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Awkward family photos

This is my new favorite blog. Ever.

NOTHING BEATS AWKWARD FAMILY PHOTOS, ESPECIALLY ONES AS HORRIFYING AS THESE.

—A

P.S. T-minus 5 days until I’m DONE with finals and can blog like a regular person again.

THIS IS WHY YOU’RE FAT

Deep fried cadbury creme egg.

This website for dieters is what pornography is to a monk: a trashy, I’m-going-to-feel-so-bad-afterwards-but-I-still-can’t-help-myself-anyways-it’s-harmless-because-I-can-look-just-not-touch-right?, tempting, guilty pleasure.

Mmm, heart attacks.

— A

P.S. JON AND I HAVE SUCH BIG PLANS FOR THIS BLOG, YOU HAVE NO IDEA. We’ve decided to pull a Britney and make a glorious, glorious comeback… BUT NOT YET. Hooray for ridiculously stressed college kids in a pressure cooker school during finals!

Eating from toilets

WTF. Only Asian people would come up with this.

—A

P.S. Jon and I are coming back soon, we swear. It’s just… EXAMS. END OF SEMESTER. That kind of stuff, you know?

The return of the baby daddy

REMEMBER ALFIE PATTEN FROM THIS PAST POST?

REMEMBER HOW PAPARAZZI WERE LIKE, “We bet Alfie wasn’t really the father of that girl’s baby,” AND ALFIE WAS ALL LIKE, “Don’t talk about my girl that way.”

Well, you can has a sad. Turns out DNA testing revealed 13 year-old Alfie is not really the father of Maisie Roxanne. Slutty 15 year-old Chantelle apparently said that mama told her to lie to Alfie and the press, telling them that she was a virgin when she slept with Alfie.

How ridiculous. [Jezebel]

A

Women gets naked every time you finish this beer

Australian beer. You haven’t really heard much about it.

UNTIL NOW. Those Aussies at Skinny Blonde (yup, that’s the name of their beer) have developed something truly special. It’s a low-calorie beer (which is meant to appeal to the women) with a 1950s-style pin-up (named Daisy in case you were genuinely interested in more than just her tatas) whose red bikini disappears as the beer level drops/the bottle warms up. You can thank the modern ink technology used on the labels for that last bit.

The beer was created by three bohemians: Hamish Rosser, drummer of The Vines, actor Richie Harkham, and artist Jarrod Taylor. Also, the beer was apparently a hit before the bottles were made.

—A

If this makes me more Asian…

…then fine, I’m Asian. Whatever. I can deal with that in exchange for ONE OF THESE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I’d be a rain samurai. Wait, what’s rain in Japanese? Ame? AME SAMURAI!!!!!

Image from FWD

Or, or, or, or HOW ABOUT THIS!??!?!?!!!!

JEDI I AM, UMBRELLA I HAVE. PROTECTION FROM RAIN I USE. STAY DRY I WILL. AWESOME I LOOK. (This umbrella has the added bonus of (a) being able to see at night, and (b) being seen at night by drivers.)

—A

Bulbapedia pwnz

Given the fact that Micah and Jon have started playing Pokémon Ruby around alot, Bulbapedia has become my new favorite website.

—Allie

The Pope isn’t infallible

Here’s what pisses me off about the Pope’s policy towards AIDS in Africa. Instead of making the conservative Catholic argument, “condoms may help prevent the spread of HIV, but they are immoral regardless” which is a horribly callous argument but at least somewhat consistent with current Church dogma, the Church argues that condoms aren’t merely immoral, that they’re ineffective at stopping the spread of AIDS.

The Church is simply, unequivocally, scientifically, wrong.

Jon

How to get people to join your gym

This is how Fitness First, a gym in the Netherlands, is planning to get people to join:

Yes, that is a scale in the bus stop seat. Yes, that bus stop ad is displaying the sitter’s weight for all to see. Winning business by humiliation: A-OK marketing technique with me.

—A

Steele Yourself

Everyone who was pleasantly surprised to see Michael Steele (a black guy with minimum qualifications) elected the head of the Republican National Committee is, to put it simply, to no longer pleasantly surprised. This man, who famously believes in bringing Republican Party principles to the “Urban-Suburban hip-hop setting,” who picked an unnecessary and probably accidental fight with Rush Limbaugh, and who has managed to alienate himself from just about every influential member of the party he is presumably attempting to lead, has proven himself to be worse than incompetent; he’s positively bumbling.

I was impressed when the Republicans decided to choose Steele. I had expected them to pick the South Carolinian who had, as of a year ago, belonged to an all-white country club. While Steele’s election was an initial coup for the Republican Party, a way of saying “We get it. We know we have to win minority voters if we’re going to win elections” it’s turned into something positively horrible. Because Steele isn’t incompetent. Steele, unlike many of the Republicans other options for the post, understands that the Republican Party does have to modernize if it’s going to remain competitive. He understands the Republican Party is going to have to become competitive in the cities. That the Republican Party must become competitive among youth.

Like every other Republican of importance, of course, Steele doesn’t understand that the Republican Party’s problems are not poor marketing but poor policy prescription. Still, Steele was a step in the right direction for the GOP. I worry that his failure to unite the Party and mouth non-inflammatory statements will only further convince GOP right-wingers that this is what they’re going to get when they try to court minorities.

Jon

Roger Federer knocks up girlfriend

Roger Federer, quite possibly the best tennis player ever, has impregnated his girlfriend, Mirka Vavrinec. Mirka, by the way, was a former junior women’s champion, and an extraordinary (if hardly Federeian) tennis player in her own right. So basically, their kid is going to fucking awesome.

The contest is on. Would the child of Andre Agassi and Steffi Graff beat the child of Roger Federer and Mirka Vavrinec? 20 years from now, we may have our answer.

For further discussion:
1) It seems clear that Federer’s career is on the downswing. Will the baby further accelerate this trend?
2) Even though Mirka isn’t a beauty, and Federer can sometimes look like a tool, the two kind of look cute together, no?

To continue with the Rape Theme

Not to get stuck on the whole rape theme, but the former President of Israel (the Prime-Minister, not President, is head of state in Israel, remember) has been indicted for raping female subordinates. The fellow, Moshe Katzav, gave a new definition for chutzpa, when, directly after receiving the charges, he yelled to reporters that he had been “lynched” by the courts.

Katzav had already admitted to the court that he had sexually harassed female employees, so it’s just sort of amazing that he could call the indictment of “rape” a lynching. I dunno, your thoughts?

Jon

Rapelay is fucked up

Ugh. Reading this article about rapelay, the new Japanese video game that has the videogame’s controller attempting to rape young girls, made me pretty sick (and laugh at how fucked up people are). Still, it’s a really interesting article, and goes some of the way in explaining the social context for the development of the video game.

Jon

Allie- JON TOOK MY CONTENT. HE’S A CONTENT PIRATE.

Birds stealing ice cream

Probably one of the better collections of photos I’ve seen today.

–A