Sideswiped: Ultimate pissing contest
What to do in a dog attack, WTF is the sea temperature doing? Are cousins are going the way of the dinosaur? Calling a woman 'hot' is not a compliment and songs turning 40 this year.
I live in a household of young men. I talk to them occasionally, while feeding them, about their Tinder dates, UFC and their memes. This week I was introduced to Scenic Pisses. Over a million subscribe to this Instagram to watch men have a majestic wee in beautiful places in the great outdoors. “Any nature lover knows the indescribable feeling of ripping a piss in the outdoors,” the bio extrapolates. On mountain tops, in an ice cave, while skydiving, on Tongariro, reaching incredible heights… In the comments participants are rated on their hydration, stream and view. The page has even caught the attention of actor Timothée Chalamet (Call Me By Your Name, Wonka) who sent in his own submission from the Dune set.
Cut out and stick to the fridge
Two hot takes from the Daily Mail’s dog attack advice: Always carry 1kg of mince with you and maybe swap step two and three.
Cousins are dwindling
Most of us of a certain age have cousins. Previous generations found it difficult to avoid breeding because of societal expectations and woman-as-chattel-and-financially-dependent-incubator. Some people are close to their cousins, others not so much — it’s a spectrum and even though we share the same generation and grandparents, we can live very different lives and be quite diverse. And yet, cousins have that extra layer of shared history and connection, occupying that unique space between sibling and old friend. But generation to come may not have the cousin experience…
Worldwide, families are shrinking, according to a kinship study published in December in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA. That study, using international demographic data for every country in the world, projected a 38 per cent global decline in living relatives for individuals aged 65 by the year 2095, compared to 1950.
The composition of family networks is also expected to change, with grandparents and great-grandparents living longer, but the number of cousins, nieces and nephews declining.
Exceptional warmth
The New York Times reports: “The oceans absorb the great majority of the extra heat that greenhouse gases in the atmosphere trap near Earth’s surface, making them a reliable gauge of how much and how quickly we are warming the planet.” Warmer oceans mean more fuel for hurricanes and shithouse for marine life — bleached coral, melting ice sheets and dead penguins. It’s so easy to spiral.
Links worth clicking on
First pseudoephedrine, now this: The grapefruit Fruju discontinuation has been repealed by the government!!!
Even the kids know it was a balls up: Kids playing football in the UK are doing the “Brexit tackle”, which means taking out the player without getting the ball while yelling “Brexit means Brexit”.
Hot is not a compliment:
Carlyn Beccia writes:
“You are so hot.”
Hot. The one word that makes my skin turn cold.
I take a deep breath, and my heart furls up like a scroll. I remember we have only been dating for four months. Of course, he only sees the casing and not the meat inside.
“Hot is not a compliment,” I tease. “Nothing in life stays hot. Even fire eventually turns into cold, lifeless ashes.”
Nostalgia trip: These song turn 40 this year.
Holy Cow I need the YouTube playlist for those 40yr old songs. That gave me the feels (as the young people say)