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• Recklessly supplying a SIM card

  By tigtog on 2007-07-17 • ( 12 )

  Curmudgeon of the Day goes to the caller I heard on ABC702 talkback radio this morning (paraphrased from memory): What a ridiculous charge?…How do you even do that? Tie it to a brick and chuck it at someone? He’s talking… Read More ›

• So, is it OK?

  By tigtog on 2007-07-16 • ( 38 )

  crossposted at Feministe Jessica, Amanda, Twisty and Violet Socks (and Melissa too!)have all written about this article: Is it OK to Demand Anal Sex?. The picture accompanying the article is odiously twee and threatening simultaneously, and as virtually every respondent… Read More ›

• Notes for those reading via RSS

  By tigtog on 2007-07-16 • ( 2 )

  Hi, I’m doing some updating of old posts today, mainly shifting images which are chewing up my bandwidth to other image hosting services. So if you see an old post turn up in your feed-reader, it’s only because I’m updating… Read More ›

• Review: Exit The King

  By tigtog on 2007-07-15 • ( 6 )

  I was fortunate enough to step into a seat for the sold-out season of this play when my Belvoir St Theatre-subscribing friend C’s friend C was too ill to make it. How lucky was I? Geoffrey Rush on stage in… Read More ›

• Sigh

  By tigtog on 2007-07-15 • ( 5 )

  (Now crossposted at Feministe – I’m guest-blogging there this week. Thanks, Jill!) 10 points to Indian journalist Saira Kurup for debunking the myth of bra-burning feminists as part of a column about the history of the bra. -100 points for… Read More ›

• Quicklink: fundraising drive against female genital cutting

  By tigtog on 2007-07-14 • ( 1 )

  Missed this while I was away, and some of you may have already seen the post linked at Alas, A Blog!, but the post is still open: Kim at Larvatus Prodeo is on a comments drive to raise money for… Read More ›

• Picture worth a thousand words of the day, and rally for Aboriginal justice

  By tigtog on 2007-07-14 • ( 1 )

  NAACP GOP Presidential Forum, originally uploaded by by JillNic83 The picture is via Jill of Feministe, and her post title is a cracker: But Abraham Lincoln was a Republican! That’s good enough, right? — There are rallies around Australia today… Read More ›

• Where the wild political parodies are

  By tigtog on 2007-07-13 • ( 15 )

  My ISP hates me and I can’t hardly browse anything at the moment. Luckily I have siblings with computers who also have kids whose cuteness is second only to mine own sprogs’ cuteness who can be blogged about. Image credit:… Read More ›

• Whatever game that’s in aid of, you can play it on your own

  By tigtog on 2007-07-12 • ( 8 )

  Scene: Chez togmob, master bedroom, early hours. The senior togmobbers are engaged in lustful pursuits, when mr tog reaches playfully into the bedside drawer, and flourishingly extracts A SHOEHORN. tigtog: Eep! mr tog: oh.. er.. um.. not what I meant… Read More ›

• This is nasty.

  By tigtog on 2007-07-11 • ( 13 )

  Although I am, to quote an old Sandra Boynton gag, “eruditer than you” (or at least most), I still found reading through the composition quoted below involved more than a handful of false starts and reversals. Via Making Light, via… Read More ›