cheezy wotsit experiment…
May 7, 2008 by sparklematrix
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To continue with feminist-lite* and other stuff that will not make the patriarchy go ~bang~ anytime soon.
We here at sparksville proudly present you with the Institute for Wotsits Research - delving deep into the feminist phenomena of - “aremenbetterthanwotsits?” Regular readers will recognise that this is a frequent and persistent query presented here on sparksblog and we are committed to examine this on-going question in an ethical and scientificy manner.
Stay tuned for findings and peer reviewed articles folks.
* Third person sparks is doing madz things with graphs at the mo - which is not a good idea.
Giant cheesy tubes basking on the sunny windowsill…
That is the most adorable picture ever!
I had some wotsits today. They were nice. I probably ate more wotsits than the rat in the picture, but I didn’t look anywhere near that cute doing so!
Laurelin I adore wotsits so much, that they remain locked in the boot of my car on a ration basis. Arewotsitsbetterthanmen?
yes.
no more research needed!
Arewotsitsbetterthanmen?
Most definitely. Even the crumbs are better.
David Dickinson is a similar shade of orange…..
If Laurelin is eating wotsits then I propose wotsits are better than men on account of edibility.
you don’t often see a rodent nibbling happily on a man, after all.
case closed.
I haven’t had one for years, though now you mention it I feel a sort of nostalgia for them, I cannot say the same of men.
when it comes to sentimentality engendering qualities I am in the wotsit camp.
Hi Lucky & helzeph. I had a packet today, shared with a stray cat may I add. As I’ve said I have to hold them on ration in the boot of my car or I would just go on a huge nom nom feast.
How about the end of 1984 SW, where they threaten Winston Smith with the rat? Do the rats prefer wotsits to cocaine though, that’s what we need to know…..
Hi Lucky & helzeph. I had a packet today, shared with a stray cat may I add. As I’ve said I have to hold them on ration in the boot of my car or I would just go on a huge nom nom feast.
Well, share some with me cuz I’ve never even heard of wotsits, let alone had one. Is this like a favorite U.K. snack of mice and men? Altho, that’s not a mouse and you’re definitely not a man. That cute little critter isn’t a rat either. Sure looks like a hamster to me.
P.S. What’s with that pink thing next to my name? Lucky does not do pink.
Hmm looks more like a Nik Nak to me personally (sorry!), either way though, both excellent snackages. The only let down is the lingering bad taste…eep I am talking about the FOOD! Personal feelings on tutha subject being rather well voiced already I feel.
Men will come and go (oh bugger another double meaning) but snacks will be there for life! I mean how long have wotsits been around now? Possible longer than me.
Sparks - believe twas your birthday recently, as it was mine and know they’re at a similar time if not on the same day. Hope you had a nice day and weren’t ill like I was (and not through any prior enjoyable festivities either)!
didn’t count: the rats were only happy because of the soma.
Grace - yes, it looks like a Nik Nak but I thought it would do to highlight the important research underway. This stemmed from the discussion on here re the menarebetterthanwomen attempt to…do something? I mean why stop there?
Yes Lucky it’s a popular faux-cheesy snack and I agree it’s a hamster and oh, sorry about the pink avatar :/
Grace It’s my birthday next week. I’m deciding what to buy myself? Happy birthday for yours ‘tho - fellow taurean.
A bumper pack of Cheesy Wotsits? Actually M&S cheese tasters are very nice if you want to go a bit upmarket.
Whorr…the M&S upmarket faux wotsit. Actually even the safeway ‘economy’ do me - all the same when you have ten in your mouth.
ah, but sw, you are mixing up your dystopian future novels… soma was only available in the Brave New World, not on Airstrip One in Eurasia…
*geekiness ends*
I have to report I have bought a bumper pack of Tesco Cheesy Puffs. And they are not a patch on M&S. That will teach me to go in downmarket stores for poor people.
