Just Keep Your Hands Where I Can See Them
Meanwhile, in academia – specifically, the University of Southern California – it’s “Sex Week,” and so:
“Exploring Sensuality and Herbalism,” slated for Tuesday, will be a “virtual evening of plant-play and exploring pleasure, sensuality, and herbalism.”
If you feel an urge to make your own body oil, or herbal tea, or erotic pottery, or should you be in urgent need of a “sexuality doula” and a workshop on “pleasure and identities,” hosted by Ev’yan Whitney, an apparently famed “facilitator and sensualist”… well, your diaries should be updated.
But if anyone here starts fumbling in their pockets longer than is strictly necessary, I’m fetching the hose.
Also, open thread. Share ye links and bicker.
Nerd personalities more susceptible to sexual dysfunction? More susceptible to some forms of mass hysteria?
People with oversensitive amygdala tend to drift into technical fields because baseline competence can be gained with perseverance and focus rather than talent, and because machines are more predictable and controllable than people. Also more predictable and controllable than people: fantasy milieux.
It is always, always, always a dysfunctional coping mechanism. The social contagion effect means it’s no longer always, always, always about childhood sexual abuse.
It’s a pity that Netflix’s Snowflake Mountain isn’t real, because it has an interesting prize structure and is a good idea: there are far too many young people, men and women, who need to be put in a moderately taxing and stressful environment for a while until they realize they can survive moderate levels of physical and mental stress, and calibrate their priorities appropriately.
I’m on a number of Discord servers
Oh, look. IRC. I’ve never understood the popularity of Discord for subjects where people routinely write essay length opinion pieces that are often referred to years later.
“you’re not ‘Giselle!’ You’re a middle-aged sysadmin at a high school!”
I’d bet money none of these people are doing this in their daily lives. The Discord channels are, ahem, more predictable and controllable than people.
Mr. Rubber Boobs […] are really just taking the piss
I did a bit of digging. He is. He’s had a number of run-ins with the HDSB over the last couple of years of trans indoctrination and he’s engaging in a little Alinsky# 4: make the enemy live up to its own book of rules.
Firesign Theater was apparently influenced by the Goon Show.
Apparently so…
Wakanda as a model for the future: did the author notice that Wakanda has an impenetrable wall around it and does not try to help other countries in Africa?
People with oversensitive amygdala tend to drift into technical fields because baseline competence can be gained with perseverance and focus rather than talent, and because machines are more predictable and controllable than people. Also more predictable and controllable than people: fantasy milieux.
Ooh, this. Though I put that somewhat in the context of the memorization vs. logical thinking axis. The biological sciences seem to have a similar issue.
I see Steve E. is now back from the future, whatever the hell that might mean. Literally.
I wanted to say to Steven Hawking, if time travel were possible, someone from the future would have come back here by now and told us how to do it.
Then too, if time travel were possible, “by now” would be a meaningless phrase.
‘Bye now.
[gasp] what have I done!?
Where, I mean when, am I?!
if time travel were possible, someone from the future would have come back here by now and told us how to do it
Well, that’s what the time cops are for, isn’t it?
There’s a very old Dark Horse Terminator vs. Alien mini-series in which it is revealed that in the Alien timeline, Kyle Reese is a distant ancestor of Corporal Hicks.
“But, Mrs. Presky, but it’s really great shit”.
LOL I had completely forgot about Firesign Theatre. I think Dr. Demento was where I first heard them.
For me, the classic “shit” skit was Cheech and Chong:
I paraphrase from memory.
I feel a little like Wilfred Brimley in Cocoon
That’s probably better than feeling like Wilfred Brimley in The Thing.
Where, I mean when, am I?!
We’re going to need a whole new set of tenses to deal with this.
“if time travel were possible, someone from the future would have come back here by now and told us how to do it”–I think anyone from that future would avoid our time like the plague (heh)
Excuse me sir. Kindly put your “doula” back in your pants.
LOL.
Nitpick: “doula” is feminine. The masculine form (if it existed) would, I think, be “doule”. (Not that you should trust my Greek.)
pst314: I think it would actually be doulos (of which an earlier form, something like doeros, appears in the Linear B tablets from Knossos, with the meaning “slave”).
Alex: Thanks.
in the Alien timeline, Kyle Reese is a distant ancestor of Corporal Hicks.
Interesting. Because if you look at both characters, they really look quite similar.
I thought the PRE tags worked….
“Exploring Sensuality and Herbalism,” slated for Tuesday, will be a “virtual evening of plant-play and exploring pleasure, sensuality, and herbalism.”
Let’s see