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beansdooma » neu 1 years ago
Don't perform a rash action, Ray! Think better of it!
biff » neu 1 years ago
Ray is safe.

He is getting advice from Vlad.
gormster » neu 1 years ago
Vlad turns out to be real dick in this strip. Has such outdated morals.
clever-nickname » neu 1 years ago
He wore a bird hat to a fucking wedding, of course he has outdated morals.
kamet » neu 1 years ago
Coolest. Hat. Ever.
fablesandblues » neu 1 years ago
Was a bird-hat ever an indated moral, wedding or not? Do hats have to do with morals at all?
hardelicious » neu 1 years ago
I can imagine a hat with poor morals, but it would have to be like the chiquita banana lady's hat with all the fruit replaced with genitals.
theguitarhero » neu 1 years ago
A different kind of banana.
buyacanary21 » neu 1 years ago
when theguitarhero says banana, he does not mean what you want banana to mean.
dwodles » neu 1 years ago
big black dildos?
steev_dayv » neu 1 years ago
I bet the japanese have an onomatopoeia for dildo wiggling.
nice-on-water » neu 1 years ago
Flubbadubba?
whiteturtle » neu 1 years ago
Boi-yoi-yoing!
nice-on-water » neu 1 years ago
Zibba dubba dabba after a night of drink-izz-ing.
achilleselbow » neu 1 years ago
That sounds like a washed up Bill Cosby.
steev_dayv » neu 1 years ago
They have a lot of awkward onomatopoeia. Chi-chi means breasts and kuri kuri are the sound of "twisting". Kuri also means "chestnut," a common Japanese euphemism for the clitoris.

Moist...with a hard shell.
fineoakstructure » neu 1 years ago
What does Jari Kurri mean?
nice-on-water » neu 1 years ago
It means you should see your doctor. HEYO!
surelysmack » neu 1 years ago
it means that you are probably Canadian and around 30 years old
vulpes-aurum » neu 4 months ago
zapatos » neu 1 years ago
Were you reading the back of a FLCL dvd case?
steev_dayv » neu 1 years ago
Between my FLCL reference guide and Japanese friends, yes. It's great to have someone who can explain the Japanese cultural references.
zapatos » neu 1 years ago
I just make it up as I go and noone really catches on. I mean that shit is all Ching Chong Wing Wong.
belgand » neu 1 years ago
Yeah, a lot of people don't get the kuri-kuri bit in Audition.
belgand » neu 1 years ago
Chi-Chis means middle-aged women who work in human resources and believe that it's a real thing that has value and purpose getting drunk on $8 Mango-ritas and desperately wanting someone to have an interest in their breasts.
zapatos » neu 1 years ago
I am those ladies' breast friend.
belgand » neu 1 years ago
Your standards seem to have fallen. Also, don't forget to leave something for desperate busboys and dishwashers trying to work an angle.
zapatos » neu 1 years ago
My standards have fallen? Man I choose girls by looking at Phillipe's flowchart. Hi!
kamet » neu 1 years ago
Huuuugs!
zapatos » neu 1 years ago
Yes!
greenkoolayd » neu 9 months ago
same thing for breasts in el espanol. chi-chis.
greenkoolayd » neu 9 months ago
wawait..... sound noises. not slang. [[sadsigh]]
vulpes-aurum » neu 4 months ago
Chi Chi is also the girl from Dragonball Z.

COINCIDENCE?
nice-on-water » neu 1 years ago
ZOOPA DOOPY DOOP
woodenteeth » neu 1 years ago
There's another kind of Bill Cosby?
jeffspaulding » neu 1 years ago
As opposed to what?
saint » neu 10 months ago
I'll bet the Chinese have an onomatopeia for a washed up Bill Cosby.
steev_dayv » neu 10 months ago
Bill Cosby opens his mouth and *WHAM* onomatopoeia!
setzkin » neu 1 years ago
your avatar really made the comment for me
nice-on-water » neu 1 years ago
Glad to entertain.
theguitarhero » neu 1 years ago
he was talking to whiteturtle.
nice-on-water » neu 1 years ago
FUCK I really need this Greasmonkey thing and AWESOME TGTTM avicon there.
theguitarhero » neu 1 years ago
Thank you.
nice-on-water » neu 1 years ago
Thank you, Dustin.
theguitarhero » neu 1 years ago
bruk.
rowboat » pro 1 years ago
He was talking to me.
steev_dayv » neu 1 years ago
Shut up! He was talking to me.
steev_dayv » neu 1 years ago
Shut up! He was talking to me.
steev_dayv » neu 1 years ago
They have all been talking to me.
nice-on-water » neu 1 years ago
Talk, talk. Talk, talk.
rowboat » pro 1 years ago
But who are you talking to?
nice-on-water » neu 1 years ago
You talking to me?

[IMGS OFF]
vulpes-aurum » neu 4 months ago
I'm not sure how, but your avatar makes your comment so much funnier.
anomalous3 » neu 1 years ago
synergy!
belgand » neu 1 years ago
Cockhat Miranda?
sje46 » neu 1 years ago
That was actually my mom's Halloween costume.
:(
biff » neu 1 years ago
Not sure I would have told that one.
halbermensch » neu 1 years ago
That was actually your mom's Halloween costume.
sje46 » neu 1 years ago
That was what I said.
davey-boy » neu 1 years ago
I was your mom's halloween costume.
fineoakstructure » neu 1 years ago
Your mom was my halloween costume; I went as "hey there's a fat whore on my dick"

no, no, scratch that.
achilleselbow » neu 1 years ago
Scratch your dick?
fineoakstructure » neu 1 years ago
No, that only makes it worse.

Hit 'em with the shampoo.
achilleselbow » neu 1 years ago
fineoakstructure » neu 1 years ago
That song is fucking ridiculous. And my dick is not taking any further questions at this time. I will read from a prepared statement...
tekende » neu 1 years ago
See, the funny thing about my back, is it's actually on my dick.
stereo » neu 1 years ago
That line definitely made the movie for me.
zebra » neu 1 years ago
You wouldn't ask this if your hat was of strong moral character.
I'm embarrassed FOR you.
fablesandblues » neu 1 years ago
It's true. My hat is of weak morals.

Walking to work this morning, my hat totally gave me hat hair. Dick.

And once before, this same hat, which is warm and friendly, contained my keys for 16 hours while I desperately searched, almost turning to a locksmith to change the locks on my car and apartment.

And there have been several times when I have caught my hat stealing eggs and broccoli from the frigde late at night. I know he stays up cooking foul smelling omelettes and then leaving the dishes in the sink, stewing in a fetid clump of oil and egg and onion, going rancid through the night, waking me with a stench not unlike unwashed socks.

In a more subtle case, my hat has employed passive agressive arguments in conversations of which he is scarcely a part. My girlfriend and I will talk about movies and my hat will butt it: "Come on, you know Polanksi wasn't trying to hint at pathos. Dude, you're smarter than this!" implying that his position is one gleaned from high intelligence and not opinion. He does so snidely and smugly, leading me to doubt my positions and my wisdom. I dismiss him, because he is made of wool, but inside, I am left to question plaintively, cyclically.

I cannot distance myself from this hat of weak morals. This hat who grew up in a broken home of a drunken tweed father and an indifferent woolen sock, along with his 3 older hat sisters who ignored him after the age of 5 and left him starved for attention, starved for knowledge and love.

At night, I see my hat in an unfolded lump, I know he waits cautiously until I sleep, I dream of him stealing off in the night with my television, pawning it and travelling the earth like a vagabond atop the head of a bum or the skull of a poor child who picks him up at a thrift store, unknowing, unsuspecting.

I'm embarrassed too.
scorpio_nadir » neu 1 years ago
Chubbied, for it is better to have endured the slings and arrows and toothbrushes of contentious hat-hair than never to have have have had hat hair hat all.
fablesandblues » neu 1 years ago
Chubbibed, for "hat all."
theirateturk » neu 1 years ago
I would like to meet with you and the hat if possible to discuss a sequel to The Picture of Dorian Gray
fablesandblues » neu 1 years ago
Alright. I'm in. The hat wants an advance.
theirateturk » neu 1 years ago
This is an outrage! Nobody gets an advance.
fablesandblues » neu 1 years ago
The hat says he's broke as shit. The hat is a cock, this is a fact. If it makes things easier, the advance can be paid in buttons or removable ear flaps or boxes. Apparently hats love that shit.
theirateturk » neu 1 years ago
Man who am I kidding thinking I could carry out such a scenario. I'm a charlatan.
theguitarhero » neu 1 years ago
I disagree.
hateandwar » neu 1 years ago
Me too. Vlad is the fucking King, you all know this. When has Vlad ever been wrong about anything? He knew Pat was a threat to him in the Subway game, so he played him like the world's sexiest guitar and had him commit involuntary manslaughter. Once Pat is good and scared in prison with Nice Pete, he has Ray take him the lock picks in the cigars, then honor-binds him to working in his Subway.

