Web sites that makes us laugh, cry, or both

Crissa · Post by **Crissa** » Thu Jan 29, 2009 1:42 pm

Meth is the direct result of a few things: The war on drugs, economic helplessness, and a time-is-money economy.

Meth addiction soars in countries in which new manual labor based manufacturing plants spring up, and is also high in poor areas (like in the US). It is low in places with good welfare or access to other drugs.

It's cheap, effective at keeping one happy and awake, and available everywhere.

Strangely, there are other drugs which have similar effects, and safer over time, but none are available as OTC items...

-Crissa

JonSetanta · Post by **JonSetanta** » Fri Jan 30, 2009 2:52 am

I would include Adderall and other so-called "prescription stimulants" in the category of abusable chemicals, even if legal.

After witnessing my girlfriend go through withdrawal over the course of 2 weeks staying with me in the college apartment years ago (something I never hope to see again) I can definitely say that the ILLEGAL drugs are the LEAST of America's problems.
Seriously, fuck pharma companies. Fuck em. With a big fat SSRI suppository.

Crissa · Post by **Crissa** » Fri Jan 30, 2009 4:44 am

Well, Adderall has its uses. But it needs to be used carefully.

What I was saying was that there are new and old options that we don't use because they can't be registered and profited from.

Tobacco is legal. It's addictive. Marijuana isn't legal. Nor is it addictive.

Adderall isn't any new chemical, it's just two old ones crammed together. It's available as prescription. Modafnil is a new chemical, not addictive. It's no longer available because its patent expired (they made a new version that is patented).

There's a definite pattern here.

-Crissa

Bigode · Post by **Bigode** » Mon Feb 02, 2009 6:08 am

An "Atheist Bible".

ubernoob · Post by **ubernoob** » Tue Feb 03, 2009 9:01 pm

I lol'd

Maxus · Post by **Maxus** » Wed Feb 04, 2009 12:32 am

http://literature-map.com/

Interesting way to go surfing...

CatharzGodfoot · Post by **CatharzGodfoot** » Wed Feb 04, 2009 9:39 pm

The best self-help book ever: The Art of Shen Ku.

I picked up a hard copy of this at The Evergreen State College bookstore, haven't seen it anywhere else, but apparently it's now almost all online.

Crissa · Post by **Crissa** » Sun Feb 08, 2009 2:10 am

Tyra Banks' show wrote:Gay man: You think I would choose this discrimination? You think I can live without sex?

Sandy Rios: As a heterosexual female whose had to live without sex, I assure you, you can.

Starving Person: I'm so hungry!
Woman on Diet: I can go without food, so you should be able to, too!

...

Poor lost Christians, told by everyone (except Right-wing media owners or Churches, apparently) they have to accept others.

-Crissa

Maxus · Post by **Maxus** » Sun Feb 08, 2009 7:14 pm

I had this guy on my watchlist on Deviantart, and finally remembered to go take a look at what he's done and really take a look at his gallery.

Wow. Just...Wow.

http://antifan-real.deviantart.com/gallery/

Edit: Be sure to look at the pictures full-size.

Josh_Kablack · Post by **Josh_Kablack** » Sun Feb 08, 2009 9:51 pm

Crissa wrote: ...
Poor lost Christians, told by everyone (except Right-wing media owners or Churches, apparently) they have to accept others.

-Crissa

Following that image to the source page turns up this mission statement:

Our vision is to see these institutions [giants] and the policies regulating their conduct, restored to Christian values.

Which is really about half a step short of advocating for armed revolt to install a theocracy. Tyra treated that flake far too nicely, she should be regarded as an enemy combatant by any true American.

zeruslord · Post by **zeruslord** » Wed Feb 25, 2009 12:49 am

I found this gem crawling around on Wookieepedia. Some people have too much time on their hands.

Username17 · Post by **Username17** » Mon Mar 02, 2009 10:16 pm

There is now a Hello Kitty cosmetics line.

There is a video to go with this fact, seemingly made by freaky Celanders. It has rather more PVP sex play than I would expect in a Hello Kitty based commercial.

-Username17

Maj · Post by **Maj** » Tue Mar 03, 2009 1:17 am

FrankTrollman wrote:There is now a Hello Kitty cosmetics line.

There is a video to go with this fact, seemingly made by freaky Celanders. It has rather more PVP sex play than I would expect in a Hello Kitty based commercial.

-Username17

ubernoob · Post by **ubernoob** » Tue Mar 03, 2009 1:49 am

FrankTrollman wrote:There is now a Hello Kitty cosmetics line.

There is a video to go with this fact, seemingly made by freaky Celanders. It has rather more PVP sex play than I would expect in a Hello Kitty based commercial.

-Username17

Wow. Just... wow.

ckafrica · Post by **ckafrica** » Tue Mar 03, 2009 2:18 am

My question is how frank found a Hello Kitty Cosmetics website in the first place? I mean seriously what is a grown man doing that would bring that website's essence to his attention?

zeruslord · Post by **zeruslord** » Tue Mar 03, 2009 3:03 am

Steele is sorry for calling Rush Limbaugh incendiary and ugly.

Tim Kaine(DNC chair) says he's very sorry Steele feels that way.

Judging__Eagle · Post by **Judging__Eagle** » Tue Mar 03, 2009 3:34 am

ubernoob wrote:I lol'd

That's not only good for lulz, it's actually pretty well done. Good beat, good synching of voice to music. Not overly repetetive.

