On another paw, we have historically-attested evidence that people in The Past did it, though not quite for the same reasons...
'Soaking', which is allegedly something that young Mormons do so that they can have sex but not actual sex that they'd have to admit to? (Okay, am not entirely up in the spiritual practices of the LDS.)
Anyway, what it is ( Read more... )

Honestly, these people.
The disastrous voyage of Satoshi, the world’s first cryptocurrency cruise ship.
Okay, one's eyebrows hoist at the teeny-weeny cabins of this libertarian utopian enterprise, and the fact there are no kitchens, only the potentiality for sharing the restaurant kitchen -
I think we may guess that this is a project of the kind ( Read more... )

Maybe it's just me, and those recent thoughts about the Tyranny of Structurelessness as embodied in the laidback no actual rules here workplace (so you don't know what the boundaries and limits are), but this, in yesterday's Ask a Manager, Thikkt Blud with Cold: The company I work for is very emotionally oriented and feelings-driven so none of us ( Read more... )

I actually burst out laughing (with a mouthful of Yorkshire Provender Sweet Potato and Lentil soup) quite immoderate at that phrase while reading this article on people (almost entirely of the bloke persuasion) who grow giant vegetables.
We observe that the only female grower mentioned is not into enormous phallic marrows or carrots but grows ( Read more... )

I am so in concurrence with this:
Reading a book you hate? Stop right now. Life is too short to indulge in things that do not give a great return on your energy, emotion or time.
I was going to say, there is no book shortage, but I suppose there are circumstances in which this might be the case - but I would say, give up on the thing you are not ( Read more... )

The wholly dubious claim to have 'discovered' something.
There is a review in today's Guardian Saturday Review of a novel. The author, according to the reviewer 'A TV reporter by trade... has uncovered the little-known tale of the Panacea Society'.
Some years ago - a bit longer ago than I thought, honestly - I posted the following:
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Thinking about this post of
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This is very good, with the proviso that a) it's got a fair amount of dense theoretical discussion in it and b) the topic is depressing and partway through I had to break off and read a fluffy romance.
This is about the 'seduction' community in the UK, in which O'Neill managed to do embedded research (she discusses how she managed this and there is ( Read more... )

Okay, I'm probably being naive in expecting any kind of logic from people who hold Flat Earth conferences and believe that there is this massive Evil Conspiracy to delude people into thinking the world is round and in space, etc etc -
But perhaps I've read too much of the wrong sort of literature, but you'd think that if this was such a major ( Read more... )

Pamela Hansford Johnson herself (at least in later life, I will give her a pass as a 1930s teenager), her mother, and her biographer.
According to Deirdre David in 1933 PHJ won a Sunday Referee prize for a poem. The 'Poets' Corner' editor of the Referee, Victor Benjamin Neuberg, held a 'creative arts circle' on Sunday afternoons at his home in St ( Read more... )