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8 years ago @ The Toast - Link Roundup! · 1 reply · +17 points

Oh, the waxing story D:

I read it when Mallory tweeted yesterday, and just the memory of some of the descriptions is making we squirm with visceral empathetic pain.

Also, as a UK Toastie, it's so messed up that the American healthcare system means a person's first thought when this happens isn't 'call 999 / take me to A&E'...

9 years ago @ The Toast - "The Spinster's Almana... · 0 replies · +6 points

This is by no means 'for me' in terms of personal situation, but I loved it anyway. Such beautiful writing, and a deftness of touch weaving the poetry and thoughtful advice together - I wish my litcrit abilities extended in this direction.

9 years ago @ The Toast - Link Roundup! · 0 replies · +7 points

A blue plaque petition is definitely in order!

PS I love your username - I sing that song to my partner every time we see a fox (there does not need to be snow).

9 years ago @ The Toast - Link Roundup · 0 replies · +1 points

Oh wow, that makes it even worse - I hadn't come across that one :(

9 years ago @ The Toast - Link Roundup · 3 replies · +17 points

My goodness, I love the choose-your-own-adventure, more of these please!

Also, the twitter accounts used are years and years old - how? why? what? This makes it about 100 times creepier!

9 years ago @ The Toast - Charles Dickens' Inter... · 0 replies · +2 points

Those are so bizarre and fascinating, seeing as none of them sound remotely like any of his other novel titles!

9 years ago @ The Toast - Link Roundup · 0 replies · +10 points

Oh friend break ups are hard. I quite regularly have very vivid dreams about my best friend that I met in the first year of university - we drifted apart in terms of interests and mutual friends but it became a proper 'break up' because we were also living together so it all came to a head in the weeks before our final exams.

It wasn't so very very heart breaking as I knew it was coming (though neither of us handled it in a very adult way), but she's the one person that isn't currently in my life at all that I think about a lot, and the dreams are so happy-sad. We shared so much, and it makes looking back at uni photos bittersweet as she's in almost every single one and we had so much fun together for a couple of years.

EDIT: Was going to come back to delete some of the many 'so's that crept into this, but idk they're all heartfelt!

9 years ago @ The Toast - A Linguist Explains th... · 0 replies · +4 points

This is brilliant. Even more brilliant is the fact that my university library does indeed have a copy of Studies out in Left Field. To the reading room!

9 years ago @ The Toast - Two Things I Find It D... · 0 replies · +5 points

There is a whole bit in The Water Babies that plays on exactly that, when the Professor declares "that apes had hippopotamus majors in their brains just as men have [and] If you have a hippopotamus major in your brain, you are no ape".

I'm even happier to find out that there's a whole wiki page on this debate around 'Great Hippocampus Question' (but it may well only be me that's pleased by these esoteric areas of C19): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Hippocampus_Qu...

9 years ago @ The Toast - Two Things I Find It D... · 0 replies · +3 points

Ha, The Wolf only makes me think of the one and only (very best) gladiator who lays claim to that name. http://www.gladiatorszone.co.uk/gladiators/male/w...

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