2011 – Page 7 – Hoyden About Town

Economists with crying babies on aeroplanes

By hatbluemilk on 2011-11-29 • ( 17 )

Using persuasion on crying children is something that non-parents are convinced will work — until the moment they become parents themselves and realize their own utter stupidity.

Burzynski Clinic, meet Streisand Effect – you’re going to be spending some time together

By tigtog on 2011-11-29 • ( 9 )

When skeptics start questioning the scientific basis for the Burzynski Clinic’s highly expensive “antineoplaston” cancer therapy, that’s the time that you are supposed to offer proof of therapeutic benefit. Issuing threats instead tends to make it look like the Burzynski Clinic just doesn’t have any proofs to offer.

G’day, Bingo Viewers!

By tigtog on 2011-11-28 • ( 4 )

There’s been an uptick over the last few weeks in site visitors clicking on links to Anti-Feminist Bingo and Anti-Feminist Bingo #2 – since comments on those posts have been long closed, I invite you to comment here instead, should you feel so inclined.

Intermittent Emma: morale building messages

By tigtog on 2011-11-28 • ( 1 )

The Keep Calm trope has regularly upped my chuff levels, and I had a sudden bout of WWED, realising that Mrs Peel would definitely do her bit, so here you go:

The Barbie Distortion

By tigtog on 2011-11-28 • ( 9 )

[t]he media images and fashion icons that we aspire to emulate are constructions. Like billboard signs and magazine editorials, the pictures are manipulations that distort our sense of normal bodies.