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So, Spring Conference is coming up. One of the events thereat is an exclusive invite-only candidates' reception with Our Glorious Leader Cleggy and party president Tim Farron. My lovely PPC has wangled me an invite as his plus-one*. But there's a catch. He wants me to wear a dress.

I pointed out that the last time I wore a dress it raised £75 for his campaign fund, and if he wants me to do that again he'd better be damn sure to beat that amount by a long way. I gave him a target of £250. Sadly, people have already started pledging money**.

So here's the deal: you lot donate money to McGregor's election campaign, and I will tart up.

If my paypal account goes over £250 before this time next week I will wear a dress to the Candidates' Reception on Saturday night. And, you know, might as well do a proper job of it: dress, high heels, make-up, nail varnish, the works. There will, of course, be pictures. So if you see pictures of me in my Doc Martens and stuff, you'll know that not enough money was donated.

The question uppermost in my mind is this: which will be worse? McGregor's smugness if I do end up in a dress, or his sadface if I don't... I guess that's the decision you guys have to make.

ETA: It's just struck me. Glee Club is immediately after the Exclusive Reception thingy. This means I may have to do Glee CLub in a dress... Oh God.

* mainly so I can tease Farron in person, rather than over Twitter as is my usual method.
** yes, Belinda Brooks-Gordon, I'm looking at YOU *severe face*

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My location is work
I can hear Radio bloody 2. Damn you Douglas.

Lib Dem Voice have been being very very naughty. It all started with James Shaddock's Opinion: As Liberals, we must stand up For sex workers. Not to be outdone, my lovely candidate Alisdair* went for the seemingly innocuous Opinion: Teresa May’s Right Hand doesn’t know what her Hard Right hand is doing - which is, of course, the Porn Star Teresa May, not the Home Secretary Theresa May, with bonus mention of hardness. And then, bless him, he's such a trier, he had another go with Porn blocking comes in… and blocks the LGBT+LD website as porn. Which clearly encouraged the lovely Lady Mark to go for This week’s by-elections: a come from behind upset in Lincolnshire brightens an otherwise grim scene*.

So which one made you snigger most?

Poll #14747 Innuendo-laden Headlines

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: Just the Poll Creator, participants: 11

What was the most Innuendo-laden Headline on Lib Dem Voice This Week?

Standing up for Sex Workers
0 (0.0%)

Teresa May's Hard Right Hand
5 (45.5%)

Porn Block Comes In
0 (0.0%)

The Come From Behind Upset
6 (54.5%)

*possibly with some slight encouragement from me

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So I got a parcel today:

James took pictures of me trying the shirts on. SOME of the pictures were not me pulling ridiculous faces, or blurry from James laughing, so here they are. All pictures can be clicked to be embiggened.

It all started reasonably sensibly...

Me in stripy shirt and suit jacket, posing

( more under the cut )

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My location is sickbed
I can hear doggy snoring

Just a quick entry today: Very pleased to see that the lovely Julian Huppert has won the parliamentary beard of the year vote even though I voted Thurso.

Honoured to be voted as Parliamentary Beard of the year. Thanks all! http://t.co/41oyy0zMd7 @kmflett #fb #winninghair
— Julian Huppert (@julianhuppert) December 14, 2013

I note that this was despite the desperate, misspelled, last ditch efforts of the Labour candidate for Calder Valley. As our own, dear, beardy candidate ACMcG said:

.@SarahBrown1984 LOL... that's so pathetic, politicising a bit of fun like the best parliamentary beard... I mean, really?
— A C McGregor (@A_C_McGregor) December 14, 2013

Julian's defeated opponent was much more gracious:

Congratulations to Julian Huppert on winning Parliamentary Beard of the Year! Thanks to all who supported me. May the hirsute prosper in '14
— Jeremy Corbyn MP (@jeremycorbyn) December 14, 2013

Anyway, props to Julian for winning, AND for coming up with that hilarious punning hashtag; commiserations to King Beard Thurso for only managing third despite my vote, and may there be more beards of all parties in parliament come 2015.

