The Georgia Straight’s annual sex survey asked respondents about the most unusual place they’ve masturbated. Perhaps unsurprisingly, moving vehicles figured heavily in the anecdotal responses. I for one, will waste no time in using these hand-picked responses to draw broad generalizations about the wanking habits of an entire city.
The best quote: “Driving down the highway, changin’ lanes, jerkin’ it!” Pure gold.
EVA Air out of Taiwan has three Hello Kitty-themed jets, thanks to a licensing deal with Sanrio.
Seriously, check it out:
Apple Jet, Global Jet and Magic Jet will fly for the next year.
If you want to fly in Hello Kitty style, you gotta know the flight codes for the specific planes. Here you go:
The FAA Reauthorization Bill has passed, and many of the items in the Airline Passenger Bill of Rights have been included.
Finally, you don’t have to wait two hours before having an in-flight heart attack, and food and drink must be made available to passengers aboard planes stuck on the tarmac. Sorry, JetBlue, but that’s the way it’s gotta be. (It’s unclear, though, when the FAA Reauthorization Bill goes into effect.)
Other key provisions, all of which you’d think would be common sense:
A new era in beer-related travel: beer spas. You can soak in a tub full of beer. Chico State students have probably already done this, but, for the rest of us, a beer spa session would be a novel experience.
You could just sink into the tub and take a swig. You’d be drinking… like a fish.
Since the stout is not washed away, the vitamins have time to soak in, and skin is left surprisingly silky instead of sticky. As a bonus, spa-goers get to sip on both types of leftover beer after the treatment, ensuring a relaxing experience one way or another.
Via BBC – Travel. Always spa responsibly.
We Met on a Plane is a hookup missed connections site for when two people pass like ships in the night on a flight.
Of course, you are rarely at your sexiest when in coach class. The slouch. The drool. The droopy eyelids and sallow skin. The glazed eyes.
Still, sometimes you make eye contact with an alluring stranger doing calisthenics next to the emergency exit, and you want to take things to another level. Maybe get together in a toilet with an area greater than one square meter.
Basically, it’s like Craigslist Miss Connections, only with more specific taxonomy, and therefore easier to search. You can search the flights you just took to see if s/he’s into you. Or if they’re into you, depending upon your mojo levels.
This is one of their promo images. Doesn’t it look like a scene from Lost?
The potential for trolling is pretty high with this site, so hold a few details back in order to be sure that the real hottie is responding.
No common sense. No common sense at all. I’m talking about the DHS, mind you.
The travelers, Leigh Van Bryan and Emily Bunting, said they were detained overnight after arriving in Los Angeles International Airport last Monday, questioned by agents from the Department of Homeland Security, and then sent back on a return flight to Europe. All because Mr. Bryan joked on Twitter that he was going to “destroy America” during his trip — an apparent reference to partying — as well as dig up the grave of Marilyn Monroe — a joke.
via NYTimes.com.
The DHS commented on the issue with some boilerplate text: clearly, this really happened. There may be more to the story, but if there was some other factor in these two travelers’ histories that constituted just cause to deny them entry to the US of A, surely the DHS would have said so.
Note to visitors: my home country’s Department of Homeland Security is staffed by people who… well, let’s just say they aren’t always the brightest of the bright. Common sense isn’t rewarded, and lack thereof isn’t punished. The DHS tends to protect its own, so idiocy never really gets weeded out. It’s a fairly dysfunctional bureaucracy.
Speak slowly, using small words. If you make a joke, you have to say “that was a joke” afterwards, or they may not understand properly.
San Francisco International Airport (SFO) has opened a yoga room, which it claims is the first in the world*.
This is a brilliant idea, as anyone who has flown coach-class will tell you. Personally, I always get funny looks when I use the departure-lounge floor as a carpeted stretching mat, so the idea of a dedicated yoga room makes me smile.
Hopefully they have a strict regimen for cleaning the free mats.
The best part: the infographic for “Yoga Room”, depicting a serene figure (dare I say Buddha-like?) in the lotus position.
(*I have a tough time believing that SFO invented yoga rooms, considering how Singapore’s mega-airport featured a cinema, serenity garden, and free internet-enabled computers back in 2003: surely one of the massive Asian airports has a yoga room already?)
(via SFist)
It’s unusually cold in Vancouver at the moment: -6C. (Of course, that’s unusually warm by Canadian winter standards.)
I took some photos of Kits Pool, which was partially frozen over and dusted with snow. These close-ups of the exposed ice have an abstract look to them.
YouTuber MJRecession uploaded this video of a shi conveyor belt in Japan, shot from the point of view of a roll. Or sashimi. You get the idea.
I love the reactions of the other customers.
Tyree Callahan’s Chromatic Typewriter is a vintage typewriter hacked to type colors instead of characters. The ribbon is “a slice of a stellar spectrum analysis of the sun”.
So simple. So brilliant.
(via Boing Boing)
