In the News

Passing the time on a flight on Monday, I had to tear two stories out of The Guardian.

First, their women’s soccer report noted that:

“Blackburn Rovers had four players sent off by the referee Lee Taylor in a sensational finale to yesterday’s Premier League Cup second-round defeat by Portsmouth”.

And then their news section reported that, in Kuwait:

“authorities abruptly terminated a concert by an Egyptian singer when a young female fan jumped on stage, hugged the male singer and have him a kiss…. The government department that monitors public entertainment said the girl’s behaviour at Friday’s concert ‘defied the conservative traditions of Kuwait’.”

Not a mention of spanking in either. The football team’s manager wouldn’t have lined up the miscreants in the dressing room, fresh from their early baths, for over the knee spankings, And the pop fan wouldn’t have slept on her front that night after suffering some more ‘conservative traditions’. So there’s nothing to see here. Move along in an orderly fashion, now…

4 thoughts on “In the News

  • 18 October, 2008 at 9:38 pm
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    You ‘had to’? Really? Absolutely had to? Were forced to at gunpoint? Or did the cabin crew have Haron hostage? Or were they throwing your canes into a bonfire, one by one, until you tore those stories from the paper?

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  • 18 October, 2008 at 11:27 pm
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    You must have looked slightly strange randomly tearing out stories of bad behaivor… did the Air Hostesses give you weird/fearful looks?

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  • 19 October, 2008 at 2:34 am
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    Or weird/fearful/hopeful looks? :)

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  • 19 October, 2008 at 10:42 am
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    LOL I don’t think the air *steward* on the flight would have been interested in anything M/F, to be honest!

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