I have been active in this space since 2007. I have seen many prominent commenters come and go. The problem is not with the current system. The problem is with people thinking they ought to be top dog or have prominence in some way. People come and go. Sometimes they are men, sometimes women. The people who last are…

The core problem is that you don’t care how you come across to other people. You want to say what you want to say and you don’t care how it is received (or rather, how it is received will not stop you saying what you want to say).

Read the Guardian online.

“I’m not doing them for vanity’s sake, I’m doing it because even if it’s just a few people who enjoy it they still want me to provide them.” And

Watch them at Finlandia. P/C’s lack of quality is apparent.

That is exactly it. It isn’t about us, as white women. We need to just listen.

Oh, he’s hot. But he’s a slower skater with worse edges than either Virtue or Moir.

I’ve never had a personal problem with you. I suspect we are around the same age, and we definitely live in the same country. I have noticed, however, that you do make yourself at online home in places where others wouldn’t necessarily do.

Thank you! I don’t know about you, but I am more grateful for life every year. When I was young I didn’t really appreciate it. And I do enjoy winter sports, especially on the BBC/CBC. Life in the US has much to commend it, but NBC’s Olympic coverage is not one of those things.

It is (I am an old). I am from Newfoundland but left when I was 18, many years ago. I lived in the US for a long time and have been in the UK for over 15 years. So I’m Canadian, but I think I’m able to be fairly neutral about these things.

Yeah, my issue is that with the French team, their technical sloppiness is completely ignored and every tiny (and I do mean tiny) error that Virtue and Moir make is magnified ten-fold. The British Eurosport commentators, and now the BBC commentators (Robin Cousins, Christopher Dean) are diplomatic, but clearly puzzled…

I don’t actually have a problem with Adam Rippon’s placement, but there’s still a lot of corruption and bias in the judging, especially in ice dance. Virtue and Moir are technically much, much better than Papadakis and Cizeron. (They were also technically much better than Davis and White). The only explanation for…

Just wait until they (completely unjustifiably) lose to the French. It’s already pissing me off and it hasn’t even happened yet.

The French team won the most recent Grand Prix Final (beating the Canadians) and set a world record score at the 2018 European championships. But their lifts are less difficult than the Canadians, their twizzles less in unison and they are much slower. I simply fail to understand how they are better, in any way.

Figure skating judging is incredibly corrupt. This came to the attention of the media in Salt Lake in 2002, when the Canadian pair of Sale and Pelletier were screwed over in favour of a Russian pair, by a French judge. They changed the scoring system afterwards so that no one will ever really know what goes on.

That is the cutest child I have ever seen.

That “Harry” guy looks a lot like the guy from “I wanna marry ‘Harry.’” That’s all I’ve got. (Except to say: Meghan, RUN.)

Watch Armando Ianucci’s The Death of Stalin. It’s amazing.

I just can’t get over the fact that the French ice dance pair are supposed to be better than the Canadians. Their lifts are simpler, their twizzles are less in unison and they are much, much slower. What exactly is better about them?

I think that’s more the initials thing generally, as opposed to which name you use. US people are more likely to use and/or acknowledge two given names, whereas UK people are more likely to only use one, whether it’s the first or the second name.