La dignité de l'homme exige qu'il porte la burqa, par Pierrette Fleutiaux

Voici un extrait d'un article extrêmement amusant écrit dans le Monde du samedi 4 juillet 2009.

"Une solution serait de [l']aveugler [la femme] totalement, par le moyen d'un bandeau ou tout autre moyen non cruel mais efficace. Cette solution est à écarter : la femme ne pourrait plus en effet accomplir les tâches auxquelles la destine sa condition subalterne : nourrir l'homme et ses fils, conduire les fils de l'homme à l'école, et faire toutes choses qui dégagent l'homme des tâches matérielles, facilitent l'exercice de son vouloir et son étude des textes sacrés."

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Take the pils

"Why is that when I walk home from the pub after a few beer, I always stumble to the left more than to the right?
[...]

The Human body is never perfectly symetrical. In this case, the right leg seems to be longer than the left. A beer mat in the left shoe underneath the foot should remedy the problem quite easily
J.Jamieson
Marlow, Buckinghamshire, UK

The questioner obviously walks to the pub with his change in his right pocket and his keys in his left. After spending all his money on beer the weight of his keys pulls him to the left as he walks home.
Simon Thorn
Perth, Tayside, UK"

Extract from a collection of NewScientist readers' questions: Why Don't Penguins' Feet Freeze?, p. 7-8, Profile Book, 2006.