Oh man - when I was in primary school most of the kids walked to school along a lane between the houses, and some asshole let their HUGE dog run amock there all the time. It used to run up behind little kids, rear up on its hind legs and rest its front legs on the kids' shoulders. When the kids tried to run away it…

It's tearing me APAAAAART!

I'm so sorry for your loss.

Our Tragic Universe by Scarlett Thomas - going by your likes I hope you'll love it! It was unputdownable for me : )

I teach a class on internet safety and privacy to my pupils sometimes, generally for classes age 11-13. Almost all the kids use Snapchat, and, without exception, there are rooms full of horrified faces when I tell them that the pictures do not, in fact, disappear forever. I dread to think what kind of stuff they're…

Yup. I have one class with FIVE girls with the same name - three of them have a surname beginning with the same letter too, so I can't even call out 'Firstname B' or whatever to make it clear who I'm talking to.

Is he ... eating HAM? Beautiful.

Eh - it's still better than Jedward.

You can send a letter to the Nigerian ambassador in your country to add to the international pressure to act -https://amnesty.org.uk/actions/nigeri…

They are the best part! I teach a couple of religion classes at a Catholic high school, and I've been showing my pupils these clips. The happy cheering old nuns are their favourite bit every time!

Has this been run through Google translate or something?

I suppose avoiding confusion or conflict by teaching the other children not to bully would be out of the question?

Dat ass ...

I would guess they consider non-Islamic education, and the education of girls, 'Western'.

I, for one, welcome our new robot overlords.

One of my favourite memories from the many interminable car journeys en route to relatives' houses when I was a kid, was when we got stuck in a tiny country lane behind several rogue sheep. My dad got out and spent an hour trying to chase them back into the field while we sat in the car and cheered every time a sheep…

Right?! Welsh is really moving away from the whole satanic kailyard thing I guess.

It's a brilliant analogy :) And quippy!

I love how the hunter-gatherer thing is often cast as solitary men wrestling sabre tooth tigers, when mostly it would have been groups of men, y'know, gathering berries or trapping rabbits.