A World of Cheese, For your Pleasure

Sex for bling? Yawn.

I was in the mall today with a co-worker, Ned. I passed by a store with an 8-foot-tall image of a sexy your woman doing something sexy. I don't remember what she was doing, just that it was supposed to make me react somehow. I said to Ned, "Does this image make you react in any way?" He replied, no.

In fact, none of the sexy advertising reached me in any way. I barely notice it. There are hot women everywhere in Montreal (except St-Laurent, apparently, where they are a bunch of teenage wannabes skankalikes) and the images themselves might as well be pictures of hammers. Actually the hammers would get my attention; I need new tools.

I suppose the ads weren't meant for me, but rather for the youth set that really wants to be sexy. (Not the over-25 set, who desperately want to remain sexy.) In the UK, though, the youth is (are?) unaffected by the ads, so much so that they see them the same way I do. They don't care. As well they shouldn't, really. And some of these companies deny that they try to sell sex to teens.

Inner Conservative

Have you gotten in touch with your inner conservative lately? I think I have recently. Here are a few of the things I am conservative on, socially (and another reason for me to make lists):

• use of the word "fag";
  
• government spending (that is, spend wisely, effectively and sensibly, and in such as way as to make it easy to get funds to where they should go);
  
• the way students are evaluated (I find that there is nothing wrong with using letter and number grading, the only thing that should change is posting marks publicly);
  
• competitiveness in general (although there are obviously things that are not appropriate), and specifically in sports;
  

These are the things I can come up with at the moment. What about you? And isn't there an online test for this sort of thing?

Lifetime Movie Title Generator

You know those Lifetime movies? With the stalking and the murders and the lame-ass titles?

Get your own title!

Mine is: The Habit That Love Made: The Truth About Elizabeth

This kills me.

Bling for the Brown Eye

As stated by one of Mikey's readers. NSFW.

Dead Couple to Be Married

A man murders his fiancee, but "this does not mean the relationship has irretrievably broken down."

I don't even know what to say. Go read for yourself.

Toxic Teflon

Frightening news: not only is teflon toxic, but it never goes away, and is in the blood of almost everyone in North America. I think it's high time this stuff was removed from the world. I don't mind cleaning my pots and pans a little longer. Then again, it's probably too late for me.

Superhero blogs

Here are blogs from The Incredible Hulk and The Green Arrow. I think they are a great idea. Surely there should be a Spider-Blog and X-Blogs. Perhaps he knows more about superhero blogs.

I'm one step closer to becoming vegan

Don't get get too excited yet, V.

True miscellany

Want to see something cool?

• Recursive art.
  
• Non-toxic baby toys.
  
• Why MP3s and P2P networks are cool. REMIX! [MP3 link]
  
• Do not drink liquid nitrogen. Ever. via Joe Grossberg.
  
• The world's smallest brewery. via Fark.
  
• You can't keep a kidnapper down. Eugh. SFW, but a little graphic nonetheless.
  
• Crazy perverted Japanese dentist. I should really try harder to understand this stuff.
  
• For the horny techie tree-hugger, alternative-power vibrators.
• Man castrates himself in protest against his wife. The people at SexBlo.gs summed up my thoughts nicely.

Blowing the Lid off of Hate

I was going to make an entry describing this all-white dating service from the heir to the Regnery publishing fortune. It's rather bizarre in itself, and actually makes sense, in a twisted way. (I'm sure their are all-black dating services, or interracial ones, and certainly gay-only ones.) But then I saw the rest of the site.

The Southern Poverty Law Center based in Montgomery, Alabama started out as a small law civil-rights law firm. It is now internationally known for promoting tolerance, exposing bigotry and enforcing existing anti-racist legislation. Briefly going through some of their articles reminds me yet again how shitty some people are.

Matt Hale, leader of the World Church of the Creator, a leading American neo-Nazi group, has been convicted of soliciting the murder of a judge who decided that his hate group change their name due to copyright and safety concerns. The article gives you a glimpse, albeit a biased one, of what goes on in some of these hate-based groups. I love the following example of how stupid people form the ranks of these groups:

Things started to unravel four years ago for Hale when one of his key aides impregnated a 12-year old girl, the daughter of someone whom Hale recruited and was moving from Kentucky to Illinois. Then the judge reversed a decision to not force the WCOTC to change their name (the incidents are not related, they just happened at nearly the same time). Hale declared it "open season on all Jews".

