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  • BFTP: Friday Hoyden – Eleanor of Aquitaine

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    Another Summer Slowdown blast from the past post from the archives.. A long time e-friend in 2006 welcomed the arrival of his second daughter, to be known as Eleanor.

    I love that name, as Eleanor of Aquitaine (at various times Prince of Aquitaine as ruling Duchess, Queen of France, Queen of England, Queen Mother and Regent of England) is my favourite historical hoyden. EofA is, indeed, how I judge the quality of any encyclopaedia I encounter.

  • BFTP: How To Be A Bitch

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    This is not a repost exactly, as I am revisiting more than one previously published post in response to yet another comment left over at FF101 about How Feminism Killed Chivalry, So Enjoy Lifting Those Heavy Parcels Ladies, Because It Serves You Right. This is a favourite trope amongst the antifeminists, about how feminists will be sorry Real Soon Now because they’re saving themselves for real feminine women, who know how to be properly grateful when a man makes a big display of how nice he’s being right now when he could be being really nasty instead, but he isn’t being nasty right now, because he’s just Such A Nice Guy especially just for you.

  • As if the floodwaters weren’t enough

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    Queenslanders are having to watch out for poisonous snakes who also want a safe spot on high ground.

  • Femmostroppo Reader January 6, 2011

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    Items of interest come across recently in my feed-reader. Please leave your own interesting links in comments.

  • Women, food, advertising

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    Check out this collection of pictures over at the hairpin.

  • BFTP: So, how does one tell the axe-murderers from the con-artists?

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    This repost is part of our Summer Slowdown program of revisiting the blog archives, and was originally published in February 2006. I’m including this not because it’s anything special as a piece of writing, but because of how times seem to have changed so quickly over the last few years regarding meatspace meetups of cyberbuddies – I don’t think anyone hardly bats an eye any more.

  • Thursday Cheezburger – Over it

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    It doesn’t matter what you are over – Cheezy musak in shopping centres, Christmas, New Year resolutions, cricket on the TV, your team losing cricket on the TV, school holidays, Hot Cross buns in the shops already (I sincerely hope that they aren’t but neither would I be surprised); here is where you can let all your frustrations out using Lolcats.

    Post your own favourite in-theme Cheez here, and wait for admin image magic to make it appear.

  • Quote of the Day: Store Wars

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    I wonder if Mr Harvey thought through the consequences of highlighting to his customers on every news site just how much better deals are online.

  • 32nd Down Under Feminists Carnival @ Profligate Promiscuous Strumpet

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    In blue on a white background, the DUFC logo: in a square with rounded corners, there is the female/feminine symbol; with the Southern Cross inside, above which it says 'Down Under' and below 'Feminists Carnival'.

    The 32nd Down Under Feminists Carnival has gone up at Profligate Promiscuous Strumpet. Chally reminds us that submissions are open, this time for the 33rd edition.

  • Train Nerds Alert

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    The UK’s National Railway Museum has a free download on its website – a train simulator where one can drive The Flying Scotsman.