Update to my original post re the site's classification as a 'hate site' on some work firewalls. From Websense : The site you submitted has been reviewed. We have found that it is best classified accordingly: http://ukcommentators.blogspot.com/ - Message Boards and Forums So out of all the classifie...

Ever since my 12th January post about the Prince Harry brouhaha (the last one), I've had mails from various readers pointing out that their employer or local authority web filter software now classifies me as a 'hate site'. At the time I presumed it was because I'd actually used the word that Prince...

I read this article in The West a little while ago, and it hit my bad-science peeve button. “Half of WA women drink throughout pregnancy“. This beat-up is certainly not alone in drawing conclusions that do not follow from the data, but it’s a particularly egregious example. The new...

We’ve done the other Bingos, and this one’s long overdue. With a nod to all the misogynist trolls out there who’ve provided the material for this card, I present: Antibreastfeeding Bingo! It’s focussed on public breastfeeding conversations, not “mommy wars” type c...

Many thanks to those who voted in our inaugural Troll-Off competition. Troll-Off Results: ~~~ Gold Medal, with 35% of the vote: No. 7, A. “god is punishing them for imbred sodomy” Lavey. Lavey may have had the advantage of topicality pushing him up the ratings. In the Silver position com...

Pavlov’s Cat, over at LP’s discussion on Helen’s post about the Rudd government’s failure to lift our Australian version of the Global Gag Rule: I like a person who comes right out and says that in his opinion a woman is nothing more than a centrally-heated wheelbarrow. He ma...

I was having a discussion about ambient intimacy in a couple of elsewheres, where I tried (and possibly failed) to say that what is so reviled by opinion editors and other meatsnobs can be useful in all sorts of ways. I like the little slices of life on my friends’ livejournals, however trivia...

[Left to right: Drew Barrymore, Tyra Banks, and Sara Ramirez.] After airing those Douchebag oTY contestants, here are some mad props - to an unlikely sort of crowd, the commentariat at Spike TV. Nick Coles dropped this little flight of douchewhimsy last week, “The Top 7 Butterbodies“. Co...

I’m back from holiday! Not quite back on board and blogging up a storm, but I thought I’d linkdump for some Sunday night reading for you. One of our fellow Best Midsize Blog finalists, Zomblog, is surprised and/or confused that some Muslim people are also gay activists. (Comments warning...

I was hoping to ignore the Prince Harry brouhaha, but as it was the main story on BBC news yesterday, occupied most of John Pienaar's 2 hr R5 'politics' programme and was the phone-in topic on R5 this morning ... a few points : a) this was another Murdoch press-sourced story. The Dirty Digger, now a...