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My email is borked. Not just the blog email address, all my hotmail ones.

So thanks if you emailed, and I'm sure I'll get it sorted out soon.

On a completely unrelated note, I was in a shop today browsing various delightful and brightly coloured products (sweets in other words. Ann Summers is for weekend shopping, and don't you know all the cool kids buy their sex toys online these days?), when I heard the following from one of the lovable tykes who pester me on the bus every day:

"Ugh, he's a poof now? What a filthy, disgusting boy."
"I know! Sick fag,"

Which would, sadly, be totally unremarkable, if I hadn't exited the shop to hear, literally seconds later and from an entirely different, but similarly delightful adolescent:

"Oh my God, she's such a fucking dyke, it's so gross"

What was that about living in a progressive, forward thinking society? It's not that I've never encountered attitudes like this before, but what makes me terribly sad is that these are not doubled up old biddies who still remember when being gay was illegal, or ASBO teenagers with BNP parents. In fact, I don't think the first group are teenagers at all yet, but all of them
have quintessentially middle-class parents. They have Internet connections, TVs and go to a school where they routinely encounter openly gay students and teachers, who are nice, productive, and intelligent people.

What. The. Fuck? Are they parroting their parents' views?I hope they grow out of it, because I'm not exaggerating when I say that these kids are the Oxbridge alumni of tomorrow and the politicians, doctors and lawyers of the days after that.

Amusingly (or not), the first group apparently have no problem with the "oh how naughty!" but highly marketable pseudo-bisexuality of Katy Perry and her ilk, considering how they squeal over "I Kissed a Girl" on their IPods.

I could rage about the hypocrisy, not to mention the lack of musical taste, but the lovely Ms Cho, and the equally titillating Miss Palmer (soon to be Mrs Gaiman. My jealousy of both parties knows no bounds) have already formulated an appropriate response.

The message at the end is a little dated, but I believe the sentiment still stands.

In other news: I need a haircut, which is always bad. Anyone who knows of a good, cheap hairdresser who can both cut hair that's kinda-sorta black hair but not, as well as shutting up and not making irksome chit-chat and is situated near me send an email/tweet.

Kthnxbai