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This French Ad, Aimed at Celebrating Women, Is Ridiculed for Stereotyping Them Instead | Adweek (http://www.adweek.com/adf... http://www.adweek.com/fil... )

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"French TV station France 3 pulled its latest campaign after widespread criticism. The offending ad shows a home in a state of disarray—an oven smokes, children's toys are scattered, an unattended iron catches aflame, a dog is left whimpering—while ominous expect-sad-little-girl-ghost-here music plays. It closes on a shot of a woman's closet, with one pair of shoes clearly missing, as upbeat music plays and the answer to the question that's presumably your mind (i.e., "Where the hell are all the women?!") appears: "They are on France 3."" - JustDuckie - -

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Maokong mascots created by NTU students unveiled - Taipei Times (http://www.taipeitimes.co... http://www.taipeitimes.co... )

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"Mascots designed to boost tourism in the formerly tea-producing mountainous area of Maokong (貓空) in Taipei City ’s Wenshan District (文山) were on Wednesday unveiled by a commercial design team from National Taiwan University of Science and Technology. The four mascots collectively named Maokong’s Little Sprites — Cha Lao (茶荖), Cha Bao (茶寶), Sun Cing (筍青) and Hua Ni (花妮) — representing kettle holes, tea, green bamboo and flowers respectively, which are attractions and produce of Maokong, are to be placed in locations associated with each feature or product." - JustDuckie - -

"The team hopes visitors come to appreciate that Maokong has more to offer than just the gondola and cats, Tsai said." - JustDuckie - -

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How Museum Habitat Dioramas Shape Humans' Relationship With Nature - The Atlantic (http://www.theatlantic.co... http://cdn.theatlantic.co... )

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"Created to mimic the natural context of the animals that they contain, these scenes invite their viewers to question how those animals relate to each other, their environment, and humans. In her book The Breathless Zoo, Rachel Poliquin writes that “taxidermy is deeply marked by human longing,” exposing our hopes and fears about our place in the natural world. Dioramas represent an attempt to make sense of nature, but they also reveal humans’ deeply complicated relationship with it. Habitat dioramas—the kind with a painted background, plants in the foreground, and an animated animal in mid-action—are generally credited to Carl Akeley, a taxidermist and expeditionist during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Ironically, these museum displays were created, in part, to promote the conservation of the species that had been killed for display, highlighting the strange tension between animals as hunting trophies and creatures worthy of our empathy." - JustDuckie - -

"Habitat dioramas, then, preserved something of this dwindling American mythos—but their success in doing so depended on their veracity, which required that curators invest their habitat displays with immense detail. Akeley and William Hornaday, the chief taxidermist at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History, took pains to gather what Hornaday called “natural accessories” to make the dioramas both realistic and artistic. In the foreground, plants were transplanted from a real site or recreated in a natural likeness; backgrounds were painted from site photographs and designed to recall the sense of a far-reaching space, a space that Turner had declared lost. And, of course, the taxidermy was critical, as a credible illusion required that the animals appear to be animate. The displays succeeded or failed based on the degree to which they recalled the idea of an American wild, an ecosystem to be both exploited and preserved." - JustDuckie - -

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Corral gunfight not OK as two hit with live bullets in Tombstone, Arizona | US news | The Guardian (http://www.theguardian.co... https://i.guim.co.uk/img/... )

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"Officials called for gunfight re-enactments in the Old West town of Tombstone to be put on hold after two people were hit with bullets during a show that was supposed to involve blanks. The shooting occurred on Sunday afternoon as two actors in the Tombstone Vigilante group engaged in a standoff as they re-enacted an episode from the town made famous by Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday and the OK Corral. The Tombstone Marshal’s Office said one of the actor’s guns fired live rounds, hitting a fellow member of the group. Ken Curtis was flown to a hospital in Tucson, where he underwent surgery to remove the bullet. Other rounds struck businesses and a bystander whose condition was not immediately known. " - JustDuckie - -

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The Saturday Rumpus Essay: Brodawg Branding - The Rumpus.net (http://therumpus.net/2015... http://therumpus.wpengine... )

