Oh I'm sure it's not unique to the UK at all. I would guess it's standard in most places. Just by the responses here people are acting like there's a hospital on every street corner in the states.

The chance is so astonishingly small it is basically zero. As I said to someone else, I'm more likely to die by choking on my breakfast than by a gun.

No it isn't. The chance of someone dying by gunshot wound in my house is so miniscule as to be almost zero.

It's really not.

The last year with recorded data for gun deaths here is 146 deaths. More people died by falling down steps, choking to death on food, or accidentally drowning. I should be more worried about my breakfast than a criminal with a gun.

Everything you just said, my friend.

In a country where one small area bans it and nowhere else does, I don't imagine it does.

I don't have to get the fuck over anything, but thanks for contributing.

I see you think you've tripped me up, so allow me to be more specific.

Yes, they could. A car could also crash into my living room and kill us all while we watch TV. A storm could destroy our house and kill us all as we sleep. A sinkhole could open up below my house and engulf us all. They're theoretically possible, but they're basically not going to happen.

It's a risk I would not be willing to take. Luckily I don't feel like I have to.

Please to god tell me that although they cited that, it was in no fucking way considered legally a factor for your divorce???

I'm so bored of this aspect of social media too. I am an old and remember the days before social media. I'm sure I fall into a different stuck-up, self-important group here but I definitely remember the days of blogging on zines. People created their own websites from scratch (no templates) and published actual…

I guess it depends when you were born too. I vaguely remember the end of the perm, and big ass, bouncy, curly hair was definitely the order of the day.

Tangles are the BANE of my existence. I can brush my hair, come downstairs, and it's knotted. ARGH.

I am in the same boat as you, hair-wise, and I think people don't envy *our* hair, they envy the other kind of straight hair. I've been watching Big Bang Theory recently and my hair is Amy's, the hair I WANT (and suspect people who talk about 'straight hair' want) is Penny's.

Oh shit, that's such a sad story :(

This. I think if you're giving one "The Talk" you're doing it wrong. It's a continuous conversation, from as soon as they understand language to teenagerdom.

Hah, no you can't.

I don't recall saying stand there and reason with burglars. But there will be NO reason or rationality while one or both of you has a gun.