I wonder if all the '10' individuals out there are delighted to hear that Patti would match them with someone who didn't need to like them for themselves, because they were so smokin'.

@rubysecret: I think that's as ridiculous as men assuming that all women secretly want to trap men into marriage and like using sex as a weapon against them. Crappy stereotypes are still crappy, whoever they're applied to.

I would've kept my NY resolution of having sex with more people, had the guy in question been able to get it up.

She made the decision that he wasn't going to tell her what to wear? How forward-thinking of her...

My father, in his 20s, enjoyed rally driving (he was a navigator) and was once pursued by the police whilst speeding at 126mph. They didn't catch him. When I was a child, he once make me cry by speeding to get over a railway crossing before the barriers came down (they hit the roof of the car).

Hah. They could start the campaign with my Dad, who when I told him that someone yelled 'Slag!' at me from a car when I was walking to a dancing lesson late one night, said 'What were you wearing?'

Being photographed in a white dress, in a white studio with bright white lights could have made her look lighter...but then again it could have provided contrast for her darker-toned skin.

I can tell you something awesome that my Dad said to his mother, my 90 year old Grandma, as she headed out the front door (into a freezing night) for a fag before bedtime, coughing and spluttering with emphysema -

I was under the impression that Boxing Day was when boxes arrived from family who lived far away, because post didn't arrive on Christmas Day. But I have no idea as to the accuracy of that.

Die Hard - because who doesn't want loads of massive explosions and Alan Rickman for Christmas?

I had a massive doll house with many tiny, animal dolls in it that stood straight and wore clothes. I loved it and my father built me a stable to go with it (I had a farm set that the house adopted - it was a full on manor house, a farm wasn't a bizarre addition at all) and eventually I got a toy canal barge for it…

Aw, a grammatically correct and emotionally mature tweet from Fiddy - it's like a Christmas miracle!

I love (well, actually, I hate, but whatever) the way these critics are very 'either/or' about the sexuality of young women issue. What happened to being able to be smart AND sexy? And surveys like this ignore the context of these sexual situations - are women coming off as empowered, well-rounded and active (as…

@mamabigdog: You're right, but I think this article is really aimed at those whose parents are controlling assholes. Or similar.

Something gives me a feeling that until my mother stops asking me if I'm on my period when I'm annoyed with her, the more rational approaches championed above are just not going to work. *Sigh*. I think a long, painful countdown to finally moving out is going to be the solution here.

Sessums is wrong. I am straight and I consider my heterosexuality a private matter - I would object just as much to people wanting to clarify which direction I swing in because it suggests that that takes primary important.

I love Dave Grohl. What happened to Duff?

I will enjoy hell if arseholes like the above are going to be in heaven.

They interviewed a 'concerned mother' (well, she runs MumsNet) and some guy (I didn't catch his name) on BBC Radio 4 about this and when someone asked if Burlesue was appropriate for a family audience and if it could result in increased sexualisation of young girls, the guy said (I'm paraphrasing a tad) -

I saw Bubblicious (a pole dancer) perform at Erotica 2010 in London and she was amazing - strong, athletic, so controlled she made it look easy yet at the same time you could practically feel her concentrating.