Good on you for having Shammy come home w/you from a shelter. I’m the same way; our international kitty Peter* made it over the ocean w/us in 2001 but didn’t make it three years later when it was time to leave EU and live here. That totally messed me up (‘messed me up’ is a euphemism). We found Hunter after Peter…

Ooh, what a beautiful face! We seriously wanted to share living space w/a middle to large-sized dog but sadly concluded the size of this flat would hinder any creature’s exercise and overall contentment. You’re SO right about the companionship as well as the responsibility one must provide. I mean, there’s no way I…

Dude, it has to. I think I would’ve gone crazy after he moved, especially w/o Hunter but definitely if I weren’t interested in so much other stuff. I left out that basically, I’m alone in a foreign country (well, the UK) but it’s all good since I love it here. Under any other circumstances (if I hated it, if Hunter…

Great article, thank you. I’ve considered myself alone but not lonely for ages and never really cared about it, not as much as others seem to care. Then again, I see my BF in town every weekend (I bring our cat w/me).

Totally. I’ve lived alone w/our cat since 2007-ish when my BF moved to another city. I bring Hunter in to town to stay w/him at weekends, but during the week, he and I are alright together (I wouldn’t have it any other way).

I'm surprised to see this near the top of your comments page, but anyway, I'm pleased it's there:

OT: I want, nay, need to read your post about the autism spectrum diagnosis &c but after I click, I got a Kinja 404. Twice because I am stupid. :-(

I'm hoping the lack of stars means people haven't read this yet, not that people didn't get it. PS, Off my damn lawn, you kids.

I don't mean to body-shame but he doesn't appear like someone who's athletically fit; he looks like he needs to exericse. I mean, to my untrained eye, apart from the ludicrous clothing choices, he has a fat ass and could use to lose a few lbs from his waistline.

Yup, that was about 3-4 years ago and I had on grey lenses (I went through a longass phase w/all the colours, kept switching them &c).

Oh, FFS. The latest fuckwit thinks whatever I don't think (the nicest way I can put it). I actually anticipate more replying in future and I hope I'm wrong.

If you were here in January 2013, I talked my head off up, after almost ten years of only reading. I left in March or April, when there was a story about that young/old blonde chick, shit, forgot her name (she got famous when she married Doug Something who's twice her age). It might have been on Jez, actually. Anyway,…

YES. I feel uncomfortable but at the same time, I'd like CG to read what I/we have to say since it seems we all missed DK's cursing (something I wouldn't have let go, had I seen it). I wish she would've understood that. Even though I don't take sides, I'll come down on someone fairly close to me whom I feel is…

I wondered about that. Yesterday, my first comment on this story was in grey and then I couldn't help notice my others were emblackened. I don't get it. I'm hardly ever here, thanks to the commentariat over the last couple of years.

LOL, YOU'RE SO NOT ALONE it's my fave as well. ME ME ME ME ME! Everyone look at me! And at her! But now, me again, MEEEEEE! Now where's that .gif of the attention-whore unclothed chick doing handstands on the beach? *smirk*

Yup, same here. I'm very protective of them, both IRL and online (I agree w/your entire comment) but I'm not a parent. Over the years reading here, I've noticed that most will keep shtum rather than jump in. I hope I'm wrong and that's not the truth but it's what I've noticed in what I've read.

I know.

I know, that's what amazed me. She acted as if I'd/everyone had read these horrible comments and ignored them. I wish she would've known (thought she did) that I'd step up and actually say something to anyone who dissed anyone I liked on here. At the very least, I'd question the disser/curser as to why they said such…

As BaneKitty said, CG took off after she got upset w/me for the same reason. I didn't see the posts she was pissed about (rightfully so: she said DK/JBRH told her he wished cancer on her?!?). I was confused about what she wanted me to do so I asked her and never got a reply. Same thing w/KittensAndUnicorns. I actually…

Dunno about Bubba but the Cleetus in my head goes there.