Tag: wtf

So it has come to this.

A cultural trend in my country follows a particular course, with few variations. A marginalized minority or subculture produces it. It propagates via pop culture, especially music and film. Teenagers adopt and adapt it. A major motion picture blesses the trend. Older people who idolize teenagers take it up. The rougher edges of the trend have been removed at this point and it is a marketable commodity. It is now an ordinary and acceptable part of daily social life.

At this point, if the activity has any physical expression at all, it finally and permanently becomes a method of exercise.

The New Porn Culture of suburban middle-class America is no exception.

Cardio Pole Dancing

google insanity

why, when I search Google for “rio texas” does it give me two sets of results about things like the Rio Grande and Del Rio, TX with a set of results about Aristophanes sandwiched between them?

Screenshots at these links (large .png files, 65-70k apiece):

The Purple Monkey Dishwasher is writing the San Bernardino Sun

This bar is charming for its with locals some in most in their 40s or 50s.

While patrons sip beer pool, live bands drop and Saturday nights to cover songs. One noteworthy Eliah, sings out when stage.

At the far San Bernardino lies the Inland premier concert known as Roadhouse, Crossroads.

indoor bar, several pool tables expansive with another huge lighted can fit 1,200 Angel’s mostly cover and classic rock Friday through Sunday p.m. Each Wednesday mic hosted by Diatribe, Tuesdays and Thursdays to karaoke crowds.

http://www2.sbsun.com/livinghere/nightlife/ci_2733027

Edit: This entire thing was created by an angry broken robot out of some marketing material. It’s the most amazing piece of “journalism” I’ve seen in a while: http://www2.sbsun.com/livinghere/

We are all The Onion now.

character sets are hard

I get an RSS feed of the craigslist personals, two categories. This is a fine use of technology to help me find future stalking victims.

A lot of the posts on craigslist personals are from prostitutes or something close to it, and those posts get yanked. And there are also the usual Internet weirdos who will use anything as a message board, including one guy who keeps posting about how he doesn’t like fat girls, and people who get trolled by him and post things back at him. And all of these posts come out as individual personal ads too, and then get yanked.

About a week ago, I started seeing dollar amounts in a lot of postings. They’d say things like “Viet girl in irvine looking for LTR – $28”. I wondered what the hell? Were they all prostitutes? And if so, why so cheap? Had Mr. Troll managed to break in somehow and insert prices on all the women to make some more trouble?

I finally clicked through on one today and “Work too much? No time to find a nice lady? (OC) $24” turned out to be “Work too much? No time to find a nice lady? (OC) – 24”. For some reason the feed is prepending a dollar sign to all the ages of the personals posters.

So, yeah, that’s the story of how bad character sets in RSS feeds ruined my dream of cheap sex in Orange County.