So tired of links to this woman’s project floating around like it shows some kind of mind blowing revelation about size and perception in society.

The concept is kind of cool—a woman has herself photographed in various places to show how people look at fat/unattractive people in public. And some of the looks she catches are quite possibly someone going “phhht fat person, lol”. But the majority of them? Not so much.

Picture break down of reactions from this link:

1. Why is this woman having someone take a picture of herself sitting?
2. Oops, almost bumped into you/why did you stop in the middle of the street?
3. What are you picking up/why are you leaned over like that?
4. Possibly legit with the mom. The kid is just holding her hand in front of her tummy.
5. What is that giant thing you have in your hand/why are you standing in the middle of the street?
6. Coughing/yawning.
7. Why do you have a huge ass map out?
8. Why are you on a swing at a playground?
9. Possibly legit, most likely laughing at something the person with her said (you can see she’s walking next to someone).
10. Why are you carrying a purse in the ocean?

Seriously, this doesn’t show anything mind blowing. People look at you when you do weird things in public. It happens. And stopping in the middle of a crowded walkway in the middle of people walking, holding a giant map while in that crowded walkway, taking pictures of yourself just sitting, having a purse in the ocean, etc, are all weird things. As much as I love swing sets, being an adult sitting on a swing is also pretty weird.

Again, the concept is cool, and it could be even cooler if the results actually proved her hypothesis. But it doesn’t. Sorry.

Okay, so last month, Rich (and the rest of our team) raised over $1000 for the Epilepsy Foundation. Because of this, he had to do all three of his self imposed challenges: do the Atomic Wing Challenge at Quaker Steak, wear a soul patch for a month, and get Barney tattooed on his bum. We did the wings this past weekend, and he was in the process of getting the tattoo this afternoon and just sent me a pic of the finished result. The soul patch is ongoing.

So here is him doing the wing challenge:



My phone died part way through the experience, but really only the beginning reaction is all that funny. The rest of the time he just sweated and gulped milk. The sauce is 150,000 heat index point things. He put a little on my tongue so I could taste it and just that drop made my mouth burn like crazy, but I'm also kind of a wuss. Either way, he made it through...and paid for it the next two days. We really could use sound proofing in our bathroom. And need to buy more matches. x_x

And now for the tattoo...cut because, well, boyfriend bum. The side of boyfriend bum, but still. Boyfriend bum.

( Bum's away!!Collapse )

His charity for this month is the American Widow Project. They give support to the widow/ers of fallen servicemembers.

His self imposed challenges are:

Raise $100 and switch to Pepsi for a month (he hates Pepsi and drinks about a case of Coke a week)
Raise $500 and keep legs shaved for a month
Raise $1000 andface a 10-person paintball firing squad.

If you wanna be awesome and donate, go here.

Huh. The dude who writes Waspsi Square (a webcomic I've read for about a decade which I'm not linking on purpose) has been my FB friend for a few years now. He's actually the one who friended me. And up until now he's seemed like a pretty rational fella.

But it seems he's unfriended me due to my comment on a post he made about a zero policy case where a senior in high school (which the article mentioned is an eagle scout and a church goer, as if that matters in any way) forgot he had his shotgun in the car that he had been using over the weekend and drove onto school grounds with it. When he noticed it, he called his mom to ask her to come get it instead of driving home because he didn't want to take the hit for being tardy. His call was overheard, the school administration found the gun, called the cops, and he's being charged with a felony (that there's no way he'll be convicted for).

His argument was the zero tolerance policies are stupid and lazy and he shouldn't have gotten in trouble because he was trying to fix his mistake.

I pointed out that it was pretty dumb for him to just stay on campus with it and that they couldn't really make an exception in his case because what happens when the next kid claims it was an accident but he really meant to kill people? This isn't a case where a kid brought a squirt gun to school, he brought a real firearm (and the fact that the article mentions that he did his senior project on gun safety is rather ironic, imo). I asked if he would be as passionate if the gun had been found before he had a chance to make the phone call. He said that, in that case, he would say the kid should hang.

So I pointed out that it makes no sense to be for zero tolerance in one case, but not another--especially when it's a before and after scenario of the same case. And then I was defriended so I couldn't see it anymore. All the while he was capslocking the hell out of me and saying I "sounded dense". Rude.

Guess I won't be reading his comic anymore. Which is kind of a shame since I've been reading it for so long, but really, it's one that I just read out of habit anymore, anyway. He's also kind of struck me as kind of hypocritical, anyhow, as he has a lot of stuff on his FB about body positivity and feminism and objectification of women and how women are beautiful at any size, but all of his characters have large boobs and small waists and the art he draws to sell are all characters in very skimpy outfits. And he's a brony. So there's that.

Still. Weird.

Rich's cause of the month: American Widow Project.

It is a charity that helps widow/ers of service members.

His challenges:
$100--switch to Pepsi for a month (he hates Pepsi and goes though about a case of Coke a week, so this would be a lot of pop he doesn't like).
$500--keep his legs shaved for a month.
$1000--face a 10-person paintball firing squad.

http://www.crowdrise.com/CrazyGoodDeeds-AWP

I just forgot how to spell 'maybe'. maeby? mabey? meaby? Seriously, I tried all of those before going, 'oh yeah, the y is in the middle of the word'. Sigh.