In this case it sounds like the consultation was to look for signs of abuse (sexual rather than other signs of violence, but still)? His suspicion should have been pretty high.

So, UK long distance isn’t US long distance (we see each other roughly every other weekend) but I’m in a 10 year relationship that has been long distance for most of that time. It sucks sometimes, especially when all your friends get married and live with their spouses and have cats and you can’t get a cat because…

They won’t stop smuggling, smuggling has always been rife along the Irish border and always will be. They will try to limit it but no-one knows how they’re going to do that yet. The border runs through people’s land and even houses, and there are so many tiny country roads crossing it you can’t man all of them. They…

Well that right there is what the DUP are trying to avoid. They don’t want customs between NI and the rest of the UK because that way a United Ireland lies. They also want a hard brexit and no hard Irish border. They can’t have all of those things but they’ve never been particularly logical.

Honestly, she could probably ignore the DUP and get away with it. Are they really going to risk the failure of the government and a potential Prime Minister Corbyn?

I remember it happening. Interestingly, the thing that ended the hard border wasn’t the end of the Troubles, it was being in the EU. There were still army checkpoints though (something I thought was normal, growing up on the border). My parents are weirdly relaxed about the prospect of a hard border, having lived…

Pedantry, but it’s not a coalition government. It’s a confidence and supply arrangement.

Former-ish. We’ve only recently gotten our heads round the idea that there are other religions to hate. It’s still so new and exciting. To be fair, it is probably where you’d get the strongest police response to that sort of thing.

Hasn’t she been arrested for shit stirring in Belfast?

If you play the music from the shower scene in Psycho over that zoom in of her standing there like a malign spirit, you get a pretty good horror movie trailer.

Lol, that’s you told.

Clearly my opinions on Cameron films are at odds with the masses, since I hated both Avatar and Titanic. And I had to sneak in to see Titanic because in those days a 12 certificate meant no children under 12 even with an adult.

It crossed my mind that he might have been prank called, like when that guy convinced Sarah Palin that he was Nicholas Sarkozy. It’s probably just dementia though.

I remember he had one of those godawful novelty songs that inexplicably get into the top 10 in the UK - but he didn’t make number 1, which which means he was out performed by fucking Mr Blobby.

TIL The Streets are still around. How did anyone outside the UK even hear about this national embarrassment?

This has nothing on the Gregg’s Jesus sausage roll scandal.

Yes we fucking do. Fuck off with your “St Patty’s Day” and corned beef and cabbage shite.

Is this an American thing? Is it because you’re a young country? Over here in the UK we have strong ethnic identities - English, Scottish, Welsh, Irish or whatever. Of course, you can be those things and not white.

TIL that the (completely untrue as well as irrelevant) argument that “Pol Pot banned guns” is a thing.

Not remotely surprised about Corbyn. He’s never given a shit about women, even as he pays lip service to equality.