“Down market” says it all (now withdrawn pole dancing kits for little girls). However, they (Tesco) own half of Gateshead (south of the Tyne) which is in a state of total decay…but they won’t sell it off in case Asda or whatever buy it up. So folks living in “Tesco” land (as it is known) just have to put up with it.
Yup I hate Tesco.
They are supposed to be doing something about that planning regs wise, but I doubt that it will extend as far as seizing the land Tesco have already got. Supermarkets don’t like competition because they have to lower their prices - there’s plenty of research showing prices are higher in areas where they have a monopoly.
I worked for Tesco a few years ago. Therefore, I hate Tesco too.
Yeah, Tesco have got the land and that’s it…apparently. We’ve looked into it extensively.
It seems that after much scientificy discussion, the verdict is that wotsitsarebetterthanmenz. And hamsters too for that matter (I just thought I would tack that onto our scientifcy analysis).
Belated birthday greetings Ms Grace.
Lucky, I think that WP now give you a pattern avatar (instead of those ‘mystery person’ ones) if you don’t have a default avatar. But I did notice that polly’s accidentally got the treatment the other day. I can understand your adversion to pink.
Getting back to the topic, the real issue would be if Twisties* are better than Wotsits. My verdict would be “yes”. *Mutant faux-cheesy snacks from Down Under. But faux-chicken Twisties are just all wrong, possibly evol, and not in the good radfem way.
NEWSFLASH: I see that finally Twisties are available in the UK, called Tastees (I haven’t seen them in shops, but I rarely browse). I saw this newsflash in (don’t hit me) wiki.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twisties
Cheers for belated birthday wishes! I bought myself a trip to Barcelona with my oldest friend
Once again I have let myself fall out of the loop experiment wise (this can not go on, I am an experimental gal and need to get my hands dirty) but anything that wipes the stupid grin off the menarebetterthanwomen cretins is good in my book (is that mean to cretins?). My first experience of ’silly little girl with a degree thinks she has an opinion on the world’ came from them (master dick I believe), thus inducting me into the world of online resistance! Cheers guys!
I found the bit about the mystery avatars
http://wordpress.com/blog/2008/05/04/default-avatars/
I don’t know from wotsit, but if they are of any use at all then they are clearly better than men.
I will take the hamster’s O mouth as confirmation that wotsits are indeed good for something.
I remember that Grace.
stormy - Noes!
They have to be cheezy - that’s the whole fracking point.
I only think of the faux-cheesy variety when I think of Twisties. It’s the default. And the origninal.
Menz actually stand a chance of being better than faux-chickeny Twisties. It’s a line call. That’s how seriously wrong and fucked up the faux-chickeny ones are.
It’s late, how about I spell original correctly?
See, even the thought of those abominations make me go gah-gah. (take your pick, menz or the faux-chickeny twisties)
Aaaah!
Is that your little ratkin Sparkle, or did you get the pic from somewhere?
Wotsits are weird - they smell like cheesy feet but are bizarrely moreish at the same time.
I know some men who smell a bit cheesy, but aren’t moreish - does this prove a point?
Hi radicalrodent - quite a fitting post
Alas the hammie is not mine but she does look a lot like my dear departed Howie…
Wotsits wins!
Out, damn spot, out!
Good, it worked. The pink spot next to my name is now out and has been replaced by something a bit more cheesier.
This is hilarious!
That wiki thing is complete fiction Stormy. (what a surprise eh?) “Taste tastees”? I have never heard of either the snack or the slogan and I am more than familiar with most varieties of junkfood….
You would think I would have a sixth sense thing going on if they were over here.
That and my never ending quest for Violet Crumbles (a bit like Crunchies, but 10x better).
My mummy sends them over sometimes.
ah, but sw, you are mixing up your dystopian future novels… soma was only available in the Brave New World, not on Airstrip One in Eurasia…
*geekiness ends*
shit! knew i should have bothered reading the damn book… eric blair not better than wotsits. well with a name like that whaddya expect.
at least the test cricket starts again next thurs!
