[looks in mirror; nods in agreement]

The A.V. Club
… coarse and rough and irritating

That was my first thought too.

Mrs periscopes and I finished a Santa puzzle last night (full disclosure - it took five months, because it's in our second lounge that we really use as a bar/library).
Interestingly, our friends' little white dog leapt on it last week.
We didn't get a picture though.

I'm pleased you have been able to build bonds.
I didn't step away lightly.
My father had his own health scare about a decade ago. It didn't stop the negative behaviour though.

I spent the whole of my adult life up until my 40th birthday trying to please a man who obviously didn't like me. The emotional energy that I've regained from stepping away has been immense.

As a pasty, bespectacled white guy, I am so pleased that I settled down before dating became so competitive.

My father spent years (seriously, from my earliest memories, to last year when I stopped talking to him) belittling me.
I have become close friends with a guy in recent years who gave me the strength to admit that I do have something to add to people's lives, and that my dad is an arse.

Good luck with it. I am fortunate that I live in a place where healthcare support was given to me, and that I share my life with a wonderful human who has helped me come to terms with my own illness.

[memo to self: stop watching Homeland]

I loved them as a kid too. I thought I hadn't seen the second movie, and sat down to watch it in the middle of last year. It turns out I had seen it, but couldn't remember any of it.

Thanks.

Manu Bennett's presence* is enough for me to give this a try. It'll probably be terrible though.

As in it "can open a" big hole in someone?

Could you please be more specific? Did you think it was the tail end of a figurine of a small dolphin, or a small figurine of a dolphin (regular sized)? I'm asking for a friend.

Or a box of Magnum Ice Creams:

Mine is to watch more movies (seriously, I have failed so badly in recent years that it took me until Christmas Week to see Mad Max: Fury Road).
At least one new film a week - and with no iPhone/iPad in the room either.

Good luck on the Manu B movement, kid.

They'll find it when they park the Suicide Pod in the Suicide Quad.

Every time I see TV couples trying to conceive, I am reminded of Blackadder: