Two Girls One Cup vs. Veronica Moser
I watched 2G1C today and I found it rather harmless. This is because someone told me that the stuff they’re eating etc. is actually chocolate ice cream. It all makes much more sense now. I mean, the massive poo that comes out of the woman’s bottom doesn’t look real at all. It is most likely some kind of edible substance, e.g. chocolate ice cream, that was put up there a few minutes before the shot.
Even the way it’s filmed, and the whole ’story behind it’ (How it all started; on the website) points to the same conclusion. It’s quite clever, but trust me, it’s not real.
What is real, on the other hand, is Veronica Moser:
Born in Austria, Veronica Moser worked as a secretary, then a model and, in 1987, started appearing in coprophilial pornographic movies. She is one of the most popular such actresses in the world, renowned for her enthusiasm and deft consumption of feces.
Initially reluctant to perform coprophilial sex, Moser trained herself to enjoy it by eating her own feces daily.
She’s got a website (URL is her own name dot com – please don’t look at it if you’re squeamish!) and there are pics on there where you can see the real thing. It looks different to 2G1C.
BTW I feel great empathy for Ms Moser and sincerely hope this kind of work hasn’t damaged her too much. As a feminist, it really makes me sad when women humiliate and denigrade themselves to please and pleasure men (and don’t tell me ‘it’s her own choice’ – I’m sure that no one would actively choose a career like that).
According to Wikipedia, Ms Moser retired from ’scat porn’ in the latter half of 2007.
Don’t Give Your Email Out to Webculture-Illiterate People
A day ago, I got an email about our ‘Abi-Treffen’ (= high-school reunion) which is apparently to take place next year. I had forwarded my email address to a person who was meant to organise it, and what she’s fucking done is sent an email about it with everyone’s email address in the fucking CC field!
Great. Now all these people know my email address. I think it’s completely against Netiquette and should be illegal.
They should all have been in BCC…
My Car is Fucked For Good
I put my Renault in for MOT on Tuesday, and yesterday they phoned me telling me that it’s totally fucked. I.e. absolutely no point in getting it fixed up AT ALL.
Thus, I’m currently without MOT and without insurance. I still need to drive up to Scotland somehow, in a couple of weeks’ time!
It’s annoying as I really love my car – I call it the ‘white knight’, and it has served me well over the last few years. I don’t want to buy a new car either – I don’t need one. It’s just nice to have one, to go shopping in occasionally etc.
Why Fan-sumerism May Work
Facebook pages have been around for a wee while now (since the beginning of November, I think). I noticed recently that they’ve started pushing this feature a bit more on FB itself: When logging on today, I noticed the following message:
I promply searched for one of my favourite bands and to my delight discovered they have set up a page, so I quickly became their fan 
While Facebook now also have other what they call ‘business solutions’, including Social Ads, the aforementioned Pages, Beacon, Insight, Platform, and Polls (all listed in tabs under the first link to Pages), it is pages that I’m currently most interested in. Jeremiah Owyang wrote when pages first launched:
Going beyond just profile matching of advertisements, Facebook allows consumers to self-identify with brands and becoming fans. In turn, brands can use these “Fan-Sumers” as endorsers to their own trusted networks, resulting in trusted word-of-mouth.
I don’t think this is particularly new though. We’ve always liked to wear certain brands, thus identifying and endorsing them, so how there’s a big fucking hoo-ha about this I don’t know. Even when I was as young as 10 (in the 80s), I wanted adidas Allround-trainers, or KangaROOS trainers, and not the cheap and nasty ones (not even Pumas would do – they were for losers).
Thus, ‘fan-sumerism’ may work because it’s just the same as it’s always been: We’re proud to wear our brands, and feel happier and more fulfilled because of it – only this time round, we’re wearing our Allround-trainers and our Ramones/Punks not dead/Sid Vicious – shirts digitally.
How to Go Viral (2G1C)
It’s very difficult for an online video to go viral these days. Here are two ways of doing so:
- Deploy various conscious strategies (as explained here: The Secret Strategies Behind Many ‘Viral’ Videos)
- Create a video so horrible, disgusting, and unwatchable, that it’s a genuine watercooler moment (as can be seen here: Two Girls One Cup – click at your own peril).
I’m quite intrigued by the former, but even more by the latter. I’m actually pretty unshockable so I’m going to watch it some time this week, and see what happens to me.
Actually, I should watch it while filming myself doing so, then uploading it to youtube. This is the current ‘craze’ and, as an online specialist, I like participating in shit like that (excuse the pun 
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The apostrophe in ‘it’s’ is going to disappear
Mark my words: In 20 years from now, the following sentence will be grammatically correct:
Its very cold outside.
Why am I saying this? I’m saying it because these days, I see it more in written communication than I actually see the correct version:
It’s very cold outside.
While respectable newspapers and websites (such as the BBC) nearly always use the grammatically correct forms, nearly everyone I know, both professionally and privately, doesn’t. OK, this might be slightly exaggerated – but most English native speakers I know and whom I correspond with in writing, would use ‘its’ in a sentence such as ‘Its my birthday party tonight.’
