Was he allowed to live with you, though, while the paperwork and everything was taken care of? I don’t know how old your nephew was at the time, but I can’t imagine how hard it would be for a child if they have to go live with strangers immediately after losing their parents.

Fixed that for you. Example: Germany spent the last 20 years waiting for the men’s national soccer team to win a major tournament again. Meanwhile the women’s team won pretty much all of them in the same time period, but no one gave a fuck.

Someone on Jezebel or Groupthink got me into Tinykittens months ago, when Eve had just had her babies and Sloaney was about to. Might have been you. If yes, thanks. I lost so many hours to kitten live streams and updates on the graduates. Too much cute.

In a world where bullets are medical procedures, yes that would be legal. In this one? Nope, but thank you for playing, dear troll.

I think about this whenever gun control is discussed, because the words used are always guns and arms, never ammunition. The NRA/Republicans/your average nuts don’t want background checks for gun owners, they are against mental health checks for gun buyers, they don’t want restrictions on what kinds of weapons the…

I was waiting for this.

Edit: In a non-judgemental way, just to be clear. If you hadn’t posted it, I would have. It sums up my reaction perfectly.

I want this skirt. I’ve been looking for a denim skirt like this for weeks now.

She travelled with him because she’d been to the moon and wanted more of that. Rose did quite a number of things out of love for the Doctor, too, but her actions don’t seem pitiful to us, because the Doctor was in love with her. That’s not something she accomplished, though, it’s merely happy circumstance. She was…

I didn’t like Martha at first, but she grew on me during the second rewatch. I discovered that the main reason I hadn’t liked her was her clearly not reciprocated romantic interest in the Doctor. I found that annoying, but I realized that it wasn’t her fault that Rose had been there first and that it’s hard to be…

I need a new hair style.

“and it is definitely true that children do better with their own parents”

I have finally figured out why I’m still sticking with Grey’s, even though so many characters I liked left and every one else gets the most insane story lines. There are episodes like this one that give me warm fluffy feelings, that are surprisingly hard to come by elsewhere.

So it’s true? I read about Anne Perry being the pen name of one of the Heavenly Creatures girl many, many years ago in a snippet about the movie in a tv schedule magazine. I had no way of verifying it at the point (the internet hadn’t come to my neck of the woods yet).

I’m not a lawyer, but the general court reaction to weird contract clauses in my country seems to be “Yeah, it’s a breach of contract, but this shit shouldn’t have been in there in the first place, so back off!”

Word! Everyone from my school who came back after a year in the States had a lot of trouble catching up on what everyone else had learned during that year..

Huge news? Only Teddy’s house was new to me. James Sirius’ house is either mentioned or implied in book 7. Tumblr has pretty much been counting down to this day. Albus Severus Potter will start Hogwarts in two years.

German here! I read way too many “Go to the US for a year!” brochures in high school, because my school had loads of those lying around. If I remember correctly, you didn’t get to choose the school you’d attend. Or the state. It all depended on where the exchange organisations could find a family willing to take…

I didn’t mean to “correct” you. “Oh God, I hope there wasn’t another one!” was literally my first reaction when I read “died in Hungary”.

Does your colleague consider herself Western European, though? I find people’s different views on what constitues which part of Europe very fascinating. The general Western attitude…

That it’s immigration which is leading to the downfall of western Europe. Thing is, she’s from Estonia.

Den bästa av mödrar (It’s a Swedish-Finnish co-production, so it’s partly in Finnish, too, but subtitled. Very sad, but a very good movie.)