The FBI responded by placing Tony Evola, an FBI mole, close to Hale. During their time together (for a while they were inseparable) conversations would often turn to killing enemies. After a while, it became obvious that he was being entrapped, but Hale never seemed to notice. I guess he was too far into his delusions about the "Jewish occupational government". The defense lawyers tried to suggest that it was the government that induced Hale to say and perhaps do these things. And this is where I have a problem.

In this case, it seems fairly simple: This is the leader of a hate group that promotes violence and murder, not to mention hate, hate with a side order of hate. He was looking for a way to get away with murder, and the government needed to show this. So they entrapped him. Just as they did my brother. Both were convicted of "intent". But there were no drugs in my brother's case, and there was no murder in Hale's. It is safe to say that without police interference, there would be no conviction of my brother, because he had no intention of looking for drugs to smuggle. They offered him a sweet deal, and he mistakenly took it. Hale, on the other hand, had been looking for a way to commit murder and other violent acts without getting caught, and he would have done so if he had gotten the right people involved. (I still don't quite understand how John Robin Sharpe can get away with writing erotic stories involving children and not get charged with possession of child porn just because no children were harmed. I don't understand how repeat sex offenders can stay out of jail, or get tiny sentences, when my brother gets five years and has to consider himself lucky.)

Did the government set Hale up? Yes, clearly. Was he dangerous? Absolutely. Did the police set up my brother? Yes, definitely. Was he dangerous. No. Not to anyone. Who should be in jail? Hale, not my brother. No matter how nice the jail cell is, my brother should not be in there.

But I realize that this is a very fine line to walk. It isn't easy nor obvious to say who erred in what when or where. But I think it is reasonable to nab a guy making threatening remarks and inciting hatred and violence. His group's credibility is gone now, even among idiots who take three tries to pass "the easiest test in the world".

Hale's sentencing is today.

Disturbing!

Child Pimp & Ho Costumes

Wretched excess

But I want it. An aquarium sink. I wonder how the sink activity affects the lives of the fish living inside.

...is Good for the Goose

Or is it the other way around? I forget.

Straight from Mainichi Wai Wai's Ryann Connell is another story of women buying men. Gyaku Nanpaya are places where women can shop for men in little booths. The men a bunch of yen to sit there, then the women enter the booths and talk with the men for a while, and then they decide what to do. It could be for dating, hooking up, or anything.

Personally, I love the idea of women being able to do this, as long as men can as well (and, of course, they can, if not at the same establishment, or country).

Oh, and I finally added a Japan category.

Sex Doesn't Include Condoms

Sex Doesn't Include Condoms

At least not in Lewisville, TX. Although 93% of people in the US seem to think that sex education should be taught in schools, Kevin Fisher, Lewisville's secondary science supervisor, believes that not having books that mention anything such as condoms, or having abstinence-only education reflects the will of the parents in the communities.

(I admit that this is not my main point here at all but I don't understand how abstinence-only education helps unless what they mean is "sex ONLY within marriage". It seems to me that you are implying what sex should be for everyone and that if a person would make badly-informed decisions as a youth, a kid receiving this information would simply make those poor decisions later on. I've seen what this type of ignorance can do, and it isn't pretty, even in the fortunate cases.)

Here is an interesting case. Should the will of the community outweigh what the rest of the country thinks? I tend to think so, actually. I like the idea of communities following their own destiny and will. The values of those in Lewisville aren't necessarily the values of those in Austin, so why should Austin, or Washington, for that matter, get to decide something like this for them? Of course, you get into what the role of the federal and provincial/state governments should have, but that itself is a worthwhile discussion. What do you think?

Congratulations, you're an asshole!

Finally. I think these are a little expensive. I'd prefer smaller and cheaper ones, but the idea is a capital one.

link

What's good for the gander...

