It seems to be a combination of retro nostalgia and ignorance in a lot of cases, although I'm sure some people sell them just to be arseholes. I didn't understand just how offensive they are until I spent time on US based sites because they are normalised here. There is a type of kids biscuit here that was renamed…

I see them from time to time in Australia too.

It is also another good argument for increasing diversity in writing rooms.

That sucks :(

It seems really inconsistent. Am I understanding it correctly, that the policy means that all non-wait staff get a guaranteed cut of the business for the night, but wait-staff don't?

Yes, there are multiple factors that add up to create the difference. That said, it is also quite possible that abortions are cheaper there. Health care in the US is very expensive, so the price comparison might not mean much. Also, not everyone in a rural area is going to be poor.

Another article I read said that if she is executed the children will go into state care. They would not be permitted to go with the father. I presume because the marriage was declared invalid.

I have the same problem with mosquito bites. I use a cream that contains papain which I find effective if I use it soon after being bitten.

I'm in Australia and used to get harassed in the street often when I was a teenager, but only occasionally now. I think some of that change is because of age, and my having learned to cultivate a good resting bitch face. But I'm pretty sure that most of the difference is just that I used to catch the train and walk…

I wonder if having cosmetic surgery will become an indicator of wealth in the same way that having perfect straight white teeth is. Look at the way Americans mock British teeth.

Didn't you hear? Boys don't read fiction, and girls don't like spaceships. How on earth has sci-fi survived so long?

I'm coming at this from the perspective of someone whose learning style and aptitudes go counter to the gender stereotypes. In a school designed to teach based on these stereotypes I would have always been taught in a way that was wrong for me. Going to a co-ed school, more than one teaching approach was used, so at…

The differences between individuals are bigger than the differences between the genders, so using an approach like this isn't really going to help. It is sexist to insist on teaching children according to their sex or gender (I'm not sure if it is gender or sex based segregation happening). Plus it could do a lot of…

The girls uniform at my high school was skirt only until my last couple of years, and it was awful in winter. We didn't have any inside areas to sit during lunch or morning tea, so it was rather chilly.

It should be too ridiculous to be true, but unfortunately it is indeed true.

Good on her friends for standing by her.

In a universe where girls are blamed anytime a man is aroused.

I'm glad I live too far north for funnel web spiders. We do have red-backs, but they are rarely deadly.

I wasn't aware of just how popular those conspiracy theories are, so to me this just read as a very bizarre thing for someone to do. I didn't address it before, because it wasn't the focus of this particular thread, but I agree that our sympathy should be focused on the families of the victims.

My comment was in response to someone who was suggesting violence as a response even if the person was delusional. As for whether or not they are actually are mentally ill, I don't have an opinion either way. There isn't enough information in this article to know that.