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Things to make you go [insert name here] SMASH!
Today in moral panics.
Don’t be that girl
Don’t be that girl – who goes out with a man who writes books like this.
BFTP: If bare midriffs and short-shorts really made athletes run faster
then this is what the male sprinters would be wearing.
Pedant Corner: it’s Free REIN, whoa Nelly!
It’s an equestrian metaphor, not a monarchy metaphor. OK?
Peeve: it’s RAISES/RAISING the question, dangnabbit
Unless one has made some detailed study of the field of rhetoric, and the use and misuse of logical fallacies therein, one is almost certainly not using the phrase “begs/begging the question” correctly. Yes, world – UR DOIN IT RONG.
Oh please, give us some credit
Bettina Ardnt is trying to whip up a panic about our unmarried but partnered Prime Minister moving into the Lodge, after being elected, with her bloke. It could be a bad role model for young women she says. I say, complete crap,… Read More ›
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UPDATE The Second: as you can see, things are looking a bit more familiar. Sometime over the next week I’ll incorporate our hoyden images ~ tigtog
Snark of the Day: Dan Brown’s 20 worst sentences
From the Telegraph (UK): Below we have selected 20 phrases that may grate on the ear. It’s not a definitive list. It couldn’t be: he has published five novels, each around 500 pages long, and the arguments over which are… Read More ›
In good news…
#firstworldproblems
Hoyden About Town 