Islam is undoubtedly oppressive to women, but the contemporary cultural meaning of the Hijab is much more complicated than that.

I’m probably nitpicking, but I think you mean ‘modern’ rather than ‘modernist’ here.

A work friend told me about a WhatsApp group for the area of London where we both live. Sounds a bit like this. Bunch of fucking curtain twitchers saying-but-not-saying that the kid on a moped they just saw outside their building was black.

I live in London, and it may well be that I don’t notice how much you randomly hear it in public because I am so used it. It’s still the most offensive swearword, but we have a very relaxed attitude towards swearing in general, as you discovered!

It’s not really true that the word is ‘no big deal’ here in England. I moderate comments on a national newspaper and it’s the only word we don’t allow people to post, even starred out. We’re fine with users calling a politician a “fucking tosser”, but “c***” gets your comment blocked, because it’s still beyond the…

I dunno, if I can suspend my disbelief enough to buy a world that doesn’t have regular seasons, which should make agriculture impossible, I’m not going to be too concerned with any of that.

I had a look at his comment history - as well as being a racist troll, this guy is ride or die for Louis CK. I don’t want to say he’s a potential sex offender but I don’t think we can rule it out.

You’re talking about children.

People are weird about sex (consensual and natural) but totally numb to violence (non-consensual and unnatural).

Dear Laura, I am sorry that you felt offended.

She didn’t merely “feel offended”. She was being aggressively sexually harassed - a crime with which he was later charged. I should think it’s very difficult to bring a civil case against someone for stopping you from continuing a criminal act in which they are victim.

Start with my reply to Tyrone, who is talking crap.

It’s much more complicated than that. You’ve left out so much as to make your post completely misleading.

It’s pretty fucked up that your first thought is to consider what you would do if you were this particular sex offender.

Objection, hearsay! The prosecution is supplying his own testimony and badgering the witness! You can’t handle the truth! May I approach the bench?

Comments don’t matter as much as you think they do. The tiniest percentage of people who click on any post anywhere do so in order to comment. There are just 135 comments here, and I bet they won’t even be read by the vast majority of people who have clicked though. The idea that arguments over review grades in the…

I also thought the stuff about the mobile devices was very unlikely. The idea seemed to be that any device recently connected to the office wifi had had malware pushed to it, which was now being activated. Is that even possible? Even if it is, it would suggest that the hackers had complete control over the whole…

Up high = new low

Perfect. Get them to engrave that on the trophy.

The “full statement” you made was that you successfully predicted several elections before the primaries. You didn’t mention predicting the outcome of those elections. But of course, I knew what you meant and I was joking. Good job catching that.