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My location is sofa
I can hear The Love Cats - The Cure

So tonight is Alisdair's housewarming party, and this morning I tweeted:

Vaguely wondering if, as fundraiser for @calderdale_ld, ppl would pay for me to turn up to @A_C_McGregor's party tonight in formal dress...
— Jennie Rigg (@miss_s_b) November 16, 2013

You guys know me. My uniform is combats/jeans and a t-shirt with something geeky on it. Formal dress is not something I do. But I do have, in the depths of my wardrobe, several options. Sadly I am still too fat for the blue taffeta ballgown. However! Some fool offered a donation. So I shall pledge as follows:

the one donation already promised gets me into whichever formal clothing people vote for in the poll below

Five donations and I shall wear high heeled shoes as well

Ten donations and I'll go the whole hog and put make-up on for the first time this year

These are your options:

Purple mid-calf column dress

Black/silver satin ankle length column dress

Black suit

Purple suit (the one I turned up to regional conf in)

Poll #14548 What should I wear?

This poll is closed.
Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: Just the Poll Creator, participants: 12

Which formal clothing should I base my dress around this evening?

Purple column dress
4 (33.3%)

Black/silver satin column dress
5 (41.7%)

Purple suit
2 (16.7%)

Black suit
1 (8.3%)

Do vote in the poll. Also if you want to donate, stick it in my paypal:

...and I'll transfer it over to the party (plus the couple of quid balance that's already in there anyway). It's all in a good cause. We need a fighting fund to get Alisdair elected, because Calder Valley really needs a decent MP for a change...

Get voting and donating then :P

ETA: deadline for the poll is mid afternoon, btw. There'll be no point in voting when I've already set off for Hebden Bridge; but you can donate to the party whenever you like, obvs ;)

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Lib Dem Voice need money.
I need beard porn.
What would people say to a beardy Lib Dems calendar? It'd be like Calendar Girls only beardier*

This idea has been being chucked around by ~~all the swines who are off to Manchester on the piss while I fold leaflets tonight~~ several lovely people on twitter this afternoon and I think it's a good one.

Would my fellow beardthusiasts pay for such a thing? And how do we narrow down the pool of hot beardy Lib Dems to actually put on the thing? I mean there's LOADS of them. I live with two!

* and almost certainly less naked. There's a limit to what you can persuade even Lib Dem men to do with a strategically placed Focus Leaflet, in my experience.

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People seem to find the technical language around politics in general and LibDemmery in particular to be slightly confusing. With that in mind I thought a glossary might be useful; this post is meant to be taken entirely seriously and is in no way humourous or mere gratuitous filth.( possibly there are some of you who don't want to see this )

Happy to amend the list with any suggestions from readers which are appropriate and sensible. Remember folks, Lib Dems do it with a Focus you won't believe ;)

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Political Values

Radicalism 96.75
Socialism 81.25
Tenderness 53.125

These scores indicate that you are a progressive; this is the political profile one might associate with a university professor. It appears that you are skeptical towards religion, and have a pragmatic attitude towards humanity in general.

Your attitudes towards economics appear communist, and combined with your social attitudes this creates the picture of someone who would generally be described as left-wing.

To round out the picture you appear to be, political preference aside, a centrist with several strong opinions.

This concludes our analysis; we hope you found your results accurate, useful, and interesting.

I suspect the fact that my reasonably Leftie but not particularly extreme views are described as communist says more about this survey's USian origins than its statement of objectivity would care to admit...

You can take the test yourself here

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A God-fearing American Christian - let's give him a nice stereotypical name like Billy-Bob - decides he is going to spend his vacation in England, touring historic cathedrals. He starts at Winchester. Having taken in the glorious architecture, and been suitably humbled by the age of the building, he notices something strange. In a hidden corner is a golden telephone, and above the phone is a discreet sign which reads "Direct telephone line to God. Please deposit £1 million per call. Credit cards accepted."

