I don't believe we get a proper full-mast shot, but it's not gonna get any smaller, so I couldn't see it being disappointing, unless it somehow pretzels into a knot or something.

It's quite the, uh, bender. I think there was a collective gasp/sigh of appreciation in the cinema.

I totally saw Shame only for the Fassweiner.

Is anyone pretending that, though? Culturally, the barometer is way far the other way. I mean, look at the women who have posted on this story who were getting shit for drinking a latte in public.

DUDE. I love it when people bring the psychology. Good points. This is just such an ill-advised quick fix, with a lovely side of slut-shaming. It doesn't take an idiot to see that the cost-benefit on reduction of FAS with this proposal is marginal to nil.

Yes, but how would his proposal cut down on FAS? In general, you have to be drinkingheavily over a sustained period despite KNOWING you're pregnant to cause it.

Actually, to correct myself, if they had sex straightaway she could have known she was pregnant two weeks later, not four. But my point about not possibly knowing she was having multiples until later still stands. Dude definitely didn't do any research or mental arithmetic.

To be fair to the French, they're hardly alone in that, although I can see how it might have some particularly toxic shit.

No fucking kidding.

It's true the timelines don't add up. She could know she was pregnant a month after they met if they got down straightaway, but she couldn't possibly know she was pregnant with multiples until she'd had an ultrasound, which would be at least a month later.

Good lord, that's hilarious. Not least because Stephen Fry looks like he just woke up in a haystack. With a stranger.

YAY!

HAVE YOU GOT A PATTERN?!

MARK, YOU KNIT?!?!

Oh MAN it drove me nuts when wedding dress boutiques in the UK would just ASSUME that I would be dieting, because my wedding doncherknow.

There's not been any explicit discussion around the vulnerability part. Mostly people just donated by text to Cancer Research, posted a no make-up selfie, and tagged 3-4 friends to do the same.

My mum CANNOT seem to focus the screen on her face. I have most of my Skype conversations with her eyebrows. She really loves waving her iPad around to show me things, though, so: yay?

Seriously. That message is dripping in "abusive relationship" red flags and indicators. At the very, very, best & most optimistic, he was controlling and emotionally abusive.

I agree with that, and have posted in reply to HermioneStranger somewhere saying something similar.

They dressed her fine on Firefly; mostly peasant-style tops with low necklines and stretch, or V-neck jackets, which flattered her nicely. I don't understand why no professional stylist can manage what the wardrobe people of a sci-fi show were able to do.