From what I read (via Page Six and Cosmopolitan; I haven’t read the actual essay, so I could well be wrong), I didn’t see Keira Knightley saying anything negative about Kate Middleton, rather criticizing the pressure on women to be picture perfect the moment after birth, as exemplified by Kate (because of the pressure…

I’ve always felt bad for Lena Dunham. She’s so unfortunate looking and her styling choices make that even worse. I get why her average white female fans extol her soooo much. They look at her and are assured that their averageness will somehow make them succeed in any profession.

Nicki Mirage.

Katherine McPhee is a pretty singer with a voice designed for syrupy power ballads who is not distinctive enough to really make anything happen on her own.

I suppose I’m too late to supplement this most excellent gif by sending Senator Collins a print of Andrew Wyeth’s Christina’s World. Wyeth painted it in Maine and the subject, Christina, who was not Christina Crawford, was his neighbor, so it wouldn’t be that weird. I mean weird enough but constituents must send their…

Cultural appropriation is neutral anyway. Whether it’s good or bad or in between depends on the details. Using the term by itself is useless when discussing harmful behavior. It’s more efficient and clearer to just go into those said details and not use the term at all actually.

I think I actually made the same face as Clint when I read that.

Eh, I’ve seen British aristocracy and there’s still more horseface there than at the Kentucky Derby. Meanwhile she and her dad would be the new money you speak of not the beautiful people. They’ve got more in common with Shkreli than landed gentry so I doubt Brit’s best and brightest are seeking her out.

I am outraged at your Presidents racist language- why is THAT not the issue here? What the fuck is wrong with your media?

“That’s the story that my brothers and I all learned from our mom and our dad, from our grandparents and our aunts and uncles. It’s a part of me and nobody’s going to take that part of me away.” Her siblings have all confirmed the claim.

Yeah, I was also one of those girls who developed early but I didn’t look 16 at 11. I had 32DD tits but I was still very obviously a child.

Yeppppp. I have 11 year olds in my class and they don’t act anything like a high school student. Hell, they’re only marginally more mature than the 9 year olds.

I’m aware of that but even when children start puberty younger I’ve noticed they might get hairier, have skin problems or a be bit taller than you’d expect but it’s not to the point that a 9yo looks like a teenager.

Sure, looks 16 in a still photo or at a bare glance. Not “looks, acts, communicates and behaves as if 16.” I’m going to assume the 29 year old didn’t assault a polaroid and I am sure there were plenty of indicators that she was much younger than 16.

useful in discussions of Vantablack is this helpful tumblr explainer about Vantablack, and that fucker Anish Kapoor, and Stuart Semple (who has helpfully created “Black 2.0", which is almost as black but way cheaper and available to anybody but that fucker Anish Kapoor):

Any excuse to post this:

My wedding day disaster was that by the end of the day I was married.

Those dresses are war crimes and if Markle wore one to a royal wedding, I’m afraid the UK would take it as an unprovoked attack by a former ally.

I believe my conservative, upper middle class Scot in-laws have probably never had a swear word pass their lips - to the extent my mother-in-law told my kids that they mustn’t EVER use the word “fart” as it was very vulgar. She told them to use the term “windy pop” instead. I told my sons (going to the regular old…

Libby, I was born in 1968, and twat is no recent thing! It was roundly used in my childhood — and pronounced correctly. :)