Chatroulette, Texas
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SMITH & WESSON ALLIED FORCES PISTOL DISASTER READY KIT
* S&W Allied Forces Pistol
* First aid kit
* Emergency food for 4 people (for 3 days)
* Water purification tablets
* 44 Mag Multi-Tool
* 4 space blankets
(thanks, Aaron)
Bye-Bye, Boner Party
Today Ned Hepburn shut it down. Boner Party, perhaps the greatest bait-and-switch blog of our time, (I’ll distract you with breasts but really I’m going to talk about how it’d be great to just settle down.) is over and done with.
I’m sad to see it go, but I think the last post sums it all up.
I Can Be Free
Yeah yeah, I know you don’t watch videos at work, whatever. You can even watch this with the sound off and it’s amazing.
I just… I just… Simone says it’s the best thing he’s seen all month, and I wholeheartedly agree.
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Largely why I was hated in high school
Phil once asked somthing like “is there a photo of yourself you wouldn’t show someone?” This would be it, if I were showing it. The dude on the left was my neighbor to the north of our house in the background. We shared a driveway.
Fun facts about special sauce
As John Hodgman would say, more information than you require:
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Coming Out in Sports: Brendan Burke’s Story
“I hope the day comes, and soon, when this is not a story.” — Maple Leafs GM Brian Burke
Imagine this.
Well before you are born, your dad plays college hockey at Providence College and wears the “C” for Friars coach and Hockey Hall of Famer Lou Lamoriello. Your dad is then a member of the Calder Cup-winning Maine Mariners AHL team. He admits to having little skill, but contributes rough and tough qualities. You know, like pugnacity, testosterone, truculence and belligerence. He’s a man, baby.
…
You eventually attend Xaverian Brothers High School, a prep school in Westwood, Mass., and make the competitive varsity hockey team as a senior, but choose not to play. You say it is because you don’t think you would get enough playing time and you are upset at the coach. But you actually don’t play because you don’t think you can go another season without someone finding out your secret.
Your hockey career is over.
I missed this story when it first hit ESPN, but someone sent me the link today. It’s this kind of acceptance of homosexual people in all walks of life that I hope makes “coming out” a term of the past.
the law was “just wrong”
Looks like don’t ask don’t tell is finally going away.
A White House official said that Mr. Obama’s call for repeal stayed through six drafts of the speech, despite reports of internal battles over how far he should go.
Protogez – vous
There’s a brilliant safe-sex ad running in France, which isn’t exactly safe for work.
But then again, it’s the weekend.
(via)
Update: [Deron] I moved it above the fold. I don’t want us to be too worried about NSFW.
Missed Opportunity
I can’t help but feel we’re missing a certain journalistic opportunity by not sending good correspondents to write about the Adult Entertainment Expo, which rolls out year after year almost untouched by good reporters. I mean, you can actually buy molds modeled after (and that supposedly emulate) your favorite pornstar’s anus or vagina. Pornstar vaginas! That’s how far they’ve taken this manufactured reality. Tell me this isn’t a gold mine of psychological and sociological commentary.
Of course, DFW had his day.
Holiday Jewelry Commercials in Need of New Copy
Diamond Dick opens the little box; she shows the weakness he likes and reaches for him, leading with the puppies he bought for her last year–and the recession is over.
Captions?
Dear Clusterflock – What revelation from your childhood changed everything?
I have two but will start with this. I must have been younger than 11 because of where I was living at the time and being so young girls were just, well, girls. Anyway, the younger brother of a friend one day laid at my feet the revelation that girls had more holes than guys! I remember looking at this boy and asking “What!” He then explained how other than the holes we pee and shit out of there was another one. I asked him where it was and he explained it was down there with the other two. I then asked him what it was for to which he answered “I have no idea.”
As far as I remember that was all that was said – I was confused and had no-one to ask for fear of being thought stupid. Jump forward a few years, I think I was about 12 – I was friendly with a girl at school who seemed a little more worldly wise than I – we were on a school trip, caving! We were several hundred feet below ground when I decided that I would run this theory past this girl – I have no idea why I hadn’t explored the notion further in the years before, probably too busy kicking a ball or poking things with a stick. Anyway, she answered to the affirmative, it was indeed true and did I want to touch it? Naturally I said yes to which she said it would cost me 50p! I obviously coughed up the money and slid my hand down there and all I could find to say was “It’s very wet and warm!”