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"But this trend of dynamic female brand mascots could be taking a few steps back. From Red Robin to Experian to Smirnoff Ice, recent advertising campaigns are displacing the tired Madonna/whore trope for another nearly as reductive, if more covert. Rather than building a distinctive character that resonates across demographics, these new campaigns present a female assuming a predictably informal, jocular, masculine persona; “quirky” is conflated with “bro-y”–especially for products and services to which men would likely gravitate. Sound familiar? Behold: the “Cool Girl” of commercials." - JustDuckie - -

"The problem isn’t that real women don’t enjoy a good cocktail or steak fry (let alone an endless supply!), but that these “characters” on display ring decidedly one-note. As Tracy Moore puts it at Jezebel, “Liking beers, hot dogs, sports, partying, and having a general allergy to feelings or Anything Too Serious is not the province of straight men in reality.” It makes sense, in other words, that female consumers would relate to brand ambassadors who shirk the tired accouterments of placid femininity. But to simply replace one trope with another isn’t really progress. Instead of Paris Hilton or Charlotte McKinney, these campaigns supply a Cool Girl for today, lazily created and often tepidly performed, appealing and relatable wholly due to acting like a bro." - JustDuckie - -

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Kangaroo gets loose in NYC neighborhood - The York Daily Record (http://www.ydr.com/nation... )

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"Police officers responding to a 911 call were able to locate Buster's owner at a nearby home. Police said the man retrieved his kangaroo, saying it had hopped away from a friend's fenced backyard about 15 minutes earlier after a gate was accidentally left open. Although keeping a kangaroo in the city is prohibited, it's allowed in the upstate New York community where the owner lives, police said. The owner assured them that he and Buster were headed home." - JustDuckie - -

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3 Foxes Decided To Live In My Backyard During Winter | Bored Panda (http://www.boredpanda.com... http://static.boredpanda.... )

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So in Sweden, McDonald’s has a Ski-Thru Restaurant | Messy Nessy Chic (http://www.messynessychic... http://static.messynessyc... )

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"“Lovin’ it” or hatin’ it, McDonald’s is a permanent fixture of the modern high street, king of the highway drive-throughs, pioneer of the fast food take-over. But did you expect it to become a part of your ski run? At “McSki,” located in the popular Swedish ski resort of Lindvallen, about 450 kilometers northwest of Stockholm, skiers can order hamburgers and French fries through a special window and ski off, munching as they go. The restaurant, which has actually been open since the mid 1990s (okay I’m a little slow) also has indoor seating for about 140 people." - JustDuckie - [ 1 ] -

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Chivalry Isn’t Dead, You Just Don’t Know What the Fuck it is. | Myths RETOLD (http://bettermyths.com/ch... http://bettermyths.com/wp... )

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"2. CHIVALRY IS NOT A POINTS SYSTEM REDEEMABLE FOR FREE SEX. There are no prizes for being chivalrous, other than the prize of being a decent god damn human. This is because the people who chivalry was invented for were so fucking rich that prizes were totally meaningless to them. In addition to horses, knights also owned fancy armor, sick weapons, and huge tracts of land. They were powerful, exciting people relatively free of disease. They weren’t exactly hard up for sex opportunities, is what I’m trying to say. They didn’t need to invent a complex code of ethics to justify getting shit for free, because they already had all the shit. What do you get for the man who has everything? How about some fucking morals." - JustDuckie - -

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"Chivalry boils down to three things: mercy, charity, and humility. Mercy means being conscious of your advantages, and treating other humans gently. Charity means giving without expecting anything in return. Humility means accepting your mistakes, and recognizing that those who don’t have your advantages aren’t your inferiors. Anybody can embody these traits – woman, man, or even horse. At this point, you may be thinking “hey, this is bullshit, these are just basic guidelines for not being an asshole!” and congratulations, you’re right. That’s all chivalry is: basic guidelines for how not to be a sack of shit. And as long as a sack of shit is not a good thing to be, chivalry will never die." - JustDuckie - [ 3 ] -

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Looking Back on 100 Years of Typewriter Art (http://hyperallergic.com/... http://hyperallergic.com/... http://hyperallergic.com/... )

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"This exhaustive compendium compiles work from 200 artists who turned a common office machine into a tool for image-making, manually twisting and turning paper in the feed to strike characters in precisely chosen spots. It spans from the first known piece of typewriter art — an image of a butterfly composed of brackets, dashes, slashes, and an asterisk, made by Flora Stacey, a British secretary, in 1898 — to world maps, lifelike portraits, geometric abstractions, and visual poetry by the likes of Yoko Ono." - JustDuckie - -