Then when they're giving Roast Beef the makeover, Vlad cuts to the heart of the problem. He describes Beef's one time sad home life more succintly in a few sentences than anybody else could hope to, forcing Beef to consider the whole thing.

Vlad knows what happens to couches when they're gone. And he knows the only thing you can do is let out your emotions, cry a stream of tears so fierce as to rival the streams of alcohol you will consume in dealing with that very sorrow.

Vlad ALWAYS has an appropriate haircut for the situation.

Vlad doesn't let anything stop him from having a raunchy sex fantasy while answering a phone call an elderly, worried mother placed to her missing son.

I don't know about all of you, but I dream about living Vlad's life. And you all should too. There's a reason he's called the Make Out King. It's because he's taken life, and he's made his sweet, sweet baby.
zapatos » neu 1 years ago
I am living Vlad's life, said the man with mostly inappropriate hair styles.
saulbellow » neu 1 years ago
Meanwhile, Ray is living something like Roast Beef's life, at least vis-a-vis Vlad...

[IMGS OFF]
zapatos » neu 1 years ago
I imagine both these things happening at the same time. tiiime shiiift!
tekende » pro 1 years ago
This comment is...is...it's fucking brilliant, is what it is.
hateandwar » neu 1 years ago
Vlad is my favorite character, I'd read a strip that was nothing but him yelling at things that upset him. I liked him even better early on when he didn't use his eyebrows to show emotion.
eikre » pro 1 years ago
Vlad assured him that the time was propitious and Vlad knew the world.

Vlad knew what games the children on street-corners are playing- games that all other grown-ups have long since forgotten. Vlad knew what old people by firesides are thinking of, though no one has asked them in years. Vlad knew what young men hear in the rattling of the drums and the tooting of the pipes that makes them leave their homes and go to be soldiers- and he knew the half-eggcupful of glory and the barrelful of misery that await them. Vlad could look at a smart attorney in the street and tell you what he had in his coat-tail pockets. And all that Vlad knew made him smile; and some of what he knew made him laugh out loud; and none of what he knew wrung from him so much as ha'pennyworth of pity.

So when Vlad told his freind, "You take look at universe and say, 'Nope. You get sloppy. I fix,'" Mr Smuckles believed him.
zwab » neu 1 years ago
VLAD TOLD ME TO TELL YOU HELLO

VLAD IS YOUR NEW BICYCLE

VLAD THINKS YOU ARE CUTE
buffalobutt » neu 1 years ago
something about the line "Vlad cuts to to the heart of the problem" freaks me out a bit...
nice-on-water » neu 1 years ago
I don't know, his idea is kind of logical. Outdated morals, sure, but psychologically pretty astute. Or not.
pogo » neu 1 years ago
Quote:
Vlad ... Has such outdated morals

They're positively Darwinian.
thickbasssteak » neu 1 years ago
outdated morals are real morals. bleagh arggh fuiifaskjf
vermy » neu 1 years ago
The Moral Code of Volgidania hasn't been updated since 1545
toiletstore » pro 1 years ago
VLAD IS BACK
j_smoothhands » neu 1 years ago
Indeed
desert_donkey » neu 1 years ago
he's back and apparently so is Brill Cream.
awksedperl » neu 1 years ago
Brylcreem. Sadly, I did not have to look that up.
sje46 » neu 1 years ago
I think you mean Barylcreem
awksedperl » neu 1 years ago
What is "Barylcreem"? Do I want to know? I guess you should answer the second question first.
sje46 » neu 1 years ago
You do not want to know. It is worse than Tubgirl.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brylcreem
awksedperl » neu 1 years ago
OK, I'm even more confused than normal. Is there a joke behind the spelling "Barylcreem"? The Wikipedia entry spells it as I did.
biff » neu 1 years ago
Yes, there is a joke.
rowboat » pro 1 years ago
Worst...joke...ever.
sje46 » neu 1 years ago
:(
rowboat » pro 1 years ago
Don't give me that. You know I'm right.
sje46 » neu 1 years ago
But I said "bary".
zapatos » neu 1 years ago
Go sit in the corner.
hedonismbot » neu 1 years ago
What a terrible application of one's self
zapatos » neu 1 years ago
You have said this to me before, I'm not sure how to combat it.
sje46 » neu 1 years ago
*cries*
zabarydos and hedonyxbot both hate me.
=(
zapatos » neu 1 years ago
Wow man, wow.
belgand » neu 1 years ago
I hate this meme and your insistence on trying to create and make it stick. You and TGH seem to be the biggest proponents and it must stop.
zapatos » neu 1 years ago
I thought it was awesome on that one page.
sje46 » neu 1 years ago
So do you hate me?

To tell the truth I really don't care if you don't like it or not. I almost never do it anyway.
barybarybary
onyxonyxonyx
achilleselbow » neu 1 years ago
Okay, sje, you know I like you, but it is actually getting annoying. Not so much the actual meme itself, but the fact that you make a ton of posts for no other reason, and that you seem to actually still think it's funny. I'm sorry, you know this hurts me more than you, but sometimes kids need tough love.
sje46 » neu 1 years ago
whatever. stop bugging me about it and ill stop
aperson » neu 1 years ago
Hey - why not just desist, SJE? Be a man; make the first move.
sje46 » neu 1 years ago
Barycause I honyxly just want to annoy you guys.
theguitarhero » neu 1 years ago
belgand I'm not even doing anything related to that meme and you are attacking me. I haven't DONE anything related to the meme since the thing STARTED and you are attacking me for it. WHAT DID I DO TO MAKE YOU HATE ME?!
tekende » neu 1 years ago
12/9/08: Day five of the same strip being up.

Tensions are running high as posters begin to feel suffocated. Several assetbarbarians beginning to express frustration by lashing out at each other. I fear for our safety if a new strip isn't posted soon.
achilleselbow » neu 1 years ago
Eat Pogo first.
foea » neu 1 years ago
He'd be tough and gamey. Always eat the children first.
Always.
biff » neu 1 years ago
sje and catgirl first?

OK, roast 'em up!
belgand » neu 1 years ago
We ought to allow them to mate or at least get in a solid second-base make out before we do so. It is only fair.
zapatos » neu 1 years ago
lust is the best way to cure meat.
pogo » neu 1 years ago
Yes, choose the fattest and youngest, for they cook best. You would chew for days on my wiry old flesh.
scorpio_nadir » neu 1 years ago
He's dead, Jim.
pogo » neu 1 years ago
Post count over 2,000 -- for no good reason.
biff » neu 1 years ago
This strip is now in second place on the Most Commented list.

And if so many of us, me included, had not shamelessly padded the Tattoo Discussion thread, this one would be challenging for first.

And again, for no good reason.
belgand » neu 1 years ago
Oh, I'm very sorry then. I don't know why, but I thought you were joining SJE in this meme. I must have just thought that due to your encouragement of other memes you were in on this one as well. I apparently was mistaken and you have my most sincere apologies.
pogo » neu 1 years ago
Quote:
*cries* zabarydos and hedonyxbot both hate me.
=(

Don't be such a girl!
sje46 » neu 1 years ago
Is there something wrong with being a girl?

Are you discriminating me?
biff » neu 1 years ago
You have to forgive him that comment. Even I come from a time when that was a standard and accepted way to chastise young males who weren't behaving in the expected fashion.

In situations of stress or disappointment or incredulosity such deeply ingrained behavior modes tend to rise to the surface.

In that context, yes, there is something wrong with being a girl, because in that situation what you need to be is a man.
aperson » neu 1 years ago
An alternative is 'stop being such a big girl's blouse'. I'm not sure if that's sexist or not. Can you be sexist against an item of clothing?
rowboat » pro 1 years ago
Quote:
...I come from a time when that was a standard and accepted way to chastise young males who weren't behaving in the expected fashion.

Is this not still the case? Right or wrong, I think it's kind of timeless.
biff » neu 1 years ago
In certain parts of the culture, yes.

But in a lot of places, not so much. I have seen teen aged boys wearing puffy white coats. Three years ago I had a male student, a star of the football team, whose part-time job was at Build-A-Bear in the mall. There are a lot of ways this is changing.
zapatos » neu 1 years ago
girls like teddy bears, he was using it as a way to get chicks.

maybe?
biff » neu 1 years ago
Certainly a possibility.

It certainly wasn't calling his manhood into question.
belgand » neu 1 years ago
I, however, am considering writing a program that will call it into question. This seems ill-advised as I don't really agree with this whole "manhood" concept. Still, it seems like something that should perhaps be done.
zapatos » neu 1 years ago
I totally was. He had better be trying to score pussy. Either you are trying to score pussy, or a faggot. End of story.


or maybe you're just not feeling it right now? thats cool too.
belgand » neu 1 years ago
I thought that, in the past, you had admitted that you yourself will occasionally enjoy the ministrations of a gentleman when you are in the mood to have such cares. Am I mistaken?
zapatos » neu 1 years ago
I am hell of wanting some pussy when I am making out with those dudes.

