I went rowing for the first time on Monday. So now I'm pretty much broken, and my right hand is blistered to fuck.

Ponyo is one of the Lurkling's favourite films (the other is Totoro), so I've now seen it many, many times. I'm fine with that.

God, Millennials are so lazy.

The Lady McLurk, who works in an electronics product engineering type role, is genuinely concerned that before long someone in marketing is going to tell her not to use "male" and "female" for connectors.

Adjective fine, noun bad. Pretty easy really.

Yes. It used to be the turnover time between a major franchise film coming out in the cinema and on VHS. Of course, that used to be well over a year, and since DVDs and streaming came along and video rental stores all disappeared, it's now only a few months.

I'd say #2, after Janis.

My granddad was in the Signals in WW2. When I was a small child I asked him if he had a gun in the war for shooting Germans with. Wanting to deflect my youthful exuberance for shooting Germans, he told me that actually he had a motorbike. He was a big guy (especially by 1940s standards), and in the nature of many…

Probably not. I mean maybe there'd be books on making them.

Any Stones to be found in the Library of Ioun?

"You know a movie is in trouble when the public says "Halle Berry crawling around in revealing leather bondage gear? No thanks. I'm sure there are Golden Girls reruns on somewhere we could watch instead.""

And eventually you end up buying a castle in the English countryside for authentic dungeon scenes.

Her character's full name being Clarissa Nguyen.

Finland is not part of Scandinavia.

My experience of German trains is that rumours of their timeliness and efficiency are exaggerated.

You say "danger", I say "cuckolding fetish".

Well, I mean fair enough if it works for them. I just suspect that for me, as is so often the case, it's the sort of thing that would seem more fun in concept than it would in execution.

DH = "darling husband". Basically in forums / relationship discussion type places (over here at least) DH, DW, DS, DD etc get used as standard abbreviations, with varying degrees of sarcasm.

You probably can. Truly, we live in a Golden Age.

The ROOMIE letter had me thinking, well, far be it from me to begrudge people their kinky funtimes in the privacy (or not, in this case) of their own homes. But in this case doesn't it just sound exhausting for all concerned? I mean, if I've just come home from another day of explaining to financial controllers yet…