Drusilla!! / Swedish state pharmacies to sell dildoes / Chicago violence

[verushka70]

I encountered a real, live person last week who was named ...Drusilla. How frakkin' cool is that? I didn't even know it was a real name; I thought they made it up for BTVS. As a matter of fact, I am easily amused. And, yes--I truly have no life.

People send me weird things... like this, sent by a friend, available on Yahoo! Australia and Yahoo! Canada--but (quick searches show this is) not available on Yahoo!US' "Odd News" or MSNBC's "Weird News":

Dildos to go on sale at Sweden's state-run pharmacies

STOCKHOLM (AFP) - Swedish pharmacies, which are run under a state monopoly chain called Apoteket, will begin selling sex toys such as dildos in June, a spokeswoman for the chain said on Friday.

"It's a trial that will begin in June. We're going to sell a small selection of sexual products in about 50 stores," Elisabet Linge Bergman told AFP.

Read the rest at:
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/afp/080307/oddities/lifestyle_sweden_pharma_sex_offbeat

Isn't Sweden in the top 10 Western nations with the happiest people? Coincidence? I think not.

Recent research indicates 1 in 4 American teenage girls has a STD, the US' syphilis rate rose for the 7th year in a row, and 1 in 3 Illinois sex ed teachers don't cover the basics of sex ed. It's interesting that the major US online news outlets clearly feel we Americans don't need to know that Sweden is going to start selling their citizens dildoes and massage oils in state-run pharmacies. Again -- coincidence? Surely not.

And just what is the plural of "dildo"? Turns out (from Merriam-Webster) that both dildos and dildoes are correct. Linguistic pedants of the world can rest easy with either; as one myself, I prefer dildoes. And there was much rejoicing.

In other news, Chicago has a very violent weekend. Yeah, but this is nothing compared to when Chicago was the murder capital of the US back in '04. (And that wasn't the first time, either... we'd topped the list a few years in the 90s, too.)

Oh, and you know why we didn't top the list last year?

(scroll all the way to the end of the article) Insufficient data.

Comments

[buzzylittleb.livejournal.com]

Dildoes! Sweeden. Probably not a co-incidence.

US sex stats exist to make the UK feel good about their stats.

Oh, and re: dildoes? I read savagelove and have been following the saga of some journalist in some fuck-stupid state that has a law against dildoes, only the wording is that they forbid the sale of 3-dimensional phallic objects. (Or something like that) How long before somebody invents the flat-pack dildo? *hee*

[verushka70.livejournal.com]

Flat pack dildo...! That's fantastic! It could be inflatable! Or water filled! Or, hell, they could make some kind of flat-pack inflatable dildo mold that comes with it's own powder, to which you simply add water to make a new silicon or latex dildo! Or what about spray foam insulation...? You could use that to make a dildo... just fill up a condom with the foam!

Clearly, I've spent far too much effort thinking about how to thwart laws that ban the sale of three dimensional phallic objects. :D

That's so absurd, anyway. Does that mean they don't sell lipsticks? Or telescopes? Or bananas? No cucumbers or zucchinis available for purchase? What about plantains? Carrots? The vegetable possibilities alone for 3-D phallic objects are immense!

So ridiculous.

hi, this is somewhat random...

[rubberbutton.livejournal.com]

I was wandering through LJ, as I am wont to do, and I stumbled upon your journal through due South/HCL fandom. I've friended you--just thought I'd give you a heads up that I'm lurking in the dark corners.

Also? Though dildos lacks a certain quality you'd hope for in a plural form, I'm not sure I'm happy with dildoes either--it just seems to be trying too hard. Personally I think the plural should be the same as the singular, like deer. A sparkly pink dildo, a vast collection of dildo.

Or maybe not.

Re: hi, this is somewhat random...

[verushka70.livejournal.com]

Oh, thank you for the friending! *friends you back* I'm terribly sporadic in my online blog, sadly. So, lurk away. That's what I do, most of the time.

Hmmm, that deer/deer thing with dildo might work. Like fish: "This is my fish" vs. "Look at all the fish!" (I've never liked or used the term "fishes," although I think it is technically correct. But so is fish, plural.) So: A black silicon dildo, an entire shelf of dildo!

Actually, dildoes made me think of Dan Quayle's spelling mistake with "potatoe" when he had to be corrected by a sixth grade kid. Heh. Little did I know, he was not the stupidest politician we were to see...

btw, A Tragedy in Five Fucking Acts was really good. Hot and sad and like they had their own little inescapable fucked up world together that no one else could really match. Yay.