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 Now we’re no longer in the 1970s, it’s a question guaranteed… Read more You can’t ask me that: Why it might be outdated to ask ‘what’s your type?’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 →
Looking after children involves the answering and asking of many questions. Anyone who has ever spent time with a three-year-old has answered the question “why?” to the point of “because… Read more You can’t ask me that: Why ‘Have you been?’ isn’t the only toilet-related question we should be asking →
October is a month of two halves. At the month’s beginning, there’s still the chance of glorious Indian summer days kidding us there’s time for one more barbecue. By the… Read more You can’t ask me that: why do we insist on believing in ghosts? →
The past few years have been all about the joy of streamlining your life. In 2015, Marie Kondo topped bestseller charts all over the world with her book The Life-Changing… Read more You can’t ask me that: Why ‘Who’s getting the house?’ doesn’t have to be painful →
“Going anywhere nice this year?” was always the second question a hairdresser asked. Right after the classic “who did this cut then?”, delivered while examining your grown-out layers with a… Read more You can’t ask me that: Going anywhere nice this year? →
Even for the native speaker, the English language is full of pitfalls. There are hundreds of seemingly innocuous words and phrases that can mark you out as the wrong sort… Read more You can’t ask me that: Why asking ‘how are you’ isn’t as easy as it seems. →