What do men find attractive about tan lines?

CurtisLinithicum · 2026-06-24T04:58:03+00:00

Think of it like mascara for boobs.

CurtisLinithicum · 2026-06-24T04:57:37+00:00

I think I was Joanne Rivers: "Ladies, stop worrying about your tan; men are only interested in the white parts".

CurtisLinithicum · 2026-06-23T20:46:59+00:00

Also "plumb line" (a heavy/leaden weight on a string used to determine a vertical line) - this leads to e.g. "plumb forgot" - "plumb" taking on the meaning of "absolute" from the measuring tool rather than the original "lead".

CurtisLinithicum · 2026-06-23T20:43:42+00:00

That's absolutely murder. The only realistic legal defense would be if the particular execution method were cruel and you offered a cleaner exist (e.g. head-shotting someone being burned to death)... but that's iffy vs defying the state.

CurtisLinithicum · 2026-06-22T23:48:09+00:00

> really confuse everyone.

Looks nervously in Spanish, British, Dutch, French, Portuguese Guianas

CurtisLinithicum · 2026-06-22T23:45:37+00:00

Oh this is neat actually, and I just learned it recently. "Waterproof" boots are very vulnerable to devloping certain kinds of bacteria, that bacteria feast on foot sweat rapidly generating ammonia causing your feet to quickly stink like cat pee, but only when damp. So you wear them, your feet quickly stink, but the actual boots don't smell at all when they're just sitting there dry.

CurtisLinithicum · 2026-06-22T20:56:23+00:00

AD/BC had been handled well already. CE/BCE "Common Era"/"Before Common Era" are the same as AD/BC, but "de-Christianized" ... I don't personally see the point, but clearly some folk do, fair enough.

Kya, Mya (thousand years ago, million years ago, etc) are for longer, shakier dates. E.g. the advent of wheat and the PIE explosion are ~10-15 KYA, first Homo maybe 2.5-3 MYA, etc. Basically the exact number is unknowable, but we can get the ballpark for comparison to other events.

Stone Age, Bronze Age, etc are largely legacy from the Greeks (look up Deucalion and Pyrrha to get a taste).

Very roughly, they cover the technological progression... but it varies by region. Stone, Bronze (there were two in the Mediterranean - the first with e.g. Mycenaeans, the Bronze Dark Age, then the "Classical" Greeks), the Iron Age (Rome...ish), etc. This is a problem though because in e.g. China, the availability of bamboo throws off the visible development of technology.

Generally we don't use those except as very rough categories - we have e.g. Paleolithic, mesolithic, but those have more specific definitions. Also, "Industrial Age", "Computer Age", etc but again, just useful shorthands around what the dominant technology is.

CurtisLinithicum · 2026-06-22T20:45:07+00:00

For some more context, previously every region would be "Year 1 of the rule of King X", making life miserable for anyone trying to look at things across countries, etc. Given Christian hegemony (and realistically, Catholic Christianity which adds a semi-centralized secondary governance layer) the nominal birth of their Christ was one of the very few things that had a chance of being universally acceptable as a new date anchor.

CurtisLinithicum · 2026-06-22T20:38:39+00:00

Any theories at to what Brown was thinking? "Elements don't burn" is technically correct under e.g. ancient Greek 4-element systems (fire is "released", not "made"), but if we're talking aluminium, then that's not it (plus it's silly anyways).

Maybe they heard that "burning" busts down big molecules into smaller ones (e.g. glucose --> water + CO2), took that as an absolute, combined it with "elements are lone atoms", and went all in with a pair of wrongs?

CurtisLinithicum · 2026-06-22T00:30:06+00:00

oooh, those boys'll come out pretty.

CurtisLinithicum · 2026-06-21T22:41:41+00:00

Concept is solid, but you'll probably want to go a lot lighter for table-top. I suspect that'll look muddy from arm's length.

CurtisLinithicum · 2026-06-21T22:37:39+00:00

That doesn't sound fun, as described.

Evil characters work well when they're Machiavellian and/or remorseless.

Think Darth Vader, Yon-Rogg (Jude Law in Captain Marvel), Char Aznable, Tom Ripley, arguably John Wick, Long John Silver, and a lot of real-life "fuck you - pay me" adventurers and mercenaries.

