On Political Polls and Negative Rainfall
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-03-26/coalition-support-leaps-in-latest-newspoll/4593938 – Coalition support leaps in latest Newspoll (Trigger warning: “smug bastard” photo of Tony Abbott). Does it occur to anyone else this headline is rather like “Phenomenal amount of rain didn’t fall yesterday”? According to this poll, if somehow time were annihilated between today, Tuesday the 26th of March, and Saturday the 14th of [...]
So yeah, kid’s movies.
Reviews of four of the latest release kids movies: Wreck it Ralph, Rise of the Guardians, ParaNorman and Hotel Transylvania. Contains spoilers.
What can they reasonably expect?
What is a reasonable expectation if you have invited someone over to watch a movie?
BFTP: Popularity of long-debunked rape myths: talk about disheartening
Sites aimed at rape prevention should do a better job of checking their facts if they really want to help women and other potential rape victims: parroting long-debunked factoids does more harm than good.
This is a repost: originally published in 2008. Over the last week it’s suddenly started getting first dozens and now hundreds of views per day. Since the original post’s comments were closed long ago, please comment here if you have something to say.
Things that add to tigtog’s misanthropy #8725606
Any sapient meteors planning on committing suicide in the earth’s atmosphere in the near future? Please consider targeting this dipshit as your final gesture? PLEASE.
BFTP: The myth of bra burning feminists
In 1968, some activists demonstrated against the Miss America beauty pageant and threw objects of “female oppression” – bras, high-heeled shoes, girdles, curlers – into a trash can. They were arguing about liberation – there was never any bra-burning – but the myth of the feminist as a bra-burner was created by the western media.
There was also a crucial word missed in the description of the trashed bras.
Insurance Fail
Mum not a good enough title for you? Nevermind, this insurance company will look after you.
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BFTP: If bare midriffs and short-shorts really made athletes run faster
then this is what the male sprinters would be wearing.
Pedant Corner: it’s Free REIN, whoa Nelly!
It’s an equestrian metaphor, not a monarchy metaphor. OK?
Peeve: it’s RAISES/RAISING the question, dangnabbit
Unless one has made some detailed study of the field of rhetoric, and the use and misuse of logical fallacies therein, one is almost certainly not using the phrase “begs/begging the question” correctly. Yes, world – UR DOIN IT RONG.
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