I believe there was some kind of football going on yesterday from the noises emanating from the pub at the end of my road. Highly annoying.
Hippo cheezie birdy, Sparks.
absolutely thebewilderness - and we now have a 40 comment strong post about a hamster and a wotsit…
…wanders off…
We could easily go to 80 comments on this very important subject Sparks, how about it?!
Actually stormy I’ve found a wotsit flavored large tube thing. I can’t remember the name, (’cos they’re locked in my car - natch) I think they are imported from somewhere? probably, as it’s not wrote in English…
I found them at one of those “cheap shops” where you get loads of weird stuff dead reasonable. However, they are very nom-nomable.
I still say it’s a rat. Apparently the cheap shops are trendy now and posh people are shopping at them due to the credit crunch, instead of Waitrose and M&S. Is that what drove you to them sparks?
Polly, I have to confess to having a sandwich from Waitrose last Friday. £3:00!! I could have made a feast for six - at least.
I’ve always liked the cheap shops tho’ - I mean where else can you get a box of miniature assorted infused oils by Jamie Oliver for 99p? Or a large Wotsit tube and miniature pringles for 10p.
I mean…srsly…
I’m a cheapie shops fan too
My last purchase was a 7.5m tape measure for £2.99.
I used to live in the East End, there were lots of weird and wonderful items (consumables) to try out (Asian stores, near & far east). Usually no English on the packaging, but hey, I was game.
I didn’t know they had waitrose up in in geordie land, I thought it was a southern thing. But £3 for a sandwich - aarghh….
Yeah, we have one in Durham and one in a rural town. Actually, I had another one today, but it was bought for me.
Best buy? a box of Tetleys that go out of date next week for 10p
I just had to buy a packet of wotsits today… yummy! Sparks, are you sure you’re not a front for the manufacturers of cheesy corn snacks everywhere?
Oh noes my cheesy marketing manipulations have been rumbled.
actually, I’m going to look to see if they have MSG (probably) in them. They are just too morish.
if they have MSG in them….. oh you dear sweet innocent thing.
have they any other ingredients?
Yes sw, as innocent as this may sound, I only started to think of additives after a discussion about prawn crackers with my daughter. However, I was very aware of msgs when my children were growing up, but I sort of forgot…after they grew up. Oh yes, the power of…wotsits…
That is why I have to lock them in the car…I have an addiction.
They are hardly likely to contain crack cocaine for 10p SW….
This is good. This thread has now reached 55 and still counting. All about faux-cheezy snax. Being better than menz. Totally proven.
Impressive.
Well done all.
Maybe you could do some of your famous graphics just to make the whole thing more intellectually respectable just before it is published in the British Wotsit Journal Stormy…
That’s a good point polly. We could also show the proof to the MRA’s when they visit. They would never notice as our research would look exactly like theirs.
why did they call the british wotsit journal ’stormy’? i mean we all love her, but there’s a limit.
This is what happens when you keep focused…
I think that 60 comments in this thread can be considered conclusive proof that wotsits, whatever they are, is better than menz.
Yes the all important comma, SW. I think this research is really good science Sparks - I mean who could possibly find fault with it?
Dammit, I thought you were naming the Journal after me.
I want it named after me.
Yes, I think our report for The British Wotsit Journal will look really neat. We can have tables, lots and lots of tables, some with doped, others with non-doped hamsters. Pie charts are a bit of a no-no, but the line graphs will fly. One line graph could be the length of time that hamsters take to make up their minds, overlaid with the size and shape of the wotsit.
Of course, it won’t matter if our Study is statistically small (size of hypothalamus study anyone?). We only need 3-4 hamsters, one manz, and a truckload of wotsits (research is very hungry work).
We can get some additional (sneaky) funding from the manufacturers of wotsits — totally no conflict of interest there, we are dedicated scientists, set out to *prove* wotsits (or indeed, any faux cheezy snack) are better than menz. It (apparently) doesn’t matter that we set out to prove one theory, anything goes in this research game!
