Interesting Links for 18-02-2016

[andrewducker]

Massive sickly drink with shitloads of marshmallows found to contain sugar (tags: sugar funny OhForFucksSake ) Cancer 'vaccine' that remembers disease and fights it years later is developed by scientists (tags: cancer immune_system ) Why UK wages aren't growing in line with jobs (tags: wages money jobs uk ) Apple takes a stand against

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[gonzo21]

It's not so much the endless march of silicone enhancement I notice about the playboy thing, but the deployment of more and more photoshopping. The earlier women look so much more like real women you might expect to meet. With creases and wrinkles in places where bodies naturally crease and wrinkle. And different shades and textures to their skin. Instead of the mono-skin tones of photoshop enhancement. It's really striking seeing it like this.

[bart_calendar]

The really interesting thing you can see in the playboy stuff is how

1: Initially they were like "we are going to show nipples!"

2. Then about six months in the government starts hassling them about whether or not they can legally show nipples so for about a year and a half they come up with really arty ways to almost show nipples but then have a flame or something obscure the nipples.

3. Then the courts rule in their favor and it's nipple heaven.

4. Then later, when Penthouse started becoming really popular suddenly you are seeing pussy when they had never even come close to showing pussy before.

[ticktockman]

In 1977, Hugh Hefner was the guest host for Saturday Night Live. In one of the sketches he was shown discussing philosophy with Socrates and Plato. They leave him to ponder, yet again, "The ultimate question... to go pink, or not to go pink".

Season 3, Episode 3. http://snltranscripts.jt.org/77/77cphilosophy.phtml

[benicek]

Hahaha. Those hot chocolates. I did wonder what the Christ I had just comsumed when I drank one the other day. Must have been 50% sugar.

[nancylebov]

I didn't go through all the centerfolds, just looked at a few of the earliest and most recent. It's my impression that they got a little thinner (more rib definition) and possibly were more likely to be looking directly at the viewer.

[kalimac]

1) I discovered how much sugar there is in chocolate when the ultra-dark chocolate fad started and I discovered what chocolate tastes like without much sugar. Ugh! Yech! Phooey!

2) Apple's statement on privacy is more extensive than what I've seen previously reported, and seems specifically designed to respond to the most inane objection I've seen to their stance, "But it's just one phone."

3) Unlike others, I can't yet respond to the parade of centerfolds because the file is just so annoying to deal with. I thought just leaving the tab up and doing something else would let all the pictures load, but not on my Firefox. They won't load until I get there by scrolling, and the pictures are so large they all load slowly. And there's hundreds of them.

[kalimac]

I finally was able to browse through the centerfolds, and found myself most noticing - as I did in other "sexy" glamour photos of the time - the epidemic of Big Hair that hit during the 80s. This seems to have reached its apex in Playboy with Miss June 1986, whose hair is bigger than she is.

My standards of beauty were set during my own youth in the late 60s and early 70s, and many of the ones from that period still strike me as the prettiest.

However, among them from that period is, of all people, Liv Tyler's mother, and knowing that while looking at her naked just seems very weird, even though I'm close to Mom's age and a full 20 years older than Liv.

[andrewducker]

June 86 does have an impressively big hair style.

I looked up Liv Tyler's mother. And yes, it did feel weird.