Telling a kid that they can pretend to be whatever they want to be regardless of corporate marketing ploys, that's some pretty heinous brainwashing right there. How dare anyone ever question what the companies tell them!

I agree with you wholeheartedly. I'm an athiest, and I am entirely sick of the whole "Oh ho, look at the silly little Christians and their silly little ways! How ignorant are they?"

I wonder as well, if it's social pressure. It's considered normal and even expected for older people to struggle with new technology, but if a young person can't interact with all their friends in the current and accepted format, they might experience problems with their peers.

I find it weird that I live in a country where I can buy alcohol, but good gracious not between the hours of 10pm and 10am. That would just be silly. :P

Ouuuch, that's rough! D: I'm pretty sure when people ask for that stuff, my face actually becomes a picture of despair.

I agree. Losing weight to me came from a positive place inside myself that decided to change my life for the better, not a place of shame and alienation.

Ohh man, I can feel the same rage returning from when this came up on the BBC page. So much angry.

Being occassionally rota-d to work on a Ben and Jerry's stand in a cinema, that picture gives me horrendous flashbacks. Ahhh, the Chocolate Macadamia nightmares!

I agree with you. Here's an idea for those who absolutely refuse to bake but want to be charitable... don't take anything in, but donate the money you were going to spend on store-cookies to the bake sale.

"Gamer" as a default doesn't just mean "person who plays games" to the majority. It's got all sorts of assumptions tied in. For example, if I play a game where I type, I am pretty much 100% of the time assumed to be male. If I try and correct this, people often fixate on my gender. "Ohh wow, you play games and you're…

Man, I absolutely heart this, and all the other awesome people who replied who wont take this shit.

They're platformed heels (see how high they go at the front), so they're not quite as horrendous to wear as they look.

Wow, eesh.

Scotch pies are pretty fine as well :D. Om nom nom.

I find it SO funny that whenever this shit goes down, the only people I really see getting their panties in a twist are the people telling women to chill out.

I didn't even know that! I feel quite privileged now... in my relatively minimum wagey job in the UK, I get about 30 days holiday. It sounds like a ton, but four weeks soon vanishes. Also, due to financial constraints, it's the difference between me getting to go back to my home county and see my family and relatives…

Wow, you managed to say pretty much everything I was thinking. Agree entirely!

OK, that's painfully stupid. It's not sexist to say men have penises and women have vaginas. It's sexist to say a woman can't shoot a dude, or drag him out of a car and speed off down the road. It implies women are precious little flowers who can't possibly be conceived of being violent criminals, and thus don't get…

The gap between the strongest and weakest males is waaaaaaaaaaaaaay bigger than the gap between the average male and female. In a video game where a character requires strength, we'd probably pick a character that suits the role. Considering the main example of strength in this thread has been pulling someone out of a…

People weren't lumped into groups by the people who want to eradicate racism and homophobia. They were put there by the people who perpetuate discrimination, who think it's OK to refuse a customer based on skin colour, or to sexually touch a stranger in public because of their gender. How can an issue be defined…