This looks like pretty awful parenting to me, if not outright child abuse. Fortunately, kids are pretty resilient to parental stupidity.
Category Archives: Social Commentary
The Importance Of Ad Placement
Some unfortunate examples. May not be safe for work–they’re laugh out loud.
[Update a few minutes later]
Also, awesomely inappropriate test answers from kids.
[Both via Geek Press]
Spam I Can Use
Two that just came in (happily, I have a pretty good filter): Latino singles, and women’s clothing.
And I don’t want to hear any “that’s not what I heard” comments about the latter.
Adult Versus Baby
There’s something almost metaphorical about this.
Just In Case You Were Wondering
I’m still here.
Either it didn’t happen, or there aren’t very many righteous people.
Hey, wouldn’t it be a hoot if they got it wrong, and what really happens is that your clothes are shot to paradise, but your body gets left behind?
Light Posting, I Know
Sorry, getting ready for the rapture tomorrow. Continue reading Light Posting, I Know
Praise Be To Jobs
I am completely unsurprised by this:
In a recently screened BBC documentary called ‘Secrets of the Superbrands’, UK neuroscientists found that the brains of Apple fans are stimulated by images of Apple products in the same areas as those triggered by religious imagery in a person of faith. According to the scientists, this suggests that the big tech brands have harnessed, or exploit, the brain areas that have evolved to process religion.
At least they’re not Scientologists. Well, OK, maybe some of them are.
Hey, I’m Curious Too
Pr0n stars want to know if bin Laden got off on them.
Children-At-Play Signs
Are they hazardous to childrens’ health? They’re not quite as stupid as the “Baby On Board” signs.
The Semi-Colon
Do we need it?
I use it a lot less than I used to, but the main thing that I use it for is in sentences with a list after a colon, to delimit the list items, allowing them to then use commas.
For example, consider the following: item one; item two, with a comma; item three, also with a comma; item four.