Shameless promotion of a particularly awesome animation.

Mr Adam 'Caddie' Cadwell, founder of the Manchester Comix Collective & all 'round lovely chap, has gone done himself one of those E4 E-sting things - Little Horrors - which features, um, well little horrors! Is rather awesomely cute & deserving of multiple 'yays'! :-)


Also have a look at Adam Cadwell's web comic The Everyday.

Kate Moss 'mysteriously' feels bad about self.....

Success! The Mail has (allegedly, by their own admission) managed to bully Kate Moss into thinking she looks wrinkly, generally bad, (with a listed itinerary of her body parts and how awful & disgusting they are to look at although 'experts' deem her to look perfectly normal for a woman in her 30's - bonus attack on women in their 30s!) and several decades older (with bonus attack on Gillian Taylforth thrown in for good measure!).

The Mail must feel so proud of itself.

.....now with added comments!

This post (the one down there, underneath this one) now has comments! Let's see what delightful things the Mail readers have to say;

Unbelieveable!
Carol Thatcher got the boot for making a perfectly innocent remark, after spragging Chiles went and told tales, but he gets this job offered.
I haven't watched the programme since Carol left and I know I'm not on my own with this one.

- Ronnie, York, England, 19/8/2009 14:04

one law for them and one for us...carol thatcher sacked for inappropriate gaffe made during a private after-show drinkie. good old childish childs, a man to truly be proud of. and the other culprit? the breath-takingly beautiful jo brand,another leftie. just have a look at how many lefties are on the airwaves,spouting their bile and opinions and love of gordon. too many especially in the bbc(i don't have a licence so i shouldn't really complain but what the hell). come the revolution,brothers,and i will still be in spain cowering behind my g&t. i have done my bit,12 years in the royal navy, so now its up to you. ole.

- michael hughes, seron, spain, 19/8/2009

I don't like that Hardeep as he comes across as fake ,biased, ego-centric and a bit creepy. Then again I depise the one show ,with the gushing Adrian Chiles and Christina (yuck) and haven't watched it since they did away with the unfairly set-upon Carol Thatcher who is a lovely person.

- lowen, the ocelot pit, mozzley, 19/8/2009

Strange that Carol Thatcher wasn't treated so well???? She is actually entertaining and quite funny.

- sophie, belfast, 19/8/2009 10:25

what a joke, he should of been sacked on the spot. but being the bbc i can't say i'm surprised they've given him a reprieve - and not Carol Thatcher. i hope no-one tunes in.

- James, Watford, 18/8/2009 23:03

I actually quite like Hardeep so I'm more than a little disappointed he was harassing a woman he worked with regardless of the nature of the harassment, however, Carol Thatcher did not make a 'perfectly innocent remark'. It was an ignorant, racist remark which she then arrogantly refused to apologise for feeling that she had done nothing wrong. 2 people did something wrong, one has apologised and shown remorse the other has acted like it's everyone else's problem, refuses to apologise and makes jokes about it (seriously, if you can bring yourself to watch The Wright Stuff when Thatcher's on it's treated like a smug little in joke although I doubt Wright can be anything but a smug little shit) so the former being hired and the latter being fired is obviously all about that darn 'political correctness gone mad' in the eyes of the average Daily Mail commenter rather how these 2 people chose how to deal with their mistakes after the fact.

I'm not trying to defend what Hardeep did but I respect the fact that he's acknowledged and apologised for his actions, understanding that it was him in the wrong rather than blaming anyone and everyone (especially the liberal lefties) else for his conduct.

There are no ulterior motives here, move along now.....

'Sex pest' BBC presenter Hardeep Singh Kohli gets Radio 4 job during One Show 'leave'

Fantastic! The Daily Mail is all up in arms about a man who harassed a woman during his time working at the One Show getting a job on Radio 4 whilst he's on a 'leave of absence' for said harassment.
I'm almost certain there are no ulterior motives within this article, it's obviously all about the Mail being morally outraged that someone accused of harassing women is not being punished fully for this, rather than them exploiting an opportunity to write about how terrible the BBC are and have the words 'sex pest' just above the picture of a man in a turban.




