Thank you! That article was uncharacteristically mean of Dodai. I didn't give a shit about Kate Bosworth before reading the article, but I wished her well and wanted to defend her by the end.

She's working spots AND stripes. Nice power clashing, Ms Harry.

My sister's last partner said if they had kids together he would have to pay someone to come clean up if her waters broke at home as it would be too gross for him.... Oh, you'll pay someone to deal with any gross things? You are unemployed and broke, you winner.
Yeah, I didn't see him as a good bet for a baby-daddy.

In New Zealand, the government pays for two cycles of IVF (and/or other interventions like inter-uterine insemination) if you meet certain criteria. Plenty of these cycles are for people who chose to delay having children for social reasons or people who haven't found a person to have children with.
I can see a…

I'm not sure. It made me wince.
For me it conjured up a woman who is frightened. Hahahahaha!!!???

Oh, this made me laugh. That echo thing is just the sort of thing my 4-year old would do. She will gleefully yell out progress reports from the bathroom: "oh it's a big, hard one" "quite stinky in here" etc.
You sound like a delightful couple.
Seriously - if you're going to stay with a person til you get old, one day…

Oh, you know more than a few people who have had a poo while pushing a baby out. My baby book puts it this way "it is virtually impossible to push out a baby with out pushing out a poo". I've had a 50% poo rate, so I think that quote might be a slight exaggeration, but if you admit to being a labour-pooper you will…

A Few Good Men Had Their Lives Ruined After Being Convicted of Just One Little Rape

Like this, you mean?
http://jezebel.com/5992479/if-i-a…

I'm not sure you know what the word "hyperbole" means. In any case, if you went to the police saying someone was threatening to rape or kill you, would you expect them to say "well let's just wait to see how these threats play out. Come back to us after you are murdered"?
In most jurisdictions, threatening someone with…

It's completely relevant. The police failed to do anything in response to rape and death threats.
A more important question for you to ask yourself is why you would refer to her as "the whiner" rather than, say, "the victim of rape and death threats".

I had lunch with Michael J Fox for a charity thing - this was in New Zealand when he was filming The Frighteners - about 1995. He was delightful. Even though I was not yet at my full height of 5'7", I was significantly taller than him so I slouched down in the photos out of (a misguided sense of) consideration. The…

Grr! Sorry - why does Kinja keep telling me to try again if the post has already been published?

Yes, I was non-grey back in the day too. I'm mostly resigned to it never happening. I find it annoying; I think I have something to contribute! But considering that many of my posts never get seen by anyone and yet I still regularly have 50+ people recommending a post - well I don't think I can do anything about it. I…

Yes, I was non-grey back in the day too. I'm mostly resigned to it never happening. I find it annoying; I think I have something to contribute! But considering that many of my posts never get seen by anyone and yet I still regularly have 50+ people recommending a post - well I don't think I can do anything about it. I…

Yes, I was non-grey back in the day too. I'm mostly resigned to it never happening. I find it annoying; I think I have something to contribute! But considering that many of my posts never get seen by anyone and yet I still regularly have 50+ people recommending a post - well I don't think I can do anything about it. I…

It's so weird isn't it? Gram? Gram? You know what's missing? Ha ha

I'm pretty sure France does, because there was a minor uproar here in New Zealand when a French rugby fan wanted to name her child Zinzan (after the legendary Zinzan Brooke) and was told it was a made up name, so it wasn't allowed.

I have a friend of a friend (really a real person) called Philippa Kettle. And there is a popular portrait photographer round these parts called Esther Bunning - my parents have two portraits with Esther Bunning signed in the corner.