It’s a very fine schnozz :)

The point, you has it. Edits: other than if you call me a guy, in which case I am going to think you are a rude person.

Me. It’s rude and lazy. There are perfectly good gender neutral terms for mixed gender groups.

In the UK, use ‘folks’ reasonably frequently. Know plenty of other folks who do too.

Everyone?

Really? I’m in the UK and I use it frequently. I do tend to use ‘everyone’ and ‘people’ in more formal contexts, but normally it’s just ‘folks’.

There are alot of really nice, flattering dresses here. But

I hope your sister and her family aren’t too traumatised by that - I bet there’s a few Hawaiian children with nightmares just now :(

Who’s read Altered Carbon? There’s a similar context here, if without the longevity.

My partner, Yog, has gout. Gout is vile. We should collectively pray for Trump to get gout.

Creams with a Urea content. I have eczema, and recently discovered these after thirty years of trying every damned moisturiser out there. It works really well for me. Obviously YMMV, but good luck.

It’s real enough...

Quoting from the letter

You are employing a silly level of whataboutery. I cannot influence the behaviour of the US military, nor deny it funding to proceed with its war crimes. But I can avoid giving money to people whose moral stances I disapprove of.

Humphrys needs to go. He’s 74, and a perfect example of a clueless old fart. He’s pretty much ruined the Today Programme, which used to be required listening, by making it into the ‘John Humphrys Show’. I gave up listening a few years back, but apparently the BBC has gone even further down the cult of personality…

Sounds like it was shown on Friday night in RoI; the Independent (UK) piece is seven hours old so Saturday afternoon.

And I thought Wonderful Tonight and Tears in Heaven were good enough reasons to despise Clapton. FFS.

Ugh. That’s revolting. Another name for the ‘shitbag’ file. Don’t know if this has filtered over to the US yet, but we need to put Liam Neeson in the ‘complicit’ file too, after his recent television performance in the Republic of Ireland:

Have you tried spiral hair pins?

every stylist I’ve talked to