And because their lawyers insisted the first 43 rules be to do with not copying or reverse engineering their app, and not placing any liability on the developers. Their marketing department wasn’t too keen on the 44th rule of Rumblr being to not talk about Rumblr, either. Lawyers and marketing execs, always ruining…

You know, there’s one thing in my past that makes me ponder where the whole “love of a good woman” trope could’ve come from. My mother was a horribly abusive woman, although she was also clearly extremely mentally ill (obvious delusions and other unambiguous signs). She was far too proud to ever go for any kind of…

Congratulations, Santa Claus.

Whoever said the tipping system is oppressing me? If it’s oppressing anyone, it’s the workers, and I don’t live in a country with a tipping system anyway. All I was saying was that if I were in such a country it would cause me a lot of unnecessary stress, and why. To be quite honest, I’m kinda baffled by the amount of…

Well I actually do have mental health issues, which shockingly have never been successfully treated by anyone telling me to “get a grip”, “pull (myself) together” or similar, and obviously that amplifies the anxieties of such a situation for me. But even if my reaction to those uncertainties is stronger than that of…

It’s not that the maths involved is hard (maths is actually one of my strong points), although why exactly should I be doing maths when I’m going there to eat, at least beyond the basic maths money handling requires? More to the point though, isn’t the percentage you actually choose a subjective thing? I mean I’ve…

As a British woman, the idea of tipping has always been somewhat alien to me. I just sort of expect that a restaurant bill or taxi fare will go towards paying people fairly, the notion that I should be partially in control of how much someone else’s employee earns is baffling. If I ever visited the US, eating out…

Here’s a better photograph of the protesters in the first image:

In my lay medical opinion, I’m pretty sure it’d make you poo blocks of butter.

And then there’s people who’ll happily eat sushi or the spiciest curries, but suddenly become hilariously squeamish over delicious haggis. It’s even banned in the U.S., people have to smuggle in haggis from Canada and risk a $1,000 fine if caught!

I can’t really say about the US, but I’m a British woman in her early 30s, and I don’t think HIV was even mentioned in the curriculum when I was at school. I only learnt anything about it due to BBC children’s programmes. Obviously when I was a little girl we knew a lot less about it, but I’d guess it’s usually people…

I’d agree with you if we were talking about medical staff or something, but it’s not like managerial staff of a fast food shop are going to magically absorb said past 30 years of medical information through osmosis. People are shockingly ignorant about what seems like basic scientific fact to many, and I’m not talking…

Assault with a sexy weapon.

You’re quite welcome! I was confused by the exact same thing when I first read this article.

I normally wouldn’t be pedantic enough to point out that it’s “Savile” (and I’ve made the same “Saville” spelling error plenty in the past), but I suddenly realised that a great way to remember the correct spelling is that it includes the word “vile”, and just had to share.

Salt doesn’t kill people, chefs kill people.

At least Jimmy Savile was always obviously pretty creepy. The Savile allegations were not in the least surprising, while the Cosby ones came as a pretty big shock.

They’re claiming that no such clause ever existed, that it was all urban legend or something.

What’s with this “secretly” nonsense? I try to stick to vegetarianism, but I’m human and thus flawed. I try to do my best but I don’t hide it when the hunger for delicious flesh is simply too much.

I assume that before they arrested him, they briefly shoved him into a vat of chocolate to ensure he was suitably brown.