I’m pretty sure that any charge from the NHS, even for non-citizens is nominal at best. Emergency services are free, as would an emergency visit to the GP be. Prescriptions are about £8 (for each prescription and at every pharmacy, with a whole slew of exemptions including birth control), so even if you were charged…

Why were you paying in the UK. That shit is free, here!

“Figuring out that we’d never even receive the bill without asking for it first.”

No, no they really don’t (unless I have an unusual partner or an unusual vagina).

I really don’t know!

I live in the UK with very socialist healthcare, and I still get this bullshit!

I had an appendectomy at a similar age (though probably 40-50 years later). I am now having problems. I hadn’t considered scar tissue. Maybe that’s it.

I hate tot ell you this, but he has put his hat in the ring. He’ll probably not make it past the primaries.

I wonder if anyone took that from the English film ‘Jack and Sarah’, where a woman dies in childbirth and her husband deals with the baby himself for a time while grieving his late wife. During this time he has to use a women’s bathroom and deal with some of the other things about being a single parent, but through…

One thing my Mum did that I was always grateful for was to say ‘What if you felt scared and were at *this place*?’ Or ‘Would you know who to go to if your were scared?’. One time I said that I didn’t know and she named half a dozen places I could go if I didn’t feel safe between my home and the store that I used to go…

I will never stop being horrified by that story. I think partially because I had a similar experience except I basically had a night ruined by repeatedly having to tell an 18 year old that I was 13 (and that I had a bf - neither of these things worked). He kept hitting on me. And hitting on me. Then he backed me into…

Um, Are you me? Thunder thighs, kinda wanting to lose weight cos health and to look less ugly (It takes over an hour with a make-up artist to get ‘pretty’ but meh). And the realisation that I just don’t get heckled any more. And that invisibility is so freeing. This is so freaky, thanks for laying this out

I think someone’s hidden onions in my desk, and I’m going to hunt them out just as soon as I can see again!

To be fair curling is pretty popular, it’s just that they will be using other icerinks at certain times, rather than having a dedicated space.

How are you finding our class system? From what I gather there is an element of colllege education (whether you have one and where from) and an element of income to it in America, whereas it feels more ingrained here, not something you can really strive for? I’m always really interested in outsiders opinions, once…

Not only is this not explicitly banned by law, it's explicitly INCLUDED. It's fucking crazy! And pretty much the total of the $2 minimum is taken out in taxes straight away. And those taxes don't include sick days, statutory holidays, maternity leave, child benefits or the NHS! The servers are TOTALLY dependant on…

I have a sneaking suspicion that he was trying to get re-elected!

Honestly, it took several major problems together (18 months) and a doctors referral (House purchase/grad school/parental divorce/diagnosis of PCOS leading to probable infertility/cancer in the family/childhood priest involved in sex scandal) to get me to go.

I figured out that we have a little less than 750 sq ft for a two bedroom, two reception room house :)

Just to play devils advocate, I got a weird childhood that leads me unable to recognise my own feelings (but uniquely able to drill down in three sentences not only to the emotions but also the root cause of someone else's), despite being a woman. This is now better after counselling, I can do it within two hours now…