Since we're on the topic, why do women like beards? I wish guys would shave every five minutes, I hate that shit. Scratchy and not fun.
belgand » neu 1 years ago
So just gay for pay?

Based on my experience women do not like beards. I have also not managed to find one of the women that are totally into long hair. I think it just sucks to be me.
achilleselbow » neu 1 years ago
In Williamsburg women will not even look at you if you don't at least have some stubble.
kamet » neu 1 years ago
I prefer long hair and goatees. Full beard is cool too. I am not a fan of the fresh faced young boy look.
zapatos » neu 1 years ago
At least you aren't calling him a retard?
awksedperl » neu 1 years ago
And, uh, what would that joke or meme *be*?
biff » neu 1 years ago
Working bits of the name Baryonyx into words and conversations.

Really, it's not worth examining too deeply. It is old and tired. Let it die.
sje46 » neu 1 years ago
It is bary imbaryant you like the meme dionyx.
stereo » neu 1 years ago
Let the meme die onyx own, by never asking about it again.
sje46 » neu 1 years ago
That was cleverer, I admit shamebary.
fuckyoufriday » neu 1 years ago
At least he's not switching to Vista.
daidai » neu 1 years ago
No worries, Vlad.

Is not thing in armpit.
deadpool » neu 1 years ago
Lymphomas are very bad things. Praise God is not thing in armpit.
nice-on-water » neu 1 years ago
It would be thing most unsavory if it were to be thing in armpit. Distasteful too.
telescreen » neu 1 years ago
Is it just me or does Vlad's dialogue lacking a little something in this? I hate to say it, and I rarely criticize, but i didn't chuckle at his words.
nice-on-water » neu 1 years ago
I'm a sucker for Vlad's dialogue, so I might be biased in saying no. I see no difference except for the sex pepper thing which is a bit out of place.
achilleselbow » neu 1 years ago
I also don't imagine him saying "shit". It just sounds completely wrong and out of character coming out of his mouth.
telescreen » neu 1 years ago
Usually I feel a nice flow from Achewood dialogue. I did not feel this. I noted the shit and the sex pepper as odd and a general feeling of getting bored of the wordiness by the end. THAT IS NOT A NORMAL ACHEWOOD FEELING.
telescreen » neu 1 years ago
(And I am ashamed of myself for this.)
sje46 » neu 1 years ago
You guys all realized what happened, right?

Onstad's dead.
zapatos » pro 1 years ago
hahaha, ho.
sn0wman » neu 1 years ago
Is Bill Shears now writing the strip?
sje46 » neu 1 years ago
Billy*
nice-on-water » neu 1 years ago
[IMGS OFF]
THE CLUES ARE EVERYWHERE
-Sunglasses cover eyes- eyes = window to the soul
-Blue shoes = customary footwear of the dead in Indonesia dating back 3000 years

etc
cpnglxynchos » neu 1 years ago
i don't know if he'd care enough to make someone else continue with his stuff.


honestly.

i don't think i would get someone to do that for me.
autrepoupee » neu 1 years ago
i actually have a stipulation in my video will that in the unlikely event that I die, someone must continue my snarky internet persona.
lynnym » neu 1 years ago
I really have to agree. This is a false Achewood...I loves me some Vlad, but this isn't Vlad. In fact, it ain't even Ray. I am also ashamed of myself for this.
steev_dayv » neu 1 years ago
I am beginning to get a little bored with the non-stop arcs we have been getting. Most of what I like about Achewood is the variety we used to see. I enjoyed how many characters would get air time by the variety of short stories Chris would tell. The Party at least had appearances by every character, and each of their appearances was handled well. I guess I just don't feel where this is going.

It is a shame when I find more amusement on Assetbar than in the strip.

Also, I miss Todd.
nice-on-water » neu 1 years ago
I would prefer the KoOkY one-offs like "Morally Challenging Hot Sauce" or Phillipe Lie-Bot and the Skeleton, or "When Friends Talk" (Kings were raw) or the one about Ray being a bitch about parking. Those are my favorites, when there's either a surreal, anti-humor, non-punchline ending or when Ray and Beef just bounce off each other for a while. Either way, they're both totally based on character interaction and development, and that plus dialogue are Onstad's strongest points anyway.
belgand » neu 1 years ago
Tattoo Discussion had exactly this. It was not that long ago. True, we don't have as many as we used to, but it's also because the book tour has stranded us and left us slowly moving through an arc.
nice-on-water » neu 1 years ago
But that just wasn't up to snuff, and it was definitely because of the tour. Give Chris some time to recharge after Christmas and I foresee a return to form. Hopefully less arc-heavy, unless we get some kind of GOF reprise.
steev_dayv » neu 1 years ago
Oooooh damn...that sounds so wethot!
scorpio_nadir » neu 1 years ago
Todd misses you too, steev_dayv.


Who am I kidding? He's a crackhead squirrel.
zapatos » neu 1 years ago
he is a black squireel.
hateandwar » neu 1 years ago
Racist.
zapatos » neu 1 years ago
Blister is white.
nice-on-water » neu 1 years ago
DOUBLE RACIST.
rowboat » pro 1 years ago
I don't understand any of you. At all. I'm not going to try to convince you all that it's funny, but I will say that this is the first five I've given in about two months. It has made my morning.
stereo » neu 1 years ago
All I really need to say is this:

These are Onstad's characters, not yours. If he wants to light them on fire and watch them burn, that's his prerogative. I may be more interested by one-off strips, but I'm not going to tell him what to do.
steev_dayv » neu 1 years ago
By all means, this is his art form, but this is our forum to discuss how we feel.

Have a seat. How did this strip make you feel?
zapatos » neu 1 years ago
sexually aroused.
pogo » neu 1 years ago
Quote:
These are Onstad's characters, not yours.

Not according to art theory; artists agonize because as soon as they release their art to the public, the public owns it. The artist cannot possess his or her work. The collective consciousness is in charge. What people think of art is all art really has going for it.
nice-on-water » neu 1 years ago
But we don't make it, so no matter how much we protest, it's still up to Chris whether he bends to our will or not. When you change because your public wants you to, isn't that selling out? But then on the flip side, you want to satisfy your loyal fans. Flip that flip side and you have "Loyal fans should welcome change either way." And so the argument goes round and round.
belgand » neu 1 years ago
With love we'll find a way just give it time
nice-on-water » neu 1 years ago
Precisely.
belgand » neu 1 years ago
It was the right reference at the right time. Thank you for setting it up.
nice-on-water » neu 1 years ago
You bring up a good point, and one we need to consider. Characters change. Where would we be if Onstad still had Connie lamenting about AIDS, or Teodor and Lyle punching Phillipe in the gut? If this is indeed an evolution of the comic or characters (I still think it's typical Vlad), then we need to roll with it because it might belong to us as fans but as the creator, Onstad has more say than we do.
aperson » neu 1 years ago
I'm just expressing an opinion. I'm not so interested in the debate over the validity or permissibility of having the opinion, and I definitely don't state it with the expectation that it should hold any weight with the Stadlingtonmeister (Creator of the Very Good Free Online Comic, Guardian of Assetbar, Sire of a Million Turns of Phrase, etc).
There.
nice-on-water » neu 1 years ago
Well you're obviously entitled, this is just another look at it I guess.
aperson » neu 1 years ago
{youarerad}
nice-on-water » neu 1 years ago
[rad]thanks[/rad]
theguitarhero » neu 1 years ago
YOUR OPINION SUCKS.
rowboat » pro 1 years ago
YOUR NEW AVATAR SUCKS

CHANGE IT PLEASE

IT MAKES MY COMPUTER WORRY
scorpio_nadir » neu 1 years ago
IT MAKES MY COMPUTER WANT TO GIVE HIS COMPUTER A VIRUS!!!
theguitarhero » neu 1 years ago
NO.
achilleselbow » neu 1 years ago
Oh man I hadn't even noticed what it was.

"The only crime here is that me and Chad aren't hanging out right now!"
theguitarhero » neu 1 years ago
"Did you pour a can of Axe on this?

Like a can and a half."
steev_dayv » neu 1 years ago
"WHY IS THERE NO CHAD?!"
scorpio_nadir » neu 1 years ago
Quote:
If he wants to light them on fire and watch them burn, that's his prerogative

You really, really want him to, don't you stereo?
nice-on-water » neu 1 years ago
Now that's his prerogative.
belgand » neu 1 years ago
Again you are with the being wrong.

