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Damn you, world. I offer you the benign Pop Pads and you spurn them. A decade later we have products like Party Pants Pads (“Cloth Pads for the Princess on her Period”; “Women deserve better. Women deserve Party In My Pants”), which make even Pop Pads’ fiercest detractors regard them nostalgically. You had your chance, though. Now, if anyone invites people to submit their own pad designs, this is the best you can expect from me:

Pad-tip to strictlytrue for the design-your-own link.

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Much as I admire the spirit of today's demonstration by disabled people outside the Daily Mail offices over its recent disability benefit smear campaign (in collaboration with the Department for Work and Pensions), I can’t help feeling that the paper will simply use it as ammunition: “While decent people were out earning their living, these scroungers with nothing better to do were paid to whinge” etc etc. Remember, after all: