FesteringStump

10219 pts · May 31, 2015


I half-expected to scroll down and see that your glass bowl had shattered.

6 days ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

There has been a lot of research that shows connections between highly conservative religious attitudes and sexual abuse. And often the abusers will blame the victim. It's similar to misogyny; a simplistic idea that if women dressed modestly and weren't walking around unattended they wouldn't be provoking men to rape them. Catholic priests excusing themselves saying children acted in seductive ways. Like, 'I'm doing everything I can to be godly, if only they'd all stop tempting me.'

6 days ago | Likes 44 Dislikes 0

It's still alive in the sense that the nerves are alive. Death isn't one instantaneous moment. It's a process that happens at different rates through the body. So, sure, you might set a limit on 'time of death' when there's a lack of a kind of coherent activity in the brain. But those cells are still alive and will be dying slowly. Studies have shown human brain tissue slices from an autopsy within 8 h after death can be maintained in vitro for extended periods up to 78 days.

1 week ago | Likes 49 Dislikes 3

Next step is say the Queen of Sheba in the Bible came from Kenya, and promised Solomon the land all that time ago. It's not quite 3000 years but...

1 week ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 1

Hairy Mollies in Ireland.

2 weeks ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

#8 Thank goodness they covered a large part of this with a banner. Otherwise I wouldn't have had a clue what was happening.

2 weeks ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I like that the title acknowledges that I contain a multitude. I am legion, and we all need some downtime.

3 weeks ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

I love that he put in he wants no advice. Try to head of the 'drink your aged urine; it cures cancer' lot. I'm sure they'll still be at it though, but at least then he won't have to be polite when he tells them to get fucked.

3 weeks ago | Likes 14 Dislikes 0

#10 There's a really strong argument that the agricultural revolution started so that we had grains to brew beer.

3 weeks ago | Likes 19 Dislikes 0

#3 It's also funny how 'trump' was a more polite British English way to say a fart. Today if you put trump and fart together into a search engine all the first results are about Trump farting. On stage, in the White House, in court. It's always Trump with a capital T, farting, and sometimes following through.
It's a good argument for replacing shart with Trump, updating the older version.

1 month ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Pratt by name...

2 months ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

It wasn't the Church though. The association is there in Indo-European languages predating the beginnings of Christianity. It was the coincidence of the fact that most people are right-handed, so clumsy with the left, and the sun appears to go to the right. In Irish mythology walking sun-wise around something was to bless and increase, and the opposite was to curse or diminish. They have a cognate in Sanskrit. The Church just elaborated on an already present idea.

2 months ago | Likes 18 Dislikes 2

#20 Dude needs to be more discerning. No way you should be realising you're in a cult within months. A really good cult takes the best years of your life before you cop to it.

2 months ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 0

Only it's an opt-out system; I very much doubt any of them would be organ donors.

2 months ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

If it does happen, hopefully it'll be in a dramatic way. That way we can add Walsh'd to the dictionary along with Kirk'd.

2 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

#23 Pretty much how we pronounce meatballs in many parts of Ireland still.

3 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I'm curious if the name is a version of Menzies from Scotland, that is pronounced more like MING-iss. I could see that becoming Mingus once it got to the States.

3 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

It seems to have been soaked in water beforehand too, which I'm sure is why the skins come away so easily.

3 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I cycle along a canal in London. I have a bell, but some people will just randomly jump into your path when you ring the bell, instead of just keep walking straight ahead . So I rather say, 'coming to your left / right', when I'm going to pass in the space beside them. Yesterday, one guy walking with plenty of room to his left, jumped into the left when I said, 'coming to your left'. Then said he didn't know if it was my left or his left. We were both going in the same direction.

3 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

One of the worst things that's come out of AI slop is the amount of times people claim it when there isn't any good reason to say so.

3 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 2

This was always the Catholic Church's boss move. Co-opt the locals' pagan rituals.

4 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

As a gay man who hates musicals, - Rocky Horror Picture Show excepted - I went to see it because it being hyped so much and I was open to being surprised.
I hate musicals even more now.

4 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

That's you, Ole, isn't it?

4 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

It's also possible that the jay is using it like some women do the shower jet. My uncle had a parrot that liked rubbing his cloaca on his perch, and on my shoulder when he thought he'd get away with it. I can't tell for sure, because the video has no sound, but this parrot got very vocal with it.

4 months ago | Likes 16 Dislikes 0

#1 Can't remember off the top of my head, but that's an idea in the Culture books.

4 months ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

I was working in a restaurant in the early 2000s, and was asked who my celebrity crush was. I said Brian Cranston. Everybody laughed, thinking I was joking. But I insisted it was true; it was.
That has never changed. When I saw the music video for Argylle, 'Electric Energy', that has Brian, among others doing little cameo parts, it only reaffirmed my original take. That man is sexy as hell, in the best possible way.

5 months ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Or barnacle geese.

5 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Reminds me of the Quatermass Conclusion from 1979. The Planet People who wait for a promised rapture.

6 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

In British English a right Charlie is what you call a simpleton. So I'd heartily agree that they're all Charlies.

6 months ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

I agree with you. In Irish 'sean nós', traditional forms of singing, there are three main types from the three regional dialects. She seems to be trying to imitate the some of the same ornamentation and phrasing of the genre, but giving a weird explanation for it.
If you speak Irish then you'll understand what's been sung, granted that some of the language might be old, as you'd expect in tunes that have been around a long time.

6 months ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0