Despite the folks behind this website believing they have a sense of humour*, this appears to be sadly not actually a joke: Darwin Dating: online dating minus ugly people Darwin Dating has been designed by hot people for hot people…. Read More ›
crass
Not so appropriate to call them machines – ya think?
Reproduced in full from Japan Times:Yanagisawa calls women ‘birth-giving machines’ MATSUE, Shimane Pref. (Kyodo) Health minister Hakuo Yanagisawa referred to women as “birth-giving machines” in a speech Saturday on welfare and health care. Addressing prefectural assembly members of the Liberal… Read More ›
Up-skirting not just for schoolboys, sadly
Last year one of the boys at my daughter’s school was upsetting her and her friends by looking up their skirts. I spoke to his teacher and it apparently stopped soon after, but those girls were greatly distressed and a… Read More ›
Come back when you can play with the big boys
Repellent neologism of the week: minigarch (anyone worth less than $50m) I guess that makes me a nanogarch, if I’m lucky. seen and defined in today’s Crikey! email
Mystery outbreak of deaths due to excessive mirth
It’s because Christopher Hitchens is slayin’ ’em with this killer material. Hohohohohoho. More from Twisty, Amanda, Echidne and Shakespeare’s Sis. Of course, we’re not laughing with him. (It’s the way that he tells them) Addendum: Welcome Sideshow readers! (thanks for… Read More ›
V. tasteless but v.funny
Safe for work unless you’re terrified of fire and brimstone or surrounded by those who resent you deeply because you’re not. It’s fun to stay at the: Tiny SFW thumbnail via zuzu NB: I tried to track the blog chain… Read More ›
Daddy Dearest redux
There’s now special DVD’s being marketed to not only remember that special Daddy-Daughter night forever, but obviously to persuade other girls that they should take part as well. [warning: brain-bleach may well be required afterwards]
Foetuses behind a plane
I learnt over at Another Blog today that in some places in the States kind people will fly over your place of work, study or recreation and attempt to horrify you. Apparently, all over the USA this last summer, if… Read More ›
We know war is hell, but don’t expect any help when you come back
From August, this collaborative post on PTSD-denial between Respectful of Otters and Idealistic Pragmatist dissects a scornful Canadian columnist’s hatchet-job on veterans with ongoing mental trauma problems arising from their military service. The columnist concerned is joining an increasing number… Read More ›
No, I don’t know why either
See, I was googling for pictures of a kids’ sack race, because I wanted to play Photoshop some and make a banner image for somebody. Well, this wasn’t quite what I was looking for, but I just had to share,… Read More ›
Hoyden About Town 