I'm Australian and I don't recognise most of them....

You have now explained EVERYTHING.

Ummmm, we don't do the prom thing here in Aus, but every one of those dresses looks totally cute and age-appropriate to me, and I'm an almost 40 former high school teacher.

Ohhhhh I got sacked today and this just made it all better. Thanks

are you Stephen Fry in disguise???

I can't believe the daily show is on hiatus this week. This would have been GOLD.

where's the "Like" button??

While I agree that it's not the same, as it's not a brush I particularly want to be tarred with, but I am of Northern Irish-Irish heritage and am quite comfortable describing it as "Irish" and I am entitled to both a British and an Irish passport, so even the law disagrees with you.