[IMGS OFF]
It is his prerogative.
stereo » neu 1 years ago
Maybe Beef... the only life that character has left in him is being subjected to a physical pun.
steev_dayv » neu 1 years ago
He is sue for another death anyway. He has been alive hell of long. He always has some wild adventures when he dies. Plus, every time he does, he becomes more cyborg. Poor Beef...
nice-on-water » neu 1 years ago
Maybe someone could reset him.
stereo » neu 1 years ago
Beef is the Terminator.
pogo » neu 1 years ago
I gave it a five, too. It reads like pure Vlad and Ray to me.
steev_dayv » neu 1 years ago
I think it reads accurately, I just don't like it very much.
scorpio_nadir » neu 1 years ago
It puts to rest the argument of who is the Hindenburg of walking into a room.
We know it's Ray!
nice-on-water » neu 1 years ago
I've given fives left and right but this is the first since "Superpenis Testicles" that I felt deserved it.
scorpio_nadir » neu 1 years ago
Superpenis Testikles! What news from the Achaeans?
nice-on-water » neu 1 years ago
Morale and balls are high.
theguitarhero » neu 1 years ago
Be careful what you say, you might name the new Gogol Bordello album.
chagment » neu 1 years ago
which one is that? i dont remember it, and I havent been able to find it.
dangelder » neu 1 years ago
Vlad has said shit before: http://achewood.com/index.php?date=01172003.

I consign myself to the wrath of Assetbar now.
invidious » neu 1 years ago
Quote:
I also don't imagine [Vlad] saying "shit". It just sounds completely wrong and out of character coming out of his mouth.

I'm not sure I agree with you a hundred percent on your police work, there, Lou.

http://M.assetbar.com/achewood/uua8CGGH2
achilleselbow » neu 1 years ago
Okay you win. I guess I meant I can't imagine him using "shit" the way he does here, as a prefix. It sounds too street-savvy.
smilebuddha » neu 1 years ago
I dunno. I used to work with a Russian guy, 5' tall (I'm 6'5", much hilarity ensued when we carried heavy objects together) who would often punctuate his musings with "bullshit".

As in, "In Russia, Russia...we have welded ductwork. Welded. And all round! Round! Three foot wide! This ductwork, this ductwork....is all bullshit, yes? Flimsy, yes? Bullshit."

A good man, and an excellent worker, but it's a good thing he worked for someone, in that if he ever designed a system, it would have wound up looking like something out of Brazil.
i_love_kate » neu 1 years ago
Covered in horrible baby masks?
scorpio_nadir » neu 1 years ago
Is because In Russia, Russia...they have to live in ductwork until apartment become available. Sometimes 10 years. That or go to gulag.

They also very expert designing political systems.
pogo » neu 1 years ago
Quote:
I used to work with a Russian guy ... who would often punctuate his musings with "bullshit."

I had a college buddy from Ukraine who put together American swear words into his own creations, like "PrickShitDouche"!
aperson » neu 1 years ago
Prikshitduzh does sound vaguely slavic.
belgand » neu 1 years ago
We don't need Ukraine now. I accomplish the same thing with the aid of playing video games with friends. It is like a think tank for the creation of new swears.
nice-on-water » neu 1 years ago
God, there was this Ukrainian kid in my freshman philosophy course who was a prikshitduzh and was so annoyingly literal and technical that it made you want to SHIT ON HIS HEAD GOD
zapatos » neu 1 years ago
niggerpigfuckdammitwhore! stop picking Chun Li!
nice-on-water » neu 1 years ago
I'm convinced Chun Li made you twice as good as you normally were. BUT: me and my friends once beat the entire game using Balrog. Can you believe it? I couldn't.
mattylite » neu 1 years ago
I will be the first to admit:

I would pause during the spinning star kick and, you know, MASTURBATE TO IT.
nice-on-water » neu 1 years ago
I would be slightly happy when Cammy beat me (as she always did, whether I let her or not) because then she'd do the thing where she turned around and you got to see her ass.
belgand » neu 1 years ago
Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix is making me play it a lot more recently and for the first time I'm playing with the Super moves and characters. Cammy is definitely all fanservice.
achilleselbow » neu 1 years ago
That's nothing compared to Jenny: The Bat in Primal Rage 2.
zapatos » neu 1 years ago
Man I suck so bad at that series of games. Shina the Leopard is my favorite though.
belgand » neu 1 years ago
I was looking for this and I believe you mean Bloody Roar, not Primal Rage. I wondered why there was a non-Dinosaurus character in Primal Rage. Or a sequel.
achilleselbow » neu 1 years ago
Oh I'm an idiot. The characters in Primal Rage are certainly not hot, unless you're an extremely masochistic furry.
zapatos » neu 1 years ago
the big ape dudes weren't dinosaurs, and Vesper was an alien (maybe)
belgand » neu 1 years ago
True, but the majority of the characters were and even if they were not specifically reptiles it is the most apt description when I really mean "creatures of that era" or rather, ones designed to appear to have been from that era.
zapatos » neu 1 years ago
Well at least you didn't shove me into the stadium, to be a quick snack health-replenisher.
zapatos » neu 1 years ago
I used to. I mean I still do, but I used ta too.
belgand » neu 1 years ago
I read somewhere that apparently Balrog and Dhalsim dominate high-level play. I do not know how this is true (apparently Dhalsim spams throws).
nice-on-water » neu 1 years ago
I can't tell you how powerful one Balrog punch is. I never liked him and I bet most people don't, but get your opponent in a corner (ie: against the screen) and he/she is done. We only picked Balrog because we ran out of other characters to beat one particularly stubborn upper-level character (on the PSII anniversary edition thing) and from there out it was smooth sailings.
zapatos » neu 1 years ago
stretch, stretch, FUCKING FIREBALL
zapatos » neu 1 years ago
I was going to make a reference to Guilty Gear X and talk about Chipp tearing the faces off people.

I played as that ball of fire and didn't lose a round.
zapatos » neu 1 years ago
*the reason i didn't make it is because i couldn't remember his name, and couldn't look it up at the time.
tekende » neu 1 years ago
Guilty Gear X is so FUCKING AWESOME.
zapatos » neu 1 years ago
the bitch with the anchor is rad
belgand » neu 1 years ago
Precisely.
rowboat » pro 1 years ago
Ya'll some gamers.
killingthejay » neu 1 years ago
it's shame that hat ain't got no bells on it.
daedala_x » neu 1 years ago
EVERYBODY DANCE LIKE THERE'S BELLS ON YOUR BALLS!
quaga » neu 1 years ago
*jingle jingle jingle*
gormster » neu 1 years ago
I will never sing that carol again without the image of you teabagging the tinsel.
hedonismbot » neu 1 years ago
Clang Clang Clang
theguitarhero » neu 1 years ago
goes the trolley.

Ding Ding Ding goes the bell.
cyberia » neu 1 years ago
C-c-c-c-combo breaker.

Man, I'm a dick.
johnnyrocker » neu 1 years ago
Zing, zing, zing went my heart strings,
from the moment I saw him I fell.
zapatos » neu 1 years ago
If there were bells on my balls, I would not be dancing. I would be removing them. The bells, I would remove the bells.

Unless we were playing a game I suppose.
belgand » neu 1 years ago
Is best game played by sexiest of players.
scorpio_nadir » neu 1 years ago
Truly, if you danced, you would be the Belle of the Ball... with bells on your balls. Everyone would admire your tinkling promenade.
hedonismbot » neu 1 years ago
I did a tinkling promenade at my company's Christmas Party last year. That is why I've been shipped to the armpit of Europe for this whole month.
biff » neu 1 years ago
Is not thing in armpit, say this.
tangles » neu 1 years ago
oh no! is thing in armpit!
belgand » neu 1 years ago
People only admire your tinkling promenade if they're into golden showers. Zeus is, but not a lot of other people are. You should check first.
belgand » neu 1 years ago
What kind of bells? Are they heavy? I might not want to move them too much or they could hurt.
gormster » neu 1 years ago
Belgand is not down with the CBT.
belgand » neu 1 years ago
Not so much*, but if you want in on it I totally know some places here where we could make it happen for you.

*Not at all
sje46 » neu 1 years ago
Cognitive behavioral therapy?
belgand » neu 1 years ago
Yes, I will set you up with some of the main places that are working on CBT today. You will emerge with a new and profound understanding of human psychology in a multitude of ways. This is, to you, my present.
sje46 » neu 1 years ago
You are psychologist, no?
belgand » neu 1 years ago
I, no, I am not. But I know people who will, for you, make much the CBT. You will be unable to contain yourself at how much CBT they are doing and how much they will be willing to share with you even though are undergraduate.
sje46 » neu 1 years ago
There was someone here who is a psychologist, I thought.

Yeah, I can't believe I the whole CBT.

I don't even understand what you said.
achilleselbow » neu 1 years ago
Can I let him in on the joke yet?
sje46 » neu 1 years ago
He is Vlad?
belgand » neu 1 years ago
Is no Vlad! Am havink only, how are you to have been saying... grasp of Anglish is not so tremendous? Is like Bruce Springsteen, the Boss, no?

