I respectfully disagree, and submit ‘Crywank’ for your consideration.

I think in the women’s case, it's because they're wearing heels. Frickin HEELS. On a suit of ARMOUR.

I don’t think I could take his run-in with the Sexual Investigators ...

ARSEface, dude. Jeez.

I think it was a residential camp for kids with fairly severe behaviour problems from ‘nice middle class families’.

Enjoy! But seriously ... have some cuddly animal YouTube videos lined up for after you read the Wasp Factory. It’s amazing, but in a kind of ‘Well now I need to bleach my brain’ kind of way!

Thanks! Your wee guy is adorbs.

Quite a bit! The Wasp Factory (headfuck), Transition (mind bending scifi), The Steep Road to Garbadale, The Quarry (twisted family drama), Complicity (didn't like this.one so much - couldn't care about the character) and Stonemouth (you'll like this one if you liked the Crow Road!).

Cooper, my mutt :) (listening to Harry Potter)

‘This too shall pass’.

Dracula is a surprisingly readable classic, if you haven’t got to it yet!

I love the Crow Road! Iain Banks is very readable. I use the opening sentence of that book (‘It was the day my grandmother exploded’) as a creative writing prompt with my students and they always love it.

Just a little less?

Thank you!

Thank you!

No - on the whole this isn’t something I get often now. When I was a kid it was (looking back) something that affected me a lot more, but I haven’t felt like this in years. I’m okay with other things like going to stadiums to watch sports, or to pubs/clubs, which is why I thought I’d be fine at the concert tonight. I…

Anyone have any advice about social anxiety? I’m supposed to be at a concert with my boyfriend and friends tonight, but I’m back in my flat hugging my dog instead because apparently I can’t cope with concerts. Made it 20 mins in, sat in good seats and chatted to friendly people next to us, music was grand - but I…

He has the cold dead eyes of a shark.

A Møøse once bit my sister... No realli!

‘Activewear designed ... for the coffee shop.’