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this is not the hamster you're looking for (flightstothesea) wrote in [info]otf_wank,
@ 2007-12-30 17:41:00


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Current mood:Impish
Entry tags:feminism: you're doing it wrong

comment is free! and so is stupidity!
Tanya Gold writes a piece for the Guardian's Comment is Free section. It begins with this headline: Men want us lobotomised.

Oh, goody. The article is about her experience with a speed-dating night, in which she pretended to be a human rights lawyer, an economist, and a vapid florist, among other things. Shockingly, the men preferred the giggly florist to the woman who told them not to wear leather shoes, and so Tanya concludes with this: Everything my mother has ever told me about men is true.

Predictably, the comments are full of indignation, "Deleted by Moderator," assertions that her 'experiment' is not very scientific, and people pointing out that a speed-dating night at a pub is not likely to bring out the best and brightest in humanity, particularly if your opening salvo is, "I'm reading Heidegger." There are some funny bits, however (and not just the fictional cats named Roe and Wade).

AllyF: But then when they say 'You're late, again! Why are you always late?' you can bring in Heidegger.

'Because you are thinking in three-dimensional time, when time incorporates being and is in fact four dimensional.'

Then you sleep on the sofa.

Oh and...

'Well darling, technically since the bathroom door is currently shut, I'd like to referenence Schrodinger and suggest that toilet seat is in fact currently in a state of both upness and downness simultaneously.'

Then sleep on the sofa for a week.


Bonus lolz: someone asking if this Tanya Gold is the same one who wrote this article for the Daily Mail in which she asks Santa to "Please send me a plutocrat with a kind heart for Christmas.... So I can come here every year."



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flightstothesea
2007-12-31 02:06 am UTC (link)
"Can I get away with eating this Chinese food that I left on the counter instead of the fridge?"

"What is the air speed velocity of an unladen swallow?"

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[info]lil_miss_stfu
2007-12-31 02:08 am UTC (link)
African or European?

The swallow that is. I'm guessing Chinese food is... Chinese.

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[info]photosinensis
2007-12-31 02:26 am UTC (link)
1. No. Throw that shit away before it becomes a biohazard.

2. For an European swallow, air speed velocity is 11 m/s. I actually looked this up. I could not find data on African swallows, as they are not as well studied. However, this was a few years ago, and someone might have done a study since then.

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[info]isntitironic
2007-12-31 03:16 am UTC (link)
That's 40 km/hour! I didn't know swallows were that fast.

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[info]rosehiptea
2007-12-31 02:30 am UTC (link)
"Can I get away with eating this Chinese food that I left on the counter instead of the fridge?"

Probably not, and you don't want to be wrong on this one. Take it from me.

"What is the air speed velocity of an unladen swallow?"

An African or European swallow?

See, now you're free to ask what men want after all!

Probably Chinese food.

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flightstothesea
2007-12-31 02:37 am UTC (link)
... wow, I am staggered by the thought that went into that.

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[info]puipui
2007-12-31 04:45 am UTC (link)
That page is so beautiful. *loves*

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[info]amxjm
2007-12-31 08:42 am UTC (link)
They even threw in the capitals of Assyria. That's just... yes.

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[info]tez
2007-12-31 09:46 am UTC (link)
That...is quite possibly the best scientific website ever.

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[info]cmdr_zoom
2007-12-31 08:48 pm UTC (link)
His favorite color is blue.

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[info]lady_red
2007-12-31 03:18 am UTC (link)
There is actually an LJ comm for asking about if food is safe to eat. But I can't recall the name. Dammit.

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[info]feuillu
2007-12-31 03:21 am UTC (link)
I believe it's called canieatthis

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flightstothesea
2007-12-31 03:29 am UTC (link)
... well, given the existence of [info]amipregnant, I'm not surprised.

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[info]puipui
2007-12-31 04:50 am UTC (link)
Wait, wait, what? How would [info]amipregnant even work, anyway? And who in their right mind would get the idea that they might be pregnant and think "I know! I'll ask total strangers at LiveJournal!" instead of "I know! I'll go buy a pregnancy test and pee on a stick!"

And now I'm curious. Do they have regular posters? In jokes? Is it an online hangout for people? Are there people who post, like, every month? Is there a [Bad username: whatthehelldoidonow] for after they've gotten their yes or no? It baffles the mind, it really does.

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flightstothesea
2007-12-31 04:53 am UTC (link)
Dude, I don't even know. I seem to recall seeing wank from that comm a while back, but no idea if it's still around.

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[info]rosehiptea
2007-12-31 06:01 am UTC (link)
My friend used to sort of spy on the place. Apparently about 90% of the posts are people who think you will end up pregnant for not using two forms of birth control every time (and while they could probably by pregnant should probably calm down a little) and some of them seemed to be obviously pregnant and in denial.

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[info]puipui
2007-12-31 07:22 am UTC (link)
"I haven't had a period in the last six months and I've been throwing up the whole time and my abdomen is extended and firm and I think I just felt something kick! OMG do you think I could be pregnant? HELP!"

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[info]mistressrenet
2008-01-01 03:14 am UTC (link)
It's kind of looking that way, yes.

Why do I always have to look? WHY, GOD, WHY?

...o rite there is no god nevermind

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[info]shinga
2007-12-31 08:08 am UTC (link)
"Can I get away with eating this Chinese food that I left on the counter instead of the fridge?"

In my personal experience, the answer to this is "yes". ;)

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[info]mary_mac
2007-12-31 11:45 am UTC (link)
"Can I get away with eating this Chinese food that I left on the counter instead of the fridge?"
How cold is your kitchen?
If it was out in mine it'd be safer than in the fridge. *shivers*

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[info]sizer
2007-12-31 04:13 pm UTC (link)
1. Yes. Chinese people do this all the time. Just add oil to a pan, heat it as high as it'll go, and stir fry for a bit. supposedly that'll make it all better.

(I've done it with vegetable dishes after our neighbor told me that it was safe and that "people always did it before [they] had refrigerators". Wouldn't trust it with meat [but I don't trust meat here in general].)

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[info]exdee
2007-12-31 09:14 pm UTC (link)
1. It's probably okay. Longer than one night, maybe not.

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[info]grapefruitzzz
2008-01-01 10:17 pm UTC (link)
"Can I get away with eating this Chinese food that I left on the counter instead of the fridge?"

You need to remember that tiny half-second window in the middle of a serious diahrroea cramp when the pain reaches a peak and you think you'd possibly rather be dead. Curse you, tinned olives bought in a bar vending machine! Curse you B. cereus!

"What is the air speed velocity of an unladen swallow?"

How big is it?

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[info]chibikaijuu
2008-01-01 10:40 pm UTC (link)
Reheat it *really hot* (unless your kitchen was warm overnight, in which case, ew).

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