(FoodNetworkHumor)
January 22, 2010
Damn You Europe And Your Awesome Food . . . . .
Glasgow's Scooby Snack Is Binge Food Par Excellence
"[The] Scooby Snack is binge food par excellence. Fried egg, flat sausage, bacon, cheese, potato scone, and a burger patty are crammed into a floury roll then slashed with cheap, sweet ketchup the color and consistency of fake blood."
(SeriousEats)
"[The] Scooby Snack is binge food par excellence. Fried egg, flat sausage, bacon, cheese, potato scone, and a burger patty are crammed into a floury roll then slashed with cheap, sweet ketchup the color and consistency of fake blood."
(SeriousEats)
A Bold Statement By A Bold Man . . . . .
Alain Ducasse: London is the restaurant capital of the world
France’s most famous chef, Alain Ducasse, has more Michelin stars than Gordon Ramsay and - unlike his British rival - a growing empire
'Ducasse enjoys a profile that makes Ramsay look like the kind of guy who ticks “X for no publicity”. And when it comes to Michelin, Ducasse can claim 19 against Ramsay’s 11, with only Joel Robuchon (25) standing between him and planetary domination.
“There has been a revolution in London in the last 10 years,” he says. “The restaurant scene is very interesting. Michelin should give it more stars; it’s mean. You should interview the editor and ask him why [he doesn’t]. London is the most important city in the world for restaurants. It was level with New York, but the product has developed more here in the last five years. I think Michelin is a bit conservative.”
British chefs would concur - but off the record, late at night, with hand clasped over lips. For to complain about the current constellation of stars is to risk the wrath of the Michelin gods, who might then refuse to shower these restaurateurs with their celestial light.
Ducasse sympathises, recognising that London offers more varied dining experiences than Paris. “In Paris we have bistros, then we have fine dining. In London you have a very contemporary scene with mixed influences.” He points to three recent “undercover” London experiences at Café Anglais, Roka and Launceston Place which he “loved” for a caviar and mackerel mousse, “a combination I’d never find in Paris. The basis was French but with English taste.” All three restaurants, he feels, deserve greater Michelin recognition."
(Telegraph.co.uk)
France’s most famous chef, Alain Ducasse, has more Michelin stars than Gordon Ramsay and - unlike his British rival - a growing empire
'Ducasse enjoys a profile that makes Ramsay look like the kind of guy who ticks “X for no publicity”. And when it comes to Michelin, Ducasse can claim 19 against Ramsay’s 11, with only Joel Robuchon (25) standing between him and planetary domination.
“There has been a revolution in London in the last 10 years,” he says. “The restaurant scene is very interesting. Michelin should give it more stars; it’s mean. You should interview the editor and ask him why [he doesn’t]. London is the most important city in the world for restaurants. It was level with New York, but the product has developed more here in the last five years. I think Michelin is a bit conservative.”
British chefs would concur - but off the record, late at night, with hand clasped over lips. For to complain about the current constellation of stars is to risk the wrath of the Michelin gods, who might then refuse to shower these restaurateurs with their celestial light.
Ducasse sympathises, recognising that London offers more varied dining experiences than Paris. “In Paris we have bistros, then we have fine dining. In London you have a very contemporary scene with mixed influences.” He points to three recent “undercover” London experiences at Café Anglais, Roka and Launceston Place which he “loved” for a caviar and mackerel mousse, “a combination I’d never find in Paris. The basis was French but with English taste.” All three restaurants, he feels, deserve greater Michelin recognition."
(Telegraph.co.uk)
Driving Shoes Finally Get A Style Upgrade . . . . .
Santoni crafts driving shoes for the Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG
"Driving a supercar upside down in a tunnel requires some fancy footwork, even if there isn't a clutch pedal to manipulate. Fortunately the Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG has got the right footwear thanks to a collaboration with Santoni. The Italian clothier, which has shared a longstanding relationship with Benz's performance house, has crafted these specially-made, FIA-certified driving shoes.
Presented recently at the Pitti Uomo 77 boutique in Milan, the SLS AMG driving shoes will be available to buyers – and presumably to fans – of the corresponding supercar in black, and soon in a variety of colors to compliment the high-performance machine. The laces, though, open like any other shoes, not like the gullwing they're made to accompany."
