Interesting Links for 09-01-2017

[andrewducker]

Dogs poop in alignment with Earth's magnetic field (tags: dogs magnets wtf ) Terrifyingly Dangerous Dogs Behind “Beware Of Dog” Signs. (tags: dogs cats cute ) What directors are thinking when people ask them about continuity (tags: movies comic funny ) The future of IRC (tags: Technology thefuture comic funny ) How to give the worst blow job

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[kalimac]

1. Continuity: I am interested in how technical problems like actor availability force changes in storylines. For instance, Amber Benson's unavailability to return to Buffy the Vampire Slayer for the "Conversations with Dead People" episode forced a rewrite to use another character, that I thought made the story much more powerful

[bart_calendar]

But that's based on your cat's experience. Wildlife would have no expectation of being taken to the vet. Your cat has a reasonable expectation of that.

[kalimac]

That would make sense if the cat was generally terrified of us. She was not. We were also the providers of food and other good things.

Continuity

[cartesiandaemon]

Yeah. When I did a tiny bit of writing, I realised how much ideas grow on ideas, and very practical seeds (I can't do that because X, or I need a light-hearted scene here, or I need a hobby for this character) can grow into a major chunk of book. And much more so when hundreds of people are collaborating.

I have very mixed feelings about *finding out*. Sometimes it grows so organically that it's very much a part of the work, and finding out in retrospect is fascinating and charming. Sometimes, I'm a bit too close to it (like reading a serial), and it's hard not to feel like the original idea is the "real one".

When I'm a GM in DnD, I always want to ask players if they guessed which bits were planned and which I just planned on the spot around their actions. But I also don't want to ruin the magic, if they have a good idea, I want them to feel like they *discovered* it, not that I just rearranged stuff so it would work because I liked it.

[bart_calendar]

There are a lot of articles out there about how to make blow jobs go faster (a few written by me.)

When I'm done them I've always been told by the client that they are meant to help escorts out but that we can't say that but that people will get that's what we mean.

And escorts often have good reason to want to make blow jobs finish faster whether it's more appointments in the day or if the dude is particularly boring or if she has to pee but knows it will annoy the client if she stops to do so before he shoots.

[andrewducker]

That's a context I can totally understand it in.

Dogs poop in alignment with Earth's magnetic field

[cartesiandaemon]

Huh. That does sound very interesting. I'd be interested to know if anyone more experienced at reading scientific papers than me can vouch for it sounding fairly certain or not?

Re: Dogs poop in alignment with Earth's magnetic field

[mair_aw]

not according to the article's comments from people watching their dogs, but...

How to give the worst blow job ever

[cartesiandaemon]

It's a good article, but the headline keeps making me wonder what the standard for comparison is. Was there must be some blow job where the principals were startled, and injured in a freak accident, and never recovered, and it started a war between their countries which lasted hundreds of years and founded bitter ethnic tensions which linger to this day. Or maybe I'm just overly pessimistic about worst cases :)

RE: How to give the worst blow job ever

[andrewducker]

https://xkcd.com/883/

"I wore men’s clothes for a month – and it changed my l

[cartesiandaemon]

Oh yes. Despite so many complaints about women's clothes, that hadn't occurred to me as a thing to try. But it sounds like it went pretty well.

Re: "I wore men’s clothes for a month – and it changed my l

[naath]

mmm, I think the author is quite lucky. I'm short, and have a big waist/hip ratio and so men's trousers basically never fit comfortably (too tight or falling down) and are invariably too long (mens shirts are much better than ladies shirt at fitting though). And men's shoes don't come in a 5 (except in specialist retailers, which are expensive).

I'm unconvinced by pockets on trousers, I don't see how stuff doesn't fall out every time you sit down. I like my bag - it withstands inversion and shaking and other inconvenient things.

RE: Re: "I wore men’s clothes for a month – and it changed my l

[cartesiandaemon]

Yeah, that's true, it was good *for her* but doesn't work for most people.

I also got the idea she may have some fairly high-end (by my standards) mens clothes, which may be *somewhat* more flexible?

RE: Re: "I wore men’s clothes for a month – and it changed my l

[andrewducker]

I very occasionally lose things from pockets, but only if they're overstuffed.

Generally speaking, the weight of objects pulls the pockets down, so that when you sit down the pockets are still at right angles to the ground.