A friend of mine has that tent thing because her toddler wouldn’t stop throwing his stuffed animals into his little sister’s crib. Doesn’t seem crazy to me.

The number of people with blue eyes will vary a lot from one place to another. In the US there are probably a lot more people with blue eyes than outie belly buttons.

Literacy stats are kind of complicated- sometimes they refer to people who are completely unable to read or write, but more often they’re counting people who lack the language skill necessary to cope with everyday life- so someone who can recognize simple words, write their name, and read a street sign would still be illiterate if they are unable to read a bus schedule or fill out a job application. Some percentage are able to do those tasks in their native language, but many are simply stuck at a grade school reading level.

That’s not cute, that’s food aggression. The family needs to deal with that before someone gets hurt.

After everything Alan Turing did for his country during WWII, the British government arrested him for homosexuality, chemically castrated him, and drove him to suicide. Given the way Britain treated Turing, it seems disrespectful to include him on a list of “Reasons it’s great to be British”.

If you argue against gay marriage based on studies that show that children from two-parent homes are, on average, better off than children raised by single parents, you are an idiot as well as a bigot.

I don’t understand why cosplay isn’t considered an acceptably nerdy hobby all on its own. So what if a person who enjoys making elaborate costumes doesn’t also enjoy reading comic books? I enjoy making costumes for my friend’s theater troupe, and no one cares that I haven’t read Shakespeare since high school English class.