Ignoring the 50 Shades thing (urrgh, hated the books—which I tried reading from the original fanfics and was too irritated by the terrible writing/plotting/characterisation, OK everything), can I just say how impressed I was with all of the leads in QaF?

Daschunds are water dogs. One of my teachers had one who'd go surfing with him and even stand on the end of his kayak on the water! They're tough little fellas.

Anna Faris and Malin Akermann are two actresses I wish would get a decent movie for them. Faris attempted to hold together The House Bunny on sheer personality… and What's My Number… Akerman has less crap films, but smaller roles.

Yeah, exactly. All sorts of accidents happen, mattress protectors are a life saver.

All of the four versions are insulting. Date, experiment, whatever, but don't peg people as being your 'starter' anything. Life isn't a dress rehearsal (unless you're religious but let's not get into that here).

First thought: THIS IS BAD.

But I think that's a key point that's missed out with the concept of 'living at home': what if these kids are actually paying their families some form of contribution (even if far less than usual rent) and generally pulling their weight? There's an assumption that everyone is freeloading.

I've had to live away from home since I was 17, and as someone who's always had to punt on strangers for housemates (never been in a situation to live with a boy or even friends) by god I'd say that people who have that backup to be able to live with their families at times are lucky. I got stuck with the full lease…

To be honest, moving is probably a good thing as it brings it to a head.

My sister (who is younger than me) is 27 and living at home. She's studying and working. She's been paying rent to my family since she was 19 (which helps a lot as the family is not well off at all). To be honest, she also did a huge service by staying home as my parents are of that generation where she should have…

I can't believe anyone would be that angry to write that much in a text: isn't that like 4 or 5 separate messages? Unless this is the new Whatsapp stuff that I'm not cool enough to understand.

I was verbally bullied at high school by a group of kids. Clothes thrown up tree at school camp. Prank phone calls that made my parents want to call the phone company and get them charged as nuisance calls. It was horrible. I took the high road and tried to be nice and helpful to the girls (yes, I was a nerd) and for…

Is it just me or does the US age of consent of 18 seem to make things more difficult? Most other parts of the world are 16 (UK, Australasia), so while it can still seem too young, at least it's legal. Same thing with alcohol.

I hope the horseback riders get some recognition for their courage and savvy. That takes some presence of mind….

Yep, I never had 'the talk' with my parents, who instead made damn well sure that we couldn't get out of the sex ed classes in intermediate (middle) school—the only lessons that would render my too-smart-to-be-obedient class utterly silent. (A couple of religious students sat out the classes thanks to notes from their…

One thing that got me at design school was that everyone I knew smoked, so I'd find myself out in the freezing cold continuing a conversation while they lit up. Annoying.

Dayum, should have done my Sheen tribute here rather than on io9. Still, that's what copy-and-paste is for… :D

This is interesting given people defending the all-white first season of Girls because it was highly likely that the hipster set would be that way. Not saying that that justified it, but does give it a little more context.

I just watched Mermaids in the weekend, that and this reminded me of how both freaking beautiful and a talented actress Winona Ryder was. She's still fab now, but the 90s fall from grace kinda took a toll on her casting I suspect.

Err, random question here, but does anyone enforce condoms? I got freaked out when I was told as a teen you could still pretty much catch everything (apart from obviously getting pregnant) from giving blow jobs that you get from other unprotected sex, *and* risk throat cancer….