(AutoBlog)
"Driving a supercar upside down in a tunnel requires some fancy footwork, even if there isn't a clutch pedal to manipulate. Fortunately the Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG has got the right footwear thanks to a collaboration with Santoni. The Italian clothier, which has shared a longstanding relationship with Benz's performance house, has crafted these specially-made, FIA-certified driving shoes.
Presented recently at the Pitti Uomo 77 boutique in Milan, the SLS AMG driving shoes will be available to buyers – and presumably to fans – of the corresponding supercar in black, and soon in a variety of colors to compliment the high-performance machine. The laces, though, open like any other shoes, not like the gullwing they're made to accompany."
(AutoBlog)
Finally An Explantion . . . . .
Face-Detection Cameras: Users' Racism Charges Explained
" But why? It's not necessarily the programmers' fault. It comes down to the fact that the software is only as good as its algorithms, or the mathematical rules used to determine what a face is. There are two ways to create them: by hard-coding a list of rules for the computer to follow when looking for a face, or by showing it a sample set of hundreds, if not thousands, of images and letting it figure out what the ones with faces have in common. In this way, a computer can create its own list of rules, and then programmers will tweak them. You might think the more images - and the more diverse the images - that a computer is fed, the better the system will get, but sometimes the opposite is true. The images can begin to generate rules that contradict each other. "If you have a set of 95 images and it recognizes 90 of those, and you feed it five more, you might gain five, but lose three," says Vincent Hubert, a software engineer at Montreal-based Simbioz, a tech company that is developing futuristic hand-gesture technology like the kind seen in Minority Report. It's the same kind of problem speech-recognition software faces in handling unusual accents.
And just as the software is only as good as its code and the hardware it lives in, it's also only as good as the light it's got to work with. As HP noted in its blog post, the lighting in the YouTube video was dim, and, the company said, there wasn't enough contrast to pick up the facial shadows the computer needed for seeing. (An overlit person with a fair complexion might have had the same problem.) A better camera wouldn't necessarily have guaranteed a better result, because there's another bottleneck: computing power. The constant flow of images is usually too much for the software to handle, so it downsamples them, or reduces the level of detail, before analyzing them. That's one reason why a person watching the YouTube video can easily make out the black employee's face, while the computer can't. "A racially inclusive training set won't help if the larger platform is not capable of seeing those details," says Steve Russell, founder and chairman of 3VR, which creates face recognition for security cameras.
The blink problem Wang complained about has less to do with lighting than the plain fact that her Nikon was incapable of distinguishing her narrow eye from a half-closed one. An eye might only be a few pixels wide, and a camera that's downsampling the images can't see the necessary level of detail. So a trade-off has to be made: either the blink warning would have a tendency to miss half blinks or a tendency to trigger for narrow eyes. Nikon did not respond to questions from TIME as to how the blink detection was designed to work."
(Yahoo)
" But why? It's not necessarily the programmers' fault. It comes down to the fact that the software is only as good as its algorithms, or the mathematical rules used to determine what a face is. There are two ways to create them: by hard-coding a list of rules for the computer to follow when looking for a face, or by showing it a sample set of hundreds, if not thousands, of images and letting it figure out what the ones with faces have in common. In this way, a computer can create its own list of rules, and then programmers will tweak them. You might think the more images - and the more diverse the images - that a computer is fed, the better the system will get, but sometimes the opposite is true. The images can begin to generate rules that contradict each other. "If you have a set of 95 images and it recognizes 90 of those, and you feed it five more, you might gain five, but lose three," says Vincent Hubert, a software engineer at Montreal-based Simbioz, a tech company that is developing futuristic hand-gesture technology like the kind seen in Minority Report. It's the same kind of problem speech-recognition software faces in handling unusual accents.
