Now that’s an odd set of things to single artists out for, I would have gone with fine art, fiction novels, plays, movies etc myself. I mean, I know I could live without adverts or, more specifically, with adverts that were plain descriptions of a product and it’s price.

Dad.

Female or male teacher?

I’m 32 and I have, but they are from the early 2000s... hardly a ‘dad’ band.

Dad bands? I know a lot of women who like this music...

Yeah, I find large age-gap relationships a bit disturbing, but that’s my own personal issue. But if he were 90 and she were 50, it wouldn’t bother me a bit. Likewise, if the age-gap weren’t so great and she was a job applicant, a relationship growing from that wouldn’t really bother me either.

That argument can be made in both directions and for any age-restricted matter.

I believe he can’t be fired either. He’s elected. He can be kicked out of the party and deselected as their next candidate, but the constituents elected him, the party has no say.

No, I would certainly discipline that person (that sounds so wrong in the context of this case), but not to the extent of firing them unless it became a repeat occurrence. The danger with power differentials in cases like these is that it can lead to pressure on one party. It doesn’t necessarily always actually occur.

I think that a) it’s inappropriate to get involved with a job applicant and some disciplinary action should be taken, but b) that being said, depending on the nature of the ‘revealing white body suit’ it could be argued that she started the sexually suggestive conversation and that the ‘It would look better on your…

Well, from the excerpts printed above, her messages seem more explicit than his. In the UK, in this respect she is a functioning adult and has been for over a year. I don’t see the abuse. I see power differential in that she is a job applicant, which is why he is suspended, and I see the ew factor I see in any…

I drink bear

Da Vinci? I was talking Dicaprio....

This. J J Abrams is the cool new foster dad.

What’s interesting is that unhappiness is more or less unrelated to actual life circumstances. Rich people are just as happy/unhappy as poor people. This is of absolutely no comfort to poor people except that you can take a certain vindictive pleasure in knowing those spoiled kids are genuinely unhappy with their lot…

This. Don’t like it? Don’t buy it. I don’t see the issue.

I can practically hear the dueling Banjos...

Hey, people shit talk Hitler all the time, but he did the one thing we all wish we could, he killed Hitler.

Well, for an astronaut, bluntly speaking... no you don’t really need creativity. You need dedication, discpline, a physical aptitude, a high level of attention to detail and intelligence. You need to be able to follow orders from people who understand exactly how the hundred tons of explosives under your backside work…

Yeah, but artists have been morose, drunkards and/or opiate addicts even when art was very well respected by society in general.