Exactly. This is the same as if he had broken the landlord's bed by jumping on it. No one is saying you can't jump on the bed, but if you break it you have to cover that cost.

I love stripey clothes, so I'm extra excited to see stripes that are arranged artfully!

As someone who works in a museum myself, I couldn't disagree with your position more strongly. Museums are for the general public - and for research, of course, but forgetting that the general public keep the doors open (either directly through admission fees or indirectly through taxation) is short-sighted and naive…

So you're trying to suggest that long-term hormonal contraceptive use and/or IUD implantation is equivalent to vaccination? I'd say that's completely unfounded - medically, ethically and in basically every way.

This is not some slight against women, this is the most basic means of empowerment, to control your own reproduction.

Yep, that's an excellent book. Long, but one of the best history books I've ever read.

Yep, that's an excellent book. Long, but one of the best history books I've ever read.

I like United's Economy Plus also. Having just flown Edinburgh to Newark and back, where I booked too late to get an outbound E+ seat like I normally do, I don't think I'll ever make that mistake again. You don't get the same benefits as Air France, but just the extra room itself makes a HELL of a difference. Plus…

That's true - I'd forgotten! I do love Indira Varma, so I'd be ecstatic if she were given the role. I think it's just because her death in Torchwood's first episode made a really big impression on me so I can't think of her as anything other than Suzie from Torchwood.

But wasn't she already in Torchwood? That could be a timey-wimey calamity!

Being happy on your own also doesn't mean that you never need other people or never miss your family. It doesn't mean that you have to be surrounded with people all the time to be happy.

Your objection to Peter Capaldi's Scottish accent is completely nonsensical, unless you also hated all of the New Who accents (with the possible exeption of Matt Smith's). All the Classic Who doctors speak in Received Pronunciation - what used to be the media standard for actors and BBC news presenters, an accent that…

I don't know why everyone's giving you a hard time about this - I agree it would be great if they offered a better veggie selection. Restaurants in the UK (including fast food chains) manage to offer decent veggie options and the country hasn't crumbled. Every time I go back to midwestern American where I grew up I…

Hahahaha, yes sadly that doesn't surprise me. I don't know why so many people think that doctors are evil but naturopaths and vitamin shills are altruistic, but it's infuriating.

Oh yeah, this. My husband died from cancer and along the way there was lots of terrible 'advice'. As it happens, we were juicing, but for medical reasons - he had more than half his large bowel removed so had to be on a low fibre diet while he healed. Juicing allowed him some variety (otherwise it was veggie stock and…

I find that this is true for me. I get fed up of trying to track every little thing so I give up and then loose track completely. So I have two accounts: one account that my salary is paid into and my direct debits (I'm in the UK, I think they're the equivalent of direct deposits in the US?) come out of, and another…

Good to know!

Is it acid-free? If not, it seems like contact paper would speed up the yellowing process.

It's a concept design for the Stockholm Library:

Not really. Asian people do have a very different kind of ear wax (it's one of the ways that we know that most Native American populations travelled to North America via the Bering land bridge, for example), which is dry and flaky and more easily removed by tools such as the ear spoon. I'm merely pointing out that a…

Do you happen to live in an Asian country? These are really common in countries where the inhabitants tend to have dry ear wax (mostly Asian and Native American populations):