Putting aside the whole ‘Why do we care about rich kids getting scammed’ shit I’m seeing a lot of, I find myself slightly engrossed in this whole saga; It’s like watching a car wreck where more cars just keep plowing into the back of an ever-growing mountain.

I’m not even American and I’m frightened for America....

Us Brits: “Seriously, how the fuck can ANYONE top the level of propaganda fuckery, bullshit campaigning, and wildly insane poll result of the ‘Brexit’ fiasco?”

I am not familiar with US slang - can you clarify the etymology of this word please?

Being a POC in America seems like you’re always running with elastic around your ankles - you work hard as fuck to get somewhere and the second you pause for breath BOING back you go...

Ultimately, large predatory animals need to feed to eat. Their lives are literally a never ending hunt for food that they are capable of consuming.

I’m looking forward to the day I witness this with my husband. He’s no Tom Hiddleston but he’s a friendly, outgoing guy who puts people at ease, and apparently that is incredibly attractive. Add in a wedding ring and he’s a woman magnet.

I watched this with my husband last night and I really ‘enjoyed’ it in that I couldn’t tear my eyes from the screen. It was so tense and suspenseful. I almost felt for myself the suffocating pressure of the regime in the shadow-y creeping and the fearful way they all say the ‘perfect’ thing, but Offred’s narration…

No, they’re mostly Dutch: Rocket (daddy bun) is a pale harlequin Dutch, Clove (mama bun) is a Dutch cross of some kind so Jelly is a dutch cross. But they are of a size with Bryony so they are all similar. They are happy and were glad to have given Bry a gentle retirement from kindling

The perverse deviant side of me kinda gets off on all the ritualised sex. I’d kinda get a kick out of Handmaid role play.

I’m steering clear of the religion half of this piece, but for me, as a cis-woman, the type of feminism that aggressively asserts the rights of women at the cost of others seems contradictory to me. I feel much more closely aligned with the idea that feminism fills that space in the gaping void between male rights,…

Oh no! How awful for you! I’m so sorry to hear that! Losing Splodge was a blow - especially as we’d just had him and his brother neutered. We were going to try to reintroduce them and see if they could form a bond to live together again (we had to separate them as kits when they started fighting over who got to have…

This prospect terrifies me. I’d be inclined to make a point of asking the cabin crew to check and verify that they are aware of my ‘Live cargo’. I don’t think it’ll ever be an issue for me because I can’t see a scenario where I would need to transport my Cat and 4 Rabbits by air. I think if I did I would be doing…

How do you deter crime, though?

You assume I’m american. I’m not. Prisons should not have X-boxes or internet access. You commit a crime and the facility you end up in should not be a bloody playground! Prisoners in this country have better food, accommodation and standards of care than the elderly and frail in council run nursing homes. It’s a…

Like I said, it’s a difficult issue. I’d like to see prison time taken more seriously. Currently it’s almost a holiday - the prisoners get ‘paid’ for work, they have TV, exercise, internet access. You don’t have to dehumanise and torture someone to make prison a bad place - basic food - nutritious but not necessarily…

Excellently prepared and referenced post.

I came here to say the same thing. I literally gasped when I heard that he’d been admitted to intensive care. I immediately thought ‘It’s Carrie Fisher all over again’ then I spent the next hour worrying what the world will be like without Elton. It was bleak.

I said that, but when planning, I realised it would exclude 1/3 of my family and friends. In the end we had a small, intimate wedding and wedding breakfast with a gaggle of under 10's from our various friends and family and it was a brilliant day. The kids played nicely with each other (although they rampantly…

I suspect they mean that without any kind of pre-arrangement, ANY large group is going to be difficult to accommodate (seating together, for example), but moreso if the group have a particular need (such as available Wheelchair spaces, or CC devices, etc), because these things take time to organise. I assume the…