#oh men!

[karenpillagain]

I have a 'oh men' to discuss today,,, but this one is a man I have admired from a far !

( no electrical probes up the ass this time!! etc, etc !!!).

Now my childhood was to say at the very least interesting.

Sadly my parents often ended up touring without me, as my schooling was very important to them, ( as it should be, lol)

So I was shipped around to my Gran parent's, Aunties and Uncles places,, all adding to my upbringing in a weird way.

Now I have discuss Aunty Gean's pigeons and Aunty Kitty"s hippos and god forbid my Pop bees many of times !!

Even my Great Uncle Barry the poodle snow sled team racer, has his memories on here,,

Now sadly he is gone to that ski field in the sky

But what was interesting about Great Uncle Barry was he built and designed artificial limbs!! Legs mostly and he had a habit of bringing them home from work,,, of course my Pop was a engineer too and those weekends not playing chess or sitting in a nut and bolt shops, were sitting in a big engineer workshop surrounded by lots of legs and dangerous machine's

Weird you say! Yep

Barry was one of the first to step away from the look of limbs to look natural ( with limited movement) to making them work natural like a real leg.

I even recall once Pop and Barry welding a leaf spring to a stump to give it the 'bounce' required!

I like to think my leg brace, I wear from time to time, may have been part of my crazy Pop and Barry's ideas and designs in that engineering work shop garage those crazy weekends long long ago

[karenjoypillagain]

Leopard slugs, Kate!"

"Yuck!"

Scientifically known as Limax maximus, a large, introduced species of slug in Australia that can grow up to 20 cm long and is recognized by its distinctive black spots on a light brown or greyish body.

Despite its potentially large size and occasional consumption of plant matter, the leopard slug is a beneficial garden dweller that primarily consumes decaying matter, fungi, and even other slugs, helping to recycle nutrients and benefiting trees and gardens.

"And why are you telling me this!

Well, you know ,,,

They lower themselves on a mucus rope, like misson impossible, while entwining their bodies in a strictly anti-clockwise fashion.

"I'm sure Tom didn't do that!"

Both slugs then push out and entwine two overly-sized penises from openings on the side of their head before exchanging sperm that may later fertilise each of their eggs. Or, perhaps be eaten.

"So, are you saying their dick heads !"

Kate, would I ever say that!

[karenpillagain]

The Inventor Who Forgot how to Stop!

Angelica mention she would like to go roller skating this weekend as a birthday treat!

" Ang,,,not overly sure Karen can still skate, after her accident"

Not to worry,,, I'm sure it will come back to me !

After all,, it the stopping you only have to worry about,,,

This reminded me of story from history girls

Did you know in 1760s, John Joseph Merlin invented the inline roller skate. Excited to show off his new creation, decided to debut them at a grand masquerade party in London.

To maximize the entertainment, he rolled onto the dance floor while playing the violin. Unfortunately, Merlin had forgotten to figure out how to stop or steer.

He careened out of control and smashed directly into a £500 antique mirror (worth over $100,000 today), shattering it, breaking his violin, and severely injuring himself.

Other inventions of Merlin's include: a self-propelled wheelchair, a prosthetic device for "a person born with stumps only", whist cards for the blind,a pump for expelling "foul air", a communication system for summoning servants, a pedal-operated revolving tea table, and a mechanical chariot with an early form of odometer

So all in all, not a bad lot of invention

[karenpillagain]

Did you know Women were the heros once !!!!!

The famous "cliff scene" in Thomas Hardy's 1873 novel A Pair of Blue Eyes (chapters 20–21) is a masterclass in Victorian suspense and cosmic irony. It is famously credited as the literary origin of the term "cliffhanger

Yes the very first cliffhangers,,,women were the heros !!!!!!!

Where a man is hanging fearing death. as his life flashes past him only to be saved by a woman !!!

"How was he saved Karen??"

Well Kate, she tied all her underwear together to create a makeshift rope.!

Hauling the man up to safety.

"Mmm, so not your underwear then "

Hey, I wear good stronger bras!!!!

" mmmmmm"

But wait, there is more Kate, the classic scenario of a man being tied to railway tracks originated in 19th-century theater, most famously Augustin Daly's 1867 play

Under the Gaslight.

Ironically, the original damsel-in-distress actually featured a male victim who was rescued in the nick of time by a brave female protagonist

"Well I never. good at knots,,,,and lots of underwear is all you need!

[karenpillagain]

Being half french, tonight I thought I would do a french 'oh men' and even this one shows how funny the other sex is!

Picture this,,,

The year 1808, two Frenchmen, Monsieur de Grandpré and Monsieur le Pique, dueling over an Opera dancer. ( like my mum!)

Ascending in identical hot air balloons. 73 metres apart above Paris,

They armed themselves with blunderbusses.

"Truly??"

Yes Kate , instead of aiming at each other, they fired at the balloons!

They Choose blunderbusses as traditional pistols were viewed as insufficient to reliably tear the heavy, gas-filled fabric of the early 19th-century balloons.

"Messieurs, présentez vos ballons."

The rules stated that whoever could puncture the other man's balloon first would win the duel. Gravity would do the rest, causing the losing balloon to rapidly lose altitude and crash!

Messieurs, visez.

Upon this signal, Le Pique fired first!

Boom!

and misses !

De Grandpré returned fire,

Boom!

Successfully rupturing Le Pique's balloon.

Oh non!

The crippled aircraft plummeted down, down, down, into the Paris rooftops,

Resulting in the death of Le Pique and his second who operated the balloon's controls

I am always amazed the way these men come up with different ways to kill each other

Oh well ,,

Que dire... les hommes sont complètement fous !

[karenpillagain]

My 'oh men' post tonight come from a scientist famous for his self-experimentation,,,

the renowned Prussian polymath and explorer Alexander von Humboldt.

So,,,,

In 1797, while researching the relationship between electricity and living tissue, Humboldt used his own body to test the physiological effects of Galvanism.!!!!

He inserted a zinc-tipped electrode into his mouth and a silver electrode several inches into his rectum

This is the part I thought was even more amazing ( or nuts)

Quote:

"The introduction of a charge into the armatures produced nauseating cramps and discomforting stomach contractions, then abdominal pain of a severe magnitude… followed by involuntary evacuation of the bladder… "

Ouch !!! So much a ouch!!!

So does he stop there! No !!!!

"What struck me more… is that by inserting the silver 'more deeply' into the rectum, a bright light appears before both eyes."

Only a true male scientists would not stop at the first 2 inches but try for the full 4!!!!

[karenpillagain]

OMG this made me roll around the floor laughing

Its sad, in a way that people could say it's offensive

I love it ❤️❤️❤️

Is it the butt plug, mmm no

Is it the pumb action willy, no

Is the bend over fashion, no

So is it the open mouth, no

It just all of the above and I love to own one

Life is too short!

[karenpillagain]

Boy oh boy Kate you are hot!!!

"What now???"

Did you know prior to the 19th century, body temperature was rarely measured, but physicians realised rectal readings yielded a more accurate measurement of core body heat.

"Goodness bottom readings "

And,,,,,,

In 1866, British physician Sir Thomas Clifford Allbutt invented the short, portable clinical thermometer reducing it from a foot long to about 6 inches

"I am not put a foot long thermometers up my bum!!!"

Of course not,,, thanks to Dr Allbutt!