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Offbeat Fridays – The thread where offbeat headlines become front page news
Tildes is a very serious site, where we discuss very serious matters like brian thompson, series and funko pop. Tags culled from the highest voted topics from the last seven days, if anyone was studious.
But one of my favourite tags happens to be offbeat! Taking its original inspiration from Sir Nils Olav III, this thread is looking for any far-fetched offbeat stories lurking in the newspapers. It may not deserve its own post, but it deserves a wider audience!
Texas Prevents People From Owning More Than 6 Dildos. Now Lawmakers Want to Ban Sex Toys at Walmart
I'm actually more interested in the fact that Texas bans ownership of more than 6 dildos.
Also, I didn't think Wal-Mart sold dildos. I did some investigating (via Incognito Mode🕵🏽♂️) and indeed one can get their fill of dildoes via the website. Though it's like Amazon, where the dildos are sold by another company, but fulfilled by Wal-Mart. Pretty sure you can't buy those in the stores. But maybe I'm just not looking hard enough.
I've seen rather discreet and cute mini-vibrators for sale at CVS. Pricing would likely discourage kids from thinking they're toys, though.
And that's why friends I am a proud Tildes member. Deeper understanding and conversation. So it's just a question, wouldn't dildo buying versus mini-vibrator buying be a bit different in terms of requirements. Ultimately its a 'sex enhancing' device so I am no lawyer but are Texans really saying no to vibrators as well? That to me, would be a new low.
Vibrators are apparently included in the "obscene devices" proposed law.
I can't tell if your intentionally brilliant or accidentally brilliant, but either way I'm there for it!
Right....
Yeap, nothing says Texas like buying a dildo in Wal-Mart.
If a guy can't buy a dildo with his groceries from a Wal-Mart in Texas, is that even really freedom? Did we forget the Alamo?
I wonder what the intersection of dildos-shaped guns and gun-shaped dildos is? I am not googling it.
[NSFW] I think the original "open carry" protests speak to your concerns.
Quite a few supermarkets sell sex toys over here in the UK and I always imagined the massive American shops as having everything so it surprises me they might not have them in store.
I've definitely seen..."personal intimacy devices" in the unlabeled section at the end of an aisle near the pharmacy in stores in America. I wouldn't be surprised to see them in a Walmart.
I’ve seen them at my local Walmart here in SC, in the pharmacy/health section of the store.
Farmers Say Intelligent Tractors "Acted Like They Were Demon Possessed" After Signal Out of Space
Also, Watch: Man flees from police, gets stuck in chimney, asks police for help
Sounds like GPS jamming but the story itself is funny.
The World's Dumbest Bike Lane Law Just Passed in CanadaYT channel, Not Just Bikes
lying populist Doug Ford going to rip up bike lanes in Toronto that have been saving lives and making businesses better. First 10 minutes about covers it if you don't want to hear about local politics.
tags Canada.Toronto, urban planning, bike lanes, doug ford
Not friday, but eh. After last time I posted about a garden gnome made out of XTC, this week in the Netherlands:
Coffins filled with cocaine enters the party. Quick google translate:
Hey sometimes you mix up your body coffins and your cocaine coffins! It could happen to anyone /hj
'I will not touch bread if it is moist': Kemi Badenoch sparks Westminster food fight
The Guardian – 12th December 2024
This is such a weird "fight" and I assume there's a bunch of unspoken things about class involved in it.
Agree, but in such sorry times that we are forced to live in, what better topic than lunch habits. Do's and Don'ts. I long for the days we get back to regular order and just ask ourselves the question I've had for years now; If, we accept that aliens are visiting earth, what provisions do they pack for these trips?
I mean can you even begin to guess if you don't know what type of being they are? Insect-ish? Carnivore? Herbivore? Photosynthesizer?
Exactly, that's what I ask but nobody of circle of friends or family think is important.
Clearly you should make a separate post
Definitely classist. I'm guessing this is a silent jab at labor rights
Sounds like justification for getting rid of mandatory breaks, or at least a poke at that.
Felt also a "steak" vs "sandwich" jab.
I'm not British, I just know enough to assume there's classism involved.
Drones over Jersey!
Personally I blame Canada, but hey, its a Jersey thing. It may be Iranians, aliens or otherwise but what can only be America, let's shoot at them! Wtf....
I like the caveat of, 'if necessary'. It's Jersey after all.
Fred Durst reacts to Bank of Canada interest rate cut
As a Canadian whose mortgage is set to renew this year, I have to agree with Fred but.. I really wasn't expecting to, I guess...
Can you explain the phrase "set to renew"? Just curious what type of mortgage you have.
So in Canada, our mortgages are broken down into terms shorter than the length it takes to fully pay off the principal amount. The usual length is 5 years, after which you need to renew your mortgage with either your current lender or a new one (or pay it off). This means that the terms of your arrangement can shuffle around, for better or worse (for example, I locked in 1.99% interest for my first term but am likely to see that increase since the Bank of Canada's prime interest rate almost certainly won't drop as low as it was when I took out the mortgage in the first place). I'll need to keep doing this periodically until the mortgage is paid off; at the pace I'm currently going, that'll be 21 more years.
Wow that's interesting. I can certainly see the pros and cons for the borrower and the bank. Thanks
Homie's got a profile picture of Rei from Evangelion. Interesting...