Don't get me wrong, it was considerably before my time as well, but it is definitely very present in the general consciousness. My grandfather served on board a hospital ship during the conflict - he died before I was born, but I always thought the song went "Don't cry for me Argentina/The truth is I never loved you"…

87% of the population voted against to talks in any circumstances. I'm not trying to be aggressive when I say there is no need for talks. I mean literally, there is nothing to discuss. The Falkland Islanders self-govern under the name of the British government. Argentina cannot pose any claim to interfering in the…

"The Argentinian pointed out that we had initally invaded them in 1833 but apparently that wasn't relevant."

Please don't think me oversensitive but the assertion that 30% of Falklanders are British seems deliberately misleading (I'll overlook the unneccesarily discourteous language about my country in the name of good sport-ery).

By which I mean that this is comprable to the Nazis in the same way that 'Men Don't Make Passes At Girls Who Wear Glasses' is comprable to Pol Pot's massacre of the Cambodian intellectual class.

I can't even...

I watch a lot of them, and I cannot remember a single one about preparing for a wedding, learning to love a boorish manchild or reading a ladymag article and making a life-changing decision based on it. That's good enough for me.

Sing it, brother/sister! There is obviously what I would call 'surface sexism' in old Hollywood movies, but there was never a better era for strong female protagonists than 1930-1950. Bette Davis, Katharine Hepburn, Barbara Stanwyck - there have never been smarter, sassier, cooler role models for women in American…

Hearted. This story is mind-bogglingly weird. Like guys would pee in urinals if they'd had generations of private cubicles to pee in.

This is so sweet, and yet I was constantly distracted by the fact that the brown-eyed bald guy looks like Kevin Spacey's mouth in Hank Azaria's face.

Although I agree there is a touch of concern-trollishness (particularly the faux-anxious note in the headline), in what way is this anything LIKE the rape images? This is just a picture of Macaulay Culkin on a regular day, not a picture of someone being viciously attacked. I find that comparison a little thoughtless.…

Probably for the best (although their motives may well have been cowardly). Otherwise it will continue to drift around the internet and email circulars forever.

Oh, wow... I'm going to have to find that.

He's improved a LOT in the last couple of months since the film came out. Not wanting to learn English is in all likelihood just the sort of mildly nationalistic bluster the French revel in. Now he's got the lure of big money under his nose, he'll shut up and hunker down with his grammar books. Thank God, because he…

Now that is cute... although, the baby reminds me for some reason that he (Bates, not the baby) is several years older than my dad. Oo-er. I always thought he had a certain rugged je ne sais quoi in Lark Rise, but the slicked hair-stiff collar look in Downton always makes him look jowly (same with William the footman…

Martin Luther? Swing and a miss, kid.

If it's possible to be simultaneously crying from laughter and horny, I've found it.

I like that he isn't blindly partisan, in an age where a lot of politicians and pundits feel they have to follow one party's platform to the letter. That's the problem with the 'culture war', neither side feels they can give an inch. His positions on many issues - the environment and gun control, for instance -…

That is a really spooky resemblence there, Naomi Watts was definitely a good choice.

Because she genuinely believes her kids to be in danger and is willing to risk jail to protect them (on a side note, as his ex-wife I think she can probably estimate the danger he poses better than we can. I know divorces can be bitter, but most spouses wouldn't risk jail on an exaggeration). Presumably if she goes to…