Posts by JackElder
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“Polygamy” refers only to having multiple wives, while “polyandry” denotes multiple husbands.
Not sure if anyone got in here first, but, ObPedant: polygamy refers to having multiple spouses, polygyny is multiple wives, and polyandry is multiple husbands. Polygamy and polygyny are usually conflated, but it’s worth remembering that polygamy is the umbrella term for spouses per se, not just wives.
ETA Good to see the FF survey back up. I was laughing merrily away yesterday, clicking “Strongly Disagree” with gay abandon, when I came up short at a couple of questions that I had to click “Strongly Agree” to. It shook me. It shook me hard.
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Up Front: Say When, in reply to Russell Brown,
The Pet Shop Boys have forgotten more about making outstanding pop than most bands will ever know. That is all.
Much as I would not like having my boner killed, they also sound like a lot of fun when y'all tweet about them.
I have attended the Wgtn Feminazi Boner-Killer drinks as a token representative of the patriarchy. They're a good bunch of people.
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The human body can't be improved by human intervention other than a good hair cut, brushing ones teeth, a decent diet and regular exercise.
Pish and tish. To take but one simple example, I can keep spare pens in my earlobes. This is of great benefit in my day to day work.
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I'm pretty sure there's a school of thought which suggests I'm too old to be getting tattoos, but I have the next three planned, so that won't be happening any time soon.
Quite the opposite; chatting to my tattooist, he reckons that the bulk of his customers are 30+, with a lot into their 40s and 50s. Combination of having wanted it for a while, being able to afford it, and realising that you can still get jobs once you've got ink.
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I spent most of my adolescence in Tokyo, and loved it. I attribute my ongoing love of hellishly crowded futuristic megalopoli to this. As a tech-mad 15-year old, spending the weekends wandering around Akihabara was awesome fun. I still get a great frisson in weather like we're currently having in Wellington, where you can have that experience of stepping out of a cool, air-conditioned building into a hot, muggy day - very evocative of summers in Japan.
Personally, I fucking hated "Lost in Translation", because I thought it clung to cliches of the Japanese as the Mysterious Inscrutable Other.
Sounds like leftover scenes from a William Gibson novel – especially the homeless sararimen.
I was actually introduced to William Gibson by a couple of other gaijin on the train. Me and a mate were on the Yamanote line, and a couple of yanks recommended we read Neuromancer. In retrospect, it's probably the most appropriate way introduction I could have had.
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I had an amenuensis once. The doctor took it off with liquid nitrogen. Itched like hell for days.
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It’s a feeling of being everything, as in enormous, and yet really tiny – as in one-celled. I described it once to a group of people, and one person approached me later and said she had had the same experience.
I often get this same feeling, usually when I'm drifting off to sleep. I've had this for as long as I can remember - certainly way back into childhood. I've never really read much into it, other than "This feels interesting". Mind you, I'm normally half-asleep at the time.
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BTW the worst thing that could happen here in the near future would be a resurgent Grey Power.
I personally have $10 on Winston getting back into parliament in this year’s election.
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reminds me a lot of the Wiggles
...previously known as the Cockroaches, neatly tying today's threads together.
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gigging bands around Sydney. One in particular who couldnt find their niche, but who released crap singles which failed. So much for us all being artists. Anyway they eventually found their audience(years later) in the 3-6 yr old market.
Just to check: am I right in thinking that this was The Cockroaches?
Because if so: awesome.