When it comes to sex, Thailand seems to have a lock on just about everything you can ever want, except maybe big black cocks. So it shouldn't come as much of a surprise when there is a flourishing sex industry where women are the buyers and men, or rather, "boys", are the commodity. Let's examine some of the reasons why these women are into paying boys for sex.

1. The boys all have perfect, lean bodies.
2. "It's guaranteed good sex with no strings."
3. "When we're in bed he's hungry for me."
4. "The men here are more pliable than English men. They're athletic and will do anything."
5. "In Thailand, prostitutes know how to make you feel like you're worth something. They're so attentive."
6. "He's always been a womanizer and this way I know what's going on."

Haven't you heard men say these types of things for years and years? I wonder why it's suddenly cool for women these days? Well, not most women, at least not yet. The women who would rent boys would not think anything negative about a man who rented girls, as long as they were old enough. Here, on the other hand, where sex and love are supposed to be joined at the hip at all times, men who would think of renting a girl are either misogynists or lecherous. (I might think desperate, but only because of the look of most prostitutes. The street kind. I don't know about the high-class ones.) I imagine that people would think even less of women who rented anyone. Women aren't supposed to like that type of thing.

I suppose I should take some lessons from these boys in treating women like queens. The women went on about how attentive and willing these boys were. Of course, when you are paying someone to be that way, it isn't hard to find someone to step up to the plate, which is one reason why the idea of me renting women makes me shrivel. I simply treat women like people.

Celebrate Sodomy!

Happy Anal Sex Month!

"Anal sex means much more than anal intercourse. People enjoy using their fingers, mouths and hands in anal play, not to mention toys ranging from plugs to dildos to anal beads!"

So bend over, lube up, and take it, bitch.

Interesting News

Matt Damon wants to make a porn flick. The title? The Porn Identity.

World's Most Expensive Cocktail for people with far more brains than money.

Nuns Gone Wild. Now this is something I would have liked to have seen. 43 men among the twelve of them? To sample sin? That's as good a reason as any. Could this be the next big thing in porn?

No topless hags allowed in Romania. I have to raise a few objections here, in no particular order:

There are some women over 60 that I'd rather see topless before certain women under 60.
• It's insulting to be carded to be on the beach.
• It's insulting to be too old, and therefore ugly, to go to a public place, albeit a restricted one.
• Full mass nudity is an equalizing force. Trust me, I know. In that regard, you shouldn't discriminate because you might have a little bit of a sag, or a gut for that matter. Might as well say that you have to be between 18 and 39, and fucking hot, too.

Smaller Breasts, Larger Women

SocietyGuardian.co.uk | Health | Size does matter

More and more British women are getting breast reductions, yet the numbers of augmentations outnumber them five to one. I don't know anyone with fake boobs, and I definitely don't know anyone with freakishly large fake boobs. I wonder if the freakishly large fake boobs come with the same problems as the natural variety. I mean, how does Casey James (NSFW) deal with them? Maybe she makes enough money to be able to afford the space-age technology to make such breasts comfortable. I think that if I were a woman with small breasts, I'd be fairly happy with that when I listen to alternatives. Breasts so big you can't find bras. Pain and scarring. I think I'd prefer to focus on a fitter body rather than larger breasts.

Why the need for smaller breasts? Women are on the Pill more than ever (funny how that gets capitalized), but I think that it has more to do with everyone eating more and gaining weight. But in the cases where someone lets themselves go and ends up with painfully large breasts among other problems, isn't this like getting a gastric bypass surgery? Less severe, of course.

Gay Games 2004

I am really liking this entry at Big Picnic. Homoerotic. Greeks. Heh.

Icons

You may notice when accessing the front page in IE and certain other browsers that instead of the regular IE icon, there's another icon. It's a shrunken version of this:

Also, if you bookmark it, the icon will appear next to the site name in your favourites. You may have to restart your browser and empty your cache to see this. It's nothing major and has nothing to do with functionality, but I like it all the same.

New Stuff at Front

I have implemented the first of many changes to this site. So from now on, you can check us out at the splash page. It looks a little better than before. I may change the "last heard" to the last comment rather than the last thing posted. What do you think?

