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Cake day: June 2nd, 2023

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  • Even decades later, that phrase never fails to make me laugh.

    For anyone who doesn’t know it, former Prime Minister John Chretien is from Shawinigan (note spelling). One day, an angry man made it past his security detail and started shouting at the prime minister. Chretien grabbed the man by the throat until his security officers could hustle him away, and ever since then the move has been known as the Shawinigan handshake.









  • gramie@lemmy.catoAsklemmy@lemmy.mlWhy do men like boobs?
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    7 days ago

    Given that large areas of the world do not see breasts as sexual, it’s hard to avoid the conclusion that breasts are erogenous because our society has said that they are, rather than any innate characteristic.

    When I lived in Africa, women and girls had no problem exposing their breasts, but would go to great length to keep their thighs covered.


  • It’s not clear to me what the license is. Given that there are large number of corporate brand icons, I assume that these were just vacuumed up from the web, and there is no way to know if you have the legal right to use them for your own purposes.

    There is a disclaimer that the icons are free to download based on the creators copyright restrictions. So presumably because these icons existed somewhere on the web, you have the right to download them onto your computer, but not use them yourself.

    Until the licensing issue is clarified, I would stay away.







  • I don’t have any problem with adults choosing the way they live, but I do think that polygamy can cause deep societal problems. For the record, I used to live in an African country where some men, including my neighbor, had multiple wives. I have seen it work.

    So your husband has two wives, potentially more. Assuming that the birth ratio is 50% male and 50% female, that means there is at least one man, possibly more, who have no chance of marrying.

    I doubt that anyone would disagree that single men tend to cause more social problems than married men. You can even see it in other species. Maybe it’s the implication that, especially in cultures where prostitution is frowned on or illegal, it means that their options for sex are extremely limited or non-existent.

    I know that I would be more than upset if someone told me that I couldn’t get married or even have sex for my entire life.

    Cultures have traditionally taken care of this by killing off some men through war and other conflicts. The world is at a stage now where we are trying to prevent this.