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Archive: May, 2005
Apparently
Star Wars is sexier than boobs
A Google search for Star Wars currently returns 38,600,000 results. Search for boobs and get 2,620,000 results. That’s all I’m saying.
Online Etymology Dictionary
This is a map of the wheel-ruts of modern English.
Etymologies are not definitions; they’re explanations of what our words meant and how they sounded 600 or 2,000 years ago.
yummy
“delicious,” 1899, from baby talk. Yum-yum as an exclamation of pleasure is recorded from 1878.
an essay by Einstein
“The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science. Whoever does not know it and can no longer wonder, no longer marvel, is as good as dead, and his eyes are dimmed. It was the experience of mystery — even if mixed with fear — that engendered religion. A knowledge of the existence of something we cannot penetrate, our perceptions of the profoundest reason and the most radiant beauty, which only in their most primitive forms are accessible to our minds: it is this knowledge and this emotion that constitute true religiosity. In this sense, and only this sense, I am a deeply religious man… I am satisfied with the mystery of life’s eternity and with a knowledge, a sense, of the marvelous structure of existence — as well as the humble attempt to understand even a tiny portion of the Reason that manifests itself in nature.”
A THIRD OF ALL MARRIED COUPLES IN JAPAN ARE SEXLESS
Miko blogs: “The term “sexless”, adopted from English, first began to be used in Japan in the early 1990s. But now it is instantly recognizable to Japanese and widely discussed in the media. There are books on the subject and numerous websites, including heartbreaking blogs, while letters on the subject fill agony columns.
One woman writes: “I have been married for a year but we have had sex just a handful of times. I know my husband feels stress at work and don’t want to bother him. But I sometimes doubt he really loves me.”
The reason most commonly cited for lack of sex is tiredness from work. Japanese are famous for the long hours they work and their long commuting journeys. In Japan a marriage is called sexless if the couple does not have sex for at least a month, a period which many Japanese say is too short.
As many as one in five sexless couples say they view sex simply as a nuisance. A small number cite the lack of a private space, because children or elderly parents often sleep just the other side of a paper door.”
Okay, now this is yet another thing that I really thought was normal! In fact, I would go so far as to say that most couples in Japan are sexless (meaning that although they are married, share a home and a bank account, they rarely have sex – with each other) and I assumed that it was natural for couples to stop having sex (with each other) once they started living together. Some poor couples never even get started in the first place, which is part of the reason that the birthrate is so low. Believe me, I have had several women confide in me that they had not once had sex since marriage (with their husbands, that is), and others have told me that they did have sex, but only once a year on average – and yet they don’t contemplate divorce. Married couples are more like friends or siblings these days.
What’s wrong with that?
~ Miko
How to Find a Man in Europe and Leave Him There
Gosh I’m so lucky to be surrounded by so many eligable British men…
Discovered by Miko!
The thing about being an adult in our society is that it's completely missing the point.
“What are the indicators of finally achieving adult status these days? A good job and getting married and having kids and buying a house and saving for your retirement and always saying please and thank you to the point that the words don’t mean a thing and having the courteousy to eat all of your food when visiting the in-laws so that you don’t offend them when, hell, you don’t want to eat that much food. Christ, think about the size of your stomach.
I watch all of these rites of passage on TV or remember stories from when I was younger, 12 year old desert native boys eating peyote and going on spirit quests or those Africans who tie vines to their ankles and jump from fifty foot high towers to prove they have no fear… I’m not sure how this fits in, but I mentioned it anyway. You might be able to find a correlation.
But there’s nothing adult about pretending to enjoy something you don’t like, or giving up yourself for someone else’s happiness. A person can’t live their life in order to save another’s. All we have is our own happiness and as selfish as that sounds, if you are not happy then no one around you aren’t contributing to society in the way that I think everyone should, by giving off a true and realistic impression of who they really are.
If I knew that people didn’t like me from the beginning, it would be much easier to divert myself away from them. It’s not as easy as that, but it could be.” ~ ClickNathan
Foxy
Warning: Not Safe For Work
but extremely funny so watch it!
Princess Episode 1 – Princess Hears A Strange Noise
Princess Episode 2 – Princess Meets Officer Friendly
and for the grand finally
Abusive Jesus
Biometric Passports in the U.K.
The UK government tried, and failed, to get a national ID. Now they’re adding biometrics to their passports. According to the report: “Financing for the Passport Office is planned to rise from 182 million a year to 415 million a year by 2008 to cope with the introduction of biometric information such as fingerprints. A Home Office spokesman said the aim was to cut out the 1,500 fraudulent applications found through the postal system last year alone.”
Okay, let’s do the math. Eliminating 1,500 instances of fraud will cost 233 million a year. That comes to 155,000 per instance of fraud.
Does this kind of security trade-off make sense to anyone? Is there absolutely nothing better the UK government can do to ensure security and safety with 233 million a year?
article from: Bruce Schneier
HA!HA!HA!HA! this is just crazy, was it Camilla Parker Bowles who thought up this one.
Help Save Japan’s Dolphins!
More than 20,000 dolphins and porpoises are being slaughtered each year and their meat, containing toxic levels of mercury, is being sold as food in Japan, often times labeled as whale meat. Send a letter to President Obama, Vice President Biden and Japanese Ambassador to the United States Ichiro Fujisaki urging them to address this issue »
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