And just as the software is only as good as its code and the hardware it lives in, it's also only as good as the light it's got to work with. As HP noted in its blog post, the lighting in the YouTube video was dim, and, the company said, there wasn't enough contrast to pick up the facial shadows the computer needed for seeing. (An overlit person with a fair complexion might have had the same problem.) A better camera wouldn't necessarily have guaranteed a better result, because there's another bottleneck: computing power. The constant flow of images is usually too much for the software to handle, so it downsamples them, or reduces the level of detail, before analyzing them. That's one reason why a person watching the YouTube video can easily make out the black employee's face, while the computer can't. "A racially inclusive training set won't help if the larger platform is not capable of seeing those details," says Steve Russell, founder and chairman of 3VR, which creates face recognition for security cameras.
The blink problem Wang complained about has less to do with lighting than the plain fact that her Nikon was incapable of distinguishing her narrow eye from a half-closed one. An eye might only be a few pixels wide, and a camera that's downsampling the images can't see the necessary level of detail. So a trade-off has to be made: either the blink warning would have a tendency to miss half blinks or a tendency to trigger for narrow eyes. Nikon did not respond to questions from TIME as to how the blink detection was designed to work."
(Yahoo)
Will This Influence You To Go Eat There More Often . . . . .
Burger King Will Sell Beer In New Whopper Bar
"Burger King will announce today that it will sell Anheuser-Busch and MillerCoors beers at a new concept restaurant called Whopper Bar that is opening in Miami's South Beach neighborhood in mid-February, Bruce Horovitz reports. It will compete with casual dining restaurants.
"You can have America's favorite beers with America's favorite burger," says Chuck Fallon, president of Burger King North America. Other labels will be added in the future, as might locations in other tourist hot spots such as New York, Los Angeles and Las Vegas.
A beer and a Whopper will cost $7.99, which is about two bucks more than a Whopper and a fountain drink costs. "The Burger King customer is aging, so they're just trying to grow up with the customer," says restaurant consultant Linda Lipsky, who thinks the move is a smart one."
(MediaPost)
"Burger King will announce today that it will sell Anheuser-Busch and MillerCoors beers at a new concept restaurant called Whopper Bar that is opening in Miami's South Beach neighborhood in mid-February, Bruce Horovitz reports. It will compete with casual dining restaurants.
"You can have America's favorite beers with America's favorite burger," says Chuck Fallon, president of Burger King North America. Other labels will be added in the future, as might locations in other tourist hot spots such as New York, Los Angeles and Las Vegas.
A beer and a Whopper will cost $7.99, which is about two bucks more than a Whopper and a fountain drink costs. "The Burger King customer is aging, so they're just trying to grow up with the customer," says restaurant consultant Linda Lipsky, who thinks the move is a smart one."
(MediaPost)
This Is Why You Don't Mess Some Fat People . . . . .
Mia Landingham,300 pounds, convicted of suffocating boyfriend by sitting on him
"Mia Landingham had been drinking all day when she got into a fight with boyfriend Mikal Middleton-Bey at their Cleveland home. Landingham punched him in the face. Bey grabbed her. That's when she knocked him to the ground and sat on him...
At the time, she weighed in at a hefty 300 pounds. Bey, a mere 120 pounds, was fighting way out of his weight class. By the time she got off him, he wasn't breathing. He later died of asphyxiation.
In court yesterday, Landingham said she was sorry for squashing the father of her 3 children, who have since been taken in by relatives. Judge Carolyn Friedland apparently felt sorry for her. Landingham was sentenced to just three years of probation and 100 hours of community service."
(TrueCrimeReport)
"Mia Landingham had been drinking all day when she got into a fight with boyfriend Mikal Middleton-Bey at their Cleveland home. Landingham punched him in the face. Bey grabbed her. That's when she knocked him to the ground and sat on him...
At the time, she weighed in at a hefty 300 pounds. Bey, a mere 120 pounds, was fighting way out of his weight class. By the time she got off him, he wasn't breathing. He later died of asphyxiation.
In court yesterday, Landingham said she was sorry for squashing the father of her 3 children, who have since been taken in by relatives. Judge Carolyn Friedland apparently felt sorry for her. Landingham was sentenced to just three years of probation and 100 hours of community service."
(TrueCrimeReport)
2010 Newport Restaurant Week Highlights . . . . .
Delish deals at Newport Beach Restaurant Week
BEST $15 LUNCHES
I haven’t been to Rockin’ Baja, but the reviews are decent, and so I have no qualms about endorsing their gargantuan menu. You have several choices, and one possible lunch would start with lobster corn chowder, have a main course platter that features chicken, shrimp, lobster, carne asada, rice beans and tortillas, and then finish with fried ice cream. Details are here.
