Famke Janssen has clearly forgotten that sometimes her telekinetic powers are so strong that she can no longer control them.

Benedict didn't manage it, but I think this guy may be a candidate to persuade Italian restaurant owners to finally update that framed portrait of John Paul II. And I'm cool with that.

Legitimately hilarious, great choice. A teenage girl protagonist who is self-aware and observant and witty as well as over-dramatic and insecure, not just some bland boy-crazy, po-faced archetype.

It was I Capture The Castle! Good shout! Don't know why the picture has disappeared though.

Another one that REALLY sucked me in:

The Silver Sword, Ian Serraillier, 1956

Few shows (perhaps no shows?) have managed to make me care so much about so many characters. Literally the only character I dislike is Alex, just because I can't stand her perennial smugness and 'too cool to be sincere' demeanour, but I still respect the effort the writing has made to deepen her. As for the others...…

Wow, that law is in serious need of updating... Good to hear there are people with the moral courage to speak out against their 'sisters'.

It is definitely less controversial here (although things get more complicated when you get down to Asians, particularly Muslims, because of white resentment of that culture and because Asian parents often want their kids to 'marry in'). Mainly because there are a way fewer black people and (outside the inner cities)…

Superb use of 'getting one's clock cleaned'. Frank Furillo used to say it a lot of Hill Street Blues but you don't hear it enough elsewhere.

Wow! She's hilarious. Her delivery and timing are so perfect, she could walk right into a TV show.

Ugh, this graffiti totally gets me. Schwimmer is a great comic actor and Ross had some hilarious moments. But I will never get over Ross' manipulative, controlling and downright creepy behaviour when Rachel worked with Mark. Rewatching it recently I was totally blown away by how weird and unfunny it was to me now.…

A world in which a character can have more than one aspect? Shylock wasn't just a Jew. How many other famous cultural examples of moneylenders can you think of that would make a better shorthand?

My local newspaper! On Jezebel! Finally, I can die happy. I would like to be buried at sea, thank you.

You'll have to excuse me, I haven't seen Pacific Rim, but I assume gypsy was being used as a term of abuse.

Shylock was a famous literary moneylender. Using the word as slang for moneylender isn't making any kind of comment on how he was portrayed by Shakespeare. If it was being used as slang for 'Jew' it would be horribly offensive, but here it is only in reference to his occupation - not his religion or his personality.

Shylock isn't slang for Jew, though, it's slang for moneylender. Which Shylock was a famous example of. His ethnicity and what one thinks of his portrayal by Shakespeare are not really relevant in this instance.

This is so cute, and yet I find myself worrying that Aubrey Plaza has replaced Tiny Fey as Poehler's BFF. Why am I worrying about the hypothetical intricacies of the friendships of people I've never met?!

Agreed. He could have been kinder, but I agree it's an asshole move to put your kids in such an upsetting scenario to make a point. He wasn't realistically going to see a cute kid and reassess his whole position on immigration. Neither was he going to say 'well, for you we'd make an exception, little lady'. I…

Thanks (to all of you) for the advice, that sounds like the best way to go about it. Seeing as this is the first time in 4 years that we have lived in the same town for more than a couple of months, I think I will stay quiet for now and just keep an eye on things, seeing as I'll probably be seeing more of both of them…