I do this from times to time. Sometimes is like Vlad, others is like more Uncle George. Still at times further still is just broken Anglish with regards not syntaxing for proper-style.
belgand » neu 1 years ago
Yes. The joke is that I do not want to offer you an interesting and career-enhancing position doing Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, but I wish to lure you into a scenario where you will be taken to a local dungeon and/or sex club for an extended session of Cock and Ball Torture which is a most actual thing. I could likely hook this up very easily. We have some of the main sex-preverts in this town and this is a thing that makes it great. Folsom Street Fair, for example, is one of the third largest draws for the entire state and has flags on the lampposts all along the main street of town and it's a massive street fair for BDSM and leather culture. Specifically gay leather culture. Last year photos ran of a man getting anally fisted in the middle of the street (not on the street though, he was kneeling on a small platform) while a small crowd watched him or a man being fellated by another man in front of the Port-A-Potties (this struck me as an odd choice for this behavior) or places to get whipped or whip others. This is a major civic event. It is also derided, in some circles, for being too mainstream and touristy (I can agree with this, I did not go last year myself because I do not own fetish clothing and did not plan on taking part and did not want to be the sort of wander around watching others... that seems impolite and just plain incorrect) so there's another slightly more underground and more extreme Dore Alley Street Fair that occurs a bit before Folsom.

This is why San Francisco is one of the greatest places to live in the world. Sadly there is only one major open to the general public hetero (and gay as well, but there are separate floors so everyone gets what they're looking for... along with a couples-only floor too) sex club and a lot more gay ones. There are more application-only straight clubs, but that's not quite the same thing. Good Vibrations, the notable sex shop, has ads on the subway from time to time. Discreet, true, but nevertheless ads to go buy sex toys aimed at the general market.

You want to get over your fear of juices? I can arrange some intense exposure therapy (in more ways than one) lickity-erm... well, lick.
sje46 » neu 1 years ago
*pukes*
achilleselbow » neu 1 years ago
Oh here let me pick that up for you.

[IMGS OFF]
achilleselbow » neu 1 years ago
Dammit

Assetbar: defender of Good Taste.
theguitarhero » neu 1 years ago
Jesus we get it, San Fran is great, every other place is amazing, you are out to corrupt the morals of our youth. WE GET IT.
theguitarhero » neu 1 years ago
EVERY OTHER PLACE IS HORRIBLE NOT AMAZING.
achilleselbow » neu 1 years ago
Sometimes it helps to maybe think for a second before you post. Just sayin'.
belgand » neu 1 years ago
You asked why I hate you earlier and while I do not hate you I do have to say that it definitely feels like you're trying to antagonize me.

Basically I was just trying to lure an unwitting SJE into a lengthy session of cock and ball torture and then when describing it the whole thing sort of got away from me into a more general discussion of how easy BDSM practices are to come by around here and how sexually permissive the city tends to be. I was rambling a bit, but you don't have to come after me like that.

The only other major places I have said are not amazing are Kansas and the South. Oh and the other day I said that most people probably don't think of Denver much aside from being stuck at their airport.

Seriously man, get off my case. You think I hate you for some reason, but you're always trying to give me shit. Just lay off.
biff » neu 1 years ago
I have just canceled my plans to visit San Francisco.
pogo » neu 1 years ago
GOOOOONG .... GOOOOONG .... GOOOOONG!
daedala_x » neu 1 years ago
pogo if that is directed at my asianness, i am ashamed of you. we asians are a proud, awkward, industrious people...

man, i remember when my roommate forced me to watch 16 candles with her. actually, she told me not to watch it because she and her friend were watching it and she knew i wouldn't like it and i'd just make fun of it the whole time and ruin it for them, but i insisted on watching it with them because i didn't have anything else to do that night and i promised i wouldn't make fun of it but i did and they ended up getting really mad at me after the movie ended but the point is that DAMN that movie was racist as all hell. they'd all sound a gong whenever long duk dong came into or left the room. i mean shit. i don't ever get offended but i got pretty close with that ignorant ass film.

but yea, it's about time assetbar started making fun of me for being the sole asian. falseprophet gets hella attention for being token. when is it MY turn?
aperson » neu 1 years ago
The aged gentleman is implying that his gonads are large... as is the way of the geriatric knacker.
scorpio_nadir » neu 1 years ago
Hahahaha. That was my take also, but the lady read it all CHING-CHONG WING-WONG and is in a righteous banzai furor.

Be careful. They, or she in this case, attack in human wave.


Also- please explain your avaticon?
zapatos » neu 1 years ago
[IMGS OFF]
aperson » neu 1 years ago
The secret of my new avaticon will never be revealed, I'm afraid.
rowboat » pro 1 years ago
He seems familiar. I will figure this out.
zapatos » neu 1 years ago
I think its just him?
kamet » neu 1 years ago
It's Judd Hirsch, isn't it.

[IMGS OFF]
zapatos » neu 1 years ago
Why would we insult the only female asian chick?

thatwouldbefuckinretarded
sje46 » neu 1 years ago
The only good movie by that guy is Ferris Bueller's Day Off.
achilleselbow » neu 1 years ago
I heard that Asians actually reproduce asexually and all their non-tentacle porn is just a clever ruse.
falseprophet » neu 1 years ago
I am reading a National Book Award winning novel called Tree of Smoke which is set during the Vietnam War and in it one of the Asian prostitutes says she doesn't like boning the black dudes because their penises are too big.

Daedala, are you racist against my dick?
achilleselbow » neu 1 years ago
Wasn't that in Full Metal Jacket? Soul Brotha too beaucoup!
davey-boy » neu 1 years ago
What we have here, yellow sister, is an excellent specimen of pure Alabama black snake, but it is not, "too beaucoup".
awksedperl » neu 1 years ago
Isn't it* "too goddam beaucoup"?

*It applying to the movie dialog only.
davey-boy » neu 1 years ago
Well, fuck. You might be right.
falseprophet » pro 1 years ago
You know what I may have misremembered where I remembered that scene, or perhaps I lied and pretended it was in a book so that you would all think I know how to read. Or maybe Denis Johnson's a plagiarist and I am too lazy to go back over his huge-ass book to prove it.
smilebuddha » neu 1 years ago
V-Chub for your interpretive truthiness.
belgand » neu 1 years ago
I believe The Straight Dope addressed this issue and found that based on evidence black and white dudes are roughly the same size. I believe there was an explanation that perhaps it had something to do with skin color and typically being seen in a flaccid state - such as when showering in a communal manner - that these factors would contribute to a general impression of size that was not actually found when dealing with an engorged member that is actually measured.
catgrl131 » neu 1 years ago
Why would th color make it look bigger? I thought black was slimming (Ha-cha-cha!)
sje46 » neu 1 years ago
I thought blacks were larger because of artificial (as opposed to natural) selection.

I thought that in the slave days, they preferred slaves with bigger genitalia.
theguitarhero » neu 1 years ago
My friend thinks it dates back to back in Africa, I say it has to do with heat transferance.
falseprophet » pro 1 years ago
Come on guys. Say scientific things about my dick.
sje46 » neu 1 years ago
It cures cancer.
aperson » neu 1 years ago
It has erectile dysfunction of the penile protruberance?
belgand » neu 1 years ago
I don't have calipers with an appropriate degree of accuracy to measure something of that size.
achilleselbow » neu 1 years ago
"The average length of the African's penis, according to Dr. Pales, is seldom greater than 120 millimeters (4.68 inches). Testut in his Traite d'anatomie humaine gives the same figure for a European. But nobody is convinced by these facts. The white man is convinced the black man is an animal; if it is not the length of his penis, it's his sexual power that impresses the white man. Confronted with this alterity, the white man needs to defend himself, i.e., to characterize the Other..."

-Fanon, White Skin, Black Masks
stereo » neu 1 years ago
This just in:

Scientific Study determines that people who have romantic attractions to rulers also have longer penises
hamscout » neu 1 years ago
Does...does Margaret Thatcher give you wood, stereo?
stereo » neu 1 years ago
It's a bit of a problem for me. I find almost everything attractive, and how am I supposed to "tame the wild hormone" if I can't think of anything that turns me off? It's like if your car had no brakes, and you're heading for a wall made of semen.
aperson » neu 1 years ago
Well, all I can say is make sure you wind up your windows.
daedala_x » neu 1 years ago
"He has been turned into a penis. He is a penis."

I bet Fanon was hung like a horse. I wonder how the French are hung?

This week on blacksonblondes:

Franz Fanon on Simone de Beauvior

(she does not need to be blonde)
zapatos » neu 1 years ago
The French aren't hung, they are guillotined.

In all seriousness however, I am mostly French so if you'd like to find out?
belgand » neu 1 years ago
That is, as far as I am aware, an amazingly dumb myth.
sje46 » neu 1 years ago
It makes sense to me. I don't see what about it is inherently dumb. It seems reasonable that some slaveowners picked their slaves partly due to the size of their genitalia; it is at least one factor that they might have looked at.