Next, I really like Il Farro, where I dined at during a previous restaurant week and snapped the pic above. It’s not super-super gourmet, but for the prices, it easily stands out from typical gutbomby Italian food. You can start with shrimp bisque, move to salmon with spinach and finish with house-made gelato. Details.
Sage has perhaps the best bargain anywhere - start with short ribs, move to blue crab mac ‘n’ cheese, finish with Meyer lemon polenta cake. Details.
Finally, a brand-new restaurant called Matahari caught my eye. The menu actually doesn’t look like much of a deal - the “first course” is a soft drink - but they offer one of the world’s greatest sandwiches, a pan bagnat, which features tuna, hard-boiled eggs and various other goodies. Details.
BEST $20 LUNCHES
I really like Tommy Bahama’s in CDM, and it ain’t cheap, so I highly recommend a visit this week. One menu option would be crab bisque, followed by beef tenderloin salad with the signature tamarind vinaigrette, finished with a slice of key lime pie.
The Cannery is a sure bet - one possible combo starts with a panko-crusted crab cake, then sous-vide prime short ribs, and finally a chocolate molten cake. Details.
The Ritz has another steal - start with Caesar salad, go to pan-seared filet mignon tips with Diane sauce and potatoes, finish with dessert trio. Details.
(Finally, all the Pascal restaurants have nice menus in both the $15 and $20 categories, but they always have great prix fixe offerings, so I would save them for later.)
BEST $25 DINNERS
One choice would probably be the Bungalow, where you can start with a wedge salad, move to pork tenderloin and finish with a chocolate souffle. Details.
Even better, to me, is the menu at Pescadou, a very nice French bistro. The menu is very wordy, but trust me, it’s delish. Details.
BEST $35 DINNERS
Not a lot thrilling me at this price point, but there are a couple exceptions. One is The First Cabin at the Balboa Bay Club, where you can start with portobello mushroom ravioli, move to crab-filled sole and finish with Grand Marnier bread pudding. Details.
Five Crowns - purveyor of the prime rib shown at top - is another winner. Start with, say, lobster bisque, move to the prime rib and then finish with an English trifle. Details.
There you have it folks - click here to peruse all the menus. Happy Eating!
(OCRegister)
BEST $15 LUNCHES
I haven’t been to Rockin’ Baja, but the reviews are decent, and so I have no qualms about endorsing their gargantuan menu. You have several choices, and one possible lunch would start with lobster corn chowder, have a main course platter that features chicken, shrimp, lobster, carne asada, rice beans and tortillas, and then finish with fried ice cream. Details are here.
Next, I really like Il Farro, where I dined at during a previous restaurant week and snapped the pic above. It’s not super-super gourmet, but for the prices, it easily stands out from typical gutbomby Italian food. You can start with shrimp bisque, move to salmon with spinach and finish with house-made gelato. Details.
Sage has perhaps the best bargain anywhere - start with short ribs, move to blue crab mac ‘n’ cheese, finish with Meyer lemon polenta cake. Details.
Finally, a brand-new restaurant called Matahari caught my eye. The menu actually doesn’t look like much of a deal - the “first course” is a soft drink - but they offer one of the world’s greatest sandwiches, a pan bagnat, which features tuna, hard-boiled eggs and various other goodies. Details.
BEST $20 LUNCHES
I really like Tommy Bahama’s in CDM, and it ain’t cheap, so I highly recommend a visit this week. One menu option would be crab bisque, followed by beef tenderloin salad with the signature tamarind vinaigrette, finished with a slice of key lime pie.
The Cannery is a sure bet - one possible combo starts with a panko-crusted crab cake, then sous-vide prime short ribs, and finally a chocolate molten cake. Details.
The Ritz has another steal - start with Caesar salad, go to pan-seared filet mignon tips with Diane sauce and potatoes, finish with dessert trio. Details.
(Finally, all the Pascal restaurants have nice menus in both the $15 and $20 categories, but they always have great prix fixe offerings, so I would save them for later.)
