I got this from a friend.

I was a photographer and I once was taking a picture of this attractive young woman so I told her to remove her blouse so she did. Then I told her to remove her bra and she did. Then I told her to jiggle her breasts and she did. Then she said I cant believe I had to do this just for a drivers license photo.

Approaching 5 million hits on YouTube. *quality



More from an interview of Ladybeard by Forbes:

Forbes: How old are you?

Ladybeard: I’m five years old. I’m a five-year-old Japanese girl mysteriously from Australia with the appearance of an older Australian man. But Ladybeard is a five-year-old.

Forbes: How the idea of Ladybaby come about?

Ladybeard: The sponsoring company, Clearstone, is a costume maker in Japan. I had been on the cover of Metropolis, which is Japan’s biggest English-language street magazine. The CEO of Clearstone was getting off a plane at the airport and saw me on the cover, flexing in a bikini. He doesn’t speak English so he can’t read the article, but he shows the magazine to his staff, and I just happen to know some people on his staff. So they told him who I was, and he said, “Get him in for a meeting!”
So we go for this meeting, we have no idea what it’s about, and he says, “I really want to do this thing with you. I’ve got these two girls, and I want to put you in a [music] group with them. It’ll be like Babymetal except you’ll be in it. And it’ll be awesome!” That’s how Ladybaby happened.

Basically he got tore up by a grizzly, managed to climb on it's back and start knifing it to death, and then fell to the ground when his companions finished it with rifles. The leader figured he was dead soon, so he told the other two guys to bury him when he died and catch up after.

The history is a bit muddled on whether they got scared by Indians or just stole his stuff and left, but either way they took all of his gear and hoofed it. When they caught up, they told the leader that he had died.

So Hugh came to, with no gear, covered in a fresh bear skin they had taken off the bear. He was suffering from a broken leg, the cuts on his back exposing bare ribs, and all his wounds festering. He was 200 miles from the nearest fort, with nothing to help him and surrounded by hostile Indians.

He crawled, surviving on roots, berries, and remains of animal kills. His back became gangrenous, so he lay on a rotten log and let maggots eat the dead and rotten tissue away. Later he was found by a friendly tribe that sewed the bear skin to his back to cover his exposed ribs and gave him some supplies. When he finally reached the Cheyenne river, he fashioned a crude raft and floated down the river to the fort.

Everyone thought he had died, but he recovered fully. Later he decided he would avenge himself on the two that left him behind, but he spared one because he was too young and one because he had joined the army and was kind of untouchable. The young guy was Jim Bridger, who became a famous mountain man himself as he got older.

Varoufakis strikes again. Moscovici's draft, supposedly reasonable, was yanked in favour of Dieselboom's (Djisselbloem) draft which was just the same ol', same ol'. So Varoufakis told them to shove it, and the press still paints Dieselboom as the big cheese in matters of economics.

It's not like we could have know that using the EU as a dumping ground for loyal but incompetent ministers might come back to bite us in the ass...

Though I'm not ruling out a failed attempt at a switcheroo. We've seen what they're capable of.

I can't speak to Canada's system, but I can weigh in on Medicare quality of care. My Grandmother, the woman who raised me, was diagnosed with lung cancer in her early 70's. Since I was helping to take care of her at the time, I got to see what I have to look forward to in my later life.

Consistently we had to wait for treatments to be approved and she was often delayed for patients that were not on Medicare. Additionally, every single therapy or quality of life aid was scrutinized beyond belief.

As an example, the doctor gave her a prescription for an oxygen tank and delivery system after they removed part of her lung that was not responding to chemo. Medicare refused to cover it without an 'oxygen saturation level test'. This 'test' was horrible. She had to try to breathe without the machine for multiple minutes, struggling and gasping for air. It was fucking brutal to watch, but the people that Medicare sent to verify didn't give a shit. They basically told me that if her saturation wasn't low enough after 15 minutes, she couldn't be covered for the machine. I couldn't take it, so I told them to fuck off out of her house and paid out of my own pocket for the rental.

