Re: Sighted

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It seems from this that you must be doing something wrong, but I can't figure out what.


Posted by: teofilo | Link to this comment | 11-14-10 9:33 PM
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"Wrong" meaning "incorrectly" rather than expressing any moral judgment or anything. I am nothing if not nonjudgmental.


Posted by: teofilo | Link to this comment | 11-14-10 9:40 PM
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I'm sure I'm doing just tons of things wrong.


Posted by: nosflow | Link to this comment | 11-14-10 10:36 PM
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Was it bigger than a baby's arm?


Posted by: Chopper | Link to this comment | 11-15-10 12:10 AM
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I would think that if the two gentlemen were indeed "casually hanging out," the cock rings would tend to fall off, no?


Posted by: MAE | Link to this comment | 11-15-10 5:14 AM
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Not necessarily ... (wait for it!) Laydeez.


Posted by: Awl | Link to this comment | 11-15-10 5:24 AM
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"Dear Diary, I found very depressing the sight, before the movie began, of a young man in the row behind me who seemed to be depressed at my presence; fortunately, when I left the theater I was able to behold him at the intersection of 17th, Castro, and Market taking delight in seeing two guys casually hanging out, clad only in cock rings."


Posted by: JP Stormcrow | Link to this comment | 11-15-10 5:43 AM
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I would think that if the two gentlemen were indeed "casually hanging out," the cock rings would tend to fall off, no?

Cock rings: you're doing it wrong.


Posted by: Schrodinger's LOLcat | Link to this comment | 11-15-10 7:14 AM
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OT QOTD from my inner thirteen year old. A Zeit interview with Ursula von der Leyen, minister of labour and social affairs, deputy CDU leader, and Merkel's closest ally, perceived by internal party enemies as seeking to move the CDU away from proper conservative values. They're asking her why she so often poses for photos in full dressage riding gear, and whether that's a metaphor for her forcing the party into what it wouldn't do normally do. Her response:

Das Schöne am Reiten ist das gemeinsame Tanzen, das Erreichen eines gemeinsamen Ziels. Das funktioniert nur als Folge eines langen Prozesses, in dem Vertrauen, Treue und Zuverlässigkeit eine Rolle spielen.

"What is wonderful about riding is the mutual dance, the achievement of a common goal. That can only come as the result of a long process in which trust, fidelity and dependability play a role."


Posted by: teraz kurwa my | Link to this comment | 11-15-10 10:26 AM
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Why is seeing an attractive person depressing?


Posted by: Stanley | Link to this comment | 11-15-10 11:13 AM
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I guess I need to meet more of these typical Lower Saxonish laydeez.

If we're bringing up German sex-and-politics from Die Zeit, how about Charlotte Roche (author of 'Wetlands') offering to fuck Christian Wu/lff, newly elected Federal President, if he vetoes the bill to extend nuclear power? Her husband has apparently given his approval; Die Zeit also notes that, since she, like Wulff's wife, has a tatoo, all prerequisites seem to be met.

"Dem Beischlaf der Gerechten stünde nichts mehr im Weg." - I can't translate for shit, but something like -- "Let nothing further stand in the way of the Fucking of Justice!"


Posted by: x. trapnel | Link to this comment | 11-15-10 11:18 AM
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"Beischlaf", really? How prosaic.


Posted by: nosflow | Link to this comment | 11-15-10 11:20 AM
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10: That whiich is desirable but assumed to be unavailable.

You knew that, right?


Posted by: peep | Link to this comment | 11-15-10 11:21 AM
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Dem Beischlaf der Gerechten stünde nichts mehr im Weg

It's a pun on "the sleep of the just" (Schlaf der Gerechten) - let nothing more stand in the way of the just sleeping together!


Posted by: Alex | Link to this comment | 11-15-10 11:23 AM
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11: Google translates it as: Intercourse for the Righteous, which totally cracks me up and needs to be a band name. Or something.


Posted by: Parenthetical | Link to this comment | 11-15-10 11:23 AM
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or rather, "therefore, nothing more should stand in the way..." - it's a subjunctive construction.


Posted by: Alex | Link to this comment | 11-15-10 11:25 AM
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11. I love that you google proof the guy's name and then cite his job in the next phrase, like there was one of those on every street corner.

And what if he doesn't want to do it with her? "Oh shit, not another damn environmentalist to pity fuck. When do I get a quiet night in with a good book?"

Also, Google Translate is hilarious.


Posted by: chris y | Link to this comment | 11-15-10 11:27 AM
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It's a pun on "the sleep of the just" (Schlaf der Gerechten) - let nothing more stand in the way of the just sleeping together!

Oh, right, duh. Heehee. Clever!


Posted by: x. trapnel | Link to this comment | 11-15-10 11:27 AM
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10: That whiich is desirable but assumed to be unavailable.

You guys really need to work on lowering your expectations. Having an attractive person to look at is so much nice than having only ugly people to look at. Why spoil things by thinking about the doinking that you aren't involved in.


Posted by: rob helpy-chalk | Link to this comment | 11-15-10 11:43 AM
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"Neue Mit - ähm - Glieder willkommen."

Hee.


Posted by: nosflow | Link to this comment | 11-15-10 11:46 AM
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lowering your expectations

On the contrary, shouldn't neb raise his expectations? That is, assuming the attractive woman was there alone -- seeing this slightly unusual thing on her own -- she might perhaps have enjoyed conversing after the event.

On the other hand, a person might feel as though this event, surely, might leave one free to avoid thinking about such matters as boinking, so it might even be kind of annoying or depressing that an attractive person would be there to distract.

All bets are off if she was there with a companion.


Posted by: parsimon | Link to this comment | 11-15-10 12:01 PM
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I was reminded while traveling over the weekend that I seem to project some sort of Talk To Me, Stranger vibe. I think AWB has commented something similar.


Posted by: Stanley | Link to this comment | 11-15-10 12:17 PM
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I like that it describes Roche as "Germany's celebrated chronicleress of anal boo-boos" (Deutschlands berühmte Chronistin analer Wehwehchen). IANANGS, so maybe "Wehwehchen" is a little more dignified than "boo-boos," but just look at it.


Posted by: Minivet | Link to this comment | 11-15-10 2:38 PM
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I think you can just translate "Chronistin" as "chronicler"; the fact that German rigorously tracks sex in nouns like that isn't something that has to be preserved in translation.


Posted by: nosflow | Link to this comment | 11-15-10 2:42 PM
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I mean, you wouldn't translate "Amerikaner" and "Amerikanerin" as "he-american" and "she-american", respectively.


Posted by: nosflow | Link to this comment | 11-15-10 2:43 PM
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Thanks, I'll correct my proofs accordingly.


Posted by: Minivet | Link to this comment | 11-15-10 3:14 PM
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I mean, you wouldn't translate "Amerikaner" and "Amerikanerin" as "he-american" and "she-american", respectively.

SHE-AMERICAN!
STAY AWAY FROM ME!


Posted by: OPINIONATED LENNY KRAVITZ | Link to this comment | 11-16-10 3:56 AM
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