Archive > December 2008

Save us from the sexy babies

AN American blogger is berating parents for buying their babies bibs with “hottie” logos. She accuses these parental pimps of advertising their kiddies as prostitots and encouraging pedophiles: “I have to wonder if they think about the child predators who claim that kids are flirting with them or asking for it,” the blogger writes.
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Dear sport

DEAR Sport,
You probably don’t remember me but I was the fat kid who tried and sucked at netball, soccer, hockey, squash, judo, long-distance running, no-distance running and, very briefly and traumatically, synchronised swimming.
I did my best to get to know you but the two of us weren’t compatible. I didn’t like your alpha dog-eat-dog competitivism [...]

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Unprecedented opportunities for courtship and infidelity – the travesty of the telegraph

MOST media stories about the internet concern its evil deeds: its fame-a-fying of Finnish serial shooters is just one, not particularly grammatical, example. Reading the headlines, it’s easy to assume that the cyber-sphere poses a threat like no other. There have, however, been many precedents.
Guess which technological breakthrough was accused of causing young people to [...]

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What part of “you are a shambling capitalist skinbag” do you not understand?

AT the risk of kicking capitalism while it’s down, clearly the time has come for the Big C to reassess its rapaciousness beyond the esoteric realms of the international money markets.
Thanks to the media’s ever-increasing massness (not to mention the increasing affordability of the average item), capitalism’s obsession with always trying to sell everyone everything [...]

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