I mean, duh, Stanley is engaging in some very avant garde "method journalism," where you write exactly what your uninformed audience already knows and take pains to conceal your artificial journalist conditioning to learn about what you're talking about and impart information that your audience may or may not already…

People do actually buy and wear couture, you know. YOU are supposed to know you could never afford it, the customer is supposed to think they'll be the only person wearing something so exquisite.

MMM shouldn't need a face and could do better than this with a team of really talented unknowns, but they (new owners in the last few years, right?) chose him for publicity and they've got it.

This is sort of the ideal situation for MRAs to say that, because she reported it was rape to her boyfriend. I mean, if that "motive" to lie is ever a motive, it's a motive here. This exact same thing happened on an episode of Scandal and husband killed the guy! Except on Scandal it wasn't actually rape and the wife…

Thanks, I feel you took the care to explain something so important that I just didn't have the patience to explain to these people who took an (amusing, to me) offense to my whiff of non-glorification of the monarchy. This is a modern state which is represented by the Crown and the person occupying it. These people…

By proceedings you may mean proceeds, in which case no, proceeds from the Crown lands would not take any hit in a republic. The argument is made that tourism would, but that's not the argument I referenced or engaged in. At no point was I discussing the level of interest or overall value of the royal show, and where I…

That would seem to demonstrate little understanding of words written in English in front of you, because where did I imply or say that nobody is interested?

Yes, I assumed as much, and it's what I said.

Grief is a strong term, but it just means coming to terms with a change relating to something or someone you loved. It could be sad, it could just be difficult and hard to navigate. I don't think I experienced it with anyone who loves me when I came out, but I do understand it, and I think when people deny its…

It's "held by the Queen" in that the Queen occupies the Crown. It is owned by the Crown. Your insistence that it is " absolutely owned by the Queen" is a technical truth, but doesn't relate to any realistic understanding of ownership. She can't sell it, nor can she just do anything she wants with it. And it's beyond…

Um, yeah, duh. I said they "voluntarily" give over the funds to the public. The Crown is the state, not the Queen.

Mmm yes, gotcha. I don't wonder why Phil looks that way, he must be bored of it, but I think Andrew is sort of a jag. Being a second tier royal is a kickass opportunity to do almost anything you would love to do, and it seems like Andy is one who just grumps about being handled all the time without the glory of being…

As much as I am annoyed by the "taxleeching scum!" line of thinking - as it certainly isn't the strongest anti-monarchist ethic by far, this video is trash. It's a convoluted reasoning. The Queen "voluntarily" (she couldn't very well not do this as it's been done for generations) hands over the income from all Crown…

He wishes. Prince P is actually kinda dashing for NINETY. No comment on his much-repeated problematic comments to every single person he's ever met, but Phillip was a total hottie when he was young, and is reputed to be a very attractive person to interact with *even now*. As far as I can tell, Andrew got the shortest…

A 19 year old is also a teenager. I also wouldn't call a 21 year old an adult, if we're not talking legal definitions.

I would never want to minimize Leelah's victimization by spreading some onto the parents, but I don't know how to fucking feel about their (failed) struggle to accept their child. Clearly they were and are stalwartly denying Leelah's identity. But so many parents have a huge grieving process to go through when their…

I can't get very compassionate about the parents either, but there are likely many friends trying to grieve peacefully, and beyond that, people there who did love Leelah and didn't have the opportunity or position to counter her parents wrongminded interventions, and as far as we know, may not have even known about…

Now that's some erasure. Why would those bigots want to discomfort her family, who ostensibly are on their big bigot side? Why is it unimaginable that people who would support trans people would do something like that? There are always zealots on every side.

A much-lighter-though-still-horrifying version of this story happened to me with Nature Valley "CRUMBS EVERYWHERE" bars. Variety, kids. I will speak to the first-time-in-a-week evacuation of shit rivaling the glory of your best orgasm.

Me too, but that isn't gonna happen. I'm sure he'll miss having friends, respect, a platform, and a legacy more than he would miss fancy cars and houses.