People who do something for you in a muddlesome faff-about way that you could do yourself in half a minute -

In this instance, loading my PowerPoint of lovely images of loathsome diseases to a laptop -

And make such a fiddle-faddle production of it that you decide that you will not wait until they are done before asking where is the loo, given the ( Read more... )

There is annoying WOEZ WOEZ PC article criticising the protest against pink girly Lego ('celebrating not architecture and action but beauty salons, cupcake bakeries and poodle parlours': pass me a sparkly pink sickbag) in today's Guardian.

It is particularly irksome because Hannah Betts goes ' the one area we should never seek to police is [ ( Read more... )

There are things that are more irksome than this kind of misunderstanding of what feminism means, but it's pretty bad, nonetheless:
Antony Hegarty: 'We need more oestrogen-based thinking'.
It's not just that it's essentialising about gender (honestly, do we really think that men and women are 'like computers with two different operating systems'?)

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I did not watch Episode 3 of The Sex Researchers last night. Episode 1 pretty much turned me off.

However, someone left a message on my voicemail indicating that there was something in it of possible interest, so I started watching it via 4D on their website.

Well, actually, listening with half an ear for thing of interest to manifest, and doing ( Read more... )

Sex selection: Getting the baby you want. Reading this:
"We were on the 'girl diet' for months. No red wine, no red meat, no coffee, and you had to have white rice and fish and chicken. It was quite bizarre. My friend was on it, too. He had a girl."

Made me think that one could easily expand the advice found in Aristotle's Masterpiece on 'How to ( Read more... )

When people say (the period is around 1930s/40s) things like:
Orthology flies the same flag, and is in fact based on Yuan Shan's contention that Chinese and Negro thought cannot be interpreted in current Aryan grammatical categories ( Read more... )