And they’d have gotten away with it Scott Free if you hadn’t noticed it.

It is known.

Omg I just inadvertently copied your “politics” statement, so sorry! I should really learn to read the comments through before posting.

I’m white, British, born in the 60s and had no idea whatsoever about the politics of black hair until discovering this blog.

Oh. Dear. Lord.

I left my church when they appointed a new Pastor who implemented “sharing the peace” which consisted of moving around the church during the service hugging random people and whispering “the Peace of God go with you” in their ear. I tolerated it at first but when someone who had yelled angrily at me the week hugged me…

It’s a Ferengi thing, called Oo-Mox

Hope you liked them! 

Thank you. I thought I was the only one who held this opinion. Many is the book I have skipped pages on because I just want to get on with the story and not be constantly interrupted by depictions of sex more detailed than any other descriptions in the book.

Jelly, in the U.K. at least usually means something like this:

I always used to buy a couple of jars of this whenever I was in the USA as it was completely unknown in the U.K until fairly recently, and is still only found in some larger supermarkets where they have “American” in their “foreign food” aisles.

Came here to post this too! They were so innovative and their work has stood the test of time.

Oh my! *drops monocle, faints*

Having made the decision to jail small children, the U.S. government is responsible to provide living conditions that are safe, sanitary and appropriate.

You have shown you hold more Christian values here in this post than many churchgoers I know, and certainly more than the young man in the article.

If any Christians are looking so hard to find “Satan’s last stronghold” that they have to travel to a remote island on the other side of the world to find it, they really need to examine their definition of what being “anti-Christian” actually means. “Satan” has plenty of strongholds much closer to home which need far…

Ah, the good old Internets never ceases to amaze me with what unholy mashups it can come up with.

With you on that second one. But if he really thinks that cartoon depiction of him is anything near what he looks like, he is even more deluded than ever.

Thank you for those links. Watching these wildfires from the safety of the U.K. has been jaw dropping and almost otherworldly for me having travelled through some of those areas only last year on holiday.

I remember seeing a similar event on the news when I was young (in the U.K.) and it scared me so much that every time I travelled by coach anywhere before I learned to drive, I would fixate on every footbridge or overpass as soon as it came into view and couldn’t relax until we had gone under.