@Algren: I think I've flatted with every female with BPD in Wellington.

@PippaTea: xenophobia, while obnoxious, isn't racism.

@Beat Girl: Word. Some of the comments made about her and other teen stars of her ilk that I've seen on this site have made me deeply uncomfortable. What is wrong with people that they can justify slut-shaming anyone, let alone a teenage girl?

@ScottHartnellsSenseOfBalance: it's true. All our sports teams are riffs on that theme: Black Sox, Black Caps, Silver Ferns, Black Ferns, Tall Blacks, Black Sticks, etc. I guess we found our niche and then clung to it.

@spikenard: Poi-E would have been nicer!

How did I only just discover this? These recaps are amazing! Only next time (touch wood!), the appropriate music for New Zealand is Blam Blam Blam's 'There is no depression in New Zealand."

Look, we're going to lose our next game by a shocking margin (against Italy), but that goal by Reid was heart-stopping.

@TurnYourHeadAndCoffee: But why would you shower and put your pyjamas back on? (bras are a personal choice)

People actually wear PJs to class?

Also, "He flirts with ugly girls?"

"Lindsay Lohan only has one week to make up four alcohol education classes, but she's still in NYC hanging out with her mum, after her uncle died a few days ago."

@Pandorasvoicebox: agreed. if little girls started complaining about having trouble with the gentlemen (see! it doesn't even translate without added gross-factor!), parents would start some moral panic riot.

@Divagatious: make your own! (seriously. diy is kinda neat)

@keyofivory: just like George in Famous Five, in fact.

@Brunette Bookworm: Ha, well my family is Antipodean with liberal dashings of English (virtually every generation has one), but you never know.

Wait- wasn't Bess the femme one?

@kathykathykathy: I think I've read interviews with the Milk and Brokeback Mountain actors where they've gotten seriously pissy with questions about what it was like to "play gay." Not only is the question seriously irksome on the sexuality front, it's also kind of insulting to the actors on account of their acting.

Every male in my family that doesn't already have James in their name has William (the super-edgy have both). Seriously- not just my brothers, father, grandfathers, but also generations back. Even my non-white ancestors had a William or two walk amongst them.

@MadameWalkitout: It's cheaper until they're sixteen.

@Marla Singer: I'd be happy if my vagina could some how make a V for Vivien. But vulva would do just fine, I suppose.