No “archy and mehitabel”? http://donmarquis.com/arc... - bentley - -

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Westin Hotels Hires McSweeney's to Write You a Better Out-of-Office Message | Adweek (http://www.adweek.com/adf... http://www.adweek.com/fil... )

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"To encourage Americans to actually go on vacation every once in awhile—and ideally stay at a Westin-owned hotel—the hospitality chain has partnered with McSweeney's, via BBH New York ,to create the Westin OOO Generator. The website spits out quirky Out-of-Office (or OOO) responses, written with help from McSweeney's humorists. When the generator completes your OOO message, it also produces an abridged, video-based version for you to share on social media." - JustDuckie - -

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Sleepy Hollow Takes Us on the Greatest Adventure of All: Citizenship (http://io9.com/sleepy-hol... http://i.kinja-img.com/ga... )

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"Yes, it’s true! In “Blood and Fear,” Ichabod Crane heroically begins the nightmarish quest that is the US citizenship application. They also hunt Jack the Ripper, but obviously that’s the B-plot. Lest you think I’m snarking, though, let me assure you: This episode was fun, and those priorities are in the right order. We’ve had plenty of monsters. What we’ve been missing is the characters. The second season of this show beat me down so much about one-off minor characters and dropped plots and hairpin plot logic just so Katrina and Hawley could have stuff to do that I was straight-up surprised when not one, but two characters from last week recurred as part of larger arcs based on long-term goals that reflected on the characters. I hadn’t even bothered to cap them last week! It’s like they’re actually trying to build a feasible world for the show! I know, right?" - JustDuckie - -

NGL, when it got to the "magic knife can be stopped by blood-borne pathogens" part of the episode, I was afraid we were going to learn about Ichabod's STD. Because who in the 18th century *didn't* have one? - JustDuckie - [ 1 ] -

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Man wearing rollerblades accused of stealing ambulance | www.ajc.com (http://www.ajc.com/news/n... )

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"The man, later identified as Brandon Demarcus Moore, allegedly drove the ambulance backward down a hill, somehow missing pedestrians and other vehicles, according to police. Officers were able to use their patrol cars to block the ambulance, which left the road and crashed into a brick sign. Moore allegedly refused officers’ orders to exit the ambulance, so officers broke the driver’s side window of the vehicle. When Moore got out, officers were shocked at what he was wearing. Rollerblades." - JustDuckie - -

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How The Black Dot Campaign Grew Into A Dangerous Viral Hoax (http://jezebel.com/how-th... http://i.kinja-img.com/ga... )

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"Today, the campaign has taken the form of a potentially dangerous scam: If a domestic violence perpetrator learned of the campaign and then saw the black dot, they might lash out in response. Additionally, the vast majority of “professionals” referred to in the viral post is likely unaware of the campaign and how to deal with a black dot should they see one. By the end of September, domestic violence prevention organization Project Sanctuary had officially announced its refusal to endorse the campaign." - JustDuckie - -

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There are very good, very well-managed awareness campaigns that, for one reason or another, never get any traction. It happens. But at least they didn't make people's lives worse. - JustDuckie - -

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‘The Assassin’ Director Hou Hsiao-Hsien Talks About His Feminist Martial Arts Film | VICE | United States (http://www.vice.com/read/... https://vice-images.vice.... )

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"The Assassin is both stylistically and thematically consistent with the films that he has made in the past decade. Set during the Tang Dynasty, the assassin Nie Yinniang (Shu Qi) has been ordered to kill her beloved ex-fiancé. A perfect mix of the fantastical and the mundane, The Assassin shadows this well-trod wuxia (martial arts) genre while remaining faithful to the basic precepts of realism. The fighting scenes are brief, unadorned, and confined within the realm of gravity. In fact, the fighting feels almost obligatory, depicted simply because fighting is an expected part of an assassin's life. " - JustDuckie - -

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I'm having some of the same headache about Seattle - the theater is fine, just really, really far away from me. I'm hoping it'll either go wider after the initial release, or hit streaming quickly. - Jennifer D. - [ 1 ] -

