Glitter for Brains: Dinner Dates and Bus Stops.
(Nominated by Peach)

All this talk of dating reminded me how hideous and how brilliant it is. Especially for Gentlemen Who Were Picked Last In Games for, you see, we have an extra card to play at the end of the night.

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Our judges said:

“Sharp and entertaining.”

“He does what he does very well indeed.”

“A window on a world that I might have left behind, but which I can still look back on with a fond chuckle and a shake of the head - particularly when it’s described as wittily as this.”

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Thanks to this week’s judges: Ariel (from the Hall of Fame), Daren, Jessica, Peach, Wendy and Zinnia. Your head judge was Mike, and your shortlister was Sarah R.

The next Post Of The Week will be announced on Sunday evening.
Please note that nominations for next week cannot be accepted until then.

If YOU would like to vote on this week’s shortlist and be part of the decision making for the Post of the Week this week, please pick your 5 favourite posts from the list and award them 5 points for the favourite, down to 1 for the 5th favourite and mail your votes to peacharse@yahoo.com no later than 6pm on Sunday night.

Ok - a little later than usual (a good friend’s birthday celebrations got in the way of my responsibilities, I’m afraid) - here goes…

1. Blonde Moments… In which I suspend Disbelief
Nominated by Ben

California Girl has joined a cult. No, really.

2. Gargoyle: Time is (of) the essence...
Nominated by Wendy

In terms of time as an asset, time is fundamental to us as a resource. We are aware, possibly, that our time is limited, that our time is finite, that it is constantly being used up no matter what we do. We are also aware, possibly, that our time resources are exchangeable for other resources (e.g. money) when we have a job or are self-employed or that we sacrifice those when we choose not to exchange our time in an occupational capacity.

3. Glitter for Brains: Dinner Dates and Bus Stops
Nominated by Peach

All this talk of dating reminded me how hideous and how brilliant it is. Especially for Gentlemen Who Were Picked Last In Games for, you see, we have an extra card to play at the end of the night.

4. Let Me Tell You All About It, Sweetie: Sooner or Later
Nominated by Bob

While learning more about the Little Rock Nine, I noticed quite a few parallels between the struggle that these kids (and the black community as a whole) fought for to obtain their civil rights and the struggle that homosexuals have for civil rights.

5. The Hellcat Chronicles: Behind This Door Lies Untold Horrors
Nominated by Zinnia Cyclamen

I have made an accidental scientific discovery, on the same scale as Dr. Whatsisname and the penicillin growing, unencumbered, on the back of a copper penny. Or not.

6. The Mighty Ding: God is Not Great
Nominated by Earth Girl

Freedom of thought is the one human right that you can never truly take away from anyone, despite the best efforts of zealots and tyrants everywhere, and it is an incredible shame that so many people simply choose to hand their minds over to the petty rules and regulations of world religions and (more importantly) the leaders of these religions.

7. Unjuicier Gossip: Just My Imagination
Nominated by Boy

When I was with The Evil Ex, I didn’t wear sunglasses indoors or wear long sleeves in the middle of summer, but I did withdraw from almost all of my friends. Things were happening that I didn’t want to talk about, but they were also all I could think about.

8. writer’s moll: Minted in Morocco
Nominated by Cliff

I like mint. It’s a versatile little plant and you can do a lot of nice things with it – wrap it in thick dark chocolate for an after dinner treat, mix it with chocolate chips and churn it into ice-cream for an even nicer one, whizz it into a sauce to jazz up your lamb chop, suck it in peppermint form afterwards to get rid of the smell of said lamb chop, scatter it on salads or even frost it and use as a decoration – but stuffing it into a pot with half a pound of sugar and some boiling water and calling it tea, is not one of them.

If you have a post you want to nominate, please leave a link in the comments below.

The deadline for nominations is Friday 7th March.

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Evening all. We had a clear winner this week.

Todger Talk: Mr Sex: If you need and explanation on how depressing this is, then we got a LONG day ahead of us

Nominated by peach.

“The real root of prostitution is in the economic system and not the criminal laws, says Patrick. “There are a lot of single mothers who feel that’s the only way they can make money. If you want to get rid of prostitution the way is to reform the welfare system.”

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(That was me bashing my head against the keyboard over and over again)

Should prostitution be legalised? Course it should. Should shit-thick ignorance be criminalised in its place? Hell yeah. These deluded nob-ends seem to be living in a world where the women loll about on beds in fluffy mules with fruity foreign accents, capitalising on the cow-like frigidness of the local womenfolk by earning a nice bit of cash for their dear old Mams in Potatovia in a sexy, sexy way until Richard Gere comes along, and pimps are evidently crazy funsters with big Afros, that’s all.

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Our Judges said:

“A fantastic post, illustrating lots of the forms of hypocrisy people employ when buying hookers”.
“It’s a great post, for sure, but what makes it for me is the passion on display - both in the post itself and in the comments”

Your shortlister this week was Bob. The judgely huddle consisted of Lyle, Ben,Wendy, Scary Duck (this week’s Hall of Fame judge) and me, SwissToni.

It’s been emotional, as always.

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OK. Gotta run, but you’ve been amazing.

The next Post Of The Week will be announced on Sunday evening.

Please note that nominations for next week cannot be accepted until then.

If you (yes, YOU) would like to vote on this week’s shortlist and be part of the decision making for the Post of the Week this week (and really, why wouldn’t you?), please pick your 5 favourite posts from the list and award them 5 points for the favourite, down to 1 for the 5th favourite and send your votes to peacharse@yahoo.com no later than 6pm on Sunday night. Go on then, you know you want to.

And without further ado, here’s this week’s list:

1. Brad and His Blog: Smiles are free

Nominated by Ben.

There was a small pause here, because I was surprised at the cleverness of this rude man. In just a few words he’d shown me that he likens my position to one at a fast food restaurant. In his own audacious way he had reduced me to a pimply teenaged burger flipper.

2. Sometimes Funny is All I Have: That Time

Nominated by nuttycow.

A train is hitting me in the mornings. I can’t think in straight lines, and I feel constantly guilty and anxious. Suddenly lots of seeds I sowed months ago are becoming green shoots and are wiggling their way upwards, but, just as suddenly, I have been rendered completely incapable of doing anything to nurture them.

3. Steakhouse Blues: “do not despair of life …”

Nominated by Lyle.

Underlying those spikes though is a more persistent unease, as I worry about losing a few on my staff, “angels” all, who seem fixated on the negative and are obviously connecting me personally with mostly imagined problems. If my “angels” become hopeless, I’m just plain fucked.

4. Todger Talk: Mr Sex: If you need and explanation on how depressing this is, then we got a LONG day ahead of us

Nominated by peach.

Lovely bit of snobbery here. It’s a bit like viewing child porn in an ornate frame in a country mansion, and looking down your nose at people who watch it on the internet.

5. Trauma Queen: Adopt a caring and confident manner

Nominated by karen.

A simple enough bread and butter job, 1 year old male with what looks like bronchiolitis. His Mum holds him as she parrots the standard history - wee bit of a cold, awfy snottery, tired, pale.

6. Why Don’t We Get Drunk and Blog: A Letter to the Girl in the Red Skirt Dancing on McFadden’s Bar on Saturday

Nominated by Boy.

Let’s just launch right into it. I would like to express how thankful I am for getting the opportunity to stare at your vagina for a better part of Saturday night at McFadden’s. It was more than I could’ve asked for on an evening where I was just looking to relax.