In that case you've missed my point: your entire contribution is exactly the comic confusion over standards and what is and isn't "fair" that I'm laughing at and that I look forward to crumbling the entire idea of paralympics. And yes, if you like, the olympics too, and any modern athletic competition. Did you know…

That's absurdly reductionist. Will you now respond again to say I must object to the use of shoes, or of having ever cut their hair, or of not having received infant inoculations and being crippled in their youth. Being able to see does not affect athletic ability in the naturally sighted, no contact lenses come with…

Haha. Delicious. Keep on arguing what is and is not a certain level of disability, and basing an athletic competition on increasingly minute or nebulous committee decision. The whole edifice will collapse around them. I can't wait. The entire point of the Olympics is to measure and compete humans, not the devices we…

I don't know any. I know a host who scorned it. Including my own sister, who 20 years later, tried to claim to me last night she's always liked Doctor Who despite my remembering the rather unpleasant nature of her particular brand of scorn in our household back in the day, and as recently as a few years back scoffed…

I used to fret over these. Then I realised that without them eating dead skin and oil, you would be a little more haggard. They're like sheep of the face, cropping your skin back to a well grazed meadow.

Hilarious. The whole piece revolves around:

I've done a lot of volunteering. This describes nearly everyone there regardless what it is. Particularly socially awkward. If you meet anyone with a degree of smarts there they will always acknowledge it. We don't know why, but I personally think it's simply that the people who prefer spending their time working to…

Not you specifically, but people who use your argument, which if you weren't aware is prevalent amongst the drill baby drill crowd.

This argument is like a 60 a day smoker claiming their hacking cough, headaches and lumpy mouth is just age.

This is I believe the eventual epitaph to kickstarting/crowdfunding/etc. The goal or product you invested in based on optimism and words winds up being unsatisfactory, and you regret giving it your money.

"No specimens have been found since the volcano they live on erupted two years ago."

Game of Thrones. I did not read the books beforehand, although you better believe I had finished them by the time the first season finished.

Funny. I've had conflicting demands from every woman I've been with, and many who I haven't, about my appearance, grooming and habits. And I am not a slob. I've been single for some time precisely because I started finding it as odious as you seem to find men doing the same and I'm waiting to meet someone who…

What's going on with Century? The last book I actually have is Black Dossier, and the last I checked Century was being released in various parts very, very slowly, so I resolved to wait for them all and get the collection. Is it done now or what?

Using your example of my example. First there never would be a novel with a rape on the cover. That needs refining. What if there was a novel that prominently featured violent rape, and excerpts abounded demonstrating that, and we were assured by a mysterious person who is the only person claiming to have read it that…

Er. I know blackface is racist. You've completely drifted away from the point into territory that lets you shout yourself into a rabid froth, which is exactly what reactionaries always do. I say drift; in fact you've deliberately led there so you can righteously bold your text and get applause gifs posted at you by…

I stopped taking being told what I should and should not think by other people in my teens. The idea that something is written off regardless of intent or context or in fact having read or seen it at all just because it features a thing - in this case blackface - is the definition of kneejerk. You get on and live like…

It may be latently racist tripe. But I have a problem any and every time anyone utters "I have not read/seen/heard it but I don't need to", particularly when followed up with "ban/delete/etc this filth". I don't care if you're exposed to the vilest excerpt imaginable, it could be misinterpreted. And frankly it could…

Your and I's definition of conservative differ. You focus on moronic talking points like global warming, coverage of which is news, not bias, and fictional TV shows, and the paper they recruit from. I focus on their news and editorial output and factual programming, and on things like nationalism, support of the…

"we're left to assume he rapes Florence because A) she's a woman, and that's just what working class guys do to women; or B) people who don't want to go to war are probably rapists"