My mum would be only too delighted to re-enact the moment. AND HAS.

Miss your face, Milk. How’s tricks?

All I know is that one time when I was 14, I was being a total bitch to my mother as we were walking down Oxford St in London. Instead of getting cross and telling me I was being an asshole, my mother (a creature of mirth and magic and farts) proceeded to drop her shopping bags and began to perform a jig. It was a…

Savvy PR move. Sounds good to me!

Oh that’s interesting to hear! I don’t think I ever realised that some Italian-American communities hailed him as one of their own. I always instinctively think of Columbus as Spanish, given his financial backers, but that’s right, he was Italian. Funny.

Well, that’s what I thought, given that that’s what sane people all over the world do when given an extra free holiday. Eating unhealthy food, getting drunk, and watching sports on long weekends is the sign of a country with promise. But now I’m hearing that Americans are adding celebrations and parties for…

A question from someone who lives in the UK: do most communities in the US celebrate Columbus on Columbus Day? I think I was always under the impression that it was basically an excuse for a long weekend where you could lie on the couch for 72 hours with one hand in a doritos bag and your other hand down your pants.…

So hey, you’ve spent the last couple of days repeatedly posting this on unrelated articles. I’ve gone back into your comment history, and it basically segues from obsessive racist commentary to obsessive article posting. Maybe it’s time to try another approach.

Hey guys, there’s some hateful scum floating around in the greys. Do yourselves a gigantic, life-affirming favour and flag or dismiss that shit and move on. Life is way too short to spend time with attention-seeking turds.

You are adorable.

I mean, don’t get me wrong: I really do love and respect America and its people. I truly, earnestly do. I think the majority of Americans are good, sensible, funny, warm-hearted folk. There is so much for them to be proud of. My dad’s a Boston boy, and he’s lovely, and I know so many Americans like him: bright,…

Yup. I was recently informed by an American on Jezebel that British people aren’t citizens, but subjects. I posted a picture of my UK passport where it explicitly declares us to be citizens, and asked her who I should write to so it could be corrected. She then confidently told me that we don’t possess freedom of…

I love Americans. Adore them! My dad’s one of them. I’m one of them. But there’s a statistically significant percentage of Americans who seem to take solipsistic self-obsession to ecstatic new heights. All knowledge, all experiences, all narratives must be processed through a strictly American worldview. It’s a…

Lot of Americans with a tenuous grasp of histories beyond their own here today. We’ve got a major outbreak of mumpsimus on our hands.

I think it really is a biological need. It seems to be part of that weird, primitive phenomena whereby human beings take refuge in defining themselves by what they’re not. We seem to be fundamentally wired to be suspicious of people who are different, whether it’s because of gender atypicality, sexuality, religion,…

Yeah. That’s what the archaeological and pre-historical evidence appears to demonstrate. Some isolated groups of people may have still been fuzzy on the connection until the modern era, but most societies had more or less figured the basics out around 50,000 to 200,000 years ago. Essentially ever since human society…

I love that feeling of preening superiority when I criticise someone else’s grammar usage. Isn’t it great? Aww man, so good. It’s like relaxing in a warm bath of smug bubbles. Smubbles. Mmmmmm.

Slate did an interesting piece on this question a couple of years back. Essentially the answer is: it depends greatly on which culture you’re talking about, but for most people, it was a very, very long time ago.

This is some fine sleuthing. I’ve no idea about any of it, but I dig your critical thinking skills, man.

I always find that telling women to stop thinking, shut up, and look pretty is a totally winning strategy.