See. Dedicated.
I think we should push this thread up to over the 500 mark. That can go into our report as well, proving how interesting and important this subject matter is. Of *critical* importance in fact.
Are we limited to just one variety of rodent? It would be impressive if we had many varieties. And geese.
SW said:
if they have MSG in them….. oh you dear sweet innocent thing.
have they any other ingredients?
ROTFL !
You made my day.
We could feed them to the oppressed Geordie ducks as well.
I really want some wotsits now, but I can’t be arsed to put proper clothes on and go to the shop….
Well, even though we have *proven* beyond a shadow of a doubt, most scientifically, that cheezy wotsits are better than menz, I propose a second scientific study of red wine (or beer, Polly) being better than menz.
I think that 9 out of 10 radfems would agree?
Let’s ask 10!
We should probably limit the sample size to less than 10 though, we wouldn’t want to run out…
Err yeah, let’s limit it to 10. Oh noes J has just discovered that she too loves the giant wotsit flavoured cheesy tubes - which btw are now reduced to 5p. I’m getting funny looks at the checkout…
stormy I enjoyed your analysis of *koff* certain groups current research methods and ethics.
Analysis?!
Cripes, just a relaying of what seems to be common practice.
Thought we may as well follow what the boyz do.
Now Polly, when you say “we wouldn’t want to run out…” I assume that means the beverage? We’ll get some beer company sponsorship; sorted! We could be really efficient, and do the drunken sperm study at the same time.
Gosh, all these indepth scientificy studies, so little booze…
Beer is very similar to menz. It smells funny, is full of gaseous sumpin, and it’s bitter. Still, all in all, better than menz.
That’s not proper beer the bewilderness…
Best of all, you can use beer to kill slugs.
See, more scientificy evidence, much better than menz.
I am liking all this scientificy research, it’s a good gig.
I have always been quite sure that beer was improper, Polly, yet another way in which it is like men, but not wotsit.
No, not wotsit at all…
Only got 6 more to go until we will demonstrate conclusively that wotsitsarebetterthanmen.
I had to check in to see how the research was going.
All on track. Although very worrying only six more left. The eating and/or drinking phase of the research is the important part. Can’t be too thorough ya know.
We need solid evidence to defeat MRAs on this. It looks as if our study is just as well-founded as theirs.
menarebetterthanwotsits
There’s more meat on men.
And as a honor… er, male. My opnion counts towards gud scienz
Unfortunately max, scientific research shows the readership of this blog to be largely vegetarian.
But Nadine Dorries has contributed the insight that a lack of wotsits will only lead to a worrying invasion of overseas snacks. This is proved by the section of Polish food I came across in my local Tesco last night.
Well, the lack of wotsits is the wotsits’ fault.
They have the opportunity to step up to the plate as it were.
I really couldn’t resist that!
Da…darrr. The eighty comment rule of science conclusively proves that wotsitsarebetterthanmen. Oh yeah, and Dorries had better prepare herself for sleepless nights as the flood gates open for the import of ‘overseas’ cheesy snacks.
“it’s a disgrace and I demand that we get back to the ‘golden age’ of good old British values” says Nadine nom nom nom.
ok, we have proven it at the eighty comment rule. Does it become law at one hundred comments?
stormy that is a darned good point, I will check with my legal adviser.
*tring tring* “babble babble babble thnxby”
YES indeed! it will be Law at 100 comments.
Res ipsa loquitur habeas corpus inter alia methinks.
What I want to know is when ‘the science bit’ will become a commercial starring Jennifer Aniston - because we’re worth it.
Yes, she mentioned this…
But, who would be “worth it”… Wotsits or us?
I now have proof that cheesy corn snax are yummy the world over - in Barcelona my friend and I went through two huuuuge bags of non-wotsits in quite quick succession, well within the same afternoon. We had orange fingers but we didn’t care! Can’t remember what they were called because the name was spanish and my brain can only retain a few unknown words at a time (although I now know not to ask for something that is ‘not meat or fish, just cheese’ because I will get a cup of tea!).
