Category: Weighty Matters

What’s wrong with this picture?

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“Our Nation is unalterably committed to protecting our citizens, routing terror wherever it exists, and building a safer, better world of greater opportunity and freedom for all peoples. We will not rest until we succeed.”

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#MerkelStrokes: How awkward do you want to get with this?

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This video of Angela Merkel awkwardly comforting a teenage Palestinian refugee during a school discussion has gone viral under the hashtag #MerkelStrokes.

The theory being that the German Chancellor is unable to deal with it when directly confronted with the implications of her policies.

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Go With The Flo

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I’m usually excessively early to parties. It’s because I’m quite socially anxious, and if I arrive before anyone else, I can establish my exits and seating arrangements while simultaneously ensuring I don’t have to walk into a room full of people.

I spent much of my youth standing in empty nightclubs for much the same reason.

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Leicester City FC: Paying For Sex

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Many see football and feminism as mutually exclusive interests, but as someone who writes about both, I can confirm they cross paths more frequently than you might suspect.

And certainly more than either would like.

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‘Drain the Titanic’: A Sentimental Journey Through The Darkest Depths

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I was obsessed with the Titanic when I was a kid.

I had a hardback book about it, passages of which I could recite verbatim, and a National Geographic video of Robert Ballard’s 1985 expedition to locate the wreck, which I watched until the modern day footage was as grainy as the images they took from the bottom of the Atlantic.

Suffice to say, after the novelty of a seven-year-old babbling on about impact zones, deep sea pressure changes and steel corrosion had worn off, my parents started locking me in my bedroom when we had guests.

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Big Brother: The Young & the Desperate

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As bad habits go, writing  about appalling television sits on the social niceties scale alongside blowing one’s nose on the curtains.

Not only does the act provoke outrage and derision at the time, but everyone feels inexplicably dirty and wrong for a long time afterwards.

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Hideo Kojima: The word you’re clumsily grabbing for is “Tits”

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Those ‘soft materials’ are located in and around the breast area, in case you’re failing to keep up.

Unlike Metal Gear Solid character Quiet’s boobs on this soon to be released ‘action’ figure.

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Dominique Strauss-Kahn: Pressing the flesh

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According to evidence given by sex workers at his trial, it could be suggested that this kind of thing seems to happen quite regularly in the vicinity of Dominique Strauss-Kahn.

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Neat point, well made, FEMEN.

 

 

Movie Review: Nightcrawler. Dead Inside

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So Hollywood has spotted their awkward boy’s potential.

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