St Catherine: broken on a wheel of cheesecake. Patron of 'the diabetes'. Never pictured without her fork.

I'm actually working on the memoirs. My bio-parents live in Monroe, Louisiana and I noticed that even there the costs are tremendous. I also noticed that people in that town were either INCREDIBLY poor or very, very well-off. My bio-parents are currently just above dirt-poor. They would be doing very well if they…

I eat like this on a freelance writer's budget, but then in the UK fruit and vegetables are subsidized. Seriously, you have no idea how happy this makes me. I mean, I can't afford organic, I still shop at Tesco's, but my husband and I can eat healthily and spend about seventy quid a week to do it. If we didn't live…

That is fantastic advice. Thanks. I havent tried that , yet, but I have noticed that Ibuprofin is the only over-the-counter that can even touch the pain. My GP has prescribed co-codemol. I will give that a go this month.

I grew up in an extremely conservative home and while I had (and have) a lot of ambition I was young enough to believe the rhetoric about women, so I thought that would make a good loophole and explain why I had so many 'unnatural' desires.

I was 17 and a freshman at university. I was bitterly disappointed, because I had hoped to somehow be a hermaphrodite. No such luck. I went into the toilet because I thought that I had food poisoning. Then I passed out from the sudden, intense pain. It turned out that I had endomitriosis. One of my hallmates found me…

Yeah. My husband can't sleep at all when I'm not here because I took him to see 'Mama' (I loved it) and the scene with the closet really freaked him out. This explanation totally makes sense to me. Though it doesnt seem to take the fact that sleeping next to a naked person that you happen to be very attracted to is…

Fox's shoe-fetish
grew out of control:
He found himself with
twenty brown loafers
and nowhere to go.

There is an awful lot of classism in this. When you are raised in poverty you develop impoverished tastes. That is a fact. When you grow up and move out of poverty you return to the foods of your childhood for comfort. You are allowed to not enjoy a sandwich, but do not imply that people who enjoy those foods are…

I can't decide if I want to do this, or stick to my original plan and be eaten by foxes. I guess, if my family hurries, they can do both. It would have to happen pretty fast, though, since foxes do not react well to formaldehyde.

Is this an appropriate place to tell you guys about my experience working at Sonic? I was one of the few, the proud, the brave who wore roller blades to deliver the food. The tips were markedly better and customers were generally much nicer to me than otherwise. Unfortunately, not everyone was caught up in the magic…

It seems like that kid was aiming to achieve something like this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swastika_…

Hey look! It's a facial-merkin!

These are not maggots. These are meal-worms. Beetle larvae. They eat grain, not rotting flesh. Believe it or not, they are delicious. They taste a bit like pork scratchings. That's pork-rinds for the Americans in the comments section. They are basically fried fat.

I cannot be the only person here jealous of coming home to that, right?

Cider is an integral part of Somerset culture. My husband is from the West Country and he appalls everyone by drinking only ale. This video sums up a great deal of the best bits of rural UK culture.

It depends on where you are when the bus hits you. They might just think it's for a Bible study. You could counteract the effect by covering the margins with Norse runes to drive straight past obsessive religious and directly into horror movie territory. Whoever hits you will imagine themselves cursed. Dressing…

You read the Vulgate too?! I was convinced that I was the only person on the planet - other than my brother. Noli timere. The world needs more literary geeks.

The Grapes of Wrath appearing on this list is good news on two levels. 1) People really are getting sick of republicans. 2) The writing is astonishingly beautiful. I have never read a more beautiful miscarriage.

This is more about the gif than the article (though the article was good!) - that extended pinky thing is actually a holdover from pre-fork English table manners. Peasants ate with all four fingers and their thumbs. Nobels ate with the fore and middle fingers, plus thumbs. It was considered refined and dainty to keep…