[blogfocus] graphic images bloggers use

This young man’s language is often very graphic

I promised some graphic footage and here it is.

The way bloggers use graphics – pictures, charts and videos - is a time honoured art, certainly not exclusive to the MSM and held in varying degrees of esteem by various bloggers.

We’ll kick off with Mr. Eugenides and his scurrilous Friday caption competition.

Clearly, two great minds had the same idea and here’s Guido Fawkes – also with his scurrilous Friday caption competition.

Graphic footage continued here …

[young thugs] learning to love a lout

Minette Marrin says: It is not easy to “love a lout”, to use Labour’s spiteful jibe at David Cameron; and to “hug a hoodie” might be positively dangerous. All the same, something has to be done about the Asbo set, especially as antisocial behaviour orders don’t seem to be working. Indeed they don’t and the problem is not just British. Halls of Macadamia adds, about Canada: Getting rid of the Young Offenders Act and prosecuting these little thugs will do more for Canadian society than harassing hunters and farmers about their rifles. As for me, I think it’s clear that the problem is worldwide – at least in the Anglo-Saxon world. So it has to be due to modern cultural and economic pressures, wouldn’t you think?

[saturday quiz] for deep thinkers

Are you sitting comfortably, two-square on your botty? Then I'll begin:

1…..Two gentlemen whose first names were Laszlo and Georg invented the ball-point pen. What was their surname?

2…..A centennial celebration is 100 years. A bicentennial is 200 years. A sesquicentennial celebrates how many years?

3…..Everyone knows FM Radio but what does FM mean?

Next seven here ...

[deeper into debt] sounds familiar

Debt hell for middle class Victorians are taking out as many as 12 credit cards at a time and using all of them at once, as their personal debts spiral out of control. Oh, those Australians. Here’s more:

Personal Debt Runs Out Of Control in Britain » Netscape.com
Personal Debt Out Of Control; U.S. Economy Awash in Debt
Canadians' Personal Debt at Historic Level

In contrast to the UK's insatiable appetite for credit, many major European countries have a culture of saving, and some, such as France and Germany, are particularly debt adverse.

Why can they do it and we can’t?

[doctor vee] strangers on a train

Doctor Vee’s been having train troubles: …a girl did try to barge her way into a train before everybody (including me) had got out. She was obviously an inexperienced train boarder, so I kind of deliberately stood in her way to hint that what she was doing was wrong. Is that rude? Trains are hotbeds of strange human behaviour, be it the man having a very loud argument with his wife on the phone, the utter arseholes who take up two seats when they’re sleeping, or the strange guy giving everybody a creepy stare (that one’s me).

Once I observed a girl who was just looking at her phone. Nothing unusual there, but all of a sudden she just burst into tears. Had she just been dumped by text? Rudeness all round! And then there are the most annoying people of all — the people who walk up to the ticket barriers and then realise that they actually need a ticket to negotiate the barriers. Doh! Then, instead of politely walking away from the barrier, they just stop dead and proceed to fish around in their bag … Poor lad. Maybe he should take the copter.

[a big ask] 300 words from you

Make it one of your tasks this weekend - 300 words on your most outrageous moment, your most flagrant piece of chutzpah, which somehow came off. E-mail 'em under whatever pseudonym you like and I'll post 'em. Mine is The Day I Gatecrashed the Prez. [E-mail in profile]