According to my mum, I once greeted her on a Mother's day morning with a card that said "I like it when you buy me lego and when you leave me alone, Love from me."

Am I the only one slightly annoyed that she didn't get a couple more weeks just to bump up the score?

Honestly, I'm white and British and I'd do the same. I've always wanted to spend a week in an American high school just to find out if it's actually...like that. o.O

Laser Porn should have been so much more enjoyable than it turned out to be. "Asian Fanny Fun, now in a 3D light show!"

Why do they let stupid people do things. =/

o.o

It's just not America if it's not fighting plaque and ensuring minty fresh breath at the same time.

Steve Agee, I love you. I love you so much.

OH MY GOD IT'S COLGATE. ROMNEY IS COLGATE.

That is fucking wonderful.

Seriously, no. I'm in the UK, so I could understand it not being shown here much (because I doubt the BBC would do anything other than a generalised donkey/elephant graphic for stories about US elections) but the presumption that that's a worldwide-recognised thing seems a little excessive. This wasn't really meant to…

While I agree with you, the idea isn't that people don't think racism exists per se but that it's not a problem with society, but rather specific people. You can ask a whole bunch of people in the UK whether they think the BNP is bad and they'll say "yes", but their awareness of mainstream or less obvious racism is…

"There is no question it is recognized worldwide."

Other things that will ruin your child's life forever;

Aha, yep! In our case it was "Electoral Reform, 1835-1890." Also Maoism, the rise of the Nazi Party, and the American Civil Rights movement. I totally agree that the First World War should be taught, but so should British racial history. It's really fucking important.

That is a generalisation, and unfortunately (I say this as a Brit) it's also quite true the vast majority of the time.

If a panda's a woman, apparently a killer whale can be too.

I live in one of the most consistently socially liberal parts of the country and I have not once been taught about any kind of British racism, ever. Not officially in a classroom, not ever.

I think it's because the form of racism practiced in the UK, certainly by the middle classes, has always been insidious (which in many ways makes it more horrible). My Auntie Lucy immigrated to the UK from Ghana in the 1960s and was told repeatedly "I don't have a problem with black people, but the neighbours do.…

Well, I'm certainly not defending this image, but I will say I think it's atypical in a modern British catalogue. From a design standpoint alone, it seems bizarre that only one woman in the image is wearing a product; and actually, if anything, I'd say there's been a disproportionate improvement in media portrayal of…