Last week I was horrified to come across some survey that had been done on people using dating apps during lockdown and men who were actually trying to set up in-person hang-outs and negging women who, quite reasonably, did not want to hang out with some total stranger in the middle of a pandemic.
And while one could I daresay put this down to the ( Read more... )

Unfortunately quite a lot of it was along uninspiring main roads.
I found a paper map (in the back of a promotional magazine for the delights of Sioux Falls) because I was being irked by Google Maps and directions, and it seemed to me that walking to the Great Plains Zoo was doable, which it was, but rather further than I had quite anticipated and ( Read more... )

Okay, this is a bit of classic instance of getting a column, for which the person has presumably been paid, out of something that they have observed in themself, &/or in a Very Small And Probably Unrepresentative Sample of people they met during the last week. (One writer mate and his toddler niece, in this instance.)
I have forgotten how to read.
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Mixed martial arts is the fastest-growing sport on Earth.... what does this bloody spectacle say about the world we live in?
I don't know what, if anything, it says about the world we live in, but that article suggests to me someone who does not know a great deal about the history of sport/popular entertainment - I am like, o tempora, o mores, what ( Read more... )

(Longtime readers will be aware that the hedjog is of the opinion that there is no such thing as a 'Real -' when applied to any group of humanity.)
Yesterday afternoon I went to the Occasional Seminar thing I rather infrequently manage to get to, and was given the following thoughts to ponder upon.
It was mentioned (though not in tones that ( Read more... )

Claim that menopause arose because way back in Ye Prymevalz, men no longer fancied older women.

No, really, how would that work?

Even before one starts wondering what, exactly, the basis for sexual attraction/interaction was on Ye Ancient Savanna and whether your primitive bloke was driven by the kind of assumptions about what constitutes Teh Sexxi ( Read more... )

Further to my comments on a post by
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It's an 'Untold Story' published by a press which seems only to have produced other works by the same person (+ one on a topic related to one of his interests by someone who is presumably a mate).

No, I don't know why anyone would be sending me a flyer for their self-published work claiming that Darwin did indeed convert on his deathbed and Lady ( Read more... )

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I was reminded, following a side-riff in comments yesterday, of the probably apocryphal but nonetheless ben trovato reader-response to those 1970s books (?von Daniken) about superior beings coming to Earth during The Dawn of History and putting primitive humanity on the right track - the anecdote alleged that astrophysicists were impressed by the ( Read more... )