What I don't get is how much of a complete asshole many religious people seem to believe their God is. Even if there is some superpowered being out there, which I don't believe, if he's the kind of being that punishes young children because he thinks their parents did something wrong I am sure as anything not going to…

I wore them in the eighties. *waves can grumpily* Fucking kids, get off my lawn...

Well, anything can be funny if you're a talented enough comedian, unfortunately the people who generally make these kinds of jokes aren't in any way talented or even particularly decent human beings. The first rule of making something funny is to *understand* the topic you're joking about, because that way you will…

I commented on one of the newspaper articles and I'll repeat it here - if you live in a suburban neighbourhood and you know your dog hates kids and bikes you need to keep better control of your dog. Aggression, especially in a dog that young, can often be cured through training but there's no cure for dumbass owners.…

Good point. I found the carry on-esque butter churning and such amusing and not in the slightest bit actually erotic, but as a straight woman I'm clearly not the audience they were going for.

Big Polish minority living in the UK = big vote for Poland. Like most of the eurovision votes it probably was as simple as that and nothing to do with the song or the performance.

Conchita/Thomas is definitely not a trans individual, but I couldn't say if she/he is gender fluid. From what I gather when he is Thomas, he uses masculine pronouns, and when she is Conchita she uses feminine pronouns.

According to the Russians it's going to be a hotbed of sodomy this year, which has inspired several of my friends who don't like Eurovision to consider watching it, because that sounds like fun!

This. Unless you are a very highly trained marksman, a lot more trained than most police are or even most soldiers, you're taught to aim for the body because that's the area you can hit and stop the person In most cases someone who is trying to aim for arms or legs when they've got a gun being pointed at them is going…

Sounds one baby step away, if that, from victim blaming, which is just the attitude you want from the people you would be hoping for help from if you were a victim of trafficking or sexual abuse. You've been forced into prostitution? Well, what did you expect when you chose to lose your virginity without getting …

I rather liked the shots of him being given a cuddly toy version of whatever cute australian animal he'd been fascinated by at the zoo and immediately throwing it on the ground. He definitely wanted the animal not the toy!

Cite your sources if you're going to quote statistics. After all 50% of statistics on the internet are made up...

You don't have to teach names although if you want to ignore those heads of state who were female I hope you plan to ignore the men too. No one said you had to teach names to be memorised. We're just pointing out women were just as important as men in WWII and if you completely ignore that then you're not teaching…

Amy Johnson is local to me and I can pretty much guarantee people round here would have taught her anyway lol. Also I don't know if you've noticed but the Education Secretary is an idiot ;) Apparently teaching that WWI was a bad thing that went badly for most of the people involved is a left wing conspiracy and…

So you're going to not mention the Holocaust or the Resistance or the bombing of civilians? Because all those things are as much about women as they are about men.

Well two of your four points would be at least 50% female, if not more in the case of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. If you're talking about who was on which side you can devote five minutes to discussing partisans and resistance fighters as well as the armies.

Noor Inayat Khan, Odette Sansom, Nancy Wake amongst others for the SOE. Sophie Scholl. Leni Riefenstahl and Eva Braun. Queen Elizabeth (wife of George VI) and the then Princess Elizabeth. The Dame of Sark, whose name I forget but who always made the occupying Germans sign the guest book when they visited her home, to…

Not really. Women fought for the Russians and I think the Chinese too. And by figt i mean officially serving in combat roles. In other countries they had support roles which often led to them being in a position to be killed by the enemy even ig they weren't technically in combat - such as medical staff and transport…

It doesn't mean not white. It means not white, male, cisgender, and straight. *rolls eyes* So your example would no doubt be 'diverse' on at least two counts. Because white, male, cisgender, and straight is the 'norm' and all those of us who aren't those four things are 'diverse' because we differ from their idea of…

I was just thinking that if I was one of the 'diverse hires' in this office I would be making it clear that I'm happy to drink as much coffee as people want provided we can both claim it's a legitimate work programme and not skiving off. In fact I'll work out of the local starbucks if it'll help...