I’m currently counting my blessings, that Christina made it out alive and got that amazing storyline with the perfect happy end for her. People are dropping like flies on that show.

And the massive foreshadowing last week made it even worse. Why are characters almost always killed, when an actor decides to leave? What’s wrong with letting them move on to another hospital and mentioning them every now and then? [That person] could’ve gone to [place they were before], could’ve made the long…

I never said that Jezebel specifically failed to include the diacritics. Somebody somewhere put out the very first article and got the information from a source that had the correct spelling, because people tend to know how to spell their own name. Somewhere along the line someone dropped the diacritics.

Precisely. Nunez is the result of replacing Spanish letters with English letters that look similar. Putin is the result of replacing Russian sounds with similar English sounds and the letters used to write them. If we were to treat Путин the way Núñez was treated, we’d end up with something like Mytnh.

Not to mention that a media outlet can simply copy and paste the name from the source material.

Russian, Arabic and other languages that use a different alphabet get transliterated. There are rules concerning which combination of roman letters used in the English language corresponds with which sound used in Russian or Arabic to achieve a similar English sound. That’s not what happens when someone just…

It’s not just Anglophone publications. Diacritics are generally considered to be merely decorative. It’s a pet peeve of mine, too.

The Hornblower Series is actually supposed to be really good. Haven’t gotten round to it yet, but one day I will. (Because Ioan Gruffudd.)

If a married couple used a sperm donor and the husband decided to back out some time after the conception, would you say the same?

Uhm, actually the minimum safe body mass index does not mean, that certain jumpers aren’t allowed to jump unless they put on some weight. They merely have to use shorter ski, which some prefer to having a BMI that would allow them to jump with the maximum length ski for their height. The BMI rule was merely a band…

Personally I always preferred Emily. That aside, you live in a very beautiful place. Been there as a tourist, as a LMM pilgrim, obviously.

I’d be willing to put money on Chloe Bennet (Skye in Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.) to get at least a mention when names are being thrown around at Disney. Her father’s Chinese-American, so she got that part covered, but she’s also white-passing enough for racist idiots.

Out of all the instances of soft sexism the copier was the only one that surprised me. Is it a cultural thing? I’m European and in my experience copiers being machines with plugs that do not belong in a kitchen are manly men territory. When something is wrong with a goddamn copier it’s a man’s job to take care of the…

I hadn’t realized that was him. I kinda liked the sheriff guy, but can’t stand JD. Mind blown here.

Depends on the bit rate. I don't what bitrate iTunes is using now, but they had 128 kbits when they started out, and that's way too low for me. I use at least 196, a higher rate would be preferable, but there's only so much memory space on an mp3 player. Of course, if the player/headphones or the stereo aren't that…

I'm only a few years older than your niece, I do the same thing (not with iTunes, though, I'm an android kinda gal) and I plan on buying all my favourite album as vinyl records as soon as I have the necessary funds and enough shelf space. Vinyl > CD > MP3. MP3s just sound really flat compared to CDs, and CDs can't…

Some women won the menstruation lottery and get only a very mild form of period cramps every fifth or so period. Some of these lucky women then assume that their period is just like everybody else's and other women are making a huge fuss over nothing. I have family members like that.

Rep. Warren Groen, a Republican from Rochester said, "It grasps them with its talons then uses its razor sharp beak to basically tear it apart limb by limb, and I guess the shame about making this a state bird is it would serve as a much better mascot for Planned Parenthood."

Tell him to press a finger in the area between his upper lip and his nose, when he feels a sneeze coming up, for as long as it takes. The finger should be parallel to the lip. It really works.

How? My nose would punish me for using toilet paper four hours into my cold. There would be redness, raw skin and so much pain. (I am the lady chained to the kleenex box.)