I wish I could take my first reply back because I know it’s going to be misunderstood. Let me try to explain better and have patience - English is not my first language.

Well, evidently they do. I also don’t have a case, only an opinion, and I don’t really care if people like it or not - it is what it is.

Sure we do. But we were used to our crime rate and we worked with it. Now we’ve been pressed against our will into something we don’t have the resources for. The immigrants need screening, guidance, schooling, financial help, mental health care etc. and we.cannot.provide.it. Not to 50,000, much less to 500,000 and…

It does not matter if it wasn’t terrorism. We (Europeans) weren’t afraid of opening our borders because of terrorism, we were afraid of crime. And crime it is.

Harry Potter?

Good! We started trying again when daughter was 2 and we haven’t been able to make it, yet; she is now 2.5. I can pretend that I meant for the gap to be bigger because it’s better for my health :)

Bwahahaha, we have 20 or 30 plants :D But then again, we have farm animals so that might make things easier. It truly is insane how productive those things are!

It’s not the same, because you never get such a sheer volume of stuff as you do when you get married or have a baby. Luckily I’m a retiring, private sort of person so the only people I celebrate with and subsequently get gifts from are my closest family and friends. They know me well enough to forgo gifts if they…

I respectfully disagree. I’d much prefer people just attended the wedding and gave us nothing. Money, food, flowers, that kind of thing is OK if they wish. Just don’t give me things I’ll then have to deal with - return, refund, exchange, give forward, throw away, be forced to store and use because I’d feel rotten not…

People don’t anchor furniture to the wall? I thought everyone did that.

That’s not the point I was trying to make. As you can see, English is not my first language. What I wanted to convey was that I don’t lovingly raise animals as I do my kids and then slaughter them, while I don’t do the same to my kids. That’s why I likened myself to a predator - from the animals’ point-of-view, I am.

Same. I hoped they’d stay in the UK, and was happy with the result. Now I wish they decided differently and hope they vote again with a different result.

Your reply makes me wonder how many times you’ve seen a self-sufficient farm up-close. We definitely don’t lovingly raise them. We just give them a better environment than they’d be able to get in the wild. I guess town people would find their lives unfair and cruel. They eat each each other’s young if they get the…

I’m sorry, I was unclear. What I meant was that being vegan is not the only ethical thing to do, even though it is the only one available to most people in the West. If you produce your own food (just for yourself and maybe the extended family, not for selling) that’s ethical, as well. You don’t have to explain the…

Or raise your own.

Seconded.

You are a brave, brave woman. You did what I didn’t have the guts to do at 21, I aborted instead (not that there’s anything wrong with that, but still, I wish I had your courage).

That’s an interesting point I haven’t considered... in my language the word for miscarriage and abortion are the same. So when you want to specify you have to say sth like natural miscarriage vs. artificial miscarriage. I never realized this probably lessens the stigma.

I don’t know about that - I got my abortion because it was the easy way out. I doubt I’m the only one, or even that rare. I didn’t value life, either, in retrospect.

Yep, agreed. I’ve been saying that about her since book one. I loved the previous episode and it took me a while to realize it was simply because there was no Daenerys.