Sideboob of Shame
The Huffington Post has a whole section devoted to sideboobs. What more to add?
By Alex Hern Published 07 June 2012
The Huffington Post, the online news and aggregation behemoth owned by Greek heiress Arianna Huffington, has a sideboob vertical. That is, it has a part of it's website dedicated to sideboobs: pictures of breasts (largely, we imagine, women's breasts), from the side.
Sample headlines:
PHOTO: Miley Cyrus Flashes Side Boob, Talks Sex Scenes & Losing Her Virginity, PHOTOS: Gwyneth Shows Off Some Sideboob In Sheer Dress, PHOTOS: Miley Cyrus Flashes Major Side Boob (seriously, there are twelve stories on the front page and three of them are about the 19-year-old pop sensation).
Basically, if you've worn a backless dress that's a bit too loose, you've probably exposed sideboob.
The section, with the URL www.huffingtonpost.com/news/sideboob (yes, it's filed under "news", at least in the address. It's under "entertainment" in the main hierarchy), isn't technically a vertical in HuffPo's own parlance. They reserve that term for the absolute top-level divisions of politics, world, sport and so on:
Instead, the site refers to it as a "big news" page, identifiable by the big name of the page along the top:
Which means that sideboob isn't as important as, say "politics" or "style", but is instead at the same level as "drug violence":
or "Barack Obama":
The web will eat itself.
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4 comments
Nothing worse than any telly commercial...
Have you never watched Family Guy?
I think the Paparazzi should leave them alone. People should mind their own business and not interfere with others. I would of hated it
That is nothing! I remember when the New Statesman built an ENTIRE SEPARATE WEBSITE which just had pictures of unusual looking celebrity toes! was so disgusted as Medhi Hasan, Steven Baxter and Helen Lew-Hat passed judgement upon the weird creepy toes of Tom Cruise (webbed), Helena Bonham-Carter (ten-per-foot) and Jack Straw (no toes, just a flat end-of-foot). When will this madness end! I do not even dare to wear sandals this summer for fear that a beady eyed NS paparazzi will leap out and capture my one strange toe with a giant nail! Beware!