It’s also an awful result of English colonial rule, which is why so much land is devoted to it in Wales, Scotland, Ireland, and Australia.

Wool production has catastrophic environmental consequences. Here in the UK our native temperate rainforests were cut down for grazing sheep, and all the open pasture results in vast runoff of agricultural chemicals and antibiotics into our rivers and lakes, as well as major flooding every winter.

He had promised to take me to Hard Rock Cafe another time but later my mom told me he didn’t want to hang out again because I was arrogant. At the time I was devastated but now I think it was probs for the best. Adults don’t get to patronise kids just because they’re bigger.

When I was about seven years old one of mom’s friends took me out for the day. I really liked him but he treated me like I didn’t know anything and any time he came out with one of his obvious pearls of basic wisdom I replied, “I know.”

And I had not even considered plucking my eyebrows yet, so tweezers had a singular purpose in my worldview.

I was younger as a kid, how did you know that? 😉

I had splinters throughout the 1990s but I haven’t so much as heard of a splinter in years. Is it because everything’s made of plastic now? Is this a lost art? Are tweezers just for eyebrows?