The bags were 2euro each and were well worth it. Once we started we had to sit and eat the whole bag(s), they’re not a put-away-for-later snack. Men on the other hand, can wait!
Damn it I’m such a cheese fiend!
Wotsits would be worth it.
Of course, they would have to sit through hours of ‘hair and makeup’ for the commercial. I am sure that artificial glossiness would be applied to the Wotsits bag.
After this comment, only 14 more until Law. Latinus Maximus is optional. Reminds me too much of Biggus Dickus.
Yeah you do realise your intestines are probably orange as well though grace….not that I care, E numbers rule in my dietary world.
You live on the edge Ms Styrene, on the edge.
I find this with pea-nuts too :/
Yes but stormy…is it better to live on the edge than in a …
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHt_GzOgjvA
On the edge, with the wotsit, would be far better, I think, than in there with all those menz. You’d be totin’ barges and liftin’ bales all day long.
Definitely, on the edge with the wotsit.
The anticipation is getting overwhelming… 92 comments…
Gawd the eighties were horrendous - that wasn’t a bad song but I’m afraid they were doomed to be one hit wonders. What with calling the band after their first hit and all.
Should I mention the Denning principle of wotsit legislation at this point?
Yeah the 80’s was definitely not my favorite music era. What was with all the Big Hair shit? tho’ at least the men tried not to be too macho.
Please do mention Denning’s principle of wotsit legislation.
News Breaking.
Large Wotsit tubes are out of code, end of June. Now reduced to 5p…I have lots.
That is exciting Sparkle.
It could even mean *proof positive* that menz are worth far less than 5p. I know I wouldn’t pay that much for one.
Only four more… then it’s Law.
The big hair was a conspiracy by the manufacturers of hair products and wide toothed combs (to do the backcombing). It was also necessary to balance the baggy clothes, otherwise your head looked ludicrously small. The Denning principle of wotsit legislation from R v Wotsit (ex parte faux cheesy snacks) conclusively states that inter alia casus foederis ferae naturae fiat justitia ruat coelum. And you can’t say fairer than that.
I am very frustrated waiting for this to become law Sparks. It needs to happen before Saturday, so that AN Wilson can write an indignant column about in the Male ‘Imagine a world ruled by Wotsits’. On the perils of being able to buy faux cheesy giant snacks for less than 5p. And how such unnatural nibbles are almost certainly genetically engineered hybrids crossed with Monster munch.
Nomty-nine
It’s almost time
Just one more
Till it’s Law
Gather round all ye Nom Noms committed to radical social change.
Here at The Sparks Scientific blog we are pleased to announce that the luscious properties of cheesy wotsits over and above men are not only conclusively proven but are now upheld by the law. The systematic, continuing and rigorous scientific study using standardised diagnostic principals that has indeed reached its logical conclusion.
Wotsitsarebetterthanmen ™
A Foucauldian perspective shows that the internalised assumption that men are better than faux cheesy snax (any of them) is finally disputed and convincingly trounced. Consequently, wotsits everywhere are celebrating liberation from their previous inferior societal position, adaptive preferences and Cheesy Stockholm Syndrome.
Nom Nom Nom…
nom nom nom, indeedy!
YAY!
All our hard work (and ingestion of faux cheezy snacks) has finally paid off.
Now the MRAs will have to go to work proving that, under Law, they have the same rights as wotsits (or generic faux cheezy snax), instead of being a mere ‘other’, or ‘less than’.
I feel a distinct case of diddums coming on…
Imagine…If men were ‘other’
cue dramatic animal…
Great poem btw stormy
Teh sis sez it’s cud dae wi’ a peer-review noo.
*Reads slowly*
Yup.
nom nom
Na Max, no peer review needed…it’s law the noo.
Yeah but how do you do the superscript in wordpress Sparks. Cos I can’t get the damn formatting to work at all. In fact I can’t even work out how to do it.
