People vary in their sensitivity to caffeine. A few years ago I went on a 5:2 diet, which meant no coffee on two days a week. I got headaches from caffeine withdrawal. This was from drinking 3 cups a day, which is not a huge amount. Giving up coffee altogether stopped the headaches. I figure I am more sensitive than…

Hedgehogs don’t actually like slugs much. Only about 5% of their diet is slugs. http://thehedgehog.co.uk/feeding-hedgeh…

No, it doesn’t. It is a statement about what happened. The truth matters. It explains why other customers in the store at the time may not have realised what was happening. Knowing it may help a witness come forward. Kelly explicitly says that whether she was willing or not does not matter, making it clear he is not…

Allison didn’t win, though. She came second. Twice.

I hope they don’t. Far Cry 1 and Far Cry 2 didn’t have towers. I hope that the similarities between 3 and 4 haven’t become a rut they stay stuck in for 5.

No, because she withdrew her consent and he continued anyway: Around midnight, I begged him to stop. “Please,” I said as nicely as possible. “I need to get some sleep.” This was met with more reluctance, but again, he complied. I slept, only to be woken up, on and off, all night, to him molesting me with his hands and…

Although I mostly agree, other people are still bothered by things like necrophilia.

It has an effect on the movie industry, for example. Graphs like this explain why they keep casting younger female leads with older male leads.

I was using some variant of Unix at Warwick University, on a terminal with ASCII graphics.

So if the cheque hadn’t bounced, it wouldn’t have been rape? I don’t think that’s what the author was saying.

The article is about thrillers, not horror. Go read the first two paragraphs again. No mention of a horror requirement.

I developed an algorithm about 35 years ago that was designed to fill a rectangular space (ie, a screen). Like yours, it worked by recursively splitting rectangles, but it didn’t have or need corridors (which would have wasted space). Put a door in each splitting wall as you split it, ensures the two halves are…

Y’all are both gorgeous, before and after. Although it’s a bit harder to tell in the before photos because the lighting is different.

First, the two things I mentioned are separate. The clients who are in denial are not getting a power kick from the thing they are in denial about.

Sometimes, for some men, it helps, as a power thing. More often the men are in denial. It’s part of the woman’s job to help with that.

According to a documentary series I watched about that place, the rape happened and they didn’t involve the police. For the reason I said: the management thought it might put off other clients, to know they might be prosecuted for having sex with the women in the brothel. Maybe only 10% would actually think that, but…

I’m curious as to what’s changed, because I think (in the UK at least) there has been a big change in how the authorities react. My hypothesis is that there is now a greater awareness of grooming. Previously if a 14-year-old girl was getting drunk and having sex with older men, she was considered to have made a…

So the basic facts are accepted. It’s not “he said, she said”, and it’s not trumped up to destroy him. It’s down to interpretation of the facts. It seems pretty sure to me that the two women were being honest, and that the authorities are having to deal with their stories as is. The worst that can be said is that the…

Does he deny the claims? Ie that he started to have sex with the second woman while she was (at least) half-asleep, without using a condom, and knowing that she wouldn’t have consented without the condom? If they were going to trump-up charges, why didn’t she simply deny she’d consented to sex at all?

I think the events happened essentially as described. Had they been invented, they’d have invented something more clear-cut.