Billy-Bob can't quite believe what he's seeing, so he finds a member of the cathedral's staff, and enquires about the phone.

"Yes, my son, the telephone connects you directly to the Almighty himself", the verger informs him.
"Wow! Neat!"

Unfortunately, Billy-Bob doesn't have a million pounds to spare. Impressed but disheartened, he moves on to the next cathedral on his list - Salisbury. Here he finds the same thing - glorious architecture, huge weight of history, half-hidden golden phone. And it's the same at every cathedral - Canterbury, Rochester, Ely - until, having worked his way north, he comes to St Peter's in Bradford. Now, St Peter's isn't quite as impressive architecturally as some of the others, and it's not in as beautiful a location (being sat slap bang in the middle of Bradford), but it's still a pretty awe-inspiring place. And, as expected, it contains a golden phone. Unexpectedly, however, the sign is slightly different.

"Calls to God 10p. No soliciting"

Billy Bob is completely taken aback. He finds the nearest member of the clergy and expresses his amazement:

"Everywhere else it's a million pounds!"
"Aye, lad."
"Why is it only ten pence here?"
"Aye, well, you see, from here...

(drumroll please)

... it's a local call"

This joke was first posted on my blog in 2005. I feel very old now.

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So apparently, Mick Jagger and Cleggy are mates. Like, they ate in the same restaurant and EVERYTHING. This led the lovely Petite Liberal to opine on twitter that it'd be ace if uncle Mick were a Lib Dem cos then he could come to GLEE CLUB! And you all know what that's going to lead to: a hashtag! Thus #jaggeratgleeclub was born.

Now "I can't get no... proportional representation" doesn't quite scan, but there are a couple of others that I think work

Summer's here
and the time has come
for leafletting all the streets
all we need is RISOs
sweet RISOs
there'll be RISOs everywhere...

and of course

I see a red door and I want to paint it yellow...

and I REALLY want to work on Sympathy for the Paddy

I watched with glee
While your Blairs and Browns
Fought for ten decades
For the mess they made
I shouted out,
"Who killed the Snooping Bill?"
When after all
It was you and me...

You lot have any suggestions?

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A conversation on twitter regarding THAT Ed Balls link descended into discussion of the solitary Lib Dem mentioned in the list, one D Alexander:

jpshaddock 18:04
@stackee @AAEmmerson @miss_s_b I'm not sure I'd want to know, either way. Though I'm sure Danny is a considerate lover

miss_s_b 18:05
@jpshaddock even if he's not I'd happily raid his record collection. @stackee @AAEmmerson

stackee 18:06
@miss_s_b @jpshaddock @AAEmmerson Please tell me that's not a euphemism...

jpshaddock 18:07
@stackee Stace, what could that even be a euphemism for? Then again, it is Jennie @miss_s_b @AAEmmerson

I believe my work here is done LMAO

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INT KGB office circa 1977. Dingy with nicotine-stained walls, rickety desks, black telephones. Two KGB agents are having a discussion.

AGENT 1: Well what about Ivanova? She was near Washington.

AGENT 2: No, we lost her in the first year when they showed the Rogar Corman film on TV at Halloween. Who knew they recited the poem at the start of it?

AGENT 1: Petrov?

AGENT 2: Went on a killing spree on his son's first birthday. I told you Happy Birthday was a bad activation poem for a sleeper agent, but would you listen?

AGENT 1: Prutkova?

AGENT 2: Killed everyone at her own wedding when they recited Maya Angelou.

AGENT 1: Well what about Syratov?

AGENT 2: A most unfortunate incident in a kindergarten. The Cat in the Hat is apparently quite commonly read to children...

AGENT 1: Well who does that leave?

Both start leafing through papers, looking for another name

AGENT 1 & 2 together, triumphantly: ...Karlova!

Agent 1 picks up a phone, consults the paper, dials a number, and recites in sepulchral tones:

AGENT 1: Beautiful Railway Bridge of the Silv’ry Tay!
Alas! I am very sorry to say
That ninety lives have been taken away...

