What do you want for Christmas? That’s a lovely question to be asked, isn’t it? Well, sometimes. If the person asking is a dashing billionaire who is so into the… Read more Why you’ll never get an honest answer when you ask what someone wants for Christmas →
What are you having for Christmas dinner? Turkey? Beef? Nut roast? Yorkshire pudding with your chicken*? Forget the meat/not meat. If there’s one thing guaranteed to divide the nation on… Read more You can’t ask me that: Do you want sprouts? →
Of all the senses, the sense of smell is perhaps the most underrated. In art and literature, sight and sound reign supreme. Touch is often invoked in a romantic sense.… Read more You can’t ask me that: should ‘do I smell?’ be a question we ask more often? →
What’s your type? I mean, of course, what kind of person would you like to go to bed with? Now we’re no longer in the 1970s, it’s a question guaranteed… Read more You can’t ask me that: Why it might be outdated to ask ‘what’s your type?’ →
Are you on the donor register? Like all questions to do with death, it’s not one that leads to an easy conversation. According to NHS Blood and Transplant, recent surveys show… Read more You can’t ask me that: Are you on the donor register? →
When did you last use your landline? A quick poll of a totally non-representative sample of friends and acquaintances suggests that we all stopped answering our landlines in around 2011,… Read more You can’t ask me that: Why ‘Have you been missold PPI?’ might not be as annoying as you think →