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… a polling station in Biggin Hill. Keep him there, please.
Be sure to cast your votes, people.
Beyonce: Behind the Curtain
Practically everyone wants to be famous these days.
We all know that person who reads magazines and speaks in hushed tones about the perfection therein; the flawless skin, the perfectly proportioned muscle groups, the happy, carefree, penthouse suite boasting infinity pool life that millions of dollars can afford. Perhaps we tease them gently, rib them about their aspirations, which we ourselves see through because we know that money and a designer baby doesn’t equal happiness, it just appears to when photographed in the right lighting.
Insight: The Acceptable Face of Cheerleading
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Getty Images are running a NFL Cheerleading Look Back featuring 85 photos of women in varying stages of sporting excitement. This one is my favourite.
If you’ve never visited this site before, consider it a helpful indicator of the kind of content you can expect in the future, should you decide to stay.
Forewarned is forearmed, as they say.
Digital Witness Says: Error. Does Not Compute
For ‘The Valleys’ girls, this is a arguably step forward. Image via blogspot.
When I were a lass, digital technology was, like my sense of dignity, in its infancy.
I could stride confidently through my errors of judgement – clothing, opinions, whether a cardboard box full of beer bottles would indeed hold my weight – safe in the knowledge that while I would wake up with a hangover, some minor facial injuries and a heavy feeling of shame in my gut, it was unlikely the moment in question was currently being broadcast across social media networks or indeed, national newspapers.
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Take This Quick & Easy Personality Test!
Look at the above picture, Instagrammed by my estranged pop idol last month.
Were you grossed out? Disgusted? Violently sick into a bag? If so, read on to learn something fascinating about yourself!
Everyday Sexism: With One Hand You Giveth, With The Other You Slappeth Away
So for want of something better to do, I click on this Buzzfeed article called ‘8 Stories Of Everyday Sexism, As Told By Female Journalists‘ and I get really, really pissed off and angry that people like those described still exist in the world and their pathetic, irrational fear of women achieving something is having an impact on lives and careers in 2014.
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David Cameron: Selfie Fulfilling Prophecy
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“If the person taking the selfie has a bionic hand, is it still a selfie?”
David Cameron grasps at existential straws while teetering on the brink of yet another photography based social media scandal.
The Last Leg: A Far More Appropriate Response…
When I wrote about Paddy Power’s execrable ‘betting opportunity’ on the Oscar Pistorius trial last week, I tried to present my argument against it in a (relatively) measured way.
I was wrong. This response, from Adam Hills on his Channel 4 show, ‘The Last Leg’, is far more appropriate. I can only apologise.
Paddy Power: Taste Test
A massive congratulations to Paddy Power, who, with their latest betting offer, have managed to be even more brutally offensive and dehumanising to the memory of Reeva Steenkamp than the Sun newspaper managed in their coverage of her murder.
Holy Motors: Here We Are Now, Entertain Us
Arthouse cinema has been defined as “serious, independently made film that is not aimed at a mass audience”. The inference being that it doesn’t pander to the tropes of Hollywood cinema and if the threat of subtitles doesn’t startle the audience into the queue for Transformers 4: Age of Extinction (promises, promises), then the possibility of having their understanding of the world challenged will.
I’m not going to get too preachy about it – if you reject a cinematic experience on the basis that you have to read text while you’re watching, you deserve to miss out on some truly great films – but it’s a sad indictment of modern life when our choice of entertainment reflects our inhibitions back at us.
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