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Your child is a loser, so is mine | Benmelour
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You think it, I say it. Your child is a loser, so is mine. February 27, 2011 – 1:12 pm. Posted in What's really getting my goat. 8220;Every child gets a prize! 8221; What a crock. Bloody kids’ parties: the black hole of Calcutta on the calendar for most parents. Every fleeting moment of joy from the birthday brat invertly proportional to the amount of anguish from the host parent. Now this is where it gets interesting, hosting. That’s right, every piece of paper and every child gets a gift. It’s go...
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Fitzroy: Homeland of the Hypocrite Hipster | Benmelour
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You think it, I say it. Fitzroy: Homeland of the Hypocrite Hipster. December 10, 2010 – 2:22 pm. Posted in What's really getting my goat. Rose Street Artists' Market. Fitzroy, Melbourne’s oldest suburb and its boho heart. Hipster Central. What better way to spend a saturated Saturday than traipsing through its eclectic aorta with a child. And his gun. Read on. The hipster of Fitzroy is all blunt fringe and self-motivated activism, thus my child and I come to you with this pointy reckoning:. Your child is...
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Step away from the iCrack | Benmelour
https://mattsdailyrant.wordpress.com/2011/06/26/step-away-from-the-icrack
You think it, I say it. Step away from the iCrack. June 26, 2011 – 4:02 pm. It’s alarming just how many people are addicted to their iPhones. But why? And at what cost? I know this couple tweet each other while at home, while sitting next to each other (the evidence is there, again, on Twitter). And I worry that social media has become one of their primary means of communicating with each other. This last week has made me realise that smartphones allow for connectivity, but not that type which we need...