LOL yeah, when I was a kid here in England there was a summer craze for ‘water parties’ where basically there were buckets of water balloons, garden hoses attached to the top of slides and loooooooooooooooooooong sheets of plastic tarp. Every little stone was keenly felt. Best birthday party ever though.

About as functional as a chocolate teapot mind you....

For those seeking to make a point or just generally be assholes, though, there ISN’T a difference because their argument is ‘Well I find it offensive’ or ‘It’s offensive to ME’. The whole thing is sad and ridiculous and I hope the baker in question learns the hard way the cost of bigotry when his or her business fails.

I think the challenge with situations like this, though, is the fact that IF a ruling went in favour of the complainants, it COULD be used to support hateful requests and in the litigious persecution of people when they refuse to accommodate such hate.

Indeed - can you imagine the baker begrudgingly baking them a cake and decorating it beautifully, then the happy couple cut into it at the reception and “Oops, the baker mixed up the Salt and Sugar.” It would spoil the reception and generate stress and bad feeling.

I think you make an interesting point - these situations open doors that can swing both ways. You CANNOT uphold the claim of these specific claimants without opening the door to OTHER situations that are whole orders of magnitude worse. I certainly don’t think the couple in question who simply want a wedding cake to…

May I also add ‘Jason Isaacs’ - especially as ‘Lucius ‘Lucious’ Malfoy’?

Came here to basically say the same thing. For the love of the fans, someone please tie him up in a closet until it’s all over.

Oh yeah Amazon is WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY up there in shadiness - employment conditions and practices, the ‘marketplace’, the ‘throttling’ of content for certain ‘levels’ of user.... I could go on. I love Amazon, but it really is like doing a deal with the devil.

Oh yeah - we’ve picked up a few really good value baby items for my Nephew via ‘facebay’ - a couple of bouncers, a door mounted bouncers, an activity bar thing, etc. But the woman I mentioned seems to be turning it into a business - she has crates and crates of stuff - I actually think she is ‘agglomerating’ stuff…

Absolutely! There was that scandal recently about the ‘supersoft leggings’ (LulaRoe?) that highlighted the hefty initial outlay may of these vendors had to stump up. Another thing you see is a the ‘Mums in a minivan’ delivery service - companies like Hermes and Yodel or ‘Amazon Logistics’ employ ‘drivers’ on a…

It’s funny: I was just thinking about this this morning - my Sister has a bunch of ‘Boy’ clothes she bought for her son - stuff covered in Dinosaurs and things, and I was thinking that I really like Dinosaurs, so even if I had a girl I would still use the hand-me-downs (because kids clothes are expensive and they grow…

Because maternity pay and benefits are shit? People are desperate?

I think you’re right - I’m sure I vaguely remember a passage in one of the books in which Ser Davos speaks about how he chose his name.

Ooooooooooooo interesting concept..... Didn’t Jon have a touch of ‘Warging’ experience earlier on or am I getting mixed up with the stuff that happens in the books...

I once got bollocked by my bitch boss for using ‘singing from the same hymn sheet’ - a phrase I grew up hearing. I didn’t CHOOSE to use it deliberately, it was just a thing I’d always grown up hearing.

As I’m not American, may of these concepts (such as Gendered greetings) are already less of a ‘thing’ here in the UK - we usually greet our colleagues/family/friends/spouses the same way: “Good Morning/Afternoon/Evening” or “Hi” or “Hello”, or (as I have taken to doing “Greetings, all”.

I’m pretty sure the requirement for Luc Besson to cast ‘winsome young things’ in his movies is less about acting and more about lying back and closing their eyes....

This is my hope for the midnight showing of VIII - I know there is a local chapter of the 501st because I THINK one of my friends is involved in it, but whether they will turn up to the midnight showing depends largely on which day of the week it falls on. I expect some kids will turn up in off-the-shelf costumes they…

I started playing this, but found it incredibly confusing and pretty boring since you’d basically send your heroes off to do a quest and have to either pay with in-game-purchasable currency to speed it up, or wait like 100 hours or some shit.