I see your nastyass denim jackey and raise you $15 glittery high heels. Cost me $280 to have the locks replaced and door panel hammered back out so some asshat could wear my uncomfortable Kmart party shoes.

What documentary is this from?

I recommend her all the fucking time... They're such good books to pass on to new people. I've got my 12 year old cousin reading them, and my friend's 50 year old mother liked the first one so much she ordered every single Tamora Pierce book from Amazon and read them non-stop for about two months. Why have we been…

As well as those offered elsewhere: Charlaine Harris (Forget the vampires - try her Harper Connelly series), Tamora Pierce, L.J. Smith, Kelley Armstrong, Cornelia Funke, Robin McKinley... There are lots of women who write (and have written) great female characters. I've focused on YA(ish - some of these are more for…

Mountain climbers unite! My bf is a blanket hog and I am a bed hog. It's a good combination...He jokes that I can only sleep if my spine lines up exactly with the centre of the bed. It's not entirely inaccurate.

So true. A friend of mine worked at a very high end department store and part of her training was "Never ever turn anyone away. Never assume they can't pay based on what they're wearing." They had a lot of rural people come in who would show up in ripped jeans and looking pretty non-rich, but they own hundred million…

Yeah, I grew up in a city with a minimal black population so it always makes me laugh to hear the American thing of "I'm not racist, I have a black friend" because does that mean I was racist until about 18 months ago? Now that I have a black friend (two, actually, that makes me double not racist... or do they cancel…

Yeah - definitely seconding the "racist old people aren't funny" message.

Translation: "Even women will start talking to you on the street if you smile at them. Those women might not be creepy, but they also might, because men don't have a monopoly on creepy. I don't want to talk to strangers, even if they are non-creepy women, so I don't smile."

This baffles me mostly because who decides whether they'll have sex with someone based entirely on what their penis looks like? "Ohhhh - you're hot and sweet and I'm horny so let's — OH MY GOD GET THAT THING AWAY FROM ME." Okay, maybe if it had visible sores or something, but other than that...?

I was using them within three or four months as soon as I realized pads suck and at least tampons mean you can still go swimming etc. (Yoga! Horse-back riding! In stretchy white pants!)

Any time I want to cool my bf's ardour/ruin a beautiful moment I quote this scene. It replaced my previous go-to quote which was Isla Fisher's terrifying babytalk in Wedding Crashers: "I'd find you!"

I got it from the library and actively hated it. Usually at worst I just feel apathetic about books, but this was awful. I skipped and read the last chapter and was glad I only lost a couple hours to it. Why why why is it so popular????

I read The Perfect Ghost later and that's much much better

Pink shirts for sports teams. Because no way could you wear the actual colours of the team you support or someone might mistake you for a man or a lesbian and that would be the worst thing ever...

I only know one buzz-cut wearing lesbian and she is kickass and no-nonsense and would definitely be suitable for world running so based on my very small sample size I second your motion. She does not play softball but I'm sure under the circumstances would be happy to take it up.

Re: Update 6 - that site's a spoof. Clue 1) William said "I haven’t looked ‘downstairs’ and I have no intention of doing so. It’s going to be out of action for a while I’d imagine." Clue 2) "UK spoof news and satire" label at the top of the page.

What are they all so shiny in perfect lines? It's like someone gave them reflective racing stripes.

I think that's where the "child" part comes it. I cringe when I remember when I was 19 (admittedly not still a child, but certainly still childish) and said of a friend who was present "Oh don't start that [literary theory discussion], Richard's an engineering student - he won't keep up." Fuck you 19-year-old-me —…

I had a doll that played music and "danced" - it was my pride and joy because my grandmother brought it from overseas and none of my friends could get one. Then one day I decided the doll needed a bath... My mother was not impressed and I got a quick lesson in what water does to electronics.

Funny tampon story from this week: I put a still wrapped tampon in. It unwrapped from the middle and I accidentally left the top half on, and was very confused when it was leaking an hour later. I almost pissed myself laughing when I realised what I had done. Then I got sad because I didn't know who I could tell about…