I used to think these people were just too thick to realise, lowly educated, or maybe just not well read. However, this is simply not the case. When trying to understand this peculiar, embarrassing gap in knowledge, I came across this for a possible explanation:
it’s – this can mean only two things: ‘it is’ and ‘it has’
* It’s twenty-five to three. It’s been raining.
its – this can mean only one thing: the neutral possessive – something which indicates belonging to
* This boat and its sails are painted red.
The confusion among English language speakers arises because we assume that we must have an apostrophe when talking of something belonging to someone or something [my emphasis]. However, this is not always true.
It is when we use names of things that we add an apostrophe: Sarah’s book.
However, the word ‘its’ falls in the following grammatical group of words: my, your, his/her/its, our, your, their. As you can see, not one of these words uses an apostrophe, but they are still possessive.
It all makes perfect sense now. For the same reason, the same people will say:
The computer and it’s screen.
They assume that, similar to the phrase ‘The computer’s screen’, there has to be an apostrophe to indicate it’s possessive (its possessiveness).
Oh dear!
The bottom line is: Seeing that more people these days use these forms incorrectly, especially, the first example
Its very cold outside
I believe that eventually, grammar will have to succumb to the iteration of the incorrect forms and make them acceptable and, correct.
lenina ist Ein Junger Spund
Yesterday at work we got talking about our ages. I mentioned that I must be getting old, as I had noticed the appearance of a couple of wrinkles on my forehead (they’re only really visible close-up). I said that, as a solution, I might in the future get a fringe cut so that my forehead is covered.
My colleagues reassured me that the wrinkles weren’t visible at all, and when telling them my age (34 in December), one especially was very surprised. She thought I was around 28/29, but definitely no older than 30
The thing is, I am in quite good shape for my age; plus, I don’t have kids or anything else that women my age usually have. I’m not particularly ‘respectable’ or ’senior’ in the way I come across, and my late entry into the professional labour-market due to PhD – studies means that I guess I don’t have the air of maturity and ’seniority’ that someone of 33 usually has.
Actually, I’m quite happy about that. I feel roughly in my late 20s, in that I still enjoy a bit of fun, and don’t want to be all serious and settled down/respectable. I still have a desire to do stuff and I still need sparks and stimulation, though I definitely have become more settled and more ‘boring’ if you wish, in the last 5 years (must have been the PhD that killed some of my drive 
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Why I LOVE the UK (and wouldn’t want to be anywhere else)
I absolutely love the UK. I’ve been here permanently for over 7 years now, though I’ve lived in London on and off before (since 1994).
Readers of my blog know that I prefer Scotland to England of course (BTW Engerland didn’t qualify for the European Championship lmfao), but the things that I love most about the UK – genius + progressive TV, great GREAT music, and excellent supermarket food – is the same everywhere.
The latter point – excellent supermarket food – actually prompted this blog entry. The other day I went to Sainsbury’s to stock up on food. Since I don’t have access to much fridge space at the moment, I decided I’d do this little experiment where I live mainly on tinned food. Yes, I know it’s unhealthy to not have fresh food – but given that this situation is temporary, I don’t mind.
So, for the next few weeks I’ll be living mainly on food that doesn’t need refrigeration or much cooking, namely:
- Dried rice + pasta
- Tinned veg and pre-packed sauces to microwave (I really don’t have time to cook right now. Boiling rice/pasta already takes me to the limit!)
With that mission in mind, I went to Sainsbury’s to see what they’ve got in terms of 2. Note that I’m a vegetarian (well I do eat fish sometimes ), so my choices are even more limited (no tinned meat whatsoever).
If I were in Italy, for this task I would be lost. There, vegetarians really are an add-on and rather mostly ignored by supermarkets. Vegetarians are looked down on and ridiculed (and for all of these comments, I speak from my own experience. Did I mention that Italian TV is also REALLY backwards and sexist?).
My beloved UK, and Sainsbury’s, on the other hand, do not disappoint. I bought a load of tinned meatfree stuff, including Meatfree Beans and Sausages, which prompted this post:
TV Tip: The Mighty Boosh
On tonight, 22:30, BBC3.
The Mighty Boosh is basically a comical, surreal, collage of pop-cultural references, postmodernism, and non-sense. Episode 1 of the new series (series 3) started last week, and it’s genius! Namedropping Shoreditch (where I work and where series 3 is set), it manages to be both progressive/subversive and very funny.
I.e. it works on many different levels, appealing to both intellectuals/trendy media types such as myself ( ) but also to your average geezer and chav – maybe in the same way that The Simpsons manages to appeal to both adults and children.
Check out this excellent example of how they do it – the ‘Eels’ song from last week’s episode. Genius.
Commuting by Bus = Commuter Hell Solved
Today I found out that I can take ONE BUS to get to work, instead of 2 chubes (which is a busy commuter nightmare).
It’s much more pleasant! I got some brainy audiobooks from a work colleague (Chomsky, Nietzsche, etc.) today which will keep my brain busy while I’m sat on the bus for ages
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