UDPATE 8/13: I completely agree about the percentages, but since I didn't handcode it (I used the dreaded Frontpage instead) it changed my percentages to pixels. I don't know why. I will have to make those changes tomorrow. Also, I have to change the CSS, or rather, I have to make the CSS since it doesn't exist right now. This is actually a beta version of the front page anyway.

For example, I may not have everything in the centre, but to the right or the left. Graphics will change as well as other details. I am having problem with colours showing up consistently from browser to browser and monitor to monitor (not that I can control everything). In any case, keep ideas coming.

Next up: this blog will make a makeover, and I will then have templates for comments and others for daily entries, category pages templates and monthly templates. After that, I will do the same for The Scrawl.

A quick word on things I hate

To whom it may concern:

Please don't confuse a fun "101 things I hate list" with chronic negativity and actual hatred. It's a fun exercise, nothing more.

Thank you.

Gastric Bypass Facts

I doubt any of us know anyone that has had or is likely to have gastric bypass surgery, but maybe you saw Supersize Me. In that flick was a guy who lost 100 pounds after his gastric bypass. They reduced the size of his stomach to the size of an apple. I don't know how large a normal stomach should be, but, an apple?

Anyway, here are some frightening facts about the procedure, including: "Some patients get loose bowels with the BPD (several soft bowel movements a day)", and more alarming: "Gastric bypasses have been done for 40 years yet we have access to little to no statistics on long term results."

Read all about it here.

The Ultimate Couch Potato

A 480-pound woman died after spending six years on her couch. And she wasn't even five feet tall. Morbidly obese? No fucking kidding. The couch was grafted to her skin after that much time. I would love to see a list of her medical ailments after all that time. Depression, high blood pressure and organ failure, to name a few. I'm thinking that if I were the guy living with her (who should definitely be investigated, for Christ's sakes), I would call in authorities after three months, if not six. Of course, maybe he just assumed that she left the couch during the day when he wasn't around.

I wonder how long it look for the couch to be grafted to her skin.

Brides and their dudes

Hey, bridesdude, aren't you glad I'm only asking you sign a piece of paper? No bustles for you!

Although, I'm sure we can go get a manicure if you want. [via]

101 Things

I think it's time that we did our own 101 Things we Hate page. It's like Liz's "damage" pages, but more general and bigger. I'll ask to have it posted at Radical Apathy. I'll start. This is harder than it sounds. Here's my list, in no particular order, and sparing no one:

