Serious question: 42yo woman goes out with a 17yo guy - are you saying she is automatically an abuser?

You see, when I watched it, she instantly became my favorite kid of all time. She brought some reality to this whole bullshit internet craze, and her intonation and timing were both pitch perfect. I couldn't stop laughing.

Not Cockney; sounds like Midlands to me, maybe Birmingham area? And yes, she is definitely saying 'Fuckin' 'ell!', and her inflection is PERFECT. Love it.

Agree wholeheartedly.

"She always looks like she is on the verge of flaying you open with her eyeballs and devouring your entrails, which is a quality I admire in a woman." Me too. I wish she didn't do crapola like this, though - even Penny Dreadful is Bergmanesque in comparison.

This stuff is excellent: http://www.thecrystal.com/

Ah. Oops. Thought your comment was about the book, and did not read the comment you're replying to. In that case, well done.

Wrong.

My thought process on reading this:

That's Joe Biden!

That's The Hound!

No, probably the same in Canada and the US. 27 is the average age; teenagers and over-40s help average it out. You didn't see your peers reading it at uni because they are (presumably) above-average intelligence, and had therefore outgrown it mentally. Anyone over, say, 20 who regularly reads Cosmo is basically not…

Actually, no. You'd be surprised. The average age of our readership (in the UK, in the mid-2000s) was 27. Women in their 40s would always write in to complain that we didn't include their birth years in those stupid horoscope features. Crazy but true.

Dude, you've got it right. It makes me laugh that anyone would take Cosmo sex tips seriously - don't people know that we used to just get drunk in the office and think up the most bizarre shit just for the hell of it?! It was so much fun!

Many British men have something far more attractive to women than mere looks; something you'll never have - it's called charm. Also, Mike Myers is Canadian. LOL.

Overpopulation is not a component in a far larger puzzle, it is the unifying factor that lies behind all other environmental issues. The capitalist drive to exploit the world's resources over the past 40 years (factory farming, deforestation, industrial pollutants etc etc) was fueled by growing consumer demand.

Sure. Maybe a bad link. I was tired last night and didn't vet it properly. But my main point is it's not a "non-issue"; it's an issue that has fallen out of favor, due to social, religious and political (small and large 'p') reasons.

Baloney

"The thing I always think about when I'm tempted to panic about global warming is how people 30 or 40 years ago were freaked out about overpopulation — like, totally convinced we were breeding too much and we were all going to die horribly — and it's turned out to basically be a nonissue."

Top sheet? Duvets; you're doin it rong