This season's HOT look

The first really cold storm of the winter hit Los Angeles yesterday, with temperatures plummiting to a positively Baltic 16 celsius. Personally, I haven't yet lived here long enough to really notice such temperatures as being cold, but I can gauge the transition from autumn to winter by the appearance of ugg boots. Ugg boots, in case they haven't reached the UK, are bulky sheepskin calf/knee length boots that look like a cross between bedroom slippers and a slaughtered elk, and on the campus of A Well-Known West Coast University they seem to be commonly worn with a short skirt. Quite why one would wish to cool one's legs and simultaneously worry about frostbitten toes has so far eluded me, but then I'm not an undergraduate. For some reason, ugg boots seem to raise the ire of polemicists, but personally I don't give a toss. There's something rather 80s about the look, and as I always say there's no such thing as an indecent outfit, only indecent legs. People without decent legs are banned from A Well-Known West Coast University, or at least they're actively discouraged, so that's not really a problem here. Also, most of the detractors seem to be Australian, so their views on sartorial elegance can be safely ignored

My 'Dynamic Climatology' class sporting their winter drawers. The dark-haired one works on equatorial Rossby wave rectification, and the blonde is interested in mesoscale land-surface forcing

Of course, this is a very cosmopolitan campus, so not every female undergraduate wears ugg boots in the winter. The Japanese students, for example, go more for knee-length stockings. It must be due to that 'schoolgirl' obsession that they all seem to have. I wonder if there's anyone left in Japan who enjoys just good old fashioned shag, without the need for utensils or a bit of latent peadophilia? I doubt it.

The only nation that rivals the Japanese for kinky strangeness are the Germans, which raises the vexed sociological question of a possible link between coming second in World War Two and sexual perversion. More importantly, would you rather spend a weekend in a Vegas hotel room with a German or Japanese depraved twenty-one-year-old? I throw these matters open for debate.

Some full-grown women in Japan trying to attract a couple of peadophiles. In their defense, at least they don't shit on each other for pleasure, unlike some WW2 antagonists I could mention...