(For the record he states it wasn't sexual harassment but he apologised for 'overstepping the mark', not certain what that actually means but 'sex pest' contradicts the information in their own article, although he did make some rude comments on Twitter so maybe that accounts for him being a 'sex pest')


Edit:....now with added comments.

Quick link....

Reclaim the night

The catcalls, with the boys making lewd suggestions about how I would like to spend my Wednesday night, actually didnt come as a surprise-nor did the descent from lewd suggestive abuse, to blatant sexual threats- when they had failed to illicit the desired reaction from me.

Then later......

I sat outside on my favourite step this afternoon- and heard a very familiar voice shouting about his dick- perhaps it was the recollection of the words- but I recognised this boy immediately as the inadequate little ringleader- who felt that the best use of his time- was to shout abuse at a woman he didnt know-and could easily intimidate. So I stopped him. I asked him if he was the boy who had done that the other night. He claimed it wasnt. I explained that actually, while I wasnt saying it was him- for a 5′11”, well built bloke, and his friends, to shout at a 5′3′ woman, walking alone- was actually a pretty shitty thing to do, and that I was glad it wasnt him- as it was a cowardly thing, that only one of lifes inadequates would do. He said he wouldnt, and blushed, as he sought to avoid eye contact- while his friend looked sheepish. He didnt look quite as intimidating at 5 in the afternoon. He certainly seemed less sure of his sexual prowess when talking to me head on- without the help of his friends and a darkly lit underpass to intimidate me.

My mum used to do things like this, she said go for the ringleader 'cos once you mark them out they don't know what to do with themselves and it shows their mates what pathetic little pricks they are. My mum is rather awesome if a little bit scary.

Some links and things.

Sociological Images on the film Deadgirl which sounds absolutely charming with it's new twist on the zombie genre with it's 'gang raping of the girl who happens to be a zombie' plot. Just lovely.

5 Reasons we still need feminism

Graham Linehan subverts Daily Mail editorial opinion.

Hollywood's Discomfort with Asian lead characters again at Sociological Images, I have a link over to the right to 'Aang ain't white' for more on the whitewashing of Avatar.

Deeply Problematic has a pretty awesome Mad Men reading list.

No Sleep 'til Brooklands reads Littlejohn so we don't have to.

Top ten products needlessly marketed at women.

How the Daily Mail baits it's readers.

This is why science fiction can't have nice things

The Jaded Hippy has even more links.

And even more links from Adventures of a Young Feminist.

Cat Ladders, yup, that's it. Pictures of ladders that are for cats. Sometimes there are actual cas on said ladders. I like this site far more than I should. One time they had goat ladders.

Chopsticks Vs Forks.

Ahhh Manchester Confidential, I get this piece, I really do. The author is obviously pissed off after going for a meal with a bunch of smug gits who insisted he use chopsticks 'for a more authentic experience' then mercilessly mocked our poor author's inability to do so and the subsequent request for a fork. A piece about said smug gits and their chopstick use is obviously the best revenge. Except that this piece comes across as an imperialist piece of nonsense, branding the chopsticks themselves 'ridiculous' & 'useless' and using a condescending tone whilst trying to convince the reader that what is actually condescending is using those chopsticks freely provided in restaurants rather than a fork which is the greatest culinary technological advancement obviously created by the West, hahaha take that East and your crappy sticks! I also love the 'Indians eat with their fingers' comment just thrown in there to further prove how civilized us lot in the West are compared to all those uncouth foreign people who don't bother with any form of utensil or anything, they just use their hands & shit except in the West where they couldn't resist the lure of our cutlery prowess.

All in all it's a shitty article, I commented that it was borderline racist as I don't think the author is intentionally trying to incite some sort of utensil based race war but the dismissive insults and underlying ignorance within the language suggest someone who's anti-racism starts and ends with knowing not to use derogatory racial terms in public because people 'can't take the joke and get all offended like'*.


*add heavy sarcasm