I’m from Glasgow and live in Massachusetts. Just today I explained the whole cunt thing to a friend. Not only does it not have the same gendered use and shock value, but in Glasgow (and elsewhere in Scotland but I don’t know how widespread this is) it can be used in place of “person” or “one/body” as in…

A left-back to provide cover/competition for Robertson and a centre-back to keep Lovren out of the team when Gomez is inevitable injured are maybe all this team needs to be unstoppable.

It’s partly that there are so few situations when the word “British” would be needed to describe a Scot and partly that so many Scots just *hate* the thought of being British. Even though we are. It partly has to do with religion (it’s not exclusively Scottish Catholics who bristle at being called British but I’d…

It’s not even all that radical but lots of us Scots do resent being called British, even though it’s factually accurate.

Plenty of us do, but it’s still factually incorrect.

I’d say a French-speaking region of Belgium.

Good thing we haven’t reached the Tirade deadline!

This is a good response. Reading it made me realize that nowhere in the article does it state that police even spoke to Rowland. That might not have helped, but it couldn’t hurt.

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaall the stars for you!

No.

This is such a weird state. Almost always votes blue for president but regularly elects red (well, purple) governors. What gives?

He drives a truck! He’s just like us!

The excerpt says this was the next night.

I suspect “running for president while female” might appear prominently in any list of offenses.

THIS. IS. AWESOME.

Aren’t they all?

“A People’s History of the United States” by Howard Zinn is a good resource for that.

Hey, how did you get ahold of my fantasy dinner party line-up?