Read and enjoyed this whole thread, and you make a pretty good point until you bring gifts into it. The moment your gifting has transactional value in the social contract the validity of your expectations is pretty seriously undermined. If you're buying a seat at the wedding with a gift and not your friendship you…

Four-egg omelettes as standard? No wonder diabetes is the national disease of the US...

Nope. You can clutter up your garage with one for about $3000 if you want to. More realistically, you can order one of the cookie cutters as linked above for about $30 from a 3D printer company like shapeways.com. Or, yaknow, make round cookies for free, but different strokes...

As a non-pilot, this makes no sense to me. If the plane was telling the pilots it was higher than it was and they relied on this information, why was it telling FlightAware that it was too low?

Good news - I hear the NTSB has LOADS of staff who have families full of pilots; they should be able to issue a full report in a few minutes time having first consulted with them...

We need more 1950s representations of women in F1. Sure...

My interpretation of the headline was simply that it involved long-term consequences. Disability would have been one at the improbable end of the spectrum. I'm sure you can think of others too. It doesn't matter though - the less likely you think long-term consequences are, the more your attention is grabbed by the…

"Gawker Media: Our Writing Is So Good That It Is Logically Accurate And Can Be Understood"?

1. I read the headline, then I read the article. By doing so in that order, and because of the headline's wording, reading the article was slightly and unnecessarily disappointing.

"That is the only reason he is not finishing his career. I don't know what else to tell you."

You are a professional writer, so I'm not going to explain for you what "misleading" means (pro tip: it's not the same as false).

[Edited] Didn't read the thread I was replying to properly. My only beef is with the headline. The facts are quite clear in the article, but the headline is clickbait-level misleading.

So he ended his career a little early. "Ends career" without context implies missing out on something that would itself be a career. A part of one season is not a career.

There are areas in the UK with murder rates lower than 1.2 also.

Really? That's the real problem? The fact things exist on continua doesn't negate the significance of profound lines of contrast.

Exactly - I think I agree with you. The way it grows on the black squares dictates the way any realist approaches the problem - but sometimes it's alienating to use language that implies your solution is only for the black squares when as you say it benefits the whole board.

Agreed with and appreciated 99.9% of this but I do think you're overly attached to the "fem" in "feminism". I agree that to remove it completely is to deny the imbalance that exists and there's obviously nothing wrong with using to describe the abundance of issues which specifically involve female disadvantage, but…

Isn't Christmas largely predicated around the absence of involvement of testicles?

This is so naive it's unreal. Age-old problem: the most efficient structures are the most complicated. Futurama-fan knee-jerk fad-wagon response: LET'S MAKE THOSE STRUCTURES BY WELDING THEM IN MILLIONS AND MILLIONS OF PIECES!

The hashtag was only invented five years ago, whereas the hash symbol has been known as such in the rest of the world for over thirty. To your credit you did invent the symbol to represent an abbreviation for pounds, but to your discredit you had a good few decades to replace pounds with kilograms before you invented…