These are just some examples, there were others before she died that made it quite clear that Medicare is not quality care. It's basically the bare minimum they have to give you to keep you alive. So this video comparing Canada's care to Medicare doesn't reassure me in the slightest and it's almost certainly an unfair comparison to their system. I can tell you I am dreading making the swap to Medicare in 20-25 years, let alone being forced into something similar sooner. As far as ACA, I don't really care. It's probably good for people who don't have good jobs or who are unemployed, but I will be more than happy to hang onto my extremely good insurance provided through my employment.

I used the 2012 budget (~$3.8T, look it up wherever), the most recent figures for total income and total taxes paid of the top 1% (which are from 2010) from the Tax Foundation, which are $1.52T and $350B, respectively, so I did a little rounding. So you can adjust my $1.2T to $1.15T, if you want.

The top 1% in wealth owned 34% of the US's total wealth, in 2007, according to Wikipedia citing a Forbes article citing this article which cites this paper by Edward Wolff of NYU. The 2010 numbers cited are 35%, but I rounded down to 30% to be safe. Then I just looked up the total US household wealth--which is harder to do than you might expect.

Wikipedia reports ~$54T for the total US household *and non-profit* wealth in 2009 (Graph), which gets its data from the Federal Reserve. If you go to p. 104 of the 2011 document, you can see that this went up to $60T. I don't know how much of that is non-profits and how much is households, so I looked at the Census data.

Unfortunately the most recent is from 2007, which is pre-crash but which gives the mean household wealth as $556k. There were about 110M households in 2007, so that gives us about $61T total--but this was pre-crash. So we can kinda compare with the Wikipedia chart and see that in 2007 the total household+nonprofit wealth was $66T. So let's just assume ~$5T is nonprofits, so households had around $50T in 2009 and maybe closer to $55T in 2011, give or take. 30% of $50T is $15T. I had made slightly higher estimates before to get my $16T (didn't see the 'nonprofit' thing there).

So all told, the data's from the census and the Fed, and I'm kinda rounding down everywhere I can. I did some extrapolating here and there because I can't find a consistent data set from any year after 2007, and it wouldn't be fair to your side of the argument to use 2007's numbers. If you can find better data or if there's something egregiously wrong, please correct me.

I don't think it was that. The best speculation on what went wrong that I've heard is that Obama went into it looking for a draw -- the campaign just wanted him to hold on his lead, so they told him to play it safe. Don't go for the jugular, don't make a big show of calling out Romney for being a liar, just be Presidential and rise above the slings and arrows of his opponent.

Instead he seemed to just leave every lie unchallenged, and largely took a pass on even trying to attack Romney.

I don't really think Obama needs the crowd on his side to be charismatic, I think he was just given bad advice by his debate coach.

>> ^Retroboy:

Obama seems incredibly comfortable in this video's atmosphere of obvious support, but the bland and structured venue of the debate completely lacked it. Perhaps he does much better when he has that sort of crowd...?

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*promote

Thank you so much for the promote!!!

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>> ^Shepppard:

This is in Equality...why?


I think it's because women can do what men can and be good at it... If you want Sheppard you can take it out but I was 50-50 so I told her to go ahead if she wants...but if she kills me because of you--I will take you down with me

I had a great High School Chemistry teacher.

One day we were having a lesson about butane, so we had a bunch of lighters that were missing their sparker rolls. We filled test tubes with butane by putting a test tube under water and pressing the gas release button on a lighter, then having the released bubbles of butane displace the water in the tube (held upside down in the water).

Once the test tube was filled with the gas, we would put a hand in the water and cap the tube with a thumb, then take it out of the water.

Our teacher said that butane was heavier than air, so we could light small pockets of butane by holding the tubes right-side up (thumb covering the opening at the top), taking our thumbs off of the top and dropping the test tube about an inch or so to make some turbulence and release some of the gas before re-capping it with our thumbs, and then having our lab partner quickly strike a sparker in the area just above the tube.

That worked great -- you get small bursts of the butane burning / exploding, but after several of the pops the butane at the top of the tube has been replaced by air and you have to give the tube a more severe drop/shake to get more butane out. We did that for a while until we stopped getting reactions.

