Interesting Links for 24-02-2016

[andrewducker]

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[momentsmusicaux]

147 quid seems pretty steep for a handjob.

[andrewducker]

I think you're underestimating the classiness of the handjob.

[momentsmusicaux]

Even if it's classy, it's only 15 minutes.

Also, article doesn't say whether they're hiring.

[andrewducker]

Considering a change of profession?

[slemslempike]

I thought the blind fingering date thing meant in the dark (like the dining in pitch blackness thing), and am much less interested to find that you actually have to see the person touching you. Also discussed it with a friend who thought she would much prefer to have a go on a stranger's dick than have them fiddle with her.

[hfnuala]

I think this is the same weird cult that is in The Wild Oats Project, a memoir which made me really dislike the author from about the first chapter (in fairness, I think she knows her actions were !!!) The author moves into the OM headquarters in San Francisco.

[slemslempike]

Apart from disliking the author, was it an interesting memoir to read? I am feeling quite prurient at the moment and may give it a go.

ETA: Give the memoir a go, rather than the blind fingering date.

[hfnuala]

Well, I finished it. It was mostly about when to stay in a relationship and when to go with added casual sex.

I have it on my kindle, we could try and see if I can lend it to you?

(also when I googled it, google told me there was an email about it in my gmail. Creepy much gmail?)

[kalimac]

1) I guess I'd agree that the aesthetic goals of studio blockbuster films and indie films are different enough that they count as separate art forms, in the same way (though emphatically not for the same reasons) that I've long felt that concert music and opera are different art forms that should not be treated as parts of the same thing. But not all studio films are of the blockbuster category

[andrewducker]

If I bump into a good indie film review site I'll let you know!

I agree about movie rewind. It was a lot slower with the image showing, and it was completely unnecessary to do that for going back to the beginning.

I should note that it's not Andrew Hickey's claim there, he's just reblogged it from somewhere else (and I've lazily linked to where I've seen it, rather than going back to the source). I do agree that Tolkien may be problematic (or, at least worthy of discussion in that area), but he was clearly not actually racist. As is made very clear Here (a quote I'm sure you're familliar with).

[kalimac]

Oops, I didn't notice the quote lines on the post. For my part, I wouldn't quote something so long, I'd just link to it myself and quote bits within a context of my own comments. Others may do as they like, but they run the risk of me misreading them.

Oh yes, I know that quote. That's the version Tolkien and his publishers didn't send; the one they did was probably more polite. But this one is wonderfully sarcastic. (Even more so in a part the quoter left out, where, speaking on his professional authority as a philologist, he rags the Nazis on their misuse of the word "Aryan".)

If someone says that Tolkien was racist by today's standards, I won't argue with them. But if they're going to use that big a bucket, I think they have to acknowledge there are different kinds and degrees of racism, and not to confuse an old-fashioned Tory, which is what Tolkien was, with the BNP.

[naath]

That's just how tumblr does things :(

[octopoid_horror]

That "two kinds of film" thing is kinda silly

[gwendally]

That DHL guy has the one of the most dramatic estate issues I have ever heard! I do estate planning for a living. I will be working "muriatic acid" into my conversation in the future.