May 08 2008
Mother’s Day, Manbabies and Other Choice Links
posted by Ana Samways at 11:52 am
What would happen if you swapped the heads of dad and his kid in a photo? The latest and most disconcerting internet meme, Manbabies, that’s what.
This goldfish is no thicko: Comet has been trained to play football, basketball and even limbo dance under a bar. Watch video here.
Irony: A Texan woman protesting amnesty for illegal immigrants argues that anyone who can’t master English doesn’t deserve to live in America.
Hanging out to see Alt TV’s naked newsreader deliver details of the Kahui trial? Stuff has a poll trying to find out how many of you will be watching and if so how often. So far “never” is ahead by a nose — could all change when the teenage boys get out of school.
Happy Mother’s Day: Controversial French novelist and lush Michel Houellebecq, according to the Guardian,
“created one of modern French literature’s vilest mothers in his novel Atomised, a selfish, sex-obsessed hippy who leaves her young son in an attic in his own excrement then dumps him so she can enjoy free-love life in a bizarre cult. Elsewhere, he described the “fundamental psychic flaw” his mother caused in him. He hasn’t spoken to her for 17 years.”
Now his 83-year-old mother Lucie Ceccaldi has launched a counter-attack with a new memoir, in which she calls him an “evil, stupid little bastard”.
One-third of British employees admit to being hungover at desk.
Video: Mother’s Day. (The mother character is universal)