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I live in the UK but I am interested in meeting someone from the US. No, I absolutely don't want to move there, I would be interested in the other person moving here. Are there any websites tailored for this?

I live in the UK but I am interested in meeting someone from the US. No, I absolutely don't want to move there, I would be interested in the other person moving here. Are there any websites tailored for this?

Gentrification is a done deal in Leith, and is happening right now in Dalry. Is Granton next?

Part of me says no, because it doesn't have as much charm as those other neighbourhoods, it has fewer Victorian buildings and independent shops. Also it now seems uncertain that the tram will go there any time soon, if ever.

But my mate is convinced Granton is the next trendy area. What do you think?

I was riding by here on the bus and saw the sign. It looks like fine dining, but by the students in the Cookery College. Has anyone gone there? How is the quality, setting and price?

I was riding by here on the bus and saw the sign. It looks like fine dining, but by the students in the Cookery College. Has anyone gone there? How is the quality, setting and price?

I've come up with a few products where I don't think being rich really gets you a lot more. I mean, I'm sure there are luxury versions of these products, but I think rich people usually buy the same stuff as us ordinary smucks.

1. Loo roll

2. Bin bags

3. Flour/sugar/salt

4. Paracetamol

5. Batteries

If you wave your magic wand, Edinburgh suddenly has half as many tourists. So there are still lots, they just aren't quite so many everywhere. Would you do it?

I know a lot of people aren't in love with Middlemarch, but I like how her characters aren't black and white, they are all flawed people who make mistakes.

What do you think of Dorothea (Dodo)? It seems to me she desperately wants to do something meaningful with her life. She hates the role society has assigned to her: buy things and be pretty. The first person she meets who seems to give her the opportunity to do something serious is Casaubon, and she jumps at the chance. She doesn't recognise that his work, although serious, is too dry and scholorly for what she truely loves. What is more meaningful to her is to improve the lives of common people, and Casaubon's historic work just doesn't scratch that itch for her.

Dorothea’s intellect has nowhere to go, no outlet except marriage. She’s a woman trying to live a meaningful life in a world that gives her almost no tools to do so.

Both were good, don't get me wrong. But I liked the Armando and Joanna one best.

Greg took the easy way out in giving everyone 5 points, but if it were you, how would you dole out the points?

He comes into a very average restaurant in an unfashionable part of London to make a reservation for his parents' anneversary. He wants the reserve the window table but she tells him they don't allow reservations for that table. OK, fair enough if that's their policy.

But when he comes back with his parents, and the table is not taken, she's quite rude about not allowing them to sit in it. From a business perspective, you want that table to be occupied, because it is the most visible from the street, and you want your restaurant to be viewed as a popular place. Why would she refuse to seat this family there?

Why is she rude to them?

If you want your shoes to last longer, get a simple shoehorn. It keeps you from crushing the back of the heel when you put them on, which is what usually tears up the lining. I started using one and it instantly stopped that wear‑and‑tear.

I didn’t realise how much I was destroying my shoes until I bought a shoehorn. Turns out, not smooshing the heel every morning makes them last way longer.

It's been happening for over a week and it's driving me mad!

When my husband and I got divorced, we had 4 minor children together. Husband was ordered to pay me child support for them. The attorneys told both of us that when each child reached the age of 18, my ex-husband would no longer have to pay child support for them, but this doesn't happen automatically. We would have to file a paper with the family court asking for child support to be reduced. You pay a nomimal fee, file a court paper, and it's done. We agreed that we would take turns doing this as each child aged out, and I would go first, since I was working as a paralegal in a state office and was familiar with filing court documents.

When the oldest turned 18, I filed the paperwork with the court and the child support was reduced from covering 4 children to covering 3. When the second child reached 18, I waited for either my ex to ask me how to file the paperwork (we were on good terms and communicated regularly) or for the amount of child support I received to reduce. But neither happened. Then a few years later the 3rd child reached 18 and the same thing happened. He neither reached out to me nor filed anything with the court. So at this point I had one minor child at home and was receiving child support for 3 children.

Years later when the youngest one turned 18 and was graduating from high school, my ex-husband handed me some paperwork to end the child support payments, which I immediately and happily signed. His girlfriend said to me, "I just found out that he's been overpaying for years! You knew and you said nothing! You knew how to file the court documents, and yet you just let him continue paying for three kids, when you only had one!"

All this was true. But he was present, just like I was, when we agreed that I would take care of the court filings for the first and he would do the second. He knew the kids were aging out and did nothing about it. He didn't ask me, didn't go to the divorce attorney, didn't do anything to try to rememdy the situation.

AITAH?

ETA: Today I learned a lot of people have no idea of the actual meaning of the word 'Fraud.' As I mentioned, I was working as a paralegal (some people in this thread said I was trying to avoid getting a job???) and I spoke to my coworker attorneys to make sure I wasn't doing anything legally iffy. I was assured that it is the ex-husband's (payer's) legal duty to file to reduce payments, and since he'd never done so, I have no legal obligation to remind him. I will never be sued and we still have a good relationship. I was never asking about legal issues (I know more about them than you do) but about arseholishness.

I'm a retiree and I spend my time volunteering for several different organizations. In each of them, there are many more women than men. These aren't charities that are gender specific in any way. Volunteering is a great way to make friends, feel connected to the community and keep active. Why do so few men do it?

Edited to add, because people are asking, I volunteer in 3 different places: a food bank, history museum, and Park Run

Here's the rules: whatever shoes you currently have on, are the only shoes you can ever wear again forever. If you aren't wearing shoes, you can only put on the ones you most recently wore. These shoes will never change. They won't wear out or develop holes, but also if they are currently worn-down or have holes, those will never be fixed.

How are you faring?

For me I'm stuck for life with some fairly boring but practical Skechers slip-ons. They are quite comfy and would do fine except they'll be cold in the winter. Could certainly have done worse.

I was making tea and when the water in the kettle started boiling, I lifted the kettle up and started pouring it into the mugs. My boyfriend was agast at this and said I needed to wait until the kettle turned itself off before using the water, or it wasn't 'properly boiled.'

Do you use the water in the kettle as soon as it starts boiling? Or do you wait until the kettle shuts itself off?

I was making tea and when the water in the kettle started boiling, I lifted the kettle up and started pouring it into the mugs. My boyfriend was agast at this and said I needed to wait until the kettle turned itself off before using the water, or it wasn't 'properly boiled.'

Do you use the water in the kettle as soon as it starts boiling? Or do you wait until the kettle shuts itself off?

With the heat wave that is starting, I'm just now switching from my winter duvet (TOG 12) to my summer duvet (TOG 5). I live in Scotland, which is cooler than some other places, so maybe I do this later than others. But generally summer blanket season for me is mid-May through mid-October. How about you?