I stand corrected! (No sarcasm).

I have never figured out who peplum is supposed to look good on.

I can’t remember which airline it was - I’m leaning towards it being American, as they were who usually did the first leg of my journey - but I was bumped off a flight to JFK from DC due to overbooking two days before Christmas several years back. Obviously at that time of year, everyone is desparate to get home on…

Best thing about airport bars is that no one judges you for ordering a glass of wine at 9am, because time is irrelevant in airports.

It’s an extremely poor and rural area with lower literacy rates, worse health outcomes, and a dearth of basic services as compared to many other parts of India.

He would be bewildered to find himself the object of affection of Jez readers but I shall pass along the sentiment :)

I agree with you - if you’ll see my follow up comment, my mortaring hopes were aimed solely at frightening him, and maybe causing him to wet himself. I’m not wishing death on anyone involved in this clusterfuck, but I have absolutely no issue with them being terrified at any moment.

Update from the husband - “Absolute fucking bullshit, has anyone handed him over to the Walter Hunters yet?”

That’s my understanding as well - my husband did two tours in NI during the Troubles, as did several of our friends. No mention of the TA, ever. They’re more of a weekend force except in the event of a massive call up, as far as I’m aware (with no disrespect to the TA).

As I’ve mentioned before, my husband is ex-British army infantry - there’s something here (largely online) called the “Walter Mitty Hunters Club” where serving and ex-military folks name and shame anyone falsely claiming or inflating their military credentials. As you can imagine, they don’t take kindly to these sort…

Can’t even wrap my head around this level of batshitery.

Seconded! I snorted outloud more times than I’m willing to admit reading this.

Is it? Blast, there goes my screen writing dreams! :p

I second Schadenfraud - halter ties are your friend, fellow owner of a long torso.

I read that article yesterday and it did literally nothing to quiet the “oh shit, oh shit, oh shit” refrain screaming away in my brain.

That pleases me immensely :)

I’m not wishing death on anyone per se.....I mostly just want a mortar fired in his vicinity to scare the shit out of him and make him realise this is not a fucking game and he’s in way over his head. Iraqi politics are extremely delicate, and a little screw up by an inexperienced but powerful individual with no…

Ha! Lovely story - I am going to turn it into a romcom in my head, if you don’t mind, and I’ve initially paired you up with the handsomest, most successful of the brothers. But, plot twist, turns out he’s a bit of a douche, and you deserve so much more. In rides the ever so slightly less attractive (but still very…

I cannot, for the life of me, decide who I hate more - I read this, and set my rage on Ivanka. But then! I remember that Jared - a 36-year-old who fell into this position by way of marriage with zero credentials - is currently in Baghdad, “solving” Iraq’s complex, multi-faceted, interlinked, and very bloody crises…

One of my college roommates once grabbed me aside and said, “I know people can feel weird when others speak other languages in front of them - but don’t worry, I promise I’m not talking about you when I call my mom and suddenly switch into Russian. I AM, however, probably talking about Roommate X.”