My mum had me on restricted for, like, a year. I only found out when we were hanging out and she was being pass agg about me never liking any of her photos. I just thought she never used facebook! I gave her so much shit for restricting me that she got frustrated and started crying about facebook being confusing so I…

I find translations (when you know the original language) to be an interesting way to see how other people interpreted the poem though. So even if I think they have murdered all that was beautiful in the original in the process, sometimes it does point out things I maybe hadn't considered. I'm a translation nerd…

I saw the film first and then sought out the books, so it's the other way around for me! The illustrated guy wins at eyebrows, though.

THIS is the best Nome King. He looks so good in the ruby slippers.

And Ellen Makes Three?

I thought he was in the audiovisual section of a library with the headphones. Like, rather than paying money to invest in learning the language of his loved one, he went to the library where it is free. Was this before podcasts?

There's another really good version of this idea - the tv show Black Mirror. Season 2 ep 1 is about a woman who loses her male partner and then subscribes to a service that uses all his social media/telephone history to create a virtual version of him she can interact with. Shit gets pretty dark. I highly recommend it.

I interpreted the headline as a toilet was reviewing music gigs on Craigslist, and couldn't work out how toilets at music gigs would even be able to hear the bands properly.

Yeah I have had the misfortune of going to one of their pubs and trying to find a drinkable beer one afternoon. Their beer is worse than the crowd it pulls, which were more posh hipster than emo poser.

Oh it's easy enough to do, the internet is where all context comes to die. I only know because I hunted it down!

*puts on nerd hat* Actually it's a parody film called Italian Spiderman made by some Australians. It's okay, that gif is probably one of the best bits actually, but the creators also made a much better tv show, Danger 5.

Because we're still not 100% sure how brains store multiple languages every case is interesting! Studies are not yet able to predict the effect on a multilingual person's language abilities in these situations (eg stroke, epilepsy, injury or some other interference in the language parts of the brain) - sometimes a…

That happens due to a stoke or epileptic storm in the language part of the brain. They're not actually waking up with a new accent, their language productions skills have been damaged and so they experience a change in the way they speak.

This is me too!

Also some places won't let you because of fears that someone will get sick from old leftovers and blame the restaurant. True story, I've had a couple of places refuse me my leftovers for that exact reason.

Melissa Doris spiked t-bar shoes are close, but still not cheap-cheap.

I googled it. I feel like I need to scour my back now.

There's quite a few delightful blogs dedicated to vintage erotica out there.

I wasn't trying to contradict what you said, I was just musing on your comment that "if the only reason they're fairly liberal is that they haven't gotten around to erasing all of the Dutch remnants from their criminal code" by saying that I don't think that it is the only reason why they may be fairly liberal. So no…

But the Dutch weren't great in Indonesia, I don't think it's due to them. The liberalness is probably more from when they rose up and kicked the Dutch out, and had to find a way to reconcile 2000+ islands into one nation. All the different languages, religions, cultures, customs etc were celebrated at the time…