Wednesday, December 13, 2006

Scene from a taxi

The Daily Voice is, to put it mildly, crap. It's one of a number of truly trashy tabloids (tm me) that have proliferated in Cape Town of late. it comes complete with page three girls, complete in their kaalgat glory.

So this morning on my way to work I noticed a guy with his (two, maybe three-year-old) son. Dad was trying to read the Voice. Kiddie was insistently pointing his finger at the naked girl. In fact, he was pointing so hard at the..erm...nippular area, I was surprised his finger didn't poke straight through the paper. What was going through his mind? Breakfast?

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Its slightly worrying that the father was reading that in front of the kid. i dunno maybe im being a prude but shouldnt porn be hidden for at least a little while from kids? what happened to innocence, riding your bicycle in the street and colouring in books?

Liz said...

But that's the thing, isn't it? The Daily Voice doesn't count as pornography; it's technically (but only very technically) a newspaper, albeit catering for the lowest common denominator. Hustler comes wrapped in plastic; Penthouse comes wrapped in plastic; COSMO comes wrapped in plastic of all things. But a newspaper publishing women with their decolletage all over the place isn't.

Anonymous said...

decolettage? ha ha thats hysterical , no one speaks like that anymore, you have been hanging with the catholics way too long my friend.plus are we allowed to use the phrase lowest common denominator in this country still?i mean what are the associations with that term?

Anonymous said...

In fact in fact in fact, i think that you people cannot be saying these things anymore. Becozzzz it is saying that peoples are stupid.Eikona! it cannot be used.We must be rather to say that these peoples are not thnking like us they are the specials.eish because some people they do not have the education

Anonymous said...

What happened to Innocence? Why, she's fine, still living with Prudence, Patience, and Incontinence...