IMHO, the few times I've seen it, white people go sort of sallow looking and pasty, not white like a sheet of paper, so those getting too hung up on it are people wilfully missing the point

Also re: frizzy hair. At one point in the first film I think, Emma's hair is CRIMPED. That does not equal frizzy!

I'd never even thought of this, but damn, great point

Woooooah that's spooky

Sorry to hear that. My SO got diagnosed with cancer. This year can b*gger off

Hi. Brit here.

Is the first rule '

I know. Don't worry, he's got a very healthy attitude now, your boys will be fine!

Ex-colleague drank earl grey tea - 1 teabag, filled with water up to half the really giant mug, other half milk (so was the most anaemic looking drink you’ve ever seen) and two splenda. That is wrong, wrong, wrong

My youngest brother started talking about fat and wanting to go on a diet at eight. CRAZY. He's now ended up at 6 3" and probably 100lbs soaking wet

See, I thought coffee n00bs (myself included) poured a whole heap of milk and sugar on top of coffee because a) they are not as sophisticated etc. and b) are usually drinking crap coffee because they don’t know any better.

OH GOD I FEEL YOUR PAIN. This woman started like 2 weeks after me and constantly asks me stuff that a) she should know or b) there’s no reason I could possibly know (can I get a courier to the internal post office? What is the cost code for that?). I am leaving on Friday, it’s amazing she hasn’t been strangled yet.

Also, I don’t think anything about people divorcing, re-marrying etc., like live and let live, but certainly you are NOT the person to preach about the sanctity of marriage. How are you being closer to god by having 4 different husbands, and these horrendous gay folk are trying to get married once?!

That show, oh God. Felt vicarious, sickening and compelling all at the same time. I felt dirty even watching it.

To Allison’s original post: I was once in charge of the statue of the Virgin Mary we were bringing home from the Holy Land to our church in England (I know, I know, I sound like I come from a super crazy fundy family. It’s apparently the place to get statues. Who knew).

Thank you for how beautifully you’ve written this. My boyfriend has just been diagnosed with Stage IV bowel cancer. It’s a long road ahead, I know. And the amount of people (my mum and his mum in particular) who’ve told me I can leave him, and he’s not my responsibility, like that’s helpful (I know they mean to be).…

I always whinged to my mum when I got to about 16, because I was allowed to give up ballet when I was about 12 (after doing it since I was 3 or 4) and was like ‘oh God mum why didn’t you just MAKE me go, I’d be able to go en pointe by now!!!!’ and she just looked at me and said ‘you think you can convince young girls…

Jeremy Kyle is def different, because it’s basically too amazing to be believed and doesn’t take itself seriously.

Best sentence: Newland’s lawyer characterized the alleged victim’s claims that Kye’s high-pitched voice was due to his half-Filipino and half-Asian heritage as a “lazy stereotype” and a “ridiculous excuse.”

Hi fellow Brit! V succint description of LW, also fantastic user name. /fangirling