Aw dude, that sucks. But try to take comfort from someone who’s had both a spinal tap and several brain surgeries - the tap is not that bad, it’s more the thought of it than the process itself. Yep, brain surgery kinda sucks and hopefully you won’t need a shunt. I can’t give much advice around shunts as I don’t have…

I had a very specific fear that sorta fits under the bracket of paranormal- whenever it was thick fog outside I was afraid it was the marshmallow man from ghostbusters and he was going to smother the house so we couldn’t escape. I’d like to add that I was 5 at the time.

Sorry, that accolade belongs to the paint visionaries. Of which coincidentally - I am one...

Ho Ho! I see what you did there! *wink*

I love magic eye pictures!

I saw a blue and black dress but then I tried really hard to see white and gold and after that I couldn’t see blue and black anymore - I think I broke my eyes.

I can only see paint too, I just showed the picture to Mr Useforeaname - here’s how the conversation went down...

I’ve always been in awe of how versatile her look is, she can pull off anything! It also goes without saying that her acting is equally floorless, the fact she can look unrecognisable from role to role just shows how good she is.

Bloody hell... I just, there are no words... It’s better to think of this as something from the past, but it’s not really, is it?

Oh absolutely, I cannot believe this is only as far as we’ve progressed. I shout it from the rooftops in all its glory gloriousness, there’s way to much shame around bodily functions

I used to get tongue tied when I said ‘cordon’ (I think it’s my accent - the ‘don’ should be pronounced as ‘dn’ but sounds similar to the soft ‘gn’ sound) and ‘omnibus’ - my mouth wanted to change the ‘mm’ sound to a ‘b’ sound.

See a penny, pick it up

Can we take a moment though to acknowledge how fucking amazing plain ‘ole cold water is on blood though? It never ceases to amaze me when the huge, hideous red stain all but disappears after a good run under the tap - and I got to see this miracle almost daily with not only myself, but with my clients when I worked in…

Oh no! I remember in high school a lot of the girls sporting the sweater-round-the-waist look. I’ve always had super heavy bleeding and always go for maxi tampon and maxi pad, to be changed every two hours or so, which did the trick - except for last year when I, at the age of 31, bled through everything when I had…

I agree, the lies we tell to save embarassment, boost confidence etc are, whilst perhaps not always necessary, preferable to the cold hard truth (which might not be the opposite of the truth, more an ‘i don’t know’). But even in those cases there are certain qualifiers to check against before the lie, such as whether…

Ah yes, the inseparable duo that is Anne Hathaway and James Franco...

Haha, I read through the thread until this point but I didn’t read it as a dig! We all know we’re fucked so I read it more as a commiserations to us all joke. Maybe I’m wrong, I’ll read through the whole thing. Either way, perhaps everything is a bit tense for jokes atm!

Oh, I do - when we voted to leave the EU I was flabbergasted, disgusted, heartbroken etc, and I still am, but much more quietly now. I know (and despite their political beliefs, am great friends with) lots of leavers. I don’t agree with or even respect their choice here, but they’re not bad people - just not very…

Bug Aw mate! You’ve been through the mill!

Bahahaha! She covered him with a sheet? I’m crying!!!!