I'm going to start using this.

Not India or China, but one of my friends at school was Iranian and told she would be marrying her cousin. They were going to start making her wear the ring at 13/14, and married the next summer they went over. Luckily it didn't happen, because the boy said he wanted to go to sports college or some such after school…

ETA: removed for double post.

I was always fine with police - one of my friends back home went into the police force, and I'd never really heard of a bad experience except one or two far off "exception" news stories. Then I came to uni. Far too many people in the LGBTQ+ soc have stories about how they were insulted etc in the street and police…

Yup, I'm "English" but I am studying in Aberdeen and whaddyaknow, it's currently been shown as having the greatest disparity between extrememly filthy fucking rich and can't afford bread poor in the UK. Actually, it might have been Europe. Hooray for oil tycoons!

You have to provide them, but once you have you CANNOT TOUCH THEM if you are not of Royal blood.

You have to provide them, but once you have you CANNOT TOUCH THEM if you are not of Royal blood.

I was in hospital for a few days recently and the first couple of days I didn't have my phone on me and it was really unpleasant. I'm a way away from my family and we aren't that close anyway, and the only number I know by heart is my family home. I was stuck, alone, in hospital, with no way to contact friends I'm…

I don't know it's all snobbery, I'm kind of on the tea side here. I guess I'm just used to having several cups of (my far too many types) of tea every day and knowing if I order it pretty much anywhere it'll be the same good, comfirting, refreshing stuff, but it does suck not being able to get a decent cup of tea some…

.... tea bag after water? People do that?

I have never understood the cat thing. My mother was pretty super careful with me, she even drank daily glasses of milk even though we both cannot stand it, but there's no way they would get rid of my childhood cat, and the only consequence was that he scared a nurse when he attacked her for hurting the baby when she…

I would have the one on the right in my cupboard if I could. I think it's the hair (in fact, fairly certain it's the hair, and I think I've just had a revelation about why I like the current ex/non/maybe-boyfriend...)

Please tell me you're actually doing this, because I want to give you ALL my money for it. Who needs a savings account?

I hate those things, they're such bullshit. It sounds horrible to most, but the happiest time (only "happy" time) of my childhood was the several months my mother was hospital-bound and we were essentially a single-parent family. My father was able to be the fantastic parent he naturally is without my mother, and me…

Favourite thread EVER.

Between you you have just perfectly described the three main things my ex close friend says, with whom I've now had to cut all ties with because she stirs and is basically not a very nice person. This checklist is getting pinned up on my wall somewhere....

I agree, and also, that is the best gif ever.

Sorry, I don't think I made my point clear; I think that the daughter is being slightly transphobic, but I wouldn't necessarily blame her for it.

I'm not so sure. I mean, I think it is somewhat transphobic, but in an insidious, automatic way, not in a vicious way. I can get that the conflict between feeling like you don't have a father is hard, but still. (interestingly, I have a friend who's father is transgender: she still refers to them as her father and…

Yes. I'm like this with leather - I love it so so much but try not to buy it new, and even more so with fur, as it just gives me the shivers whenever I see it. But second hand is A-OK ethically, as far as I'm concerned, the only problem being it may encourage others/designers to make more fur if they see people…