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| Via Buzzfeed |
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| This artistic censorship is an outrage! Someone get Amy Heckerling on the phone. |
Business@Sofitel: Men TALKING! And GESTURING! And LEADING! And women… sitting and listening! And writing down the important things that the talking, gesturing men say! And making the “I am so interested in all of the interesting things you are saying because you are just so interesting” face! And looking really pretty while they do it!But this is Sofitel we're talking about! It's a man's man's man's world. Seriously. The place is literally covered in semen.
Sounds just lovely. Do pretty women who gaze adoringly at you come standard, or is there an extra cost for that? Is there a discount for uglier ones? Because I’ll totally take uglier ones as long as they can do the “interested” face.
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| And I think I know why they misspelt "Finnish" |
The questions range over a variety of subjects that are supposed to indicate their son's sexual preferences. They include his attitude to personal grooming and dress sense, whether he likes football and reads sports papers and whether he likes musicals and/or divas such as Mylène Farmer.It's hard to count all the kinds of wrong this is, including all the stereotypes and the obsolete Freudian idea that parental conditions made people gay. (Although it should be noted that Freud was otherwise relatively progressive in his attitudes on that front.)
The questionnaire also puts the parents under the spotlight.
“Are you divorced?” it asks, going on to suggest that there might be “a certain absence of the father” or, alternatively, that the progenitor might be “very authoritarian”.
While mothers whose sons are judged to be gay are told to “ACCEPT IT”, mothers of supposed heterosexuals receive a message that appears to take a much less indulgent attitude to homosexuality.
“You have nothing to worry about, your son is not gay,” it reads. “So you have a very good chance of being a grandmother with all the joys that brings.”
"Under the abandoned curriculum, Grade 1 students would have been taught the correct terms for body parts, including genitalia, which can help prevent sexual abuse.
But what sparked the ire of social conservatives was that Grade 3 students would have learned about homosexuality.
Sixth-graders would be taught about masturbation.
In Grade 7, concepts of anal and oral sex would have been introduced."
And whodahell in *Poland* thought it would be a good idea to use a picture from 1975 with a German Shepard in the back of an el camino, waiting for his owner to leave the nightclub/bar selling cigars? by Synthprax
When you're walking down the street and your nipple tries to hid in your armpit, you probably should see a surgeon. by Le_bob
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| Via The Consumerist |
Initially, working with an established range of wool colors proved frustrating. Unlike painting, I was unable to mix the colors by hand. Progressively, I created a system of sewing the threads in a sequence that would ultimately give the allusion of a certain color or tone. The direction in which the threads were sewn had to mimic the way lines are layered in a drawing to give the allusion of depth, volume, and form. Over time the stitches have become tighter and more complex but ultimately more evocative of flesh, hair, and cloth.
