To what do you claim malarkey, Good Sir w-lfs-n?
Thank you, Apo. That other thread was killing me.
What did his patients say? Perhaps they're in terrible pain now because his innovative method cannot be used. Jackbooted thugs.
The Norwegian counterpart to HSAN also had cause to warn the man after he told Swedish jokes to a group of Norwegians who were mourning a death.
I wish that they had reported the specific jokes. Were they Ole and Lena ethnic jokes? Or was the problem that they were in Swedish rather than Norwegian? Or is it just that Swedes (**cough** B **cough**) have no sense of humor.
Anal massage has always worked for him. Jackbooted thugs!
The man said at the time that he considered himself misunderstood. "I have a personality disorder, or rather a syndrome, a form of Aspergers. Just like Bill Gates or Einstein, for example," he told Aftonbladet. "I have made it impossible for myself within the healthcare sector because I behave childishly sometimes. I am different, but cleverer."What were we saying about the personality disorder of "being an asshole"?
I've been told Swedish jokes by Norwegians -- at the time I was just dumbfounded that two groups of people who I found that indistinguishable could summon up that much animosity.
Two Norwegians, two Finns, two Danes, and two Swedes were stranded on a desert island. When the rescue ship came a year later, the Norwegians were drunk, the Finns were fighting, the Danes were organizing an export co-op, and the Swedes were waiting to be introduced.
two groups of people who[m] I found that indistinguishable could summon up that much animosity
My dad used to quote Freud about "the narcissism of near differences." Sweden was a foreign ruler of Norway until 1905, there was tension and awareness, and the countries have often had very different policies.
Note the Doris Lessing story on that page. A fine twofer.
Sweden would be a world power except for the stupid Danes. True fact.
Sweden Denmark would be a world power except for the stupid Danes Swedes. True fact.
Now that the Danes have Dr. Anal, the Swedes don't stand a chance.
I am different, but cleverer
uhh, yeah.
6: Seriously? But there's no animosity behind Norwegian jokes.
A Dane, a Swede, and a Norwegian were captured by the Nazis during WW II, and were to be shot. The commandant asked what their last wish was. The Dane said: "Oh, this time of year the smoked mackerel is really good -- maybe on crispbread. And new potatoes with that? And of course pastries to follow..." and went on for several minutes devising the perfect meal.
The Swede said: "I would like to make a speech, laying out in detail my political philosophy and love of freedom, and explaining how Fascism must fail because of its innate intellectual incoherence."
As the Swede was making his request, the Norwegian pulled the commandant aside and asked "Could you shoot me before he makes the speech?"
15: Sounded as if there were. The joke I told above wasn't the mean one.
treating an elderly woman's headaches and back pain with his method
This is just pervy.
18: Not pervy, just different and cleverer.
The elderly woman's voice is being suppressed. Maybe she liked it.
I really like the cover blurb from "An Old Man". No one liked it enough to be quoted by name?
Karl XII of Sweden had plans to invade England somewhere around 1715.
The 'related articles' are great: "Policeman fined for savoury tart bribe."
Is ∀X∀y"x would be a world power except for the stupid y"→"y would be a world power except for the stupid x" true? Also, do I remember anything about how to correctly write things in symbolic logic?
"the stupid y" s/b "those meddling ys"
Classic Norwegian/Swedish jokes that little kids tell aren't based on national stereotypes. They're just abderian-type jokes with Norwegians or Swedes instead.
Classic Norwegian/Swedish jokes that little kids tell aren't based on national stereotypes. They're just Abderian type jokes with Norwegians or Swedes instead.
The elderly woman's voice is being suppressed. Maybe she liked it.
Possibly. Perhaps next time you have a headache or backache you could try it and get back to us?
I like Doris Lessing's laidback attitude to getting the Nobel.
26: Damn, I was worried I'd mess something up.
There's an elderly woman next door. I'll ask her.