And artificial selection works just like natural, only much faster. I fail to see what is so self-evidently dumb about this theory.
I wouldn't be surprised if it was false, but I wouldn't be surprised if it were true either.
achilleselbow » neu 1 years ago
Okay, sje. Pretend you are a slaveowner. What ON EARTH would you have to gain from having slaves with bigger dicks?

Unless you are a very particular sort of slave owner.
sje46 » neu 1 years ago
Heck if I know. I got a northern education.
tekende » pro 1 years ago
Quote:
Pretend you are a slaveowner.


That was one of my favorite games in preschool.
belgand » neu 1 years ago
Humans can't be artificially selected to alter the population in that short a period of time. We're talking about not much more than maybe six or eight generations here and that's being a tad generous. Even if there was a slight change it is too large a shift occurring over an impossibly short number of generations to show that kind of change.

As well there is no sensible reason to have made that change or the ability to restrict mating that severely to cause it to have such a pronounced effect.

When you come up on genetics man, you're in my domain.
sje46 » neu 1 years ago
I don't know. Five generations seems like it would have an effect. I don't breed dogs or anything, but I'm sure by the fifth generation, the dogs would have bigger ones.
It wouldn't have an effect on ALL the blacks in the world; just most of the ones in america.

But you're right, though. I don't think slaveowners would not make too big a deal about down there. And I don't think that those not chosen would have been significantly less likely to have bred.

You win you win.
foea » neu 1 years ago
It's dumb and racist. It's the same argument used by racists to "prove" the minorities are more prone to crime, drug abuse, etc.
10 generations or so is not enough to make *any* kind of modifications to a population that size.
aperson » neu 1 years ago
Indeed. The coefficient of being an extremely unacceptable idea is far too high for that to be true.
sje46 » neu 1 years ago
Maybe I'm missing something, but I don't see how an large genitalia translates to being more prone to crime, etc.
achilleselbow » neu 1 years ago
You have to steal more in order to feed it.
belgand » neu 1 years ago
I don't know if it was listed here right now or not, but it fits into the stereotype of being a wild, animalistic "other" and I think it really comes most from our racist past, i.e. the black man wants to rape the white women with his massive animal penis. In time this has mutated to its current form. Also, Blacks on Blondes porn which carry the same racist undertones (and overtones) and are basically completely terrible. There's a lot of very racist porn out there about black men and it all conforms to this same basic stereotype even when it's being used in an emasculating context for humiliation fetishists.
sje46 » neu 1 years ago
Ah. I see. Well, it wasn't my attempt, however, to portray them as animals. You can call the theory dumb or whatever, but I don't think you can call me a racist if I believed it.
belgand » neu 1 years ago
I'm not trying to. You were merely taken in by a hoax. It happens. The important thing is to learn from it. We all still love you.
pogo » neu 1 years ago
Dear sje46, not only would slaveovers NOT pick males with large genitalia, since they would not "fit" some females, Southerners often attacked black gentialia when lynchings occurred, often cutting said organs off and stuffing them in the dead black guy's mouth as he hung there.
aperson » neu 1 years ago
So via Lamarckian evolution, slave genitalia would get smaller, to avoid lynch mobs.
sje46 » neu 1 years ago
I would think that the length, for the human species, would gradually get bigger what with women nowadays being so much shallower than cavewomen, because cavewomen do not watch shows such as Sex and the City.
sje46 » neu 1 years ago
I am eight inches long, by the way.
biff » neu 1 years ago
Too. Much. Information.
sje46 » neu 1 years ago
Someone is jealous.
aperson » neu 1 years ago
Big deal, I am 6 feet long. Normally I am straight up and down, too.
biff » neu 1 years ago
I don't mind if you think that is my motivation. Because further comment on my part would require that I follow along with an inappropriate sharing.

So, yeah, fine, jealous, whatever.
zapatos » neu 1 years ago
Dude it is cool, we'll say good shit about your dick.
biff » neu 1 years ago
Oh, my god.

Do I have a chubby left?

Yes, I have a chubby left! That was high-larry-us.

Dunno why, exactly, but I laughed and laughed and laughed.
willt » neu 10 months ago
heh. chubby.
belgand » neu 1 years ago
Not always. Some women prefer larger, some do not. It all depends on personal preference and your own size. I recall a Savage Love column a while back where a bunch of men with larger-than-average penises wrote in and complained about how hard it is that some women specifically do not want to have sex with them because they're afraid it will hurt, how they never get anal, how they can't go very deep, and how they rarely get deepthroated.

Porn and Craiglist's Casual Encounters sections are not the best sources in this case. People have different preferences. For every size queen out there (and I suspect a lot are just curious and expect bigger to be better) there are plenty of women who don't want to put up with some monster that they can't deal with and a sad, sad man lamenting his giant penis.
sje46 » neu 1 years ago
I know. I was basically just making a joke. I suspect that most women really don't care much at all how big it is, as long as it won't impale her.
belgand » neu 1 years ago
True, but I like to dispense proper information when possible.
i_love_kate » neu 1 years ago
Is it just me or is that not how Lamarckian evolution (supposedly) works?
sje46 » neu 1 years ago
You're right.
sje46 » neu 1 years ago
Why didn't I notice that?

Larmakism is when, like, a giraffe's neck is long because it streches its neck far. It then passes this on to its offspring.
aperson » neu 1 years ago
The point is, willies attempting to hide from lynch mobs would, over the generations, result in smaller willies.
belgand » neu 1 years ago
But they were being lynched so there was no chance to reproduce. Even if they had a massive wang it would not matter.

Let us just stop talking about lynching. It was a very bad thing. I am saying this is my line. Let's move back to talking about raping babies to death.
aperson » neu 1 years ago
I just temporarily unignored your belgand, so dont be dissing my theorising.

Some shrinkers would reproduce. Just a few shy wangs that were able to ward off the mob would be evolutionarily successful.
belgand » neu 1 years ago
I was ignored?!? Egads! What must I do to please you? What did I do to be ignored?

I think this is saying that wang size is related directly to escaping from lynch mobs. Though not carrying an entire damn butcher shop down there would certainly make it easier to run I do not think this is a strong enough correlation.

I think we need to join forces and acquire a research grant on this. Form a think tank. This work must be done.
aperson » neu 1 years ago
The ability to make ones knob inconspicuous in order to avoid the ire of the Ku Klux Klan is not about ease of 'escape' but more a form of camouflage. I'm pretty sure this area is 'all researched out' due to being completely self-evident.
belgand » neu 1 years ago
"You need to teach alternative theories to Darwinian evolution."
"You mean Lamarckian evolution?"
stereo » neu 1 years ago
What if we started selling off our ugly and fat people as slaves to China?

Wouldn't they end up with an ugly population of white people? Or is it more random than that?
biff » neu 1 years ago
I doubt they would pay enough to cover the shipping, so...
stereo » neu 1 years ago
They could just return them in the same crates that are used to smuggle human people from China over here, it would save money.
biff » neu 1 years ago
Hmm, you may be on to something.
stereo » neu 1 years ago
Why did I say "human people"
tekende » neu 1 years ago
To differentiate from inhuman people, of course.
achilleselbow » neu 1 years ago
...the Jews?
achilleselbow » neu 1 years ago
Sorry, was that too soon?
belgand » neu 1 years ago
Wait a minute, let me look at that name...

Achillelbow

...! He's a crypto-Jew hiding among us! Quick, fetch the bacon-wrapped shrimp in creamy mustard sauce. It's his only weakness!*

*Aside from controlling every aspect of finance and media.
sje46 » neu 1 years ago
Oh!
We just watched this episode in Anthropology today. Good episode.
That class was dedicated to the eaching creationism in schools debate. Therefore, fun.
belgand » neu 1 years ago
I lived in Kansas during those issues both times. It was not at all fun. Not only am I a biologist, but my girlfriend who was also a biology major got a second degree in secondary education with the intention of teaching high school (student teaching taught her that this didn't agree with her) so it had plenty of impact on me.

Basically I think the thing we eventually agreed on is that if they make you teach "alternative theories" or about "intelligent design" you start in with Greek, Norse, American Indian, etc. creation myths.
stereo » neu 1 years ago
Start with one of those religions that believes semen is the water of life, and all things grow from it. That one at least has a grain of truth in it.
biff » neu 1 years ago
Not only are there religions from the Fertile Crescent that believe that, there was a sect of the Cult of Jesus in the first or second century that believed that the things that came out of the human body were color-coded. White was good, and black was bad.

So they had orgies for Jesus.

When they were assembling the various texts that would become the bible, including the ones that help those in power stay in power, and rejecting those the empowered the hoi polloi, they chose to leave that one out.

We could all be Fucking For Christ, but nooooooo.
stereo » neu 1 years ago
How did they feel about ear wax?
biff » neu 1 years ago
I don't remember any mention of ear wax.

