I haven’t had the patience to go through the discussions that developed in the wake of the Men’s Rights Subreddit’s historic winning of the prestigious King Dick of Fart Mountain Subreddit of the Day award yesterday. But I did read enough to come across this little exchange, in which a heroic Men’s Rightser confessed how touched he was that someone outside the Men’s Rights subreddit had noticed the bold, brave activism of Reddit MRAs.
And then someone pointed out some other things he’s said a couple of days ago.
NWOslave, is that you?
Actually, I doubt it; NWOslave has an account under his own name there. But great minds do think alike.
Here’s the link to StarFscker’s original comment in context.
@The Kitteh’s Unpaid Help
That’s what I thought. That is also what Google Ads thought too…
CWS – about the LaTeX/latex? LOL!
As a person who works for Google ads, I can only offer my apologies and muffled snickers.
I was amused too. It was search results for LaTeX all the way down, and then the ad was “SEXY LATEX CLOTHING”… I thought it was ‘cute’ that Google made the same mistake I did.
(I don’t really want to know what ‘sexy latex clothing’ consists of because all I can imagine is a full-body condom and in any case it doesn’t sound comfortable.)
(OK, I did look it up… still doesn’t seem very comfortable.)
Bing is even worse – they have a few items and then “Images of LaTeX” with women in shiny Catwoman-type outfits. Defnitely not something I’d want to wear!
Ahem.
David issued a challenge to Manboobzers over a year ago, and no one has yet come through! We can’t let him down!
@The Kitteh’s Unpaid Help
Yeah, it seems excessively tight, squeaky, and likely to play havoc on people’s bodily insecurities.
Latex is good for sexy things like condoms and floggers and restraints, but it seems a bit of a bad idea for clothing. And imagine the sweat/fluid build-up!
And chafing! I am seeing terrible opportunities for chafing!
Plus, what if you get a really bad itch somewhere, or need to go in a terrible hurry? I’m not seeing any pluses in this gear (comfort being a non-negotiable for my clothes).
If one wears latex or rubber as clothing one needs to put talcum powder underneath. And yes, bathroom trips can be a bit of an effort.
I think they’re used for vacuum beds, where you get put in a latex envelope and sealed, but that’s not so much clothing as a full-body restraint. And apparently it can create interesting tactile sensations – I’ve never tried it personally.
I’m putting latex on the list of ‘baffling fetishes’ – I’m of the school that if sexytimes gets uncomfortable, sexytimes stops.
Hmm perhaps I shouldn’t have mentioned LaTeX (there is a reason I capitalise it like that) and then sod off to play Guild Wars 2 for 3 hours. 🙂
I’ve been making slow progress with it, TeX doesn’t seem to like ISI numbers as the return to cite{} /sigh
On the subject of ironic google ads–I once did a survey using survey monkey about how accurate Google is at guessing my fellow students’ genders (for those that don’t know, if you don’t have cookies blocked Google keeps track of your browsing, and guesses at age and gender). Anyway, for the next month I got advertisements for surveymonkey constantly.
I have mixed feelings about Google Ads–on the one hand, I don’t like ads, the the whole “keeping track of you” gives me the willies, but it does seem to cut down on the disgusting sexist ads. Mostly I seem to get KnitPicks ads, and since they are my sweater yarn supplier of choice, that only seems fair.
As it turns out, Google was no better at guessing my male classmates’ gender than a coin would be, but got women’s gender correct 80% of the time. I didn’t do anything about non-binary people, though, based on limits of sample size.
Google thinks I’m an elderly man.
I think it was the porn.
How do I get you do dress like this?
http://youtu.be/2yU0JkS5PYk
*ignores grumbles*
I’m pretty sure google (on the mac anyways) thinks I’m in the market for baby stuff, which I really don’t get. The shoe ads? Totally get that. The porn? Ok, I do watch and download Totally Legal Media. But baby stuff? Is this some feminists are women with babies thing?!
Oh…I bet it’s that I shop children’s toys…for myself… XD
Facebook thinks I really, really, really want to get married. And I don’t have to worry about anything! It’s picked out the rings and the dress and the florist for me!
It also decided I was looking for a job just about the time I got a job, which is sorta funny.
To be fair, I probably made it worse by commenting on Facebook about how Facebook wants me to get hitched. I probably made its ad algorithms think “we are the smartest algorithms! She’s getting married for sure!”
Does the florist specialise in viscaria bouquets? 😛
Tee hee hee!!
Long one here: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/19/magazine/shopping-habits.html?pagewanted=1&_r=2&hp but details the example of Target identifying a teenager as pregnant before her parents did. So having a correct algorithm is Not A Good Thing in all cases.
See, this is why I refuse to use loyalty cards. (Mum has ones where you have multiple ‘cards’, one in the form of a keyring, so she gives me her actual card and I collect the points for her. Mwhahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!)
OK, I have one loyalty card, but it’s for Costa, and all they’re likely to get off it is “When it’s hot, they buy a cold drink. When it’s cold, they buy a hot drink. They like chocolate. Sometimes they buy a cheese-and-ham sandwich, and they avoid busy times.” Costa doesn’t send creepy coupons and serves tasty beverages, so we’re friends. 😛
(This is where someone tells me that they can use that information to divine my dreams and plant subconscious cravings for mocha, isn’t it? Darn.)
@Viscaria
Facebook thinks I want to get married too. (Interestingly enough, it doesn’t advertise engagement rings to the boyfriend, who would presumably be involved in the buying.) I am not married for ideological reasons so I keep marking the engagement ring ads as “against my views,” but they seem to have decided that means I am against blood diamonds. I keep marking the “ethical jewelery” ads the same way and they keep showing up!
The only time I’ve got loyalty cards is when I’ve made a huge purchase of wool at Lincraft and getting the card brought an instant discount, or at the cafe I go to every morning – every sixth drink is free. Oh, and my favourite locally-owned-survived-Borders’-incursion bookshop, where you get a voucher every six months for 10% of your purchases.