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I found it in my mother’s bookshelf. Irigaray I have never heard of.

In Sweden, the general age of consent is 15. It’s 18 if one of the participants is under the others’ superintendence ‘or the like’ (which would include a teacher, for example).

The age of consent, worldwide (purple = only applies if in a marriage; grey = no data):

If you are thinking of what I wrote about under-age drinking with the parents’ consent, there is no law over here prohibiting it that I know of (with some exceptions, I think, e.g. minors are not allowed to drink unsupervised in public).

The Second Sex (know your enemy, etc.). I’m only 100 pages in, but it’s surprisingly reasonable so far.

You can’t have your Kate and Edith too.

Humorous misanthropes = my favourite kind of people. Misanthropic dry sticks = all right in small doses.

OK, so is the BBC going downmarket now or what? That’s a non-story if I ever saw one.

Hotness. This notion has been confuted by many studies, though. To simplify the findings a bit, most experts agree on that the later in life you are exposed to alcohol, the less the risk of your becoming an alcoholic. I’m all for high age limits, especially when it comes to voting. Didn’t...

MP3s on my computer = 95% of my listening. MP3s on my MP3-player (not one of those cheesy IPods, thank you very much) = 4% of my listening (mostly podcasts, actually). CDs on my parents’ ghetto blaster (= suburbia blaster) = 1% of my listening. Most of the time, I find the amplifier and the...

With all due respect, it seems like you are commenting on the state of affairs circa 2001 or something. Next to all newly encoded files are over 200kbit VBR. (Quick browse through some recent [illegal] downloads: 219kbit [VBR], 254kbit [VBR], 214kbit [VBR], 192kbit, 224kbit, 231kbit [VBR].)

A good example of how the religion-bashers overestimate the role that religion plays in conflicts is a comment that I heard Hitchens make regarding the conflict in Palestine. He basically said that agreeing on a settlement would be child’s play were it not for religion. I think he’s wrong.

Only one from Bermuda of whom I know: Collie Buddz

The U.S. constitution sucks. The sooner the Yanks come to terms with this, the better.

OTM.

Somehow all this makes Beyoncé seem even more phoney, the relationship as a calculated PR stunt (all the talk about the match in heaven between the ‘queen of r&b’ and the ‘king of hip hop’).

The ambiguity is created by people who want to bend the rules in order to warrant the legality of the attack. Suppose that the aggressor were to have been some north African country. In such case, do you believe for a second that the discussion would have been similar? Not a chance. That being...

I object to the banning of Mr Tea for the same reason that I’m glad that hunderedmillionlifetimes was not banned. This forum needs more vociferous debaters, not less. All too many threads are characterised by either timorousness, or the kind of backslapping that leads the discussion nowhere...

I make the distinction between faux egalitarians, on the one hand, and the reality-based community, on the other. The funny thing about the ‘we are all birds of a feather’ crowd is that when they exemplify why it’s supposedly so, they bring up traits and preferences that are NOT AT ALL...