((This skit brought to you by the incredulity caused by the idea that all those sleeper agents would have still been around in Telefon, when their activation phrase was one of THE most famous American poems of all time...))
((And not by procrastination on the Hitchcock post at all. Honest.))

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Bullshit, say I! Look at this email I just got:

Similar to John Stuart Mill:

Stephen Tall
Stephen Tall @stephentall
Co-Editor @LibDemVoice, Research Associate @CentreForum, Development...
Followed by Darren Bridgman and 70 others.

Phil Reilly
Phil Reilly @phil_reilly
Deputy Head of Media for @libdems. Editor-in-chief @AdLibMag. Former...
Followed by Dinti Batstone and 48 others.

CentreForum
CentreForum @CentreForum
CentreForum is an independent, liberal think tank. Find us at...
Followed by Tom Brake MP and 27 others.

John Kampfner
John Kampfner @johnkampfner
Author, broadcaster, commentator; adviser on free expression and culture...
Followed by Ali Goldsworthy and 21 others.

Sarah Yong
Sarah Yong @srhyong
Lib Dem Somerset lass!
Followed by Tom Brake MP and 19 others.

Now, correct me if I'm wrong, but none of those are awesome Victorian MPs/philosophers, two of them are people I follow anyway, and one of them isn't even a person.

ETA: and as I've just been reminded by Nissemus, I suspect none of them have been particularly ill after drinking half a pint of shandy.

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An American tourist decides she's going to visit all the great cathedrals of England.

She starts at St Paul's, takes the tour and is very impressed by the architecture. While wandering round the nave, she notices in a corner a golden payphone with a sign on it:

Direct Line to God: Ten Thousand pounds per minute. Insert credit card here

She finds a clergyperson and asks if it's for real. The clergyperson replies that yes, it's definitely for real, and sorry it's so expensive.

She travels around many cathedrals (you can make this joke go on forever with names of cathedrals) and in each one, somewhere, there's the same thing: gold payphone, little sign, ten grand a minute.

Eventually, having worked her way round the country, she gets to St Peter's in Bradford. Tucked away in a little corner in St Peter's there's a gold payphone but the sign is different:

Direct Line to God: 10p per hour. Insert coin here

Stunned, she finds a cleryperson and asks why the phone in St Peter's is so much cheaper than all the others she's seen. The clergyperson looks at her as though she's a bit daft and explains:

Well, lass, the difference is it's a local call from here

You can all hate me now.

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... and we went to look up how much the DVDs were because we all remembered it being so funny, and we came across this description for season one [with added comments by me]:

Alexis Colby is divorced from Blake Carrington, a fabulously wealthy oil magnate who marries his secretary [and her cast iron hair] Krystle Jennings at the show's inception; the jealous Alexis, head of her own oil corporation [aren't we all?], does everything she can to destroy their union. The rest of the cast is comprised of Blake and Alexis' four children: the promiscuous amnesiac Fallon [isn't she the one played by Doctor Quinn Medicine Idiot who gets abducted by aliens?]; Adam, who was kidnapped at birth [WHAT?]; the sexually ambivalent Steven [what you mean he can't decide if he wants a shag or not?]; and Amanda, who has run off to Europe. During the first season, Krystle adapts to her new role as an aristocrat, and Blake tries to work through his problems with his gay son [ah, so ambivalent means GAY! I see...], though he is eventually put on trial for the murder of his son's lover [because murder is the best way of working through one's problems]. Episodes include: 'The Honeymoon', 'The Chauffeur Tells A Secret' [snerk], 'The Beating' [of the bishop], and 'The Birthday Party' [presumably not the one by Harold Pinter, although James suggests he'd like to see episodes written by Joe Orton and Alan Bennett...].

Seriously, doesn't that sound like the funniest TV series EVER? Why don't they repeat it more often? Especially when the DVDs are so bloody expensive.

