Because it’s a false sense of security. Putting your drink behind the bar might be safer than leaving it with your male companion, but only marginally.

I don’t know. I am from a small, predominantly white/protestant town in NI. I went, ‘He’s kinda cute, wonder what’s wrong with....oh, oh, that’s not right.’

Mostly because it is pretty unlikely for a stranger to hunt down and kidnap/abuse a teenager they saw online. Most cases where a child is targeted involve a parent, relative, or family acquaintance. The whole ‘stranger danger’ panic is - generally - an excuse for people not to address that fact.

I worked for a vegan who made me eat my ham sandwiches in the filing office, and I worked with who made the most awesome granola/seed treat bars and admitted that being a vegan was made a lot easier by class/privilege. I think the jack-offs just get more attention, because the cooler Vegans don't talk about it as much.

I think she just wants to stem the farts are funny brigade. She grew up with three brothers, and ‘pull my finger’ got a big laugh. When I asked her about it she just said she didn’t think fart was a nice word.

Frogs.

Ok, showing my age here! But remember when Blue Peter changed the name of their new kitten because kids had voted to call it ‘cookie’ and they thought it had some sort of sexual connotation?

And as if the Lily Allen story wasn’t bad enough, the Metropolitan Police emailed her and told her that by talking about how badly they’d handled her case, she’s put other stalking victims off coming forward.

Maybe. Probably, even, although even the prosecutor seems to be letting it in that her initial point with the stream was to get help/gather evidence. My initial point was just that there was a fairly good reason for streaming the video rather than storing it to the phone.

Could be nerves; could be a horrible person. I really don’t know. I was looking at specifically why someone would use Periscope rather than a more active intervention.

Except if she calls the police it would probably make the rapist intervene to stop her - putting her in the path of violence and cutting off the (possible) cry for help in the periscope feed. Or maybe the girl is as terrible as she makes out - I don’t know.

Takes time (probably? maybe. I’m not that into photosharing). To share a video with a friend that way - I have to record the video, stop recording, twiddle about with the sharing settings, and wait for it to upload. Again, by that time the rapist could have grabbed the phone. Periscope already has that all set up.

I don’t know, if something is filmed and stored on a phone it would be very easy for the rapist to take it away and delete/destroy the evidence. Streaming it/sending it to the cloud means that it’s out of reach. Although I’d hope I’d do something to stop the attack as well.

I once tried to explain it to a guy by saying ‘you know when you really need to pee and there’s nowhere to go, and eventually it really starts to hurt’...but the blank look on his face made me realise he had never experienced that either and then I hated him a bit.

I would actually disagree - blood will out is a Western idea as well. It is even a fairly well-entrenched one and turns up pretty frequently in popular culture - look at the number of to shows where someone finds out their father is a villain and then worries what that makes them, or that period in DC comics where…

I don’t know. BUT if you follow one into a tunnel, it will use it’s armour plated bottom to squash you against the roof of the tunnel. That is an actual evolutionary defense they developed - things keep attacking us in tunnels, right - we murder them with our bottoms!

Do you think the author has ever heard of Brehon Law? Basically, Ancient Ireland had starter marriages. So really, not a modern issue where no other culture has ever gone ‘this marriage malarkey is hard! Wouldn’t it be awesome to test it out first and make sure the other person doesn’t let the goat crap in the…

I used to eat it all the time when I was a kid. My gran would buy me a paper bag of dried dulse. It was yummy. And that was in rural Ireland - not the home of inventive food :D

I keep seeing photos from those on tumblr and I am such a prude. I’m all ‘Don’t sit on that in your naked pants! That’s one layer of cloth between you a drunk person’s piss. AT BEST it’s piss, by the way.’

‘Only prostitutes and sailors have tattoos!’