Discourse and Desires

Okay, I had a really bad day at work yesterday... today was hardly better. Still, I come home to find an email from a girlie friend of mine. The email has no body in the message, only the word P-Mate in the subject line.

Weird.

Now because the email is Gmail, of course Google latches on to the word P-Mate and fashions the adverts around it. And so it is that I find the 6th day of Happiness: weird, wacky, sold-only-on-the-interwubs stuff that no one will admit they actually find interesting/useful.

The P-Mate, for women who want to pee standing up.

[Maybe-not-so]Oddly enough, Amazon.com sells them, with Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought pointing to the Shenis, for women who want to pee standing up AND send dudes into jealous, self-conscious fits of self-loathing. [I won't post a pic of that, because there's no hiding what that looks like...]

Then I thought, Man, I know plenty of women who, during concerts, raves, in the woods, or on a boat, that would have loved to have had something like this! You've all seen the port-a-potties at a festival or theme park, right? I always felt sorry for women who had to sit—or squat—down on them. ~shudder~ This could also probably work for F2M trans people who have gone through—or don't want to go through—genitalia re-construction surgery, but still want to pee as men do [which would, by the way, entail missing the bowl, pissing on the seat, and other nasty things that make items like the Shenis and P-Mate actually seem like a good idea for some women].

But this sent me on a side-spiral [I won't say it was a 'downward' spiral] that I was directed to such naughtier treats as the iBuzz [which I still say should be called the iFap], the OhMiBod iPod Driven Personal Massager, the OhMiBod Boditalk Cell Phone Activated Personal Vibrator [!!!], and other things which I shall leave either to your own imagination or your own Googling skills.

Why does this make me happy? You would think such consumerism would be... well, pathetic, really. But it's not. No matter how much time passes, no matter what level of technology we are at at any given time, we will always find a way to have some good-ol' fashioned [or not-so-ol'-fashioned, as the case may be] fun! And in doing so, in this pursuit of Having Fun, it may actually end up being something people could use for their own well-being, F2Ms come to mind. So yes, I've included so-called oddities like Shenis, She-Pee, and the P-Mate as something that made me happy on Day 6!

( ...jump under the covers with me... )

[Well-Wishers]
First and foremost, I wanted to thank all my well-wishers. Among them (in no order other than alphabetical):

anthimaeria
blamebrampton
ceirdwenfc
hapendfro
le_negronomicon
lijahlover
nathaniel_hp
pepper202
pir8fancier
sassy_cissa
sesheta_66
xlovexlolitax

Thank you to everyone who took the time to post your Happy Birthdays. It helped make June 23^rd one of the best ever. If I missed someone, please comment and I'll be sure to flagellate myself thoroughly!

A special thank-you goes to sassy_cissa for her gift. It was well used!

[Hey, Remember The 'Fancy' New Job I Got? Funny Story, That...]
( BEHOLD!! Gabe's Idiocy at Work! )

[American Accent Meme]
Not that this was a surprise, and I think I've done this before, but...
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it's the same result every time. I do tend to get a bit twangy if I'm tired or sleepy. Other than that, however...

[More Gabe-Words™]
Normally, I keep an eye out for words I think we should use more, as well as words that I think we could never use again, especially in writing (barring things like historical fiction or deliberate attempts at démodé-as-neoteric, as in the case of Stephenson's The Diamond Age, or even Stroud's Bartimaeus Trilogy (which took me awhile to realize the setting was a bit more modern than what I had originally thought!!))*. But this time, I thought I'd try something different. These words and phrases are 'old' American slang terms. Not terribly old, mind you. We're not talking Colonial-era America or Civil-War era. But you know... 40s, 50s.

So... shall we?

The first two are actually slogans from the 40s that I think are apt today, even if the intent of the phrases are a bit different. Of course they are war-related, being the 40s and all.

( Don't you know there's a war going on? )

So if you have some slang terms (past or present) that you particularly liked, even if it's just stuff you and your mates gobbed on about (and no one else knew what you were talking about), drop a comment and fill us in! Maybe you'll start the next interwubbery craze!

Oh... and Thursday's Inspirational Art Film...? Let's just say I've seen these two boys in plenty of icons lately, and I think you'll be... inspired.

And once again, thank you all for your kind thoughts, words, and gifts. I love you all! GROUP HUG!