Obligatory post pointing out that sharing something interesting and explicitly giving credit isn't theft, and that someone else wrote the more detailed article, and that Patricia is paraphrasing.

Andy's mum has got it going on!

Boy, Lorde is everywhere these days.

Is it always raining in your world?

Um, no... and how do you know Clara Oswald didn't go to college and train as a teacher before becoming a nanny

To be honest I'm just a bit fed up with the homogenisation of Britain on iO9 (and lots of other blogs). Wales, England, Scotland - different places.

i really don't get what your beef is here. i'm mancunian, a northerner, english, british, european - all those things, why are you getting upset again?

I'm confused. So is "British" an incorrect way to refer to someone from Great Britain? What else would it refer to? What's the actual term we should be using?

Note: Some readers might find the content of this article objectionable.

If I don't post a warning, people complain. If I post a warning, people complain.

Does the word "hipster" even mean anything anymore?

It's probably because that's such a gimmie. It's right up there with "Don't lick a spoon that a sick person just sneezed onto".

1000 BC would be 3000 years ago.

If you had a few thousand dollars in an account, would you also say you have many many tens of dollars? smartass.

How is 1000 B.C. (three thousand years ago) not "thousands of years"?.

The sheng was invented around 1,000 BC. So yes, it's many, many centuries old.

"Automatically assuming "his last words" is an indication of his death is such a fucking leap of logic it makes creationists look sane."

It keeps your immune system healthy... then your immune system takes care of the nasty bugs before they can dig in...

It helps your body fight the infection better. This means you could kill it off before you even begin noticing symptoms. Or at the very least only have to suffer the symptoms for a few days.

This is also known as "How to create a superbug"