Clearing My Tabs

[shanmonster]

Yes, it's time for another link dump. Some of these are doozies!

K-1 Ernesto Hoost - gaki no tsukai: Yet another absolutely bizarre Japanese tv show. This ones takes place in a library and features a prizefighter (thanks, balthcat. I laughed my ass off, and had to staple it back on!

Girlfriend is 'scalped' -- Man uses drill as hair styler: All kinds of WTF. A drill ought not ever to be used as a hair styling tool. And considering he tried it out on himself previously with similar results.... Oy!

Battlestar Galactica Simpsons: New Battlestar Galactica, that is. May contain some spoilers....

Match.com mistakes bisexuals for swingers: Because bisexuals are all sluts, don'tcha know?

DNA test confirms hybrid bear in the wild: The tale of a poor dead grolar bear.

Doctors puzzled over bizarre infection surfacing in South Texas: I'm a bit dubious over the veracity of the report, but it's still a nice, gross read.

Celebrities back tampon rebels of Zimbabwe: "SHE has been arrested 22 times, tortured so badly that her front teeth were knocked into her nose and had an AK-47 thrust up her vagina until she bled. Thabitha Khumalo’s crime: to campaign against a critical shortage of tampons and sanitary towels in Zimbabwe, one of the least talked about and most severe side-effects for women of the country’s economic crisis." Forget tampons and pads. Send Keepers and Diva Cups!

Pentagon records show that complaints about recruiting improprieties are on pace to reach record highs set in 2003 and 2004. As Army struggles to recruit, abuses mount: Another story about unethical practices and the US army. This time, they went and recruited an autistic teen.

Man swears bomb targeted beaver dam, not girlfriend: Either way, his aim was off (thanks, g026r).

Comments

[icedrake.livejournal.com]

re: Morgellons Disease:
I'm guessing you read BoingBoing, then? :)

I've been puzzled by this; the best I can ascertain is that it's either real and very new, or the most elaborate hoax I've seen in years. The number and detail of sites is impressive. But, and this makes me wildly suspicious, there is zero information I've found on the composition of the fibers. The images of the fibers posted on Morgellons.org are unidentifiable as anything at all -- it's a well-known photographers' trick to take a picture at extreme magnification and an unexpected angle, and then have people wonder about what the object in the picture is. The best and most in-depth article I've found thus far was the PopMech one (http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/medicine/1662162.html?page=2&c=y), of all places. At the very least, it mentions the largest number of verifiable names. Though... Since when are nurses in California licensed to prescribe antibiotics?

[sageincave.livejournal.com]

Menstrual pads used to be made of cotton fabric, washable, and reusable. You even got pad service with your dorm room in college!

Obviously Zimbabwean women have solved the baby diaper problem; why can't they solve the period problem?

disclaimer

[sageincave.livejournal.com]

of course, beating up women is never an appropriate response to politican activism.

[shanmonster.livejournal.com]

Nope! I've still never gotten around to trolling BoingBoing.

[shanmonster.livejournal.com]

That's a very good question.

[issi-noho.livejournal.com]

Appropriately qualified Nurse Practitioners may prescribe medication.

While I'd normally hesitate to quote Wiki on such a contentious topic, their page on Morgellons (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morgellons) yielded an interesting link: Morgellons Watch (http://morgellonswatch.blogspot.com/2006/04/objects-emerging-from-lesion-on-childs.html).

And afore I go...

[issi-noho.livejournal.com]

... the Ernesto Hoost vid was genius.

Re: And afore I go...

[shanmonster.livejournal.com]

It made me gigglesnort!

[icedrake.livejournal.com]

Interesting... Though flame-filled. Thank you.

[zombienought.livejournal.com]

I've heard they just hold the naked babes away
from them when the poo comes, and that they're
good at detecting when the child needs to go.

But yes, I wonder why they're not using fabric.
Or using nothing, as people and animals have
for thousands of years.

[zombienought.livejournal.com]

So what I don't get is why the guy is okay for
shooting the nanulak if it is part endangered
animal. Not that a $1000 fine would mean much
to a man who paid almost $50,000 for the hunt,
and is going on another hunt next month.

I always thought polar bears and other bears
were very different species, like a chimp to a
an ape, or something.

[(Anonymous)]

I've heard of this technique before - it also helps babies "toilet train" earlier.

Operating in modern civilization does require that you use something. The using nothing is why the women and girls have to stay home - maybe they only own one or two outfits? Blood stains clothing permanently unless you wash it out right away.

Anyone with a job *should* be able to afford the materials to make reusable sanitary napkins. Their economy sounds terrible, but manufacturing napkins would be a good cottage industry for women, and could be encouraged with microloans.

This all assumes that women have access to water for washing. I'm glad I live in North America, where the basic necessities are easy to get.

[sageincave.livejournal.com]

that was me

[zombienought.livejournal.com]

You're right. I forgot that they had regualr
jobs in the city. And they very well may not
have easy access to water.

And this is why people should wear dark colours.
:P

I've been watching PBS's Frontier House, and,
yes, I'm very glad I live in the modern age.
I am such a pansy.

Another Texas-Based Disease

[ltmurnau.livejournal.com]

STD Warning

Centers for Disease Control (CDC) 7sep2005

THE CDC has issued a no-nonsense warning about a new, highly virulent strain of sexually transmitted disease. This disease is contracted through dangerous and high risk behavior.

The disease is called Gonorrhea Lectim (pronounced "gonna re-elect him").

Many victims have contracted it after having been screwed for the past 4 years, in spite of having taken measures to protect themselves from this especially troublesome disease.

Cognitive sequelae of individuals infected with Gonorrhea Lectim include, but are not limited to,

- anti-social personality disorder traits;
- delusions of grandeur with a distinct messianic flavor;
- chronic mangling of the English language;
- extreme cognitive dissonance;
- inability to incorporate new information;
- pronounced xenophobia and homophobia;
- inability to accept responsibility for actions;
- exceptional cowardice masked by acts of misplaced bravado;
- uncontrolled facial smirking;
- total ignorance of geography and history;
- tendencies toward creating evangelical theocracies;
- and a strong propensity for categorical, all-or-nothing behavior.

The disease is sweeping Washington. Naturalists and epidemiologists are amazed and baffled that this malignant disease originated only a few years ago in a Texas bush.

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Re: Another Texas-Based Disease

[shanmonster.livejournal.com]

Bwahahahahahaha!

[shanmonster.livejournal.com]

Maybe he's fine because on first appearance, it was a polar bear. Maybe they're chalking it up to an honest mistake.

I really couldn't say....

Re: Another Texas-Based Disease

[ltmurnau.livejournal.com]

Hee hee hee.

On the recruiting story: the drawback of the system is that recruiters have official or unofficial quotas to fill, and they don't care whether their snares get through training or not. Someone with the kind of profound verbal and interaction disabilities as that boy had would never make it through even basic training.