BEST $25 DINNERS
One choice would probably be the Bungalow, where you can start with a wedge salad, move to pork tenderloin and finish with a chocolate souffle. Details.
Even better, to me, is the menu at Pescadou, a very nice French bistro. The menu is very wordy, but trust me, it’s delish. Details.
BEST $35 DINNERS
Not a lot thrilling me at this price point, but there are a couple exceptions. One is The First Cabin at the Balboa Bay Club, where you can start with portobello mushroom ravioli, move to crab-filled sole and finish with Grand Marnier bread pudding. Details.
Five Crowns - purveyor of the prime rib shown at top - is another winner. Start with, say, lobster bisque, move to the prime rib and then finish with an English trifle. Details.
There you have it folks - click here to peruse all the menus. Happy Eating!
(OCRegister)
This Part Of The Story Had Me Intrigued This Morning . . . . .
Vick returns to scene of crimes
"The first episode does offer a glimpse, however, at answering that question. Vick said he saw his first dogfight as a 7-year-old. Vick's brother, Marcus, tells the cameras that growing up "we never knew there was nothing wrong with it."
Michael Vick said on Thursday that dogfighting was a part of black culture.
"When you grow up in the inner cities, when you grow up in the urban neighborhoods, that's pretty much what you get," Vick said. "You don't have opportunities to do certain things at your own leisure. When you have down time, if you're not playing football, basketball or baseball, then you're looking for some activity to get into."
(SI)
"The first episode does offer a glimpse, however, at answering that question. Vick said he saw his first dogfight as a 7-year-old. Vick's brother, Marcus, tells the cameras that growing up "we never knew there was nothing wrong with it."
Michael Vick said on Thursday that dogfighting was a part of black culture.
"When you grow up in the inner cities, when you grow up in the urban neighborhoods, that's pretty much what you get," Vick said. "You don't have opportunities to do certain things at your own leisure. When you have down time, if you're not playing football, basketball or baseball, then you're looking for some activity to get into."
(SI)
If Far And Away Land Really Existed It Would Make This List . . . . .
Top 10 Places You Can’t Go
The world is full of secret and exclusive places that we either don’t know about, or simply couldn’t visit if we wanted to. This list takes a look at ten of the most significant places around the world that are closed to the general public or are virtually impossible for the general public to visit.
"RAF Menwith Hill is a British military base with connections to the global ECHELON spy network. The site contains an extensive satellite ground station and is a communications intercept and missile warning site and has been described as the largest electronic monitoring station in the world. The site acts as a ground station for a number of satellites operated by the US National Reconnaissance Office, on behalf of the US National Security Agency, with antennae contained in a large number of highly distinctive white radomes, and is alleged to be an element of the ECHELON system. ECHELON was reportedly created to monitor the military and diplomatic communications of the Soviet Union and its Eastern Bloc allies during the Cold War in the early 1960s, but since the end of the Cold War it is believed to search also for hints of terrorist plots, drug dealers’ plans, and political and diplomatic intelligence. It has also been involved in reports of commercial espionage and is believed to filter all telephone and radio communications in the nations which host it – an extreme violation of privacy."
1. RAF Menwith Hill
Complete list here (ListVerse)
The world is full of secret and exclusive places that we either don’t know about, or simply couldn’t visit if we wanted to. This list takes a look at ten of the most significant places around the world that are closed to the general public or are virtually impossible for the general public to visit.
"RAF Menwith Hill is a British military base with connections to the global ECHELON spy network. The site contains an extensive satellite ground station and is a communications intercept and missile warning site and has been described as the largest electronic monitoring station in the world. The site acts as a ground station for a number of satellites operated by the US National Reconnaissance Office, on behalf of the US National Security Agency, with antennae contained in a large number of highly distinctive white radomes, and is alleged to be an element of the ECHELON system. ECHELON was reportedly created to monitor the military and diplomatic communications of the Soviet Union and its Eastern Bloc allies during the Cold War in the early 1960s, but since the end of the Cold War it is believed to search also for hints of terrorist plots, drug dealers’ plans, and political and diplomatic intelligence. It has also been involved in reports of commercial espionage and is believed to filter all telephone and radio communications in the nations which host it – an extreme violation of privacy."
