Wow. Doesn’t comment on the person about to faint. Doesn’t make a sexist or otherwise rude comment. Doesn’t make him the centre of the situation. In fact the opposite drops a joke about himself being boring.

Imagine how twat head Trump would deal with that.

People should never treat politicians as icons celebrities. They are there to work for us. Be please or angered by their policies and decision making, but charisma should not be a factor.

Here in the UK I saw so much of this with Boris Johnson, and still with Farage. I knew a people people who liked Johnson because he’s a bit of a laugh, likeable, whatever. They did not go into reasons of what a politician should be doing. Only his character.

I remember as a kid having a corner sofa similar. Instead of glass it was either wood or material on wood. I remember it was recessed a little bit so had a small edge. It was also brown with a kind of short pile rug feel which seemed to attract dust and/or mites because my asthma didn’t get along with it.

My wife is lactose intolerant and we always have soya milk in the house. I don’t drink tea or coffee and only have milk for cereal, so I just have been having soya for about 15 years.

When my son was a bit older we thought we’d make some milk shakes for him and his friends. I had one too, and boom. Massive shits and wind. Never used to be a problem for.me but now it is.

As somebody who suffered a lot with social anxiety when I was younger I would have loved this option. I knew I could leave whenever I could but all the hand shakes and see-you-laters, etc interaction were so difficult for me.

Instead I had a really uncomfortable time “advocating for myself”. Which one one hand, like you say, did teach me a lot. But it wore me down a lot and often I would be the last person to leave just because I didn’t have the energy/mindset at the time. A good mixture of both would have been ideal.

Do not buy Jabra products. I use them for work (work pays for them) and have had multiple models. They have all failed for various reasons. They do replace under RMA but it’s annoying as they should not break someasily, especially the upper premium models. I wouldn’t touch a pair of I was personally paying for them.

I have some 770’s and fit a mini XLR socket on them. I then balanced them too. It’s nice to have cable options. It was years ago I did this, there were a few videos on how to convert them, probably more these days.

I have a similar approach. Keep the headphones basic for repairs. I have a fiio Bluetooth receiver and a Zen DAC at my desk. I then have a series of custom made cables for different headphones and jacks (balanced 4.4mm, stereo 3.5mm and balanced 2.5mm).

I can run any headphones with this setup, I might need a new cable made up depending on what pair I next buy.