@Miss_Snuffy You grew up in Canada and then studied French (and philosophy) at Oxford. I know that is permitted there (unlike at Cambridge). And academics' kids often do use their knowhow to find sneaky ways in. But it takes a nerve to then sell yourself as a voice of hard work and integrity.
@jk_rowling There’s nothing more sexist than your go to insults being
1.’Ugly’ - key among the many words used to condemn women much more than men
and
2. A word that implies being identified with female anatomy is the worst insult imaginable.
@Glinner To be fair, ‘bad things happened and so, in reaction, the Church got away underfeeding and abusing children’ is basically a potted history of Ireland.
@natesilver To be fair, at one point, when Britain had a trade deficit, we literally got a large part of China addicted to heroin. Just if you want to feel better about America’s actions today.