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What I'm really thinking: the Botox user: 'It does give me quiet satisfaction that I have this slightly shocking secret'

(This is a 'shocking secret' that can go right up there with Time Out's staff's 'guilty pleasures'. I.e., as it 'you don't get out much, do you?')

But aside from that
I could never tell my partner; he would hate the idea.... He ( Read more... )

Dept of 'Mrs Queen: She Dead': 'Streetwise' British teenagers are ignorant about sex, survey reveals (like, what do they think causes the teenage pregnancy/STD stats - something in the water?). And on this: 'It found that three-quarters of girls said they would not consider having an abortion', I'm very hmmm, because one would really like to know ( Read more... )

Feeling somewhat less dire, but not in any way well - even if I did make Major Expotition to the nearest pillar box, approx 3 short blocks away.

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Okay, my motto (or one of them) may be 'Diff'rent strokes for diff'rent folks' (because I-I-I'm everyday people) but on reading this article, I can't help feeling that the person in question is Doing ( Read more... )

Upon reading this report about new internet game for wee gyrlyz to train them in the wayz of wymmynhood:
The aim of the Miss Bimbo beauty contest game, which was launched in Britain last month, is to become the "hottest, coolest, most famous bimbo in the whole world", and contestants who compete against each other are told to "stop at nothing", ( Read more... )

No! No! DO.NOT.WANT!

She's baaaaaaack - yes, dear readers, it's The Return of Lionel Shriver in the Guardian G2, and she's wittering on in typical self-absorbed trivial form. We do wonder if those low-wattage peach light bulbs have something to do with her vaunted claim to look ever-so much younger than she actually is...

With gratuitous note of ( Read more... )

Doris Lessing, aged 88.... [i]n her [Nobel] acceptance speech... recalls her childhood in Africa and laments that children in Zimbabwe are starving for knowledge, while those in more privileged countries shun reading for the 'inanities' of the internet. You know, I would find this a lot more compelling if one could not, looking back over the ( Read more... )

I posted a week or so ago about the Mexican spices etc vendor who emailed me about putting a link on my website - where I already have a link to a site selling similar stuff that I've been using since pre-online ordering. Which was a bit pushy, but it was an individualised (apparently) message, with a link to the actual URL, and it was about ( Read more... )

Longish article in today's Guardian by Decca Aitkenhead on cosmetic surgery: Most British women now expect to have cosmetic surgery in their lifetime. How did the ultimate feminist taboo become just another lifestyle choice?. I am not sure that this is really 'the ultimate feminist taboo', an expression that strikes me as purest journalese.

I ( Read more... )