Bollocks
by Gadgie, 28 February 2008
Leave them alone in Italy.
The country’s highest appeals court has just reached a judgement banning men from touching their genitals in public.
More here
Whereas on the Guardian comments page it appears to be a virtue to proudly display bollocks for the whole world to see.




Thursday 28 February 2008 at 13:32
First comment following the Straight Left one’s article:
That’s quite enough CiF for me for at least the next month. But the irony of Seumas Milne being denounced as an Islamophobe by a pro-Iraqi commenter brings me deep, deep joy.
Thursday 28 February 2008 at 15:06
What would they make of the, surely apocryphal, tale of Admiral Togo, his aide de camp and his, the admiral’s, testicles as the flagship went into action at Tsu Shima? Supposedly the ADC wanted to check whether the boss was scared and groped him only to find that his equipment was hanging loose, the scrotum untightened by fear. Don’t believe a word of it myself but it makes a good story.