That… never occurred to me before. Wow.

I honestly think it was a sign of the stress they were under. It was a private school and a lot of parents had unreasonable expectations for their children’s, especially their daughters’, performance.

If half the girls in my school were addicted to codeine, that would have been a major scandal, lives would have been ruined. This was treated more like a minor inconvenience, they all had low grade migraines they treated by popping tylenols all day long. To be honest I’d be surprised if some of them didn’t fuck up their livers a bit.

Half the girls in my high school were addicted to Tylenol

In my experience it’s more of a specifically British phobia. They have these sayings about swans breaking arms…

My friend describes it like a skipping groove on a vinyl: eventually the thing you need to do will pass under the turntable’s needle, and you’ll get a chance to act upon it. If you miss that chance you’ll just have to wait until the groove skips again.

“mods are always right” is an insane take