This week saw the sale of furry bit of history at auction: a glass disc containing a sample of Dr. Alexander Fleming’s original penicillin.The final sale was $14,600, which seems astonishing considering Fleming was a shameless self promoter. According to the AP:
The Scottish-born doctor likely made at least dozens of such mold mementos, derived from his original sample of the fungus.
and
[Matthew Haley, director of books and manuscripts at the auction house Bonham’s,] noted that other bits of mold were given to Pope Pius XII, Winston Churchill and Marlene Dietrich, perhaps in an effort to cement Fleming’s legacy as the discoverer of penicillin in 1928.
Sounds a bit like splinters of the one true cross for the modern age. Hats off to the hairy scientific discovery that ushered in a new age of medicine and all that.
I know you’re all disappointed that this link isn’t full of naked otters (work unfriendly) or something like that.
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107 responses to “Fur Fridays”
I am unafraid of your emotional blackmail. I stared into the abyss of the Internet, it stared back into me, and I have become the abyss.
I’m sorry you clicked on a goatse link at some point, yo.
My first “old man on the Internet” moment was when someone explained Rickrolling to me, and my reaction was “wait, it’s just shitty, low-impact goatse?”
Yeah, I’m not a Rick Astley fan, but there are far worser things on the Internets.
Mine was pre-internet… when I remember discussing the internet with someone back in the late 90’s and saying, “The internet will never replace local BBS’s, they have their own culture.”
Four months later, I was posting on alt.discordia.
Goatse is definitely not the worst of it out there, but I probably didn’t need to say that.
I’ve been subjected to CP, I’ve seen the most abhorrent cruelty to animals, I’ve seen what ISIS and the Mexican cartels do to people (ISIS may actually be more merciful). The Internet is dark and full of horrors. I don’t even think Lena Dunham nudes would faze me at this point, though I consider it a professional courtesy not to link them to me in the event that you do possess them.
It was more a play on abyss than a crack at horror. I remember watching the Danny Pearl beheading not realizing it was legitimate until after, so it’s a bit hard to shock at this point.
you came?
I see the avatar. Why in god’s name do I sip coffee while reading what’s to the right of it? Why do I click the links to the right of it?
WHERE DO YOU GET YOUR HYPNOTIC POWERS!?
The Kanto region
Hmm, I’d have guessed the Shibuya prefecture.
Figured as much. I observe your little crack of horror. And my comment probably tread no new ground that would surprise anyone and was mostly to set the stage for the last couple of lines. 😉
Dude, way to suck the fun out of a Friday fun link.
You have an interesting way of interacting with goatse. There was an article in Cosmo recently about how to give a “rusty trombone.” I guess the old formula “x ways to please your man” has pretty much committed seppuku in the age of Buzzfeed clickbait links and Cosmo had to up its game.
Ah, goatse. In high school, my friend wrote a program that set up his little brother’s computer’s wallpaper to rotate between goatse, lemonparty, and tubgirl each time he logged in. No matter what he changed it to, goatse, lemonparty, or tubgirl was back the next time he logged in. Poor kid still cringes whenever you mention lemonparty.
Ah, the old Windows 98 Active Desktop and the hijinks it enabled. Good times.
Does anyone remember the start bar stripper programs? Little guy standing above your clock doing a strip show for you and floating above other programs? There were both lady and male porn stars who did it, but I can’t think of the program name anymore.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bS5P_LAqiVg
Kung ‘Fur’y is a guilty pleasure in pure bombastic silliness. Highly recommended.
Thank you, Jesse, for bringing the ottery goodness.
More, frisky furry otters. Totes safe for work.
More otters, launching a furry assault on a cute girl in a pool. Also SFW. 😛
Would it break the interwebs if we could get an otter interacting with otters?
Oh.
You’re not going to like my stories about hanging out with the Cree then.
Yes, I’m aware that otters are killed for their pelts. Not a fan of that, obviously.
Your point was, what, exactly?
They’re delicious.
(Best in a stew, oddly enough)
**NSFW WARNING**
You’ll probably regret clicking on this, but it’s your own damned fault for your curiosity.
An otter with some fish in a variation of the Starbucks logo.
**NSFW WARNING**
That one I like to keep around in my “fuck with the normies” folder.
*Pours a libation for Crusty* Undoubtedly, he’d be in his bunk.
There is quite a bit going on there for one dude and some fish.
I like to point out the fact that all of the dickfish, save one, are circumcised. There’s someone whose job it is to circumcise dickfish out there. That observation really fucks with people for some reason.
I didn’t notice that. I am surprised you haven’t thrown that up under Eddies Saturday “drive through circumcision” thread. Under the title, “swim through circumcision.”
Servator beat you to the fur in an earlier thread. He went full Connery.
Let’s rope off a ring and pit commentators against one another.
