Especially since, when someone with actual serious allergies comes in, the staff are just going to think they're another wanker who's not allergic to anything.

I was once in a (very good) Japanese restaurant where, at another table, there was a guy who very loudly told the waitress that he didn't want any raw fish or anything deep fried. On his way out he said that he'd really enjoyed his meal, which was good because it meant I didn't have to follow and murder him.

The worst people on earth are the people who go to a restaurant that only works if everyone shares the food, and insists that everyone just order their own thing. If you get enough people who want to share, you can segregate the non-sharers down their own stupid end of the table, but if everyone just goes along with…

It's forgivable in exceptional circumstances - they're allergic to everything; they've just come out of hospital and are craving a thing they used to have on the menu; they've been going there every week for 20 years and really feel like this one thing - but even then, only if it's not busy. If it's 'I feel like a…

Sashimi is raw fish. Nigiri sushi is a small lump of rice with a slice of sashimi (or sometimes other things) on top. Nori sushi is rice and basically anything rolled up with dried seaweed. I suspect authentic nori just has fish, but we're at the point where the vast majority of sushi places outside of Japan do…

I'm old enough to remember when sushi was this weird exotic food that you only ate if you were brave or whatever we called hipsters back then. So it always delights me how young children now all seem to love sushi.

So eat the many types of sushi which don't involve raw fish.

You could call sex a necessary evil, a device to pass on our genes. Or you could call music completely pointless, since it does nothing to keep us alive or reproduce. Or you could make some basic attempt to understand why people enjoy those things.

Ah yes, raw celery, bitter string masquerading as food.

Yep. As a child I was convinced that I didn't like a whole lot of things that I'd never actually tried. Then I became a vegetarian and was forced to eat things I thought I didn't like, because they were the only option. Surprise, turns out most of them were actually pretty good. Now I will eat literally anything if…

It's not like that was the only advice provided.

Meh, the pot thing was only a suggestion. If she tries it in a legal state and it doesn't help, it doesn't matter too much. In an illegal state, she's not likely to do it unless she already has a hook up.

I live in Wellington, New Zealand, and I like it despite the terrible weather (probably worse than London). Quite a lot of Kiwis spend their 20s or longer in London, and I've never really seen the appeal. It seems like it'd be great if you were rich, but otherwise a much better place to visit than live. Also the UK…

Yep. I can understand her asking him not to watch it in the house, especially if they live in a place so small that he can't watch stuff without her also having to watch it, but if she won't let him go to a friend's place to watch it, that's either an abusive relationship or probably heading that way.

"There's already a wall."
"We've achieved so much. Just six months in, and we already have a beautiful wall."

Oh god that was good.

Aaah. Now it makes sense. I was hearing it as 'John Key… ho-tay!' which doesn't really sound like anything.

That sounds overly optimistic to me, but I suppose it couldn't have been much worse than what actually happened.

Tell you what, though, it's going to be fucking weird when it's Charles' head on there.

I think the idea is that there's a lot of cash sloshing around in HBO, thanks to Game of Thrones. Maybe it just allows him to have a salary big enough to waste thousands of dollars on wax presidents. I don't think they ever said it was HBO's money he was spending, as opposed to Oliver's money from HBO.