Would you like sexism with that?
A burger restaurant in Sydney, Australia, has been forced to defend its advertising campaign after it used a digitally created picture of a burger in the shape of a woman's naked bum. Bondi Junction's Goodtime Burgers wedged a burger patty, lettuce, tomato and cheese squeezed between a woman's gluts. "It's highly inappropriate for a food business to promote their concept using vulgarity, toilet humour and sexism," said Corinne Mossati, of the food blog, Gourmantic. A representative of the burger outlet trotted out the usual justification, blah, blah, lighten up, it was a joke.
Look not for gongs
"Hamish, I hear you," a reader writes. "But please go easy on dumping on state schools. When I attended a state college we were made to welcome every private school failure, from rampant firebugs to sexual misfits, as the "good" schools purged their social failures and made it our problem. Attending our school reunion I was quietly satisfied with the achievements of my class - a tsunami of degrees, international awards and attainment in the arts including opera and literature ... What will drive your academic achievement will be real rewards and real personal achievement and not fraudulent player-of-the-day gongs. Work hard, be an individual, be comfortable in yourself, earn money and help others."
Conservative's figurative faux pas
After Colin Craig's lurid description of a Rankin/Bennett ticket being a "catfight" (because ladies competing will inevitably end in scratching and hair-pulling), he yesterday issued a press release describing the Labour and Greens approach as "schizophrenic". Egads Colin! Politicians who use a literal mental illness as an adjective are retarded. You don't want your political career to be stillborn, do you? Helen Clark learned to choose her words carefully when she referred to Don Brash as cancerous; so did Marc Ellis when he claimed to be "sweating like a rapist" and John Tamihere's political career wasn't aided by calling the Governor-General, the PM, the Chief Justice and the Speaker "front bums" .
