pinkninjapj:
jaydeleau:
so you mean to tell me that guys can get a ton of condoms for free
but i’m still paying like $10 for tampons/pads a month
even tho i did not sign the terms and conditions for this ‘menstruation’ shit for the next 30 years?
guys dont HAVE to have sex u know
but sure lets make sure they’ve got everything they need
cus i definitely love using the last of my money on shit to make sure i dont BLEED RIVERS ALL OVER THE PLACE AND RUIN ALL MY CLOTHES
ok
I keep seeing this around (and saying it myself when I restock my tampons and pads) but I haven’t seen any evidence of an institutionalized program set up by the government to distribute condoms to men.
The only places I’ve heard of free condoms are at my uni (someone was walking around with a basket), at a gay bar and at a health clinic.
Those condoms are not free. An organization (the uni, the bar) decides “you know what, we should buy a bunch of condoms and hand them out for free because we are an place where there is potential for unsafe sex”. There was no governmental instruction, no incentive other than health.
I’m happy to be proven wrong. I would also be happy to be given free tampons and pads, or a monthly stipend to cover the costs. There’s also the competitive market to consider.
Just adding my two pennies.
It might be an American thing, PJ. Like remote-dialling your own answering machine. In Aus you pay for what you get, everybody buys their own prophylaxes and menstrual… equipment. But I’d rather have Medicare than free condoms, so I won’t be moving to America any time soon.
If you wanted to cut costs you could use rags instead of tampons/pads and wash and reuse them like they used to do up until very recent history. Alternatively, I’ve heard mooncup is reusable and therefore cheaper in the long run if you wanna look into that. And yes, if condoms are too expensive you could just not have sex, but if condoms are free than they’re free for men AND women who want to have sex. It’s not a conspiracy to cheat or punish women, it’s a means of decreasing the spread of sexually transmitted disease and the likelihood of unwanted pregnancy.
christinahendricks:
American Gods is a fantasy television pilot in development for cable channel HBO, based on Neil Gaiman’s 2001 novel American Gods. It is slated for a late 2013 or 2014 release as a six-season television series, featuring 10-12 one hour episodes in each season. [ x ]

AMERICA, DON’T SCREW THIS UP.
Though, if GoT is anything to go by, I trust HBO to do it justice.
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pinkninjapj:
invisiblechickens:
read and hold a book however the fuck you want. crease it, bend it, flex it, crack the spine, fold the pages. reading is meant to be a joy, and you should be able to read the words. love the book and it will love you back. if some ass is giving you shit by telling you not to fold the book over when reading, hit them in the face with that book.
Unless the book you’re reading is their book.
Then holy crap do what they say
As Neil Gaiman said very recently: “If it belongs to someone else who has lent it to me, I do my best to return it in the condition I got it. If it’s my book, it gets read, and if it gets beaten up and loved, well, it gets beaten up and loved.”
It’s not that I blindly agree with everything he says, he just agrees with me so often.