I think the problem is that it doesn’t actually get sunny enough here the very vast majority of the time, even in summer, to burn, no matter how pale you are. So on the rare sunny day, people are taken by surprise. And because they don’t do it habitually like pale people who grow up in warmer places (you better…

I just feel so sad for her when I think of all the fun, active things kids her age should be doing - playing sports, jumping out of trees, going swimming, playing tag - that she’s unlikely to be able to do without discomfort. On the plus side, she’s still young and hopefully can get away from her toxic mother in a few…

This is good to know as a fellow super dry lip haver - I will investigate, thanks!

That child does not look well at all. Poor baby.

It’s true. I am a very pale and freckled Irish American and I thought, when I moved to Britain, that I’d be surrounded by fellow sun screen worshippers. But no. They do not. My husband’s nose has been fried to a crisp so many times that I’m waiting for it to just fall off. I do not understand! Sun screen is our…

Fellow curly here - it’s a rough ride if there is no fellow curly haired woman around to guide you! College was when I finally worked it out as well.

I’m a size 10 American living in the U.K. (a size 14 in Brit sizing) and I don’t have any trouble finding clothing. I wouldn’t want to be much bigger purely from a shopping perspective though, most stores cap out at a size 12 (U.K. 16).

H&M is the worst offender, I think. I generally wear a US 10, but I own a sweater from there that fits me perfectly which is a size 2, and I tried on a blazer recently that was too small at a size 16.

Glastonbury is the town next to me (in England) and I was very excited that something interesting had happened in sleepy County Somerset. It being in American Glastonbury was quite the letdown.

I was seriously considering a military career when I was a teenager and very interested in West Point. Saw that movie with my dad (we didn’t realise quite what the premise was, thought it was more of a crime thriller) and he went from supportive to flipping the hell out. I can’t say my parents were delighted when two…

I was born in 85, and baptising newborn babies who didn’t look too healthy was still a common practice then as well (in America, in an area heavily populated by descendants of Irish Catholics).

That sounds highly suspect. What figures are you using to back that up?

Probably not me then! I’ve always been a natural blonde-ish redhead - I hope you guys can reconnect at some point!

Oh God, do we know each other in real life? What color is your friend’s hair? (Easiest way to establish without doxxing myself, I think!)

American living in Britain here! Long stayer (5+ years), married to a Welshman, likely to stay forever. Living in rural Southwest England now after a stint in London, and I still find something hilarious about life here every day.

That’s totally fair - you don’t see it too often but technically the speaking in tongues etc. is part of the church. One of the parishes I belonged to as a kid had a priest who was into all that stuff (fun fact - he left the priesthood for his best friend’s widow a few years later). It’s just silly to say that…

Yeah, 13 years of Catholic school under my belt, and never saw anything like this. My biology teacher was a nun from one of the stricter orders, and not once did she ever even mention religion in class.

WHAT? Look, I’m not going to defend the Catholic Church on a lot of their insanity- I’m not practicing anymore- but that is false. American Catholics, by and large, bear little resemblance to evangelicals. We believe in science, ffs, and I’ve never had a Catholic knock on my door to get me to come to church.

That would make me feel a bit better than the fully grown adults I was picturing.

Can you imagine being the sort of person who wakes up in the morning and decides that your activity for the day will be track down and post online identifying information of some accountants who fucked up a stupid awards show? With the intention that someone will harm or at least threaten these accountants? Again, not…