I take your point. :-)

Ha! The first time I was told not to 'play with fire' I think it was in reference to flirting with someone else's recently-single boyfriend. My parents were more direct: "Don't play with matches/touch the cooker/barbecue/etc".

.. Which is why I will never ever [to the power of a gazillion] EVER have children. All credit to those who are sprogging of course; you're all saints. Your children are not.

Thanks so much for your feedback on this. Am currently in a spirited discussion with my other half — a massive Tolkien fan — vis-a-vis all of your more salient points. BTW he agrees with you re the lack of strong male characters. And other points you've made as well! Cheers!

Oh I'd never go so far as to put it on the teen mom sex tape shelf ... but I was intrigued by the recent 'Game of Boners' post where — oh crap, forgotten which author penned it — the writer pointed out that one particular scene really was in the 'torture porn' zone. SO not a fan. No judgment of those who watch that…

Oh god. This. Yes. Even Jez has a 'tits count'. And that bothers me. Moreover, as I mentioned in an earlier post, esp. in season 1 [that's as far as I got, and only halfway through] the sex was unsettling at best.

Well, you don't know me, but I'll put my hand up for being one who DOESN'T love it. I just couldn't get into a show which fancied itself as some Tolkien re-jig but oh, BETTER because there are actually strong female characters therein. Screamed tokenism to me from the get-go, especially with all the back-door sex writ…

*Scratches head* Exactly which child, even with an IQ in the minor digits, would hide in a pile of leaves in the middle of a road? With traffic on it? And if they did seek out piles of leaves in the more familiar environs of a local park/garden ... what truck is venturing off the grid to seek out said hidden children?…

Someone page Janie Bryant STAT!

Yep. Oops. And I'm one of them. Sorry. :-)

Hey Dodai. Nice piece, but Mary I [1542 - 1587] reigned for 25 years. She lived rather longer than that. Cheers.

Psst ... Dodai's confused her life length with her length of reign. Mary I died aged 44. She reigned for 25 years.

I'm still learning! I've learned more about BC in the past year reading Jez/other US newswire sites than I did in the many decades leading to this one. ;-)

Gee. And I C&P'd that from a medical website! But I see what I did there: I nabbed the info, didn't read it properly and missed the word *MAY*. Serves me right.

Plan B works like other birth control pills to prevent pregnancy. Plan B acts primarily by stopping the release of an egg from the ovary (ovulation). It may prevent the union of sperm and egg (fertilization). If fertilization does occur, Plan B may prevent a fertilized egg from attaching to the womb (implantation). If…

Hang on. That's William. He's DEAD! He married Daisy and now he's DEAD.

I appreciate and concur with your observation that the mini-'poll' you conducted indicated that these kids seemed responsible. Brava for them.

Er ... the purported 'pain' from the morning after pill very much depends on the individual. Putting the fear-of-pain into people isn't really the best approach in this instance, I wouldn't have thought. The physical, psychological and emotional pain a young woman will almost assuredly go on to experience should she…

PS. I can't shoot arrows for toffee, but I bet I could face up to tracker jackers better than Katniss. ;-)

*Shakes head* Don't you read any of the stories tagged AUSTRALIA in this parish? They're all killer crocodiles this/fire tornadoes that/mutant deadly insects here/most painful jellyfish in the world there ... I thought you knew we were bred tough!