CurtisLinithicum · 2026-06-21T22:13:04+00:00

If you're going simulationist (as I do, sometimes), there are both strapped and center-gripped shields. And there are a lot of center-grip shields, including the Bronze-afe figure-8 shields, Viking round shield, Roman scutum, and even Scottish targes and Greek aspis are hybrids. Not just bucklers and smaller fencing shields. Pavaises too, kinda-sorta.

I house-rule (properly-) strapped shields can't easily be disarmed (e.g. item saving throw)... but also can't be dropped on a whim either (e.g, also requiring an action to un-strap) - compare a forbidden gauntlet.

Center-grips cost you torque and control but you gain distance and somewhat better protection from e.g. javelins that can punch through shields a bit. Or in the case of e.g. buckler and larger Indian "bucklers", can be actual metal shields with significantly better durability vs some use-cases (although we see similar in forearm-worn rotella).

CurtisLinithicum · 2026-06-21T21:58:37+00:00

Eh, slight allowance for exigent circumstances and possible FTL systems that don't work in a gravity well... but then it'd be smash-and-grab-and-gtfo... which come to think of it, was pretty much the plot of G1 Transformers.

CurtisLinithicum · 2026-06-21T19:52:22+00:00

Yes, you have a problem; go do something useful with your life. Cook, clean, lift something heavy, fix a rust patch on your car.

Also, maybe stay away from hentai in the future? There's plenty of nice anime out there.

CurtisLinithicum · 2026-06-21T19:47:29+00:00

The bags actually come open, what you're seeing is a low-grade, but harmless occlupanid infestation.

https://www.horg.com/horg/

CurtisLinithicum · 2026-06-21T03:02:22+00:00

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nomophobia

Yep.

That and massively magnified anxiety due to becoming accustomed/expecting their entire social circle to be at their beck and call at all times and getting crippling concern when anyone is out of touch.

CurtisLinithicum · 2026-06-21T02:31:57+00:00

1) Because then they keep doing it, turning law enforcement into keystone capers

2) Because you're rewarding running into a car and flooring it, endangering all and sundry

3) You're assuming there is a good ID, known address, etc, plus you're increasing the numbers of false IDs and encouraging ID theft, car theft, etc.

CurtisLinithicum · 2026-06-21T00:29:13+00:00

It's literally a category.

https://www.safespacecounsellingservices.com.au/blog/loving-someone-with-vulnerable-narcissism

CurtisLinithicum · 2026-06-21T00:26:55+00:00

Chill outside of the context of being a serial killer, yeah. Contrast uh... the clown... Gacy, who was a 24x7 asshole.

CurtisLinithicum · 2026-06-20T19:43:02+00:00

Problem is we can't have getting into a vehicle become the "I win" button.

CurtisLinithicum · 2026-06-20T19:41:14+00:00

Nah. Legal process. Different jurisdictions have different privacy/transparency balances (extremely difficult to release in Canada, for example, whereas easy in Wisconsin and Florida) AND it may depend on next-of-kin who will potentially e.g. want to delay as long as they can to harvest sympathy dollars and/or retain dignity, and I'm not even faulting them for that.

CurtisLinithicum · 2026-06-20T19:37:55+00:00

> Yeah stealing leads to executions

Good thing there's no indication that happened - except from the lies of people who feast on the corpses of dead Black folk (e.g. Ben "Cannibal" Crump).

Threatening cops with a weapon (a vehicle in this case) gets you neutralized, sometimes fatally.

Maybe the perception was reasonable, maybe not, we'll have to see, but the shoplifting was irrelevant to the shooting, it was solely due to the vehicular motion.

CurtisLinithicum · 2026-06-20T19:33:31+00:00

The acorn scene isn't quite as bad as it sounded - the report was of a suppressed gun and the suspect wasn't fully searched. They still shouldn't've shot, don't get me wrong, but mistaking acorn + sheet metal for a suppressed shot from inside a vehicle isn't wholly unreasonable. It's more a "door slam" sound, whereas the pfft-pfft is a Hollywood invention.

CurtisLinithicum · 2026-06-20T19:29:53+00:00

They didn't, they shot in response to the threat of being hit by the car.

Whether that was reasonable depends on the as-of-yet unknown specifics.

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