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Television From Another World

By Maddie | Published July 23, 2009

So we were watching this programme on TV this evening, “Help Mijn Man Is Een Klusser”, which roughly translates as “Hey Some Men Do DIY And Some Of Them Don’t Finish It So Some Other Men Will And We Can all Be Sympathetic And Patronising To His Long Suffering Wife While Casting Aspertions On The [...]

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Incommunicado

By Maddie | Published June 9, 2009

So end of last week our internet broke. Completely. No web, phone or television. Mainly we didn’t notice on Saturday but wow, with all three down you really see how much time these things can be. A way to stave off boredom and stop you having to work to find something to do.
Actually Saturday was [...]

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Television

By Maddie | Published April 25, 2009

I find television really hard to watch lately. Not that it’s got worse or that I get more bored than I used to, but because I have become increasingly aware of the lazy gender stereotyping and sexism that is just so ubiquitous. Adverts are of course the worst offenders. Seriously, television adverts must be the [...]

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