I got blisteringly drunk before a film festival screening and proceeded after the film to argue with Viggo Mortensen (who is in it) over Sartre and Beauvoir's antagonistic ideological and social relationship vis-à-vis Camus. His French is pretty good, by the way. My swearing Arabic is better.

That lasts until you get 'im in bed. British men are ranked worst in bed in the world for a reason (as me fellow lasses around these Isles know from very sad first hand experience).

Well, more the models are fitted to the clothes - castings are way brief these days in menswear. But yea, no boy takes the job if he's not prepared to take the job (and this show has a lot of boys I recognize from one agency in particular that's known for it's "edge").

Actually, if you are a regular tourist in the UK and become ill/break something/are in need of medical care, you will be treated at no cost. There's simply no system in place to charge hospital patients.

For me, it was a casual decision. No thought required. I realised that I had missed my period, took a test, and once I got that + sign winking at me I called a clinic to make an appointment. KrampusCate and others are right - we shouldn't have to pretend women are agonizing over this decision just to justify it to…

And she was Turkish, and also not white in the minds of your typical German. Both victim and perpetrator here are racialised extraordinarily in Germany, and so it's interesting to see this young woman (rightly) hailed as a hero when the quotidian experience of Germans of Turkish background is more likely to be victims…

This show is just so, so badly done. I read the books and I think the adaptation of them is fairly well done (I mean, each book is at least 800 pages long so mad props to the whole team for managing to get so much detail into each episode), but I just cannot get into this series. The acting and writing (even what's…

I haaaaate TV Claire. Book Claire would absolutely pop TV Claire in the jaw.

haha! True that - once I woke up next to a one night stand with VERY bad politics. Bad for me, personally (some people here likely have no a problem with what I was offended by), but still shitty for me.

I was an mid-bloomer (16), totally engineered the loss of my virginity only because all my friends did and I wanted…

So Penelope Cruz and Javier Bardem have no legitimate perspective? Do you even follow Spanish media? Because both have been super active in left organizing circles for a long time. They put their money and actions where their mouths are - they're very well educated on the topic, Cruz's overly humble 'I'm no expert'…

Also awkward but not as tragic: my virginity took two nights, each night a week apart, to lose. That was fucked.

The spitter.

I've seen both biopics (in France, am a journalist, et al.) and they are both awful. So boring. This one was moderately more exciting on a fashion level, the other with Pierre Niney more beautiful in a more accurate-and-fashion-level. Both both are awful. It's depressing.

Sure, Hamas is a terrorist organization but they don't use Palestinians as human shields - Israel has Gaza under siege and when you pack nearly 1.8 million bodies into a space that tiny, where the HELL are they supposed to go when the IDF "warns" them that their house/market/hospital/clearly-UN-school (etc) is about…

The first time I moved in with a friend. Terrible idea. We had a mini-fridge in the flat that we kept wine and beer in, but one night when she was out of town my friends accidentally grabbed a bottle of her wine during a small party and drank it. No biggie, right? I told her I'd replace it or give her cash, "just…

They also effectively ban those of us born in Africa. From when I was informed I would never be allowed to give blood, I recall it was anyone born on the continent before 1977 and if you had sex with anyone born on the continent before 1977. For the same reasons, but with little to no attention paid by pretty much…

Eh, you know. She's going to castings with all the rest of them. One or two fashion houses was bound to hire her. She's not opening or closing, though, so it's not too big a thing.

I just got back from Fashion Week in London and Paris (mens, this year), and no fashion house hires models with pear shaped bodies - the dress is either accentuating what isn't there or it's padded. Runway bodies are (sadly) strictly tall, thin, symmetrical in the face and body, with no distraction from the clothing.…

Joyce Carol Oates is racist for a hell of a lot more reasons than that.

This one won't rate very highly compared to all the truly disgusting stories shared above, but here's mine…