I’ve cocked up my back something fierce (picking up my rucksack, would you believe?); currently laid up in bed with a hot water bottle and the strongest NSAIDs the NHS can offer. Can anyone recommend some good anime series? I’ve tended to like slice of life stuff like Silver Spoon and Barakamon.

Milly - Minature labradoodle c. 9mths, two days before the groomer. She’s giving me that ‘where’s my supper’ look.

There’s a lot of double sided tape going into those outfits...

Half the problems with boobs in art seem to stem from the use of porn as a reference.

That appears to be My Little Pony by way of 40k; where did you find it?

It is a truth universally acknowledged that Americans are so cheerful as to be divorced from reality.

If it helps, hun, odds are your father choked that nurse because he was scared, not due to any fundamental character issues.

I seem to remember the weather in London being pretty shite that day, and the English East Coast often shares weather systems with Northern France and the Low Countries.

The British, if there isn't a local chippie or donner shop (or if you prefer not to take your own life in your hands; donner shops have a certain...reputation)

In regards to firearms safety around children, I suspect that the golden rule is ‘ don’t leave weapons, loaded or otherwise, in places where your offspring or animals can reach them.’ Much the same common sense approach applies to household chemicals, gardening equipment, kitchen knives, and firelighters. Why a gun…

Right, time to go and buy a better graphics card.

You don't know OrganicUnicornMeat's situation (and for that matter, neither do I); butt out.

I'll be interested on the day when an XBox or Playstation can run MS Office, Mendeley, and ArcGIS.

Hey, I'm a PC nut; I've never actually owned a console, mostly because it's easier to justify a new computer. I can always say I need it for work...

And this is why my first in case boot is always performed on the back patio with a fire extinguisher at the ready; I am not burning down my house for the sake of shiny tech.

There are, in fact, t-shirts.

Count your stars; the NHS won't get around to me for another few months. Socialised medicine is absolutely brilliant if you stumble into A+E with a sucking chest wound or tumors bulging out of every pore, but absolutely shite at dealing with chronic complaints.

Have a chat with your doctor, and a heart-to-heart with your significant otter; if the cause isn't medical then you may need some more foreplay. Also try getting yourself off; whether or not that hurts may be an important clue.

Yup, based on my own experience that 'dead inside' feeling is indeed the advance forces of depression stomping on your soul. Exercise sometimes works, but it is often sensible to book a chat with a professional psychotherapist (heck, talk to your priest as well, if you keep a faith).

I would like to humbly request some advice. I'm unemployed again, and looking at the job ads I can't see anything I'm really qualified to do (I have degrees in Biology and Entomology from a global top ten University, but limited organizational skills and no aptitude for maths or social interaction), and every time I…