Seeing condom ads on TV, that must be a challenging market to be in what with all the breeding kink and even gay guys having PrEP (I continue to insist it is hilarious that the normalization of homosexuality involved a pill they take daily to make it safe for men to cum inside them)
Starting to appreciate my parents not clueing me in re: my inheritance until later, it honestly did imbue me with what they’re talmbout “a sense of what a dollar is worth”, now (at least post-personality change with the anxiety gone) I can spend respectable amounts and get genuinely quality stuff in return but I’ll see stuff I could afford and does appeal but be like “no, that’s ridiculous”
So as the neighborhood continues to develop a bar that had previously only been 50-somethings and scuzzy food service lefties is now pivoting to a young fresh crowd, sometimes they have shows in the side room, right now it’s stand-up.
The girl up now just went “as a bisexual with she/they pronouns… … I forgot the joke”
(That wasn’t the punchline, she recovered and as far as I can tell she really just forgot it. She did a joke the conceit that her 9th grade teacher who was recently been arrested for fucking students had in retrospect been grooming her, and she is dying on that stage)
I wonder what the dynamic with these low-level showcases is, there’s no headliner you’re warming up for, do you put the weaker ones on later when the audience is more in their cups?
Global Times insisting that NATO tanks will not help Ukraine but will irritate Russia, a nuclear power, whose “bottom lines are constantly being breached”, deepening the confrontation and leading it further into quagmire etc.
and they’re absolutely right that Ukraine would collapse without support, but the support provided isn’t enough for them to win, at least not unless Russia collapses first, at enormous cost to both.
If the issue is “we want to give them materiel to defeat tanks but not present a threat to push into enemy territory”, does anyone still have tank destroyers?
So as the neighborhood continues to develop a bar that had previously only been 50-somethings and scuzzy food service lefties is now pivoting to a young fresh crowd, sometimes they have shows in the side room, right now it’s stand-up.
The girl up now just went “as a bisexual with she/they pronouns… … I forgot the joke”
(That wasn’t the punchline, she recovered and as far as I can tell she really just forgot it. She did a joke the conceit that her 9th grade teacher who was recently been arrested for fucking students had in retrospect been grooming her, and she is dying on that stage)
I followed Aella’s “stop shampooing” advice and that worked great but “rarely shower” seems too much for me, it’s not smell per se that bugs me but that as I become more finely aware of my body even a not-hot, non-strenuous half-day’s worth of sweat drying leaves a residue that leaves me feeling not at my best
rabbits know and resent their place on the food chain
mice and rats also know they’re prey animals, they just have such joy of living that it cancels out. guinea pigs have no concept of death but understand contextless fear. hamsters however do know the food chain, but they also know that attachment to the earth is the root of suffering and they wisely deny the faults of the ego
Each time someone tells this tale, it is less plausible than before. Nearly half a century ago, there actually were notable currents of radical opinion that wanted to normalize pederasty and abolish age-of-consent laws. The successes of the gay rights movement have not made such views more popular. If anything, they have become more radioactive. The North American Man/Boy Love Association (NAMBLA) no longer marches in pride parades, and gay papers no longer publish extended debates about whether such groups belong in the fold. Even the small handful of activists who do talk about destigmatizing pedophilia are much more likely to claim that this will make it easier for pedophiles to get psychiatric help than to suggest they’re doing nothing wrong. And the rise of trans rights has not changed that at all. (That’s why Rufo has to fall back on phrases like “groomed into a sexual identity"—they let him conflate two very different phenomena.) In fact, the increasingly dominant view on the left today is to oppose any large age differences in romantic or sexual relationships, even when both parties are of legal age.
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In her 2020 book Unspeakable, the University of Victoria historian Rachel Hope Cleves examines the life of Norman Douglas, a once-beloved but now largely forgotten British novelist who kept a private journal describing his deflowerings of thousands of boys and girls. Douglas did not hide his proclivities during his lifetime, which ended in 1952. To the extent they were known, they were regarded with the same mixture of bourgeois disapproval and bohemian tolerance that an uncloseted gay artist might have received. Borrowing the radical anthropologist Gayle Rubin’s metaphor of a "charmed circle” of socially acceptable sexuality, Cleves writes: “Identity categories that are distant from one another today—like loose women, lesbians, and pederasts—were more proximate when they were all outside the charmed circle. Pederasty was less taboo before the 1950s, in effect, because so many other behaviors were disreputable as well.”
Forty years since its first broadcast in 1983, the Spring Festival Gala can still steadily maintain such massive appeal among audiences. This very point shows the cultural significance the gala show has is world-class. A culturally influential modern nation should have its representative modern cultural products, one of which is the Spring Festival Gala that crystallizes the Chinese people’s spirit and creativity. Marks of China’s 40 years of national development and progress, as well as changes in every family, can be seen in the show. The annual Spring Festival Gala creates a warm collective memory for generations, becoming a common Chinese New Year custom for all Chinese people and a unique, mega-scale cultural phenomenon in the world.
More and more people worldwide are getting to know the Spring Festival Gala. Behind the show is the overall rise of Chinese culture’s international influence and China’s national strength. In its unique way, the Spring Festival Gala remembers, inherits, and promotes every spiritual spark in our nation and every footprint that we as a nation have walked on this long and hard journey.
I love this because the spring festival gala is rubbish
