*Chuckles* I didn't stop being scared of spiders until I left Australia some years back. These days, I'm cool with them.

This shit applies to everyone regardless of sexuality. *Shudders*

Ahem. I'd like my mother and yours to get together over a pot of leaf tea to discuss this in greater detail.

*Chuckles softly* So funny to read all the contributions to this story and find, yet again, that Jezzies 'out-cheaping' each other is the main thrust of most posts.

I do wish Jezebel would stop perpetuating the myth that universal health care in socialist economy countries is the end-all be-all of health care.

Er ... that's the individual doctor's problem; nothing to do with Sydney, Australia. We're not so backward that contraception is routinely dispensed accompanied by blushes and giggles.

My favourite bit — from HuffPost — is Hawking's 'rebuttle':

Ever heard of that phrase 'Don't feed the trolls'? Reading the Daily Fail is doing exactly that. Your addiction is paying the wages of vile bottom-feeding paps who think it's perfectly okay to take pictures of largely no-talent media identities — and worse, their children — on a daily/hourly basis Just Because.

Yes, well, texting is so much cosier, don't you think? ;)

*Blushes* Eyethangyew. :)

One word: Ebay.

Ha ha! A bit. Yes.

Sweet.

It's the non-smiling thing about them that mostly gives me the creeps. Those blank stares ... the always-dark eyes ... No wonder Gothic novels came back with a vengeance in the Victorian era.

Cultural constructions of femininity became highly centered on motherhood and the special bond between a mother and her children in the Victorian era.

Beauty, truth, awesomeness. That’s all it is.

'But if I were Kim and about to have a baby, I would want to know ...'

Face-swappy merge-y stuff never turns out well. :/

Quite.

... the “deeply regrettable, offensive and sexist” menu was put together by a non-party member who thought it would be “humorous” and “didn’t mean any harm by it.