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'Dance Moms' star Abby Lee Miller indicted on fraud charges | Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (http://www.post-gazette.c... http://www.post-gazette.c... )

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"Judge Thomas Agresti was about to approve her bankruptcy reorganization plan two years ago when he chanced upon her performances on national TV and realized she had lucrative contracts she wasn't telling anyone about. He was clicking through the channels one night and saw Ms. Miller’s “Abby’s Ultimate Dance Competition,” ads for “The Maniac is Back” and her appearance on “American Idol.” “I realized that there’s an awful lot of money coming into this plan, this case,” the judge said during a 2013 hearing, “and it hasn’t been disclosed.”" - JustDuckie - -

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Yeah, I can't say I was shocked. I think one of the kids from the show is also suing her for emotional abuse. - JustDuckie - -

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Sitting for long periods doesn’t make death more imminent, study suggests - The Washington Post (https://www.washingtonpos... https://img.washingtonpos... )

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"Researchers tracked 16 years' worth of health data from 5,132 people in the Whitehall II study cohort. Participants reported their total time sitting and how long they sat during four different situations: at work, watching television, leisure time and non-television leisure time. Researchers also tracked time spent walking daily and on physical activity. After controlling for a number of factors, including diet and general health, researchers found the overall mortality risk for these participants wasn't influenced by how long they sat or by the kind of sitting. And the researchers cautioned that too much emphasis on not sitting shouldn't take the place of promoting physical activity." - JustDuckie - -

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Florida man gets DUI while driving a motorized wheelchair (http://www.wcnc.com/story... http://cdn.tegna-tv.com/-... )

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"Police say Hicks was riding in his motorized wheelchair when the call came in reporting an intoxicated man obstructing a bridge. When officers arrived they smelled an odor coming from Hicks and he was slurring his words. He did not follow police instructions and refused to take a breathalyzer test. Police then took Hicks into custody where he also refused treatment for an open wound. He has two prior convictions for DUI according to his arrest history." - JustDuckie - -

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Can China Take a Joke? - NYTimes.com (http://www.nytimes.com/20... http://static01.nyt.com/i... )

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"“Hello, everybody, I’m Huang Xi,” he said, using his Chinese name, then added a pun: “Huang like a cucumber, Xi like a watermelon.” Mild chuckles. Glissando sound effect. “That wasn’t a joke,” he said. Wong then launched into 10 minutes of American-style stand-up comedy with distinctly Chinese punch lines. A man was arrested for robbing a bank using pepper spray, he said. “It worked twice. The third time, they caught him because the police were from Hunan.” (Hunanese food is spicy.) “They say that to get married these days, you need a house and a car. But when my wife and I got married, we didn’t have a house or a car — and I still didn’t dump her.” (In China, men are expected to provide.) The jokes were punctuated with sound effects: the boyoyoing of a spring, the tinkle of a piano." - JustDuckie - [ 1 ] -

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(cont) "This has all been organized by Han Tang, a UCB student (and Juliard student, for that matter) who grew up in Beijing. She convinced the Fun Age (Mr. Jong) that improv was cool. He flew to LA and watched UCB shows, talked to teachers like Alex Berg, agreed and so now I'm one of the teachers here teaching improv." - Andrew C - [ 2 ] -

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Which Bronte are you? (http://www.telegraph.co.u... http://www.telegraph.co.u... )

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"You wrote Jane Eyre! Congratulations - it’s a cracker. You’re also a savvy and kind soul, always keen to do what you can to improve the lot of those less fortunate, and stay as honest and truthful as possible. You’re the last surviving Bronte, outliving all of your siblings, so well done on that front too, but you still died at 38, so it’s swings and roundabouts." - JustDuckie - [ 2 ] -

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Wooo! At least we're not Branwell? No one deserves to be Branwell. - JustDuckie - [ 1 ] -

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The place where wolves could soon return - BBC News (http://www.bbc.com/news/m... http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/n... )

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"With the return of the beaver, the success of the wild cat, a growing call for the return of the lynx, as well as an EU directive obliging governments to consider the reintroduction of extinct species, could it be time for the wolf's return? David Attenborough thinks so. Yet 250 years since their eradication, the animal is still capable of inciting powerful feelings. I wanted to see how those who would live among them would feel about having them back, and for three weeks I followed moors and bogs and ancient footpaths, passing the site where the last wolf in Scotland was killed, and the glen where some hope that the first wolf could come back." - JustDuckie - -

