Really? I read it more of a tongue-in-cheek jab at the other starlets and their non-stop PR and visibility vs. Adele just sort of re-appearing after a couple years off and blowing everyone out of the water...

I will let my parents, who are 32 years common law, that despite their relationship being as legally binding as a marriage in the eyes of themselves, their friends, their family, and the god-damned government that they’re apparently not legal next-of kin.

The school will ask the question once, and never again will it matter if the parent has a different last name. (spoken as a person born in the 80’s whose mother kept her maiden name)

This kind of surprises me, because of my dozen or so married friends only two took their husbands name right off the bat, and another phased it into her personal life after about a year (but uses her maiden name professionally).

Curses!

Is Roughned Odor a viking? Because he sounds like a viking...

Despite not knowing Korean I was recently introduced to Kpop and unabashedly love it! BigBang and Exo are two of my favourites - And T.O.P.s voice is just... wow!

I’ll admit I’m a little confused - the article started great with me thinking I’d maybe learn something, but ended with me going “Well... I don’t think Vanessa Hudgens claimed to have discovered Bindis...”

I just returned home to Canada after supporting the Red and White against Ireland in Cardiff... you green bastards ;)

You know what’s funny? I used to work at the Skydome (where the Argos play) and had several funny run-ins with the cheerleaders, one in particular stands out:

OMG, is there some sort of difference between male and female hair follicles? It’s the hormones right, female hormones change the way hair is grown and treated on women... I KNEW IT!

Boy and girl public school segregation IS gone. Now private school, that’s private. And as mentioned above, if this idiot barber wants to only serve men then that’s how he should go about it.

Ms. Chic, I said you messed up your example, not that it was incorrect. Read your first comment.

This says a lot about my sister, but one of the reasons I’m so adamant about splitting the bill is because she uses dating as an excuse to get free dinners.

Exactly this, I refuse to make an assumption about how much someone else makes.

You are not. I mention as soon as we sit down that I’ll be paying for my half of the bill so that there’s no argument at the end of the evening. I abhor the idea of expecting the guy to pay for a date that I have accepted with him - I don’t expect my friends to pay for me when we go to dinner, why is this different?

That sounds like a neat idea... they were obviously fresh though, not preserved! :p

I remember dissecting fish in grade 7, frogs in grade 8, and pigs in grade 11 bio.

I say mum (from Toronto, also a journalist), we also ‘re’ words, and use defence not defense. Then there are words like dialogue that we retain from England vs. American dialog. Not to mention our ‘ll’s’ in words like dishevelled and the ‘e’ in words like sizeable which is also not American. As for your basil comment,…

I would seriously disagree with that. Our ACCENT is more American than British, our actual pronunciation and spelling is more British than American.