Um, this is bullshit! Dodai, you are too grand for the superficial frippery & pearl-clutching banality this site has devolved into. WTF, Gawker??? I look forward to never coming back here, and looking up you & Lindy at your new - and hopefully more worthy - publications. Congratulations on rising above all this, but…

LW2: if these dates are some of the only respite you get, you should do something with someone who is more appreciative of you, less judgmental, & not a tool!

Omg! I just read up on Dr Bronner's - seems too good to be true?! They make *so* much money now, please please please don't turn evil Dr B's!

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All I can do is roll my eyes at the likes of mightyninth whose grim & humourless pearl-clutching demands that a) if anyone presents a differing opinion to theirs, goddammit, it better be in a way they approve of & b) no light-heartedness please, lest one person read your comment & decide that forms the basis of their…

My mum wanted to call me Tertia, which means 'third' in Latin. My sisters helpfully pointed out that this would result in nicknames ranging from turtle to turd. The name I ended up with is much better! Oh and if I was a boy I would've been called Richard, which, you know. Whatevs.

a company that—like every other cosmetic company—manufactures a skin-whitening cream.

I live in Australia. I work with a couple of people from India & Bangladesh.. you would not believe how white Australia is. I left for the first time in 2004 & I expected London to be as 'white' as Australia is, but it appeared to be about 40% PoC. New York was about the same & I was shocked - by how overwhelmingly…

Grandma's House is brilliant & hilarious if you like cringey, uncomfortable humour. I think some other people have recommended Peep Show & Fresh Meat which are written by the same 2 guys. Spaced is also great!

I've been chased by a duck, an emu, several geese (geese are THE WORST), a pelican & bitten by a swan. That being said, I don't want any of them culled. I like their 'tudes.

She sounds like she could relate to some of the characters : ) she sounds like a very cool lady!

Portlandia DVD.

This year I'm making bonbons (or, Christmas crackers if you're from the Americas). Bam me up for a crafternoon! Hate Xmas, but love scouring the webs for lame jokes & Christmas hat DIYs. Yesterday I accidentally came across this undies-for-your-phone ridiculousness. (What are they for? Why does the sexy, filthy SINFUL…

Well that was one of the least jerkwaddy pedantic responses I've seen in the history of internet correction comments. Feel free to place this endorsement on your CV, fact file, business card or tshirt. Etc. Signed, a random internet lurker.

Christmas should not be on the same day every year. That way there is no months'-long feelings of dread/doom/stress, the northerners will get a turn at having a hot Xmas, the southern dwellers will get to do a - well, not a white Xmas but certainly a wetter, greyer one - and then we can all complain about the new set…

Thanks for the spoiler right there in the headline. If I was crude & lacked impulse control, I'd say something along the lines of 'fuck you, you fucking fucker'. Ffs.

Thanks for the spoiler right there in the headline. If I was crude & lacked impulse control, I'd say something along the lines of 'fuck you, you fucking fucker'. Ffs.

This is great! Unlike some of the other creative writing assignments written by teenagers in this post this is well-written, described plainly yet still very creepy. And, like everyone else said - WHAT WAS THE SOFT THING??! I suppose it would be inappropriate to discuss this with your friend now..? Don't mention that…

Right now, it's daylight. Last night, when it was not daylight, I was sitting by myself reading this post & thinking to myself: oh my god I'm so scared. I must stop reading this. I'll just keep reading. But I'm scared! etc, I'm sure you all are doing something similar. All of a sudden, my other laptop (which was…

This sounds similar to Coraline. Perhaps this is a very real concern amongst children!