This newly minted term covers, among others, people who skinny dip, or who have an orgasmic roll around in the dirt There is a PhD candidate from Nevada who is writing her dissertation on the subject, and a reference to a festival in Sydney. I haven't decided if this is New Age bull crap or something deep. Perhaps this is what that mud bathing at Burning Man was all about.
Anyway, something to think about. Better than thinking about the election. And apologies if this should be in Off-Topics.
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tatabanyan said: Interesting, thanks for sharing... just another bullshit hipster trend. The only thing that'll save the planet and its non-human denizens is a massive reduction in the human population.
Agreed. You are not having sex with the earth if you're masturbating outdoors or in mud. And I fail to see how sticking a tree branch up my pussy is going to save the earth.
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Skip to about 2m0s to skip over Noam Chomsky's analysis to get to the "fun" part with the music. I know I rant & scream & curse people to focus on content, not HOW someone says something, but I admit being a total hypocrite when listening to Chomsky. I just cannot stand listening to the guy, because of his low-volume combined with stuttering or stammering. Note: Chomsky is NOT defending the practice of non-rigorous social studies trying but failing to imitate the rigor of physical sciences. The opposite: he is pointing it out as example of wrong-headed thinking.
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The irony of this is that WAM is really quite bad for the environment, we flush tons of gunk and throw away plastic sheets and trashed clothes etc. I do feel guilty about it...
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OldZoidberg said: The latest video by King Crocoduck (who recently earned a Bachelor of Science in Physics degree), titled "Specious", will answer your question
Skip to about 2m0s to skip over Noam Chomsky's analysis to get to the "fun" part with the music. I know I rant & scream & curse people to focus on content, not HOW someone says something, but I admit being a total hypocrite when listening to Chomsky. I just cannot stand listening to the guy, because of his low-volume combined with stuttering or stammering. Note: Chomsky is NOT defending the practice of non-rigorous social studies trying but failing to imitate the rigor of physical sciences. The opposite: he is pointing it out as example of wrong-headed thinking.
Probably worth chipping in that academics are under huge pressure to churn out papers whether of any merit or not in order to justify existing, hence why this guff gets out. They may not believe any of it themselves, but have realised that using catchy zeitgeist subjects about gender and ecology do the trick.
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OldZoidberg said: The latest video by King Crocoduck (who recently earned a Bachelor of Science in Physics degree), titled "Specious", will answer your question... I know I rant & scream & curse people to focus on content, not HOW someone says something, but I admit being a total hypocrite when listening to Chomsky. I just cannot stand listening to the guy, because of his low-volume combined with stuttering or stammering.
Eh. I'm not surprised that people would try to legitimize their fetish by making up moralizing stories. I tell myself that I like seeing girls get pied in the face because I think narcissism is bad for the culture, for example. There might be some truth in that, I guess, but in all honesty the facts about my dumb brain are probably less noble and more absurd
Also, that video was pretty uncharitable in its paraphrasing... and Chomsky doesn't stutter
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tatabanyan said: Interesting, thanks for sharing... just another bullshit hipster trend. The only thing that'll save the planet and its non-human denizens is a massive reduction in the human population.
Agreed. You are not having sex with the earth if you're masturbating outdoors or in mud. And I fail to see how sticking a tree branch up my pussy is going to save the earth.
^This statement wins the internet for the day.
Also I agree that the human race is in major need of a mass culling. May I suggest starting off with the hipsters and ripping off all the warning labels and permitting selfies in high and precarious places?
As a slight tangent, I saw over the summer a terrific display at the National Gallery by an artist who liked to paint innuendo-laden pictures of trees. The best one was a lady-like hole in a tree entitled 'The Old Country' which brought me dangerously close to uncontrollable mirth.