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Bugger. I think I’m too demographically challenged to get this one FD. I’ll ask my daughter for help.
Walking as if a certain part/s are rather tender?
Admit it FD.
You pinched Rundle’s iPad and downloaded his dictionary…….Didn’t you?
P.S. Confession time: I’ve never played angry birds….
But I just downloaded the free version for chrome.
(Purely for research purposes of course.)
I may be gone for some time………..
Was the Toucan-Sam boomerang character approached for comment? Would also be good to know the Mighty Eagle’s viewpoint.
Double bugger. I’m with WOMBAT, it’s gone under my radar. BTW, WTF is that Goliath-size sling-shot, and what is its relevance to the story line. CUE: To PADDY, ZUT, INNOCENCE to point out that it is, in fact, an integral part of the story line which I’ve overlooked……:twisted:
Don’t tell me it’s a scarecrow purleese.
Gosh, even when you put a full explanation in a banner across the top of it, readers wander around going “huh? But I’m ooooold” in the comments.
Suddenly I feel really old. I could sort of guess what linkbait and culture jamming might be, but I checked with Urban dictionary to be sure. I’d read about Sl*twalk and couldn’t understand how dressing up and parading in a manner that underscores and reinforces the worst of male prejudices could possibly advance the feminist cause. Still can’t. Like I said, old. Somebody, please explain.. And about the shanghai..
Sorry Geordie, spent too long writing above - And I don’t play angry birds. And it still doesn’t answer my question.
With you all the way Plonk
I got smashed on another blog for suggesting that if you turn up dressed as a policeman, you will generally get a certain response; you get a similar sort of response if you are dressed as a nurse or a person dressed as a Fireman.
We are taught from a very early age to look for these things; and seek the appropriate assistance or respect the appropriate credibility the uniform brings.
“Those egg stealing bastards!” Dog, you are wonderful.
I wanna know about the Shanghai Slingshot, I wanna know about the Shanghai
Slingshot, I wanna know about the Shanghai Slingshot. It sounds like a nasty shot of Mao Tai, which in itself, tastes like a mixture of guano, diesel fuel, rotting refuse, metho, nitro glycerine, petrol and horse liniment.
DRMICK - you got smashed for THAT ? What is the whorl coming to ?
Gimme the slingshot !
That shanghai slingshot was just a catapult, @Venise, until you morphed it into a red herring.
I think all the visuals relate to the Angry Birds game, and Paddy will be able to report back if he gets out alive.
If everyone dresses like a slut, how will the sluts advertise themselves?
I’m told pubescent schoolgirls on the train regularly refer to one another as slut, possibly as a term of endearment. I think it sad that the high ideals of the femenist movement are still so far from being realised that it takes the use of a word laden with sexual connotation to get the issue of sexual violence openly discussed despite it being rife in our society. No idea about the boomerang, I thought it was a slingshot and that linkbait must have been inkbait. Confused as usual.
INNOCENT: As my beautiful Corsican Grandma used to say…”You mark my words” It’s not just any old catapult.
It’s so central 
So unmissable 
Unless he put it there for an idiot like me. 
Heigh ho.
PS: I’ve always thought that ‘sluttishness’ manifests itself from the inside. After all there are heaps of male sluts who get away with sluttish behaviour because there are so many euphemisms to hide their actions. Also, there are many sex workers who are not sluts. Anyway, heigh ho.
MJ: “”Gimme the slingshot !”” Add pineapple juice to Mao Tai. Stir; swallow ASAP; don’t light up a fag; pray.
Thank you Venise.
100% agreement on your last comment.
35 years as an RN, a dad of 3 and a lifetime as the eldest of 7 and ; We have watched “feminism”, go in some directions that not all females agreed with or in direction that they did not want to go.
We all have rights, but they come with responsibilities. For me it has always been about respect. Mutual respect.
How you dress is usually irrelevant; unless you dress to purposely offend. What is the goal and purpose of s**twalk and why am I explaining this to my grand-daughter?
Well Venise, I’ve just escaped from the clutches of angry birds and I’m none the wiser as to what it all means.
However…. In the words of Saint Germaine of Greer……
PADDY: I’m pleased that you’re pleased.
DRMICK: The reason I’m so bloody suss about this slutmarch is because it started in Canada. One day, one wonderful day, Australians will think up their own things to march about/think about/rave about. WTF can’t we think for ourselves? If I’ve understood it, the Canadian women have many different aspects and concerns to Oz women. But: Oh, ho, ho, ho, ho can we think for ourselves? Ha No we bloody can’t.
God I hate this country.
Mr Dog - I think I love you.
I seriously think you are the first person (dog?) to mention male accountability in this whole “debate”.
Thanks Jenny - I’m glad someone is paying attention - dog
Male accountability?…hehehe, probably about as much as Female accountability….sigh!
Jenny, we love FD too, but note that the remark about male accountability comes from an exploding bird.. I think that says something about the longevity of the concept in male minds.
Venise, I used to make the best shanghais. I will make you one if you promise not to tell who you got it from. SAE please. My sister used to make cross-bows, but there was an unmistakeable lethality about them that made me feel uncomfortable..
Angry Birds =Feminists? As in, women are ‘bird’s, and feminists are angry women? Obsessed with smashing men, who they call male chauvinist ‘pigs’?
Go back 3 spaces FD. Oh, you already have.
Somebody please tell me this is just a two o’clock in the morning interpretation.
@Venise
Can anything good come out of Canada these days?
i just wish jenny would say she thinks she likes me, let alone love me…oh, FD you are one lucky dude…a great toon by the way, and yes i too need to ask my daughters what this all means…i am so male, pale and stale that the other weekend, whilst at a neighbour’s BBQ, i couldn’t understand why birds would be angry - and i quote my reply to someone asking me about “angry birds” - ” it ain’t spring so why would magpies be swooping now” - well the only swooping was everyones laughter, someone even spat a pea out of their nose! talk about feeling old, out-of-touch and stupid all at the same time…as for slutwalk - it might be best to keep my thoughts to myself
PLONK: Better not, I might use it.
DENNIS: Good question. Although on IQ last night Stephen Fry mentioned when Michael Jackson’s sister was caught with one nipple exposed at a football match, something like 53,000 Americans rang in to complain. In Canada, 50 people complained. It has to say something in their favour.
(I’ll bet most of those fifty were visiting Americans.)
Pleeeeeze! Re ‘exploding bird’.
Anzac day last I wrote an inspiring story in text sent to near and dear about tracking, trapping and killing mice in my house and came up with ‘exploding mice’ describing a rat trap going off, catapulting into the air with a mouse nicely dead in it!
Pleeze! First Dog! Get a life! Hacking!
Just kidding!
Puzzling some of those big words although I love them. And reckon the sling shot is the ultimate Deterrent Weapon in the scenario. Pull it up, throw it away and the plot is disarmament?