You know that marriages to (and between) nine year olds weren't exactly uncommon in European, christian countries even in the middle ages, let alone 1500 years ago?

Sometimes I wish the political system was structured so things like this could be said in Presidential debates and not relegated to the comments sections on the internet.

It's already there, although without the misleading and inaccurate use of the word "hardwired".

Labour has consistently had more female MPs than the Tory party.

The conservative party also has more politicians full stop.

We are not all part of it. You can choose not to be. I don't really think that her issuing some public faux-pology is going to ruin her career. And I don't see why we should let dirt bag comments dictate who gets certain acting jobs.

Yes. There are plenty of charities that don't discriminate against homosexuals. I don't really see how what you said changes anything. They don't have to work for a homophobic organisation. In fact, they shouldn't work for an explicitly homophobic organisation. Nothing's going to change if people let shit like this…

The Cheetah flex-foot (that Pistorius uses) was first developed in 1984. We've had plenty of time.

None of the actions/decisions she makes in her personal life merit a press release. She doesn't owe anyone who isn't involved an explanation whether she kissed someone else, had sex with someone else and whether it was outside of a relationship that had lasted a week, 6 months or 3 decades. Seems a bit like you're…

It's difficult to evaluate the advatange (or disadvantage) of his legs. The IAAF made such a fucking hash of the previous attempt (as in it was basically designed to disqualify him and not find out whether he had an advantage) that they're reluctant to go near it again.

He's competing in both the paralympics and the olympics IIRC. He didn't make the individual 400m this time (although he competed in the world championships last year in Daegu), but he is in the relay team. The IAAF's regulations mean he has to run the first leg (on health and safety grounds, the later baton…

"Agnostic" means you don't believe it's possible to know whether god (or gods) exist. It qualifies a position; you can be an agnostic atheist or an agnostic theist (or a gnostic theist/atheist). An agnostic atheist doesn't believe in a god but also doesn't believe you can genuinely know.

I'm just going to leave this here.

Well it probably wouldn't change the levels of cheating. People will still dope, they'll just use higher doses of the prescribed interventions, or unsanctioned techniques. I don't really see how it would change anything, except for leading to slightly faster times. Which isn't necessarily more enjoyable. These are…

...Are there any jobs for men that don't screw up your kids? And is being an office and admin support worker doubly shitty for your progeny or is that a typo?

I'd always heard that skipping meals was bad from a weight-loss perspective so that's not too surprising. I suppose more evidence is always useful.

Wait, it's impossible to dispose of a body in the future but it is possible to build a time machine? All you need is a spade and a basement for the first one. Surely that's easier than building a time machine?

It should say "to the 1996 Atlanta games" at the end. Other than that it's not too awful.

Speak for yourself. Don't drag the other 3.5 billion of us with you.

Surely the comments about predicting the intelligence of a kid should be "there is currently no way of predicting intelligence"? It seems a little presumptuous to declare that it's just flat out impossible.