I think that the excess length almost makes the dress. For me a big part of the charm comes from the cloudiness of the skirt.

Or if it's made by a company whose normal M.O. is to create market poorly made clothing that will disintegrate before they go out of fashion, within a season or two?

A porno version of atonement might actually make up for the first film adaptation.

I may have been biased and out in left field because this came on shortly after the bra discussion, but I thought that Joan suggested "shopping (wink)" (nice underthings for celebratory sex) and not "shopping." (dress because you look awful!). I just assumed that Peggy had misinterpreted the advice.

I think Megan's accent is convincing for a woman of her age and background. She would have gone to schools where "proper" (read: not any Canadian version of French) pronunciation was encouraged, and would have been surrounded by adults many of whom would have spent time in Europe for education etc. That kind of…

Megan's accent doesn't really sound Parisian either; it's more of a geographically neutral accent, the sort of thing that educated + ambitious women would have been expected to speak in the 1960s. I find it pretty plausible, it totally sounds like the way some of my grandparents' friends spoke.

Yeah, I think that French is a second language for her. Maybe she moved from Europe to Montreal and learned the language to be with the father?

I can sort of lie to myself that the father got his accent hybridized during extensive studies in Europe (heck, about half of his lines sound perfectly plausible), but the mother? I'm not sure what kind of accent they were going for, because it's not like any Canadian or European accents that I've ever heard (unless…

The father's accent was Québécois-ish - convincing enough, I think; just not the mother's. It was an interesting mix: three people who don't sound like they come from the same place at all.

Then I will take your word for it, I've lost most of my frog-knowledge after years of exclusively urban living (ironic giving your screen name).

Definitely a frog - long legs and toes, humid skin, big eyes. This kind of colouring is very common for North American frogs.

Good question. Natural selection isn't a directed process with a specific goal. Random mutations happen, and they either have good or ill effects on the survival + reproduction of people who carry them. Some are simple, some are complex.

I think that you replied to the wrong post.

This images leaves me equally perturbed and horrified homosexuality and heterosexuality. Equal opportunity horror!

"Who exactly do you think you're talking to? And who exactly are you trying to convince?"

OK, one link isn't coming across correctly in the post above.

Well, homosexuality would be as awesome as any other sexuality even if it was "a dead branch on our evolutionary tree", so the issue isn't one that has policy or other implications... but bad biology is almost as annoying as homophobia, so below some major arguments trying to explain the reasoning (but a great summary…

After reading your comment and those of others with (totally different but also rare and relevant) jobs,

I'm not being sarcastic at all. I'm frustrated by the way in which gender relations in predominantly Muslim countries is often covered in platforms that aren't specialized on the topic (ie platforms like Jezebel, where you will not find either single long articles or multiple short articles that explore a single from…

Yeah, I'm ignorant of the law, but this wasn't an accident or neglect, it was a serious attack. Malpractice + assault causing bodily harm make more sense than just malpractice.