Things that made me giggle this week. From SpareRoom NZ:
Life
Flimsy. Wimpy. Weak. The Parliamentary Breastfeeding Inquiry Report.
The discourse around breastfeeding, both public and private tends to flit between two summations: “Mothers should breastfeed” and “Mothers shouldn’t feel guilty”. I’m guessing that regular Hoydenistas have spotted the framing problem already: “Mothers should”. (If you’re a mother, are… Read More ›
Absolute classic
AussieBob over at Road to Surfdom does a spoof reply from our PM to the Kevin07 stuff – John007 | Cabinet: The Movie. Bonzer.
Invisible Illness Bingo.
I’ve posted before on my experience with invisible disability, and linked to amandaw on the “But you don’t look sick!” phenomenon. And for further background, everyone should read the “Open Letter to Those Without CFS/Fibro” at Not Done Living. Now… Read More ›
We’ve gone over to the yellow side
Images generated by The Simpsonizer. I couldn’t get the software to play nice and generate a background picture that I could put the whole family into (unlike Lauredhel’s effort), but here we are as icons at least.
Sunday Night Quiz
Here’s a Sunday Night Quiz for you! What is it? (yes, some of you may already know. Don’t give it away, eh?)
Timewaster of the weekend
Created using the HeroMachine Superhero Generator
Nassssty sysssssstem, we hatesssss it we does
Why on earth would a telco have an online registration system for prepaid SIM cards which doesn’t accept street numbers with letters (eg 29B) or hyphenated surnames? And why on earth would a telco with such a bizarre system then… Read More ›
Happy birthday, horsies
Image credit: orginally uploaded by g r e n Today is the official birthday of all racehorses in the Southern Hemisphere. Asked why it was essential to have all horses celebrating their birthday on the same day, Mr McCulloch said… Read More ›
Wednesday Wow
I cheated a bit for this one – instead of my usual random trawling through the Wow! image pool I deliberately looked for one with a fox in it, because of the story I heard on the radio
Hoyden About Town 