Nah, it was when she was cross with me (which was often, because I was a terrible whinger as a small kid)

You got off lightly - my mum’s preferred nickname for me was ‘fishface’

Ann Coulter really is a festering sore on the arse of humanity, is she not?

Agreed! Preferring the Olympics to the GBBO shows an alarming lack of priorities, tbh.

The bank of mom and dad

Oh she was mad as a box of frogs, but her eugenics nuttery was what provided the impetus for her campaign to make contraception and family planning advice legal and available. So her motivations were terrible, but the end result was actually positive for women. Hence why she is still admired to some extent.

yeah no this is not America

I feel like this has been the Games where sportsmanship went to die :-/

Actually IIRC it was the other way round - they swerved to avoid the iceberg when they should have hit it head on. This is because of the design of the ship - it had separate compartments all along the hull that were meant to prevent water spreading through the ship if any one was breached. By swerving, they scraped…

oh, actually sorry you are right - I just googled and it seems that it’s a German company and mostly sells to Europe. But according to Wikipedia, they launched a US magazine, Burda Style, in 2013. Stay away! Stay far away!

McCalls need a lot of altering for a decent fit, but they’re nothing as bad as Burda - those make me want to claw out my eyes

TBH I’m kind of more fascinated that this is news to people. They’re one of the biggest pattern companies out there!

Here in the UK they call themselves “Doll’s Hospitals” :)

Violating the laws of human decency

I think the shock here, and the fact we’re all wondering how the fuck he got a gun, is a pretty good indicator that gun control *does* work. It’s unusual enough here that people are shocked and horrified that someone had access to firearms.

The Joe Jackson song is the other way round - girl wants love and guy just wants sex.

Don’t forget the woman who let a paedophile get into bed with her and her daughter, the essay by a woman who thinks that if Holocaust survivors were halfway decent they would have died in the camps, and whatever the fuck this is. xoFuckThisShitImOut

You should read “Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit” by Jeanette Winterson. You’d enjoy the mother’s take on Jane Eyre.

It gets better - apparently a Met officer wrote to her telling her off for criticising them in the Observer, because she would be deterring others from coming forward. FFS.

*fewer