1. RAF Menwith Hill
Complete list here (ListVerse)
This Would Make For An Awesome Desktop Background . . . . .
Asian Guy Responds To I-A-B Food Comments. You know how I-Am-Bored has been a little skittish about all the photos of weird Asian food? An Asian chief responds . . . . .
(IAmBored)
Why Our Home Is Our Castle . . . . .
Grill
Men like grilling. It’s just something in our blood. Have you ever seen just one guy by himself in a Home Depot looking at grills? No. There is usually a group of 2-4 guys all looking at grills; usually arguing about stainless steel options and thermal units they have no real understanding of. It’s a big purchase for most guys (when buying a grill we always buy way more than we need), so we need to factor in out friends opinions. And when we get it home and assembled, it’s time to grill. And grill we shall. For every meal for the next month. “Honey, we don’t need to go grab something to eat. We can grill.” “Honey, why don’t you just invite everyone over here and we’ll have a few drinks and grill.” The urge to grill eventually subsides, but women will always be haunted by the statement “That’s why we bought the grill!”
Massive HDTV
Another one of those purchases that takes more than one male arguing about horizontal scan lines and Blu-ray capability at a Best Buy. All guys can agree that watching sports on these televisions is almost better than being at the actual game. Hell, with a comfortable couch, a couple of buddies and beer that cost less than $11 a piece, it’s usually more enjoyable. The grass on the field becomes greener. The video games become more realistic. And the likelihood of a man leaving his television when a major sporting event is taking place becomes that much more unlikely. And have you seen the number of football games on ESPN in December? Just pencil me out of Christmas shopping this year because between the Meineke Car Care Bowl and the Gaylord Hotels Music City Bowl, I’m just not going to have time for anything till February.
Playstation 3/Xbox 360 with internet connection
Hey, remember all those guys from college I used to stay up all night drinking and playing video games with? I can start having all that fun again with this Xbox and this headset! Isn’t that awesome? Well it would be if most guys could pull themselves away from an epic Halo battle, or the gritty realism of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. “Sweetheart, I just really can’t go to your sister’s art opening because I’m at WAR, right now!” “I can’t go to bed because I’m kicking Klaus from Hamburgs ass right now. It’s the Germans, baby! If we would have rolled over and gone to sleep the last time the Germans invaded–we’d all be “die Deutsch sprechen,” right now. And I will not sleep, bathe, eat, go to work, socialize or leave this couch until I know our borders are safely secure on this Playstation 3!” I don’t have one because of this reason, but I have to admit the games are pretty sick. And when they get “too sick,” this happens.
Internet porn
Have you seen the amount of porn on the internet? Go check, I have some time. Isn’t that insane? You can’t type any word without a porn site popping up in your search queue. Type “Teacher”–porn pops up. “The Brady Bunch”–porn pops up. “White Christmas”–I don‘t really want to think about how they‘ve twisted that one around, but I’m sure that lots of crazy stuff. My point is that it is awesome! All men think about is sex and then someone created something that actually thinks about sex ten times more than we do and then made it free to watch. Like a man’s love for nude and semi-nude women, internet porn is the real never ending story. And have you gotten the emails, tweets, and pop-ups about webcam sites? Strippers don’t even have to leave the house anymore! It’s truly an amazing time we live in. But, some guys will never leave the comfort of the warm glow of their personal computer because of the mesmerizing power of a woman’s bare breast. Probably closer to thousands of bare breasts. Oh, and that clown on the unicycle…
Massage Chair
Beautiful. Comfortable. Built in seat warmer…it’s like sitting on a cloud full of tiny Asian masseuses. After a hard day at the office or at the dog track, it’s always nice to come home to a piece of furniture that can melt you to its leather and kneading the stress out of your lower back. Massage chair, beer and ESPN; the most comfortable and relaxing way to unwind after work. Three beers later and we aren’t leaving the apartment tonight unless there is a fire or the Victoria’s Secret bus breaks down in front of our house. And even then a guy would probably think, “If I get out of this chair, I’ll get meet Marissa Miller. If I stay in the chair, I’m comfortable and definitely won’t have to change a tire…ah, screw em. I think they’re all married anyway.”
