upon which i stumbled

Jun 04

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Jun 02

Veggie footlong, home style. Oh yeah! (Taken with instagram)

Jun 01

Case For Sunscreen of the Day: This man is 69 years old.

He drove a truck for 28 years.

The premature aging from sun damage to the left side of his face is extensive enough to warrant a feature in the New England Journal of Medicine.

Trucker or not, don’t forget your sunscreen.

[gizmodo]

Yikes.

(via mitchwagner)

May 27

Thai Chi? A very flowing, gentle form of kick-boxing, perhaps? (Taken with instagram)

May 26

Perfect demonstration of why the Internet is powered by cats.

(Source: dashingfoxx, via petitessedespassions)

May 25

My wife done left me / My dog done died.
My truck broken down / My cable box is fried.
Turned to web / but that weren’t no fun ther’
Can’t even find / no porn on the Tumblr!

Got me the Tumblr stumblr BUUUH-luuuuuuussssss!

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May 23

Age of Consent

Thanks to Twitter, Google, Wikipedia, and ADD, I just stumbled into the discovery that in the mid- to late-1970s, there was a considerable effort to abolish age-of-consent laws in France.

Apparently at the time, you couldn’t have sex with 13 and 14 year old girls and boys. Several people had been accused of same and incarcerated. It became cause célèbre among French philosophers and cultural icons, who apparently thought you should be able to bang pretty much anyone you wanted. This wasn’t the Francophone version of NAMBLA; these were big-name intellectuals, including Michel Foucault, Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, et al.

I’m all aware “that was a different time, with different expectations.” And most people—including licensed psychiatrists and professional counselors— at the time did not understand the scope, prevalence, extent, and damage of domestic violence, child abuse, and child sexual abuse. They certainly did not understand it anything like we do today.

But still: Wow!

Reading further, I found a number of jaw-dropping factoids:

Until 1875, the age of consent in England was 12.
In India prior to British rule, the age of sexual consent was 10.
In 1891 the British government raised it to 12.
In most of the United States, in the 1890s, the age was 10 to 12.
In Delaware, it was 7.
Over time, the age appears to have generally increased into the 14–16 range. 18 is also a fairly common number.
In some places, it’s still 13 or 14. Japan is 13, for instance.
In Mexico, it’s 12.
In Connecticut, it’s also 12. As long as the other party is 13.
Alabama is probably a little jealous of that damn Yankee state as a result. But hasn’t dropped its age of consent from 16 as a result. Stayin’ classy!
In Tunisia, the age of consent is 20.
“Romeo and Juliet” laws exempting close-in-age “teenagers being teenagers” appear to be more common over time.
Laws normalizing homosexual contact, which previously were either prohibited or had a very high age of consent (e.g., 21), are increasingly common.
In France, the age of consent is still 15.

May 21

Wow. But I think I’ll pass, all the same.

If I had my own personal slave-robot, I’d want it to do something more interesting than spamming users into visiting Pinterest.

May 18

Taken with instagram

(Source: naimhe)

May 17

jerrymuffinbutt:

reblag dis nd u win a priez

da priez is luv frum jesus

u can rebagel it 4 times BUT NO LIKEES

I can rebagel it?

Hell, yes! I’m in!

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theworstthingsforsale:

Go ahead and buy a highly-rated cocktail muddler, pretend in your head that you’re going to get fresh herbs and fruit and use a special thing to muddle them with. Pretend you’re going to shake it, and strain it, and pour it out, and make a special little cocktail with a sprig of something, and wash all those extra dishes. Isn’t that precious to think about!

OK, now that we’re back in reality, make your usual cocktail by pouring half a glass of diet soda and glugging an unmeasured amount of any liquor into it.

No comment.

(via lonelycoast)

May 16

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