Yay! Good to see that the work of Sir Terry is appreciated stateside :)

Thanks muchly! I’m partial to Americana food (ribs and burgers and mac n cheese!) so am a bit excited about the food there :)

As an Australian about to move to the states, it is vastly reassuring to know I can get good meat pies there :) KO pies sound delicious!

it’s better to stick the sauce nozzle through the top of the pastry and squirt the tomato sauce (which is what is used in Australia) straight into the pie so that it mixes with the terrible gloopy gravy and unidentifiable meat-bits, thus disguising what you’re actually eating (tomato sauce is different to ketchup,…

My sister is like that - she had steel posts put in her ears when they were first pierced and within 48 hours they were three times their normal size, bright red and weeping pus :(

And wear sunglasses and get your eyes checked yearly for freckles/moles in your retina! This is a thing I didn’t know existed until getting glasses and having my optometrist find a large mole in the back of one of my eyes. Fortunately I now know it exists, and am able to “keep an eye on it” (hah!) and wear high…

my three:

ooh, Machine Gun Fellatio! They must have tamed down their act for the festival crowd, cos their concert I saw was staged with large video screens showing porn mixed with wacky stoner cartoons in the background, frequent nudity and many nipple tassels :) it was great fun!

Oooohhh I’ve done the food poisoning + long flight combo. Not fun. Leaving Vietnam, and it hit me as we were walking to the terminal with nary a bathroom in sight. Spewed in a bin, got splashback all over my pants and shoes, and had to get on a flight in 10 minutes.

I really liked it! But I grew up in a situation almost exactly the same (the "posh/nice" people lived in one town, the "derros" lived in the other, everyone went to the same school), and having since escaped kind of enjoyed the skewering of that sort of social setting (though the ending is pretty friggin bleak). But,…

I think a lot of the stigma around crying as well is that it's a "weak/female" form of emotion - it's perfectly okay to be angry and shout at people cos that's manly, while tears seem to indicate vulnerability...

It's from the show Ugly Americans:

My trivial problems are old, but still involved lost licences! I (very stupidly) left our gate and garage door hanging open when I went to the shop 3 metres away, which I thought would be okay cos the mister was in the shower right next to the garage. Turns out someone was watching our patterns of behaviour, saw a…

Hells yes :) I have 2 "rip/stitches" scars on my mouth, a star-shaped one on my nose from smashing my face (I look like a horse with a white patch when I've been out in the sun, cos tans make it stand out more). None can be hidden with makeup, so I just kind of decided they don't matter....the ones in my hands though,…

YES THIS. I had an ex with the same attitude, but he'd always been the one to end relationships (usually by cheating on his current partner and moving straight into a relationship with the cheatee), and so didn't understand why I didn't want to be friends with him after he did the same shit to me :/ and then went and…

Yep - or just flat out showing up with a new boyfriend on the day with no warning, or showing up with no warning after RSVPing that they weren't coming (both happened to a friend on her wedding day - as MOH I was left to deal with finding extra seats/placements while she was doing photos...)

I second je suis cocopop - green and brown may indicate some type of colourblindness. Give your husband a peek at these and see if any of them are missing numbers for him....

A fun game that was used at a friend's party that I've since co-opted for ones I've thrown is to have a paper bag filled with funny little costume bits (groucho marx glasses, party hats, fluffy feather boa, etc) and a list of words written on the front (eg "dress", "wedding", fiance's name) that if the bride-to-be…

Our neighbours had a Labrador that was enormously fat, and nothing they did (diet food, restricted feeding, lots of walks) could help keep her weight down. Turned out that when they were all off at work/school during the day, the dog would go around their large backyard and eat all of the low-hanging fruit she could…

See, this is where developments in AI and technology are going to RADICALLY change the face of the workforce. For example, self-driving vehicles - the tech is nearly here, and will likely replace most long-distance goods transportation within a few years of it becoming accepted for use on the roads. Which means the 1…