Thank you, Marion.
Cast y’all’s votes, y’all.
Should I be the next Oprah?
Women should bare 40% of their bodies
At least, if they want to attract men:
The findings were based on work by four female researchers, who discreetly observed women at one of the city’s biggest nightclubs from a balcony above the dance floor.
Using tape recorders hidden in their handbags, the researchers took note of what female clubbers were wearing and how many times they were approached by men asking them to dance.
For the purposes of the study, each arm accounted for 10 per cent of the body, each leg for 15 per cent and the torso for 50 per cent.
Women who revealed around 40 per cent of their skin attracted twice as many men as those who covered up.
However, those who exposed any more than this also fared worse. Experts believe that showing too much flesh puts men off because it suggests they might be unfaithful.
Add Batteries, Aim, Fire
I’m 16 years old and have an awkward dilemma. I’m thinking about buying a vibrator because I am very curious, but the thing is, I want to talk to my mom about it first.
Puppy pimping, a Hallowe’en special
As it turns out, there’s big business in sexy Hallowe’en costumes for pets. Dogs, mostly. I’d like to see you get your gerbil into one of these outfits. I googled ’sexy pet costumes’ and I can’t bear to share the results. Oh ok, then. Unfortunately, it turns out that not all dogs can actually do sexy.
This infomercial is brought to you via Chris W.
goings on about town
The Queer Kiss-In at the Fort Worth Stock Yards runs from 5pm to 6pm. The pastor and his supporters will be there from 4pm to 6pm.
boys will be boys
Interestingly, whether there were ladies present or not, the mens’ testosterone didn’t increase at all after driving the Camry.
. . . traces of the cad about the boy . . .
You know you’re headed somewhere when you commence to quoting yourself.
And while we’re on the subject . . .
Although The Magic Christian is by and large a very annoying film (not least on account of its many breezy ‘fag jokes’ circa 1969), there is a certain train-wreck fascination to the “Mad About the Boy” sequence featuring Yul Brynner and Roman Polanski.
from the spam
The Math lesbians
Number 10 apologizes for the treatment of Turing
A couple of weeks ago I mentioned that I was not aware of Alan Turing’s fate. Turns out a petition actually did something for once, Gordon Brown apologized (via):
Turing was a quite brilliant mathematician, most famous for his work on breaking the German Enigma codes. It is no exaggeration to say that, without his outstanding contribution, the history of World War Two could well have been very different. He truly was one of those individuals we can point to whose unique contribution helped to turn the tide of war. The debt of gratitude he is owed makes it all the more horrifying, therefore, that he was treated so inhumanely. In 1952, he was convicted of ‘gross indecency’ – in effect, tried for being gay. His sentence – and he was faced with the miserable choice of this or prison – was chemical castration by a series of injections of female hormones. He took his own life just two years later.
Thousands of people have come together to demand justice for Alan Turing and recognition of the appalling way he was treated. While Turing was dealt with under the law of the time and we can’t put the clock back, his treatment was of course utterly unfair and I am pleased to have the chance to say how deeply sorry I and we all are for what happened to him. Alan and the many thousands of other gay men who were convicted as he was convicted under homophobic laws were treated terribly. Over the years millions more lived in fear of conviction.
Turing
I had no idea that Turing was a homosexual or that Britain used chemical castration.
Turing was subjected to chemical castration in 1952 after being found guilty of the charge of gross indecency for having a homosexual relationship, an illegal act at the time. He committed suicide two years later.
More than 19,000 people have added their names to the petition since it opened three weeks ago, urging the government to “recognize the tragic consequences of prejudice that ended this man’s life and career.”
The petition was created by computer scientist John Graham-Cumming, who said he grew “mad” at the country’s memory of a man he says should be considered one of its national heroes.
Man Blames Cat For Child Porn Downloads
Who am I kidding? That story is all headline, so no quotes. I do believe, however, that this is still in order.
The Other World Kingdom
The Other World Kingdom is a micronation on the grounds of a 16th century chateau in the Czech Republic founded in 1997.
The OWK is a Matriarchy, in which all women rule men. The state therefore has strong BDSM and Female dominance themes. The state’s goal, “is to get as many male creatures under the unlimited rule of Superior Women on as much territory as possible.”