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Are you sitting comfortably?
Then I’ll begin. I often complain about how banal BBC news is. Sometimes they carry front page headlines which are more suited to the British tabloid press or gossip columns, and quite often science reporting is dumb and ill-thought out. This is a pity because they’re a frontline news source and carry a huge responsibility, particularly as they are publicly…
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Hands-free, germs-free, logic-free.
UK TV just started showing ads for a new product (although these are not a new idea) from Dettol – the ‘No-touch’ automatic handwash dispenser. Check it out here. It’s £9.99 and has a sensor that detects when your hands require a splut of liquid soap so you can wash ’em. Their reasoning is, dirty germ-ridden hands touch the regular…
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From Star Wars to Bra Wars
In my last post I declared that women are equal to men in at least one thing (sci fi appreciation). There is one area in which women are almost entirely alone, though. Bras. Men don’t generally wear ’em, so there’s nothing sexist in my saying “hey ladies, getting the right bra, what’s all THAT about?”. I was super skinny in…
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No, STAR WARS is my Star Wars
This blog post is doing the rounds today. It’s a review of Sex and the City 2 by a man who doesn’t know anything about it. It contains this sentence: First off, ladies, I get it. It’s your Star Wars. The opening credits make your tummy tickle the same way the Star Wars theme, to this day, gives me a boner. I…
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It’s Everybody Draw Mohammed Day!
As elegantly v-logged by Rebecca, today is Everybody Draw Mohammed Day. Because the originator of the idea has pulled out (one assumes she’s experienced some unpleasant correspondence), I believe that one essential element of the project is up for interpretation… …which Mohammed? And so I happily present to you, in honour of Everybody Draw Mohammed Day, an elegant portrait of Mohammed…
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WTF Scrabble?
“WTF” is not allowed in the game of Scrabble, because it’s an initialism. This will probably remain the case forever, and rightly so because it’s a game of words. It’s an initialism because it doesn’t create a word, unlike an acronym, such as NATO. No dilemma in Scrabble though, because NATO is a name. Names, brands and other proper nouns…
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Pepsi Max – A Bit Rapey
I just saw a new ad (on British TV) for Pepsi Max, which you can see here: A guy hits on a woman in a bar, she makes it clear she’s not interested. Then a news item comes on the bar TV saying that an asteroid is about to hit earth. The woman is seen to panic, she and the…
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Kick-Ass and Comics and Whiskers on Kittens
I’m writing a movie review because I saw Kick-Ass before general release and it was AWESOME! Whee! Yeah, yeah, not a big deal to real movie reviewers, but it doesn’t happen to me very often. Actually…just once before.  I was invited to the British premiere of the Simpsons movie. They had a huge yellow carpet (instead of red, clever stuff)…
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