The thing is western attitudes towards both medicine and sex are profoundly threatened by the fact that sex is good for you. Many people are heavily invested in the idea that "therapeutic massage" is medicinal and "erotic message" is just prostitution.
Many of Dr. Anal's clients probably benefited from his treatment, just as a century ago many women benefited from having their "uterus manipulated" by an early form of vibrator. Similarly, shiatsu with a happy ending almost certainly has more health benefits that plain shiatzu. Unfortunately, you can't get any IRB to authorize a clinical trial.
To what do you claim malarkey, Good Sir w-lfs-n?
Nah, the Danes weren't shit after about 1200 AD. Classic spoilers. The Swedes kept marrying Danes in order to unify the two realms, but the wrong heirs lived and the wrong heirs died.
33: Too late. Her headache is much relieved.
In less than 3 minutes, no less. Maybe there's something to this.
35: I admit that I had forgotten.
Is ∀X∀y"x would be a world power except for the stupid y"→"y would be a world power except for the stupid x" true?
Probably not, but the Swedes certainly fucked up the Danes' last shot at it.
41: Is that bc you're continuously massaging your anus, by any chance?
35: I could've bought a used copy of that book for $9.63 and saved all that money spent on happy pills.
Also, Lessing hasn't written anything any good since "Briefing for a Descent into Hell". I can understand giving a lifetime achievement award to somebody whose achievement is seriously weighted to their early stuff, but if the good shit is balanced by a nearly equal quantity of garbage, does it still hold up?
4: Yes.
The Nobels are extremely erratic. If you made a list of the ten least impressive Nobelists and matched each of them to a meritorious non-Nobelist of the same era, the Eternal Nobel Committee would want to crawl in a hole and die.
Similarly, shiatsu with a happy ending almost certainly has more health benefits that plain shiatzu.
Is there a basis for this? I mean, it sounds like fun, but I'm not aware of health benefits from orgasm.
I am over at a friend's house. I read the article to her and her husband, and they were fairly sure that Dr. Anal has a good point. But they're libertarian perverts.
shiatsu with a happy ending sounds like a Chinese dish.
So far as I remember, Swedes used to feel a lofty contempt for Norwegians, but they really fucking hated Swedes. Then again, I'm older than Weman, and can remember travelling through Norway in a car with Swedish plates in the late Sixties, and the utter transformation of attitude when people realised we were in fact English. It was such a huge reversal of hostility for friendliness that it made an impression even on an eleven-year-old.
When Beckett's wife learned that he had received a Nobel, she said "Quelle catastrophe!" or something like that. Beckett was of much the same opinion.
health benefits from orgasm
Actually, I find it helps headaches go away.
48: I'm fairly sure orgasm has been shown to have very positive psychological effects, which in turn have excellent effects on the body. We carry tension in really weird places, some of which are not reached by ordinary massage.
That said, the one time a masseur molested me, I was delighted at the time, but later pretty horrified, and haven't gotten a massage since.
I'm not aware of health benefits from orgasm
Prostate health, yo.
We see the source of AWB's problems. Not enough massages.
56: I vowed to the platza guy at the Russian baths that he can whack me with sticks next time I'm there. There's usually a crowd watching, and it's 200 degrees, so I will feel safe.
If you are delighted at the time, does it count as molestation?
Author Margaret Drabble once described [Lessing] as "one of the very few novelists who have refused to believe that the world is too complicated to understand.''
I'm surprised they quoted the writer of that lame comic strip.
I feel really good.
That's what his anal masseur tells him, anyhow.
62: Aren't you violating the sanctity of off blog communication?
Anal communication isn't covered under the sanctity clause.
If you are delighted at the time, does it count as molestation?
What? This catalog is full of delights.
Similarly, shiatsu with a happy ending almost certainly has more health benefits that plain shiahtzu.
I'll bet.
47: Not a Henry Kissinger fan?