1. women with children in large, all-purpose strollers on the metro;
2. women with children in large, all-purpose strollers on the bus;
3. women with children in large, all-purpose strollers on public transportation that loudly bitch, whine and curse about people not leaping to offer them a block of seats, even if no one sees them initially;
4. not having millions of dollars;
5. people who simply can't or won't spell properly to save their lives;
6. people who think that I am a big brain or egghead because I have a math degree;
7. black people who insist on assuming that they are my friend and will help them out because I am black;
8. people that assume that I like certain music, watch certain shows or get certain references because I am black;
9. feeling ashamed if I don't get some of those references;
10. the term OREO COOKIE;
11. white people that obsess about my blackness;
12. white people that obsess about their blackness;
13. blackness as a requirement for social pigeonholing;
14. low self-esteem;
15. the fact that someone will put dismissiveness on their list and think of me;
16. self-hatred and sabotage;
17. chronic hatred and bitterness;
18. people who should know, but don't know what 6 x 9 is, for example;
19. people not ignorant of, but actually afraid of math, as though it's some terrible beast with X heads and Y arms;
20. the fact that for some people, that is exactly what math is, no matter what the reason is;
21. most math teachers;
22. almost all math professors;
23. people who use the excuse that they can't get a girlfriend or boyfriend because their standards are so damn high when it's obvious that they are just pussies;
24. people who are afraid of life;
25. THE FUCKING WHORE ON MY CORNER!!!
26. thieves that break into people's homes or businesses;
27. aging rock acts/grandfathers on stage;
28. televangelists of my youth (it wasn't my idea, I swear! But not to God.);
29. "marketing women";
30. days like December 24 when the STM knows that all the plebes are getting off work at noon but they don't provide extra buses to handle the flow, so it takes you three hours to get home;
31. la Société d'Assurance d'Automobile de Québec;
32. L'Office de la Langue Française;
33. Quebec sign laws;
34. hypocrisy, but not my own (heh, geddit? Geddit?);
35. just kidding, I hate my own, too;
36. women that castigate you (like that word here?) for not thinking that they are as tough as any guy but screaming at the top of their lungs because an ant has entered the room;
37. not being able to visually appreciate physical beauty in women more completely because it is a "visual assault" on them or at the very least it (sometime legitimately) freaks them out;
38. the chasm of (mis)understanding between men and women;
39. not being able to have all the relationships you want at the same time (I'm just talking about friends);
40. having to be private in order to not freak people out or offend them;
41. having to be public for the same reasons;
42. not being able to express myself the way I want to, for whatever reason;
43. the portrayal of most men on most sitcoms, especially family-oriented ones;
44. deniers of most of the major "-isms";
45. my washer;
46. my dryer;
47. my landlady;
48. people who, no matter what you experienced, have to tell you how they experienced the same thing, only WAAAAY better than you because they have the best of everything at all times (even though a little of that can be appreciated);
49. Céline Dion;
50. bigots;
51. Dunkin Donuts;
52. people who stink up the work kitchen by microwaving their fucking fish;
53. parents who think it’s okay to burden everyone else around them just because they decided to satisfy that deep vast abyss in their egos by having insolent dirty children;
54. Slutty McFuckpiece;
55. people who force politicians to say ridiculous things in order to get elected;
56. people who then buy that shit and expect it to happen;
57. people who refuse to at least acknowledge certain political and fiscal realities (when those are readily available to be known);
58. the media that obscures these realities to keep us predictable and biddable for our overlords;
59. having to sound like a conspiracy theory nut to express that opinion;
60. Mitch Bainwol and Cary Sherman;
61. Jack fucking Valenti;
62. people who think that I am a freak because I would rather play a sport well and to win than to play half-assed;
63. the fact that young guys seem to think that they have to pull some kind of trick or gimmick to get a woman interested, especially in bars;
64. the pervasiveness of Reality TV to the point where people think it's real;
65. people not believing me when I am more honest than ever;
66. people who are insufferably vague all the time (I'm thinking of a particular co-worker);
67. the deliberate lack of fuel efficiency in cars due to the car industry lobbyists;
68. the deliberate stalling of general efficiency research due to corporate lobbies (I mean, how does a multi-billion dollar industry need government protection? I need government protection, for Christ's sakes!);
69. my company's plan to turn me into a marketing mouthpiece so that we look more attractive to buyers;
70. the fact that I won't likely get my multi-thousand dollar payoff when it happens;
71. the fact that if I own part of a company, I lose that part of the company if I get fired, or conveniently laid off right before the sale of the company or an IPO;
72. sexy gadgets and appliances that break if you breathe on them too hard;
73. the fact that almost no one knows the difference between "breath" and "breathe" when writing;
74. the fact that almost no one knows the difference between "bath" and "bathe" when writing;
75. Max Hardcore;
76. spam;
77. food snobs, i.e. the ones that look down on you because you actually have the nerve to eat that;
78. KD snobs, fuck off and keep your opinions of what I am eating to yourselves, please;
79. Atkins freaks (almost every single person that I know that lost at least 20 pounds lost it by eating sensibly and exercising regularly, but yet millions of people can't accept this);
80. idiots that invoke eating disorder goddesses;
81. expensive gas;
82. bitterness;
83. self-loathing;
84. envy;
85. jealousy;
86. people that can't think outside their own geography, culture or language;
87. cultural insecurity;
88. people that are too afraid to get outside their own comfort zones;
89. when I lose something that belongs to someone else;
90. thoughtlessness (mine and everyone else's);
91. apathy;
92. the threat of social entropy;
93. overpopulation (aren't we due for a global catastrophe about now?)
94. fucking mortgages;
95. the fact that you can't really own land anywhere without paying for the right to have it (taxes) even if you want no part of the benefits of paying into it;
96. buying shoes;
97. my horribly smelly sneakers (if I can smell them, they're BAAAD);
98. obese people who wonder why they are obese when they pack away huge and many portions a day and won't (or can't) walk up two flights of stairs without breaking into a huge sweat;
99. people who base everything on the fact that someone wrote words in a book. For example, people who say that because it was written in the Bible, it is true in any context. Come on, people, context is king!
100. the mushroom treatment;
101. paying rent.
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That's that, you spamming assholes!

