Have I ever told you how much your name delights me every single time I see it? Rhys Darby’s endearingly stupid face pops into my brain, and immediately my day is made better. You joy-bringer, you.
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Do you remember those ads, Milk? Like, freshly-engraved gravestones and doom-laden voices and bouquets of flowers dropped into a black void? They were FUUUUUUUUCKED UP. But effective. Hideously effective.
It’s weird. I know that as a child of the 80s, I am the product of years of THE WORLD’S MOST TERRIFYING ADVERTISING about HIV/AIDS. Those TV ads here in the UK were honestly trouser-wettingly scary for a young brain, and the fear they inculcated in my generation was real, man. It went deep. Still does. And even though…
Jesus. Both Charlie Sheen and Justin Bieber on Today? That’s the douchebag motherlode. The douchebag hoard of Smaug. The douchebag event horizon. The douchebag Gotterdammerung.
The fact that this news is making headlines absolutely everywhere probably indicates that it still is that stigmatised. Depressing, ain’t it?
I know. Me too. I’m desperately hoping they’re a leopard print thong. Oh please oh please oh please I’ve been so good this year.
Symbols have been in dictionaries for as long as there have been dictionaries. Be brave. You can handle this, friend!
Symbols generally have separate sub-sections at the beginning of printed dictionaries in English. Trickier in online dictionaries, though. I reckon good ones will probably create little orphanages for those lost, unparented ideograms so people can find the one they’re looking for. Interesting question!
Nah. That ain’t so. What about all right? Or rocket ship? Or cold turkey? Or brain surgeon? Or lake effect? Or word processor? Or light box? Or turn in? Or let up? Or put down? Or take out?
I’m not aware of the specific details of Major’s arrest, but it’s fairly unlikely that she was handcuffed and bundled off by burly jack-booted goons. She was probably asked to go to her local police station so she could be informed of the charges against her, have her paperwork processed, and then released on her own…
Enforcing reasonable limits on free speech is what civilised societies do, both in the US and the UK. You can absolutely dispute where nations choose to draw those legal lines, but arguing that any and all restraints on expression are fascist is not practical, helpful or accurate.
Arresting her is part of the lawful judicial process that the government goes through in order to enact those fines or community service orders. Arresting and charging her with unlawful discrimination triggers a series of procedures (and important legal protections for her) that make those mild punishments possible in…
According to the Equality Act of 2010, businesses in the UK are forbidden from refusing service on the basis of religion, belief, race or sexual orientation. Period. Citizens have a right to equal treatment, whether they’re gay, transgender, black, Jewish or Muslim. It’s not ok for businesses to treat folks like…
Absolutely. I couldn’t agree more. Did you catch this amazing piece from the AV Club about the way they use colour on Halt? It’s incredible. There’s so much going on that I’m not even peripherally aware of. It’s so complex and rich and deep and I do not understand why people haven’t woken up to it yet.
I’ve never actually been able to bring myself to watch that Wahlberg interview. I got contact embarrassment shivers the second I heard about it. He’s such a fucking asshole, but I still get the collywobbles watching people humiliate themselves.
Of course it’s weird. It’s the Graham Norton show. The joy of it is in the absurdity.
That book changed my life in all kinds of ways. It gave me permission to get rid of all the shit that I was holding on to. It’s fantastically, hilariously bossy and hard-line, but my god it makes you want to live more freely. The psychology of letting go of things is powerful.
It isn’t re-makes that bother me. It’s the dull paucity of ambition in most of them.