I understand the urge to encourage peace in the Middle East, but the Nobel committee needs to hold off on that prize until there is some actual, you know, peace.
Shih tzus require daily anal massage.
Around here "shih tzu" is pronounced "shitzoo". Fucking Wade-Giles.
Around here "shih tzu" is pronounced "shitzoo".
Is there a place where it isn't?
I presume actual Chinese people don't call the dog that.
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Does it have to be from a certified ass man, I mean, doctor?
It's funny the number of Nobel Peace Prize winners who are probably also war criminals. Any time warring parties lay down arms, there is a chance they will when the peace prize.
Arafat, Rabin, Pares, de Klerk.
So anyway, is there a reason Doctor Anal's name is never mentioned in the article?
Kissenger, Teddy Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson.
European courtliness. Or european libel laws, mostly written to punish those presuming to publish gossip about their betters.
Rush Limbaugh: "I don't even know why Gore's qualified for this. What in the hell's global warming have to do with world peace?! I have done more for world peace to promote liberty and freedom than Al Gore has. [...] My lawyers at the Landmark Legal Foundation are looking into the possibility of filing an objection with the Nobel committee over the unethical tampering for this award that Al Gore is engaging in."
I was actually thinking of the literature Nobels, but the Peace Prize is probably even worse.
Approximately correct would be sher-dzoo.
This is a nice cranky denunciation of literary prizes.
I don't know, but accused criminals name are rarely printed in Sweden before they're convicted, even when they're celebrities. There's no law against it, it's just considered unethical. Maybe it's the same in Denmark.
Ethics? Not an American idea.
I've read many scattered indications that Europe is actually more traditional and conservative than the US in a lot of ways. Futurological nihilism seems less pervasive there. But I suppose that's changing.
You know, I bet I could come up with a pretty solid argument for the medicalization of prostitution. It would be one of those arguments that everyone thinks is unsound, but no one can quite say why. It would be fun.
I'm still not buying that a massage with a happy ending has different health benefits from getting a massage and then going home and jerking off.
Masters and Johnson hired prostitutes as research subjects and research assistants.
Googling medicalization of prostitution I get plenty of people who want to treat prostitution as a public health problem, but none who treat it as a public health solution.
I actually think the health benefits of orgasm are the strongest part of the argument. And you know orgasming a few hours later would not be the same.
A lot of busy, stressed people fail to jerk off, just as they fail to eat well, fail to get enough sleep, and fail to do their daily squat and snatch. With a professional to do the job you don't "forget".
Oh well, gotta go home.
I think viewing prostitution as a medical profession is closer to being reasonable than letting children vote. Discuss.
What about that story that was going around about [Sweden?] giving vouchers to handicapped people for sex work?
87: Without pictures, your conjecture is useless.
Denmark. It could never have happened in Sweden, where it's illegal to solicit prostitutes.
I don't want to put any individual on the spot, folks -- but do you masturbate at least daily? Remember, tooth decay doesn't kill you, but prostate cancer and a lot of other things do! It's never "just a headache".....
"I've read many scattered indications that Europe is actually more traditional and conservative than the US in a lot of ways. Futurological nihilism seems less pervasive there. But I suppose that's changing."
There's something wrong with the premise here.
I don't want to put any individual on the spot, folks -- but do you masturbate at least daily?
I'm over 55, John. Are you implying the results for me would be the same as for younger men had they only been studied?
Well, what I meant was a degree of face-to-face decency and moderation in neighborhoods, families, and personal relationships. A lot of supposedly conservative Americans are actually pretty nihilistic -- what you described in #84 is actually unthinkable here.
"Conservative" isn't actually the right word, but a lot of American conservatives are semi-criminal futurological nihilists and don't fit any traditional description of conservativism I know of.
It's just like quitting smoking -- no matter when you begin a healthy masturbation regime, you will benefit. Don't think it's too late!