Cheeseorgy is now running MT Blacklist, a great plugin that helps stop comment spam. If you are running a Movable Type blog, I highly recommend installing it.

More changes pending, as soon as I figure out how to code them, and as soon as I get the images I need.

The pros of cons

I want to go here. Every year. I want to spend a year going to porn and video game conventions, like Mikey over here. Check out the photos. And then make some money on the side through these conventions somehow. Maybe I could work at the conventions! It would help pay for the trip, I'd get to see and do things, and FUN!
I wonder if Fleshbot has a booth at these conventions.

Looking for some winds of change

MDN: WaiWai: Gassy women need relief

I WILL make a Japanese category soon, when I get around to it. It seems that women have a bigger problem with persistent flatulence than men do. Particularly Japanese women. It can really screw up your life, holding in that gas all day and all night. They must stink up the bed at night; I imagine it would escape in their sleep.

If this weren't so funny, I'd feel worse for them than I do.

Fancy Cats and Dapper Dogs

Is there anyone out there that can sympathize with the owners of these dogs? Because I can't. I have always hated dressed-up dogs, or rather, their owners.

And then, there's this. File this under, Typical Weird Japanese Stuff, or TWJS.

Hours and Hours of Fun

Hee!

Fantasy meets reality, part 768

BBC NEWS | England | Leicestershire | Game blamed for hammer murder

via christophe: It could have been titled "Wack job uses game as vehicle for antisocial behaviour". Clearly this was definitely a wack job. However, the game Manhunt seems to be, admittedly, a hell of a sick game. It would be nice if fictional materials would not be available to those who are on the edge, such as the killer here. The fictional materials could be video games, but they could be books or movies. Could be anything. I actually do believe that this game brought out the sickness in this kid, or he simply used the game's ideas as a way to rob his friend.

I don't believe that you can ban violent video games because of this type of thing. People have done far worse because of books they read, like the Koran, or the Bible. Like I said, it would be nice if we could always identify those who are on the edge and keep certain things away from them, that may not be possible. I don't know why the killer's parents weren't able to see the "obvious" signs (it easy to call signs "obvious" after he has already flipped his lid), but I am not ready to jump up and blame them, either. Maybe the killer was simply a sick kid who flipped out.

I really like the game Warcraft III. I play it almost every day. Does this mean I am obsessed with it? Some might say so. People use that word pretty freely, as they do the words, "hate", "love", "insane" and so on. Saying that he was "obsessed" with the game should not necessarily alert you to the fact that he is a ticking time bomb. In the end, the words mean very little.

I guess all that can be done is to lock this kid up, maybe get him some help and call it a day. As for preventing this sort of thing, well, I think you would have to go far, far deeper in society and biology to figure out what really happened to him and to similar killers.

World Cyber Championships

WHEEE!!

I just registered to play in a qualifying tournament for the Quebec finals for the World Cyber Championships! Over $400000 in prizes to be won! The Quebec finals will be held here, of course. Then the Canadian finals will be held in Toronto next month, and finally the Worlds are being held in San Francisco in October. You choose from eight games to compete in. I am going to get the shit kicked out of me, but it'll be fun anyway.

Next year's Worlds are in Singapore. Maybe I should just practice for a whole year, become a godlike player and then get an all-expenses-paid trip to Singapore. Sounds like fun to me.

Squeezable buttocks for your pleasure

CBC News: Waxen Brad Pitt to bare his chest

You get to touch his chest, and feel a simulated heartbeat. Am I the only one that finds this a little disturbing? And "squeezable buttocks"? I am besieged with images of old, withered and scary crones cackling as they squeeze Wax Pitt's ass, while thousands of miles away Brad Pitt feels a little strange.

Modern Feminism

Oh HELL no!

"A 37-page document "On the Collaboration of Men and Women in the Church and in the World," [...] criticizes feminism's attempt to erase gender differences."

Hey look at that: the Vatican has no concept of feminism.

Heavens! We might just have a BRAIN.