Hearted for giving my first out-loud laugh of the day :D

The 23 year-old actress?! So, she was like 17/18 when she started out as Cerie? Wow. Obviously her character being really young and oblivious is sort of the whole point, but I never realised she was actually so young.

"New Hampshire currently has some of the most liberal anti-domestic violence laws in the US"

Imagine how those of us on the other side of the Atlantic felt, having to wake up in the morning to the news.

"As a pledge, I ceased to be a human being; instead, I became 'whale shit.' In the process, I, my fellow pledges and all pledges since, have been implicitly encouraged to treat Dartmouth women with about the same respect with which we treated each other in our social spaces: none."

I seriously suspect that Liam Neeson and Gabriel Byrne are in an 'Irish and very, very serious' contest they aren't telling us about.

This is the most beautiful thing I have ever seen. What moxie! Hearted for brightening my day considerably.

The idea of post-coital snuggling is much better than the reality, IMO. It's just kind of hot and sticky and awkward. This is timesed by a million when you're at university/other dorm scenarios and only have a single bed. True story, I once heard of a guy at my college who made his girlfriend sleep on the floor in a…

Worried this is going to lead to a lot of surreptitious pinching and elbowing. Adequate playgroud supervision is reccomended.

My feelings are unclear. As in, I'm not sure how I feel about it.

The thing that really ticks me off about this (besides the obvious nastiness) is the pointless pettiness.

Welcome to America indeed...

Hmm, unfortunately the UK. Transatlantic one night stands probably won't do my constitution any good ;D. Stupid sexy melting pot.

Homophobic kids might well be the result of homophobic parents, but using the word 'gay' as an insult almost certainly isn't. I haven't heard anyone over 30 ever use the word in that specific context of simply 'lame' but not associated with any stereotypical homosexual traits. Like, when my dad says a shirt looks gay…

""possibly of Armenian descent, in his 40s with salt-and-pepper hair." "

No, I totally agree that TV and film writers often seem to have trouble writing well-rounded characters who happen to be non-white. And when a character's entire contribution to the story is to support the white protagonist or make sassy remarks, that is eye-rollingly poor work on the writer's part. I just meant that…

Black nerd I guess started with Urkel and then Carlton, and you see it now on some shows in a more toned-down form, like Twofer in 30 Rock, Moss in The IT Crowd (to some extent, as this isn't really a trope in the UK that I can tell) or that time Turk from Scrubs (another good black character) calls his cousin (?) a…

Eh, I don't watch this show but I feel like TV writers can't do right for doing wrong here. If the black person is well-spoken, polite and blandly middle-class they are personality-less Oreos (or Uncle Toms, if we want to go back). If they are extroverted or argumentative, they are Angry Black Man/Woman. If they are…

Haha, yes, indeed. I only hope I remember to take mine off before launching into a loud and pretentious speech about the fragile illusion of the American Dream and its relation to culture.

A yet more pertinent question would be 'Can The Great Gatsby Make 3D Glasses Seem Sophisticated?'