Even more appropriately, in Ireland and Scotland, to “gurn” is to whine peevishly about something. In England, it is to make a face like this:

The confusion is that the explanation given for the ruling was that segregated classes leave pupils “unprepared for life in modern Britain”. The fact that the schools are faith schools is irrelevant to the ruling.

I remember when I was at school there was a push for amalgamation, with resistance from the girls’ schools because they didn’t want their exam results dragged down.

That’s like my relationship in reverse. I love horror but sex scenes make me so embarrassed.

I am actually having this problem at the moment. Inviting friends over to watch a film for Hallowe’en but most of them don’t like scary films. I compiled a list of appropriate but not scary films but forgot about The Lost Boys :(

Are... are you me?

I don’t think it’s a guy thing. I’m a woman and the only person I can watch horror films with is a female friend because all the men in our lives (including my boyfriend and her husband) are massive wimps when it comes to horror films. It’s just people liking different things.

I love A Tale of Two Sisters. It’s not horror, but The Quiet Family is by the same director and is an enjoyable dark comedy if you haven’t already seen it.

And yet all boys and all girls schools are fine. I’m really struggling to understand the logic of the ruling.

Burmese is the nationality, Burmans refers to the dominant ethnic group. You can be Burmese while being an ethnic minority. Or at least that’s how it works in the books/articles I’ve read. If Burmese people don’t like that terminology I’ll happily stop using it.

And you think the way to help is to occupy their country again?

It’s the only place where I’ve had a Buddhist actually try to convert me. Strange experience.

Heh, because white people marching into the country in no way contributed to the current situation.

I’m not an expert, just happened to be visiting during the election campaigning and know people who work with MSF. It was really interesting to witness, but the Burmese people I talked to (understandably) didn’t really want to discuss it beyond “the NLD are awesome”. So I’m likely to be wrong about some stuff.

That is painfully ironic.

I was in Myanmar just before the election, and the English language local press was critical of the NLD on this point. The Burmans really, really hate the Rohingya, so it’s not at all surprising that the NLD isn’t supporting them. They rely on Burman votes. There were other hardline “Buddhist” parties campaigning on…

Myanmar is not a theocracy.

Yay, pulmonary embolism for everyone!

Ugh. Men just do not get that “women’s troubles” (eyeroll) feel different to GI abdominal pain, and refuse to believe that we can tell the difference.

Did what?