Yup no peer review needed with the law. Cos I fought the law and the law won.
*pops a party popper*
Oh the metaphors the patriarchy can now come up with about radfems literally eating underling males, specifically MRAs those with the very least value below faux cheesy snax (to the point that we would have to be given money to consider them in our conversations oui?).
How do we publicise this fantastic achievement of modern science? Mass cross posting perhaps?
I have ordered my copy of the Male for Saturday Grace, and I advise you to do the same. Because there is bound to be an article by AN Wilson fulminating about how men can’t really be replaced by faux cheesy snax, and it’s just feminist madness to suggest they can. That is if there isn’t one on Thursday by Carol Sarler.
polly - superscript. Put () around tm.
All I can say is that the hamster has it! faux cheese snax are great and just look at the hamsters face (says it all really!!)all the hard work carried out on the scientificy bit! congrats to all of you!
Sorry to derail the *mega important* faux cheezy snack thread, but off-topic on the superscript.
WP is supposed to support it, and (I think) it does via the editor. But for the life of me, I have NEVER been able to get it to work in comments.
Allowed tags
http://faq.wordpress.com/2006/06/08/allowed-html-tags/
What they do, how to do them
http://www.w3schools.com/tags/default.asp
So in conclusion polly, I would say it is some sort of conspiracy by The Daily Male, to stop feminists using superscript. There can be no other rational explanation.
Let’s see ™
No it is just you Stormy. I reckon it is MI5. Or maybe 6. On account of all the MI5 agents are too busy worrying what their spouses are up to.
Well dammit if I can’t get the iddy-bitty text to work.
First attempt, using Sparkle method of brackets (TM)
Second attempt, using the pointy bracket codey TM
Nah, see… totally FUCKED.
(tm) ™ ™ ™ ™ ™ ™ ™ ™ ™ ™ ™ ™ ™ ™ ™ ™
Sorry
I think you is in league with the devol sparks. Because it doesn’t work for me either.
Is everyone using FireFox?
It’s not the devols but the Bats am in league with.
They just woke up out of hibernation a few weeks ago so they’re very active in and out of the rafters.
Keep trying to get a picture…
No I am using a computer. I really don’t understand all this ‘why your browser is evol’ business.
Yes bats move house in May. I was looking for a design at a luxury bat house last month and they had to build it by this month.
The browser should be irrelevant when using the code. Only relevant when using the (TM) method.
I am convinced it is evol magic that Sparks is using…
or FireFox.
Srrsly…there are bat houses?
Apart from mine that is, but it’s not ‘luxury.’
They were trying to persuade the bats to live in the bat house instead of where they were living, which was a scheduled ancient monument. It was indeed a luxury design with facilities for all types of bat. Including roosts at different heights because apparently bats are fussy. I’m glad I haven’t got them in my attic though ‘cos I think they’re scary.
But the burning question polly - are bats better than menz?
We need to ask the tough questions here at The Matrix.
Oh BTW, I heard that if a thread makes 250, then it will be manzatory for menz to have a curfew.
We have bat enthusiast groups round here where they go ‘bat watching’ Luckily they don’t know about our colony or I would have groups of people at the dead of night gawping at my gaff. Lard…
Bats are a protected species. You’re not allowed to get rid of them if they’re in your attic (I think there might be slightly different rules for domestic homes). And menz?
Looking for small black animals at night seems somewhat counterproductive to me…..
I’m sure they are protected everywhere.
Yeah the looking for black animals at night. They’re real tiny and bloody fast too.
You can usually see them against the twilight sky though - we saw loads in Wales when I was younger. The apparently nip the back of cows’ ankles for a bit of food and then fly off. The cows don’t really notice it though they just get a little sting and then it goes, like when we have blood tests I suppose!
I don’t mind bats at a distance I just get freaked out by the flappy-ness if they’re too close, same goes for bird though, and male-righteous people (usually men but not always).