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Naked woman destroys Subway restaurant in Anchorage | Latest News - KTUU.com Anchorage (http://m.ktuu.com/news/na... http://m.ktuu.com/image/v... )

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"A woman wearing no clothes destroyed a Subway sandwich restaurant in Anchorage Tuesday night. According to employees, the woman entered the restaurant on Tudor Road fully clothed at around 5 p.m. and went into the restrooms. When she emerged two hours later she was no longer wearing any clothes, and began to break the furniture, pull down ceiling tiles and throw around the food, tables and chairs inside the restaurant. Police on scene told Channel 2 that the woman appeared to be on drugs when she trashed the restaurant. Anchorage Police said they were unable to give out any information on the incident or if the woman was in custody. Investigation is ongoing." - JustDuckie - -

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EW. - JustDuckie - -

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Where Have All the Tomboys Gone? - The New York Times (http://www.nytimes.com/20... http://static01.nyt.com/i... )

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"Last year Zest Books and Houghton Mifflin published “Tomboy,” a graphic memoir for young adults by Liz Prince, 33, about her experience growing up preferring rough-and-tumble games and the jeans and sweatshirts that enable them. “If you’re in high school and still dressing like that, people think you’re definitely a lesbian,” Ms. Prince said. “But I wanted to wear boys’ clothes and make out with them, too.” The book was a critical success. But the word used for its title — and the phase of female life it denotes, even the idea that it is a phase at all — is increasingly falling out of fashion in an era when Caitlyn Jenner is more likely to be a topic of conversation on the playground than Caddie Woodlawn (the frontier tomboy of Carol Ryrie Brink’s imagination)." - JustDuckie - -

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I've usually been okay with it, but I agree that it forces girls into either "girly" or "tomboy" modes that are way too simplistic. I haven't heard the term in almost a decade, though, and I think that's a good thing. - JustDuckie - [ 2 ] -

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How writing literature is like writing code | Opensource.com (http://opensource.com/bus... http://opensource.com/sit... )

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"This article is for the English majors, the bookworms, the lovers of literature, and the people with humanities backgrounds who sometimes struggle with the question, "So do you ever use your English degree?" It's also for the people who've asked that question of their colleagues with non-STEM backgrounds, who've been confused about how someone could start in psychology and end up in Python." - JustDuckie - -

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No Bra Day is the latest way to do nothing about breast cancer. (http://www.slate.com/blog... http://www.slate.com/cont... )

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"The logic here, it seems, is that horny horndogs who like to look at breasts will see some extra nipple or wobbling flesh, ask a braless woman what her deal is or read a sexy photo’s caption, and gain some magical sense of awareness about a disease that everyone already knows about. Accordingly, most observances of National No Bra Day have leaned pornographic. A self-improvement feed called Marston 24 posted a photo of a young woman pushing her naked breasts together, an image almost certainly taken from a barely legal site. FM radio stations have served their earthly purpose, posting pictures of a headless woman wearing a sheer blouse and a headless woman with abundant cleavage. Type “National No Bra Day” into Facebook, and it’ll suggest you complete your search by adding the word photos." - JustDuckie - -

As someone who has worked on various public health awareness campaigns, my professional opinion is that this is really fucking stupid and I wish the internet would stop. - JustDuckie - [ 3 ] -

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Doctor warns against going crab crazy - Taipei Times (http://www.taipeitimes.co... http://www.taipeitimes.co... )

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"As crab season has arrived in Taiwan, Lai Hui-lien (賴卉蓮), a physician at the Ministry of Health and Welfare’s Keelung Hospital, is urging members of the public to show restraint. Crab meat is very rich in protein, which means it is not healthy to eat too much of it, Lai said, especially people who suffer from hypertension or cardiovascular diseases. People with gout or skin allergies should avoid crab completely, she said. Deemed to be “cold” in terms of Chinese medicine, crabs should not be eaten alongside with beer and pears, Lai said." - JustDuckie - -

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Dominic also agreed that seafood is 'cold' and women are 'cold' so you'd need a lot of baijiu ('hot') to pair a mermaid entree. After this he stopped answering my texts. :( - JustDuckie - [ 2 ] -

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