started to break America and Eurasia into two (actually now I'm thinking about it, it seems odd that America and Eurasia get…

I was totally bewildered by this because in my world Siri's voice is so epically manly that I was all impressed by this woman's impressively deep tone. And then I found out that America has a lady Siri; much less exciting.

Random confession: I was taught that America was one of the five continents and I didn't find out until much later that Central America was a thing. Sorry, world.

That's what I mean — there are definitely dicks in Southern California, where I lived for eight years, but there are equally as many dicks here at home in London. (I'm choosing to live in London instead of LA at the moment, so my "poor experiences" of my home really can't have been that bad.)

Definitely not all. I find Londoners equally bad.

It never occurred to me that it could be annoying to ask an engaged person about their wedding plans… I suppose "engaged" has always just meant "planning a wedding imminently" to me and it's only know that I'm seeing there are other reasons to do it. I will find other small-talk topics next time!

I've gone totally wrong in conversation before when introduced to someone's party, because I thought that meant they were in business together; it never occurred to me it could be a relationship thing at the time!

Yes, so nice! And the whole thing feels very inclusive, or at least it did at the parties and shows I went to (California and Texas) — like, it's totally ok for people (ie, me) who really can't dance at all to just enjoy the music and jump around and have an amazing time, no matter who they are. I always felt like the…

Yep. I heard so much about the video before ever hearing the song that I was actually really surprised by how good I found the song to be. The video could've been really good.

I love, love, love, love, love Big Freedia. The only good thing about the Miley-Cyrus-not-dancing-very-well thing is that it's introducing some more people to Freedia brilliance.

I was DEFINITELY not doing that garter shit. I'm not American but I got married in America, and I had to rule out a) removing anything I was wearing and b) dancing with people for money, both of which were expected.

The jewellery shop girl was HORRIFIED when my husband and I walked in, looked at the cheapest, plainest wedding rings and bought them. She was seriously disgusted. It was hilarious.

Ha, yep that's very tempting!

I once wrote an extensive critique of the exclamations of a sex-having girl across the hall from me, and pushed the note under the door.

I'm totally up for home-made fringe cutting, but surely it shouldn't be saving one money? I pop in between proper haircuts to get my fringe trimmed for free — is that unusual? I've just always had hairdressers tell me to do it; perhaps I'm just v lucky?

Ugh, the hall light! I need a remote control for it. Or psychic light switches, or something. There will be no sleeping if the hall light is on. Or if a phone has been left face up and a message comes in. Or if my toothbrush is charging (WHY SO FLASHY? WHY?!)