By David Futrelle
People find their way to this blog in a wide variety of ways — through mentions on other blogs or in the press, from discussions on Reddit, through my posts on Facebook and Twitter. But a surprising number of visitors get here through weird search queries that have only the most tenuous connections with anything ever discussed here on We Hunted the Mammoth.
So let’s take another stroll through some of the more unexpected search queries that have led people to WHTM over the past year or so.
I always feel a bit sorry for these people; they must be so disappointed when they get here. Imagine typing in an innocent query like “hillary clinton pedavore” or “how to impregnant women with out them knowing it” (both real queries I’ve run across) and ending up, well, here, where no answers on these pressing issues can be found.
Naturally, this being the internet, many of the weirder queries have to do with sexual fetishes — or at least I’m assuming that’s what these are.
girls hairy armpit images
women who wear their hair in a bun
whitewomen who were their hair in a bun
breasts star wars
fat girl and cars
cassie jaye feet
I’ve left out some of the cruder examples; you can imagine how much worse it gets.
I’m not sure if this one represents a fetish or a complaint:
british women ass smell
I can only hope this next one is not a fetish, or a real thing even.
penis in a cat
Obviously the only penis that should ever be in a cat should belong to another cat.
There are a surprising number that relate to castration, and which seem to represent both sides of the “is castration good” debate, which apparently is a thing.
don’t want no short dick man castrate him
feminists castrating men for fun tumblr
castration is love
I’m not going to investigate this particular topic any further and I’m going to try to forget I saw any of these.
There are some queries so full of typos I’m shocked they led to any websites at all, much less this one.
hu hunted rge mannoth
stormy danielle claim the trip has small penis
But alongside all these crude and badly mangled queries, there are some, however weird, that I think deserve some sort of answer. And so, as a public service to anyone who finds this blog through search queries like the following ones, I’m going to try my best to answer them
do people who masterbate hands become soft
No.
girls who fart lose attraction
Possibly? It really depends on the size and frequency of the farts.
feminists secretly want what attractive women want
You mean like happy and fulfilling lives, good jobs, partners who love and respect them, no one to assume that feminists and attractive women are distinct categories, that sort of thing? Yes.
male feminists are pussies
No, male feminists OWN pussies, like the one pestering me for dinner right now.
what accounts for increase in female beastiality
I don’t think that’s a thing, dude.
is robot good or bad
I don’t know, dude, I really just don’t know. Honestly, I think about this all the time. I guess we’ll know when the singularity is here.
But enough depressing talk. Happily, there are some weird queries that I have actually written about here, and I’m happy to remind everyone of the answers to them right now.
freddie mercury cats
Yes, yes, yes. FREDDIE MERCURY CATS. I got your FREDDIE MERCURY CATS right here.
matt forney reservoir dogs
A reference to one of the greatest videos ever made. Alas, it has been pulled from the internet. But you can still see it in its entirely, albeit in a shrunken-down form, with commentary from Hbomberguy.
You can find an explanation for this weird bit of alt-right cinema in my post here, alongside the original Reservoir Dogs sequence and, for some reason, a video of a capybara eating celery.
This brings my survey of weird search terms to a close. Any questions?
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I think those can be blamed on misplaced faith in the ability of autocorrect to fix typos.
I regularly deliberately input ungrammatical and borderline-nonsensical search queries into Google to amuse myself. I justify it by telling myself that I’m helping to train their language-processing algorithms.
On the subject of Freddie Mercury and cats, Freddie Mercury actually wrote a song dedicated to his cat Delilah:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=yEYRoXWmWYU
I love posts like this because they just contain the weirdest search terms. One can’t make this stuff up.
Sorry! That was me, I had too much to drink and wanted to show my friends something.
Off topic but I have couple of questions for artists/graphic designers who use wacom tablets. I have an old model of the wacom intuos draw pad that I got a couple of years ago and couldn’t get to work. I’m having another go at it and failing again. I went to their site and downloaded the software, restarted the computer, etc, but I can’t get it to work in my photoshoppy apps (corel paintshop pro and paint.net). The buttons on the tablet DO work and I can use them to switch apps and stuff. But no response to drawing on the tablet with a stylus.
Do I need specific drawing software? It originally came with art rage but that has vanished.
If I do need drawing software, what’s a good cheap one? I’m looking to do cartoons and basically drawn-on collages (as well as pics for the blog).
I guess it should work in paintshop pro — when I pulled up the wacom desktop center and looked at the pen settings, it does recognize paintshop, but nothing I do seems to make it recognize when I’m drawing on the tablet.
