The hairdresser is Princess Leia with her side-buns and the cowboy is Han.

What's the character?

Yeah. That makes more sense to me. I've seen a lot of places 'explain' that it was Olenna, but she was one table further along. The cup was still well out of her reach. Margaery's the only person near it, although the actress plays her as being genuinely surprised/concerned.

According to the BBC, they cope well with warming.

One of them, yes. Other ones are News Thump and News Biscuit. And like the Onion, they're hit and miss.

FYI: the Dark Horse site has a bundle of all the Hellboy digital comics on sale for $50:

Ha! They seem to have edited the "normally" bit out now, but I thought it looked weird. Thanks for the heads-up!

I love these pics, but as a non-scientist I'm never sure how much they've been changed to look prettier. To what extent are they documentary and to what extent artistic?

Loved, loved, loved the scene of the Queen mentally disintegrating. That was great stuff by Emma Rigby.

Yeah. I noticed that. My first thought was, "WTF, hasn't the writer heard of Jungle Fever?"

Sorry. I wasn't clear. I completely agree.

Well, I'm a straight guy and I've interpreted it as how much self-imposed standards of masculinity screw up the men's lives as well as the women's. But I've probably read too many Jez posts about how patriarchy hurts men too and am seeing it through that filter.

Where I am: warm and pretty dry (occasional heavy showers and that's about it).

That's kind of what made me worried about it. I'm old and remember how misleading the Starship Troopers trailer was with Blur's Song 2. The movie was good for other reasons, but the song made the trailer. That might be the case here: we're reacting to the song rather than the preview of the movie. For example, if the…

I initially read the headline as, "The Creators of Breaking Bad..."

There's an excellent article up at Slate that puts what Incognito did in the context of bullying behavior in general. Part of that is forming a friendship with the victim in private, which is then exploited in front of others:

If you're working for the government, then anti-Americanism will certainly be a bigger issue for you than antisemitism. One thing some Americans don't get about European anti-Americanism, is that non-Americans don't actually have the luxury of not having an opinion about America, in the way that Americans don't have…

Sure. But the result is that working class people tend to have more actual experience with people of other races than the middle classes do. (Although in the UK there's the interesting twist that the white middle classes might have contact with the similarly middle-class Indian Hindu community, but not with the more…

I think it'll depend very much on who you get to know here. Most people will be completely cool. The radical left is the most outspoken, for the very reasons you cite, so if you move in student circles, then you might run into that (and if you're American, you could have the added issue of leftist anti-Americanism).…

And in Europe it's a myth that the working class is more racist than the middle class. In the UK, the latter might have learned to avoid racism in their language, but interracial marriages are, last I heard, much more frequent in the working classes who don't necessarily have the educational background to choose the…