Lesbians Spend 111% Of Their Time Checking Out Breasts!!

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Jun 102010
 

According to this article on Sarah Palin’s alleged breast enhancements – which is just foolish speculation anyway – lesbians will apparently spend three times as much time checking out breasts. Maybe so, but the interesting point is the woefully pathetic numerical sanity checking in this article.

Who can spend 111% of their time doing anything ? We are not talking about that foolish “110% effort” which is just innumerate marketing, but a simple bit of statistics. If you spend every second of every day staring at TV, you might get to 100% time spent wasting your time, but no matter how hard you work at it you’ll never get beyond 100% – it just isn’t possible to use more time than is available. A figure of 111% translates as spending a smidgen over 26.5 hours in every 24 hours staring at boobs.

Not only impossible, but frankly the lesbians I have met do not seem any more inclined to turn into drooling idiots in the presence of breasts than ordinary men do. To go on because that could be misunderstood … lesbians seem perfectly capable of holding down jobs, joining a conversation, and doing pretty much everything others are capable of. Something they would find tricky if they were so obsessed with breasts that they spent an impossible 111% of their time staring at boobs.

In case you are thinking that the 111% figure is a simple typo, it is made clear in the article that the figure is “calculated” by taking the figure that straight women spend obsessing about their friends breasts (37%) and multiplying by three because lesbians spend three times as much time obsessed with breasts. Not the way that such a calculation is made!

Perhaps the relevant article author should spent a little less time thinking about breasts and more on basic numeracy. This kind of inaccuracy is the kind of thing that gives the “news” media (and the Internet) a bad name for inaccuracy.

UK Gets Right To Breast Feed In Public

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Jun 172007
 

The UK government has done something sensible for once and given the right to breast feed in public without harassment … it is admittedly a sad comment on the state of Britain that such a law is necessary. It seems that some people think it is “disgusting” or something and object to it in public. Personally I find people eating decaying corpses in public disgusting, but I don’t make a big song and dance over it … because once someone has made the decision to eat meat it is none of my business (although a bit of gentle campaigning is not wrong … when they are not eating!).

If you are one of those odd people who find breast feeding disgusting, don’t look! After all it’s hardly polite to stare at someone eating anyway, and if you don’t look it won’t bother you. If you are in a restaurant and someone breast feeding is putting you off your food, go and eat in the toilet (which is where these nutters think breast feeding belongs).

This is a symptom of a more general problem … that people somehow feel they have the right to restrict the actions of other people, because they might be offended. In many cases these people just need to be told mind your own business; whilst we do have to have restrictions on what we can do such as when we cause (or potentially) direct harm to others, we should not be restricted because somebody might be offended.

I find the act of people eating meat offensive, but I don’t expect the law to stop them. I accept the fact that other people have different ideas. I dare say some people find the fact that I grow my hair long offensive, but just because there are a few who do doesn’t mean it should be illegal. It is not even something where the majority can rule the minority.