Via fritters: cat shower. Wet head! Towel off, eh.

silverblue tweeted: Nuns on counseling condom use and AIDs prevention in PNG: "We are getting very old and hard of hearing, and Rome is a long way away."

Via qthewetsprocket: A FREAKING ENORMOUS SPIDER and many amusing responses thereunto. Don't click if you know it'll freak you out! (Oops - you need to join whatwasthatone to see it ( Read more... )

• Anti-bullying forces are targeting the bystanders and the NCPC anti-cyberbullying campaign
  
  
• Conversation a different art for men and women
  
  
• Mad Pride. My scepticism is enormous. OTOH: "... I was acutely aware just how much their stance reflects on the rest of us-the "normal" minds that can't read through a book undistracted, the lightly depressed ( Read more... )

Sleep's all messed up. No surprise there - I slept all day after the hospital, then all night, then long naps in the morning and afternoon, so ping, there I was at 3 am, on the sofa with a book light and The World's Greatest Stories For Boys And Girls, being stared at for hours by an eerily immobile demon-eyed cat who wanted his breakfast ( Read more... )

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Last year I posted mourning the demotion of the word misogyny from its original, powerful meaning, "hatred of women", to a mere replacement for the word "sexism". Language naturally changes like this. But I was reminded that we're going to need a new word to describe woman-hating the other day, when I observed a self-described lesbian feminist ( Read more... )

Leaked documents confirm resident's fear of foul pulp mill: "The chemicals in pulp mill odours are some of the most objectionable smelling compounds known to science. The worst is methyl mercaptan, which smells like stale sewage. When we got out of the minibus in the car park [at a Swedish "world's best practice" pulp mill, Resource, Planning and ( Read more... )

On a quest for Top Gear bloopers, I watched some stuff cut out of the News earlier this year. There are lots of silly lols, as you might expect, and then this really nasty little bit where they slag off a woman for being ugly ( Read more... )

I'm never going to be able to make this into an LJ icon, am I? It's just the wrong darn shape.

( The Hidden Fortress )

Nine out of 10 Australian women have regular "fat days" and most are miserable about their bodies

Big fat lies and damned statistics: "The new report tells us 68 per cent of Australian men are overweight or obese. But it's ridiculous to lump overweight and obese people together. Do the maths. If you stand 1.83 metres like me, then you enter the ( Read more... )

Australia will no longer charge immigration detainees for their own imprisonment

School of hard knocks still follows tradition, say parents: claims that bullying continues at Farrer high school, despite policy changes and a half million dollar payout to a severely traumatised former student.

Anti-abortion group barred from NSW schools

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