My 100 Comments On 100 Stories By 100 Writers. Part 2–11 To 20

What I said about what everyone wrote (often while being on the wrong side of a gallon of Belgian lager). Including links to all the stories.

#11 - Pluto Wolnosci Of Drowning and Denial

“Good tale. I’ve looked back on my working life and I’m overwhelmingly happy to be self-employed. It’s strange that you have to try to convince others that you’re “in control”, because of the nature of the “work” you did.

In reality, every employee gives up their agency in some way or another. Your outlawed headphones, being an example, to having someone decide, on your behalf, when you can eat or use the toilet.”

#12 - Sylvia. Raising Women For A New Age

“Well, I’m officially shitting it. I hope they turn out exactly as amazing as you say they will.”

#13 - Kitty Whitemore. Violations Of The Social Contract Should Be Prosecuted

“OK so you wrote a pretty good article and I spent a couple of enjoyable minutes reading it. So what do you want? A bloody medal? ;-)”

#14 - Maaja Wentz. Romancing the Robot

#15 - Laura Knapke (Nap-Key). My Five Horny Voyeurs

“This was great fun, to say the least. Women’s masturbatory fantasies always make for a good read. The upshot of reading this, however, was for me to enter a specific Google search, that would never have occurred to me in a million years.”

#16 - Christine Heart. Ten things I have learned in 40 years.

“Here’s a great idea. Why don’t you combine numbers 8 and number 10? If you have stuff you want to get rid of just give it to someone, for free, who will get some good use out of it. That would be extremely excellent for your soul or inner chi or something.

I was just wondering if you might have a very large 8K flat-screen TV you want to offload?”

#17 - May More. Dad was a Bigamist: He Married Mum & Another Girl

“I have been married twice (not at the same time) and, on both occasions, there has been an expectation of financial provision for the matrimonial household.

Admittedly I have no idea how much lorry drivers in the USA get paid, but I doubt they do much better than their counterparts here in England. How the hell do these blokes manage to pay for two households/families?

Very interesting story. Cheers.”

#18 - Uzi Landsmann. Get Your Cosmic Pimple Today!

“Does anybody want to buy a second-hand cosmic pimple? I bought it, thinking it might help me not be such a miserable bastard. Upon using it nothing happened and it turned out that I don’t have any embarrassing moments or unpleasant thoughts after all. Oh, and watch out for someone called Uzi Landsman, he’s a scammer.”

#19 Jennifer McDougall. 100 Things Worth Cancelling

“I just wrote a reaction to every single element of your, abridged, 100 things that need cancelling, and it was only then that I found out that the “Response” feature has a character limit.

I got cancelled.”

#20 - Lysergic World Design. Toilet Experiences Of The Absurd Kind- Doug

“We’ve all heard the urban myth, regarding Eskimos/Inuits having 50 words for snow. Well in the English-speaking world we have just as many, if not more, words for shit/shitting. It seems there are plenty in Canada and here, in England we have hundreds. In America, however, they only seem to have three and one of them is comfortably used as a name for a dice game. They also use the word “poop” in an attempt to be funny. It isn’t funny and you just sound like a three-year-old. I am “relieved” to find no mention of that word in this charming tale. Cheers.”