I've kind of noticed this too. She seems to uncomfortable and will probably cry tears of gratitude when the next one is done and it's finally all over.

I think you just said better what I was trying to say. It just kind of seems like the grown up movie star version of that thing you did in school where you were nice to someone's face so you could copy off their homework then laughed behind their back about what a square they were. I just went and googled, because I…

A Christian friend once explained it to me as "There's the normal Christians and then there's the Christians who Jesus would slap, if he were that sort of person."

Did they intend the first Twilight movie to be a little indie film? I have to say I didn't know that. That was... optimistic of them. Or did it get optioned to become a film immediately upon publication, before the explosion happened?

I didn't like the 'Twilight' movies either and I know it's cool to diss on shit stuff you've done in the past, but for some reason it gets my goat when stars do this. I think it's because I forget how hard it must be to get work in the Hollywood system and I think "You agreed to do the movies and you got famous and…

Edited out original comment. Forgot that voting isn't compulsory in America.

They are so fucking big and they can come from nowhere. They're like ninjas with pouches and giant giant feet.

Oh for god's sake, I want to get pissy and defensive every time people talk smack abuot Australia, as if we're the only country in the world whose wildlife is either just weird-looking or could kill you horribly, as if you guys don't have rattlesnakes and grizzly bears or whatever.

The sad thing is, it's not even campaigning against kindness. Nobody's asking for hugs, kittens, muffin baskets, hand-holding, meaningful eye contact and warbling of Christina Aguilera's song about being beautiful no matter what they say. It's campaigning against just not choosing to be a complete and utter shitbat.

I'd heard about Girl Scout Cookies forever and I always thought "They're just biscuits, they can't be that amazing". Then a visiting American gave me a box of Caramel DeLites (I know they're also called something else, I can't remember what) one day and they are still, like, THE best biscuit I've ever eaten. Such…

Did you say "Not too lazy to do THIS!" and shove him into traffic?

I always end up thinking of the epiloque in Margaret Atwood's 'A Handmaid's Tale' where we flash forward hundreds of years, and it's a parody of a lecture being done about the quaint and vaguely horrifying traditions of ancient civilisations.

Agreed. Yes, male politicians do get their physical appearances commented on in the media, but you really can't argue convincingly that gender is totally irrelevant to the way politicians get snarked on for how they look.

Yeah, this was a great article. And that's an amazing thing that woman said to you, and a really good way to think about it.

It must be so strange to deal with in adoption situations where there's a known history of the birth parents. It's always been a moot point with me about meeting mine as I was literally put in a basket and left on the orphanage doorstep and they had to make an educated guess at a birthdate etc, etc. It's harder for my…

Just out of curiosity, was it a same-country adoption or inter-country? As in, is she of the same ethnic/cultural background as her adopted mother?

Ha, my mother sounds like yours then. Sometimes she makes me want to throw things, but generally she's great. This is just one of her blind spots. And she also had the "white person guilt" thing of occasionally going "Oh no, have I done a terrible thing and damaged this small person forever by taking them out of their…

This is very late in the day - damn you, hours-behind time zone! - but seems a place to ask. Are there any other adopted women on here, who sometimes get told that their lack of interest in having biological children themselves must stem from them having been unwanted babies? As in, you somehow absorbed conflict and…

It was offered free a while back where I am too, for girls/women between certain ages. I completely understand not wanting to do it for health/side effect concerns etc etc, but one of the women at work said that her teenage daughters weren't going to get it because "They don't need that. They're good girls."

She's beautiful and I love her and wish she was Elizabeth Taylor not Lindsay Lohan and if I were white I'd want to look like her, but does Natalie Dormer ever smile with both sides of her mouth?