He surprised me with how nice he was. I was prepared for him to be, at best, a bit short with me and, at worst, flat out rude (I was interrupting his NYE date, after all), but he was neither. My dissertation was on the necessity of goal-line technology in football. His disallowed goal against Germany was a crucial…

It's definitely considered tacky to swarm a celebrity here, but that certainly doesn't stop people from doing it.

I've had the great fortune to interact with a number of celebrities (thanks, work!!), but the only one I've ever approached was Frank Lampard, my very favorite soccer player of all time. I was going to a wedding in a really fancy hotel on New Year's Eve, and he was in the bar. I had just started writing my Master's…

It happened to me in Italy, but that's parr for the course there.

That's exactly what I thought about Liam but couldn't figure out a polite way to say it. And who the fuck is that homeless man in the paper mache hat? Oh, it's Zayn.

I would sign that petition.

Why do they all have clay hair?! Madame Tussaud's doesn't make the hair out of wax, so why are they giving the clay models clay hair? This is certainly not the most disturbing thing about these, but I still can't get past it.

I'm 29, too, and this has been the worst year of my entire life, so 31 pretty much HAS to be better. It can't possibly be any worse. So at least I have that to look forward to? :/

In the little window of time between when my dad lost his job and found another one, he substitute taught at my high school. He only did it a handful of times, but every time I would get so nervous because I knew what pieces of human garbage teenagers are in general, but especially when faced with a substitute…

I guess a lot of it is dependent upon how the relationship ends. I would imagine that once you're in a marriage/living together situation, relationships tend to mutually dissolve, rather than one person deciding it's over (I would guess? Maybe I'm totally wrong). In my case, my ex realized I wasn't the one for him,…

That's what I thought, too! Like you said, not judging at all, I just don't understand moving on with that kind of speed. I'm about 6 months out from the break up of a year-long relationship, and I'm just barely able to think about going on a date with someone else, but definitely nowhere near ready to start a new…

I haven't even read the article yet, but I scrolled down to the comments to make this same comment. All chaps are inherently assless! Assed chaps are just pants!! Makes me crazy.

This is stupendous. I award you all the prizes.

I was never into baby dolls as a kid, but I LOVED my Samantha American Girl doll. I was a big reader, so I liked that I could read a book about my doll, instead of just inventing my own stories (although I also did that). I kept her in pristine condition, brushing her hair and putting her in her nightgown every night…

I remember the scalp scene, too!!!! Ahhhh, traumatizing! I had forgotten where I first encountered that scene, but it had been so burned into my brain that whenever I see a movie or tv show with women in a factory (or near any machinery, really), my mind just shouts, "Be careful around gears! Shave your hair off to be…

Is that like how 'Handmade in USA' is actually pronounced 'Haand made in oosa'? The Hand people are a Vietnamese slave tribe and Usa is their island prison. You know how they get the stitching so small? Orphans.

They've had a few little online shorts. There was a prequel to the Christmas special with them (and Strax, for whatever reason they included him), and just the other day they released a prequel to Series 7 Part 2 featuring the three of them. That's it though, so far...

I came to say this exact thing. I was watching the Waters of Mars the other day, and one character was talking about his brother and laughing about a story the brother told him about his husband. And then it was never mentioned again. I feel like casual references to gay people like that are what is missing from…

The creepiest part about that is he looks EXACTLY THE SAME as he did in August Rush and Finding Neverland, just taller. Disturbing.

Back when Skins first started, I was totally weirded out that the adorable kid from About A Boy was now this super hot dickwad (his character's a dickwad, not the actor, I assume). But then I got over it and just basked in the glow of his hotness. He grew into those eyebrows after all.