damerell

I dislike being around children when they are noisy (and I have quite a low threshold for "noisy", of children, and I don't believe any child is consistently not-noisy); I certainly don't want to be responsible for anyone's wellbeing except my own, except to a degree with adults who can provide mutual support - especially in the way that a child does, with little or no opportunity to take time off; I don't want my spare time and money, which are stretched quite thin by my existing interests, further consumed; and while I still find babies quite cute, I don't have that reaction to older children, and I find most teen and young adult behaviour very unpleasant.

I already felt like this at 22 or so when I was dating LNR - which was when it became an issue that actually needed consideration; I suspect from around age 17. I certainly knew before I knew there was a word for it, in spite of the usual childhood stuff that assumes everyone will have a het marriage and kids.

It's a joke about first-person shooters, which nearly always have crates in - even the ones in fantasy environments, the far future, etc.

Doom's E2M2 _Containment Area_ is a big room full of crates, which probably started the whole thing going. The injoke was responsible for "Cratematch" for one fo the Quakes, where all the players look like crates and fight in a big room full of crates.

No, it's perfectly ordinary G&S. I didn't see much in Cambridge, but I've always enjoyed it; my father sang various tenor parts in amateur productions, and would sing to me at bedtime.

Yes. But I think I had the film in mind at the time. :-)

Hm, I should have realised someone would pick that. It's rude, but you probably guessed that from the name.

Boku No Sexual Harassment is one of the better-known pieces of yaoi (Japanese smut that depicts impossibly idealised gay men, for the benefit of and often drawn or directed by straight women) anime. Some tasteless reprobates (Wednesday and me) did a parody fansub of it; same video footage, same audio [1], allegedly humorous subtitles.

It's played at a few British anime cons now to - modesty aside - gales of laughter.

[1] Well, there's a few video/audio gags, but by and large the original.

Never... Deadly, yeah, but after that you've done both the missions on the Beeb version, and there's just more kills to rack up.