counterpoint: it's easy for me to deny the appeal of any of that, lol
― map, Friday, 15 January 2021 21:16 (three years ago) link
Part of competence is distinguishing what is useful and needed from fantasy-based frippery. Because I hike in the Pacific Northwest temperate rain forest, I often bring an umbrella if the weather is showery. It isn't a tactical umbrella with LED light and retractable sword point, as used by Navy Seals, though.
― Respectfully Yours, (Aimless), Friday, 15 January 2021 21:23 (three years ago) link
you're talking about actual competence, I'm talking about identity and the fantasy of competence. and on a personal note, I would love a quality umbrella with a bright LED flashlight in the handle!
― thousand-yard spiral stairs (f. hazel), Friday, 15 January 2021 21:29 (three years ago) link
nah. unless the led light were entirely separable, every time you needed to point the beam at something, you'd be stuck choosing whether to have the umbrella or the flashlight properly positioned. if the led is entirely separable you may as well just have a separate led flashlight altogether. That is cheaper and more versatile. I have a pocket-sized one I carry that comes in handy fairly often and I don't need to carry the umbrella to have it.
― Respectfully Yours, (Aimless), Friday, 15 January 2021 22:08 (three years ago) link
I'm picturing a 90-degree angle flashlight in the handle so you could use the umbrella and aim the flashlight forward at the same time
― thousand-yard spiral stairs (f. hazel), Friday, 15 January 2021 22:52 (three years ago) link
My buyout bag is just weed, Smirnoff, and cash
― alpaca lips now (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 15 January 2021 23:11 (three years ago) link
Gah bugout
Ive had design meetings where transcripts wouldnt necessarily read too differently to the last seven-odd posts itt
― spaghetti connemara (darraghmac), Saturday, 16 January 2021 02:02 (three years ago) link
Never let a room full of people who need something brainstorm about what they need, imo.
― Canon in Deez (silby), Saturday, 16 January 2021 02:08 (three years ago) link
Nobody ever seems to consider what would actually happen to a brain in a storm, tbh
― spaghetti connemara (darraghmac), Saturday, 16 January 2021 02:14 (three years ago) link
Odd, that lightning storm seemed to vivify the brain of Frankenstein's monster.
― Respectfully Yours, (Aimless), Saturday, 16 January 2021 02:16 (three years ago) link
what would i need in a buyout bag. Hmmmmmmm
― maf you one two (maffew12), Saturday, 16 January 2021 02:41 (three years ago) link
I'll invoice you via email, I need money to buy a flashlight full of mace and astronaut ice cream
― thousand-yard spiral stairs (f. hazel), Saturday, 16 January 2021 03:15 (three years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/bwMVIR3.png
― difficult listening hour, Tuesday, 9 February 2021 21:13 (three years ago) link
I can't remember the product that was promoted in the Super Bowl ad – something about showering in the forest – but I seriously thought it was a parody until the very end.
― pplains, Tuesday, 9 February 2021 21:16 (three years ago) link
this one
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDHNMqOLw_o
― pplains, Tuesday, 9 February 2021 21:18 (three years ago) link
uh
― Hello Nice FBI Lady (DJP), Tuesday, 9 February 2021 21:21 (three years ago) link
It's a men's hygiene product that dares to admit it has nothing to offer you but a rich sense of its own comedic value.
― Compromise isn't a principle, it's a method (Aimless), Tuesday, 9 February 2021 21:41 (three years ago) link
https://64.media.tumblr.com/8809b946a88e1aa38432ecfdccceb85c/tumblr_ngc4ytwVmC1razbajo1_1280.jpg
― you are like a scampicane, there's calm in your fries (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 13 April 2021 20:11 (three years ago) link
this... seems like a sex thing.
― cat, Wednesday, 14 April 2021 02:17 (three years ago) link
yeah
― John Cooper of Christian rock band Skillet (map), Wednesday, 14 April 2021 02:21 (three years ago) link
as opposed to a gender thing, that is. though there is certainly some significant gender stuff mixed in with this sex stuff, all dumped into a dog bowl with "MAN" stenciled on the side in manly prison-esque font, the prison of dehumanizing masculine expectations etc.
i kind of want one but my partner might get the wrong idea.
― cat, Wednesday, 14 April 2021 02:22 (three years ago) link
Uh-oh! A rival enters the territory...
https://i.imgur.com/jb7hKWj.jpg
― pplains, Wednesday, 14 April 2021 03:10 (three years ago) link
I thought you meant “a sex thing” in the “my mistress makes me eat out of this bowl during our sessions” sense.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Wednesday, 14 April 2021 03:44 (three years ago) link
that is what i meant! is there a word for sexual activity that doesn't include the "sex" part, since it's still so often bound up with gender? aside from, like, "fucking".
