Well, don't go disturbing badgers - on any continent.

Eurasian badgers (Meles meles), like this chap, aren't quite the vicious balls of teeth and claws that American badgers (Taxidea taxus) are.

This ad is so controversial and cutting-edge it was done by Saatchi & Saatchi in 1969.

Do you bake bread and grow herbs for yourself, or is it a business venture?

This letter nicely illustrates the the dreary, solipsistic selfishness that underlies religious conviction. Get over yourself, you're not a special snowflake whose notions of Jesus or Buddha or whatever are in any way significant. It's just a way for a person who has nothing to offer to feel important.

Anyone who tells you to use a jar of vomitous store-bought "mayonnaise" and calls this "no-bullshit" is not your friend. This is disgusting and you should be ashamed.

That's what it says: "you can also contribute to your retirement savings in a traditional IRA and get a tax deduction if your income falls under the income limits." You can contribute as much as you like to an IRA but the amount that is deductible is limited by various factors. That's kind of the point.

Oh, is it cold where you are? It's quite lovely here in Northern California.

Check again. Are you *sure* you're not an idiot?

A NASCAR race *is* 2 or 3 hours of waiting for the track to dry.

With that strategy, you would *definitely* have it in you.

Hasn't Manti been giving his side for the past several months? His side was that he had this magical leukemia car-crash girlfriend. That was his side. He gave his side. This is the other side, where the evidence is.

Guess you don't know any Niners fans!

Right. Ricky Gervais said 'Complaining about what someone tweets about is like calling up the numbers in classified ads and shouting "But I don't want piano lessons!"' This is similar. People you don't know had a wedding that you probably wouldn't have enjoyed if you had been invited, does that really call for catty…

Could you explain how there is a relation between a terraced stadium being overrun by uncontrolled numbers of fans being admitted, as at Hillsborough, and people standing at their seats in an all-seater stadium, as here?

Yes, I'm not from Texas, and I'm saying that your priorities in Texas where grown men drive for hours to watch teenage boys play school sports are seriously out of whack and there is something wrong with you.

I went to college, yes, but not in this country — in most other countries, colleges are places of higher education rather than minor-league sports franchises — but this article was about high school.

Let's see ... I'm an adult who has a job and a mortgage, it's Friday night ... I know! I'm going to watch some schoolchildren play football!

Please note the "fiction" part of "science fiction". It's not real.

These are like the DHF stories with all the titillation removed. "And then we met this other guy and then we were at the restaurant and the guy was there and then there was this girl and she said to the guy and WHO THE FUCK CARES."