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My location is sofa
I can hear Grimm on Watch

The Expendables 2 is coming out soon, and James and I have been looking forward to it as a guilty pleasure. We're both fans of cheesy over the top action movies, and they don't come much cheesier than The Expendables. And yes, I know it's cliched and sexist and racially stereotyped and problematic in many other ways... But I still really enjoyed it.

We were talking about the names of the characters, and they are (hopefully intentionally) cheesy too. I mean, Jean Claude Van Damnation is playing "Jean Vilain" - John the Villain. And the others are stuff like Toll Road and Ben Christmas and Trent Mauser. So we figured we could start a meme: what is YOUR Expendables name?

If you're male, and have English as your first language:

your first name is the river nearest the place you were born

your surname is the holiday nearest the date of your birth.

This makes James Trent Summer, because the long holidays between academic years ARE known as The Summer Holidays, and being more specific makes him Trent August Bank Holiday. Or possibly Trent Harvest Festival. Similarly, Mat is Dart Summer.

If you are male, but have English as a second language, or don't speak English at all, your Expendables name MUST be an EITHER aspect of your character "foreignised" (like Jean Vilain), OR a horrible play on some stereotype about your nationality/ethnicity (Jet Li's character Yin Yang)

If you're female:

Girls only get one name in The Expendables, because no woman is important enought to deserve a surname, and to find out what it is you have to decide if you're going to be a Token Female Action Hero or a Love Interest

if you're a Token Female Action Hero you get the river thing that the boys get for first name - This makes me Colne.

if you're a Love Interest you must name yourself after a descriptor which applies to your underwear (c.f Charisma Carpenter's "character" Lacy). If I was a love interest I would be Skimpy

What about you lot?

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So, apparently Andrew Hickey and Andrew Rilstone might be the same person. Even more confusingly, Andrew Ducker might also be the same person. All this is achieved by cunning addition and subtraction of beards and hairpieces, I am told. And miraculous nil-time travel between Manchester, Bristol, and Scotland.

Which one of them is the real Andrew? And... are ALL Andrews one Andrew? If so, this leads to a disturbing thought. My DAD is called Andrew...