A sex robot
Sex Robot. What is that some sort of band or something. It’s a what?
First of all, that face is terrifying. I’m sure millions of dollars went into the development of the production of Roxxy and that was the best face and voice you could give her? I’m pretty sure that having sex with that would give me unrelenting nightmares and months of therapy, but I’m sure there are many men lining up to get their hands *ahem* among other things on one of the most carnal of technological feats. In 100 years we went from traveling across the Oregon Trail by horse and carriage to sex robot. It’s both wildly astounding and somewhat depressing. But you can rest assured that if these robots become will probably become way less creepy looking/somewhat socially acceptable at some point in the future. And when that day when robotic Megan Fox comes out…a large population of the male population will simply disappear.
The combination of all of the above into one awesome “Mancave”
And there a are the select few that have compiled all of the items above into a giant “Mancave.” Bears, like men, will hibernate in their caves during the winter–because that’s when all the good sports are on. Everyone knows that. There are probably guys reading this while sequestered deep in their cave like Batman on Labor Day. Guyism salutes you guys for building your own perfect “manspace.” And we don’t expect you to leave it any time soon. If the outside world needs you they will come and get you. So, turn on your massage chair and have Roxxy pour you a stiff drink. You just sit here and relax while perusing Guyism’s backlog of humorous articles and pictures for the rest of the day. You earned it, Champ.
(Guyism)
You'll Never Believe What This Is Used For . . . . .
The Pussy Pump -- The New Sex 'Craze' You Haven't Tried
"What's a pussy pump, you ask? Well, you shameless nympho, it's a plastic cup that looks like something a fireman might use to give you oxygen, attached to an air-filled bulb. The purpose, ostensibly, is to make your downtown Detroit all engorged without having to use conventional methods, like getting turned on or having a midget punch you in the crotch (or, ideally, both).
What? Why? Even AdultToy.com, one of the retailers pushing the pump, seems a little mystified. "Why blow up your pussy?" asks the product description. Why indeed! "Some women report increased sensitivity, and men report increased tightness." The site also notes the inclusion of a "Free Demonstration DVD" to "show you how it's done, step by step." (Hey, anything's better than "Glee.")
Still mystified? I was too. So I asked Ian Kerner, sex and relationship counselor and author of "She Comes First," why pump?
"About five years ago the FDA approved a clitoral therapy device for women who suffer from inhibited arousal," Ian explained. "The whole topic in general (the medicalization of low female desire) is a controversial topic, but this therapy device was approved by the FDA and is basically a small vacuum pump that goes over the vulva and sucks air out, encouraging blood flow to the genitals. I would have to say that the idea of using a vacuum pump to encourage blood flow to the female genitals is nothing new, but sexual-science research has shown that female desire is much more complex than merely facilitating blood flow to the pelvis."
(LemonDrop)
"What's a pussy pump, you ask? Well, you shameless nympho, it's a plastic cup that looks like something a fireman might use to give you oxygen, attached to an air-filled bulb. The purpose, ostensibly, is to make your downtown Detroit all engorged without having to use conventional methods, like getting turned on or having a midget punch you in the crotch (or, ideally, both).
What? Why? Even AdultToy.com, one of the retailers pushing the pump, seems a little mystified. "Why blow up your pussy?" asks the product description. Why indeed! "Some women report increased sensitivity, and men report increased tightness." The site also notes the inclusion of a "Free Demonstration DVD" to "show you how it's done, step by step." (Hey, anything's better than "Glee.")
Still mystified? I was too. So I asked Ian Kerner, sex and relationship counselor and author of "She Comes First," why pump?
"About five years ago the FDA approved a clitoral therapy device for women who suffer from inhibited arousal," Ian explained. "The whole topic in general (the medicalization of low female desire) is a controversial topic, but this therapy device was approved by the FDA and is basically a small vacuum pump that goes over the vulva and sucks air out, encouraging blood flow to the genitals. I would have to say that the idea of using a vacuum pump to encourage blood flow to the female genitals is nothing new, but sexual-science research has shown that female desire is much more complex than merely facilitating blood flow to the pelvis."
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