You’re joking, but my aunt actually did that in the 70s. I don’t know what she did during her pregnancies, but she would always give my cousins a sedative when it was time to sleep or when they were annoying her in some way. They are/were all functioning adults, but they all seem to have/had issues to varying degrees.…

On a funny note: My mom drowned all of her food in mustard while she was pregnant with me and I love mustard. I often put it on fries in place of ketchup or just on plain bread. My family jokes that this is because of my mom’s cravings.

Now I wonder if there is any connection between dauphin, dolphin and Delphin (German for dolphin).

In the 50s there was a tonic called Frauengold (women’s gold) that was marketed to stressed housewives to make them more ‘level-headed and objective’. One of the main ingredients was alcohol. They took it off the market in the 80s when they realized that one of the other ingredients causes cancer. One of the…

I simply can’t stand the taste of alcohol. It’s on the same level as the disgust some people have for liquorice or vegemite (coinidentally I love salty liquorice, haven’t tried vegemite yet). The only times I drank were during big celebratory moments (weddings, births etc) and there were no polite options to decline.

There was a segment on Last week tonight where they showed a lottery winner from another country who wore a bag on his head.

Wow, from tomorrow on I’ll be older than she ever had the chance to be. I’m often surprised how young some celebrities from the past were because they seem older to contemporary eyes.

I’m just glad that it isn’t my name (it’s also the name of a type of butterfly) and that the baby wasn’t born on my birthday (8th).

I’m adding that to my list of ‘things I didn’t know about babies’. They’re getting weirder the more I know about them.

It’s also the name of a character from a show I loved as a kid.

Donald Duck’s nephews are called Tick, Trick and Track in the German translation (those are not real names over here).

Someone should have told Dauphina’s parents that the female version of a dauphin is dauphine. That wouldn’t make it any less weird, but it would at least be correct French.

That was the A&F guy.

You could have contered “with adoption you get to choose, with biological children you’re stuck with what you get”. ;P

At Boots they are under 6 pounds for a box of 36, cheaper if you buy no-name ones. I don’t know if Scotland only has posh shops or other availability problems.

According to this UK drugstore a 36 box of Tampax is 5.69£.

Where were you buying them? I just checked Boots and they have a 36 box of tampax for 5.69£.

That could be. I personally don’t kayak, I only helped a friend transport it when she bought hers and she explained it to me.

The only item I’ve seen where a special women version made kind of sense is canoes, because the center of mass is different in most men and women.

CHIPS ARE SUPPOSED TO BE CRUNCHY. THAT IS THE ENTIRE FUCKING POINT.