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Dating advice from an Idiot
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
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He's completely asexual, he has a girlfriend but in the three years they've been dating they've had sex twice, "I'm not really a fan" he explains to me.
For someone who isn't a fan he takes an unhealthy interest in my sex life, or lack thereof, and pries me for nonexistent details, eventually, getting nowhere he begins to offer advice...
"Treat 'em mean, keep 'em keen..." he says, he's follows a certain dating guru and explains to me what I'm doing wrong..."A lot of guys think that if they complement a girl they'll get them, but what you gotta do is insult 'em, tell 'em that lipstick is horrible or that dress makes them look fat...get their attention". This guru, think Tom Cruise in Magnolia.
He ruminates a moment, contemplating his own failures, "I think that's what I've been doing wrong" he says, as if somehow he's been the fount of human kindness, and I have to laugh, any girlfriend of his has to endure his 7:00 PM bedtime, his taste in movies (any docu-drama on WW2), his gifts ("I didn't draw her name in the gift exchange...") his cooking (aged leftovers stirred together in a pan), he's got the recipes for neglect and abuse down to a fine art, only he doesn't realize it...
2014 Media Errors and Corrections
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Link of the day
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A fine list of some of last years more noteworthy media errors and corrections, many of the "corrections" are far more interesting and amusing than the articles that prompted them.
Link: http://www.poynter.org/news/mediawire/306801/the-year-in-media-errors-and-corrections-2014/
On a related note, searching youtube for news bloopers yields some humorous results.
The X Files
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
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Having rediscovered a series I really should have watched in the 90's I began a marathon of stupidity, descending into the labyrinthine rabbit warren that is the X Files. "The Truth is Out There", never so out there as the stories that run roughshod over countless absurdities and convoluted plot-holes, preposterous, hierarchical nested conspiracies dealing with aliens, hybridizations, colonization, monsters, miracles and paranormal phenomenon. Strangely compelling, delighting in the bad retro suits, trench coats, haircuts and computers, the recognition of various guest stars (a young Jack Black and Scott Evil, still evil), in the end I could only manage three seasons. The best episodes were the stand-alone ones; internet dating done right in "2Shy" (and, believe it or not, I've been on worse dates), the best town picnic ever in "Our Town", and the outstanding: "Jose Chung's From Outer Space".
The Memory Hole
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: WTF
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Too disturbing to even embed here, found video footage with an appropriately creepy overdubbed soundtrack.
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgwAhFM3JMU
Completely OTT. Should you choose to view and find yourself slightly (or seriously) disturbed, see the bright side in that no matter how you look at it, your "range" just grew an awful lot broader...
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