I agree - I don't think the kids were doing it out of any meanness at all, but I think it would have been a good opportunity for a teachable moment.

Obligatory 'no one will see this as I'm in the greys', but recently while I was working at a school a number of students dressed in striped clothes for World Book Day ('come dressed as your favourite literary character'). They were dressing up as 'the Boy in the Striped Pyjamas'. I said in the staff room that I…

I swear to Christ I can't tell those three apart.

Aw :) This is really cute. My grandparents all passed away when I was very little, so I never got to have this kind of relationship with them. Those of you with grandparents still about are lucky people :)

I'm going to be a dick, but . . . It was Macduff who was from his mother's womb untimely ripped. That's why he could kill Macbeth, as he was no man of woman born. I'm sorry . . . I'm an out of work English teacher ; b

I got a story from a student once where a character was 'raped gently in bandages'. Awks.

Name: Zaci Deets

I like 'anaemic milk', myself.

Too much foofarah. I like something with a bit of slink.

REAL TALK

Also no white hot pants.

Hence the unintentional hilarity of 'fanny pack'.

Hamsters Eating Stuff is second only in awesomeness to Hamsters Stuffing Things in Their Cheek Pouches.

Damn, that gif has made my day. Cheers Milkshaker!

I have now been schooled by two people on my Fassbender knowledge. I recant everything I said ; )

Ah, I didn't know that, thanks!

I caught The Devil's Own on TV the other day. So terrible, much awful, very diddley-iddley.

Fassbender is from the North, but his accent is quite unusual (because German parent, possibly? (I should not know this much about him.)). This guy sounds more like he's from the republic to me.

OH MY GOD HUNGERGAMES LASER TAG. I LOVE THIS IDEA.

Ha! My first thought was, 'Damn, Groot!'