"this seems like a sexual activity thing"
"this seems like a fucking thing"
"this seems like a coitus thing"
or i guess in this instance "this seems like a fetish thing" could have worked, but the question still stands because i am drawing a blank
― cat, Wednesday, 14 April 2021 07:26 (three years ago) link
My brain was not working properly last night; I thought you meant it in some "sex vs gender" way.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Wednesday, 14 April 2021 11:04 (three years ago) link
It's true, a real hungry man can hold 20 ounces.
― pplains, Wednesday, 14 April 2021 12:19 (three years ago) link
xpost oic. but this is why we need another sex word, too much confusion/overlap! Orgasmic Gratification or its mellifluous portmanteau "orgrat" is what i'm threatening to use until i find something better.
"this... seems like an orgrat thing"
why yes i am a modern day shakespeare, thank you for noticing
― cat, Wednesday, 14 April 2021 18:10 (three years ago) link
i thought you were a cat
― John Cooper of Christian rock band Skillet (map), Wednesday, 14 April 2021 18:12 (three years ago) link
*tries to figure out how to fold-up map again*
― Zach_TBD (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 14 April 2021 18:14 (three years ago) link
*misses free throw*
ONCE UPON A TIME, MEN ATE OUT OF THE BOWL
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Wednesday, 14 April 2021 18:16 (three years ago) link
https://www.professorpincushion.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/ppc_catCostumeRenaissanceCollar_side_1920x1080_002-1.jpg
― cat, Wednesday, 14 April 2021 18:19 (three years ago) link
you don't understand, MAN is the name of my dog
― superdeep borehole (harbl), Wednesday, 14 April 2021 18:21 (three years ago) link
lmao
― John Cooper of Christian rock band Skillet (map), Wednesday, 14 April 2021 18:23 (three years ago) link
man, no!no man
Absolutely dying at the concept of tactical gummy bears but the copy makes it even funnier pic.twitter.com/FQFQSl2wrJ— show me that gabagool (@mustachetoilet) May 25, 2021
when you're out on a mission to kill, and you need to be able to count on yr gummie bears
― Karl Malone, Friday, 28 May 2021 17:24 (two years ago) link
that is what i meant! is there a word for sexual activity that doesn't include the "sex" part, since it's still so often bound up with gender? aside from, like, "fucking"."this seems like a sexual activity thing""this seems like a fucking thing""this seems like a coitus thing"or i guess in this instance "this seems like a fetish thing" could have worked, but the question still stands because i am drawing a blank― cat, Wednesday, April 14, 2021 3:26 AM (one month ago) bookmarkflaglink
― cat, Wednesday, April 14, 2021 3:26 AM (one month ago) bookmarkflaglink
Gender performance, maybe? Most (all?) of the items in this thread seem to be banking on the idea that certain men will pay a premium to not consume or do anything cursed with female associations.
― Infanta Terrible (j.lu), Friday, 28 May 2021 18:57 (two years ago) link
xp - apparently they were anticipating a deluge of returns due to "heat shield packaging failure"
what's with all the (joke) anti-gay stuff in the comments like "Don't eat regular gummy bears like some homo!!! NO REFUNDS"? Does the world of tactical gear sales intersect with homophobia?
― worth her weight in dogecoin (Lee626), Friday, 28 May 2021 20:53 (two years ago) link
I'd be surprised if it didn't?
― Clara Lemlich stan account (silby), Friday, 28 May 2021 21:08 (two years ago) link
Gummy bears are fine, gummy worms might as well be tiny soft dicks.
― Joe Bombin (milo z), Friday, 28 May 2021 22:07 (two years ago) link
This brand name popped into my head one day....and I looked up in TESS and it's not trademarked:
Brobiotics
should I form the worst startup ever?
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 19 July 2021 20:55 (two years ago) link
guys
let's talk about GUT health.
new dannon for men is specially formulated to deliver optimal gut performance in a portable, TACTICAL yogurt capsule.
― class project pat (m bison), Monday, 19 July 2021 21:06 (two years ago) link
hell yeah
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 19 July 2021 21:24 (two years ago) link
Meaty, manly dumps like your father used to take... where have they gone?
― Yours in Sorrow, A Schoolboy: (forksclovetofu), Friday, 23 July 2021 03:42 (two years ago) link
I still make a splash
― Z_TBD (Karl Malone), Friday, 23 July 2021 03:57 (two years ago) link
ew
― Linda and Jodie Rocco (map), Friday, 23 July 2021 04:37 (two years ago) link
Ranch Water?
― brimstead, Sunday, 26 September 2021 00:42 (two years ago) link
https://www.adweek.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/ryan-bingham-lone-river-2021-652x367.jpg the camel photographer was still cooler
― brimstead, Sunday, 26 September 2021 00:43 (two years ago) link
https://www.southernliving.com/recipes/ranch-water
― Christine Green Leafy Dragon Indigo, Sunday, 26 September 2021 01:54 (two years ago) link