Genetics can be pretty wild, I have a friend who’s background is Trinidadian, and her daughter is 1/2 white and looks as white as Paris does. I’m sure she gets tired of people being surprised by how her daughter looks.

You are crazy wrong. I don’t know she’s his kid but genetics are absolutely that bonkers. Signed, a black woman that gave birth to a “white” child

So I’ll be the bonkers person and say that I come from a family of blonde haired, blue eyed, fair skinned people who are all Black, thanks to the one drop rule. I’m browner because of my father, but my family is pretty adamantly Black. I understand that everyone wants to be fascinated with MJ and his changing face,…

Precisely because things like blue eyes are recessive means that people can carry the gene without displaying the trait. In other words, someone can have brown eyes, but carry genes for blue eyes. If a brown eyed black person carries genes for blue eyes - they could be expressed if that person goes on to have kids…

You cannot tell if someone is Black by looking at them. I repeat, not all Black people look the same.

OMG! I do not watch that show but Brown Thomas is like Saks 5th Avenue and Harrods and every super classy department store you have ever taken a breath in .... by Irish standards. I was born and raised in Dublin and I’m pretty sure that my first holy communion dress was purchased there (though it could have been…

To be fair they tried to give him a double-breasked jacket but he couldn’t stop laughing, grabbing at the air, and making honking noises.

My daughter is 11 and she has not one but 2 friends her age who still need to be “put to sleep” by their mothers, and wake up multiple times during the night, and demand to be “put back to sleep” by their mothers again. The thing is, both of the kids’ fathers were like “oh, hell no!” when this pattern started to…

admittedly not a really great detective

Imagine what it is like for the girls who are often deemed not ‘black’ enough? Those of us who dare to be the odd one.

Omg, the hovering. I have no idea why women insist on doing this. Just wipe the flipping seat before you sit down! What kind of ass-borne illness do people think they’re preventing by getting piss all over the seat?

Is this a super harmful cult where you have to kill yourself eventually while wearing ugly shoes or is this just a slightly annoying cult where I don’t have to talk to my family anymore and have to have regular sex with Andrew Keegan? Asking for a friend. 

There is no evidence that the royals bring in any money at all to the UK. They cost us over £250m per year, if you add security (£100m+) and the income from the Duchies of Cornwall and Lancaster (£110m+) to the Sovereign Grant (£40m).

I don’t understand how it’s reaching when the belief that monarchies are outdated is a very widely-held one. The royal family doesn’t even hold true power anymore, so the continuation of the title and of the noble English/European class is really just in place to keep very rich people very rich in perpetuity by…

Yes, this is how I feel too. Fawning over them feels like reinforcing their legitimacy in society, which to me seems counterproductive to an equitable society. I get that they do some charitable things, but they are filthy rich and got that way by exploiting and stealing from other cultures. Being charitable now is…

Anybody else not give 2 shits about the royals?

I can’t drink coffee anymore after having been a coffee addict. This is because I started taking a serious amphetamine for ADHD and can’t handle the caffeine and decaf is just sad lies that make you want real coffee. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve had the following exchange.

I think you could program a Roomba to speak with a british male accent and most americans would line up around the block to fuck it.

I’ll play! When I was a kid my younger brother and I had a game where we’d tie each other to lawn chairs and then push each other into the pool. So you’d have to wriggle your way out in order to swim to the surface. I’m still a little shocked my mom never found out, but yeah we really really got a little too into the…