I thought you meant Lily Allen for a hot minute there and I was ready to double the intensity of my Chris Evans infatuation for being weird and interesting as well as blindingly hot.

Most plane crashes have survivors.

That really is a winner, isn't it?

It has to do with legal definitions of rape. Sexual assault includes rape but is not limited to it.

I find the first story very charming. Pleasant people who have kooky idea in their head are fine by me, especially if they don't let that kookiness become an obstacle to other people getting through their day.

Someone's dog was killed in December when her house was "swatted"

"51% of the victims of mass shootings are women."

Dear teachers who think having sex with your teenage students is a thing you should do:

Actually no, she answers below that an article written in 1974 in England should not have used the word black to describe — a black man.

How is or was it racist for an English newspaper to use the word Black in 1974— which in the United States *was* the preferred nomenclature, being considered materially more progressive? How do English folk of African extraction refer to their race now (hint: they don't call themselves African-English)?

Ah yes, Glen Ridge! One of the guys, Jeffrey Archer, was a my college when the shit hit the fan. BC kicked him out, and there was a small firestorm about it, including an open letter written to the student newspaper from a group of his female friends all saying that they were proud to be his friends and that he…

It usually starts with that person telling me that my experience of myself is imaginary and they know better.

Oh for Christ's sake. This isn't even solipsism, you've moved beyond that into telling people they don't even have an experience of *themselves* never mind other people.

A little bit but not really, certainly no worse than any other homogenous group of tweens. That was kind of my point, there were no racist assholes other than a bunch of 11 and 12 year old boys, and that's almost a tautology.

What white people on the show were portrayed as racist assholes? The 11 year olds in the jr high cafeteria? ::tears::

Speak for yourself, not the rest of us.

I've lived here for 23 years and have never head of Boston Burger Company until your comment here. My first thought was Sullys in Cambridge, but they don't have a basement, and Bartleys doesn't serve booze.

Yeah I was about to start moving South, it didn't occur to me to go back up Rt 63! Who lives up there? I mean I guess in my head I knew that people did, but for some reason it seems weird to me.

Oh man, I would not have guessed Northfield in a million years.

Amherst, Hadley, Leverett, Pelham, Shutesbury, or Montague?