Not so good as a soundbite I suppose

(If anyone asks, we had our boy vaccinated in France, where you can choose which mmr vaccine to have, and the GP gives the shot, not a nurse, after giving a thorough health check. Here you get what you’re given and can’t have any information about what it is)

Given that you covered the whole blue/pink gender issue a while back, I’d at least have expected you to do a pink men’s shirt.

OK, (almost?) everyone who saw it would likely leap to the wrong conclusions; but it’d be very very meta.

http://www.buyswag.com/brashmusic/product.aspx?id=554

Oh, and see a video at:-

http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/233937

Highly offensive music to play on the train/bus/tube on the speaker of your mobile phone in the way that kiddies do with their R’n'B type stuff.

I’m not sure if we are supposed to bring up the stuff in the miniblog here, in the middle of discussions about T-shirts (I, too, will try to save up for a homoeopath T-shirt), but did you see that one about Tanya Byron? You just look at the title and the first thing that comes to your mind is OCD, even if you are not a psychologist. It was reassuring to see so many psychiatrists jump and rush to comment that the likely diagnosis is OCD. But my blood turns icecold when I think about all the people out there wrestling with these worries, how they will now think they are mad. Jesus.

I’d like a pack of disposable Occam’s Razors.

I was thinking about this earlier, it appears that pink for boys was the norm until well into this century, and that the reverse wasn’t set in stone until the 50’s. Lots of interesting reasons under the link:

http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=238733

What is it with this pink culture anyway? Are women supposed to have different retinas? Or no taste?

Oh it will sell in North America although given recent polls re American attitudes to nanotech the controversy it will generate will fuel the sales. I’d recommend taking on the organic food industry (which includes the promotion of non-pasteurized milk), the anti-fluoridation lobby, the anti-mercury fillings fear mongerers and the opposed to x-rays crowd.

just tried it myself, a message came up saying, “thank you for your comment we might not be able to post them all because of the volume we recieve.” i think i should mention that iv seen other newspapers website deleting and censoring comments because they were critical of the story, E.g. the daily mail deleting comments that pointed out that their pictures of “terrorist plans” were actually from a videogame. i wouldn’t put it past the times to purposely ignore comments that are critical of this vaccine story.