But it was all by color. Surely you can figure this one out for yourself.
sje46 » neu 1 years ago
It's not a cult, but ever hear the infancy gospel of Thomas?
It's my favorite one.
willt » neu 10 months ago
Wait, I chubbied this because I thought it was a joke. Is it... is it serious?
belgand » neu 1 years ago
OK, I have done the minute or work required to find the article in question. The sample size is not quite as large as it ought to be, but it was found that the average length was found to be 0.3 inches longer when flaccid, but only 0.1 inches longer (and thicker) when erect. Again, low sample size, but this was Kinsey's data.
sje46 » neu 1 years ago
Ummm, there is a problem here. That article is terrible, because it doesn't even discuss what would be wrong with this study. This one is better:
http://www.mraverage.com/results.htm
You can see how inconclusive the results are. Plus your source cites Kinsey. KINSEY. Do you really think Kinsey is that reliable of a source? No, no bias there at all. 59 black men in the sample compared to 2,500 whites. Hmm. And respondents. Of course dudes with bigger ones are more likely to respond.

The average length, they think (it is difficult to measure for many reasons,) is about 5.75 inches.

This site doesn't have any information on blacks, but I'm just saying that your site doesn't seem very reliable.
belgand » neu 1 years ago
I and the article both noted the low sample size, twice, in fact. As for respondents since this was a comprehensive study it is unlikely that this was a significant source of bias.

Your source, for comparison was sponsored by a condom company during Spring Break in Cancun, had a lower overall sample size, was for a specific datum (erectile size), has no information on ethnicity, and also features a picture of a scantily clad sexy nurse.

The Straight Dope is not entirely scientific, but he cites a far more reliable source and generally attempts to do adequate and reasonably thorough research. I would cite that in this case it is a secondary source for Kinsey's data.
sje46 » neu 1 years ago
I know that it notes the sample size. But I figured I point it out a third time. Why would you thnk such a study would be good.

Also: EFF I linked to the wrong site/page. I'd have to go look for it again and then give it to you. Not now; my roommate is over my shoulder.
biff » neu 1 years ago
Discussions on dick size, and scientific data relating to dick size, and the reliability of such data.

Why would I waste my time anywhere else?
belgand » neu 1 years ago
Is he over your shoulder because he is giving you an intense and personal display of what a large penis can do? Please report back on your findings!

Pound that young boy SJE's roommate, pound him for SCIENCE!
zapatos » neu 1 years ago
Phil and I had this conversation a while ago, I still think it is a good idea. I had another one of Morally Challenging Hot Sauce.
zapatos » neu 1 years ago
seven on a good day.
aperson » neu 1 years ago
Zapatos Goes Metric is filmed before a live studio audience of ladies with disappointed facial expressions.
rowboat » pro 1 years ago
Nine on a bad day. A really bad day.
daedala_x » neu 1 years ago
yea, me and Katsumi.
pogo » neu 1 years ago
Quote:
pogo if that is directed at my asianness, i am ashamed of you

Chill, woman, I didn't even know you were Asian! Aperson got it right, my balls are as big as church bells, or the bell on Big Ben. Maybe my onomatopoeia should have been BOOOOOONG, BOOOOOONG.
zapatos » neu 1 years ago
She posted some picks a while back, with a bra made of tinfoil... it had an extension and a cup.
belgand » neu 1 years ago
Whatever happened to those pics? Did they go away or something?

Also, what were the results? Did the MegaNerd Bra work?
stereo » neu 1 years ago
I believe the results were "dang, I'm glad I don't have massive boobies."
zapatos » neu 1 years ago
She was talking about back pain afterwards, yes.
kamet » neu 1 years ago
Massive titties = back pain.

But I wouldn't trade them for the world.
daedala_x » neu 1 years ago
kamet, you Tease.

i do kinda wish i had massive titties sometimes. like the other night, i was at work (i work at a restaurant) and this chick came in with her bf. she had on like.. one of those empire waist tops that cuts off right after your boobs, low cut to all hell, man when she sat down.. just cleavage EVERYWHERE. it wasn't like blonde tan fake-boobeded cleavage either. it was like pale, real girl cleavage that smushed together to create a line about 6 inches long, that i could see. i kept walking by and i just could not stop staring. finally i said to one of the other servers
"dude, check out that chick at table 15a"
"oh god, i know, i saw her! it's insane!"
"how do even manage to eat sitting across something like that?"
belgand » neu 1 years ago
While you can get astounding cleavage when not constrained in a top or bra large breasts can look not so great. It's a tough problem and you generally have to accept trade-offs. Small, perky breasts generally look better when fully nude, but large breasts often accessorize better. I say just try to find what you love about what you've got.
kamet » neu 1 years ago
I am likely that girl, although I do not tend to expose such cleavage- they are to be used rationally and logically, as the situation demands.
pogo » neu 1 years ago
Quote:
She posted some picks a while back, with a bra made of tinfoil

Oh, that was her? How did she take pictures of herself?
hamscout » neu 1 years ago
'Self-Portrait' was one of the features of the foil bra.
zapatos » neu 1 years ago
Hamscout took them for her. Or some other white nerdy dude whose palms immediately became waterfalls when she talked to them.

Not to diss on the Scouter of Hams, just generalizing.
hamscout » neu 1 years ago
No diss taken.
As you could see from my posted picture of the event, I am indeed an awkward white nerd, and rather proud of it.
And while I did not have the pleasure of meeting (or indeed, seeing) daedala_x there, it is a foregone conclusion that my hands (which were sweaty just in meeting Onstad) would have truly been... moist.
zapatos » neu 1 years ago
I would probably say, "hey hi i'm stu," and run away.
daedala_x » neu 1 years ago
i love how you guys all assume i have no achewood-loving friends who went with me.

i have no achewood-loving friends who went with me. this dude named Colin took it for me. so, funny story. because he didn't bring a camera, i offered to take one for him, and after i did, he writes me his email address to send him the pic. a week goes by, i've forgetten to do it, then i check my facebook to see like 4 messages from the dude. he's all like "i didn't get the pic because i gave you the wrong email address, thank god i remembered your whole name from those post-its on our books, here's the actual email" "oh noes, wrong account. i sent that from my OTHER facebook account, this is the real one, lol, how's it going?" the funny part is coming.

so about a week ago i started getting these text messages from someone in illinois that said things like "wouldn't morrissey be a good name for a horse?" and "have you seen this art exhibit *inserts picture*" and most recently "i really need a shopping partner this weekend". i am thinking, uh, some chick who i was friends with and had graduated? upon asking who it was, i got back "it's Colin! the guy you met at the achewood signing! i lifted your number off facebook, creepy huh!?" haha.. eh. kinda. not that he's not a cool dude. i'd hang out with him. actually, i think i'm already set up to at some indefinite time in the future.

if you're reading this HI COLIN WELCOME TO ASSETBAR THESE ARE MY FRIENDS.

ASSETBAR, SAY HI TO COLIN!

[IMGS OFF]
zapatos » neu 1 years ago
Hi Colin, I like your track jacket.

(hey man what is Dae's number)
belgand » neu 1 years ago
Hmm... those track jackets are a bit too hipstery for my tastes. I stick to the classic Army surplus for my outerwear.
tekende » neu 1 years ago
That's actually quite creepy. But Colin appears to be a pretty good-looking chap, so whatever.
theguitarhero » neu 1 years ago
It's funny that we tolerate stalkers if they are good-looking.
zapatos » neu 1 years ago
I don't tolerate them, ever.
theguitarhero » neu 1 years ago
GOOD.
zapatos » neu 1 years ago
your new avicon is so trash.
theguitarhero » neu 1 years ago
GOD JESUS GODDAMMIT CHRIST. I CAN'T PLEASE YOU PEOPLE.
achilleselbow » neu 1 years ago
Ripping the caps lock key out of your keyboard might be a start.
belgand » neu 1 years ago
Agreed. Again, don't take this as hate, but you yell in caps more than anyone else here I think.
zapatos » neu 1 years ago
HE HAS BEEN DOING IT SINCE HE WAS TWELVE
theguitarhero » neu 1 years ago
Typing in caps is part of a running schtick. I tend to type how I talk and my sarcasm voice is loud.
sje46 » neu 1 years ago
HOW BOUT YOU JUST SHUT YOUR BIG SCREECH MOUTH YA FREAK.
theguitarhero » neu 1 years ago
:(
sje46 » neu 1 years ago
IM SO SORRY I DIDNT MEAN TO MAKE YOU CRY *HUGS*
woodjay » neu 1 years ago
I don't know why, but I find this new avatar hypnotic, I like it.
theguitarhero » neu 1 years ago
Yeah, I think it's because it's missing a frame of them raising their hands up again, but you can just barely notice it.
woodjay » neu 1 years ago
egh... I just noticed something... is the dude on the right wearing pants? I'm not sure if there is a floppy dongle swinging about or maybe it is just a jpeg artifact.
theguitarhero » neu 1 years ago
Might be a jpeg artifact, I've seen this episode a few times, he's wearing dirty long johns.
belgand » neu 1 years ago
No, it's very noticeable. I find the jitter it causes really unpleasant.

