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simont February 9 2010, 13:20:58 UTC
I'm deeply disappointed that "girl cooties" turned out to be a paraphrase.

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scribb1e February 9 2010, 18:22:27 UTC
Me too :-)

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gareth_rees February 9 2010, 13:34:30 UTC
That Telegraph piece is a mind-bending piece of conscious hypocrisy. "The only reason newspapers are reporting on this is because of sexism and prurience ... oh look, I'm reporting it in a newspaper too, perhaps if I acknowledge the sexism and prurience up front readers will give me a free pass when I indulge in them later on." (But then, a lot of Telegraph journalism is like this: too right-wing to avoid bigotry, but too intelligent not to be uncomfortable about it.)

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andrewducker February 9 2010, 13:53:55 UTC
Yes, this is why I find the Telegraph more readable than the Times - it is at least _intelligent_ bigotry, which means that so long as I filter out the bigotry I can find the writing interesting.

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gareth_rees February 9 2010, 14:00:55 UTC
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pw201 February 9 2010, 14:03:29 UTC
I thought that was Less Wrong.

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