Yes - and this is in a country with strict gun control policies (mandatory checks at to the safety of our wall safe). I'm baffled why some supposed "responsible" American gun owners balk at similar controls, as I'd never leave mine lying around. EVER.

Irish names outside Ireland are disasters waiting to happen, unfortunately...

It's because Maeve is actually the Anglicised spelling (changed to a more English phonetic pronunciation.) Traditional Irish spelling is Medb.

Heh. Depending on what they say about abortion, you can get some of those banned under the Abortion Information Act. Mick Nugent from Atheists Ireland did that for a book which encouraged people to hate mail English clinics.

Ugh, Youth Defence are actually horrible - to the point where they're insisting that Irish laws which would allow a woman whose life is in substantial and immediate risk to access an abortion is "a culture of death"

Yes, apparently they beefed up the role because they enjoyed Richard Madden. I personally don't know how the son of someone with a Yorkshire accent and a Southern accent would end up sounds Scottish, though....

Just to correct that they're graduates of St Andrews, not Edinburgh.

I would guess, however, that those people are gooey and overly pressuring in real life. I know a couple who alternate between "love isn't real, it's all a lie" statuses and "I love you SO MUCH" depending on where they are in the make-up/break-up cycle. But they are both total drama queens in real life - Facebook…

Amen to that.

Well, if you're going to be forced to spend time with your mother in law, why not on a private tropical island?

Indeed. I could believe "I'll give it a few months and see if we can work through things" but this is WAY too specific.

Indeed. Even a conventionally attractive girl, if she is actually nice, will be like "uh huh...NO. If you're that shallow, hell to the NO."

But their selling point on their profile shouldn't be that they're "nice", you know? It should be their hobbies, their interests, an ideal Friday night.

THIS. I have one male friend who always talks alternatively about his ex girlfriend and about how he can't meet a girl who likes him for "who he truly is." Is there a nice way to say, "it might help if you didn't whine about your ex non stop?"

To be honest, that is the major difference: apart from any entitlement issues with women's bodies (which some of these guys definitely have), if the most interesting thing you can tell me about yourself is that you're "nice"? Pass. What about interests, things you enjoy doing?

And there we go with the ad hominem. I don't dislike guns - my Irish partner owns a gun in a country where guns are hard to get. What I dislike is people who ignore the fact that "self defence" is far less common than homicides within the family - and still make the silly arguement that guns belong in easy access…

So we're in agreement about pushing for a Swiss style model?

Switzerland, where every gun owner has served time in the militia and can't store ammunition in their home? I think that's a great idea, let's implement it (oh, you didn't know that about the ammunition?)

+1. Of course, no one ever assumes that will be them - nor will their children ever be the ones in handgun accidents.

I'm a bit uncomfortable with the idea that her son does not have Aspergers and presenting all mental health problems (when Lanza had a behavioural issue) as one mixed bag is an issue.