@BeckySharper: I specifically asked you to explain it, so it hardly falls under even the most lenient classification of condescension. I can only assume now that you either don't remember what you meant, or you just wanted to be vaguely catty.

@BeckySharper: No. What's going on here is that you are defending cultural generalisation through personal experience. And that is complete nonsense. Anything can be generalised through personal experience: it can serve any political purpose and it is always equally meaningless. Women are stupid, because some women…

@eatingatoms: Oh yes, the same political correctness that shockingly stops public officials from referring to women as bitches and sluts apparently now prevents said women from getting stepped on. Wins all around for the ladies on the PC train.

@rah29: That bit about struggling to see systems makes me want to heart you again! That seems to be the problem so much of the time with men who do want gender equality, and even identify as feminist. Maybe they've been so primed by culture to see themselves as the default individual that it takes a pretty big leap to…

@Squabble: I shuddered.

@eatingatoms: I've always been a political correctness fan, and this strange new breed of political correctness which apparently prevents assault is my most favourite of all!

@BeckySharper: Right, and obviously the best means of identifying these differences is American people gathering to bitch collectively about other cultures.

@scullymurphy: I just don't see the point in these generalisations without supporting data. I'm not saying your experience is invalid, but it's just not representational. Statistically, it's entirely possible that every woman I've dealt with in a professional situation has been useless with numbers. It also does…

I actually don't want AA to shut down. I like their clothes and there are a lot of things to admire about their business, advertising aside.

@saintbernadette: Oh boy did I lol.

@cunegonde: Thanks! Yes, the noun mush does appear to be much present in German, and indeed in Old English, so it obviously pre-dates the influx of French. Thanks again. And cool username!

Oh, Eleven, you shall forever be my Doctor. If Amy Pond needs a replacement, I'm totes on board.

@CandyBacon: I realise it's a noun modifier which places it in a loose adjective category, but I'm just wondering whether that changes the word order in French.

@SarahMC: I agree. Unprotected sex carries a risk of disease. She was a seventeen-year-old girl suffering from an ultimately terminal illness, and the men who consented to unprotected sex with her deserve legal recourse? Clearly, the morally preferable thing for her to do would be to disclose her status. She…

Now I'm confused.

@JerrySizzler: This was brilliant. Well played.

@DepecheNode: Is... this... humour? Sorry, I'm not being intentionally dense, I thought it was just provocation rather than a joke. What's the joke part of "no means yes"?

@em.: I'm up to the part where Stephen's talking about Hamlet in the library. So far, I like it, but it probably gets a little more intense. I really enjoyed Portrait and Dubliners so I don't think I'm going to start hating it, but, you know, Ulysses haterz unite I guess.

@krismry: Joan Fontaine was the ultimate Nameless Narrator! We re-watched scenes of the film in a recent lecture and I got chills.

@Shoreleave: Oh, awesome! I know they did support Dylan at one point, that's so cute that they mistakenly hugged him. I would totes mistakenly hug him if I had the chance.