One today!

22May09

I’m ill. The doctor reckons it’s just a cold, but since this is Japan, he prescribed me no fewer than four different types of medicine.

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Tags: Blogiversary, Common Cold, Illness, Japan, Meta

Now, where did I put my running shoes?

11Apr09

It’s sobering to realise that I will never again be as fit as I was at the age of 15.
Back then, I was training 12-14 hours a week (for a school sports team, no less – we worked hard), as well as walking a mile a day as part of my journey to school. [...]

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Tags: Dance Music, Exercise, Health, Intervals, Podrunners, Running

Body hair: untidy, unpleasant and downright dangerous

07Apr09

First, there was this advert from the US for a combination razor/bikini trimmer, the Schick Quattro Trimstyle for Women:

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Tags: Advertising, Beauty, Feminism & Womanism, Grooming, Quattro, Racism, Razors, Sexism, Shaving, Wilkinson Sword, Women

Under the lid

08Jan09

Today Feministing flagged up an ad campaign in Germany by a group called Pro Mädchen (“pro-girls”, roughly). They’re putting stickers on the underside of toilet lids saying Bulimie ist heilbar – “Bulimia is curable”.

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Tags: Advertising, Bulimia, Eating Disorders, Health, Toilets, Women