When employees raise grievances or law suits over unfair treatment, I always wonder whether including just about every and any anecdote of what they perceived as unfair will actually help or diminish the strength of the case they try to make?

"Why else can we not stop drooling over Helen Mirren?"

Ugh, I really hope she - and every other new mum - manages to stand strong and proud enough to blissfully ignore this nonsense from the magazines and go her own way, in her own time.

There are plenty of negative things I could say about Michael Jackson, but how I wish he was still alive today, if only to shield his children like he did. My heart breaks for these kids; they're missing out on a dad and being exposed to so much they shouldn't have to be.

Don't know if this is a UK-only thing but I seem to hear more and more people who don't necessarily have a baby voice or use baby language, but who appear to enunciate everything in a child-like fashion. It sounds as if they are using only the fronts of their mouths to speak, if that makes sense; for instance, "we…

In Tracey Emin's own 'Emperor's New Clothes' world, justification after the fact is as blissfully ignored as hypocrisy.

The latter is what I love about Britain - like finding out in 2011 that police riot shields make excellent tea trays...

Sadly FeedDemon is dying too... http://www.geekosystem.com/feeddemon-vanishing-too/

Looks funny but fake. I don't think Britain ever used the dollar sign and the prices appear to be too high to be from around 1912... language and print don't appear old enough either.

Did James Hetfield have the same choir teacher as you?

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Think you're the smartest person in the room? NEWS FLASH: You're probably not. You just think you are. (This article doesn't tell you that but if you follow the advice given you'll discover just that...)

Having never seen this show but read various pieces on it, I can't figure out if this series does something good or bad in respect of people's prejudices towards people from different social backgrounds.... any experiences?

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"Apple claims Honan's hack shouldn't of happened like that."

Apparently if you tweet it while pretending to be Robert Downey Jr it is deemed funny and gets over 18,000 retweets?

So... did any doofus already come out with the cliche d!ckhead defence of "Seth Stephens-Davidowitz would say that, because he's a cog in the great big Zionist media machine blah blah blah"? 'Cause that sort of drivel tends to be a popular response among keyboard warriors against just about anything online these…

...and I bet none of you 'loner kids' turned out socially awkward or anti-social.

While its outcome makes sense, this piece of research is too limited (19 children only) and doesn't appear to look at the other side - competition may ostracise but it's not all bad; as the clumsy child who was always picked last, I may have built up more resilience in dealing with failure, rejection etc. than the…