Also, if you're having trouble masturbating daily, consider the patch. Or hypnosis.
99: Weight lifting has enormous health benefits. You can do the dead lift, clean and jerk, and bench press too, but the squat and snatch just sound better.
Weight lifting has enormous health benefits
It's no daily masturbation, to be sure, but it's still pretty healthy.
There's a fine line between weight lifting and masturbation for some of us, pal.
You know, sometimes a bunch of old dudes talking about jerking off is just a bunch of old dudes talking about jerking off.
I'm expect apo to have a link, within the next minute or so, to a Rube Goldberg-esque contraption which jerks you off when you lift weights.
I'm sure you've all scene the Schwarzenegger clip on this general subject.
Christ, what is happening to me? Seen, of course.
I'm expect apo to have a link, within the next minute or so
Unfortunately, I'm at work.
a Rube Goldberg-esque contraption which jerks you off when you lift weights
They're called "cheerleaders."
After masturbating for a while now, I've noticed that my triceps have gotten quite firm. Is this just my imagination, or is masturbation actually a good workout for your arms?
Probably neither -- unless your penis is several feet long, you stroke with both hands, and your technique requires as much effort as using a Bowflex or Nautilus, the "workout" from masturbation is negligible. What may be happening is your muscles may just be developing normally as part of the puberty process -- this tends to happen even to guys who don't do strenuous workouts. (If you're in your 50s rather than your teens, though, this probably isn't the explanation!)
They're called "cheerleaders."
Speaking of which, I've got another date on Saturday.
"Conservative" isn't actually the right word, but a lot of American conservatives are semi-criminal futurological nihilists and don't fit any traditional description of conservativism I know of.
I don't understand the other words, but nihilists, yes, definitely.
This Frost family business reminds us all that the people who form the backbone of the Republican party basically subscribe to the Hobbesian idea of society, believe that this is the only way society can logically be constructed, and lash out at anything they see as an attempt to prevent them from coming out on top in the zero-sum game that is just around the corner.
Probably neither -- unless your penis is several feet long
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They're called "cheerleaders."
That made me laugh, in a sexist kind of way. I just got a resume from a cheerleader for one of the pro teams in the area.
Is he known to have jerked people off when they lifted weights, though?
So you're renting out the entire gym for your date so you can have some privacy? Pretty exciting.
I can't decide which is funnier: LB's northern Europeans joke, or Rush Limbaugh's self-claimed eligibility for the Nobel Peace Prize.
I don't really mind that Lessing won the Nobel, but I have to say I'd be hard put to name another writer I derived less pleasure from reading.
Who are the literature winners who are universally regarded as embarrassments? The only one I remember hearing perennially is Pearl Buck.
There's a chance that both Al Gore and Paul Krugman will win Nobels in the next seven days. If that happened, it might be worth watching Fox News for the reaction.
Cut and paste:
CARL GUSTAF VERNER VON HEIDENSTAM, CARL FRIEDRICH GEORG SPITTELER, GRAZIA DELEDDA, JOHANNES VILHELM JENSEN.
Before WWII the Nobel seemed Scandinaviacentric to a degree. Even since then there have been some dubious choices, though. William Golding? John Steinbeck?
Spanish-language poetry is amazingly well-represented with four poets and four prose authors since 1945.
125: You may want to check the link there ("Scientists Explain Chocolate Cravings").
Oh, man, I was on a chocolate bender last night. I still have a headache.
Hey, do you know what's good for curing chocolate hangovers?
Is Steinbeck now regarded as not being that good? I don't think he's that great, but I wouldn't call his winning embarrassing.
Well, Part Two is to list the guys who didn't get it.
The closer we get to the present, the better the list seems.
It's a fucking marvel that Yeats won, and that was probably politics.
Joyce? Woolf? Stevens?
Lots of them, and I'm too lazy to make a list.
Sinclair Lewis is my homie, but he wasn't really all that.
