@Count Von Spiegel: I was in Rio in the runup to the pan American games, and they had really cracked down on crime. Apart from one attempted mugging (late at night near Cocacabana, and as a redhead I'm very obviously a foreigner), the only harassment I faced was constant whistling/clicking noises, which more often…

@modisch: Yup, my friend's uncle lives in Brazil, and his wife has been held up at gunpoint three times while in traffic in Sao paolo. It's pretty scary when you think of it. Having said that, I don't think other parts of Brazil are anywhere near as bad.

@Shinta: Maybe, but I interpreted in a different way. It strikes me as a parallel to US/British occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan. It may make some players think of why US marines are targets of the taliban, and raise some consciousness of that. That's what the dreamer in me thinks anyway. My more cynical side…

@lostcity: Cash businesses of all varieties are huge money

@DeanBeetle: Now I understand why people want to buy cats. How much?

@blackbirdfly(ingundertheradar): Oh you know heroine addicts. Always swooning over one thing or another.

@Caroline Magennis: Yup. Wait till Paddy's day. We all come out of the woodwork then. Mainly to complain about it being referred to as 'Patty's day'.

@thedevilwearsprimark: Ohmigod, the difference between the Euro and Sterling prices is unreal. I bought a pair of boots online at topshop.com for £125. The euro price in Ireland was 250! It's absolutely incredible. Same with FCUK. And then they wonder why Irish people insist on internet shopping.

@Sukie: Is it Bethany?

@SunandaGrimlet: In all fairness, the professor may not have been able to give two shits about it either.

@champagne: I was staying in Rome when they filmed this. They were filming right around the corner from my apartment. Never saw Julia though.

@Piranha426: You're right on point 3. They would be damned if they did agree to it, damned if they didn't.

@WaffleCopter: It's only a matter of time! I'm jealous, I'll never get a comment of the day. Not nearly witty enough.

@Ri_L: Don't use that St Ives scrub. apparently it has wood chip in it, and the granules are too large and can damage your skin. I personally avoid any face scrubs, skin on the face is too sensitive and thin too need exfoliating to that extent. Just wash it well with lukewarm water and moisturise occasionally and…

@GGobsessed: I'm not sure, but the book I've read is regarded as definitive. She did a lot of research for the book, and I have to say I found it fascinating. It's not too focused on description of what happened to individual people during the genocide, but on the political events before and after the genocide , and…

@GGobsessed:' A People Betrayed' by Linda Melvern is a brilliant account of the genocide in Rwanda. It doesn't discuss the Congo, but reading it will give you a good historical perspective to understand some of what is going on, and why Rwanda is linked with the 'conflict' in the DRC. Human Rights Watch have reports…

@amoureuse est heureuse: Thank you, I don't like how this is being framed as a women's issue. Obviously it is a women's issue, but the conflict is infinitely more complex than that, and men are suffering just as much as women. It should be seen and discussed in a broader context, with the Hutu Pawa movement, the RPF,…

@Her Grace: Nerdfighter!: I hate, hate Simon Baron-Cohen. How the hell anyone gives credence to his crap is beyond me.

@bluebears: I went to school in the eighties and nineties, and was bullied constantly from four till thirteen. It stopped when I entered my secondary school, which placed me in separate classes from my old classmates and had zero tolerance for bullying. Bullying thrives where it's allowed. I don't think it's…

@RaisedOnWhiskey: They do that in the english magazine Grazia. Luckily I reckon I'd look like a homeless person in half the outfits chosen so I only feel envy about the bags, and I'm too scared too invest a lot of money in a bag I might not like in a month. Grazia gives me enough envy with their fashion charts…