Having your kid picked on is the worst because you feel so powerless. I have zero sense of humour about this because my 5 year old was picked on for, quite literally, a single day, and I’m still furious and upset about it.

I’m interested to know if Americans have a proper network in place to deal with this kind of thing. I’m from Northern Ireland where abortion has always been illegal and we have organised ourselves to make sure that every woman in need can get an abortion. It’s not the ideal way but it’s invaluable. Your Irish sisters…

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My two cents is that you have no idea what’s going on in his head. Maybe he’s not over a previous relationship, maybe he’s gay, maybe he’s got an intermittent and borderline apocalyptic threadworm infestation and he had to clench his arse cheeks the whole time you were having sex the last time in case they spooled out…

This is exactly what set off alarm bells for me too! A central part of Irish culture is nursing grudges until your spleen explodes and you drown in a marinade of your own self-pity and rage. Forget those who did you wrong, my arse.

Americans thieved the Irish word for mother and made it into a racial slur?

This is good. I have two young kids and they’re really into swimming.

Thanks for this, this thread was starting to get a bit terrifying.

Not really. Travelling to the States is a real slog, especially with two small kids. My husband’s going to be there a few times for work so he’s doing the casing for us. I suppose I trust his judgement but he was seriously suggesting we move to Dubai a few years ago so idk.

Pretending I’m in a sitcom might be a good coping mechanism, actually. I could pretend I’m breaking the fourth wall and looking knowingly at the camera when I think things are running wild, for example.

We’re heading for Kennesaw, which I have learned has a mandatory gun ownership law which appears to me to be next level crazy.

My husband has been offered a new job which will involve relocating to Georgia.

Sure he does. It’s that thing doctors say which means they shouldn’t perform abortions. Very dishonest! Sad! #Obamacare

Hell hath no fury like a mediocre white guy scorned.

He was on Who Do You Think You Are? Don’t know if it’s on in America, but it basically tracks a celebrity’s genealogy and focusses on some obscure ancestor of theirs and their story. It’s normally pretty good but Rob Lowe’s was excruciating. He wanted to know all about his great great whatever grandfather who had…

“Did You Hear About The Girl Who...?” is a great book about sex education and folklore. It essentially runs down every major area where kids have misconceptions about sex and the urban legends that inform this kind of thinking. It also explains how to effectively bust the myths and educate kids properly. You might…

I vaguely remember that there is a duet of Freddie and George on Queen’s Greatest Hits. Someone to Love.

I know a guy who owned this clothes shop that Janice Dickinson was never out of when she was in London. He said that she’s barking and incapable of having a single thought without articulating it. He’d go round the racks with her, she’d be raving, he’d wander off and do something else and she’d still be there, “This…

Go to England for a wee trip, they said. Go to Blackpool, they said, sure it’s only a teeny ride on the ferry there.

Lube? Tbh, he should be taking it unslipperated. All the Taco Bell the wee motherfucker eats, he’s not getting enough roughage in his diet so it’ll probably be a blessing.