You know as a woman who knows what pregnancy is, and has experienced it…briefly for a few months, I don’t think you can get a woman pregnant without her knowing it unless she was locked in a cage her entire life with no one to explain puberty and where babies come from to her. Even if you have sex with a whole lot of birth control you know that that shit sometimes fails. So if you got pregnant after having sex with birth control, it’s more like “oh shit, I guess that failed. You can have unplanned pregnancies, but you can’t get a woman pregnant and leave her wondering what the hell just happened, how could this possibly happen to me! Even if you get raped, you know you got pregnant from that. It’s not like you walk around thinking god chose you to birth the next Christ or anything
Not a user of Wacom tablets, but I have owned several Tablet PCs before. Windows usually plays nice with Wacom tablets. You say that the buttons on the tablet work, but that moving the stylus doesn’t seem to do anything. Might the problem be with the stylus itself?
@David
I’ve never used a tablet, so I don’t know about drawing software for them, but I do have a touchscreen laptop and what you’re describing sounds like the touch screen or pen might not be responding. If it operates on windows, try this:
1. Open Control Panel > Device Manager
2. Expand Human Interface Devices
3. Look for a touch screen device listed; if found, double-click
4. Check if it’s disabled; if so, enable
5. Check drivers; if none installed, see if any are available on the manufacturer’s website
6. Repeat steps 3-5 for a pen device instead of touch screen device
Good luck!
This reminds me of the If Google Was a Guy videos.
Robot bad when robot take job. Unless universal basic income a thing. Then robot good. Bye-bye job. Hello electronic funds transfer. Wait. This amount too small.
kupo, thanks, I looked around in settings, and the device was recognized, but it still didn’t work. After getting online with tech support and reinstalling the drivers three times, still no luck.
Does anyone know of a good basic tablet made by someone other than wacom, because I’m ready to put my fist through my tablet and never want to deal with that company again.
@Dave
Monoprice. Admittedly I went opened-and-returned route, which went cheaper, but I got a big honking 12x9in for 75 bucks. It ain’t fancy, but it does pressure fine.*
*Okay, it can be a little glitchy, but that’s generally a matter of using a different port or restarting something.
@ Lainey
‘Cryptic’ pregnancies are far from unknown.
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2019/mar/31/cryptic-pregnancies-i-didnt-know-i-was-having-a-baby-until-i-saw-its-head
Friends who do family law have had a few cases too. The backstories to those are usually pretty horrendous as you can probably imagine.
Troubelle, thanks, but ……… I GOT THE DAMN THING TO WORK. I had been using a third party stylus because I thought I lost the original, but then I found the original …. and it worked!
oh my lord, the drama. anyway, now I just have to get used to using a tablet to draw on.
Yeah, Wacom tablets and pens use mutual inductance to work. The pen is an active device, so you won’t be able to use arbitrary third party devices. This confuses people who have been trained by touch screens to think that it’s just a matter of touch.
Ariblester, somehow I missed your comment earlier, and YES YOU WERE RIGHT.
If anyone has thoughts on good cheap or free drawing software, I’d love to hear them. Have downloaded artweaver, krita and autodesk sketchbook. looking for something easy to use, don’t need tons of fancy features.
@David
Are you looking to draw raster or vector graphics?
For raster, I tend to use GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program), which is available for pretty much all operating systems. It’s got a bit of a learning curve, but not that bad compared to Photoshop and the like.
For vector, I suggest Inkscape. Both Inkscape and GIMP are free.
FiraAlpaca is my favourite drawing program. It’s free and always being updated. My only issue with it is the text tools are a bit rubbish, so I use Paintshop Pro 9 for that.
Seconding @Naglfar’s suggestion of GIMP. I still use Photoshop myself, but I’ve used GIMP and it has the vast majority of the critical features of Photoshop.
I also have a WACOM Bamboo Fun tablet I use to draw my dirty pictures. It took me some finagling to get to work, but it’s all in the driver software. Once that’s configured, whatever image manipulation program you use should have no difficulty reading it.
“Should” being the operative word.
ETA: Incidentally, my favourite part of that Lionel Richie “Hello” meme is that the rest of the song’s lyrics are on those little pull off tabs along the bottom.
It’s really weird when words have a double meaning that are extremely different from each other.
@ David;
re: tablet, I’m all in with the experience of “can’t get the #$&*# computer to run”….
I like to say I have a love/hate relationship with electronics… I love them, but they HATE me.
On the other hand, I do hold the record for having tech support people say “I’ve never seen that happen before”
🙂 🙂 🙁
@Lainy
Pretty sure that was intentional on the part of the software creators. Either that or they’re very sheltered. ?
@kupo
It’s always intentional with the FLOSS crowd. Oftentimes the acronym is bizarrely recursive to make it work (e.g. GNU=GNU’s Not Unix)
“impregnant” reminds me of this gem.
@kupo
“Yes gimp daddy. Perfect my photos. Gimpify them all”
The meeting for the naming the software. Probably.