The thing that bothers me most is that the castle is an easy get-yourself-lost distance from Belle’s village...yet none of the villagers know it exists. They found it easily enough when they were aiming to storm it with pitchforks and torches. How come no one but Belle and her father ever accidentally stumbled…

I agree. Shame I didn’t notice the stench until after I’d brought it out of the greys. Oh well, live and learn...

Wow. I owe everyone an apology for bringing TheyWillSaveUs out of the greys. I replied to a problematic but reasonable comment, but then they started bucketing out the crazy. Sorry.

Surely there’s some charge like creating a public nuisance?

Oh man, he even looks like a Central Casting racist.

I overheard a conversation between parents and kids who were apparently going to a petting zoo. The zoo had...a real, live cow! And get this...it eats grass!! Those kids were so wired to see that cow. I, who grew up on a dairy farm, found that hilarious. Then I remembered how excited my siblings and I were to…

It clearly says the campus title IX office made those characterisations. He’s suing the women who made the complaints. They aren’t responsible for things the title IX office says.

Good on him. A shonky business man cheated him out of a LOT of money (especially in 1989 dollars). I can’t imagine how infuriating it must be to watch that swindler trying to become the leader of your country when you know he should be in jail.

If the guy we originally started discussing had been a little fussier about consent, he wouldn’t now stand accused of rape. Are you saying this is a bad idea?

I agree, your trolling is pretty weak.

Nah, I find people who have taken up 4 parking spots and fit in the space they’ve left. When I’m parallel parking I need the length of my car, plus around 30cm.

Indeed there are many forms of communication. And certainly people in healthy long-term relationships have those forms of communication worked out, and no longer need to negotiate consent.

Agreed! It’s almost as if...as if...women are complete people rather than a monolithic block, and different women want and need different things in a car. I need one that’s sturdy enough to drive on bush tracks and big enough to hold all my camping equipment, and I’m good enough at parking that I neither want or…

Your logical fallacy is Strawman, with a dash of Red Herring! I do not talk about men and women in regard to rape; I talk about rapists and victims. Check my posts. I sift the mullock of MRA talk for any fragments of gold, and I found one; their cry that “Men get raped too!”. This is true. Rape victims and rapists…

It’s become a fairly standard meme to express “WTF??”

I spent ten years working as a primary school teacher, then left to go back to university. I have had 4 years of being virtually cold-free, while all the school leavers around me have two or three colds a year. I caught them all and developed immunity while I was teaching. Children are plague rats.

There’s been a rotavirus vaccine available for ten years.

There were people against the damn smallpox vaccine when it first came out. There will always be the batshit anti-vaxxers, but a real epidemic shifts the trendies. There was an epidemic of measles in Wales a while ago where there were lines going around the block and clinics were running out of supplies, as parents…

They’re not fact-checking?? Dear god. Trump will run amok. I hope that, when he tries to talk over Clinton, they simply cut his microphone off.

Means they’ve cut and pasted the content from somewhere else, and the format has screwed up in the pasting. And that they don’t know how, or can’t be bothered, to fix the formatting. Has the same effect on me. Has the same effect on me as really bad spelling. Facebook has spellcheck. If you can’t be bothered with…