Tim Worstall

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Note to the New York Times subeditors

March 18th, 2010 · No Comments

This is either absolutely appalling, in that you didn’t get it:
This was in happier times, before Hunter professed herself to be shocked by the magazine’s pictures of her lying on a bed wearing pearls and no pants, since she was sure the photographer would be interested only in face shots.
Or it’s absolutely [...]

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Good news from Iran

March 17th, 2010 · No Comments

“But I’m a relaxed person, so I don’t give a shit what people think.”
Perhaps temporary marriage ain’t the best thing ever but as long as a country has women who think and act that way it’s going to get better.

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Not that it matters, just interesting

March 9th, 2010 · 4 Comments

The things you learn from reading obituaries:
because he showed the Greeks were hostile to sex between bearded males,
How did that work?
Was it beards in general? Or was the beard a signifier of age and or maturity in Greek society? And thus adult homosexuality was not on, while men and boys was just [...]

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How very Guardian

March 8th, 2010 · 9 Comments

Selling sex should be legal, buying it illegal.
Why not just make both legal between consenting adults?

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I knew there was a reason I wouldn’t Megan Fox

March 4th, 2010 · 5 Comments

Actress Megan Fox is well-known for her good looks, but she also owns a pair of infamously ugly thumbs.
Sorry, just couldn’t.

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Language changes, no?

March 2nd, 2010 · 5 Comments

Dressed in a black lace leotard, black patent heels and a huge black floral hat, the outspoken Poker Face singer said she chooses to be celibate because she does not have time for a relationship.
”I, for myself, make the choice to be single at this point in [...]

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How fortunate for them

February 27th, 2010 · No Comments

Lads in Birmingham pull less often than lads in other parts of the country.
LADS from the West Midlands are least likely to pull on a night out, a survey says.
They spend the third most time flirting – but fewer than one in six get a result.
Lucky for them really: if they succeed they’ve pulled a [...]

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Gosh, that’s fortunate

February 26th, 2010 · No Comments

NYMPHOMANIA is vital for the survival of mankind, scientists said yesterday.
Lucky thing, eh lads?

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Hardly a surprise

February 25th, 2010 · 16 Comments

One in four mothers is now a single parent, having made a ‘lifestyle choice’ to rely on benefits rather than a partner, according to a report.
More than half of mothers with children under 13 have never married or lived with a boyfriend and find it ‘rewarding’ to stay at home supported by state handouts, it [...]

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Most ungallant I am

February 24th, 2010 · 3 Comments

Bird into polyamoury.
Two blokes live with her.
Well, to be fair, there does seem to be enough of her for two.

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There’s a cure for this

February 24th, 2010 · 2 Comments

Perhaps there’s been too much sex education? Times headline:
Ministers admit failure on teen pregnancies
You could reduce that failure rate in engendering teenage pregnancies if you advised the Ministers to remove the condoms they’ve just been told for 20 years to wear at all times.
There is the counter thought, that perhaps they aren’t in fact trying [...]

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Marx was right you know

February 20th, 2010 · 2 Comments

About some things at least:
What I mean is that Marx argued that technical change was a powerful force behind social change, so technology influenced power relations between people:
“Social relations are closely bound up with productive forces. In acquiring new productive forces men change their mode of production; and in changing their mode of production, in [...]

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Tiger’s apology

February 20th, 2010 · 4 Comments

I knew my actions were wrong, but I convinced myself that normal rules didn’t apply.
Well normal rules didn’t apply, did they? Doesn’t matter how hard most men try they’re not going to end up shagging 10 12 16 18 porn stars, hot babes and waitresses, are they?

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I know, I know, I shouldn’t say such things but….

February 19th, 2010 · 5 Comments

A gross violation of human freedoms and so on. Yes, take that as read. However:
Malaysia has caned three women for having extramarital sex,
What we now need to know is did the caner enjoy caning the canees?
And what would be the punishment for such enjoyment of spanking (a mild form of sadism this ‘ere internet tells [...]

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Umm, really?

February 16th, 2010 · 3 Comments

That was until Joslyn James, a porn star who claims to have been one of Woods’s 14 mistresses, suddenly recalled one more shred of scandal relating to her three-year affair with the golfer.
In an interview with Inside Edition, an American television programme, Ms James claimed today that she had twice been pregnant [...]

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John Edwards should move to South Africa

February 1st, 2010 · No Comments

The South African president, Jacob Zuma, is reported to have has fathered a 20th child with the daughter of a friend.
They seem to treat the sex lives of politicians somewhat differently there.

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Hmm, no, not quite I think

January 31st, 2010 · 7 Comments

This rather goes to the heart of one’s ideas about how society works:
The really interesting stuff in the BSA survey is in our changing attitudes to homosexuality and cohabitation. Of those questioned, 45% said it made “no difference” whether a child’s parents were married or living together — up from 38% in [...]

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Important advice from your super soaraway Sun

January 28th, 2010 · No Comments

Want a baby? Start with SEX

Erm, yes, thanks for that. I knew there was something I’d forgotten…..

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Well, yes, obviously

January 24th, 2010 · 1 Comment

Women looking for a Mr Right should give up after 30 and settle for a Mr ­Second Best or a Mr Right Now.
Lori Gottlieb, author of Marry Him: The Case for Settling for Mr Good Enough, which is published in the UK next week, believes women who refuse to commit unless they find a man [...]

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RSI caused by Viagra and vibrators

January 21st, 2010 · 7 Comments

Hmm. Not sure whether this is most likely to cause problems to lawyers persuing workers compensation claims or whether it’s simply a desperate attempt to get newspaper inches by proposing an outrageous theory:
WRIST pain is often blamed on excessive computer use or working with heavy machinery.
But a controversial new report has suggested a much saucier [...]

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