O_o

'Healthy competition’ in the NHS is a sick joke - Torygraph
(tags: bloodytories NHS )
The Athlete by Howard Schartz and Beverly Ornstein | viz.
The astonishing and beautiful diversity of body types among olympic athletes
(tags: feminism )
Erotic Choose-Your-Own-Adventure Reviewed
"NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO OH GOD NO MY EYES MY BRAIN THIS IS THE WORST THING I HAVE EVER READ." - this is an extract from the review. Consider yourselves warned.
(tags: funny )
Sister Outsider Headbanger
"If saying that I’m a metalhead and a feminist sounds like a contradiction, then saying that I’m a feminist because of heavy metal probably sounds even more so—especially considering that Feminist Theory 101 often implies that the only inclusive, empowering space for women in music is among other women playing “women’s music.” But metal did empower me. Because the music was so far away from my experience, it didn’t place definitions on who I was or could be as a black female. When I listened to Metallica or Corrosion of Conformity, I wasn’t a “bitch,” a “ho,” or some anonymous jiggling booty in a rap video; I wasn’t a woman who needed rescuing by some dream-date pop star. I was someone who felt weird in high school, who wanted a place to belong. "
(tags: feminism )
A blog post about menstruation. With pictures.
But oh GODS this was so familiar...
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For anyone who only sees gender and sex in black & white
OMG I'm a Tamarin...
(tags: feminism )
BBC News - Life after Firefox: Can Mozilla regain its mojo?
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pandagon.net - it's the eye of the panda, it's the thrill of the bite
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Magic: The Gathering Tournament Participants Not Immune To Sexism | The Mary Sue
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BBC - Doctor Who - Doctor Who Things to Make
ZOMG when did the official site get so much crafty stuff on it! I mean, colour in your own Madam Vastra? COME ON!
(tags: awesome DoctorWho )
Let Me Tell You About the Birds and the Bees: Gender and the Fallout Over Christopher Priest
Another post about the difference in treatment women and men get for blogging.
(tags: Feminism )
Jim C. Hines » You’ll Probably Ignore Me Because I’m An Evil Straight White Dude, But…
Jim Hine's comments on the above post, in which Jim continues awesome.
(tags: Feminism )
Controversy Deepens Over Pesticides and Bee Collapse | Wired Science | Wired.com
Nice to see that the world is finally catching up with what Vince Cable has been banging on about for a couple of years now.
(tags: science )
The Beer Game -or- Why Apple Can't Build iPads in the US - mark[sweep]
(tags: economics )
The Daily Mash - Britain officially a dystopia
The Orwell-Huxley-Dick scale *snerk*
(tags: funny )
RealClimate: Evaluating a 1981 temperature projection
This is why science is cool. They're always examining and re-examining stuff to see if it's right ior if it's changed.
(tags: science )
Atheism Rising, But God Is Not Dead Yet: 10 Ways Religion Is Changing Around the World | Visions | AlterNet
This is very interesting, especially the bit about fundamentalist religions
(tags: religion )
hatching Cadbury Creme Eggs
This is freaky and bad and wrong, and therefore I must share it with all of you. WARNING: contains embryonic Mr Cadbury's Parrot.
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Jesus is not a zombie
What category of undead DOES he fit into, then? The answer is revealed in this informative infographic
(tags: religion )
Pope Says Couples Who Conceive Through In-Vitro Fertilization Are Guilty Of Arrogance | RH Reality Check
(tags: wtf? )
Inevitable: Anti-Choicers Now Protesting At Fertility Clinics | RH Reality Check
(tags: wtf? )
IMAGE COMICS BLOG, THE WALKING DEAD — you know, for kids. By Chris...
Holly would LOVE this.
(tags: zombies )
Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window From Another Angle [VIDEO] | The Mary Sue
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No need to hack phones - we stitch ourselves up | Anna Blundy
The only comment needed on the Samantha Brick Nowtrage
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Clothes and Self-Perception - NYTimes.com
Fascinating article on how the clothes you wear can allegedly make a real difference to how your brain works. I'd love to see more research on this.
(tags: brainstuff )
Where Are the Women Writers? (ASME Edition) | Mother Jones
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The Daily Mash - Totally inept losers confident they can lock down the internet
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Education, Skills & Slavery... and why we're probably screwed. | Marcus Povey
Yup, this all looks pretty accurate to me. The tinfoil hat wearing devil on my left shoulder says this is probably WHY even the Lib Dems are aquiescing to ramping up of surveillance, whether consciously or not.
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A Whip to Beat Us With
Why publishers who aquiesce to retailers demands for DRM are signing their own death warrant.
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Nick Clegg pledges to oppose some government plans right up until the local elections are over
Oooo the cynicism
(tags: funny )
Man whose WMD lies led to 100,000 deaths confesses all - World Politics - World - The Independent
Terrifying.
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After the riots, the Liberal Democrats stood by me | Pauline Pearce | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
The comments on this are the usual Grauniad/CiF horror, but the article is heartwarming.
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Can a neurotypical understand what autism is? — Crooked Timber
Interesting post and comments
(tags: aspie? )
New Statesman - The compassionate case for legal abortion
Brilliant, BRILLIANT piece.
(tags: abortion )
New Statesman - Saying women don't take risks is sexist
Another fabulous article in the Staggers. It's just a shame the comments threads are always such a sewer on there. Almost on a par with CiF...
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oh trees wtf
Lanning has a series of haiku about what it's like to have hayfever
(tags: funny )
What makes a person?
Fabulous poem with accompanying art.
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Ten things not to say to a depressed person | purplepersuasion
Number one of a pair
(tags: depression )
Ten supportive things I’m glad somebody said to me | purplepersuasion
Number two of a pair
(tags: depression )
Brighouse Ward: Statement of persons nominated: Calderdale Council
VOTE ME!
(tags: elections )
Dapper Dinos
LOL this is hilarious. I love the sonnet!
(tags: dinosaurs! )
On the Rules of Literary Fiction for Men and Women - NYTimes.com
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Liberal England: Nick Clegg needs to be in better touch with Lib Dem opinion
Yup.
(tags: libdemmery )
comics which may make you smile
A useful list of interesting and/or amusing webcomics, for those who are timeheavy at the mo.
(tags: comics )