This is a major problem with animated GIFs.
rowboat » pro 1 years ago
Yeah. If it doesn't have to do with tits or kittens, I'm pretty much over it.
scorpio_nadir » neu 1 years ago
The capslock part is funny. The avicon is trash.
biff » neu 1 years ago
I don't see it as a situation where you are unable to please us. I see it as a situation where this particular avicon displeases us.

Your apparent plan to constantly change your picture to please us is doomed to failure for two reasons:

1) When you make it seem so important to please us, you seem needy, and we view your efforts with disdain.

2) With as ornery a bunch of people as we are, pretty much every icon will have one or two people who dislike it. You ain't never gonna make everbuddy happy.

Find one you like, and stick with it. Or keep changing frequently, and be prepared to endure periodic scorn. It doesn't really matter to most of us.

But for Bog's sake, get rid of the creepy one you are using now!
biff » neu 1 years ago
Thank you.
stereo » neu 1 years ago
Just get a picture of Christian Bale, he's guaranteed to satisfy.

Plus there are like 8 movies he's been in that nobody's representing.
achilleselbow » neu 1 years ago
Mooooom! Tekende wants to kiss Colin on the testes!
zapatos » neu 1 years ago
How'd the date go?
belgand » neu 1 years ago
You need to change your avatar to that of a young black woman assassinating someone in the most actual of ways. This will allow us to achieve parity.
davey-boy » neu 1 years ago
Pogo, is that an LA story reference?
biff » neu 1 years ago
You know, I thought of that scene pretty much every time I read one of those posts about bells on one's balls. But I never commented about it, because that is my least favorite scene from that movie*.

And I like that movie very very much. It is one of only a dozen or so that I own.


*LA Story is one of only about three romantic comedies that I can stand to watch, much less enjoy.
biff » neu 1 years ago
Crap.

One of only a dozen or so that I own on DVD.
belgand » neu 1 years ago
Is one of the others High Fidelity? It is romantic comedy, but for men. This is key. Is much better as a result. Is more in tune with thoughts of dudes. Romantic comedy for ladies has Evil Dead 2 reference? I am thinking this is not so.
biff » neu 1 years ago
I actually can't think of any other at the moment.

That's why I said about three, because it is possible that there are one or two others
sje46 » neu 1 years ago
I saw this. I doubt this romantic comedy he thinks of. Is a sissy romantic comedy, with much wuss. Perhaps Spiderman would be more to liking. Italian version is best-rate.
belgand » neu 1 years ago
Hey, no stealink of schtick!!

Also, if you think High Fidelity is wussy you need to get a visit from the clue-by-four.
theguitarhero » neu 1 years ago
For once we agree, High Fidelity is the shit, so is Better off Dead. In fact, I recommend pretty much any John Cusack movie up to Grosse Point Blanke (he hadn't made Serendipity by that time, right?). Everything after that is less John Cusack and more a parody of John Cusack.
woodjay » neu 1 years ago
I agree mostly, but beg you to consider the outlier of 1408
kamet » neu 1 years ago
I will maintain that Cusack was a great actor in that movie.. but that movie was ALL Stephen King, and very little Cusack was used in the making.
i_love_kate » neu 1 years ago
High Fidelity and Grosse Point Blank are both awesome.
zapatos » neu 1 years ago
Killing Dan Akroid with a television is always awesome.
belgand » neu 1 years ago
Dude totally got his chub on since, well, the 80s. Not as much as Ramis, but still. Also, why did they along with Chevy Chase basically go away entirely after the 80s ended? Bill Murray moved on and is now beloved in new ways, but they just sort of... stopped.
tekende » neu 1 years ago
Not as much as Ramis? Are you kidding me? Dan Aykroyd is fucking HUGE. Ramis is certainly not as thin as he was, but dude, Aykroyd is so much fatter.
belgand » neu 1 years ago
Hmm... he must have bulked up even more. Ramis was pretty chunky last I saw and he'd started off thinner. Aykroyd always had a bit of indication that he could go that way.

It is good that we finally have a place to discuss which 80s comedy icons that seem to have gained the most weight. This is right.
belgand » neu 1 years ago
So Grosse Point Blanke is in? Your phrasing makes this uncertain. Because that is a great film. Better Off Dead could have been better, but yeah, was good.

I'd say that this is not a hard and fast rule though because Hot Pursuit was terrible, but he had a small role in Stand By Me and that was great. Also, Being John Malkovich was post-Blanke and very boss. Actually, High Fidelity is also after Blanke so this is a bit wrong.

America's Sweethearts came right after High Fidelity and I think that was the turning point. I haven't seen Max or The Ice Harvest though, but I've heard good things about both.

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil could have been better, but I liked him in Con Air. It was a terrible movie, yes, but if you can accept it as a movie with a disturbingly good cast (Colm Meaney!) where things blow up it becomes a lot better. I'd rank it basically at the same level as Demolition Man as "bad, silly action movie that is actually kind of really fun if you don't take it seriously".

While on this subject we need some love for The Road to Wellville. I think I was the only person to really like that movie. I keep seeing the book for a good price at used bookstore and I ought to pick it up. It was really a great satire of the modern (or at least, early 90s) health craze and culture as contrasted with the Victorian era's sham health crazes. Also a great deal of sex. Once again it features Colm Meaney and is elevated for it.
biff » neu 1 years ago
I liked The Road to Wellville. That movie was crammed with actors I like. It also had just the right amount of absurdity.

Meat and potatoes!
Meat and potatoes!
Meat and potatoes!
belgand » neu 1 years ago
It also had Bridget Fonda looking astoundingly hot and topless in a milk bath. That is good times right there if that is your sort of thing.

Chew chew chew, that is the thing to do!
zapatos » neu 1 years ago
We need to freeze this big dude, because he's the only one who can beat up this blonde niggalig.

Childhood was all explosions and dinosaurs, no wonder everything seems dull anymore.
belgand » neu 1 years ago
Depends on your lifestyle. Just the other day I pulled my arms up and playfully chased my girlfriend around the house in the manner of a dinosaurus. All roaring and clawing.

If you don't have time in your life to be a dinosaur then you need to make some time.

Dinosaurs go "Rawr!"
zapatos » neu 1 years ago
I was a dancing robot at the work the other day. Not like the slow motion kind, but the kind who was kicking boxes around and really just enjoying The Faint.
belgand » neu 1 years ago
Were you worked up so sexual?
zapatos » neu 1 years ago
I was bored, the caffeine was wearing off, and we still had three hours to go. Shobbs Destroy!

To answer your question, no, I didn't know there was anything before Danse Macabre. I am a poser.
achilleselbow » neu 1 years ago
He's always having Casual Sex.
zapatos » neu 1 years ago
That would probably mean that I wasn't worked up sexual, because my balls would be empty.
theguitarhero » neu 1 years ago
I will agree that there have been some post-Blanke movies that were decent (I keep forgetting he was in BJM) but for the most part he's just been playing a parody of his public persona. I mean War, INC was just a rehash of GPB but on a bigger scale.
belgand » neu 1 years ago
I'm still saying that High Fidelity is the cut-off. Look at IMDb and see the output between GPB and HF and you'll see how correct my point is.

It is so correct it is like a dildo waving in your face.
sje46 » neu 1 years ago
(I liked the movie, actually. But it does not strike me as the most masculine of movies. The guy does seem a little emo, but maybe I should watch it again. I haven't seen it in a while.)
hamscout » neu 1 years ago
He's a mildly self-centered dude who works in a record shop, and can't keep it in his pants. Sounds pretty masculine to me. (Almost to the point of male stereotype.) I thought the movie (and the book) were great, because he was an imperfect main character.
The movie for 'About a Boy' watered down the book quite a bit, but the main character in that book was also borderline-jagdouchenozzle. (I recommend the book.)
tekende » pro 1 years ago
About a Boy is very good, and the book and movie complement each other well, I think. There are some things I like better about the movie, and some things I like better about the book, so they sort of balance each other out.

High Fidelity is awesome, though. The discussions about music and the endless top five lists really make the thing.
fineoakstructure » neu 1 years ago
Working those kinds of record stores with those kind of people is a fucking nightmare, though. I was working in a mom n' pop hipster college record store when High Fidelity came out, actually, and it made me realize how asinine the people I worked with were.

There was the 35-going-on-16 year old asst. manager with his monthly DUIs and who only played The Smiths, Morrissey and the Pixies (I don't care how much you might like those bands, it gets fucking tiresome); there was the chubby white guy who only listened to backpacker hip hop and never stopped talking about "wax;" there was the weird old guy in the basement who did all the ordering and only listened to hard-to-find bluegrass records; and there was the predictable tall, skinny, indie rock kid who played the Shaggs on Sunday mornings to see how many complaints it would get. Oh wait that last one was me.

There's nothing more annoying that being stuck around a bunch of jackasses trying to out-snark each other.

oh hey wait assetbar!
rowboat » pro 1 years ago
The jackasses muft bray!