Oh yeah, I totally agree. I just meant that the parents get into this weird headspace where the childcare provider is ‘like family’ and that turns them paying them a wage into the same sort of ‘fun money’ stipend they’d pay grandparents for taking the kid.

I think - from the sidelines, could totally be wrong - that a lot of people who have ongoing childcare situations do get a bit...conflicted? If the childcare provider is doing their job than they are appropriately affectionate with the child, discuss their advances in speech or whatever, help plan various parts of the…

My main thought? Ow, my nipples! I’m sure they use special tape or protective gel, but still. It looks like the set up for a lot of really bad headlines.

*nods* Someone I used to know did one of those ‘Don’t Drink and Drive’ commercials, and that one commercial pretty much provided her with a base living salary for the years I knew her. (Most of her royalties came in at Christmas, but she got a few year round.)

Oh thank you! No, I saw it too. There’s something weirdly uncanny valley in that picture.

I can counter with my aunt’s ridiculous cuddlebear Siamese, Robinson. She was an apricot tabby Siamese and she’d run to strangers when they came in to get petted and sit on your shoulder licking your hair. Admittedly she was neurotic as ALL get out and would sometimes ride the family dog round the house screaming at…

Swans can be monsters. There is one in Pembroke (was one? Maybe at this point) that they called Hannibal because it aggressively maimed and murdered other birds. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/earth/wil…

I read that as ‘some duck sock’ the first time - and thought it was some sort of weird duck foot recipe. My theories about what it might be were gross enough not to go into.

Oh me too. Apparently my feet smell like vinegar and BO, but I can’t smell them at all*. I get so paranoid during the summer I sneak off to the loos and wipe them down.

I wasn’t a c-section and I have coeliacs and asthma. My cousin’s kid was c-section and unless we count the fact he is a bit of a brat he’s healthy as a horse. I need to read the science - but they’d need to compare babies born by c-section from choice compared to those born by c-section because of medical necessity to…

I see stupidity. He is 18. If poor Nicole had exposed that he was abusing her, he probably would have got off with a slap on the wrist and a newspaper headline lamenting ruining his bright future. Not what should happen, but what probably would. Now he is charged with murder. And Keepers didn’t have a horse in the…

In the next tweet she said ‘I was checked 1a when I left LA they told me they would reassigned me Charlotte first class he did not want to help’ - So that’s definitely the person at the check out desk who wouldn’t help her. Plus the ‘Amanda checked man’ doesn’t really scan either. I think she was just angry tweeting…

Generally, you complain on Twitter and you get a response. My friend and I had the exact same problem with a company - I wrote an email and got a form letter back, she complained on Twitter and got vouchers.

I think Amanda might just have been autocorrect. She refers to ‘the guy’ elsewhere.

It just seems such a weird, random thing for this doctor to do? She was a random stranger, he had to draw attention to the situation in order to inject her, and it was in the middle of a busy ER where anyone could have walked in (whether it was likely for them to or not). My thought was either that possibly the woman…

Was he using it as a translator? The last I saw no-one knew what he was doing, and people who had been there had said he was taking photos/video? I still think it’s kinda mean to pick on a reporter for that actually- he probably needs the photos for his piece - but the assumptions have all been there was something…

I think that is actually the fact that we don’t fancy siblings we have grown up with - something about the smell. It isn’t there with relatives we didn’t know in childhood. (Personally, attractive as my cousin is aesthetically, i think the fact I saw him sneeze spaghetti would have done it without any help from a…

I think it is ‘common’ to have some very confusing feelings when you find yourself in that situation. Not the majority of people, but fairly well observed. It is less common to actually do anything other than feel uncomfortable and awkward about it until they rejig their reactions.

I can’t - on the grounds that I am constantly grabbing my head to see if my hat is gone. I constantly look like I have just remembered something terrible. Occasionally what I remembered is that I left my hat in the last toilet I was in :(. I still have loads of cheap woolly hats mind you - because it gets cold!

They quickly realised that covering up Aidan’s chest was a crime. He spent a lot of time shirtless, and on one occasion wore only a towel. (we also saw Charles Dance’s cleavage too - pro or con is up to you)