The Off Topic Topic

[mongers]

Apparently there is a Doctor Who museum. And there has been since 1973. It was recently moved to...Cardiff. Maybe because of Torchwood, I don't know.

England is full of weird, odd niche museums that are invariable shite, for instance the next town north of here has a 'Dolls' museum, which appears to be a curio shop that never opens. In the next town south of here, near the waterfront is a tricycle museum or at least there was one last time I checked. The same small town also has an Electricity museum, which I think was an offshoot of the national electricity companies research/test facility.

Needless to say my own small town also has a museum, I think it's just called the town museum, but I've never been in it, as well it's in all probability shite. 

This Doctor Who museum may be one of them.

[PRC]

[jimmy olsen]

Old Ironsides?

[Ideologue]

Anyone looking for a job?

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/love-sex/sex-industry/brothel-buster-meet-the-man-who-gets-paid-to-have-sex-with-prostitutes-10103723.html

      
      
      
      
      
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'John' is 60, divorced, and gets paid to have sex with prostitutes. Well, "more often than not it's just a handjob" he says.

He is one of several private investigators being hired in Australia as 'brothel busters', who pose as regular customers in order to unearth illegal sex work.

"I'm pretty sure plenty of fellas would be a bit envious of how I'm earning a bit of pocket money from time to time," he told news.com.au, replying when asked whether it was a good retirement gig: "Oh, most definitely."

His job is necessary because authorities have little power to access premises without a court order, making it difficult to bust the brothels posing as massage parlours that are ubiquitous in New South Wales.

John can provide them with highly graphic detail about the services on offer however, filing reports that can run for up to three pages and include dates, times, people, places, who, what, when, where and how much.

"It's a document that will be used in court, so it has to be pretty detailed and very accurate. It's not something you can waddle off in a couple of minutes," he said.

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More often than not, he claims, the parlours are fronts.

"If you looked hard enough, you might be able to find a massage parlour that doesn't offer sexual services," he said. "In my experience there have only been three premises where I have gone in and not been offered that service some time during the course of the treatment."

John notes that while some offer intercourse which he obligingly accepts, "more often than not it's just a handjob. They just want to get it over and done with and get the next one in."

Lachlan Jarvis, managing director of private investigation firm Lyonswood, is in charge of hiring undercover sex investigators.

"We prefer people who are single, and obviously they have to be willing to undertake sexual activity," he told news.com.au.

"I'm not surprised that some people would say that spending ratepayers' money on the services we provide is outrageous, but they don't understand that we help stop sex trafficking, for example."

John counts himself lucky to have what is a fairly relaxed and flexible job.

"It's not your typical nine-to-five, Monday-to-Friday job," he said. "There are no time constraints, and there's never been a stage where I've felt threatened or worried about my safety."

Man, if they'll just comp my fees, I'm gravy.

[Ideologue]

Oh, look, it's a live action game of Victoria.

[jimmy olsen]

Oh, look, it's a live action game of Victoria.

[garbon]

http://www.buzzfeed.com/scottybryan/thanks-obama

[garbon]

Oh, look, it's a live action game of Victoria.

[Zanza]

The leader of Germany's second-biggest party, Sigmar Gabriel of the Social Democrats, who also happens to be Merkel's vice chancellor, has basically already conceded the 2017 Federal Election. So we'll likely get four more years of Merkel. Politics in Germany is ridiculously boring.

[Archy]

The leader of Germany's second-biggest party, Sigmar Gabriel of the Social Democrats, who also happens to be Merkel's vice chancellor, has basically already conceded the 2017 Federal Election. So we'll likely get four more years of Merkel. Politics in Germany is ridiculously boring.

Bolded Part is true 

[Valmy]

The leader of Germany's second-biggest party, Sigmar Gabriel of the Social Democrats, who also happens to be Merkel's vice chancellor, has basically already conceded the 2017 Federal Election. So we'll likely get four more years of Merkel. Politics in Germany is ridiculously boring.

I like how all over the internet there are all these German kids howling with rage at how horrible Merkel is and how she makes them ashamed to be German.  Yet in the real world Merkel is basically unopposed in her leadership of Germany.

[The Brain]

The leader of Germany's second-biggest party, Sigmar Gabriel of the Social Democrats, who also happens to be Merkel's vice chancellor, has basically already conceded the 2017 Federal Election. So we'll likely get four more years of Merkel. Politics in Germany is ridiculously boring.

I like how all over the internet there are all these German kids howling with rage at how horrible Merkel is and how she makes them ashamed to be German.  Yet in the real world Merkel is basically unopposed in her leadership of Germany.

So Hitler was OK?

[Valmy]

So Hitler was OK?

He did make the trains carrying subhumans for resettlement in the east run on time.

[Martinus]

Many people probably seen it before, but here is Freud's letter from 1935 to a mother of a gay son:

Dear Mrs [Erased],

I gather from your letter that your son is a homosexual. I am most impressed by the fact that you do not mention this term yourself in your information about him. May I question you why you avoid it? Homosexuality is assuredly no advantage, but it is nothing to be ashamed of, no vice, no degradation; it cannot be classified as an illness; we consider it to be a variation of the sexual function, produced by a certain arrest of sexual development. Many highly respectable individuals of ancient and modern times have been homosexuals, several of the greatest men among them. (Plato, Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, etc). It is a great injustice to persecute homosexuality as a crime – and a cruelty, too. If you do not believe me, read the books of Havelock Ellis.

By asking me if I can help, you mean, I suppose, if I can abolish homosexuality and make normal heterosexuality take its place. The answer is, in a general way we cannot promise to achieve it. In a certain number of cases we succeed in developing the blighted germs of heterosexual tendencies, which are present in every homosexual in the majority of cases it is no more possible. It is a question of the quality and the age of the individual. The result of treatment cannot be predicted.

What analysis can do for your son runs on a different line. If he is unhappy, neurotic, torn by conflicts, inhibited in his social life, analysis may bring him harmony, peace of mind, full efficiency, whether he remains a homosexual or gets changed. If you make up your mind he should have analysis with me — I don't expect you will — he has to come over to Vienna. I have no intention of leaving here. However, don't neglect to give me your answer.

Sincerely yours with best wishes,

Freud

P.s. I did not find it difficult to read your handwriting. Hope you will not find my writing and my English a harder task.

[Zanza]

The leader of Germany's second-biggest party, Sigmar Gabriel of the Social Democrats, who also happens to be Merkel's vice chancellor, has basically already conceded the 2017 Federal Election. So we'll likely get four more years of Merkel. Politics in Germany is ridiculously boring.

I like how all over the internet there are all these German kids howling with rage at how horrible Merkel is and how she makes them ashamed to be German.  Yet in the real world Merkel is basically unopposed in her leadership of Germany.

Merkel is undisputedly the most popular politician in Germany. On a +5 to -5 scale with a representative audience:

And her party: