Good morning, lovebirds! Rather than feed you awkward conversation topics today, I’m going to feed you some emergency silence-fillers that I find quite interesting. (If I could dip them in chocolate and feed them to you with my fingers, I would.)
Forty percent of Filipinos believe in Cupid! Belief is higher among those with more education, also higher among those with live-ins than singles.
Philstar: 40% of Pinoy adults believe in Cupid
Secret admiring in a card has been done for about three and a half centuries. Come out and say it already!
Times Online: On This Day
The San Fran Zoo offers a tour of animals’ sex lives called Woo at the Zoo. It includes a full meal and booze– for a typical V-day hiked price of $75.
Inside Bay Area: Sexy Woo at the Zoo tour began 19 years ago
In a survey of Bahrainis and Arab nationals, the number who consider themselves to be “romantic” is up ten percent from last year. The survey results focus on the fact that almost half do not plan to celebrate the holiday, citing such reasons as religion and cost of material gifts, but I’d like to know what’s making everyone feel the love this year!
Gulf Daily News: ‘Romantic’ Arabs to skip celebrations
Humans haven’t evolved not to cheat, but the male body has evolved to prevent a cheating woman from bearing the child of another man– not unlike beetles, worms, and chimps. Depressing! But so interesting!
Slate: The Merry Band of Wrigglers
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And then, there’s this: “Saudi Arabia bans all things red ahead of Valentine’s Day”
http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/02/12/saudi.valentine/index.html
Thank you, ThatGrrl! My Google news was enlightening last night. Guys, please comment on this or Thor will bump it out of the feature
I am feeling it coming.
Wow - that Slate article was a bit more graphic than I usually encounter before 11 AM. Nothing like reading about the evolutionary reason that people cheat on Valentine’s Day. Lilith, you big sappy romantic, you.
I can’t wait to talk about the shape of my penis over dinner. That’s my second favorite topic after the color of my poop.
that reminds me of the psychology study i learned about in undergrad that proved men are more upset by sexual infidelity (because of the whole making sure they are the baby’s daddy thing) and women are more upset by emotional infidelity (because they can be certain the baby is theirs, they just want someone to stick around and help them take care of it). i kind of enjoy knowing how much of our lives/behavior can be whittled down to evolutionary instinct. we are just animals, after all.
oh, right, and happy valentines day!
we are just animals, after all.
Grrrrr! Rawr!!
I hope everyone has a wonderful V-Day!
trillain, that is so interesting! And Gobbler, I cracked up way too loud for where I am when I read that. Thanks for that too…
Here’s another gem: http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1202904864073&pos=ataglance
Apparently they just made it legal to buy sex toys in Texas. I had no idea that that as still illegal anywhere in the country (despite what Staunton might say).
Woo at the Zoo? I cannot help but wonder if they’ll be playing The Bad Touch repeatedly during the tour.
“It’s still tasteless, tacky and smutty,” animal-care professional Tollini said.
Oh, I would love to go to this….buster, would you care to join me?
apparently the music selection used to be johnny mathis. yeah, baby.
it looks pretty amazing. it’d be hilarious to watch those who get really uncomfortable as well.
rawr, indeed
@9
Tim, don’t go to Mississippi then! although, apparently only the news services are concerned with the legality of such purchases, not law enforcement.
sorry, that was supposed to be @8, not @9. it’s early still (?).
@8 Still illegal in Georgia.
And in japan, they make all kinds of crazy sex toys, but the um, phalluses (phalli?) are not allowed to look like human genitalia. Thats why their toys are always animals, santa clauses and all this other weird shit. Any ladies out there with a “rabbit vibe” (no of course you dont have one, not you, I was talking about someone else), well now you know where it originated. Trippy, eh?
/has more toys than a man should, i think.
I’ve purchased in Texas. The place was sketchy to walk into, but it also had a XXX sign as big and high as a truck stop’s on a midwest highway.
In Georgia it’s illegal to purchase them, but ok to possess them- so you can give your girlfriend a sex toy for V-day, just not sell it to her.
The case that decided that had an exception for sex toys purchased “for law enforcement purposes…” Aside from those “Prisoner of your Love” fuzzy handcuffs, I can’t come up with any legit police use of sex toys?
those fuzzy handcuffs break really easily.
/just saying.
Thats why you go with heavy duty leather restraints. Just sayin’ (too much).
I miss Good Vibrations on the west coast. Bliss is just so… so… well, overpriced and garish.
All my lady friends love the rabbit. I know this because they they talk about it with each other in my presence. It lights up and has moving parts and is machine washable and ….
From Slate: “male flour beetles have spiny penises designed to remove rival sperm from a female’s reproductive tract.”
Happy VD
I can’t come up with any legit police use of sex toys
The word “nightstick” comes to mind.
