Sorry you can't keep a handle on your emotions.

Saying something like "sorry you can't keep a handle on your emotions" is deeply condescending.

You know, when you say

Don't be sorry — I am GLAD I did this. I have had a fantastic, child-free life. But you know, I don't need your validation and I do not need you telling me that my decision was immoral because a) it was my decision and b) I believe my decision was deeply moral according to my beliefs.

I think the terminations I had in a previous marriage were deeply moral decisions. My then husband and I did not believe we were ready or willing to be parents, and we chose not to bring into the world children who would have parents who did not want them with every fibre of their being. Money was not an issue for us…

I remember watching that! We gathered around the set as a family (goodness, people still did that back in the 80s!) and were all terribly excited. And as a family we laughed at the bottles. That was the night my dad explained to me what "schadenfreude" is.

I was too. I didn't put two and two together until she brought it up last night. She doesn't even know why she was asked specifically, given that she's not high up on the totem pole at the VWS. But she was given the opportunity to talk about an author whom she admires greatly, and thought the piece would be something…

My mom called me last night to talk to me about the shoot. Unbeknownst to her, she played a small part in this travesty. She is a member of the Virginia Woolf Society, and a Vice staff member contacted her to ask some questions about how Woolf died. My mother gave the writer quite a lot of info, dispelled some of the…

Goodness, this IS totally Nathan Barley. Spot on.

Oh thank goodness. I thought I was the only one. It seems that whenever I speak of my dislike for her as an actress, people react as if I were committing an act of sacrilege.

The former. As in overindulgence in the bad fun sexy sex, not the God-sanctioned procreative sex.

Venery. It'll get you every time.

One of my quotes (we were allowed multiple quotes, that's how we rolled) was, "There will be no obligatory Smiths quote."

Tristan Taormino is a she, and a frighteningly intelligent sex educator (Phi Beta Kappa from Wesleyan). There are analogues in other disciplines for including the studies and investigations of "amateurs" (or those outside the academy). I think she's absolutely the sort of person who should be involved in this journal.

I'm sorry, we clearly do not speak the same dialect of English, because I do not understand in what universe telling women what they are doing with their bodies by their own choice is not policing their bodies.

Holy fuck, are we still hashing this out? Didn't we just hear all about how you believe our personal choices about our own bodies are somehow NOT our personal choices about our own fucking bodies?

I'm just pleased the words "Contempo Casuals" were mentioned here. Fond poly-cotton memories.

I'm so glad there was no Mail Online as we know it now when I was doing my conversion course exams back in the early '00s. However, we had to make do with passed around hard copies of the rag, which made you an instant object of derision. "For shame! You should be reading the FT! Oooooh, is that Jordan?*"

Choosing not to be on Facebook is cool. Acting like it's an act of moral superiority not to be on Facebook is uncool. You dwell in the realms of the cool.

"I don't do Facebook" is up there too.