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OK, back to the salt mines here after NN17. We immediately jumped back into our normal routine which means work at our office and work at our home. I still have at least two jobs to complete before the winter rains...three if you add chainsawing an entire oak tree that fell across the road and into the creek. So far all that’s been done with that is cutting through the trunk so cars can get past it.
There have been great diaries stories and pics about NN17 so I’ll diverge from that and do something really silly. Why? Because. It’s always because. But before I get into the silliness, I’d like you to caption the pic below.
To me, this sums up what I hope most of the country thinks about tRump. I know most of the country does as his approval rating is down to 34%. Of course, that’s what the country at large thinks. Republicans still love him however as he has an 80-85% approval rating with those voters.
Obviously, this means our country is absolutely divided with no chance of compromising. One political party now is overwhelmingly fine with fascism and having a corrupt baby-man who’s a money-launderer for Putin and Russian mobsters being the leader of their party. Of course they do. They are authoritarians.
If a man who demonstratively shows his complete inability to remotely do the duties of a president and is an angry white nationalist who lashes out blaming the left and media for causing tiki torch mobs full of Nazi's and KKK clansmen, then our country is currently having the beginning of another civil war. It's clear now. tRump has normalized this crap. He foments divisiveness and loves it bigly.
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On to silliness. By silliness, I mean sex stuff. This could be fun or funny I hope.
1) Did you know Cleopatra invented the vibrator? She placed insects into a hollow tube. When they became agitated the tube vibrated.
2) French Bulldogs can’t reproduce naturally because they are too top-heavy. All French Bulldogs come about due to artificial insemination.
3) Four popes have died during sex.
4) Opposums have a double-headed penis.
5) Kangaroos have three vaginas.
6) 100 million human couples have sex every day around the globe. That means 65,000 couples are having sex right now (we’re gonna need a bigger planet.)
7) Human males ejaculate at 27 mph.
8) Did you know the word avocado is actually an Aztec word? It’s Aztec for testicle. Avocados were considered to be an extremely strong aphrodisiac by the Aztecs and only virgins were allowed to eat them.
9) Thailand leads the world in women cutting off their husband’s penises (can you say Lorena Bobbitt?)
10) Pigs orgasm for 30 minutes.
11) Male alligators have an erection 100% of the time.
12) In Florida, it is still illegal to have sex in any position other than missionary and it’s illegal to kiss a woman's breasts (this goes a long way in explaining what the hell is wrong with Florida).
13) The Blue Whale ejaculates 200 gallons of semen.
14) Thailand performs the most sex change operations of any country in the world. Iran is the country that comes in second.
15) An Australian rodent called an Antechinus has sex for 24 hours after which the male dies from exhaustion (I guess that’s a good way to go?)
16) Tapirs have an “elbow” in their penises.
17) In Ancient Greece, the term for a blow job was “playing the flute.”
18) Originally makeup was to make a woman’s face look like she was in mid-orgasm. Red lipstick mimics the flush that lips get and blush was to mimic the flush cheeks get.
19) When banana slugs have sex sometimes they get stuck. When that happens both the male and female chew at the penis until they can get unstuck.
20) The Right Whale isn’t the largest whale but they have the biggest testicles of any mammal coming in at ½ ton each.
21) When a grasshopper ejaculates, it loses 1/3rd of its body mass.
22) In a recent study done by Intel, American women would rather not have sex for two weeks instead of not being able to be on the internet for the same amount of time.
23) A female Blue Whale has a clitoris 3 feet long.
24) A male Preying Mantis has a “second brain” in his bottom so he can still have sex while the female eats him...typically from the head first.
25) The barnacle has the largest penis of any animal on earth coming in at 50% of its body mass.
What do you want to talk about today?
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