Turner should win an Emmy for the breadth of his sex gaze alone, which encompasses, but is not limited to, Demelza, Elizabeth, copper miners, copper, Aunt Agatha, his house, and the sea.

I read it more as this young girl built abusive and degrading behaviour into her persona as a man and that this could, in part, be informed by her considering that the ‘normal’ behaviours of a man.

straight from the ass’ mouth

I have been disturbed by the recent and also ancient allegations that my last name means “be quiet” in Hebrew.

I don’t read The Skimm myself, but I feel bad about the hostility that those who read and enjoy it receive. It’s like basically any media, literature and genre fiction etc aimed at women: someone is always going to decry it as the intellectual equivalent of empty calories if it is aesthetically appealing, communicates…

What about Christopher Lee? I have a weird boner for Francisco Scaramanga, but Lee himself was amazing.

I am disappointed at the prospect that the neighbour wasn’t acting as the selfless champion of the downtrodden, but I am here for this theory.

I would much rather have the memory of looking him straight in the eye or watching him in the glorious widescreen of real life than some shitty smartphone video. Pictures you took are not necessarily any better than pictures someone else took, even if you were breathing recycled Obama air at the time.

I believe it could be public transport is the most common forum for encountering strangers in most people’s day. Also, maybe the more you take a particular form (like the train or bus) or a particular route, the more familiarity you develop and the more relaxed some people become.

Just imagine the hijinx a Presidential Puddle could get up to!

An attorney in the jury box will get viscous in judging those in the case.

Unfortunately, this gambit has not worked so well for me: a (tall) woman. There’s always some old bastard jockeying for my arm rest or leg space and refusing to be cowed by glares and ‘accidental’ kicks to the shin, so I have to also use my large handbag and strong elbows to assert myself.

You do the atheist equivalent of God’s work for me, my friend.

The hypocrisy of those who worship the Constitution is a source of actual LOLs for me.

Who took acid while they wrote the last page of that script?

On a slightly unrelated note, I watched part of a PBS doco series on the Prohibition on Netflix yesterday and one of the participating political commentators observed that modern Americans take the Constitution as a more rigid expression of ideal American values and behaviours than was intended by the Founding…

Excellent breakdown of the sitch, thank you! It was hard to grasp all of the nuances from The Guar, BBC and Telegraph from across the globe, so I appreciate your ELI5 summary.

But I confused her with Kylie Minogue for a second

The only good things about Olivia Newton John are:

Was Danny Zuko a triumph? The way I ‘read’ Grease nowadays is that he tragically ended up with a girl insecure enough to ditch her comfortable circle skirts in favour of camel toe-boosting pants she had to be (literally?) sewn into when Kenickie (whom Danny had actual shared interests and a lot more chemistry with)…