Bradford West result was symptom of UK's brutal north-south divide
This is depressing, but probably accurate.
(tags: economics )
HULK EXPLAINS WHY WE SHOULD STOP IT WITH THE HERO JOURNEY SHIT « FILM CRIT HULK! HULK BLOG!
Film critic hulk: nearly as cool as feminist hulk.
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14 Common Dog Behavior Myths Decoded - Vetstreet
I'm pleased to say I already knew all of this.
(tags: dogs )
5 Ways Modern Men Are Trained to Hate Women | Cracked.com
This is terrifying, and mostly because it rings so true.
(tags: feminism )
Payback Is a Bitch for Abortion Clinic Protestors, Thanks to a Brilliant Landlord
(tags: activism )
The national security and anti-terrorism party | Jack of Kent
First, they came for the NHS, and the Lib Dems didn't make enough fuss. Then, they came for the benefits, and the Lib Dems didn't make enough fuss. Now they're coming for the WHOLE FUCKING REASON WE EXIST. There'd better be enough fuss this time.
(tags: libdemmery politics )
Dear Technology World – Please Stop Trying To Give Me An Erection
Funny but necessary
(tags: funny feminism )
Manchester Labour want to charge for A
Smell the hypocrisy.
(tags: ohtheirony nhs labour )
Improbable Research » Why do Boomerangs come back?
(tags: science )
The language of the Picts
Very long, but fascinating article. Pratchett fans might wish to scroll down till they see the Oggham diagrams
(tags: pratchett language )
Anonymous media briefings to soften us up for even more Internet Snooping in the Queens Speech next month - Spy Blog - SpyBlog.org.uk
Interesting article on the news about surveillance
(tags: privacy )
Anthony Glees - Powerbase
This is the sort of person who is in favour of the new internet snooping laws. Terrifying, isn't it?
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Government to reconsider nerve agent pesticides - Nature - Environment - The Independent
It'll be interesting to see who wins out in this - big business pesticide manufacturers, or self-preservation instainct for the human race. Normally I wouldn't bet on the latter with politicians, but given that Vince Cable likes bees....
(tags: Vince nature )
More on those donor diners
Peter Black casts a plague on both their houses, and knows where the answer lies.
(tags: politics )
Steph and her Mom - This is what women in superhero comics should be
"She’s an awesome superhero and it doesn’t matter that she’s a girl. And from charging in as Robin to a possible evolution as Nightwing, she proves it. That’s what women in comics could be. I think Steph not only exemplified what women could be in comics, but gave all women hope for better representation in comics. Hell, I felt like her entire struggle with self-worth, forging her own destiny and breaking into the Batboys’ club was almost allegorical of how women struggle within comics itself. Even on a meta level, it’s what women go through in an environment that is often hostile to them reading comics."
(tags: comics )
RASPUTIN cannot be killed! | Hammer restoration blog
OMG YOU GUYS THE PLAGUE OF THE ZOMBIES BLURAY IS NEARLY READY!!! Also, so sad that they KNOW there is footage missing from Ra-raRasputin but they can't find it :(
(tags: hammer film )
Even I’m starting to wonder: what do this lot know about anything?
"When Mrs Thatcher piled up the coal at power stations until the strike began in 1984, she was not inconveniencing the public. In 2012, the Coalition is trying to press-gang the public, without saying so, into its political battles. All those people queuing on the forecourts were pawns in a Government-organised blame-game."
(tags: politics )
When people don't pay attention to Shakespeare.
(tags: funny )
Schneier on Security: Harms of Post-9/11 Airline Security
This.
(tags: terrorism )
This Creepy App Isn’t Just Stalking Women Without Their Knowledge, It’s A Wake-Up Call About Facebook Privacy [Update] | Cult of Mac
And this is why I don't use faceache any more.
(tags: facebook )
Police face racism scandal after black man records abuse | UK news | The Guardian
Say something racist on twitter: 56 days in jail. Say something racist while in rozzer uniform: CPS won't charge you till the dead tree press kick up a fuss. Welcome to equality under the law, people.
(tags: racism police )
I DO NOT HAVE AN EATING DISORDER - Page 36
"My mind does this little trick to all kinds of statements/compliments, not necessarily just those about my weight. Got one answer wrong on the test? Stupid. Someone comments that they miss your old haircut? Ugly. Showed up to the party but accidentally left the gift at home? You are the worst friend in the history of friendship. " Yup, I know those feelings.
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When Women Don’t Want Daughters
(tags: gender feminism )
How the Political Parties Exclude the General Public
It's rare I'll link to anything on the egregious Tory tosser's website, but this is worth it, I think. Some of the criticisms made of "the three main parties" apply more to the big two than the Lib Dems - particularly on policy formation - but they still apply. For instance, in all seriousness, a potential candidate for our party being instantly and offhandedly dismissed as a possibility because they haven't put in enough YEARS delivering leaflets. That's just total fuckwittery IMHO.
(tags: politics )
kaberett | Controversy over 11-year-old transsexual: Alex will be placed in psychiatric care
Christ on a bike this is horrendous. Poor Alex. But at least her mum is looking out for her.
(tags: trans )