(We are only just over half way to the magic curfew mark, must try harder!)
Do bats prefer cheezies over menz?
We should expand our study to include bats.
It is definite that we need to expand our studies to include Bats. Well spotted stormsta…
Yeah well if they attack cows I am steering well clear of them….
This thread is offensively long for the original inquiry “aremenbetterthanwotsits?”
Thanks sparks. I am always on the lookout for new and completely useless scientificy studies. Academia aren’t gunna hog all that glorious funding dosh.
Offensively long pisaquari?
No way!
At 250 comments we get to enforce the manzatory manz curfew.
Absolutely stormy. Men have governed the law for long enough, and now it’s our turn to make up our own rules to suit us…
…sounding familiar?
News breaking - cheesy giant tubes out of code - now unavailable…
Cheesy withdrawals underway…
Oh noes sparks - you’ll have to start buying the regular priced real wotsits! Or even Waitrose upmarket cheesy snacklets….
“At 250 comments we get to enforce the manzatory manz curfew.”
I didn’t know about that!
Oh noes!
Don’t be tempted to replace with menz. As this thread has *proven* beyond any doubt, faux cheezy snacks are way better than menz.
Try and get the shop to get some more in… keep that supply line going.
Polly, I intend to adjust my budget to accommodate the increased expenditure - no fears.
stormy, I have asked re re-stock of ‘nearly out of code’ giant cheesy snax and they are not quite sure if they will be restocked. The good news is - this has happened before…I wait in anticipation…
pisaquaririse - pay attention to the dynamics of this scientific study…please
I think if we hit 500 comments, then it will be manzatory that the menz wear one of those elephant pouches from Ann Summers.
Then we can laugh at them.
Well, more than normal anyway.
This one has a Trumpeting sound effect. Howz about that then?
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=290132881433&tGUID=24ead24b1190a0ac63a2dac2fffa1a3a
It only comes in one size.
Me thinks doubly adequate for most menz. In spite of what they may say.
Faux cheezy snacks don’t ever feel the need to brag. Just more proof.
“Don’t be tempted to replace with menz. As this thread has *proven* beyond any doubt, faux cheezy snacks are way better than menz.
Don’t forget you only get a *woooooooooooosh* with Wotsits
no woosh with menz (unless there a wooshy doors around when they flea at the sight of body hair, but not the pleasant woosh of wotsits then).
I actually found this article about wotsits that I can’t be bothered to read but might be interesting: http://www.dooyoo.co.uk/food/wotsits/415536/
forgot how to integrate URLs again and can’t be bothered to look it up for now!
Hi Sparkle,
I’m sorry to hijack this thread, but I couldn’t find your email address.
I wondered if you would be interested in helping to publicise the request for nominations for this year’s Emma Humphreys Memorial Prize?
If you would, below is information about the request. If not, please accept my apologies and delete this comment.
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The Emma Humphreys Memorial Prize is a commemorative award are made annually to women and groups who have done exceptional work to combat violence against women and children, and have raised awareness of this issue, whether through writing, campaigning or activism. The aim of the individual prize and the group award is to recognise and reward outstanding and often unsung contributions to the fight against violence against women and children.
Emma Humphreys was a writer, campaigner and survivor of male violence who fought an historic struggle to overturn a murder conviction in 1995, supported by Justice for Women and other feminist campaigners.
The annual prize of £1,000 is awarded to an individual woman who has, through writing or campaigning, raised awareness of violence against women and children.
Alongside the individual prize, the Emma Humphreys Memorial Prize judges choose the recipient of a group award, established to recognise the unsung work done by many women’s groups and organisations. This award, while it does not at this time carry any financial reward, marks the outstanding contribution of women’s organisations who work in this embattled area and whose creativity and resourcefulness have resulted in developments that combat the prevalence of male violence.
The awards aim to provide recognition for work against violence and to bring it to the attention of a wider public.