In this corner we have “Mr. Lizard”, give it up for our cold-blooded friend. And in the other corner, stone-faced as always, we have ZARDOZ.
Round one. FIGHT!
[cues up fight music from STTOS]
Dunno why this makes me laugh so much
My wife glanced over at my phone while i was looking at the otters. Shes been breaking my balls pretty hard now. Funny stuff.
What makes someone an otter anyway?
I’m always glad to see couples that are open about their kinks.
It’s not my kink, but you be you.
There are high-heeled nut crush videos out there. I don’t understand our species sometimes, I really just don’t.
The Monolith was meant for the octopus, but those idiots put it next to the retarded apes.
Not a bad theory.
Smart bastard would escape from his aquarium through a small hole for a while when nobody was around, return to his aquarium and then replace the rock they put over it, IIRC, so nobody would detect that he’d ever been out.
Hairy slim to slim-athletic build.
Learning shit everyday at glibs.
“Pillar Men” needs to become gay slang.
Example, “jesse.in.mb is in to otters not pillar men.”
Are you attempting to sully wholesome entertainment like Jojo with homosexuality?
There’s no homoeroticism in Jojo. None.
Also, Griffith is straight as an arrow.
Speaking of Berserk
*swoon*
This should explain it.
LOL. But not quite. The fatcat is so not a bear, at least not visibly (no facial hair). He is a masculine (aka gender normative) gay guy. Which has nothing to do with whether he is a top or a bottom.
The Sunny guy on the left approximates a twink or a slightly less masculine gay guy than fatcat. DeVito is a troll, ie short, fat, hairy bald and icky; yes, I’m a hater. Sunny guy on the right approximates an otter approaching beardom (facial hair).
So if i am lean, and not hairy, but have a beard, what would i be?
Otter or Wolf. Not everyone has chest (etc) hair so that’s not a requirement for the Bear/Otter/Wolf crowd. Some sort of facial hair is a requirement. Chest (etc) hair is preferred but not mandatory, and earns you the “furry” qualifier; not to be confused with “Furries” – the people of all sexes and orientations who dress in team mascot costumes.
If you’re not hairy except the beard probably a twink. In their purest form they’d go beardless, but since beards are hip that rule has been a bit more flexible than it was in the ’90s when one had to be completely hairless below the eyebrows. If you’ve got a smattering of body hair, say a furry butt or chest or something you can probably pass as an otter, especially if you can do a good beard.
^This. Jesse is more current.
So
Many
Rules
Think of it more like The Breakfast Club. You knew who the brains, jocks, goth kids, etc were without having them explained or rules to describe them when you were in that social milieu but explaining them to your parents would’ve gotten funny looks.
So you’re the John Hughes of gay men?
He’s John Hugest, in fact.
Ok-im not slim, hardly any body hair and cant grow any hair on the sides of my face.
Notter?
Damn it. I was pulling up that exact same link.
Ok, I had no idea otters where, uh, how do you say….hung like four legged pack animals. Wow.
Not necessarily so, but everyone loves big cock.
That’s an easily falsifiable statement.
Or the Rome formulation of it:
Atia: “…a gift of large penis is always welcome!”
Sometimes, it is indeed awe inspiring.
Sometimes? It’s hot even on a bottom.
I’m at vail. Idk why i said yes to this invite. There’s a free gramatik concert in an hour. But god damn, there are way too many people. I didn’t realize its the fucking open this weekend. At a bar. Drinking 90 shilling.
Lord help
Just open up the otters, and ask the person next to you what they think.
I hate people too much. The entrance was 3 round abouts but since its 5, everyone was leaving. It took me 6 minutes to get off the highway
This will cheer you up.
Yess
90 Shilling is great. Highly recommend!
Very good beer.
I always feel like I need to say something. Do I need to say something? Because I really don’t have much to say. Saying things can be a challenge sometimes. I mean, if you really need me to say anything I’ll do it but I’m not sure what I can add to the conversation.
If you say something without a hand up your butt people are going to be very confused.
Hi, Rufus.
You’re not obliged.
Hello?
And then what?
See? It’s all so confusing!
File under: sky blue, water wet
Democratic officials made “a mistake” by picking a 72-year-old ex-governor from a state that voted for President Trump to deliver the party’s response to Trump’s congressional speech, a prominent House Democrat said Wednesday.
…
Beshear delivered a widely mocked speech during which he accidentally claimed to be a Republican at one cringe-inducing point. The response also featured a peculiar backdrop of people sitting behind him, near motionless, in a dimly lit diner.
If want a vision of the future of Team Blue, imagine a dozen sullen old people sitting motionlessly in a dimly-lit diner forever.
That would be glorious.
The future of team blue is marches with silly hats as well as marches with red flags with a yellow hammer and sickle on it.
once i got to the “mistake” part i kept seeing Hillary’s cackling face like the Wicked Witch of the West in Wiz o’ Oz
Outstanding libertarian use of this image macro.
