Deutsche Bank Protests: Seen It, Done It, Bought The Balaclava

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fempussCall yourself an activist? Think you’re blazing a trail in ‘Protest Wear’ because you turned up outside Deutsche Bank this morning dressed in an eye-catching, photographer-baiting outfit comprising balaclava, blank mask and cut out shapes covering your boobies?

I was wearing this six months ago. Don’t think that just because you’ve managed to convince the local farmers to pose as security guards, you’ll be safe from my royalty claims.

Intellectual property is theft too, my friend. And as FEMEN have proven on a number of occasions, there’s nowt more scary than an angry half-naked woman with a marker pen and a mission.

Chris Brown: A Sketch In Self Awareness

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Rapper, actor and convicted domestic violence enthusiast Chris Brown posted this on Instagram yesterday, with the caption “Painting the way I feel today.”

It  pissed a lot of people off, but I’m bemused as to why. I looks to me like an ill-conceived, insensitive parody of a man. That fits, doesn’t it?

Sports Illustrated: Way Out West

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Gay people like sport too. You’d never know it if you were to read up on the subject in the UK mainstream sports press, where coverage of ‘the gay issue’ extends to hubristic editorial pondering the absence of out n’proud players in the elite game.

If they bother to acknowledge it at all.

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The ‘I’m Sorry, What?’ Files

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I like to think that if I apply myself, I can find, or at least hazard a guess at the intended rationale behind most examples of ass-hattery one stumbles across while browsing the information superhighway.

Today I concede defeat.

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The Viewer: The Following, Six Degrees Of Serial Killing

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The Viewer is a huge fan of crime fiction and police procedurals.  What she chooses to do with the vast amount of knowledge she has gained from this predilection has evaded me to date, but I do occasionally feel that allowing her to watch them may in the future make me an accessory to any crimes she commits.

Just putting it out there.

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Dolphin Slaughter: Offend Someone New Today

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Dolphin slaughter, Taiji, Japan. Image via itseasytopretend.

Between the months of September and May, some 20,000 dolphins, porpoises and small whales are slaughtered off the coast of Japan. They are disoriented using sound waves and ushered into lagoons where those suitable for transfer to sea life centres are selected and separated from the rest of the pod. The remainder are stabbed to death and their corpses sold for meat.

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Women In Combat Roles: Reality. Check?

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“I didn’t lose my legs in a bar fight. I’m pretty sure I was in combat.”

US Army veteran & Illinois congresswoman Tammy Duckworth’s response to the Pentagon’s announcement that restrictions upon women serving in combat roles are to be lifted.

Comment Is Free. Why? Because It’s Worthless

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If I went up to a mechanic and started telling them how to do their job based on my knowledge of cars (they’re oily and you shouldn’t put water in the petrol tank), he or she would be perfectly within their rights to chuck me and my car out onto the street.

So when did it become OK to do the same over an incident, just because it appears in the media?

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Highs & Lows: Enormous Scary Things In The Sea

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Watch as a beast with a reputation for terrible violence returns to the depths from whence it came.

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Movie Watch: The Impossible

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In times past, going to see a disaster film involved sitting through a number of scenes designed to make you bond with a main character so you cared when a building collapsed on them in spectacular fashion. While the narrative was an essential device to place your characters in the path of mild peril, an emotional commitment wasn’t required as long as the White House blew up in the first twenty minutes.

For a while, it looked as though CGI would provide the answer to all our questions. What would it look like if a massive tsunami hit New York City? Could John Cusack outrun an exploding volcano in a camper van? Is it possible to render an alien unconscious with a single punch? The only limit to what we could watch was the imagination of Roland Emmerich. What could possibly go wrong?

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