Most club DJs well... suck...no, they aren't even good enough to suck. They "pretend" that they suck, but are really worse than someone who you would only allow to suck you off.

I never really understood why people use that term unless they actually mean what they say. Then again, people use "lol" when they didn't laugh out loud.

Judging__Eagle · Post by **Judging__Eagle** » Tue Mar 03, 2009 3:39 am

FrankTrollman wrote:There is now a Hello Kitty cosmetics line.

There is a video to go with this fact, seemingly made by freaky Celanders. It has rather more PVP sex play than I would expect in a Hello Kitty based commercial.

-Username17

That's nothing, there's a Hello Kitty douche bag kit apparently.

They sell the license for nearly everything, just nothing sharp. So no pointed handle combs, pencils, or scissors.

Koumei · Post by **Koumei** » Tue Mar 03, 2009 4:02 am

Yeah, Hello Kitty Everything. There's a Hello Kitty vibrating "back massager". Ifyaknowwhatimean. Comes in red, pink, lavender and black.

Also, I remember that Naoko Takeuchi (creator of Sailor Moon) once said that she wanted there to be Sailor Moon merchandise of everything possible, and asked for people to send her weird SM merch they found - she wondered if there was even SM toilet paper and tampons.

(I was hoping there'd be a SM brand of cocaine or sherbet, called "Moon Prism Powder").

Judging__Eagle · Post by **Judging__Eagle** » Tue Mar 03, 2009 6:14 am

No Koumei, it's a dildo, and it's not really ashamed about it.

They spokespeople for Hello Kitty are against sharp things, but the sky (or rather dildo) is the limit.

Here's the web-version of the article (god bless Wired having all of their issues online).

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/9.09/topten.html

3. BRANDING

"Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for anything at all. Hello Kitty never has been, and never will be, anything. She's pure license; you can even get a Hello Kitty car! The branding thing is completely out of control, but it started as nothing and maintains its nothingness. It's not about the ego, and in that way it's very Japanese." - Tom Sachs, the artist whose Hello Kitty Nativity Scene created a scandal when it debuted in the Christmas windows at Barney's New York in 1994.

This month, Yu-Gi-Oh!, another Japanese import, will premiere on the WB Television Network. The series, set in a high school populated with malicious monsters, is designed to appeal to older children. Videogame and card game spin-offs, already wildly popular in Japan, will be here in time for Christmas.

Pokémon is broadcast in 65 countries, translated into more than 30 languages. Since its debut in 1996, the show has sold $15 billion in merchandise worldwide.

You can get a Hello Kitty vibrator and douche, but not a letter opener. Sanrio, the company that owns the license, draws the line at sharp objects.

Koumei · Post by **Koumei** » Tue Mar 03, 2009 6:48 am

It was originally advertised as a massager, then started appearing in adult videos... a lot. This annoyed Sanrio so they tried telling the manufacturer to stop making them (no effect). They quickly gained cult status and all over the world people were ordering them. Eventually Sanrio managed to revoke the licence. The last ones were quickly purchased and sold on ebay for over $100USD each.

Now, ten years later, they've released it again, and probably unashamedly as a sex toy.

Judging__Eagle · Post by **Judging__Eagle** » Tue Mar 03, 2009 2:51 pm

Hehehe, well, that's what the original vibrators were once sold as, in catalouges such as Eatons or Sears.

Until they also showed up in stag party movies, then the mail order department stores stopped selling them.

Count Arioch the 28th · Tue Mar 03, 2009 5:16 pm

I heard that Vibrators were originally invented as a medical treatment for the fictitious disease of Hysteria. Hysteria was described by my psychology teacher as "what they called it anytime a woman acted weird back in those days". Supposedly, sending women into "hysterical paroxisms" would cure Hysteria for a short time. (Doctors used to do it manually, but a doctor invented a vibrator so his hand wouldn't get so tired).

However, he fought tooth and nail to keep them from being available in public, because as everyone knew back then women were without willpower, and giving them the ability to pleasure themselves was evil.

Username17 · Post by **Username17** » Tue Mar 03, 2009 5:33 pm

Count_Arioch_the_28th wrote:I heard that Vibrators were originally invented as a medical treatment for the fictitious disease of Hysteria. Hysteria was described by my psychology teacher as "what they called it anytime a woman acted weird back in those days". Supposedly, sending women into "hysterical paroxisms" would cure Hysteria for a short time. (Doctors used to do it manually, but a doctor invented a vibrator so his hand wouldn't get so tired).

However, he fought tooth and nail to keep them from being available in public, because as everyone knew back then women were without willpower, and giving them the ability to pleasure themselves was evil.

This is all true. Actually to this day when you excise a woman's uterus it is called a "hysterectomy." The original use of the procedure was to try to limit a woman's hysterical outbursts. Possibly by stabbing them in the stomach so hard that the bitch learned her place. I... really don't understand what the reasoning was and I've actually read the original reasoning. Women have moods dependent upon the monthly cycle, so if you fucking chop out the part that bleeds every month she'll have more predictable moods. Or you know, die. Whichever came first.

-Username17

Count Arioch the 28th · Tue Mar 03, 2009 5:58 pm

FrankTrollman wrote: The original use of the procedure was to try to limit a woman's hysterical outbursts. Possibly by stabbing them in the stomach so hard that the bitch learned her place.

I don't know about anyone else, but you wouldn't have to stab me in the stomach more than once to calm me down in most instances.