Have you seen the early 90s BBC series The Buddha of Suburbia? I think you may like it. Main character is played by a young Naveen Andrews and, uh, yeah. Really like it. Nudge, nudge, wink, wink.

Also, historically it has connotations with prostitution. At least according to my stagey friends.

Or Robert Webb as Queen Victoria and David Mitchell as her beardy-faced servant, in possibly my favorite Mitchell and Webb Look sketch:
http://www.youtube.com/watc…

Exactly who I was thinking. Is he busy these days?

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Really?! So not only have you watched and read everything, but you're the best part of ten years younger than me too?

Ok, so slightly related: the front cover of the Daily Mail yesterday was a joy. Right next to a picture of Peter Capaldi was the thundering headline: "ANOTHER INSULT TO STAY-AT-HOME MOTHERS".

I'm hoping for Nicole Krauss.

@avclub-0ae7484a9f3bbd2a21df420050c032ae:disqus 
It is an interesting one. It's one of these urban myths that seems to be particularly popular among the well educated, despite being just plain wrong. Hell, even I flinch and have to suppress the urge to "correct" them when I hear someone refer to it as the Union Jack.

"I picture you as a dour child"

You can only protect them so much. Eventually your kids are going to find out about these things and it might help for a parent to be there to explain them and put them in context.

Just to throw in there… I have a friend staying over who is a (US) middle school teacher. She did Watership Down with a class of 11/12 year olds a couple of years ago and apparently it didn't really work. Some "got" it, but it went over the heads of most of them.

Well seeing as the story never ends you can't be entirely surprised that the pacing seems a little slow.

@avclub-7ffc7b9269a024d949b808e6856f525d:disqus 
Spoiler alert for the start of the movie?

I watched it when I was about 8 or 9. Certainly before age 10, as I ripped off the end for a story I wrote at school. Thought it was a great film, and it's not as though I was a particularly bloodthirsty small child (I covered my eyes at the bit in Star Wars where Luke returns to the farm until I was about 7).

This may be mean, but I still laughed out loud at it.

"When Claire was excited to see me she'd pee on my leg"

Tolerability Index, if you can trawl your way through the comments. (DC meetup starts on about page 7 or 8 of the last one).

Well, Wild at Heart was my favourite film when I was 17. Let that serve as both a recommendation and a warning.

Lap dancing's the ultimate nightmare of man; it's porn that can see you.

So… you spend a lot of time looking over the social media profiles of lots of teenage girls (and a few boys) do you?