At that point, I figured that there was probably a little more butane left in the tube at the very bottom. So, I told my lab partner that I was going to hold the tube upside down at a bit of an angle so the remaining heavy butane could run out of it, remove my thumb, and then he could spark the area at the end of the tube.

We got set, I took my thumb off the tube's mouth, and about a second later my lab partner hit the spark. Instead of the small fist-sized flashes we had been getting with the other technique, there was a huge burst like the one in this video, accompanied by a pretty loud thump. My lab partner and I had pretty much frozen in space with shock, although neither of us was injured at all except for some singed hair on my hand. Everyone else in the room spun around to see what had happened and went dead quiet.

My teacher said: "Somebody tries that one every year" and grinned.

Salman Rushdie has beaten all the levels. So he told Craig Ferguson.

OK, ok. Sorry to take up your post but:

When I lived in NYC, I had a neighbor who was raised in LA and then went to high-school and became a chef in Hawaii. He's probably one of the greatest chefs I'll ever meet. (probably just because he used to cook for me all the time)

Anyway, there was a period in New York where my wife wanted to go vegetarian again so I told her we'd try it. I'd been eating/cooking vegetarian for a few weeks when my neighbor, Mike, who I'd only met once before, knocked on our door and offered us a plate of food. It smelled really good and we didn't want to be rude so we took it and tried some.

Now, I'd never had Kalbi ribs or even heard of them before. And keep in mind I also hadn't eaten meat in a few weeks.

I know I sound little mellow dramatic, but I'm absolutely telling the truth when I say that my first reaction to eating Kalbi ribs was to bite my lip as hard as I could to prevent myself from crying in front of my wife. They were perfect. They ARE perfect when someone knows how to grill them right.

Even though I would never deviate from Mike's recipe, thank you for posting this Issy. And If you haven't tried these before, find a restaurant that makes them. If they do it right, you won't be disappointed.

Well it depends on your expectations really, I certainly think that audiobooks can be as compelling if not more so when told by a talented reader.>> ^Deano:

So a webcomic is where they partially animate the original panels from a graphic novel? Seems an odd thing to do and it doesn't really work in my opinion. It's designed to be read at your own pace, not out loud by someone else.

My moment of heroism:

I was walking past my university main building on my way in to uni that morning. There's areas in england where the road connects to a bicycle path on the pavement (sidewalklol). It's marked in red and separated by a small kerbstone from the pedestrian part of the pavement. Cyclists are SUPPOSED to be carefull when joining these from the road to make sure they don't hit the peds and vice versa. It usually occurs around complicated roundabouts where bikes can get the shaft.

Ok, so there's a girl walking along, about to step into the red area, she's checked the road which was clear from her view. I saw a bike come out of a side street very fast, swing round and go straight onto the pavement colliding HARD with the girl.

So i stopped and waited to see if all was well, she got up and was clearly shocked but started walking away as the big guy on the bike started going "OI YOU, COME HERE. NO DON'T WALK AWAY, GET HERE NOW." This girl really wasn't sure what to do, she was so intimidated by this guy and she was caught between running away and standing still. This guy seemed really unhappy about hitting her and coming off his bike, he had no regard for if she was ok, just the fact that he wasn't ok and his bike wasn't ok.

So the second time he yelled "COME HERE!" I decided to get involved. I yelled at him "Leave her alone you idiot!" And marched right over to him (oh i can be quite brave when i'm annoyed at someone). He stopped yelling but still didn't want to lose the girl. "No don't walk away, come back here," he said. So i said "No, if she wants to go she can go where she likes." At which point, she legged it, clearly scared.

So the guy turns his attention to me now and said "She's just walked right into me!" So i say "No, i saw the incident, dickhead, you're meant to be a lot more careful."

He said "So who's going to pay to fix my bike then?" So i told him i'd take a look at it for him, cos i'm a cyclist myself.

This is when the reason for him not wanting the girl to walk off became apparent - it was a reasonably expensive racing bike, and where he'd fallen, he was going so fast that the handlebars which normally look like -.- (best i can do) had been COMPLETELY bent over so it almost touched the other side, so it looked like this =.

My solution? I laughed and said "Oh i can't fix that hahaha." And off i went.