I was just going to mention TLK!

Exclamation mark!

I don’t know about now, but 20 years ago in a new-ish build, we had shared loos only. The only thing we had in the room was a wash basin. There was one building with en-suite loos and showers, but they were extremely expensive compared to the rest.

The hot plates on a cooker. In UK halls, you often had these super cheap mini-overs with 2 hot plates on top, usually liberally covered in whatever garbage students cook and don’t clean up.

Young ‘uns! In my day, we had to walk 12 miles uphill in the snow to get to our shitty accommodation, and we were grateful!  (We did not, and we were most certainly not)

I was in the mid level halls which must have been from the early 90s and no such luck, just a basin. To be fair I only paid 70£ a week about the same time as you, for self catered. Would gladly have paid the extra 27£ for an en suite! My boyfriend was in the cheapest halls at 55£ and they were extra grim. The bed…

*screaming intensifies*

I feel like all that needs to be said is Halls of Residence (although check you out with your fancee lahdidah en suite!). Mold growing everywhere, damp walls, damp everything, shitty insulation, shitty flatmates. Those shitty ovens with 2 hobs on top.  Plastic wrapped mattresses! Just, no.  No wonder we spent our…

Erg, I hope they don’t go the Ancient Aliens route!

So Buzzfeed News came through, answering the hard hitting questions of our time: https://www.buzzfeed.com/lanesainty/knickers-huge-steer-height-smaller-cows-australia

I’m going with Tilda Swinton.

Dude is just living his best high fashion life. Beyond being harmless, I’d say it’s even a good thing to show that guys can be out there wearing this stuff as well. If that’s your creative outlet, let your fashion flag fly.

I think I read in another article that they’re Wagyu cattle (which I learned today just means “cow” in Japanese). Looking at the size description in Wikipedia for Japanese black cattle, I feel like they’re smaller than the average idea of what “cow-sized” is.

There was a show in the UK called Time Team which was actually pretty interesting TV!  Even when they were just digging up someone’s back yard because they found a Roman coin or something.  Add Megan Fox for some window dressing and I can see the appeal.

Yes!  They’re great!  I use them as grocery bags, carry stuff around bags, laundry baskets, you name it.

A proper flu is SO MUCH WORSE than a cold. I usually get my shot and am the crazy lady with the disinfectant wipes on the plane and hand sanitizer all day every day (also obviously hand washing) to try to minimise risk, but I got caught out a few years ago and came down with the flu from hell. I was out cold for a…

That’s proper extravagant!  I bought my husband a super luxe watch for his 40th and no ragrets either.  

Holidays is where we go all out. The rest of the year is reasonable, but man fancy flights and fancy hotel digs is what I work my ass off for.  

Oh man. They had the same layout at my local IKEA for literal decades so when I popped in to buy new seat cushions I was like “OK, ground floor, cut through the kitchen and carpets bits, get your cushions and GTFO”. But no. They had REORGANISED the layout. I had no idea where anything was and it was SO frustrating!

Drinkable, but low quality.  So think repackaged cheap wine then sold at a maaaassive premium, and a bunch of people with money than sense fawning over it.