Fair enough. I have to admit though I wasn't t read this book as a kid and Richard Scary didn't figure at all in my childhood. I do remember being read the Babar books though and wondering exactly why elephants and rhinoceros seemed to be enemies in this universe, and Wind in the Willows (which you will pry from my…

Couldn't the pigs as builders thing - talking specifically about the Scarry book - just be because thanks to 'The Three Little Pigs' - which most kids reading this book would presumably also know - the association between pigs and construction work was already there?

"She has kind of an attention whore vibe" = judging.

"I'm not try to judge her"

I remember one of the reviews at the time suggested the player imagine that Phelps is bipolar as that helps to explain his interview technique.

Yep. See also "you should just be grateful for the attention" / "who'd want to rape an ugly woman so she must be lying" theories.

Apart from the aforementoined Emma Thompson and Victoria Beckham, the only "famous" person I can think of who has it is Julie Powell, the blogger who cooked her way through Julia Child's recipe book in the early 2000s and Amy Adams played her in the movie.

Maybe because the attractiveness thing is also a factor in that some people smoke because it's an appetite suppressant and helps keep their weight down, and it still has that "too cool/edgy to give a fuck" veneer of glamour to it for some people? So whilst on the one hand you could push non-smoking by appealing to…

Exactly. It never ceases to amaze me how many guys who say stuff like this seem to have literally forgotten that there are other women in the world too, not just the ones they find attractive.

Don't worry, I'm right there with you.

....okay I want "Ridiculous Stock Photo Book Covers" to become a regular Jezebel feature now.

She doesn't fart. The toxins evaporate off her skin, briefly forming a light delicate shimmering crust, in manner of Stephenie Meyer vampire.

Couldn't decide whether that was charming or a humblebrag. The question was whether she wore her own line of PJ's to bed, but I guess she could have just said "No".

And ease of reference for casting directors maybe?

"KW: I drink water mixed with Miracle Reds or Miracle Greens, with drops of plankton."

Same. I moved schools three times between years 8-10, but between years 10-12 (I'm Australian, years 8-12 are our high school, no idea how this corresponds to the American system) I just kept my head down, handed my work in on time, played some sports, did some extra-curricular activities, hung out with my friends,…

Yes! It makes me grind my teeth that so many celebrity starlets feel pressure to be all "Oh, I just walk a lot, and do a couple of pilates classes a week and just before this interview I totally ate some buffalo wings with extra dressing on the side" because it's meant to be so effortless and the media wants them to…

I'd actually disagree that there's a trend of plain or unconventionally pretty heroines. If anything, the trend's "progressed" from "You can be valued for being smart or valued for being pretty, but you can only pick one" to "No matter what other qualities you possess, you also have to be pretty, ideally just…

This is a bit of a generalisation I know, but has anyone else noticed that most people who don't like dogs just, well, don't like dogs, but people who don't like cats seem to really really not like cats? Like, the comments on a news story about neighbourhood pet control will have "Neighbour's dog barks whenever I…

Yeah, I've always picked up a mega "class guilt" vibe from Julian Fellowes. It was worse in Season 1, but for a while it felt like most of the servants who were dissatisfied with their lot in life were characterised as untrustworthy assholes, especially Thomas and O'Brien.