I’m also fascinated by how susceptible even educated, intelligent people are to these scams - just look at Steve Jobs. There just seems to be a toxic combination of romanticism, arrogance and suspicion of authority that fuels the appeal and all sorts of other conspiracy theories. The internet also seems to amplify it…

This! Use diet, exercise, moon crystals, whatever, if you think it helps. But FFS do not rely on that alone. I always think about the fact that Gilda Radnor and Steve Jobs might be alive today if they had opted for treatment plus the micro biotic diet.

My boyfriend is a widower whose wife died of lung cancer at age 36. She had a genetic mutation that caused it, and it wasn’t discovered until it was already stage IV. Despite aggressive treatment, she passed away a few years ago, but not before doing everything she could to raise money for LUNGevity (an organization…

Something, something, bees knees, pork pie, Bob’s your uncle.

At least your hideously incompetent government invites laughter, rather than horror and/or pain.

I like that alabaster retard, the Moon.

BTW America - we really like most of you, so if you want to come and visit this year have fun.

Don’t talk on the Tube, in fact don’t make eye contact! We’re a sensitive country of millions of tightly-packed, emotionally-repressed psychopaths still hankering after an Empire and just waiting for an excuse to wreak hideous violence/stern tutting on anyone who breaks the social norms.

This makes sense as Drag Race is coming down from a hard peak. Just, please GOD, no more Michelle Visage.

Believe me I did nothing to dishonor, I mean dishonour, the Maple Leaf Flag during my journey.

I still enjoy Drag Race and I’d be sad if that was the last season, but if it continued without RuPaul that could actually.. be a good thing? The show does feel like it’s getting a little stale (the same challenges every season with the same archetypal queens), and a fresh host with a more expansive view on drag could…

I’m so here for it. I’m over Ru being problematic (trans issues, shitting on The Vixen, etc) so a new host would honestly be a breath of fresh air.

I’d be at peace with that. Can you imagine another queen, maybe Bianca, as the head judge?

Arrogant Bastard remains my favorite stateside ale.

I first bought one after picking a bottle up in a store, reading the back, and taking the litany of abuse printed thereon as a challenge.

Neither I nor my liver have ever looked back.

1.) Shut the fuck up

I mean, yeah, the simple act of wearing one screams, “Please sell me shit I don’t need at significant markups whilst I’m at Camden,” but the referral is the clincher for being a Yank.

As for the eel pies—I dunno. I went in for bangers and mash in a big way while I was over there—and learned to appreciate a prawn and…

Also, be polite, don’t scream about the cost of things, and avoid bringing up your particular political bent in conversation.

These are simple things; they can be done.

I worked in London in 2003 (I was on a work exchange/internship going into my last year of undergrad)—just after the Second Iraq War fired up.

I occasionally had to deal with folks asking me, “Why’d you lot start that war?”

I routinely answered with, “Did you vote for Tony Blair? No? I voted for the dude running against…

The Tories are just like the Republicans - a big, expensive, ignorant joke - only slightly more sophisticated.

Yeah, Nick was kind of a classic “thinks he’s a good guy, but really isn’t.” I mean, he wasn’t a monster, which is why I think some people didn’t like the ending - they wanted Amy to get her comeuppance and Nick to get revenge. But I felt like they kind of deserved each other.