From the belly of the beast. Well, almost.

I think I would have died of a heart attack before I could beat my way out of a shark's throat.

Mon dieu! I know fashion runs in circles, but do we have to go back the eighteenth century?

Heh. I thought I was the only one who wanted to do that.

No, you're not!

Have you ever wanted to hire an angry, pitchfork-wielding, torch-carrying mob to storm the BBC in order to persuade Russell T Davies to bring back Blake's 7? Well, now you can!

And aw! Baby named after the department store he's born in. Luckily the happy event didn't happen in Harrods or Selfridges.

Airline removes family after toddler tantrum. You know, I'd like to say that they should have understood that kids sometimes have moments but the other part of me is saying,"Thank God!" because on my way home from NY (a six hour flight no less), there were kids in flight and one in particular cried and screamed for a solid, solid two hours. I was ready to open a window and walk the rest of the way.

The problem with that little kid wasn't the crying - it was the fact that the parents couldn't get her to sit in her seat and be buckled in and the airline had already given them 15 extra minutes. If they'd given them another 5 would she have cooperated? Maybe, but probably not even if they'd given them another half hour. I've traveled with a toddler and I know how hard it can be but that kid was out of control and the parents were ineffectual. They're the parents that give the rest of us a bad rep, thinking that it's okay to delay who knows how many people at both ends of the flight just so they have enough time to coddle their demon spawn.

Yes, I read that story and the parents are complaining that they weren't given enough time to comfort their Little Precious. I think the problem is that they've been "comforting" their Little Precious a bit too freakin much.

Dude, totally. How hard could it be to strap a 3-year-old into an airline seat. I hate flying as it is, but after a flight of several hours with a screaming toddler, I would have voted to be sedated and loaded on with the luggage, Hannibal Lecter-style.

This must be a popular opinion, because in the poll that went with that story, more than 90% of the voters said the airline was justified in its action.

What's wrong with that story is the airline's communication with the parents. They needed to be told "get your kid in the seat or get off the plane" not the ridiculous reasons they were given after the fact.

Crying children are inevitable in travelling. Even well-behaved kids with responsive parents get tired from travelling or irritable from pressure changes. I'm not a parent and I hate being on trans-Atlantic flights with screaming children, but I also understand it. So I think the airline was dumb and out of line in the way it was handled.

I don't think the airline could have handled the situation any differently. The crew waited 15 minutes until after the flight's departure time before the family was kicked off of the flight. Boarding probably started, at the la-*test*-('"), 30 minutes before departure so that means 45 minutes of a screaming child. How much more time did the parents need to console their child?

Anyhoodle, why are you staring at my chest?

Cute Knut: First Polar Bear Born in Berlin Zoo in 30 Years. OMG look how cute he is! *sqees like an Orlando Bloom fangirl*

Yes, yes, I know they don't stay that little and cute, but awww.

They're a lot like human children that way. But, seriously, so cute! *squees like Orlando Bloom*

OK, that's seriously making me reconsider my childfree stance *squees like a baby polarbear*