The best description of the Celtic languages I ever heard included the phrase “spiteful strings of consonants”. Dude had a point.

My ex looks a little like Kevin Sorbo. He turned out to be a dick too.

Use it - I agree with automaticdoor that it isn’t fancy (translating that as ‘twiddly, ostentatious and weird’); it won’t look out of place in everyday use.

Purely as an issue of logic that is a dangerous path to step down. A culture cannot claim certain words for its exclusive use (especially ones that it did not invent), even changing their uses to serve its own purposes, when that culture freely uses words from the mainstream lexicon. If Italians suddenly become…

We hate him for that yes, but more for beating his girlfriend and threatening to kill her. You shouldn’t get to come back from that an have any respect in the public arena. Fuck Mel Gibson and fuck all his apologists.

Cheezly? I’m in the UK, and as far as I am concerned Cheezly is one of the main criminals. It’s widely available, but just not nice. The one nearest to acceptability (IMO) is Violife (reasonably new brand) but that transgresses by turning into something indescribable (CRPG lava?) once heated. Sheese is also cack of…

Yes it does. It’s absolutely repulsive, and the major reason why I cannot commit to veganism. The day a decent dairy-free cheese substitute appears, that does not smell of dirty socks and/or turn into a puddle of vile grease when used for ‘not-cheese-on-toast’ then I will cheerfully embrace a fully vegan diet (again).…

I hated the protagonist from The Martian. I love sci-fi (such that I laboured through Seveneves, for example), but the guy was an asshole. I was wishing death on him pretty much all the way. Don’t think I’ll be bothering with this new one.

I beg your pardon? You take that back.

Fear the silence. The dark and heavy silence that signifies your doom... :)

Wifeys find out everything in the end...our rage is great and fills the sky...

Write down everything you spend. Make a spreadsheet, and account for every penny. Then at the end of the month (or week) you know where all that money has gone, and you are in a much better position to make adjustments to your behaviour. I started doing this this pen-and-paper when I was on welfare thirty years ago,…

Umm...I did manage to kill one of these. Bought it from IKEA last year, watered it fortnightly alongside my other plants (which are all fine, BTW) and it copped it within three months. I suppose it’s possible that it was already on the way out when I bought it, but I’m usually quite good at reviving poorly plants. So…

Indeed. Really horrible and distracting.

Oi...no...you can’t have Alison Hammond...she’s ours

Yup. Melt it carefully in the microwave, pour in into whatever little jar or tin you like.

I think that a lot of the hating on IQ testing, and those with high IQs, comes from a place of envy. A high IQ is not the be-all-and-end-all when it comes to financial success or job performance. You need ambition, and to be prepared to work hard. These factors are more important than just being good at tests that…

We all used to manage without Twitter (and Facebook). The only way we can show our disapproval of these companies is by hitting them in the advertising money. Make them pariah services that no advertiser will touch. Delete your accounts! Dump their asses! Find alternatives and use them...or just go back to the way we…

Anyone who wears fur is obviously a disgusting, thoughtless, cruelty-condoning Trump voter. Ugh.

I agree. I’m very inclined to believe she is following the money here.