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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-29895674

 

This popped up on BBC. It mainly talks about a new gay hook-up app that has hit China, but towards the end it covers a good point about a side effect of the one-child policy being if your single kid is gay, your family line and name is effectively dead (apart from adoption, though I'm not sure what their views are in China on that and if it counts as continuing "the line")

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One Million Moms is gross and hyperbolic, but they're not calling for a boycott, just conducting a publicity campaign on the premise that the Muppets is no longer for kids. They're wrong about the Muppets never including adult humor, but the pilot did seem aimed at adults since it's about celebrity interspecies relationships. Then again, the mainline Muppets were always about that during Henson's life.

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Hrmm... it really comes down to the issue of bloodline but there are so many Chens, Chins and other surnames running around that it doesn't really matter. I could use less people with my name running around...

 

It makes phoning people a nightmare. I keep getting Wong numbers.

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Our web developer is from India and yesterday we had a lad ring up to enquire about a job as a web developer who has the exact same name apart from a minor vowel change (which I know means a fair bit cos I mispronounced web dev's name and had it pointed out it means a fair bit sorta like Windsor and Smith kind of difference). Was rather surreal for all involved (boss thinks it was an orchestrated prank.

I'd say the odds are probably one a billion but...

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