"It is only the great men who are truly obscene. If they had not dared to be obscene, they could never have dared to be great." - Havelock Ellis

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The base rate fallacy (in evaluating an individual, ignoring the distribution of the underlying population and relying overly on information about the individual in particular) is interesting, because it would seem to be what PC people advocate doing (judging people purely upon their individual qualities and ignoring the categories they belong to). Of course, anyone pointing this out is liable to be labelled as a hate-monger.

Another contradiction in feminism is the claim that women dress up for themselves. This taking of sartorial choice at face value is most curious, given that the ideology sees hidden (or not-so-hidden) structures and motives everywhere else.


One reason why I am not so hot about most opera is that drama and showiness are emphasised, sometimes at the expense of the music. Incidentally, this applies to many Romantic pieces as well. Another reason includes the almost continuous vibrato that the singers use, which intensifies the ugliness of the chicken-stuffed-down-throat phenomenon.

With all the complaints by Upper-Middle/Upper Class people about how the cost of living in Singapore is so high, it is sobering to know (even if it does not put a stop to the bitching) that in a Golden Village (GV) ad I saw, they were hiring people to clean the cinemas for $750/month (excluding OT) and projectionists for $950/month (also excluding OT).

Hurr Hurr was asking me to explain why men like used female underwear (in relation to 'Pam'). I first explained that it was due to proximity to objects of desire - the gonads, but she invoked the 5 second rule (fresh is good, stale is disgusting). In the end I gave up and extended the rule of understanding feminine irrationality to male kinkyness - don't try to understand it, since even the people involved don't, and just accept it (this lets us make sense of 2girls1cup as well).

There's a business selling 'C-cup' cupcakes. Uhh.

MFM says from personal experience (both firsthand and thirdhand) that Macs are bad at picking up wireless networks.

During Prohibition, did they cook with alcohol?

'Coffeeshop' was the name of a porn magazine in Hong Kong in the 60s.
[Addendum: Someone: 'interestingly enough, my lecturer explained that in the 17th to around the 19th century, coffeeshops (in addition to taverns, bars, etc) were places were men conducted sexual liaisons
so maybe the 60s porn magazine's title wasn't too strange']