Yep, it confused me — I couldn't figure out exactly *what* wasn't true from this piece (but I found it very interesting that I'd read all the possibly-not-true bits previously but had heard nothing at all about any of it possibly not being true, if you see what I mean). "Downgrading" the rape makes absolutely no…

Perhaps they aren't looking for them to stay forever? I have friends who take on au pairs doing their gap years — they know it's for a year at most.

I'm now seriously considering this, because I'm a) English and b) badly paid at the mo.

Is it sad that on reading this I'm wondering if I could get paid more as a nanny than I do in my current job? If I moved back to America perhaps my Englishness would let me charge more.

It's all quite unclear to me, too; I suppose, though, if someone was wrongly accused of something then whether or not the accusation were true would make a difference.

Very interesting. I didn't seek out details of this case, but I did read stories as I came across them in passing… and now I'm finding out that I read about things that weren't true. I came across coverage of thing that were later retracted, I suppose, but I didn't come across the retractions.

This English girl agrees.

It might not be bad! My friend has been doing it for ages and loves it; she only stays with families with whom she gets along well.

I have a friend who's been doing this for nearly a decade, since we graduated. She enjoys taking care of the kids as much as the mansion and private jets, and she doesn't really spend any money (no rent or food or transport costs) most of the time so when she goes on holiday she goes BIG. I couldn't do it myself, but…

That's not entirely true though, is it? Most of the ex models I know did it for a few years when they were really young. They happened to be tall and skinny, and happened to be able to eat what they liked without anything changing (which generally stopped being the case after they turned 20ish, when most of them quit;…

Yep. I sometimes shoot really insanely beautiful women… and then spend hours "correcting" their "flaws". I find that very helpful in accepting my own flaws.

Best site of all time? http://jadenisworried.tumblr.com/

I took it as such and admired… but now I'm not sure.

Exactly. I don't feel sorry for her at all; I feel sorry for everyone else involved whose time has been wasted by her stupidity.

My mum worked at a Catholic school and the best religious name she ever encountered was Marvellous Victory.

My husband has a friend named Asa and he is super duper awesome! And sort of a rock star!

I had no idea it was a female thing — it gets on my nerves when blokes do it, too.

OH MY GOD THE VOCAL FRY. I lived in LA for ages and it was just so, so, so grating… and then I moved back to London and people do it here, too.

I suppose the ones who yell "get the fuck out of the way!" are at least not as bad as the ones who just knock pedestrians flying…

I used to know the city code in LA and screamed it at crazed arrogant cyclists like a complete madwoman more than once — it was legal to ride on the pavement as long as there was no risk to property or people… but there was pretty much ALWAYS risk to people, ie the madwoman screaming city code at you.