A Sigh of Things to Come

sigh

le sigh

SIGH

Nope, not cutting it.

We need a written power sigh. Something that denotes an exasperated frustration with a hint of derision or condescension.

Yellow Means "I Can Make It"

How many cycles of the traffic signal did I have to sit through for this intersection? Let's count:

ONE


TWO


THREE


FFS! Every lane of every road was a parking lot. You weren't making up any time. Wait your turn!

No Mean Art

Here is a wonderful little set of photographs of people sleeping in public in Tokyo. Each one has a little commentary to go along with the photo.

I've seen others highlight similar galleries of this phenomenon. After you are finished with those, make sure to check out the "Sleep In Public" photo pool.

Hymens For Everyone

Yo ladies! Worried you won't bleed during your first intercourse? Maybe you want to recreate that magical moment with a different special someone? Or possibly you'll be shamed, ostracized, or assaulted if there isn't blood on the sheets as proof of your virtue on the wedding night? Then this product is just for you! Introducing the Artificial Virginity Hymen(NSFW). No joke:

No more worry about losing your virginity. With this product, you can have your first night back anytime. Insert this artificial hymen into your vagina carefully. It will expand a little and make you feel tight. When your lover penetrate, it will ooze out a liquid that look like blood not too much but just the right amount. Add in a few moans and groans, you will pass through undetectable. Its easy to use, clinically proven non-toxic to human and has no side effects, no pain to use and no allergic reaction.

I know there's all sorts of [messed up] cultural build up around female virginity and all that. And I can conceive of the theoretical in which this might be a useful thing. But this doesn't exactly sound sexy.

Artificial Virginity Hymen is created from Kyoto, Tapan[sic] at 1993. it was first introduced to the locals, then it gets famous and spread to Thailand at 1995 and now avaliable in South East Asia, South Asia and in the Middle East countries.

First, of course this comes from Japan. There's a reason you have a reputation for WTF-ery, Japan. And I just can't imagine why this would get famous and spread to Thailand and SEA. Fuck. /shivers

Expire: 2 years.

Make sure your hymen doesn't go bad! Use it before you lose it. Wait, umm.

How to use:
* Open the package and rub on the artificial hymen, then carefully put into the vagina. If vaginal is dry, dip the artificial hymen to water and then put it into the vagina as quickly as you can.
* Place inside vagina 15-20 minutes before intercourse
* Finally, cleans the vulva after having sexual intercourse.

"Rub on the artificial hymen." Rub on what? A little dry "down there?" Just add water and shove it in! Quickly now! That doesn't sound comfortable at all. And after the "deflowering" is over, I'm guessing you're going to want to clean out the vagina too. Pro tip.

Ah! The definition of woman hood:


Again, on principle-WTF. Christ-on-a-pogo-stick!


[via Jessica at Feministing]

Jaywalker

I'm all for less car travel and more mass transit. And I'm particularly for more pedestrian friendly neighborhoods. I wished I lived in one. But person that I almost ran over tonight- use a bit more sense, please.

I know this is a shitty intersection, especially for pedestrians:



But when the conditions are like this, only icier:

[Photo: SkullKid, cc]


Maybe you could find a better place to cross the street:

Signage

Obey all signs! Cute:



Here's an article on the video.

[from HowWeDrive, Tom Vanderbilt's(author of Traffic) blog]

Unicorn > T-Rex

I don't know yet if I'm going to this show, but the flyer is too good not to share.

And Now Taking the Stage...

If you are trying to come up with a good name for a band or a blog(ahem) or whatever, you could do much worse than heading over to TvTropes.org.* Just by clicking random links, you'll be sure to find something that works. I found these in just a few minutes: Age Appropriate Angst, Apocalyptic Log, Non Sequitur Thud, Abandoned By The Cavalry, and Offstage Villainy. Not too bad. Better names than some bands I can think of. My favorite so far is Murder The Hypotenuse, which got me started with the idea.

*If you were not previously aware of it, TvTropes is a wiki identifying and exploring the tropes of every sort of fiction, not just television. It's a fun time waster with some redeeming educational value.

[cross posted at TCMSO]

A New Venue

It looks like I'm joining another blogging project. The idea is that since none of us post frequently enough on our own blogs, maybe a group effort will provide for enough content to... actually be... something. I don't know, but it sounds like fun. Maybe it will allay some of the pressure to post, and the guilt for not, that comes with maintaining a personal blog.

One benefit I see from the start- I'll finally have somewhere to "cross post" to. So head over to The Cookieville Minimum-Security Orphanarium and add it to your feed reader. Over there I'll be "rfd", and mine will be the posts so tagged. The founders of the blog have chosen to use their initials as author names. Unfortunately I don't have a middle initial. My solution was to add an F between the R and D. It stands for fucking.

Speaking of vulgarity... With this new opportunity, I've decided to open this blog up a little. Since I have two places to post to now, I've decided to loosen my internal restrictions on what I post here. I feel some sort of obligation to bring a skosh of quality to my postings at TCMSO, so I'll try to post with some thought there.

Here? It will be the usual assortment of links, pictures, and video. But I'm not going to restrict future topics for the imaginary audience I don't have, but was writing for. Also, be forewarned that some future posts may not be appropriate for younger minds. If so, they will be labeled appropriately, and I'll try to put any such content under a cut.