Oh wow a couple of friends. Then it must surely be a fact. Jeeeez.

I'm off to Vietnam for my first solo trip this Friday so this couldn't have come at a better time to reassure me that it was a good decision to book and that I'll have an awesome time so thank you!

Hey I know Jez is an American site but saying ‘us’ then slagging off Brits and Germans is really shitty and in a way typically American! Ie. Thinking from your own perspective and not as a global ‘us’. Bravo.

I can’t imagine why when they took their relationship so slowly and thoughtfully.....

And the thing I find so odd on all these stories are the women who know the time scales but leap into the relationships anyway! I personally wouldn't be super keen to date a guy who had broken up with his ex a few months before, let alone if they freaking died!!

Oh yes! I think you're right, and she's all like chill and gimmi a cigarette...

YUP! Two friends and I both lost mothers and 5 minutes later (snaps fingers) all our fathers remarried. A nice little touch was my old man telling people at my mothers memorial service the dating adventures he was embarking on with no sense of decorum at all.

Yup, just like Don speaking with her therapist on the phone about her after her sessions. At first I thought it was so she wouldn’t receive the news alone, but nope, the second appointment showed it wasn’t the case.

This is very similar to my situation, we must immediately become best friends.

Yay, I've never had furry animal gifs sent to me before! x

Hugs to you, same situation with my father, how can I now cut off the little old extremely sick man! And yes when you explain one or two stories people say shit like - surely not/he didn't mean that/he's your parent etc etc. let's just publish a big book of all the stuff one day and see if people can excuse it all…

I’m about to go see my dad in his care facility. Guilt trips ahoy! Thank you for this, I needed to read the ‘not in your control’ point today.

I’ve been up till 3am GMT reading this and all the comments because YES, and love to anyone who’s struggling. This is what I have with my dad, he abused me from the age of about 8 with incredibly odd behaviour before then (he’s borderline). But thank god I had my stable mum right? Except she died suddenly when I was…

It really is like looking into crazy cuckoo insanity land seeing these stories and reading comments regarding the gun culture in the US. Know how basically every other country 'protects their family' in their homes? With a bat, or a knife, or yelling, or calling the cops. Somehow we all manage to survive just fine.…

You know how this wouldn't be a problem oh in pretty much the entire rest of the planet? Because pretty much every other country in the world doesn't have a fucked up gun culture. I have no friends, family, colleagues who own or have ever owned a gun, not even our regular police force does. Look outside of your nation…

Best description of Cameron ever. I love you.

They've recently banned Uber in Paris and I am hoping the same happens in London soon. London black cabbies have to go through years of training to pass 'The Knowledge' and qualify as a driver. Uber drivers just need a car and sat nav really. I've used them a couple of times and they are rarely aware of the one way…

Brit here! Anyone else find the whole royals going on a jolly courtesy of the taxpayers for the purpose of.........?? mildly irritating?

I think it's disgusting anyone has to raise money to have medical bills covered! Sorry, Brit here, cannot get my head around it. Long live the NHS.

Can I ask if you watched his interview and what he actually responded to the question about 9/11, or if you read articles about this?