Visit the city markets some time: Camden, Borough, Covent and Smithfield are the best four.

Yes, when we visited in the off-season everything was shut down and there was almost no-one around. London never gets like that, even when the weather is shite. I'd also note the significant problem with professional begging.

I went veggie at undergraduate because of the ethics of the thing, and practically halved my food bills overnight; vegetables are damned cheap, in europe and the US. A weeks worth of vegetable curry comes in at a little under seven dollars (granted, these are Idaho prices), a pasta bake can be done for five to ten,…

I must be really strange, because I didn't figure it out until my teens....

Support and hugs from UIdaho, though I'm not sure it helps on any material level.

I don't get it, I really don't. If you don't have enough energy, then drink coffee, alter your diet, or get some more exercise. If you're bored, walk the dog, take up a hobby, fix the garden, learn everything about a subject of your choice, take up charity work, etc., etc., etc. Most of these things are not especially…

Or coffee...

$100/m is doable, if you are willing to live on soup (tomato, chicken, onion), peas and saltines (that's what used to I do, not because was poor, but because I didn't have time to cook), but $40? That is oncoming scurvy, rickets, and kwashiorkor all at once. The rich arseholes coming up with these cuts should be proud…

Maybe Next as well, though their clothes have turned crappy of late.

Further, London doesn't have a high street as such (Oxford Street is probably the closest thing, God help us all). That said, if the shops doing this are national chains (I put my money on John Lewis, M+S and Monsoon implementing this sort of ban, given their target audience) then the effect will be national as well.

I'm going with a damp black bear myself; some of the paw prints can look humanoid.

What's wrong with owning a quad bike, or being called Cody or Brett? What's wrong with a small ring? No point in having hubby to be break the bank for the sake of what is essentially compressed, baked, charcoal.

And then there's these guys, who build a ship as though it's a cathedral:

Because a sorority is a privilage thing and taking the bus isn't.

Sororites are shitty anyway; God knows why anyone would want to join.

Well I'm a forestry/entomology student and a generalized looser so there isn't a lot expected of me, but I generally shave legs and armpits once a week in summer (when anyone will actually see them), get my eyebrows waxed as necessary (Dad was so kind as to give me his 'seagulls'), pluck objectionable facial hair,…

Um...I live in Idaho, I'm reading my doctorate in Entomology there; I have yet to meet an Idahoan who is anything but lovely. Moscow is probably the safest, nicest, place I have ever made my home.

What happens between two consenting adults is not the business of any government, much less the police.

Nope. Sorry, but the world's greatest sandwich is definitely English Cheddar and Marmite on toasted white bread. Not. Open. To. Debate.

Buttered brown toast and marmite (salty brown yeast extract with the consistency of road tar; much better than it sounds) before, mint tea and hot orange squash (in different mugs!) during, to help get rid of the feeling that rats are trying to chew their way out of my uterus.