Is it weird for men to have rucksacks and satchels in the US. Did not know - how odd.

16 is the age of consent in the UK - I'm assuming those pictures were shot there. Still squicky though : /

Silly. They're in the kitchen or dancing on poles.

I had the exact same reaction! I thought it was just me.

Hah! A friend of mine told me a story about being afraid of water when she was a kid, and she wouldn't get into the swimming pool so her dad just grabbed her and chucked her in (she was about 4/5). Her mother yelled at her dad, and apparently her dad calmly replied, 'The daughter of a tiger should know how to…

My dad has a fairly eccentric and creative sense of humour. When I was a kid, I used to come home from school to find the toys or stuffed animals in my room had been moved into funny positions - like waving from the window or tucked up in my bed, or, on one memorable occasion, the five-foot stuffed giraffe my sister…

Some people just really, really love thinking of themselves as victims for some reason. Like, actual oppression sucks. Why would you want it?

My dog is convinced that the broom is his mortal enemy and savages it every time I sweep up. Which, admittedly, is not often.

I believe most of my students share this same delusion. Hence my bi-weekly 'Proofread! For the love of all that is holy, proofread!' rant.

Relevant!

Write a beautifully worded and persuasively argued letter of complaint about the course to the college ; b

It's damn unusual to not only recognise that you have limits, but also to be able to identify specifically what those limits are (in life as well as writing I think!). So well done to you!

Sweet Jesus. This was our actual conversation, except ours involved several bottles of rose wine and the other two people present agreeing with him.

So much this. I had a friend hand me a short story he'd written - he was convinced he could send it to a publisher and get it published really easily. The writing was an absolute mess: improperly used punctuation (like full stops and commas - basic basic stuff), inconsistent use of tense and narrative voice, so on…

If yer lookin fer a roide . . .

That's OK, we don't expect our legislators to actually "read" and "understand". I know that's really difficult for your brain.

What. The. ACTUAL. Fuck.

Because the chance that a fetus might feel pain is way, way more important than the actual, provable pain or indeed potential death of the baby-maker (alright, 'woman') currently incubating it.

"He was a naked peasant living naked in a field of wheat. She was the daughter of a nobleman and had a vagina growing out of her back. It was a love that couldn't be. It was a passion that couldn't be denied."