I recall my little brother (maybe all of five years old) saying he didn't like his penis and wanted to go to the pharmacy to get a vagina. Can't help but wonder what gave him the idea that they'd sell those there, but naturally I can't ask him now.

"Somebody invents a technology, and everybody in the world starts _____ing."

Shiniez sparked my girlfriend's interest in BDSM. I have no complaints.

It seemed to take forever for five o'clock to roll around, and when it finally came Frederick all but sprinted out of the office. Today of all days he couldn't be late in getting back home.

You make a really good point, of course. That's exactly why you don't want the government making rulings on eugenics in the first place — there's certainly going to be abuse of that power on every level.

I hope someone's got a few seconds to educate me, because this is the one thing that I always stumble over. So I understand that sex = your chromosomes/genitalia and gender = your behavior and self-expression, in a sense.

I could almost swear my grandmother had one of these in her house. Yes, one of the really small kind. (About knee-high I'd guess.) Heavy as anything.

Sexually-driven competition seems to fuel a lot of social conflict, I agree. A lot of seemingly pointless aggression (especially of the female-female or male-male sort) can be explained this way; you're trying to prove to yourself or to others that you're a fitter mate than the next guy, whether or not you realize it.

One of the arguments against eugenics is that mankind is pretty terrible at selecting which traits are "good" and which are "bad". Especially in the 40's, a lot of acquired traits (tendency to crime, certain mental illnesses, etc) were so poorly understood as to be thought to be genetically heritable.

They almost look like they've got a coat of guard hair (the long/stiff fur) without any undercoat (the soft insulating stuff.) All the places where they look baldest are where the guard hairs would be thinnest and undercoat most prominent — face, legs, belly, etc.

They think that breasts evolved to advertise sexual maturity. According to this theory (and it's pure speculation of course) quadripedal humans initially looked at butts to determine if someone was fertile (as hormones will change the shape and dimensions), but after we started walking on two legs we needed some kind…

According to my Japanese nerd these girls are moe personifications of WWII Japanese warships. I kid you not. It's a thing going around on 2ch right now apparently.

Uta no Prince-sama actually.

The image was tweeted out by Japanese Twitter user Homomanko, who added a "Shuddup shitty glasses." The image was retweeted over thirty-seven thousand times and spawned a slew of anime art style parodies.

These things! They're to keep the flies off your dinner before you sit down to eat it. Are these a Chinese-only thing (I've only ever seen them in Chinese households) or do other cultures have them?

Before I clicked I assumed the article was about psychic driving; this is only slightly less horrifying that that. Try being in a coma for months while tapes play repetitive statements (or just noise) to you on a constant loop.

This. I'm honestly impressed to visit someone's house and find more than a few books of any sort, especially when the person can explain intelligently why X is an awesome read.

I consider both Escape from New York and Cherry 2000 to be worth watching if only for the kitsch value. Neither was meant to be entirely serious (I think), but three decades later they're definitely funny in ways that were unintentional.

I've watched almost all of these movies; many of them multiple times over. Some because they were awesome and some (Liquid Sky, Videodrome) because I couldn't for the life of me understand what they were about. The synopsis in the article does a good job of explaining Liquid Sky (inasmuch as it could be said to have a…

RE: the royalty-with-superpowers motif...this is the premise of a lot of Hong Kong comics. Only instead of just the nobility, it's all the major world political leaders, either current or historical. Think of giant Hitler and giant Stalin duking it out Dragonball style (and calling out attacks like 'Power Of The…