Hah, I totally had the wrong mental definition of that word. But I'm not a journo, and I'm pretty sure I've never used it anyway. I'll use the heck out of it now though - apparently I'm a gourmand! I like that it sounds much more hoity toity than it is, and will take full advantage of people being ignorant to its…

Thanks! It's in the oven, and my fingers are crossed. Smells good, at least!

I just spent my whole Sunday afternoon cooking lasagna. Everything from scratch: pasta, ragu, mushrooms, spinach, beschamel. I just tried some of the ragu that's been simmering away for hours and....the meat is a little dry and not tender like it should be. This is what I get for buying generic cuts of veal - like my…

I just went to recommend The Book Thief and Sexing the Cherry, two of my favourite books, and then realised that they're both set in the past. So, depending on your definition, maybe not really contemporary fiction. And I'm really struggling to think of anything that's set in the now.

Yep, I'm duding it up over here too. But I assume that's because I'm in a relationship that makes me really happy, so when I'm in a career that I'm loving, maybe I'll lose the education/work regrets and.....be genderless? Cool.

Hah! That's so weird! Why do cats love being our little loo companions so much?

Hehe, glad you found it funny. After I wrote it I got worried that I was being as gross as she is by sharing. For the record, I wasn't wearing the bra when she was licking it, she'd actually pulled it out of my laundry hamper to love on it. And bonus cat creepiness: my old cat used to obsessively jump onto a ledge…

Don't forget the sleazy purring. Why are cats such perverts? Seriously, when mine isn't purrstaring at me when I'm getting sexy, she's trying to rub her face on my knickers when I'm going to the loo. I even caught her licking my bra once. She's so gross.

Maybe just make sure to lock her out of the bedroom during sexytimes. Tends to be a good rule anyway, cats are great at ruining the mood.

Main Hoon Na was the first Bollywood movie I ever saw! And consequently the first bollywood movie I ever bought on dvd and watched repeatedly.

Am I the only one who is charmed by imperfect teeth, and is a little skeeved by 'too perfect' teeth?

You know what? You don't have a fucking clue how that girl - IF she exists - would feel about this. But other people have already expressed how they feel about it. Maybe you could listen to them, rather than making up some nonsense about how people you know nothing about should feel about things.

The study seemed to suggest that it was all about perceived outgroup vs ingroup status of the individual you're observing. So I guess it depends on what you perceive your ethnicity to be, perhaps you could consider several races/ethnicities as being your ingroups? I'm not sure though.

According to the study:

I know, she really is! Although I have a feeling that if I saw those see-through pants from more angles I might reconsider how stylish I think she looks...

A tarantula?

@Commentista: I think we've just been trolled.

I don't see why valid criticisms of homophobic and ableist comments, regardless of who made them, should be dismissed as pearl clutching. You think Tracy Morgan has no impact on society? He's a successful comedian. People pay money to listen to him talk. Yeah, he comes off as crazy, but he also has a pretty enviable…

I can imagine the bit about the girl he dated being amusing if it came from a place of love and affection, if it was done with respect to the girl, and not using her or her disabilities in themselves as the punch-line. I wasn't there, I don't know how it was done, so I can't comment.

VisforVanity: Spot fucking on.