People have very short memories. I made a point about the British race riots in the 80s and my entire class (including my 25 year-old teacher) had no idea what I was talking about. I'm seventeen and have studied the American Civil Rights movement as part of A-level History, but not ONCE has Britain's racial history…

Just you wait until foreign competitors start stealing perfectly upstanding American racists' jobs!

I'm also really just waiting for the pink comments attempting to portray Scotland as an innocent race-blind paradise where racial violence is unknown. Like every time a European does something stupid.

"It is a function of our unearned privilege that, when those of us in a privileged position come across racialized images and representations like these, it is all too easy to miss or ignore their problematic nature."

I know! And Gilmore Girls is SO referential, you could definitely find something to link it to..

"A Peeta is a pouch of bread but that's his name".

As someone who lives 45 minutes by train from London, I can say both "Yes" and "Fuck it's cold".

Well, a good way of doing it is raising taxes. So I guess that's off the table. Sigh.

Yeah, well, London *looks* depressing at the moment. All the snow has reached shitstain level already.

"So long, see ya sucka, bon voyage, arrivaderci, later loser, goodbye, good riddance, peace out, don't let the door knob hit you were the good Lord split you, don't come back round here no more, hasta la vista, kick rocks and get the hell out."

I feel like Marilyn Monroe is just becoming a completely self-referential simulacrum. In 500 years "Marilyn" will be an adjective and she'll be barely remembered.

The education they're describing (particularly with home visits) is more to do with support for parenting strategies as well as (in some cases) *just teaching parents how to look after their kids*. At its best, it's very much not a lecture but a friend and teacher who can help you feel out what you're doing as a…

She gave you everything! She was a half virgin when she met you, America.

Do Brazilians consider themselves "Hispanic"? Or are they...Portuguesic? xD You catch my meaning.

Awwww it's like Facebook but in real.

I read this post six minutes ago and I have not stopped laughing.

Ugh, ugh, I know. I know. I try so hard not to and I succeed most of the time but then just one gets you like a fish hook to the secondary sexual characteristics.

"It was just the one Twix! It was a twelve-pack, who counts?"

Ha. Well, my sister (who works in the youth services dept. of a local council) informed me that social services in my county (and all counties) have absolutely no responsibility for kids who attend private schools whatsoever. None. They don't even monitor them. It's possible for kids who avoid the three major entry…

I have a mum who finds it very difficult not to laugh, so as long as I was funny enough I got away with anything.