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CULTURAL BINGE

Germaine! Germaine! Germaine! Rather than cringe and shit-can "Aussie three times" Germaine Greer reckons we ought to embrace our inner bogan, as well as giving the infamous chant a historical, if perhaps far-fetched, context:

As chants would have it, 'Aussie' is here to stay

SO FOXTEL wants us to stop chanting, ''Aussie! Aussie! Aussie! Oi! Oi! Oi!'', and is prepared to give $10,000 to anyone who can come up with a better cry. There are some, apparently, who consider ''Aussie! Aussie! Aussie!'' unnecessarily confrontational, repellently nationalist, unsporting even.

Of course, far be it from me to contradict Germs on matters of etymology (which, as you all know, is the study of the history of insects, their origins, and how their forms have changed over time).

CHOC SPIDER

Anyone know what Bundy Bear has been up to lately?

Pedo-bear ruins Nestle's Facebook party

Nestle has been forced to take down an image from its Kit Kat Facebook fan page, after it emerged that it was similar to an icon used to ward off paedophiles.

The picture of the nut brown-coloured bear was used briefly to promote Kit Kat Bars on the Facebook page of the Nestle-owned chocolate bar. The company said it had no idea that the image matched that of “Pedobear” - considered visual shorthand on the internet for sites posting material with inappropriate overtones towards minors.

NO "PROBREM"!