if it were Knorr cubes, it would be bouillon

do you mash them up with cooked carrot before serving? that's how we roll at my mum's house, always, I think it's Scottish? Personally I loathe them but I married a rutabaga-enthusiast so I still make them.

really - sorry the link didn't work, but the study, which followed a large group of people for a number of years, found that strict diet and exercise produced minimal weight loss, and did not produce the health benefits they anticipated. We don't know how to get people thin much less keep them thin, so why no focus…

but that's the point - they put diabetes patients on strict diets with exercise for YEARS and they got at best 5% sustained weightloss and no improvement on heart attacks or strokes.

How about an NIH longterm study? www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/10/121019141252.html Up to 11 years of participation, increased exercise and strict calorie control resulted in—-a 5% weightloss and no improvement in rates of heart attack and stroke. 5%, not really enough to move someone from "obese" to…

There can be only one, and he's it. Man, I miss Sanctuary.

Yeah, sorry, but red states like yours receive more in benefits than they pay in federal taxes. The blue states subsidize you. That teacher's taxes aren't paying for the food stamps (most of which go to poor white folks, but anyways), it's Massachusetts and all those other Democrat states who pay for them.

Nygard? Love their stuff. Yeah, if you're older, relatively well-off, there's nice stuff out there: Nygard, Jones New York. Nordstrom online is like my wish book. But in the young-cute-cheap end of the market, not much for us plussies.

Enid Blyton, certainly, but also Ursula Leguin and Dianne Wynne Jones and the Worst Witch books and on and on. The World War 2 setting? Well, both CS Lewis and Tolkien mine that one. Presumably she doesn't read sci fi and fantasy ANY MORE, she's looking for a new genre to exploit.

No love for Captain Jack? Love to see him come back, and he'd be there like a shot even for a cameo.

The law was changed in early 2012 - though there's been a campaign going for years. Now it's just Monsieur or Madame regardless of marital status, you just have to indicate gender.

Bloom does have a came0 - he's shown up a couple of times in those videoblogs Peter Jackson did during filming.

I can't believe you forgot Pam on True Blood, who has been my favourite supporting character since her first appearance - all the best lines, all the best outfits, dryer than a New York martini.

No mention of the True Blood reunion, with Kristin Bauer von Straten (the divine Pam) coming to support Alex Skarsgard?

so discrimination and homophobia are just "one small facet" of an organization? As opposed to the Catholic bishops trying to impose Catholic orthodoxy on a non-Catholic, non-sectarian organization that they do not run or fund? good to know.

Yeah, currently it's recommended to be upfront from the beginning. As well, I think it's Conor Cruise who is noticeably biracial, so there would have been no point about pretending. But this is a touchy topic for me, as my kids are adopted and black (adopted from the US BTW), so I've lived this. It's nothing new or…

There was an answer to HOW?!? in the second movie - very end, small piece of steampunk-ish technology that we had seen earlier on in that same film

Presbytery is what it was called in the news report. Me, I just giggle when I think of Catholic priests in a rect-ory because I'm 12 years old inside.

Destroyed the memory stick? That's interesting, and unlikely, that someone who knows how to power point wouldn't know how to delete a file. Other reports I've seen said that the laptop itself has disappeared, "stolen" from the presbytery but oddly the only thing stolen.

Well, one thing's for sure, Steven Moffat doesn't own Who. He's on contract to the BBC. Could Yates and Warner Bros throw enough money at the BBC to make them reconsider? Given the BBC's financial difficulties, I don't see why not. Both sides could even be telling the truth - there is ABSOLUTELY NO CHANCE for a…