Last year’s winner of the individual prize was Suswati Basu, a survivor of gang rape who was subsequently charged and cautioned by the police for perverting the course of justice because of alleged inconsistencies in her account. She fought and succeeded in overturning the caution and has subsequently spoken publicly about her experience at the hands of the police.
The winner in 2007 of the group prize was Mothers of Sexually Abused Children, a support organisation for non-abusing parents.
For more information and a nomination form, please go to
The deadline is June 30th, so start writing!
Thanks for the wotsits link Grace.
All together now *whooooooooooooooosh* Just proves how great they are when someone makes a site about them. Not forgetting others of course who also do scientific studies…
Dianne, I’ve emailed you.
They have a really cheesy flavour? With these wotsits you are spoiling us….
Surely it’s time for the official ‘wotsitsarebetterthanmenz’ site sparks. You could set up a fund to pay for a billboard.
Wotsitsarebetterthanmen blog, sure has a ring to it. Dick Mast’ would be impressed.
You could call yourself Faux Masterwotsit. Or maybe something more witty I can’t think of. OT - where is SW these days BTW - did he read a judgement by Lord Denning and die of boredom?
spaklematrix, do you mind if I add you to my blogroll?
Blogroll away a birch tree. Sparks is quiet at the mo as I am consumed* with studies but I hope to re-activate the matrix when I get a grip of real life again.
*operative word.
I have now taken to leaving this post open on a browser tab and just refreshing it every so often to see the comments change! It is part of my life now.
What do we get for the magic 150 comments? Anything?
Good question Grace, now let’s think…
no, polly - i am here. the pisspoor are always with us, you know. i was just silent for the exam period in my campaign to take over the establishment from within (evil laugh).
however i have to say this urge to get as many comments as possible on this thread is wrong and immoral and i for one will not be part of it!
oh bother - that’s not fair. i can’t win…
It’s the nature of evol SW - you can never win, but a bit of studying law should have told you that. I had some really Cheesy Wotsits on the train home tonight, and I have to say I don’t really think they were that much cheesier than the standard faux cheesy ones. However maybe they have been hurt by the ‘faux cheesy’ allegations on the matrix, and decided to retaliate with a new marketing strategy
cue http://www.cheesywotsitsarebetterthanslightlylesscheesywotsits.com
What do we get for the magic 150 comments? Anything?
There was no established rule about 150 comments. I might suggest that openly laughing at menz could be some sort of consolation prize whilst we await the magical 250?
If nothing else, it’s a feel-good placeholder whilst we await the next milestone.
Good news. Sparkle’s Cheap Shop (SCS) has now restocked the giant cheesy tubes at 5p! I have lots nom nom nom.
Happy nomming sparks!
Please see main post for update…
They don’t look like much… but then neither do menz.
The difference I guess is what is inside and how they make you feel. Hands down for faux cheezy snacks.
I am glad to see this thread on track for the magic 250.
I re-read the post… is it ethical for me to be sort of part of the reseach team AND qualify for the peer review? Can I answer “yes indeedy”?
I see no conflict of interest here.
Most certainly, isn’t that what all the big pharma co’s do?
“yes indeedy”
Quite as ethical as any menz or wotsit I ever came across I’m sure.
Though I must admit I have not yet come across a wotsit, but certainly more than enough menz, none of whom were the least bit ethical in any way shape or form, I assure you.
Those are giant cheesy tubes sparks…..I think our sample size is definitely big enough BTW to prove that faux cheesy snacks are better than menz. I expect the latest findings of the wotsit research institute to be published without delay in worldwide media.
Yes polls.
But we should capitalise to make it sound far more important and legitimate.
The Wotsit Research Institute.
Now we can set about the task of putting important-sounding initials after our names to give us research-cred.
S. Cloud, WISR
(Wotsit Institute Super Researcher)
Except that I am maintaining distance from the WRI, just so that I can pretend to give the unbiased peer review. I will make up initials that sound appropriate.
Sparks can of course claim GFCTSE after her name:
Giant Faux Cheezy Tube Snac