Lord Colin's own father didn't want the match. Her parents weren't happy with his diseased son either. It would have been simple to break it off if she wasn't down with the program and everybody's honor would have been spared, allowing them to go down other paths.

Yeah, and I heard there are some Nazis in their 90s still at large in South America. Poor old guys. Probably their knees hurt and stuff.

Too many people have to [put down their pets] watch their family members die because they cannot afford to pay the medical whatever. If you cannot afford to have a [pet] human relative, you shouldn't have one. . . . If you can't afford the medical bills, which could be up to thousands if not tens of thousands, you…

Uh well I guess it's good the criminal justice system doesn't agree with you? Plus I'd like to see you run that by a group of rape victims. I think they would most likely tell you that the reason their rapes occurred is because another individual made the decision to rape. Not bad luck on the part of the rapist.

See that's why I had zero problem with people on Twitter making a joke out of it. They were making fun of the (alleged) wrongdoer and not the victims. I can totally live with that.

Okay I'll bite.

That's true in life in general. People make fun of other people who do dumb things. Obviously the guy in story #1 wasn't a bad guy, but come on; I'm not going to pretend that's not still mind-bogglingly dumb.

That's FUCKED up. I can't believe somebody threatened a summons.

Heard this on the radio earlier, and as a parent of 2 little girls who I would quite like to remain unmolested/kidnapped, I can say that I think this rule is completely fucking ridiculous. I can understand not allowing unaccompanied adults into purely child oriented spaces like a soft play or a kids cinema showing,…

There's a kids' park in my neighborhood where I go to sit on a bench and read a book from time to time, and my respectable middle-aged lady mien means that nobody pays the least bit of attention to me at all. To my utter delight, a friend of mine (a man) takes his little girl there so he can set her loose to play in…

NYC has a policy that adults aren't allowed in playgrounds unless they are accompanying someone under the age of 14 for the same reason. I get it, but it does seem a bit like overkill. Like cutting through a playground because you are late to work could potentially get you a ticket.

I'm with Richards on this one. It seems unlikely that kids with their families would get abducted at a park, and even more likely that requiring an appointment beforehand would weed out any pedophiles who do get it. (Unless staff are wih them the whole time. Are they?) Stigmatizing people who like to do "kid stuff"…

Yeah, gotta say, this "anti-pedophilia ban" is insane. Keeping single people from visiting a park because any lone adult is suspected of being a child molester, with the justification that "there is a lot in the headlines about pedophiles and things that are going on with children"? Seriously?

Freud invented psychology. We pretty much use zero of his work today because we've changed, adapted, and evolved it so far that it's practically unrecognisable.

I'm halfway through Sam Spiegel's biography right now. Hedy Lamarr was a frequent guest at Spiegel's house back in the 30s, and he once remarked that she was easy on the eyes but not too bright (I don't remember the exact quote). The author then pointed out that Lamarr went on to invent, among other things, the…

Hedy Lemarr opened a door, and science walked through it.

yeah you're definitely nitpicking that's like saying daimler or benz didn't invent the first automobiles because cars have airbags, radios, computers, seat belts, why their cars wouldn't even be street legal today. Her notion sired the subsequent generations of radio transmissions. please put time periods and…