But it will work this time, we got the right people in charge now!!!
Doctor be all like, “COME AT ME, FUNGI”
Doctor be all like, “Where I put my sammich?”
Doctor don’t waste no time with sammich. Doctor making sciences. Woman gets sammich, or else woman gets the hose again.
Fleming made his discovery in part because he was a slob. I mistakenly believed a sandwich was involved.
I feel redeemed = laziness is just “Creating opportunity for inspiration and serendipity”
That’s my excuse.
Universe conspires once again to prove Trump right:
Muslim who claimed visa denied by Trump ban, who Schumer got into US, arrested for sexual assault of 12-year-old girl
Wait, why is he holding up a trophy…. is he a golfer? he looks like…
Ok, i don’t believe any of those words are true now. Someone just made all that up.
Oh, it’s real. I get OTA channels from Albany, and this was one of the stories, with video of the guy and the idiot schoolkids whose teacher probably set them up to write to Schumer and Gillibrand. None of the local channels has the video up for this one, however.
I was talking about how there is a World Snowshoeing Competition.
The part about molesting a 12yr old i believed instantly. I just remain skeptical that is even a “sport”, and that anyone cares that some dude from Kasmir is good at it.
And two other things I learned from looking up that story on the local sites:
1) My body, my choice doesn’t apply if you make the wrong choice.
2) Nobody’s referring to the political views of the guy who phoned in the threats to the Jewish community centers, just calling him a “jilted ex-boyfriend”.
I’m sure at least a few of you have heard about this already. It is just too good…
https://twitter.com/juanmthompson/status/836267885962145793
Bitch set me up!!!
https://twitter.com/juanmthompson/status/835254106113593344
When you’re dealing with someone who writes this stupidly, you’re probably in for one helluva ride.
Plus, I wonder just how much blood he’s covered in, considering that he seems to revel in getting monies by way of forced taxation.
Today in clumsy censorship attempts
Facebook’s motto is “to make the world more open and connected”. Perhaps it was written by the same people who wrote “Order and Progress” as the motto for Brazil.
In the evening links thread, I discussed some devious technological censorship. Might be worth the read for web dev geeks.
Haverford College creates queer-designated housing
If colleges are so dangerous for gay people that they need separate housing, why the hell are they there to begin with?
Apropos of Nothing….
Eddie Kendicks Is a Fungi
The most tempation-y of Temptations. This song is basically claiming, “I am the most magical lover on planet earth”, Smoove-B style. And you will believe him.
Eddie Kendicks
That’s a John-level typo right there.
I, for one, am going to walk away from love.
that is also v. tasty. tho not my personal taste, so much. (i;m not crazy about the higher-end production, smoothed out horns/strings, very compressed sound, etc.)
Van McCoy (the producer) was the guy who pioneered that sound. I think a lot of people who hate “the 70s” don’t know his name, but they’re thinking of him, and how after he started pumping out hits around 1975, everything started to sound like that for a while.
This is really just a good discussion of the end game of leftist identity politics.
Tim Pool interviews a psychologist on the subject of migration and crime. The oppressiveness of Swedish society at keeping people silent is highlighted in a staggering way.
And I think what it makes most clear is how important it is to have data-driven, real discussion rather than hiding behind social etiquette. Also, the guy sounds very libertarian in a country where it’s dangerous to express your views like a libertarian would advocate.
Less involved to interact with:
I think this shit is Munchhausen-by-proxy, and it needs to end.
There are few enough “there oughttabealaw” impulses from me, but this is one of the rare exceptions. Fuck!
One of the main problems with the social justice bullshit
(which is also relevant to the Days of Rage book i’m reading)
….is that the ‘justice-advocates’ (read – 20-something ideologues) are just so confident that everyone else in the world will completely abandon common-sense learned from experience if exposed to the same intellectualized-gibberish and social-pressures that they themselves find so convincing.
It doesn’t even dawn on them that most other people don’t *give a shit* about ‘virtue signalling to their peers’. They scratch their heads and wonder “”how can people be such *troglodytes* that they’d ever dare question the stuff my gender-studies professor explained to me!??” It must be because they’re oppressed by false-consciousness imposed by the Patriarchy!”” Not, you know – stuff like, “actual parenting experience”
this person more or less nailed it
Oh, be sure that @AmyDentata is all over your ignorant asses for not seeing things his/her way!
Seriously, she(?) whines about her mental illnesses and whatnot on her blog, but is absolutely the undisputed moral and scientific authority on trans kids.
It’s almost like people wrap up things like chopping off their genitals into their identity and then react emotionally and defensively when people criticize said genital chopping.
Can we all agree that everyone here is the worst?
Indeed. But some are more equal at being the worst than others.