'Dirty Girls'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, pandas, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
There was an article in Salon about placenta eating and people freaked the fuck out.
It was awesome. They got even more idiotic than usual in the letters. Several asserted, "Why would you actually DO this? This was a joke in the 70s! It was on SNL!" Dude, why do you think they were joking about it ?
Judge rules that cheerleading is not a sport under Title IX: [link]
Speech bubble toys, for your cat and her BFF Jill: [link]
USA Cheerleading is trying to figure out a way to have competition cheer separated out from traditional cheer because of the ruling.
I totally get that from the POV of competition cheer, and think that recognition of the difference would be huge for the sport as a sport - but otoh Quinnipiac totally deserved a major smackdown, given that their position was pretty much "we don't need women's sports! They can cheer for the men's sports!" which was kind of the whole point of extending Title 9 to sports!
Oh, hello amych's predictable issues and rants vol. 23 pt. 17!
Sue Sylvester will be pissed.
Aren't speech bubble toys for cats kind of redundant? all the cats I've ever known have been able to let you know what they think just fine.
Apparently Rob Schnider is in the building today. Huh.
The Democratic Governors Association has a hilarious get-ramped-up-for-November video that they're debuting at Netroots this weekend. It includes lots of inspirational speeches from movies, from Animal House to LotR. Very funny!
World’s Strongest Drinks & Strange Liquor
Another wine with supposed medicinal qualities, helping with everything from coughs and colds to liver disorders, is baby mouse wine from Korea (above right). Yes, it really does contain newborn baby mice, which are drowned in rice wine, before the bizarre mixture is stored somewhere dry and dark for up to a year before it is considered drinkable.
Just like baby mouse wine, snake liquors from South East Asia are also considered cures for a variety of ailments, including impotence, back and muscle pain and hair loss (below left). These drinks usually contain highly poisonous snakes, such as cobras...
If snakes aren’t really for you, how about scorpions and spiders? This distilled rice grain vodka from Thailand, complete with a farm raised scorpion, is banana flavoured and sweetened with sugar cane
Jilli should probably avoid this link.