I'm feeling silly
My location is Bed
I can hear The Weathergirls

On the third edit. Bloody embed code not working. Mutter grumble.

HERE is video:

I'm going to be singing this all day now. Dammit.

libdemchild, aged 11: £20 for the Tory Party
Maelo is fab, isn't she? :)
(tags: libdemmery )
andrewducker | I shall keep whining about the awful way that ebooks are sold until they fix it*.
*And by "fix it" I include "They all go bust/copyright ceases to exist/aliens destroy mankind", in increasing order of likelihood.
(tags: books funny )
Is it OK for a job interviewer to ask for your Facebook login? - The Globe and Mail
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The Best Birth Control In The World Is For Men | Techcitement*
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The next time there is a funding scandal under this system we should force the leader to resign
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Hacking IT systems to become a criminal offence
It already IS in the UK. And I see they have added a version of "going equipped" - i.e. owning a computer - to this, which means the rozers can feel free to exercise all their dirty little prejudices with immunity, just like they do or all other going equipped offences.
(tags: law )
BBC News - Charities leaving Work Programme claim payments too low
Chris Grayling clearly only understands contract negotiations from the side of the more powerful party :/
(tags: workfare )

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Never a man to let a fundraising idea go to waste, @A_C_McGregor wants me to wear a dress. Again.

A bit of fun: What was the most innuendo-laden headline on @LibDemVoice this week?

New @HawesAndCurtis_ shirts. A Very Silly Photoshoot

Huppert Wins Parliamentary Beard of the Year; Celebrates with Awesome Hashtag #winninghair

Vote for which formal dress I should wear tonight - it's in a good cause :)

Fellow Beardthusiasts: A Sterling Idea From @Davepage_mcr on Twitter

A Useful Glossary of Lib Dem Euphemism (compiled with assistance from @helenduffett & @davepage_mcr)

The Internet Says I'm A Communist AND a centrist (via @andrewducker)

Yorkshire Joke for Yorkshire Day

Brainstorming Rolling Stones Glee Club Songs #jaggeratgleeclub

On the corrupting of youth

A Brief Skit inspired by the film Telefon

Advert of the day

"Suggestions similar to John Stuart Mill" says twitter

Bad Joke of the Day, for @Fearlessknits and @GuitaringLancey

Don't Ask Me Why, But We Were Talking About Dynasty...

What's Your Expendables Character Name?

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