I actually saw a nightstick used in such a fashion one time. Certainly there was no enforcing of laws happening…in fact, quite the opposite.
“night stick” was my nickname in high school.
Good Vibrations still exists on the interwebs, BYo. No need to miss it at all.
And I draw the line at the Hello Kitty vibe the Japanese came up with. That’s just all kinds of wrong.
“night stick” was my nickname in high school.
hey there, whatcha doin’ later, gobbler?
Oh I know they do, but the staff in the retail locations are friendly, funny, odd, informative and sex positive… and you really cant get that on the intartubes. Besides, the stuff I already have is gathering dust anyway. I tell you, this vow of celibacy I have taken is really starting to agitate me.
My favorite was when the Harry Potter Merchandising group came out with the vibrating “Nimbus 2000″ broomstick. Apparently there were multiple complaints by parents that their precious little snowflakes were having just a wee bit too much fun riding them.
Probably the same group who came up with this coin op ‘gem’:
http://img179.imageshack.us/img179/6282/donaldduckridezi5.jpg
Um, yeah.
I’ve gotten that forward before, b yo. Looove it.
Yupster, why am I not surprised, you hussy.
hey there, whatcha doin’ later, gobbler?
prolly bragging about his penis. just a guess.
@8,15:
Huh? Illegal in GA? That’d be quite a shock to me. When I moved to VA from GA, I was really surprised to find such a limited number of head shops here…. and the fact that none of them seemed to be the combination sex/drug shop that I had grown accustomed to down south.
I guess I can’t vouch for the ability to purchase the sex toys, but they sure as hell had rows and rows of them marked with price tags in the store.
I can’t load the site here at work, but here’s an example of one store that I can actually recall the name of.
http://www.inserection.com
Assuming they have a store locator on the site, someone should be able to verify the availability of sex toys in GA.
PENIS!
heavy duty leather straps? nightsticks? the rabbit? sex toys galore?
i love this thread. i just wish it was indicative of how my valentine’s day is going to go. *sigh*
Forty percent of Filipinos believe in Cupid!
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Humans haven’t evolved not to cheat
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Donk, those are not ’sex toys’, they are ‘adult novelties’, and are intended for tobacco use only.
(great head shop tip in c-ville, the relatively new Kulture, next to Black Cat, at the foot of the corner parking garage)
b yo,
Agreed about Kulture. My love of german engineering extends beyond cars. Good folks in there, too.
I feel a sex toy post coming on.
(pun intended)
b yo, Donk
more dittoes on Kulture. went there with an out of town bud after going to Roots Rock first. BIG mistake. I didn’t even know it existed until we went to Black Cat. This was back in early December, so I’m not sure how long it’s been there.
Hmmm, this is off topic, and I know it’s a week later, but this new layout continues to throw me!
Anyone? Anyone?
Throw you? What does that mean?
@18 Happy VD? *shudder*
Personally I hate Valentines Day but I understand the general sentiment of love and caring and whatnot.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=bDxMErQ4wFI
Oh, I just mean it continues to shock and awe my eyes when I click on the page. Not yet accustomed.
dave, me neither, to be honest. I like it, but given how much I’m on here, it’s like moving into a new apartment. Like, the silverware’s not in the same drawer, and where’s that darn outlet?
I’ll find your outlet
who said that?
a lady friend asked me earlier what i’m doing for VD.
me, i take penicillin.
and what do you do, my dear?
penicillin gives you VD? Wow, that’s a lot cheaper than the hookers I’ve been using.
Thanks Parlie!
I prefer hospital restraints. Padded and secure
no problem. let me know how you like the clap!
applause for parlie.
I hate being single on V-DAY
you are not single thor, you have all of us, ‘cept the manly men like Tim and Gobbler, but Parlie’s with us.
C’mon Thor, it’s……creative.
Free inspiration!
chapter 24?
si.
Like heaven…….http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2562121601922413215&q=chapter+24+pink&total=20&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=0
syd barrett yes
pink floyd no
yes (close yer eye’s and listen)
http://rateyourmusic.com/release/unauth/pink_floyd/the_dark_side_of_the_moo/
meant :heart beat pig feet.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Several_Species_of_Small_Furry_Animals_Gathered_Together_in_a_Cave_and_Grooving_with_a_Pict
cheers!
( warning: content may not be suitabke for those all lovey-dovey tonight. however, for others:)
http://relationshipobit.com/obituary
you people make no sense from 49-57. it’s maddening.
caroline, one of these days we’re going to have a reckoning, you and i.
parlie- i believe it’s all musical references.
As a half-fillippino, I must say that if I were to believe in Cupid, I would call him a punk-ass d-bag, and tell him to stop using myspace stalkers as his bow and arrow. Happy fake holliday Cvillains!
was there a holiday?!
good morning Parlie!
tops, caroline.
everybody get back to work.
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